Digital Fight Club: Houston 2021 (Virtual Edition)
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Tired of boring Zoom calls? So are we. We're turning the virtual event world on it's head with the first Digital Fight Club, Virtual Edition
About this event
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
- Heckle & React verbally and electronically like you would in person
- Network by moving to another couch
- Chat the audience up
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.
The Fight Card
Fight #1: Energy Transition: What technology is king to get us there?
Fighters: Moji Karimi - CEO, Cemvita Factory vs Trevor Best - CEO, Syzygy Plasmonics
Fight #2: Space Race: Who will lead space commercialization?
Fighters: Trent Martin - VP, Space Systems, Intuitive Machines vs Steve Gonzalez - Partner, Seldor Capital (retired NASA)
Fight #3: Digital Divide: The greatest barrier to bridging the divide?
Fighters: Ashley DeWalt - MD, DivInc vs Jesse Martinez - Co-Founder, LatinX Startup Alliance
Fight #4: Sweet Teams are Made of This: The post-pandemic employee experience
Fighters: Brad Deutser - CEO, Deutser vs Joe Alapat - CEO, Liongard
Fight #5: Innovation in a Virtual World: Impossible?
Fighters: Lawson Dow - Founder, The Cannon vs Robert Pieroni - Dir., Economic Development, Central Houston, Inc.
The Format
- Opening salvo: 45 seconds each
- Rebuttal #1: 30 seconds each
- Rebuttal #2: 30 seconds each
- Ref's question: 15 seconds each
- Ref's follow up: 15 seconds each
Fight Referees
- Head Ref: Mary Beth Gracy, MD Houston Officer Dir., Accenture
- Scot Gale - Exec. Dir., Halliburton Labs
- Sam Gunderson - Dir., Partnership Development, NASA
- Elizabeth Haines McGee - Dir., Innovation & Engagement, Intel
- Steve Rader - Dep. Dir. , Collaborative Innovation, NASA
PLUS: An interactive virtual After Party like you've never seen with a performance from Houston's own The Suffers
with help from Houston Exponential & The Ion
