Justin Harrison
AI Inventor, Founder & Futurist • You, Only Virtual (YOV)
Tarzana, California, United States •
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About
Justin Harrison doesn’t just talk about the future of AI. He has spent years building it. As the Founder & CEO of You, Only Virtual (YOV) and a named inventor on two issued U.S. patents, Justin brings audiences firsthand experience creating and commercializing technology at the intersection of artificial intelligence, identity, relationships, memory, and human connection. His perspective combines founder experience, patented innovation, compelling personal storytelling, and years of navigating one of AI’s most provocative emerging categories. Rather than simply explaining what AI can do today, Justin gives audiences a view into where it is going next and what happens as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly personal, relational, and human. His work has attracted international attention from TIME, CNN, BBC, Forbes, Rolling Stone, NPR, The Guardian, ABC News, and Nature. Audiences get more than predictions. They get the perspective of someone who has actually built, tested, commercialized, and defended a new category of AI in the real world.
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Signature Programs (3)
Artificial intelligence is moving beyond tools that simply answer questions. It is becoming increasingly personal, adaptive, and relational. Drawing from his experience pioneering patented posthumous and relationship-specific AI, Justin Harrison explores what happens when AI begins to understand not only who we are, but how we communicate and connect with different people in our lives. Through the real-world story of building You, Only Virtual, Justin examines the evolution of personalized AI, virtual personas, digital identity, and human-AI relationships, and what these developments could mean for business, healthcare, communication, memory, and everyday life. Audiences leave with a clearer understanding of where personal AI is heading and why the next major shift in artificial intelligence may be from intelligence that responds to us to technology that knows how to relate to us.
Key Takeaways
- How AI is evolving from transactional tools toward increasingly personal and relational systems
- Why relationship-specific AI represents a different model of personalization than generic AI assistants
- How virtual personas, digital identity, and human-AI relationships are likely to reshape communication and connection
- Real-world lessons from developing and commercializing a new category of AI technology
- What leaders should understand now about the next generation of personalized artificial intelligence
Audience
Business leaders, executives, technology leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, healthcare leaders, investors, and organizations navigating the future of artificial intelligence.
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Duration
45-60 minutes
Delivery
What happens when death no longer means the end of interaction? After losing his mother to cancer, Justin Harrison began building technology that could preserve not just information about a person, but elements of how they communicated within their closest relationships. That work became You, Only Virtual and ultimately led to patented technology for posthumous communication and virtual personas. In this deeply personal and forward-looking talk, Justin explores how artificial intelligence is changing memory, grief, identity, and our relationship with the people we lose. He takes audiences inside the development of posthumous AI, the surprising lessons learned from real users, and the larger questions society will face as digital representations become more sophisticated and personal.
Key Takeaways
- How artificial intelligence is changing the way we preserve memory, identity, and human connection
- How posthumous AI and virtual personas are developed and what makes them different from conventional chatbots
- Why relationships and communication patterns matter when building deeply personalized AI
- What real-world users have revealed about authenticity, memory, grief, and digital identity
- The questions individuals and organizations will face as digital representations of people become increasingly sophisticated
Audience
Technology and innovation audiences, healthcare organizations, grief and bereavement professionals, deathcare organizations, patient and family experience leaders, universities, futurists, and organizations exploring the human impact of artificial intelligence.
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Duration
45-60 minutes
Delivery
Justin Harrison’s journey into artificial intelligence began with an intensely human problem: his mother was dying of cancer, and he wanted to preserve the relationship he was about to lose. That experience ultimately led him to build patented AI technology and explore how increasingly personalized systems could change the way people communicate, connect, and receive support. In this talk, Justin connects his experience as a caregiver, founder, and AI inventor with the rapidly expanding role of artificial intelligence in healthcare. He explores opportunities for AI to improve communication and patient experience while examining a central question: as healthcare becomes more technologically sophisticated, how do we use AI to strengthen rather than diminish the human relationships at the center of care?
Key Takeaways
- How personal experience with cancer and caregiving can reveal opportunities for more human-centered technology
- Where personalized AI may improve communication and patient experience in healthcare
- Why relationship and context matter when designing AI for deeply personal interactions
- Lessons from building personalized AI technology outside traditional healthcare environments
- How healthcare leaders can think about AI as a tool for strengthening human connection rather than simply automating interactions
Audience
Healthcare executives, health systems, patient experience leaders, clinicians, digital health organizations, cancer organizations, caregivers, healthcare innovators, technology leaders, and organizations exploring AI-enabled healthcare.
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Duration
45-60 minutes
Delivery
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