Christopher Lafayette
Emergent Technologist | Humanitarian
He is working for a more equitable culture in technology serving as a Silicon Valley national and international speaker, thought leader and an advocate for greater expansion of community in technology that includes cross culture and inclusion considerations.
Gatherverse is the brainchild of Christopher Lafayette. Chris saw a critical need for going beyond the technical aspects of creating the metaverse to include humanity itself in the conversation about what a metaverse can and should be, and how it could best benefit those who will ultimately inhabit it.
As the Founder of The Black Technology Mentorship Program, he is creating entrepreneurs and professionals of tomorrow through proper incubation and acceleration, career path and apprenticeship.
Christopher has worked with and advised companies and organizations such as Google, Meta, NFL, Merlin Entertainments, European Commission, Nikko Hotels, NBA, Linux Foundation, Cisco, Microsoft, Salesforce, Verizon, Stanford University, Duke University, San Jose College of Engineering, UCLA, renowned chefs, musicians and hundreds of startups.
He sits on various advisory councils and boards.
He’s bringing thousands of communities and millions of people into the metaverse, humanely.
Speaking Categories
The Metaverse
Artificial Intelligence
Tech Inclusion
MedTech
Removing Barriers to Innovation
Companies, Cities and Countries
Past Speaking Engagements
IME West, 2023
Anaheim CA
WICT Tech It out 2022
Denver
AWE USA, 2022
Santa Clara, California
Laval Virtual, 2022
France, Europe
2022 XR Access Symposium
Affine
Berkeley Haas
CES: MCity Metaverse Summit
Verizon Media
New York, New York
Juniper Networks
Sunnyvale
The Linux Foundation
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
UCLA
Stereopsia
European Immersive Computing Summit
Mayo Clinic
Global HR Summit
Blacks in Technology Conference
Laval Virtual
Virtual World Society
CoreTech
VR 4 Everyone Conference
Holodeck Engineering Lecture
Virtual Reality Global Forum
VRX Conference
Augmented World Expo
Miami VR Expo
AWE NITE SF
AWE NITE NYC
Blacks in Technology
Salesforce
Microsoft
Black Technology Mentorship Program
A Mentor Mentee program that inspires, educates and brings underserved black communities into technology.
Magazine Articles
Featured In
Press
Manufacturing Happy Hour
How the Metaverse will Impact Manufacturing with Christopher Lafayette
CIO - The voice of IT leadership
Mentoring tomorrow’s Black IT leaders
Medical Device + Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI)
Medtech in the Metaverse
TechTarget
Chill Magazine
The Metaverse Insider
Insight News
Venetoeconomia
Giornale delle PMI
Startup Business
3E @ VRX
VR Scout
Industria Italiana
Written Blogs
Photos, Podcasts, Presentations and Lectures
Transitioning platforms to virtual
Engagements
I’ve been graciously invited to speak around the world and lecture on a variety of subjects both in-person and virtually.
Countries
Cities
Spoken Events
Focus Topics
We now live in the time of more expressions, greater expansions of art and emerging technologies.
We’ve made a platform founded by designers, lovers of music and builders of technology.
Over the decades of growth of Hip Hop culture and the advent of Crypto Assets, NFTs, Blockchain FinTech and the Metaverse, we were presented with the opportunity to bring it together into one.
These are our first early steps of Hip Hop Coins.
The next step in the evolution of Hip Hop…
The pairing of Art + Music + Technology
AT THE HEART OF TECHNOLOGY IS COMMUNITY
Continents
Billion People
Countries
Earth
Reach Out
Location: Silicon Valley
Email: [email protected]