Helping Organizations Understand How to Use Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality for Business Success!
Emmy-nominated changemaker translating the power of AI and VR/Founder, CEO/Speaker/Author; Winner, Best VR/AR, Mobile World Congress; Finalist, SXSW Innovation Award; Featured: NY Times, NPR
Meet Cortney
Cortney Harding is an in-demand expert in helping businesses harness the power of artificial intelligence, spatial computing, and virtual reality. She has created AI-powered conversational avatars for companies like Amazon, Delta, and McDonalds, and virtual reality training scenarios around topics like child abuse, workplace exclusion, mental health, Black maternal mortality, and racial bias for companies like Lowe’s, Walmart, PWC, Target, and more. She routinely leads workshops for Fortune 100 companies and universities on how to use AI and VR in education and training. Cortney is currently the head of immersive content at Virti.
Her work as been honored on numerous occasions. As an executive producer on JFK Memento, she was nominated for an Emmy and the piece won the audience award for best XR at SXSW and Best in the World at the QLD XR Festival. Her work has also been honored as the Best VR/AR of 2019 at Mobile World Congress, a SXSW Innovation Award Finalist, and a Top HR Product by HR Executive.
She is currently a member of the Fast Future Executive faculty and a co-author the "Fast Future Blur" (Wiley, 2024). She has taught at CalTech, NYU, Barnard, North Carolina State University, and New Mexico State University, as well as co-writing and co-teaching the Coursera course "What is the Metaverse?" on behalf of Meta.
An accomplished speaker, Cortney is considered a future facing architect of change as she has a full understanding of what challenges and opportunities exist in this new landscape. She approaches every aspect of her work leading with "what problem can we solve" and "how sustainable is the journey to this virtual landscape" which has led to a host of unique speaking opportunities. These include DAVOS, SXSW, Advertising Week Europe, the Next Web, and Future of Storytelling, among other events. She delivered the commencement address at Centro in Mexico City in 2022.
She has been interviewed by the New York Times, NPR, and Ad Week, among others, and has written for Billboard, Teen Vogue, and the Village Voice.
“One of the smartest and most future-focused AI and VR speakers I have ever seen!”
– Fortune 100 CMO
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Talks about #training, #virtualreality, #extendedreality, #augmentedreality, and #artificialintelligence
How often have you read that every company needs a VR and AI strategy no matter their intent to jump in full force or quietly sit back to see what their competitors are doing? There is a great deal of conversation around this topic, yet few tangible guideposts for companies to follow. Certainly the time has come for leaders to adjust their mindset and embrace what the journey to this new frontier will look like, while having a full understanding of the pitfalls that could confront them and the myths that have already been sounded.
As a global thought leader, published author, and leading authority on emerging technology and the role of virtual and augmented reality and artifical intelligence, Cortney Harding is considered a future-facing architect of change as she has a full understanding of what challenges and opportunities exist.
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Are you Ready for the AI and VR Revolution?
Myths and Realities of the New Frontier
We’re living in unprecedented times with the advances in technology emerging faster than we can even process. Right now, leaders are faced with the dilemma of doing business as usual, or taking the opportunities that exist within the the AI/VR revolution seriously and acting on them. Cortney Harding is considered a future-facing architect of change as she has a full understanding of the challenges and the new thought processes needed to not only exist but also thrive within the next iteration of the web. She approaches every aspect of her work leading with "what problem can we solve" and "how sustainable is the journey to this virtual landscape," which has quickly positioned her as a unique and informed expert on this topic. For innovators used to a clear path to success, this talk highlights the importance of having an accepting and open mind to what is possible, and the new way of thinking that leaders will need to take their companies and their customers into the future.
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