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Summary
Join a complimentary 30-minute encore webinar featuring a deep-dive Q&A discussion on how the metaverse will impact the industrial, enterprise, and social spheres within the tech, media, and telecommunications industry landscape.
During this session, you’ll have the opportunity to ask our panel of TMT research experts about
- The metaverse and its implications across TMT sectors
- Impacts for manufacturing, productivity, customer experience, commerce, and entertainment applications
- An outlook for M&A activity and future investment trends
Moderator
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Sarah James
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Senior Editor, Technology, Media and Telecommunications
Sarah has more than a decade of experience writing and editing data-driven, sector-focused content, covering everything from retransmission consent disputes to municipal broadband deployment.
Sarah has more than a decade of experience writing and editing data-driven, sector-focused content, covering everything from retransmission consent disputes to municipal broadband deployment. She has moderated various panels at industry events like Mobile World Congress and Streaming Media West, and she continues to produce articles around environmental, social and governance issues.
Speakers
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Ian Hughes
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Senior Research Analyst
Ian is a Senior Research Analyst for the Internet of Things practice within S&P Global Market Intelligence. He has 30 years of experience in emerging technology as a developer, architect, and consultant through key technology trends.
Ian is a Senior Research Analyst for the Internet of Things practice within S&P Global Market Intelligence. He has 30 years of experience in emerging technology as a developer, architect, and consultant through key technology trends.
He has 20 years of experience at IBM in cross-industry application development. This included automotive, global sporting events, retail, and telecommunications. Ian was early to the web development space in 1998 and social media in 2004 and was influential in virtual-worlds adoption in 2006-2009.
He has spent the past seven years at his own consulting company, where he presented a regular emerging technology feature on a UK Saturday morning children's TV show, built virtual disaster simulators for hospitals, pitched startups to investors, wrote a technology column for a fashion magazine and wrote two sci-fi novels. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Technology from Southampton Solent University in 2018.
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Neil Barbour
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Research Analyst
Neil Barbour is a research analyst in the Kagan media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. He leads video game coverage for the consumer technology team. Neil also tracks connected video devices and streaming operating systems. Prior to this role, Neil covered telco broadband and multichannel as well as direct broadcast satellite technologies.
Neil Barbour is a research analyst in the Kagan media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. He leads video game coverage for the consumer technology team. Neil also tracks connected video devices and streaming operating systems. Prior to this role, Neil covered telco broadband and multichannel as well as direct broadcast satellite technologies.
Neil’s recent area of concentration is on consumer-focused applications in the emerging metaverse, the long-term vision for the next phase of the internet as a shared 3D virtual space.
Before joining S&P Global Market Intelligence, his work experience included editing and copy editing for print and digital media outlets.
Neil holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Pennsylvania State University.
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Sheryl Kingstone
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Research Director, 451 Research
Sheryl Kingstone is head of the software experiences group, which includes the Workforce Productivity & Collaboration, Customer Experience & Commerce, Fintech and Macroeconomic research channels at S&P Global Market Intelligence. As a researcher, Sheryl tracks how businesses are spending on technology for the experience economy and how customer experience is a catalyst for digital transformation.
Specifically, she oversees the company's coverage of a variety of customer experience data-driven software markets spanning advertising technology, marketing, sales, commerce and service. She also is responsible for both consumer spending and IT tech spending research products.
Before joining S&P Global Market intelligence via acquisition, she consulted with several enterprise software companies and worked at companies in the enterprise data replication, transformation and database software market.
As a recognized thought leader with more than 25 years of experience in customer experience technologies, Sheryl was awarded the CRM Influential Leaders Award and was also the first female to be inducted into the CRM Hall of Fame.
Sheryl holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts and a Master of Business Administration degree from Simmons College.
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