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Healthcare 2050 – a VR tour through the future with Novartis UK
During this Virtual Reality tour futurist Matthew Griffin takes you on a journey into the future of healthcare in 2050 and shows you the technologies behind the breakthroughs, from AI powered robo labs and nanobots, to advances in nuclear medicine and beyond.
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Griffin, M. (2022) 'Healthcare 2050 – a VR tour through the future with Novartis UK', 311 Institute, 6 September. Available at: https://www.311institute.com/the-future-of-healthcare-2050-a-vr-tour-into-the-future-with-novartis/ (Accessed: 1 October 2026).
Firstly, thank you to Joyce and the team at Novartis, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies with over $50 Billion in annual revenues and over 110,000 employees around the world for asking me to be the virtual star, or virtual avatar at least, of their global Healthcare 2050 campaign.
Filmed and presented in virtual reality by yours truly using virtual sets designed with the Unreal engine I took audiences on a journey into the future and showed them how new technologies are transforming healthcare for everyone’s benefit.
Take a journey with me into the future of medicine
From co-writing the script, which was challenging given the fact that I had to deliver a large amount of content within a mere two minute window, to acting and helping craft the final deliverables, this was the third time I’ve been “virtualised” by my clients, and even though the audiences might think nothing of it the final product was the result of a days worth of green screen recordings in a studio near Basingstoke and weeks worth of prep.
Take a journey with me into the future of medicine
From the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), digital twins, and robotics to help accelerate the development of new drugs and treatments, as well as accelerate clinical trials, through to breakthroughs in virtual home cancer care and nuclear medicine, and the democratisation of healthcare at home using tele-medicine and smart devices we covered a lot of ground in two minutes. And we could have gone on for two days …
After a lot of work the virtual reality journey through the future got its first official airing at the NHS Expo in June in the UK where it was “met with wild acclaim” according to the organisers so thank you to everyone involved in making it happen!
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During this Virtual Reality tour futurist Matthew Griffin takes you on a journey into the future of healthcare in 2050 and shows you the technologies behind the breakthroughs, from AI powered robo labs and nanobots, to advances in nuclear medicine and beyond.
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Matthew Griffin Founder, 311 Institute
Matthew Griffin is a multi-award winning Futurist and expert in Disruption and Innovation, Geopolitics, Leadership, and Technology, who NASA have described as a "walking encyclopaedia of the future" and a "futurist Polymath."
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Matthew Griffin is a multi-award winning Futurist and expert in Disruption and Innovation, Geopolitics, Leadership, and Technology, who NASA have described as a "walking encyclopaedia of the future" and a "futurist Polymath." 15-time best selling author of the "Codex of the Future" series, Matthew is the Founder and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, a global Futures and Deep Futures advisory firm working with royal households, world leaders, G7, G20, and G77 governments, NGOs, and multi-national mid and mega cap firms to help them explore, shape, and lead the next 50 years of business and society.
An award-winning YouTube creator with over a million followers, with an unrivalled global reach and impact, Matthew is a highly sought-after international keynote speaker, lecturer, and mentor who collaborates with global leaders through the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to shape pivotal initiatives such as the UN’s AI for Humanity program, the United Nations Conference of the Parties (UN COP), and the World Economic Forum in Davos.
As the former Global Head of Cloud, National Security, and Enterprise Sales for companies including Atos, Dell-EMC, and IBM, Matthew has a proven track record of building multi-billion dollar business units and turning failing divisions into market leaders. His ability to identify, analyse, and communicate the implications of hundreds of emerging technologies and trends is unparalleled, and his insights are trusted by many of the world’s most respected organisations, including ABB, Accenture, Adidas, AON, ARM, BCG, Centrica, Citi, Coca-Cola, Dentons, Deloitte, Dow Jones, EY, Google, KPMG, Lego, Legal & General, LinkedIn, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Qualcomm, RWE, Samsung, Siemens AG and Siemens Energy, T-Mobile, UBS, VISA, Walmart, Workday, Worldpay and many others.
Regularly featured in the global media including the AP, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Discovery, Forbes, Khaleej Times, Telegraph, TIME, ViacomCBS, WIRED, and the WSJ, Matthews mission is to help organisations create a fair and sustainable future whose benefits are shared by everyone irrespective of their ability, background, or circumstances.
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- Novartis novartis.com
Source: first published by the 311 Institute on 6 September 2022. Cite as: Griffin, M. (2022). Healthcare 2050 – a VR tour through the future with Novartis UK. 311 Institute. https://www.311institute.com/the-future-of-healthcare-2050-a-vr-tour-into-the-future-with-novartis/
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