An examination of business telecommunications beyond the constraints of the office and the journey to the metaverse.
Speakers
- David Palmer, Vodafone
- Dr Christina Yan Zhang Metaverse Institute
Agenda
6:00pm - Meet and greet
6:30pm - David Palmer Vodafone
7:15pm - Dr Christina Yan Zhang Metaverse Institute
8:00pm - Panel discussion
8:30pm - Networking and refreshments
9:30pm - Close
Synopsis
The Covid Lockdown and Working from home triggered a change in how and where people can work. Freed from the constraints of the Office and working on consumer networks business users had the opportunity to work differently.
We shall explore this from the viewpoints of both a major Mobile Operator and a Global Institute championing Metaverse deployment. We shall explore the business issues of delivering Metaverse safely and in compliance with standards without taking away the excitement.
About the speakers
David Palmer, Vodafone
Bio to follow.
Dr Christina Yan Zhang, CEO, The Metaverse Institute
Christina is a metaverse pioneer. She started her master research on the topic in 2006 and completed a PhD using digital twin for the construction industry.
Christina is an award-winning leader with 18 years experience. She was China Director for QS, the world university ranking agency 2013-2020. Starting from scratch, she grew the UK-headquartered firm’s success in China. In 2016, China’s Vice Premier highlighted the use of QS rankings in a speech, impacting 5 years funding allocations of £750bn to 3005 universities with 48 million students.
She has sat on 20+ committees for UNESCO, World Bank, Commonwealth, EU, and UK Governments on innovations. She is Vice Chair of the UN’s ICT agency-International Telecommunications Union’s Metaverse Working Group on Sustainability, Accessibility & Inclusion and Co-chair on Pre-standardisation for the CitiVerse Task Group. She works with members states to set up the UN definition and roadmap using frontier technologies for citizen-centred cities, which leads to standards.
She sits on Advisory Council of Centre for Science Futures at International Science Council, with a UN mandate on science. She advises on how AI impacts on the global innovation ecosystem.
The Metaverse Institute advise the UN, governments, investors, corporates using frontier technologies for positive impact.
She is Top 100 Women of the Future, Metaverse Influencer of the Year, Intellectual Leader of the Year 2023 etc. She regularly meets with top leaders, is a keynote speaker at high level events, interviewed by media. She recently speaks at UN HLPF, STI Forum, summits of WIPO, UNESCO, and ICAO.
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