Hey Digital Maniacs, Want to Fight? Now’s Your Chance
Digital Fight Club is back for Round 2 and it’s all happening August 23rd at the Granada Theater on Lower Greenville. Created by Digital Dallas, sponsored by Accenture Digital, and led by their Managing Director Andrew Hopkins heading up five referees, the much anticipated event will pit ten of the sharpest wits in Dallas on undecided and controversial topics in digital technology today.
Hurst Digital will be there live streaming the event to Digital Dallas’s Facebook page and will also shoot and edit the final episodes to watch after the live event.
AdChat DFW will also be there to interview key players, refs and judges for the event.
The Fight Card includes these five topics:
#1: Driverless Cars |Mark Haidar – CEO, Vinli vs Mike Courtney – CEO, Aperio Fight
#2: Digital On-Demand Workforces Nick Clark – CEO, Common Desk vs Stephen Huerta – CEO
#3: Digital Storytelling Urvashi Pitre – CEO, Tasseologic vs Shon Rathbone – CEO, 3 Headed Monster Fight
#4: Smart Homes Stuart Sikes – VP, People Power vs Dan Pidgeon – CEO Starpower/Chairman CES
#5: Artificial Intelligence Dave Copps – CEO, Brainspace vs Raju Kattumenu – CEO, Oculus360
The Format
Opening salvo: 45 seconds each
Rebuttal: 30 seconds each
Ref’s question: 15 seconds each
Ref’s follow up: 15 seconds each
Fight Referees
Head Referee: Andrew Hopkins (Managing Director, Accenture) Gurmeet Singh – CDO, 7-Eleven
Mark Cuban to also act as Referee. Cuban is a well-known Dallas businessman, investor, author, television personality, and philanthropist. He is the owner of the NBA‘s Dallas Mavericks and is also one of the main “shark” investors on the ABC reality television series, Shark Tank.
“Well, what do you want me to do? You just want me to hit you?”
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