Podcast appearances and mentions of Derek Belch

Strivr CEO Derek Belch details his journey in and out of football to the business world - sharing a story of perseverance and versatility across many different fields.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The future of the metaverse may be the topic of the day for many tech pundits, but the reality is that it's already here. The virtual reality, that is. In this episode of Get Reworked, we talk to Derek Belch, CEO of virtual reality firm Strivr, about how VR is being used to train employees right now and what potential it holds for the future. We've entered a new era of VR technology, he said, and the recent buzz around the metaverse is only going to accelerate its use in the enterprise. "The effect on the human brain is so real," Derek says. "If VR is done well, the brain can't tell the difference between a virtual simulation and real life. So I think that's the difference is we're in that cheaper, lighter, faster era. And this technology that used to be very cumbersome, very expensive, very heavy ... that's all gone." Highlights of the conversation include: How an aspiring football coach turned into a VR training entrepreneur. When VR training is a good option for companies. The difference between VR and augmented reality. Why organizations that don't invest in emerging technologies like VR and the metaverse will be left behind. How Walmart used VR training to prepare employees for Black Friday and why he's bullish on its use for soft skills. What companies need to get started in VR for employee training and development. Co-hosts Siobhan Fagan and Mike Prokopeak also talk with Derek about his career as a college football player at Stanford, how the end of his coaching career was just the beginning he needed, and why he's both a tech optimist and realist. Plus, Siobhan's got jokes! Listen in for more. Have a suggestion, comment or topic for a future episode? Drop us a line at editors@simplermedia.com.

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Strivr CEO Derek Belch discusses how VR learning works and where it's going.

Strivr CEO Derek Belch discusses how VR learning works and where it's going.

Strivr CEO Derek Belch discusses how VR learning works and where it's going.

In 2014 Derek Belch was working as a football coach at Stanford University while getting an MBA in business, but what he didn't know at the time was that his Master's thesis would change his life forever. This week we had the pleasure of speaking with Derek, founder and CEO of Strivr, and he had a lot of great stories, advice, and wisdom to pass on to current and aspiring entrepreneurs. You will get to hear how he went from a football coach to an extremely successful entrepreneur, as well as the challenges he faced along the way. Today Derek leads a team of 140 employees and his customers include Walmart, JetBlue, and Verizon. Strivr was named one of Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces of 2019 and it was on the list of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2020. In this episode of the podcast we explore: How Strivr was started and where the company is today What it was like raising money for the business and the biggest lesson Derek learned about the process The impact Covid-19 has had on the company How Derek manages his time as a husband, father, successful business owner, and CEO Derek's advice for people considering entrepreneurship The biggest challenges he faced when starting his business

Ready Player One, The Eye of Minds, and Pygmalion’s Spectacles. For years humanity has written about the allure of a virtual world. But what if the virtual world has already caught up to reality? And the headsets we’ve read about for decades are no longer just a myth? Hear from Strivr CEO and Co-Founder, Derek Belch. -- This program is produced by Mission.org and brought to you by Splunk, the Data-to-Everything Platform. Splunk helps organizations worldwide turn data into doing.  With solutions for IT, security, IoT and business operations, Splunk empowers people to make faster, better decisions and take action to get things done. Learn more at splunk.com. For full show notes and more, go to mission.org/hidden.

As e-commerce sales are projected to hit $709.78 billion in the U.S. in 2020, logistics companies are turning to the virtual world to hire, onboard and train employees.Prologis Inc.the world’s largest developer, owner and operator of logistics warehouses, is partnering with tech startup Strivr, which has developed a virtual reality-based platform, to provide hands-on learning and realistic decision-making practice to help workers maximize efficiency and reduce safety incidents.Steven Hussain, director of community workforce programs for Prologis, and Derek Belch, founder and CEO of Strivr, discussed using virtual learning to train the industrial workforce of tomorrow during FreightWaves’ virtual Future of Logistics Real Estate Summit WatchApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves PodcastsVisit our FreightCasts sponsor: Convoy makes it easy to get your full truckload freight covered by high-quality carriers at competitive rates. To get an instant quote and 100% tender acceptance guarantees, click here.

As e-commerce sales are projected to hit $709.78 billion in the U.S. in 2020, logistics companies are turning to the virtual world to hire, onboard and train employees.Prologis Inc.the world’s largest developer, owner and operator of logistics warehouses, is partnering with tech startup Strivr, which has developed a virtual reality-based platform, to provide hands-on learning and realistic decision-making practice to help workers maximize efficiency and reduce safety incidents.Steven Hussain, director of community workforce programs for Prologis, and Derek Belch, founder and CEO of Strivr, discussed using virtual learning to train the industrial workforce of tomorrow during FreightWaves’ virtual Future of Logistics Real Estate Summit WatchApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts

During this episode, Derek and I talk about how practitioners make the business case or the use case for purchasing Strivr. Derek is an expert in all things VR-based immersive learning and his passion comes through during the podcast.

Virtual reality and augmented reality are becoming more mainstream every day. At its peak, 28 million people were running around trying to catch virtual monsters in Pokémon Go. But it isn't all fun and games – the corporate world is eyeing VR as a cheaper, more effective and engaging way to train employees – and so far, it seems to deliver on that promise. Derek Belch is our guest on this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast. He's the founder and CEO of virtual reality company Strivr, which helps to create and administer courses for employee training. Strivr started as a way of training athletes, but when Walmart came calling Derek knew he had to pivot the company to the enterprise. You'll hear about: Derek's journey from football coach to VR company CEO. How VR can be used to simultaneously train and test real-world performance. Measuring ROI compared to traditional training methods. How head and eye-tracking data can be used to improve training and assess employees. Examples of VR's benefits from difficult HR meetings to active shooter situations. Who is Derek Belch? Derek Belch is the founder and CEO of virtual reality company Strivr, which helps to create and administer courses for employee training. Derek developed the idea for the company as a way of training football players while he was the graduate assistant football coach at Stanford University. He has a BA in Communication, an MA in Journalism, and an MA in Media Studies, all from Stanford, as well as an MBA from University of Southern California. In 2017 Sports Business Journal included him in their "Forty Under 40" list.

What do sales clerks have in common with NFL quarterbacks? Apart from a competitive nature, both can benefit from VR training. Former Stanford football player Derek Belch drew on his athletic background and a Master’s in VR to deliver the virtual goods via STRIVR, the startup he co-founded with Stanford professor Jeremy Bailenson. STRIVR started out supplying VR to football teams and has since made a concerted push into the enterprise. The technology has the potential to improve hard and soft skills.

Derek Belch is the co-founder and CEO of STRIVR, a company on a mission to elevate performance through immersive experience.Derek incubated the company with co-founder Jeremy Bailenson in Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab while pursuing his Masters in Virtual Reality and serving as a graduate assistant football coach.Using sports as his proving ground, Derek’s vision quickly expanded from the athlete to the enterprise. Derek is driven by a competitive passion for impacting performance, and with STRIVR, is pushing everyone to train like an athlete.In this conversation, Derek shares the origin story for the company, including how he landed at Stanford pursuing a Masters in VR, the incubation of the STRIVR product, its rapid rise in sports, and the opportunistic shift to the enterprise.Derek touches on the science of learning within VR and he goes on to explore more deeply the impact it can have on the field and on the job.Self-admittedly, Derek is not a tech guy; yet he and STRIVR are excelling with this frontier technology. He relies on strong leadership traits and lessons learned, and he shares a few of them here in the episode.You can find all of the show notes at thearshow.com.

We sit down with Derek Belch, CEO of Strivr, to discuss enterprise VR training. Strivr is the leader and best known for their product delivered to Walmart installed in each store on over 17,000 Oculus Go's. The conversation begins around the origins of Strivr between Derek Belch and Jeremy Bailenson then moves into the details and challenges of onboarding enterprise clients. After covering the details of custom XR training we move onto the bigger picture of of using AR and VR for training and their use cases from custom training, to sports, and improving soft skills. Lastly, Derek closes out the conversation by sharing proven value and stats delivered to clients.   00'00": How did Strivr get started? 03'25": The Strivr mission statement 05'00": Approach training as religion and performance improvement 05'20": Was VR a hard sell to clients? 06'45": challenges in the enterprise space 07'20": Oculus enterprise licensing 08'27": Logistics of building for enterprise at scale 10'00": Is everything custom or are some things reused? 12'20": Training modules aren’t all that different from games. What are the differences? 15'14": How do you work with the creating a statement of work? 17'05": Is strivr set to exclusively working in the enterprise and sports verticals? 18'10": What’s next and how is newer technology changing how VR training is done. 21'20": Is the cost or the technology holding back AR from widespread enterprise implementation? 23'20": Who is requesting AR? 23'50": How setting unrealistic expectations are misleading stakeholders and consumers. 25'15": What are the most requested use cases from potential clients? 26'30": Soft skill use cases and how Soft skills are a hard sell because it’s difficult to measure value. 28'22": What are the challenges behind implementing sexual harassment training? 31'00": The science supports that VR is more effective for training. Links: Strivr.com virtuality.show bostonvr.org

While a graduate assistant and football coach at Stanford University, Derek Belch started working in a virtual reality (VR) lab at the school. Belch hoped to find a way to train football players using VR. His goal evolved into STRIVR, which helps businesses uses VR to onboard employees with a fraction of the time and money typically spent on training.

Derek Belch, CEO and Founder of STRIVR Labs, shared how he started applying VR technology to professional sports training and how the firm aims to bring VR to the masses. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is a rebroadcast from a great episode of the now defunct Sports Tech Guys show, very interesting stuff that strivr labs is doing. Strivr Labs CEO Derek Belch @strivrlabs on twitter and www.strivr.com is on with David Schuman and Rick Serritella the Sports Tech Guys discussing the opportunity that is Virtual Reality in the NFL and College Football. We explore how it is being used by QB's like Carson Palmer to help them improve their game. Links mentioned in this episode: www.nucsports.com www.nucallamerican.com www.nucallaworld.com This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

HR Happy Hour 308 - How Virtual Reality Will Change Workplace Training in 2018 Host: Steve Boese Guest: Derek Belch, CEO & Founder, STRIVR This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve is joined by Derek Belch, Founder and CEO of STRIVR, a Palo Alto firm that uses innovative Virtual Reality technology for workplace training and improved performance. On the show Derek explained the key concepts of Virtual Reality, how it differs from Augmented Reality, and provided a framework for HR and workplace leaders to understand VR, and how it can be deployed in workplace and workforce training and learning contexts.  He also shared the story of his company STRIVR, from their beginnings working with collegiate football programs as well as other professional teams, to some of their current work on the corporate training and development space, including their massive partnership with Walmart, Derek did a great job of explaining VR, how the technology works, how it applies to training, the particular training scenarios where VR makes a great fit, and how HR and training organizations can get started with incorporating VR technologies into their training and development portfolios. This was a really interesting and enlightening conversation - thanks to Derek for joining us. Learn more about STRIVR at www.strivr.com. Subscribe to the HR Happy Hour Show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio, or wherever you get your podcasts - just search for 'HR Happy Hour'.

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Derek Belch, CEO of STRIVR, discusses the use of virtual reality to train football players.

This week, Inc. editors and writers talk about how entrepreneurs and Silicon Valley companies are standing up against Trump's decision to end DACA. The group also discusses how a small Texas inventor won $10 million in a patent infringement lawsuit against Nintendo. Lastly, the group interviews Derek Belch of Strivr,  which makes VR training programs for NFL teams and corporations including Walmart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave Robertson's first guest is Nelo Lucich, who is the co-founder of the innovative, forward-thinking tech-entertainment company Skyrocket.  They take a deep dive into making it in the toy industry. Dave's second guest is former Stanford football player and founder of STRIVR Labs, Derek Belch. STRIVR Labs is a cutting edge virtual reality company, and they talk about the new applications of that technology.

Derek Belch, co-founder and CEO of STRIVR Labs, a startup that uses virtual reality to train athletes, describes the passion necessary for entrepreneurship and the features that give his business a competitive edge in a rising-tide industry. The former Stanford football player is candid about the personal sacrifices entailed in putting your all into your venture.

Derek Belch, co-founder and CEO of STRIVR Labs, a startup that uses virtual reality to train athletes, describes the passion necessary for entrepreneurship and the features that give his business a competitive edge in a rising-tide industry. The former Stanford football player is candid about the personal sacrifices entailed in putting your all into your venture.

Derek Belch, co-founder and CEO of STRIVR Labs, a startup that uses virtual reality to train athletes, describes the passion necessary for entrepreneurship and the features that give his business a competitive edge in a rising-tide industry. The former Stanford football player is candid about the personal sacrifices entailed in putting your all into your venture.

Hawkeyes Mic Football 2016 Rose Bowl Game Preview Podcast previewing the upcoming Rose Bowl Game against the Stanford Cardinal, featuring comments and in-depth analysis by sports reporters Steve Batterson and Scott Dochterman along with John Patchett. Special Guests include sportscaster Bob Brooks from Cedar Rapids and STRIVR's Derek Belch from Palo Alto. Iowa Head Coach Kirk Ferentz discusses his team and the upcoming game at The Rose Bowl. This show also takes a look back at the Iowa Hawkeyes 16-13 Big Ten Championship Game loss to the Michigan State Spartans at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. HawkeyesMic.com University of Iowa Hawkeyes Football Podcast