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FEBRUARY 6-8, 2024

Anaheim Convention
Center, Anaheim, CA

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Keynotes from 2023

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Christopher

Lafayette

Founder, Gatherverse

Medical Technology within the Metaverse – The Fundamental Shift

Medical technology is one the most advancing and lucrative verticals within the metaverse. MedTech for VR+AR is going to fundamentally shift the medical industry. In fact, it’s already begun. Major Hospitals are beginning to adopt. Journey with national and international speaker Christopher Lafayette of GatherVerse and HoloPractice as he shares the current and future state of immersive medtech in the metaverse and what this means for vendors, technologists and medical practitioners.

About Christopher:
Christopher is an emergent technologist, humanitarian in virtual and augmented reality applying his talents to the metaverse, ai, medtech, education, web3 and applied sciences.

He is working for a more equitable culture in technology serving as a Silicon Valley national and international speaker, thought leader and an advocate for greater expansion of community in technology that includes cross culture and inclusion considerations.

Founder of GatherVerse. Gatherverse is the brainchild of Christopher Lafayette. Christopher saw a critical need for going beyond the technical aspects of creating the metaverse to include humanity itself in the conversation about what the metaverse can and should be, and how it could best benefit those who will ultimately inhabit it. Learn more.


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Brian

Evergreen

Global Head of Autonomous AI
Co-Innovation, Microsoft

Clearing the Digital Fog: The First Step of Autonomous Transformation

Leaders and managers around the world have aspired and attempted to harness artificial intelligence and its adjacent technologies for the betterment of their organization and society. Despite executive buy-in, alignment of core capabilities and resources, passionate leadership, and well-designed strategies, these initiatives inevitably fail (with few, notable exceptions).

Brian Evergreen, who has led and advised Digital Transformation initiatives for many of the world’s most valuable companies, will outline a new era: Autonomous Transformation, a global redesign and rebuilding of the network of systems that make up society, the opportunity it presents for leaders to create Profitable Good, and a blueprint for navigating the first step of Autonomous Transformation: Clearing the Digital Fog that pervades the organizational and societal landscape.

About Brian
Brian Evergreen is a strategist and technologist who advises senior executives on their organizational transformations and partners with academic and industry leaders to generate research, learnings, and frameworks to contribute to meaningful market transformation.

His work builds on his experience leading and advising Digital Transformation initiatives at several of the world's most valuable companies, including Microsoft, Accenture, Amazon Web Services, UL, Duke Energy, Cargill, Georgia Pacific, and T-Mobile. Brian currently works at Microsoft Research, leading Artificial Intelligence Co-Innovation globally.

Brian is the author of Autonomous Transformation: Creating a More Human Future in the Era of Artificial Intelligence, which will be published by Wiley in May 2023. Learn more.


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Start your show experience with your daily dose of inspiration and connection by attending our Keynote and Networking Breakfast located in the Third Level Ballroom. Kicking off at 8 a.m., attendees, exhibitors, and speakers can meet over coffee and breakfast bites before our Keynote Speaker shares their latest insights on trending challenges in the industry.

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