Adam Torres and Luis Contreras discuss Mega Mix Expo.
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Listen to Mega Mix Expo coverage. In this episode, Adam Torres and Luis Contreras, Founder & CEO at UON, explore the upcoming Megamix expo.
About Luis Contreras
Luis Contreras is honored to serve as the CEO of UON Mobile App, a mobile application he brought to life from concept to creation. Throughout the journey, he secured several AR patents and led a successful Kickstarter campaign. His passion lies in innovation and transforming new ideas into reality.
With a 20-year career in the automotive industry, Luis has built a strong track record of generating revenue, leading high-performing teams, and delivering exceptional customer service. Remarkably, his journey began as a porter driving the shuttle. Through years of experience, he has embraced adaptability in an ever-evolving industry, refining his analytical and strategic thinking skills to drive growth and success.
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Hey, I’d like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres, and if you’d like to apply to be a guest on the show, just head on over to missionmatters. com and click on be our guest to apply. All right. Today I have Luis Contreras on the line. He’s a founder and CEO over at UON.
Luis, welcome to the show. Thank you, Adam. Thank you for having me. All right, man. So I’m getting kind of excited here. We’re going to be talking about today a little bit about the Megamix Expo. For those that have been following this series, we’ve been talking about it quite a bit because I’m getting excited.
It’s coming up in March. It’s going to be in the 12th and 13th of March. And it’s going to be at the Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. If you haven’t gotten your tickets yet, definitely go to Megamix Expo. Dot com and meet us out there. And Lewis is going to be one of the vendors out there and correct me if I’m wrong with you on, so your company it’s actually gonna be the app that people use when they’re there.
Is that accurate? Yeah, that’s correct. Yeah, we’re I’ve been talking with Tony. Tony was telling me about the Megamix Expo. We actually met through a mutual friend, and they were saying, you know what, there’s this big expo that can really benefit from what you’re building. And one of the biggest things that we enjoy is that when I thought about this project, it was so that we could help, small businesses, and that we could help people that are just trying to throw their heads, help people connect.
And I think that’s what the Megamix Expo does to a full extent, so we’re just there to kind of enhance that experience. Yeah. So tell me a little bit more about , how you got started as an entrepreneur. Is this your first entrepreneurial event endeavor or like, have you launched other companies in the past?
Like how’d you get started? This is my first entrepreneurial venture. I actually come from a Fortune 500 background. I started in the automobile industry working for companies like Sonic and then working for companies like Persky Automotive, huge, huge groups. Which really kind of put me into like, you know, process building you take over companies and make sure that, you know, these processes are in place to have the profit in line.
And then it’s all about relationship building. So when I had this idea for Yuwon it mainly, it mainly was because I saw a big disconnect in regards to how people meet in person. And, you know, I, my whole corporate background has always been like looking at the bigger necessities. And I think that, one of the reasons that people are so comfortable when we go to a networking event, singles, mixers, things like that, is because you know that you have permission to come up to the people.
And, you know, when I thought about Yuon, that’s what I was kind of following. so talk a little bit more about the app and like exactly what it does, please. So for the event space, I mean, we’re really excited. The way that we look at it is that Yuon helps you connect before. During and after every event before we have a social media platform similar to see with Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, we could post videos so you can see people that are going to be attending, you know, all the people that are sending posting about their companies get to know there during the event.
We actually help with augmented reality. We kind of guide the whole experience, letting you know what vendors and where exactly to find them. You know, a lot of the time when you’re a vendor at one of these big convention centers, there’s people that want to go to see you. And sometimes because, you know, it’s a big space, they don’t get to see you necessarily.
You might miss that opportunity. So, we use augmented reality to let you know exactly where vendors are, but there’s also things that As somebody who’s just visiting that you didn’t, you know, know that it was there at that particular place. So, give you a check ahead of when you get an overview of everything.
So, we’re excited about that. And then, there’s people that are there to network, right? They’re there to, catapult their business and those connections are valuable. So, we have The way that we see it, we use your phone like an augmented name badge, right, but we actually don’t put your name. It’s just the industry you work in.
How helpful is it to be able to know exactly who’s there to make a connection, right? So now we open that space to anybody who doesn’t you don’t need to have a host. You don’t need to have a particular area. Any space makes a great space for connections and there’s people that all you have to do is just turn on your status and let them know.
Hey, look, I’m here to meet other people and you make those connections in person because there’s nothing that as much as we love the digital connection. There’s nothing that’s better than that in person connection, so we just helped that little link, right? How, how much easier would it be to approach somebody for business if you know that that’s what they were there for?
So, once that event’s over, then we put all those people into like a networking team. Similar to LinkedIn, but you know that all these people are people that attend this event that you connect with after. And, that’s when it comes to connections that you never know, it might happen at the beginning, it might happen during or after, but you just want the most possibilities possible.
And that’s why we’re excited to work with the Metamix Expo because we know that even right now, I don’t know if Tony told you, but they’re having these networking events every Wednesday. I saw a picture, I saw a picture when I was like, man, I’m in Las Vegas right now, I’m looking at the Bellagio right now in in Aria, but I’m like, man, I saw that picture, I was like, if I was in town, I’d be, I’d be at that event and it’d look cool.
You know, it’s very cool, man. And it’s great because people that are going there, you know, they’re getting to know , this community that Tony’s building and, and those connections that we see, we’re there showing them how to post on our social media page so that people can get acquainted with their story.
Cause that’s what’s the most powerful and you want, allows you to just kind of like share that and be a part of that community in a different way, because these are people that are actively looking to connect. It’s different than when you’re, kind of just scrolling, right? There’s, you see so many people on LinkedIn, they don’t even know if they use their profile or so whatever, but how much better would it be if you go to the, you know, you’re at the Bellagio, how much business gets done at one of those steak houses, right?
People go down there, they meet, they’re having drinks. that’s a lot harder, right? You have to go up to the person, but what if it didn’t have to be? What if you knew that people are going to be there in the network, and you can, in your camera, with your phone, you see who’s a part of the event, and you guys go up to each other and talk business, right?
it’s a simple way to use what we already have in our hand. But, what is the last time that your phone helped you connect with the person standing in front of you? It doesn’t. Yeah. So that’s, that’s what you wanted. Yeah. What I like about this too is that you get to kind of accept and figure out like who you want to connect with.
Right? So for inbound, I mean, a lot of times you might be looking for a vendor. You might be looking for this. You might be looking for that. So it kind of lets, it’s kind of like matchmaking to let people as well like that, that are possibly even in the same geography. Right? I mean, in this case, Case I know Megamix Expo is going to be there’ll be people there from all over the place, but I know it’s going to be a very heavy California crowd based on the location.
So that being said, like to be able to find like other resources and things you want, right? Yeah, actually, I started using matchmaking, you know, this, our app primarily started with just the dating aspect, doing the same thing, going to a Rams game, going to of course, guys got to think about that.
We’re like, we got to make an app to meet more girls.
We got to solve problems, Louis, that’s what we’re doing here now. Hey, you know, you, you were, you wanted to pop a human connection and, and in every aspect of that people like. We live in a world right now where you could have 50, 000 followers on your Instagram account in real life. You only have one, you know, and, and people are looking for that human connection and that’s what, that’s what we created a way for you to be able to be in the same space with people looking for the same thing and you wanted that missing link and it’s, we’re an event app.
Right? Whatever that that’s going to be, who knows whether that’s going to be a comic con, a singles mixer, or a networking event, but there’s a platform for, to help you, you know, find people with like minded goals in the same room, right? Because what is that person that, you know, and everybody’s always saying, you know, Oh man, I want to meet organically.
It’s so hard nowadays. Think about people go to the coffee shop and put a mobile order. Starbucks just said there’s no more just sitting around. You want to order groceries now, right? Instacart. People don’t have that common space, right? But everybody wants an organic connection. Let’s bring it back to old fashioned, but a little nudge of technology.
Yeah, I love it. , it’s a great story is I can’t wait to use the app. What do you know when it’s going to be live for the convention? Is it already live for the, networking part? And I don’t know. I couldn’t be out of the mix. I’ve been traveling. Yeah, so for you want is already live on the app store.
The networking part of it, we’re continuing to have that as we get closer to the event. But the social media networking part of it’s already there. So that you’re already going to see people posting and we’re actually going to these events and starting to give people stories and I’m going to be you know, onboarding these, these, you know, companies and these individuals that just want to network with other people.
So, yeah, we’re working with we’re tuning in the team, getting that ready to really showcase what we can do right as we lead up to the event. That’s awesome, man. It’s a great story. Louis, man, this has been a lot of fun having you on the show today. How do people get involved? How do they even over and above for Megamix experts?
What’s going to be pretty straightforward. I’m sure this is going to be in some of the marketing, other things that they’re doing, but you mentioned for that the social media parts are already live. And it’s on the app store. How do people get involved? How do they download?
Give us some of that. Yeah. So you want to dot com. App do com, UONA p.com. You could go on the website there, look at all of our socials, UON UON on the app store. You’ll find us in selection down by then. Uno that, the card game. Mm-hmm . And we’re on the play store and we’re on the app store and you can download it now.
Look for events in your area. Create your own events. You know, we are all that event app. And reach out to us on our social. We’re active there looking to build our community and help people that want to connect in person. Fantastic. And for everybody listening, just so you know, we’ll definitely put the links in the show notes so that you can just click on it and head right on over.
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So again, hit that subscribe or follow button. And Louis, man, appreciate you coming on. Thank you. All right, and I’m gonna see you at the Megamix Expo and I’m gonna see you on the, UON app. So, man, I’m gonna see you soon. So, again and for the audience, don’t forget, go to MegamixExpo. com and grab your tickets we’ll see you there as well.