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DFC: General — Houston 2019

Nov 20, 2019 7:00 PM · White Oak Music Hall · Houston, TX

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DFC: General — Houston 2019 event banner, Digital Fight Club in Houston, TX

Digital Fight Club heads to Houston before the holidays and brings its energy to the White Oak Music Hall, Houston’s best live music venue. Ten of the sharpest wits in Space City will spar in five “fights” ranging in topics centered around technology.

RSVP
November 20, 2019

The Fight Format

  • Each fight runs ~10 minutes
  • Opening arguments: 45 secs each
  • Rebuttal rounds: 15 secs each (6–8 rounds)
  • Refs call fouls (buzzer) anytime — 15 sec response each
  • Audience votes to decide the winner

Event Timeline

Sponsors

The companies backing this fight — and all the decision-makers in the room. Want in on the action? Reach out below.

Fights

Defending your ideas in front of a crowd of your peers. Educational and entertaining at the same time.

Future Workforce: Robotics & AI

Matt Hager — Digital Fight Club fighter photo
Matt Hager
CEO, Poetic Systems
  • Building the Future
  • Extremely pragmatic
  • Poet leader

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DFCDFCWINNER
VS
Pablo Marin — Digital Fight Club fighter photo
Pablo Marin
Sr. AI Leader, Microsoft
  • Founder
  • Lives in the Cloud
  • Venezualen Dallasite

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DFCDFCWINNER
/people/matt-hager
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Cybersecurity: Whose Responsibility?

Ted Gutierrez — Digital Fight Club fighter photo
Ted Gutierrez
CEO, SecurityGate
  • West Pointer
  • Nuclear engineer
  • Can argue both sides of an argument

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DFCDFCWINNER
VS
Tara Khanna — Digital Fight Club fighter photo
Tara Khanna
MD/Security Lead, Accenture
  • Enterprise genius
  • Cyber wonk
  • Often mistaken for Amazon Prime actress

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DFCDFCWINNER
/people/tara-khanna
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Oil & Gas & the Environment

Michael Szafron — Digital Fight Club fighter photo
Michael Szafron
CA, Cemvita Factory
  • Multipotentialite
  • Alberta native
  • Autistic Superpowers

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DFCDFCWINNER
VS
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Steven Taylor
Co-founder, AR for Everyone
  • Shell Energy VR guy
  • Shaolin Temple trained martial artist
  • Sculptor

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DFCDFCWINNER
/people/michael-szafron
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Digital in our personal lives

Grace Rodriguez — Digital Fight Club fighter photo
Grace Rodriguez
CEO, ImpactHub
  • Profesional do-gooder
  • Innovation empowerer
  • Mad juggler

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DFCDFCWINNER
VS
Javier Fadul — Digital Fight Club fighter photo
Javier Fadul
Dir., Innovaion, HTX Labs
  • Humanizer
  • Philosophical Psychologist
  • Pixel dance instructor

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DFCDFCWINNER
/people/grace-rodriguez
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Future of Primary Care

Geetinder Goyal — Digital Fight Club fighter photo
Geetinder Goyal
CEO, First Primary Care
  • Yale man
  • Astros fan
  • Turns things upside down

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DFCDFCWINNER
VS
Nick Desai — Digital Fight Club fighter photo
Nick Desai
CIO, Houston Methodist
  • Techy Dr. w/ an MBA
  • Often described as a gentleman
  • Epic

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DFCDFCWINNER
/people/geetinder-goyal
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Referees

They don't judge the debate — they call fouls. The audience decides the winner. All referees below officiate every fight at this event.

Gaby Rowe

CEO, Station Houston
  • ED, The Ion
  • Lifelong educator
  • Recovering investment banker

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Gaby Rowe — Digital Fight Club referee photo

Denise Hamilton

CEO, Watch Her Work
  • Known to “Bring it On”
  • Dynamo
  • Other-centric

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Denise Hamilton — Digital Fight Club referee photo

Tim Kopra

Chief Human Exploration Officer, Voyager Technologies
  • NASA Astronaut, ISS
  • West Point grad
  • Venture capitalist

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Tim Kopra — Digital Fight Club referee photo

Barbara Burger

President, Chevron Technology Ventures, Chevron
  • Chemistry nerd (PhD)
  • Emerging tech champion
  • Cyclist

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Barbara Burger — Digital Fight Club referee photo

Lance Black

Director, TMC Innovation
  • AF Flight Surgeon
  • Space Doctor
  • Bio-medical entrpreneur

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Lance Black — Digital Fight Club referee photo

Watch

Event videos here and fight videos on the fight pages

Photos

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