VMworld 2021

Fireside Chat with Guest Speaker Michael J. Fox

Join us for a timely discussion on how optimism and innovative thinking can lead to a brighter future—in life and business.

Emmy-award-winning actor, author and patient advocate Michael J. Fox sits down with VMware Chief Marketing Officer Carol Carpenter to discuss his life and his passion to help find a cure to Parkinson’s disease.

Other topics include:

• Maintaining inherent optimism while managing many challenges
• Balancing a career, family and charity work
• Sharing how technology and research can help pave a path for a cure

Michael J. Fox is an award-winning actor, best-selling author and patient advocate. Fox was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s disease and years later launched The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research in 2000. Since then, Fox has been a steadfast advocate for research and patients and through it all, has continued his acting career and written 4 books including his most recent memoir, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, published in November 2020.