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Discover how strategic kitchen design directly impacts the operational efficiency of your restaurant. This session provides guidance on planning optimized production spaces, from intelligent zoning and equipment selection to the integration of technology and ergonomic principles. Learn how to design kitchens that streamline workflows, enhance safety, and increase staff productivity  

During this session, attendees will learn about a framework for trend analysis, distinguish the notions of signal, trend, hype, fashion, and driving forces, and learn about different patterns of change in Latin American gastronomy that will be of interest in identifying possible opportunities and threats. 

 This session will explore the following:

1. Define – What the heck does this mean! 
2. Industry adoption – What other industries are doing and how they’re using these methods
3. Compare – Hardware deep dive.  Different types of hardware in the market (VR headsets, desktop, AR tools), cost of ownership and managing corporate application on them. 
4. Examine – Technology used for facility digitization – Revit, LiDAR scanning with a live walkthrough of a digitized facility 
5. Discover – Essential building blocks of a successful immersive experience from model optimization to spatial planning
6. Convergence – Pulling it all together.  Understand how data is integrated with immersive technologies to support training, real-time modification, and simulation of operational flows within a virtual environment
7. Participate – Live, hands-on headset demonstrations to experience learning firsthand and identify real-world applications in your own work.  - This will take place throughout the duration of the session, so people have time to experience it themselves.  Give those who have never been in VR and chance to experience it and see what is possible.