Healthcare in the age of the Metaverse and AI: The rise of the use of AI and the Metaverse has opened up many, if not fantastic, opportunities in the healthcare and life sciences industries. However, as healthcare enters this era, potential legal challenges and concerns arise and need to be structured to ensure its sustainable development. The panel will consider what these legal issues are (such as patient data privacy, liability in medical decision-making involving AI, protection and valuation of intellectual property rights, and more), how the existing legislative, regulatory and ethical landscape already addresses such legal concerns and what the coming legislations will bring.