By Staff
Friday, March 8, 2019 12:00 AM
NEW YORK—The Vision Monday Global Leadership Summit is deepening its focus on consumer trends and behavior as experts in retailing, health care and branding join the day-long program. The live exclusive event, titled, “Decoding the Consumer: The New Science of Customer Behavior,” will be held Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at the Times Center here, just prior to Vision Expo East.
By Staff
Monday, February 11, 2019 12:30 AM
NEW YORK—A leading health care economist, a prominent public health expert, a blockchain technology business strategist, a podcaster specializing in retail, marketing, and customer experience trends and a global markets reporter are the latest speakers to join the program for the upcoming Vision Monday Global Leadership Summit, Decoding the Consumer: The New Science of Customer Behavior.
By Staff
Thursday, January 24, 2019 12:27 AM
NEW YORK—A leading health care economist, a prominent public health expert and a blockchain technology business strategist are the latest speakers to join the program for the upcoming Vision Monday Global Leadership Summit, Decoding the Consumer: The New Science of Customer Behavior. “A major focus of the Summit is the new convergence of health care and retail,” said Andrew Karp,
Vision Monday’s lens and technology editor.
By Staff
Monday, January 21, 2019 12:32 AM
NEW YORK—The speaker roster is expanding for the upcoming Vision Monday Global Leadership Summit, “Decoding the Consumer: The New Science of Customer Behavior.” Experts in new retail and health care technologies have joined the day-long exclusive program, which will be held here on March 20 at The Times Center.
By Staff
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 12:27 AM
NEW YORK—
Vision Monday will take an in-depth look at the new science of customer behavior at the 13th annual Vision Monday Global Leadership Summit. Keeping with 2019 Summit’s theme, “Decoding the Consumer,” top retail analysts, health care experts and marketers will detail trends and tactics shaping businesses.
By Staff
Monday, April 9, 2018 12:00 PM
NEW YORK—For a closer look at "workSMART," here are the speakers' presentations, now available exclusively for all 2018 Summit attendees. Session highlight videos and recap reports are available below.
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.
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.
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.
By Staff
Wednesday, November 15, 2017 12:24 AM
NEW YORK—There’s a new agility mandate for all businesses, brands and leaders brought on by rapid global and digital change.Top thinkers are redefining retail, health care and service. That’s the thinking behind “WORKSmart – Leadership Tactics for Transformative Times,” the 12th annual Vision Monday Global Leadership Summit to be held March 14 at the Times Center.
By Staff
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 11:05 AM
CHICAGO AND ORLANDO—
Novatio Solutions, a leading Digital Workforce solutions provider that transforms challenging, time-consuming or labor-intensive tasks into jobs for ‘robots,” has announced a partnership with
Lighthouse Works to increase the efficiency of those with vision loss through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Lighthouse Works is a Florida-based social enterprise company that trains and employs individuals who are visually impaired.
By Staff
Monday, September 25, 2017 1:01 PM
Artificially intelligent avatars are becoming an increasingly important part of the health care delivery system. In professions as diverse as cardiology and psychotherapy, AI avatars are interacting with patients with positive results. These virtual doctors are representations of real doctors and have human-like characteristics such as voice inflections and facial expressions. By accessing the patient’s electronic medical records and listening to their voices they can provide a personal consultation and react in real time to questions.
By Staff
Monday, August 21, 2017 11:42 AM
Artificial Intelligence (AI) of tomorrow is still being built today. But what’s already at work today with shoppers in the e-commerce space are “bots” or, to be more clear, “chatbots” that engage and learn more about users’ preferences and interests.
By Staff
Friday, July 14, 2017 2:45 PM
Penny is personal finance coach. Ava empowers hard-of-hearing and deaf people. Claire is a chatbot for testing consumer products. An interesting article by business and technology columnist Joanna Glasner, titled “At AI Bot Startups, Cool Kids Rule,” explores some of the names developers and early stage companies are giving to their AI powered bots and solutions.
By Staff
Friday, June 16, 2017 3:14 PM
Acclaimed violinist, composer and educator Mari Kimura performed two special shows with famed Japanese pianist Kunihiko Sugano last month at the Japan Club in New York City. It was the first encounter for the two musicians, who played a set of jazz standards for an appreciative audience.