On June 9th I had the honour of stepping on stage at the Payt Forward Congress in Amersfoort, in the Netherlands.

For those who have been paying attention to the latest news in the technology space, you will most certainly have noticed that OpenAI recently launched ChatGPT, a new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. It is amazing to see how this technology works and how quickly it can do incredibly complex tasks and have virtually all the information that is online at your disposal in a matter of seconds.

In an interview with Maxillaris, the vice-president of the Digital Dentistry Society – and member of several international scientific and academic institutions – predicts that in the future “it will be the patient who will be making more conscious decisions, assisted by artificial intelligence”.

In the last decade, we’ve seen the food industry change the way it markets what we consume. Nowadays there is much more concern about how our food is produced, packaged and distributed, and the whole organic food industry, free of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) and pesticides has really impacted this process.

This past weekend was dedicated to the Bone & Tissue Days in Opatija, Croatia, a congress organised by Botiss Dental, where the focus is on dental hard and soft tissue regeneration.

Leading experts on CAD-CAM dentistry will be converging in beautiful Palma de Mallorca, in Spain, on October 3rd and 4th, for two full days of software education, partner shows and international guest speakers.

Ever since I opened the doors of the White Clinic in 1999, my team and I have always had a “start-up” mentality. Why? Because no two days are the same and we need to be prepared for anything. We always need to be on top of our game. Why? Because experience matters.

I am beyond excited to be speaking at the 50th Annual Ernest M. Jones Memorial Lecture at Washington State University in Seattle, on September 16th.