Webinars
Featured Event
IEEE FTF Roundtable: User Adoption of the Metaverse Roundtable
IEEE Future Tech Forum Roundtable • 3 April 2024 at 11 AM ET
This complimentary live, special 60-minute event will be held virtually on 3 April 2024. During this event, Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates; 2024 IEEE President, will serve as the moderator, and will be joined by a panel of subject matter experts.
For this event, we will be using FrameVR, a browser-based virtual environment.
*Virtual Room participation is limited. Please consider joining early if you wish to join the virtual room so that you can create your avatar for the event. Once the virtual room has reached full capacity, registrants may attend via Zoom.
Though there is no single definition and vision for the Metaverse, there is a general realization that the boundaries between the physical world and the cyber world are fading and that we are moving toward a unified perception of these merged worlds.
Moderated By:
- Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates; 2024 IEEE President
Featured Panelists:
- Jyotika Athavale, Director and Principal Architect at Synopsys
- Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Computer Scientist and Neuroscientist at Google
- Mel Slater, Distinguished Investigator at the University of Barcelona, Institute of Neurosciences Event Organizer: Louis Nisiotis, University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus
Previous Webinars
Will Our Cities Morph into a CityVerse?
IEEE Metaverse Webinar
November 2023 | Virtual Event
The digital transformation of cities, led by the need to optimize resources and offer better services to citizens, is resulting in a habitual use of digital resources and digital space. Citizens, on their side, are getting more and more used to operating in a digital space for their shopping, inquiries, social interactions, and more.
These two trends, one pursued top-down by city municipalities, and the other bottom-up by citizens, are converging towards the transformation of our cities' living space towards what we may call a CityVerse.
The webinar addressed these two trends, bringing concrete examples in the first part. In the second part, it addressed the issue of how life could be in this new environment, and how people’s social relations might adapt and contribute to shape it. The third and closing part addressed the need to steer this evolution through standards that also foster increasing sustainability of the cityscape.
Click here to access the webinar free on-demand.
Industrial Metaverse
IEEE Metaverse Webinar
July 2023 | Virtual Event
In this webinar, Roberto Saracco discusses the industrial metaverse. Although lesser known than the consumer metaverse, the industrial metaverse is actually generating more revenue and is expected to grow to over $100B by 2030. It is also expected to adopt more advanced technologies that may not be affordable in the consumer metaverse for some time.