Angela Robert (Conquer Experience) on Adapting to Healthcare Training Needs During COVID

The Guest

Angela Robert is the Co-founder and CEO of Conquer Experience, a company using VR to dramatically improve training for operating room nurses.

After earning a degree in math and computer science, Angela started her career as a software engineer before joining Electronic Arts where she contributed to more than 20 games. She became the development director of the initial and sequel release of the popular Skate franchise.

After several years of building and leading teams at EA, she set off to improve the lives of medical patients by improving the quality of training for nurses.

Angela is an active supporter of girls in STEM and women in technology and business, as an advisor, mentor, and speaker.

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The Conversation

For this conversation, Angela joined me for a fireside chat at the recent VRAR Association Global Summit - the 2020 online edition - where the theme was adaptability.

We discussed how Angela pivoted her iPad-based and VR-based training company in response to COVID. Hospitals were no longer buying, and live in-person training opportunities for most procedures disappeared. Now hospitals are filled with out-of-practice operating room nurses, who had been reassigned or furloughed for months, that need to be ready to support a huge backlog of surgeries.

Much of the conversation happened live at the conference, but the last bit was recorded afterwards. Although it’s all presented here as one unified conversation.

Jason McDowallstartup, training, VR