Navigating the Decentralized World of Web3 & Metaverse

Ben is CTO of Curious Addys, a Web3 startup building HeyMint, a suite of all the tools NFT creators need to create, launch, and manage their projects affordably and without any technical expertise required.
Ben is known for creating the best selling course on NFTs with Nas Daily (https://nas.io/BenYuNFT), as well as writing the most read long form articles on NFTs and Crypto on Medium, NFTs 101 (https://medium.com/coinmonks/nfts-101-why-nfts-are-a-generational-innovation-4626ae803e3b) and Crypto 101 (https://medium.com/@intenex/cryptocurrency-101-7197684775fd).
Previously, Ben dropped out of Harvard University to accept an inaugural Thiel Fellowship, after which he created several startups, including a Web3 startup Stream, which raised $20 million in 2017 to better reward content creators.

Mai is CEO of Curious Addys, a Web3 startup building HeyMint, a platform for NFT creators to launch/manage NFT collections used by 250K+ collectors.
Previously, Mai was a senior software engineer at Gusto and VP of marketing at Logbar, a Japanese startup where she co-created the world's first handheld offline translation device, ili.
Mai has spoken at major Web3 conferences such as ETH Denver and NFT NYC, and she is passionate about bringing more women into the Web3 space.

Soniya Ahuja is the Founder of Orbis86, possessing around two decades of rich experience working with Fortune 500 companies across a wide spectrum of roles, from development to senior management. During her career, Soniya has led the product development for many multi-million-dollar product launches, for a number of organizations, delivering efficient and intuitive technologically sound solutions. She has worked with Deloitte, Edifecs, Broadcom Inc, and more, and is a strong advocate for women empowerment, workplace diversity, and inclusion.
Soniya believes that the key ingredients for a high-performing team are vision, empathy, hard work, innovation, and collaboration, which can together bring about accelerated value delivery. She is also a campaigner for the increasing need to leverage Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to automate the mundane, enhance predictability, find patterns, and complement human intelligence, today, in line with the ongoing technological evolution of every sector of the world industry. Soniya is also a frequent panel speaker at several renowned global tech conferences and forums, recently including the likes of Scaled Agile Conference, NFT Connect, Miami NFT Week, NFT.NYC, NFT.London and others.
With Orbis86, Soniya aims to offer a unique and utilitarian collection of highly-detailed 3D humanoid NFTs in the Web 3.0 world that will be a nod to the diverse cultures and races around the world. The collection will honor minorities and celebrate our differences as well as imperfections. Orbis86 will further evolve to become a key player in the web3.0 ecosystem, further branching into tokenomics, enterprise metaverse applications, and animation studios while delivering value back to the community.