Cathy Hackl
Metaverse & Web 3 Authority, Tech Futurist
Cathy Hackl is a globally recognized metaverse expert, tech futurist, and top business executive with deep experience working in metaverse related fields with companies like HTC VIVE, Magic Leap, and Amazon Web Services. She’s the CEO of the Futures Intelligence Group, a leading metaverse consultancy working with the world’s top brands on metaverse growth strategies, NFTs, gaming, virtual fashion, and how to extend their brands into virtual worlds. She’s a sought-after consultant, speaker, and media personality.
Hackl was recently featured in 60 Minutes, CNBC, GQ, Vogue, TIME, WSJ, and WIRED’s coverage of the metaverse and is a contributor to Forbes. In addition to her new book, she has written two books, The Augmented Workforce: How Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality and 5G Will Impact Every Dollar You Make, which she co-wrote with John Buzzell; and Marketing New Realities: An Introduction To Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality Marketing, Branding and Communications, which she co-wrote with Samantha G. Wolfe.
Hackl has been dubbed the Godmother of the Metaverse and is one of the top tech voices on LinkedIn. She’s also the host of Adweek’s Metaverse Marketing podcast. Big Think named Hackl one of the top 10 most influential women in tech in 2020 and in 2021 she was included in the prestigious Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led.