Nikolas Badminton, Chief Futurist at the Futurist Think Tank worked with the team at the Vancouver International Privacy & Security Summit (VIPSS) together three seasoned experts in the technologies that provide the foundations of the Metaverse - a super-platform weaving social media, online gaming, utilitarian data provision, and ease-of-life apps, all accessible through the same digital and physical space and bound together with economic and content mechanisms.

● James Hursthouse, CEO & Founder, Departure Lounge Inc.

● Kharis O’Connell, Principal, Amazon

● Heather Vescent, President/Futurist, The Purple Tornado

We discuss the technological foundations and considerations from a privacy, security and business model perspective. A new egalitarian world, more more fragmented platforms where our participation and biometrics are monetized?