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Early-Bird Registration for VM Global Leadership Summit Is Extended to Tonight

By Staff
Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:15 AM NEW YORK—Early-bird registration for the Vision Monday Global Leadership Summit has been extended and will expire at 11:59 p.m. today, Feb. 7, Summit organizers said. This exclusive live event will be held Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at the Times Center here, just prior to Vision Expo East that week.  The 2019 VM Summit is titled, "Decoding the Consumer: The New Science of Customer Behavior."

VM Summit Update: Early Bird Pricing to End, New Speakers Announced

By Staff
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 12:18 AM NEW YORK—Early-bird registration for the Vision Monday Global Leadership Summit is set to expire at midnight on Jan. 31, Summit organizers said.The Summit program has been expanded to include two new speakers, Heike Young of Salesforce and global markets reporter Jill Malandrino. Heike Young has been researching and writing about trends in retail, marketing and customer experience at Salesforce.

VM’s Summit Explores Leadership Tactics for Transformative Times

By Staff
Monday, April 16, 2018 12:30 AM NEW YORK—Business trend analysts, branding experts and health and vision care experts shared their views about how leaders can help their organizations adapt to rapid changes in the “climate” of technology and work at the 12th annual Vision Monday Global Leadership Summit, held at the Times Center here on March 14. The day-long Summit program and networking event explored the theme, “workSMART: Leadership Tactics for Transformative Times.”

VM’s Summit Explores Leadership Tactics for Transformative Times

By Staff
Friday, March 16, 2018 12:27 AM NEW YORK—Business trend analysts, branding experts and health and vision care experts shared their views about how leaders can help their organizations adapt to rapid changes in the “climate” of technology and work at the 12th annual Vision Monday Global Leadership Summit, held at the Times Center here on Wednesday. The day-long Summit program and networking event explored the theme, “workSMART: Leadership Tactics for Transformative Times.” The diverse range of speakers offered insights about how the fast sweep of digital technology, empowered consumers and unexpected competition is reshaping the world of work, and why business leaders of startups or established companies need constant learning, swift tactical moves and organizational resilience.

VM Summit Expands Telehealth Session With New Topics and Speakers

By Staff
Friday, February 23, 2018 12:24 AM NEW YORK—The rapid rise of telehealth and its growing impact on vision care will be the focus of a special session at the Vision Monday Global Leadership Summit, “Tackling Disruption: The Telehealth Frontier.” The session, which will feature telehealth experts, leading providers, eyecare professionals and optical retailers, will help Summit attendees increase their understanding of telehealth and examine the decision making process surrounding it. It will also illustrate how health care and business leaders are grappling with a complex and challenging trend that is reshaping relationships between doctors and patients and fundamentally changing the delivery of health care services and diagnoses.

New Speakers and Special Telehealth Session Round Out VM Summit Program

By Staff
Thursday, February 15, 2018 12:24 AM NEW YORK—The CEO of one of the nation’s largest optical retail chains, a leading digital business strategy consultant and experts from across the telehealth spectrum have joined the program at Vision Monday’s Global Leadership Summit, to be held at the Times Center here on March 14. They and other top thinkers and influencers will discuss new ways to “workSMART.”

Fast Company's Robert Safian and Industrious' Maggie Burns Join VM Summit ‘workSMART’

By Staff
Monday, January 29, 2018 12:24 AM NEW YORK—Fast Company’s award-winning editor, author and business observer, Robert Safian, will share his observations about leadership, innovation and agility in the closing keynote at Vision Monday’s upcoming Global Leadership Summit to be held here on March 14. Also, just added to the program is Maggie Burns, head of the real estate portfolio of Industrious.

New Speakers Join Roster for VM’s ‘workSMART’ Summit as Early-Bird Registration Extends to Jan. 26

By Staff
Sunday, January 21, 2018 12:24 AM NEW YORK—The speaker roster for VM’s upcoming Global Leadership Summit, ‘workSMART – Leadership Tactics for Transformative Times’ has expanded with the addition of Michael Dorf, founder and CEO of City Winery. A fast-growing and unique operation, City Winery combines culinary and cultural in venues in several major U.S. cities.

workSMART: 2018 VM Global Leadership Summit Tackles Leadership Tactics for Transformative Times

By Staff
Wednesday, December 20, 2017 12:24 AM NEW YORK—Early-bird registration is open until midnight, Jan. 5 for “workSMART – Leadership Tactics for Transformative Times.” That’s the program theme of the 12th annual Vision Monday Global Leadership Summit. The day-long live event will be held Wednesday, March 14 at the Times Center here, just prior to Vision Expo East that week.

Artificial Intelligence Computes the Man + Machine Equation

By Staff
Monday, April 24, 2017 12:30 AM NEW YORK—Artificial Intelligence (AI), arguably the most transformative force in business and health care today, took center stage at Vision Monday’s Global Leadership Summit, held here on March 29.

AI as a Tool, Not a Threat, to Eyecare and Society

By Jamie Wilson and Catherine Wolinski, Contributing Editor
Monday, April 24, 2017 12:29 AM The Vision Monday Summit kicked off with Session One: “Insight, Integration and Investment” starring Hilary Mason, founder and CEO of Fast Forward Labs, a data research company that helps organizations utilize their data science and machine intelligence capabilities.

AI Begins to Reshape the Customer/Patient Experience

By Mary Kane
Monday, April 24, 2017 12:28 AM How will Artificial Intelligence begin to affect the customer/patient experience? That was the question posed to the second panel of the day as they examined how AI algorithms learn what we like, enabling personalized brands to create new experiences and choices for consumers. The advance of new smart tools help make data actionable, creating competitive advantages for retailers, professionals, designers and suppliers.

Professor Urges Audience to Think Outside the Box When it Comes to AI

By Mark Tosh
Monday, April 24, 2017 12:27 AM Many philosophers have a pragmatic view of the world, and it would appear that Alex John London, a professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Ethics and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, counts himself among this group.

Finding the Soul of the Machine With Violinist Mari Kimura

By Jamie Wilson
Monday, April 24, 2017 12:26 AM In the final session of the 2017 VM Summit, “The Soul of the Machine,” Mari Kimura, a violinist and teacher of Interactive Computer Music Performance at The Juilliard School, entertained the audience though a performance wearing a sensor-enabled glove.

Seeing Eye to AI: Sharing Data to Improve Ophthalmic Care

By Catherine Wolinski, Contributing Editor
Monday, April 24, 2017 12:25 AM Paul Karpecki, OD, FAAO, chief clinical editor at Review of Optometry, quickly guided the audience into Session Four: “A-Eye: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Eyecare,” immediately introducing ways in which artificial intelligence can directly enhance the ophthalmic profession.