{
  "person": {
    "name": "David Wortley",
    "honorific_suffix": "FRSA",
    "profile_url": "https://davidwortley.com/",
    "biography_summary": "David Wortley FRSA is a global thought leader, keynote speaker, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts with over 50 years of experience in bridging the gap between emerging technology and human wellness, education, and digital representation.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Milton Keynes",
      "region": "Buckinghamshire",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "country_code": "GB",
      "coordinates": {
        "latitude": 52.0406,
        "longitude": -0.7594
      }
    },
    "contact": {
      "email": "david@davidwortley.com",
      "vcard_url": "https://davidwortley.com/contactinfo/davidwortley.vcf"
    },
    "current_positions": [
      {
        "role": "Visiting Researcher",
        "organization": "Bournemouth University"
      },
      {
        "role": "Project Supervisor",
        "organization": "UCL Global Business School for Health"
      },
      {
        "role": "Vice-President",
        "organization": "International Society on Digital Medicine (ISDM)"
      }
    ],
    "expertise_areas": [
      "Immersive Technology",
      "Metaverse & Virtual Worlds",
      "Digital Health & Therapeutics",
      "Lifestyle Medicine",
      "Serious Games",
      "Artificial Intelligence",
      "Digital Twins for Health",
      "Healthy Ageing"
    ],
    "career_milestones": [
      {
        "year": 1976,
        "achievements": [
          "Developed early interactive body language recognition video game at Post Office Management College",
          "Awarded British Telecom Scholarship for innovative thinking in corporate training and presentation platforms"
        ]
      },
      {
        "year": 1986,
        "achievements": [
          "Founded Mass Mitec Presentation Services",
          "Pioneered PC-designed business presentation systems, mail-merged telexes, and early internal corporate email solutions"
        ]
      },
      {
        "year": 1996,
        "achievements": [
          "Developed the UK's first nationwide digital imaging and presentation network with 100+ outlets",
          "Pioneered desktop video conferencing nodes and interactive serious gaming concepts for international conferences"
        ]
      },
      {
        "year": 2006,
        "achievements": [
          "Founded and directed the Serious Games Institute (SGI), an international centre of excellence",
          "Launched SGI via the world's first hybrid physical-virtual metaverse conference (Second Life) in 2007",
          "Delivered over 100 keynote presentations across five continents"
        ]
      },
      {
        "year": 2016,
        "achievements": [
          "Published over 23,000 highly popular 360-degree immersive views on Google Maps as a Level 10 Google Streetview Trusted Pro",
          "Attracted more than 190 million views on Google Maps immersive photography publications",
          "Established DigimedTV as a global medical digital health channel"
        ]
      },
      {
        "year": 2026,
        "achievements": [
          "Published extensive research into technology-enabled healthy ageing and biometric tracking",
          "Reduced personal biological age by 15 years through nutrition, sleep, hydration, and custom wearable feedback loop"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "key_projects": [
      {
        "title": "The Metaverse Apartment (Living Memories)",
        "url": "https://360in360livingmemories.com",
        "focus": "Virtual memory sanctuaries for dementia prevention and family heritage archiving."
      },
      {
        "title": "Longevity Network & Milton Keynes Nutrition Club",
        "focus": "Implementing regional Blue Zones via lifestyle medicine, hydration-step correlation, and wearable sensors."
      },
      {
        "title": "5th Industrial Revolution Framework",
        "focus": "Strategic optimization in corporate workspaces, transitioning employees from automated tasks to collaborative AI workflows."
      }
    ]
  },
  "affiliations": [
    "Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (Fellow)",
    "International Society on Digital Medicine"
  ]
}