Charlie Fink covers AI and XR for Forbes and produces The AI/XR Podcast. He is the author of the critically acclaimed AR-enabled books Charlie Fink’s Metaverse (2017) and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted With Data (2019). Fink teaches at Chapman University in Orange, CA, and at Arizona State University’s LA graduate program in Emerging Media. Fink's forty-year career at the intersection of storytelling and technology began at Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1986, where he famously conceived the idea for The Lion King and subsequently became the studio’s youngest creative vice president.