Snow Crash Author Neal Stephenson Joins List of Following GamesBeat Summit Speakers

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We are thrilled that our special guest speaker for GamesBeat Summit Next 2022 on October 25-26 in San Francisco is Neal Stephenson, author of the novel Snow Crash and sci-fi thinker who was the former coined the term metaverse.

It's a dream day for us GamesBeat geeks, but it's also relevant for the world, as Stephenson is a co-founder of Lamina1, a layer 1 blockchain purpose-built to power the open metaverse. And he's also become an advocate for the open metaverse, as it looks like the metaverse is going to go from science fiction to reality. In fact, McKinsey has estimated that the metaverse will be worth $5 trillion by 2030.

Waves of hype always roll over the gaming industry, but we never know if they'll get our feet wet or if they'll be tidal waves that change the entire industry. GamesBeat Summit Next 2022 will examine the next big opportunities in a disciplined manner with industry thought leaders. You can use discount code Dean50 to get 50% off the ticket price for a limited time.

You don't want to experience FOMO about our event on emerging parts of gaming that could become the next big markets. Our main sub-themes will focus on key areas and their growth in the post-pandemic world. These subtopics include the metaverse, user-generated content and creator economy, influencers and marketing disruption, non-fungible tokens and cryptocurrency, emerging markets, subscriptions and cloud gaming. and the evolution of gaming infrastructure. And as always, we'll be looking at transactions and financial trends in games.

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MetaBeat will bring together thought leaders to advise on how metaverse technology will transform the way all industries communicate and do business on October 4 in San Francisco, CA.

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Neal Stephenson is co-founder r from Lamina1 and author of Snow Crash.

Many of us think this stuff is science fiction, because the metaverse is the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash. It's no different from the Marvel Multiverse, is it?

Well, our session at the October 25-26 event in San Francisco will be called "From Science Fiction to Reality: Bringing the Open, Real-Time Metaverse to Life." Stephenson coined the term "metaverse" in the 1990s, when it was a science fiction vision for a digital world where we could fully i...