XR Southern Summit

An experienced founder and content creator, Cortney Harding is an in-demand expert as one of the few people who can not only translate the impact of the digital revolution from Web2 to Web3 and its impact on businesses, but also how the metaverse can become the new frontier to create better and more accepting communities. As the founder of the award-winning agency Friends With Holograms, she was a pioneer who created VR training pieces around topics like child abuse, workplace exclusion, mental health, Black maternal mortality, and racial bias for companies like Lowe’s, Walmart, PWC, Amazon, Target, and more. Her work was honored as the Best VR/AR of 2019 at Mobile World Congress, a SXSW Innovation Award Finalist at SXSW, and a Top HR Product by HR Executive. She has also worked with Meta to help shape strategy around learning and training in the metaverse and was instrumental in creating "What is the Metaverse" - a groundbreaking course that covers all aspects of the Metaverse while exploring safety issues, ethical questions and much more. Currently, she serves as the head of immersive content at Virti.