[AISWorld] Announcement: A Virtual Seminar Series on The Digital Future for Business & Society: Emerging Perspectives on the Metaverse

[Yogesh K. Dwivedi]

Announcement: A Virtual Seminar Series on The Digital Future for Business &
Society: Emerging Perspectives on the Metaverse

This seminar series on “*The Digital Future for Business & Society:
Emerging Perspectives on the Metaverse*” will present various perspectives
from a number of leading expert speakers to highlight the opportunities and
challenges posed by the rapid emergence of the metaverse. The seminar
series will offer a timely and thought-provoking insight to the metaverse,
its impact on the future of business, management and societal factors
impacted by the growth, direction and widespread adoption of this new
immersive technology.

This series is hosted jointly by Digital Futures for Sustainable Business &
Society Research Group, School of Management, Swansea University, UK
and Symbiosis Institute of Business Management Pune, India (Constituent of
Symbiosis International (Deemed University), India). The series is
supported by: Digital Marketing and Analytics SIG – Academy of Marketing
(UK); Grenoble IAE-Graduate School of Management - a Grenoble INP school of
the University of Grenoble Alpes; The e-Business and e-Government SIG -
British Academy of Management (UK); and The UK Academy for Information
Systems (UKAIS). Further details about this seminar series can be found at:
https://www.swansea.ac.uk/som/research/researchcentres/metaverse-seminar-series/

The first seminar (on Surfing the Internet and Diving in the Metaverse: A
Status Quo Analysis) in this series was delivered by Professor Philipp
Rauschnabel, The Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany. For a limited
period only, this talk is available to access freely at:
https://youtu.be/PNuasGZhzWU  and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJbImaM47p8

The details of the next upcoming seminar are as follows:

*Date & Time:* 15th Feb 2023 [13:00 PM UK Time; 18:30 PM IST]

*Zoom Registration Link:* https://tinyurl.com/seminarseries-2

*Seminar Title:* Engaging users in the Metaverse Applications in different
industries

*Speaker:* Professor Carlos Flavián, The University of Zaragoza, Spain

*Speaker’s Bio:* Carlos Flavián is Professor of Marketing at the University
of Zaragoza, Spain and Director of the METODO research Lab. He specializes
in analyzing the perceptions, intentions and actual behavior of users of
4.0 technologies (i.e. virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial
intelligence or robots). He is ranked as the top researcher in Spain in
Business & Management and he is the founder of AIRSI (The Metaverse
Conference)
<https://airsi.unizar.es/?fbclid=IwAR1vnL0cUIVPghwsMFpfQIXrNZ9NwwuFdY_yekj5cn9ftf90_bSg1AyHM5o>:
https://airsi.unizar.es/call-for-papers/.


Kind regards


Yogesh


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Professor Yogesh K. Dwivedi, PhD
Professor of Digital Marketing and Innovation
School of Management, Room #323
Swansea University, Bay Campus
Fabian Bay, Swansea, SA1 8EN, Wales, UK.
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Email: y.k.dwivedi at swansea.ac.uk ; ykdwivedi at gmail.com
Home Page:http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/som/academic-staff/y.k.dwivedi/

Distinguished Research Professor, Symbiosis Institute of Business
Management, Pune & Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune,India

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A Virtual Seminar Series on The Digital Future for Business & Society:
Emerging Perspectives on the Metaverse:
https://www.swansea.ac.uk/som/research/researchcentres/metaverse-seminar-series/