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Chief Futurist at Journey and Best-selling Author Cathy Hackl will attend Seamless KSA as keynote speaker

 

 

Cathy Hackl is a globally recognized metaverse expert, tech futurist, and top business executive with deep experience working in metaverse- related fields. Hackl is the strategist behind today's biggest industry headlines; guiding some of the world's top brands as they enter the metaverse and the web 3.0 era. At Seamless Saudi Arabia, Cathy will be sharing her ideas on the future of the metaverse, with her talk titled ‘Into the Metaverse: the essential guide to the business opportunities of the Web3 era’.

 

Cathy is the founder and Chief Metaverse Officer at Journey, where she leads Journey’s Metaverse Studio working with the world’s top brands on metaverse/Web3 strategies, NFTs, gaming and virtual couture. She has also authored three books, Navigating The Metaverse: A Guide to Limitless Possibilities in a Web 3.0 World, The Augmented Workforce: How Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality and 5G Will Impact Every Dollar You Make and Marketing New Realities: An Introduction To Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality Marketing, Branding and Communications .

 

Cathy recently appeared as a guest on the Seamless Sounds x Commerce Talks podcast where she talked about the latest emerging tech being used by industry leading companies and the future generations changing the way we use technology. “For me, the Metaverse is the next iteration of the internet. It is the convergence of our physical and digital lives. It is about the virtual shared experiences that happen both in virtual spaces, but will also happen in the physical world,” she said.

 

Hackl has been dubbed the Godmother of the Metaverse and is one of the top tech voices on LinkedIn. She's also the host of Adweek’s Metaverse Marketing podcast. Big Think named Hackl one of the top 10 most influential women in tech in 2020 and in 2021 she was included in the prestigious Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led.

 

To see Cathy speak live at Seamless Saudi Arabia 2023 from 4 to 5 September, register here: https://bit.ly/45FP7t4

 

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