/// INTO THE METAVERSE EVENT

From left: Dr. Yossi Maaravi; Prof. Dov Greenbaum; Chemi Peres, Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, Co-Founder & Managing General Partner, Pitango VC; Adi Sofer, CEO Meta Israel; and Prof. Uriel Reichman, Photo: Oren Shalev

For the first time in Israel, senior representatives from industry, academia, and government gathered at Reichman University for an open discussion regarding the emerging metaverse technologies and Web 3.0. The event was initiated by Meta, the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, the Adelson School of Entrepreneurship, and the Zvi Meitar Institute for Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies, part of the Harry Radzyner Law School, at Reichman University.

This gathering is intended to be the first of many such events with Meta and its partners to pursue the examination of the ethical, legal, political and economic implications of the metaverse.

Participants took part in numerous roundtable discussions regarding the many opportunities that the emerging metaverse could provide for Israeli society, as well as the many possible ways in which Israel can take advantage of this nascent technology to become a global leader in metaverse technologies.

The roundtables looked particularly at numerous broad relevant areas, including: the role of the metaverse in education and academia; the ability for metaverse technologies to support citizens in the periphery; the future nature of the metaverse as a diplomatic tool; the potential capabilities of the metaverse to promote sustainability in Israel and abroad; the usefulness of the metaverse to provide health and mental health services; and the myriad issues related to property rights and ownership in the metaverse.

The Zvi Meitar Institute students professionally hosted each of the roundtables, directing the dialogue and documenting discussions amongst the many stakeholders. With the accumulated trove of information, the students drafted white papers coalescing and explicating the various positions of the varied stakeholders. These papers were then merged into a comprehensive report that was submitted to Meta and the Peres Center for further consultation, and ultimately for distribution amongst relevant government officials.