Web3, Metaverse, and the Future of Consumer Experiences

Greg Kahn is a catalytic force in the technology, media and entertainment industries, renowned for connecting innovators with investors, growing brands and driving billions of dollars in transactional deals. Greg is a 2020 recipient of CEO World’s Business Role Model of the Year. He’s also a former award-winning executive at the Meredith Corporation and Publicis Groupe who received his MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Greg’s powerful network of high-level business relationships and public sector leaders stretches from coast to coast and beyond. Earning the trust and respect of some of the biggest companies in the world, including Verizon, Comcast, T-Mobile, Mastercard, Disney, Procter & Gamble, Nestle, ADT Security, LG Electronics, Cox, Whirlpool, Bank of America and SwissRe to name a few, he has an unparalleled reputation for making the impossible possible. Passionate about creating a world of ethical connections, both human and through technology, Greg is a founding member of the Gun Safety Alliance and the Internet of Things Consortium, as well as a member of the Emma Bowen Foundation, the Guggenheim Technology and Innovation Council and an executive committee member of the UJA Federation of New York’s Entertainment, Media and Communications Division. Named a principal influencer driving IoT forward by Inc. and others, Greg is a regular keynote speaker and moderator at numerous industry events, including the Consumer Electronics Show.

Paula Reina has been in the blockchain space for 11 years and is the founder and CEO of Audiochain, a music blockchain platform for music rights, music licensing and generative AI. She is also the founder of Proliphip, a 360-blockchain company for smart contract development, smart contract auditing, tokenization, NFTs and more. Paula grew up in San Francisco, CA and has been a speaker at over 15+ conferences and is one of the first females in the industry to start Blockchain for Business workshops in San Francisco, CA and Miami from 2015 to the present day. She has also been named one of the TOP 100 Women of The Future (Blockchain Sector) by Global Village Publishing, Inc. on their new global book publication to recognize women innovators in Web3 and the Metaverse. Paula is also the former Director of Blockchain Business Development for The United States and Latin America for TRON DAO and BitTorrent and is also a Board Member for BITS NFT. She has collaborated with crypto exchanges and participated in crypto listings with Binance.US, Kraken and many more. Furthermore, Paula has over 20 years in the music industry and has had the opportunity to work at Def Jam Records, Interscope Records, Universal Music Group, Velvet Rhythm Ent., and The Musicland Group. Paula believes distributed ledger technology, the Metaverse and quantum computing/AI are key to innovating the future.

Based in Silicon Valley, Dirk is a serial entrepreneur and an early adopter of blockchain and related technologies. In addition to being the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Uplandme, Inc., Dirk co-founded and is chairman of the Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3 (OMA3). He is the author of the bestselling book, Navigating the Metaverse: A Guide to Limitless Possibilities in a Web 3.0 World (Wiley, 2022) and the official Metaverse ambassador of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC).

Previously, Dirk co-founded European and US-based FinTech and digital media companies, including the Financial Times Deutschland and Forbatec, which SunGard acquired (today NYSE:FIS). Dirk mentored over 30 startups through his work at international startup accelerators in Silicon Valley and is a frequent speaker/panelist focusing on topics about the metaverse, blockchain, and platform economics. He studied Business Administration in Frankfurt and Paris and earned a Ph.D. from the European Business School in Germany, where he wrote his doctoral thesis about private and state-controlled currencies. 

Tipatat Chennavasin is a General Partner of the Venture Reality Fund investing in early stage VR, AR, AI and Metaverse companies. He has experience creating VR/AR content and became convinced of the power of VR when he accidentally cured himself of his real life fear of heights while developing in VR. He is an adviser for many VR and AR companies as well as a mentor for VR and AR incubators and accelerators around the world. The Venture Reality Fund has looked at over 7,000 startups in the space and invested in over 50, including Epic Games, the makers of Fortnite, the most successful VR games studio Beat Games, acquired by Facebook, and Rec Room, the first VR software Unicorn.