HOUSTON • 11.20.19
Digital Fight Club heads to Houston before the holidays and brings its energy to the White Oak Music Hall, Houston’s best live music venue.
Ten of the sharpest wits in Space City will spar in five “fights” ranging in topics centered around technology.
- Fight 1: Future Workforce of Robotics/AI
- Fight 2: Whose responsibility is cyber security?
- Fight 3: Oil & Gas Industry and the Environment
- Fight 4: Digital in our personal lives: Is it time for us to disconnect or no?
- Fight 5: Future of Primary Care
The audience and Refs will vote for the winners with our own Digital Fight Club App.
Mayhem, indeed!
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Fight 1
Future Workforce of Robotics/AI
Matt Hager
Matt Hager
CEO, Poetic Systems
- Building the Future
- Extremely pragmatic
- Poet leader
Pablo Marin
Pablo Marin
Sr. AI Leader, Microsoft
- Founder
- Lives in the Cloud
- Venezualen Dallasite
Fight 2
Whose responsibility is cyber security
Ted Gutierrez
Ted Gutierrez
CEO, SecurityGate
- West Pointer
- Nuclear engineer
- Can argue both sides of an argument
Tara Khanna
Tara Khanna
MD/Security Lead, Accenture
- Enterprise genius
- Cyber wonk
- Often mistaken for Amazon Prime actress
Fight 3
Oil & Gas Industry and the Environment
Michael Szafron
Michael Szafron
CA, Cemvita Factory
- Multipotentialite
- Alberta native
- Autistic Superpowers
Steven Taylor
Steven Taylor
Co-founder, AR for Everyone
- Shell Energy VR guy
- Shaolin Temple trained martial artist
- Sculptor
Fight 4
Digital in our personal lives
Grace Rodriguez
Grace Rodriguez
CEO, ImpactHub
- Profesional do-gooder
- Innovation empowerer
- Mad juggler
Javier Fadul
Javier Fadul
Dir. Innovation, HTX Labs
- Humanizer
- Philosophical Psychologist
- Pixel dance instructor
Fight 5
Future of Primary Care
Dr. Geetinder Goyal
Dr. Geetinder Goyal
CEO, First Primary Care
- Yale man
- Astros fan
- Turns things upside down
Dr. Nick Desai
Dr. Nick Desai
CIO, Houston Methodist
- Techy Dr. w/ an MBA
- Often described as a gentleman
- Epic
Referees
Head Referee
CEO, Station Houston
- ED, The Ion
- Lifelong educator
- Recovering investment banker
CEO, Watch Her Work
- Known to “Bring it On”
- Dynamo
- Other-centric
Partner, Blue Bear Capital
- NASA Astronaut, ISS
- West Point grad
- Venture Capitalist
Director, TMCx
- AF Flight Surgeon
- Space Doctor
- Bio-medical entrpreneur
President, Chevron Technology Ventures
- Chemistry nerd (PhD)
- Emerging tech champion
- Cyclist
