Medical Design Briefs - February 2023 - 26

MD&M West 2023
KEYNOTES
Tuesday, February 7, and Wednesday,
February 8, 8-9 AM
Keynote Networking Breakfast
Start your show experience with your daily dose of inspiration
and connection by attending the Keynote and Networking
Breakfast located in the third level ballroom. Kicking off at 8
AM, attendees, exhibitors, and speakers can meet over coffee
and breakfast bites before the keynote speakers share their latest
insights on trending challenges in the industry.
Tuesday, February 7
Keynote: 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.
Christopher Lafayette,
Founder, GatherVerse
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. 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. As the Founder of The Black
Technology Mentorship Program, he is creating entrepreneurs
and professionals of tomorrow through proper incubation and
acceleration, career path and apprenticeship. Christopher has
worked with and advised companies and organizations such as
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Google, Meta, NFL, Merlin Entertainments, European Commission,
Nikko Hotels, NBA, Linux Foundation, Cisco, Microsoft,
Salesforce, Verizon, Stanford University, Duke University, San
Jose College of Engineering, UCLA, renowned chefs, musicians,
and hundreds of start-ups. He sits on various advisory
councils and boards. He's bringing thousands of communities
and millions of people into the metaverse, humanely.
Wednesday, February 8
Keynote: 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.
Brian Evergreen, Global Head
of Autonomous AI Co-Innovation
at Microsoft
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.
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