HOUSTON
October 26, 2021
Tired of boring Zoom calls? So are we. We’re turning the virtual event world on its head with the first Digital Fight Club, Virtual Edition.
Just like IRL, we’re putting 2 experts in their fields up against each other in front of a raucous virtual audience.
What does that look like?
- Experience the fights with your friends on your own virtual couch
- React verbally and electronically like you would in person
- Network by moving to another couch
We do this in front of hundreds CEOs, technologists, entrepreneurs and investors not to mention thousands in the audience.
So there is no pressure.
Then we let the refs and audience (that’s you) vote for a winner within the virtual experience. That’s not boring. That’s fun.
…and you might learn something.
- Fight 1: Energy Transition: What technology is king to get us there?
- Fight 2: Space Race: Who will lead space commercialization?
- Fight 3: Digital Divide: The greatest barrier to bridging the divide?
- Fight 4: Sweet Teams are Made of This: The post-pandemic employee experience
- Fight 5: Innovation in a Virtual World: Impossible?
Mayhem, indeed!
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Watch Dr. Geetinder Goyal spar with Dr. Nick Reddy over the Future of Primary Care
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Fight 1
Energy Transition: What technology is king to get us there?
Moji Karimi
Moji Karimi
CEO, Cemvita Factory
- Carbon Negative
- Climate Positive
- Hates clever phrases
Trevor Best
Trevor Best
CEO, Syzygy Plasmonics
- Baker Hughes alum
- Former English prof in China
- Red Raider
Fight 2
Space Race: Who will lead space commercialization?
Trent Martin
Trent Martin
VP, Space Systems, Intuitive Machines
- Also Pres, SciSpace
- NASA Vet
- Longhorn
Steve Gonzalez
Steve Gonzalez
Partner, Seldor Capital
- 33 Yr NASA vet
- Computer Scientist
- Never got caught in Warren Towers
Fight 3
Digital Divide: The greatest barrier to bridging the divide
Ashley DeWalt
Ashley DeWalt
Managing Director, DivInc
- Sports tech guy
- Accelerator expert
- Overwatch afficionado
Jesse Martinez
Jesse Martinez
Co-Founder, LatinX Startup Alliance
- Literal serial entrepreneur
- Emerging market startup expert
- Aggie
Fight 4
Sweet Teams are Made of This: The post-pandemic employee experience
Brad Deuster
Brad Deuster
CEO, Deuster
- Organizational behavior expert
- Former circus employee
- Longhorn
Joe Alapat
Joe Alapat
CEO, Liongard
- Managed services nerd
- Literal team builder
- Trinity Tiger
Fight 5
Innovation in a Virtual World: Impossible?
Lawson Gow
Lawson Gow
Founder, The Cannon
- Entrepreneur
- Community Builder
- Lover of Houston
Robert Pieroni
Robert Pieroni
Dir., Central Houston, Inc
- Startup guy
- Space advisor
- CA transplant
Referees
Houston MD, Accenture
- Oil & gas expert
- Passionate community server
- Owl
Executive Director, Halliburton Labs
- Clean energy inveastor
- Energy vet
- Voice Actor
Lead, Partnership Development, NASA
- Blue Origin vet
- Boeing ISS vet
- Knows astronauts
Dir. Collaborative Innovation, NASA
- Joined NASA before the ISS launched
- Crowdsourced toilet design
- Software engineer
Director, Innovation & Engagement, Intel
- Intel vet
- Passionate volunteer
- Only attends schools with purple colors