Ottawa: The Metaverse – More Than Just a Game!

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The Metaverse – more than just a game!

The CIO Association of Canada Ottawa Chapter focuses on today’s challenges and emerging trends that affect how senior government officials and corporate executives make decisions, lead programs and operations and plan for the near future.

The metaverse is a recent but transformative technological development, still in early stages, but that is meaningful and directly relevant to government and private industry. The metaverse is more than virtual reality games and funny headsets... it is already being experimented with in defence, security, agriculture, the healthcare sector, emergency preparedness, education, finance, and many other activity sectors.

The metaverse is about creating a universal digital platform that goes beyond playing games with avatars. It will fundamentally change how business, governments and private citizens interact.

Every private company, federal department and agency will soon be called upon to review policies and regulations to seize upon the opportunities offered by the metaverse, but also guard against its potential pitfalls.

Join us as we learn more from industry experts. Refreshments and snacks will be served.

Agenda:

5:00 PM – Arrivals and Networking
6:00 PM – Welcome/Speaker Introductions
6:10 PM – Presentations and Q&A
7:05 PM – Networking and Reception

Meet the Presenters:

Kareem Sadek
Partner, Advisory, Cryptoassets & Blockchain Co-leader
KPMG Canada

Kareem is a Partner in the Toronto office of the Advisory, Risk Consulting practice. Kareem brings over 20 years of professional services experience, helping organizations build out their cryptoassets, blockchain, DeFi, NFT & metaverse strategies while continuing to focus on addressing governance and risk. Kareem also focuses on other areas of Emerging Technology Risk (AI in Control, Cloud), IT internal audit, IT governance, internal controls and IT risk management services. Kareem leads many IT advisory services across Canada and globally.

Katie Bolla
Partner, Management Consulting, GTA Consumer & Retail Industry Lead
KPMG Canada

Katie is passionate about designing, building and activating innovative customer experiences and helping clients transform to become more customer-centric and digitally enabled. She is a seasoned facilitator, aligning multiple stakeholders around a common vision and transformation path to propel future growth. She combines strategy, market insight, co-design stakeholder sessions, creative design and digital solutions to bring clients’ customer vision to life through front office transformation and technological innovation.

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Non-member guests must meet member qualification criteria (i.e. be a senior technology leader). Anyone who does not meet the criteria will be notified that their registration has not been accepted.