BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Pacific BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20220211T024411Z UID:24D9431E-9501-4DA8-9DBF-1716FE6327F6 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20220119T190000 DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20220119T203000 DESCRIPTION:Virtual Event Details\n\nApproaching its 30th birthday\, the no tion of a "metaverse" (from Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash) is getting new attention as an arena of new technologies\, business models\, and beh aviors. As a space for creation and combination\, it calls for measurement of how we're progressing\, and of how far apart we are from each other in what we're trying to do and what we'll call "success." Peter Coffee joins us for a new examination of potential innovations\, present trends\, and lessons worth remembering from past attempts to achieve similar goals.\n\n About the Speaker Peter Coffee\n\nPeter Coffee\, VP for Strategic Research at Salesforce\, begins his sixteenth year with the company in January 202 2. He works with customers\, partners and account teams\, regulators and o ther stakeholders to accelerate digital transformation and customer engage ment innovation\, addressing both long-term global opportunities and immed iate pandemic-endgame plans and follow-ups. Peter spent his eighteen years pre-Salesforce in technology journalism\, preceded by ten years of projec t field work and technology management for petrochemical and aerospace ope rations including time with The Aerospace Corporation and with the Western Division of what was then Exxon Corporation. He received his engineering degree from MIT and his MBA from the Graziadio School at Pepperdine Univer sity\; he has lectured on innovation practices and AI techniques at Stanfo rd\, CalTech\, Harvard Business School\, and MIT's Media Lab and Sloan Sch ool of Management. He is co-founder and President of the Foundation for In telligent Life on Earth\, a Seattle-based nonprofit supporting initiatives in climate change research and mitigation\, STEAM education\, and explora tion of earth and space. His writing appears occasionally at Diginomica\, with notes on what he's reading on Twitter @petercoffee\n\nZoom Webinar In structions for first timers\n\nThis will be a ZOOM Webinar. Instructions:\ n1) Register using the External Event link below.\n2) Upon completion\, an d on the same page as the registration\, you will get a link to the meetin g. [You can also add it to your calendar.]\n3) Click on this link to open the webinar.\n\nCo-sponsored by: OC ACM [Actual Host]\n\nAgenda: \n7:00 PM Announcements and Presentation\n8:30 PM Meeting Adjourned\;\n\nVirtual: h ttps://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/297571 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/297571 ORGANIZER:AWBrown@USC.edu SEQUENCE:6 SUMMARY:"Dimensions of Change: Measurements for a Metaverse" Virtual IEEE O C CmptrSoc. & OC ACM Mtg URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/297571 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><span style="text-decoration: underline\;" ><strong>Virtual Event</strong> <strong>Details</strong></span></p>\n<p><b r />Approaching its 30th birthday\, the notion of a "metaverse" (from Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash) is getting new attention as an arena of ne w technologies\, business models\, and behaviors. As a space for creation and combination\, it calls for measurement of how we're progressing\, and of how far apart we are from each other in what we're trying to do and wha t we'll call "success." Peter Coffee joins us for a new examination of pot ential innovations\, present trends\, and lessons worth remembering from p ast attempts to achieve similar goals.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>About the Sp eaker</strong> Peter Coffee</p>\n<p>Peter Coffee\, VP for Strategic Resear ch at Salesforce\, begins his sixteenth year with the company in January 2 022. He works with customers\, partners and account teams\, regulators and other stakeholders to accelerate digital transformation and customer enga gement innovation\, addressing both long-term global opportunities and imm ediate pandemic-endgame plans and follow-ups. Peter spent his eighteen yea rs pre-Salesforce in technology journalism\, preceded by ten years of proj ect field work and technology management for petrochemical and aerospace o perations including time with The Aerospace Corporation and with the Weste rn Division of what was then Exxon Corporation. He received his engineerin g degree from MIT and his MBA from the Graziadio School at Pepperdine Univ ersity\; he has lectured on innovation practices and AI techniques at Stan ford\, CalTech\, Harvard Business School\, and MIT's Media Lab and Sloan S chool of Management. He is co-founder and President of the Foundation for Intelligent Life on Earth\, a Seattle-based nonprofit supporting initiativ es in climate change research and mitigation\, STEAM education\, and explo ration of earth and space. His writing appears occasionally at Diginomica\ , with notes on what he's reading on Twitter @petercoffee</p>\n<p><strong> Zoom Webinar Instructions for first timers</strong></p>\n<p>This will be a ZOOM Webinar. Instructions:<br />1) Register using the External Event lin k below.<br />2) Upon completion\, and on the same page as the registratio n\, you will get a link to the meeting. [You can also add it to your calen dar.]<br />3) Click on this link to open the webinar.</p><br /><br />Agend a: <br /><p><span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_557201553"><spa n class="aQJ">7:00 PM</span></span>&nbsp\;Announcements and Presentation<b r />8:30 PM Meeting Adjourned\;</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR