Michael Klein is a Managing Director, Global Architecture Lead of Accenture’s Metaverse Continuum Business Group where he is responsible for the growth of blockchain, distributed systems, and extended reality thought leadership, assets, and talent. He has more than 19 years of experience building a diverse range of technology solutions across healthcare, cloud, blockchain, extended reality, and emerging technologies. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors for the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and the Confidential Computing Consortium, and sponsors Accenture's open-source contributions to the Hyperledger community.