Bay Area tech company revolutionizing videoconferencing plugs into Northern Nevada

by Kaleb Roedel, NNBW

CARSON CITY, Nev. — It’s a Friday morning in mid-September, and Steve Ernst has already been in offices in Vancouver, Atlanta, New York, London and Denmark. He’s met with people, popped into meetings, roamed offices.

And he did it all from his house in the Carson Valley.

“On a morning like this, I’ve been overseas, so I’m a little out of sorts,” says Ernst, sipping his coffee.

Ernst has been bouncing into various time zones while on a “Beam,” a 5-foot-3, 90-pound robotic device that he can control — moving forward, in reverse, and rotating side-to-side — with his keyboard and mouse.

Ernst is CEO and founder of Event Presence, an international mobile telepresence solutions company. During the coronavirus pandemic, Ernst, a graduate of University of Nevada, Reno, relocated the Bay Area-based company to Northern Nevada.

“I have no interest in going back to the Bay Area,” said Ernst, citing the tax-friendly business environment and lack of congestion as reasons for relocation. “And with our product, I can be anywhere in the world.”

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