Navigating the Decentralized World of Web3 & Metaverse
When & Where
Embracing the Decentralized Future with Web3 & Metaverse
Track Agenda
- 05/05/2023 | 10:00 am – 10:15 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall J&KSpeakers
Nikil Viswanathan is the co-founder and CEO of Alchemy, the world's leading blockchain developer platform. Alchemy is hailed as the fastest growing company in history after going from public launch to a $10.2 billion valuation in 16 months — all with just a 37-person team. Alchemy powers over $150 billion in transactions globally including the entire NFT industry and majority of top web3 companies. Alchemy is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Stanford University, Coinbase, the Google Chairman, founders and execs of Charles Schwab, Linkedin, NYSE, and many more.
Nikil was honored as Forbes 30 Under 30, received his BS and MS in Computer Science at Stanford, and formerly did product management at Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. A serial entrepreneur, he co-created the #1 social app in the world, Down To Lunch, which was featured in international press such as a New York Times business cover story. He's been featured in numerous media outlets including CNBC, Bloomberg, New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, and TechCrunch.
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- 05/05/2023 | 10:15 am – 10:45 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall J&KSpeakers 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.
Anand has been a journalist and GTM strategist for FinTech. In the metaverse, he was Twobadour, Steward of the $250mn Metapurse Fund. With Metakovan, he won the historic $69 mn Christie's auction for Beeple's First 5000 Everydays. He was the executive producer of Dreamverse New York, the largest ever NFT Art Exhibition. As Co-Founder and CEO of Layer-E, Anand builds plug-and-play blockchain infrastructure for brands, creators and communities.
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.
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. 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.
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- 05/05/2023 | 10:45 am – 11:15 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall J&KSpeakers Cailleach De Weingart-Ryan is a General Partner at Blockchange Ventures. Cailleach De started her career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, private equity at Advent International and management consulting at The Boston Consulting Group. She was Chief of Staff at the Center for Humane Technology, the not-for-profit behind the Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma. She served on the leadership team for Trust at Airbnb and led strategy for the inaugural AI Ethics and Responsible Innovation team at TikTok. Cailleach De’s work in the Blockchain began in 2017 as an advisor to a Layer-1 protocol in Zug, Switzerland. Cailleach De focuses her investment efforts on new categories of business that could not exist without the Blockchain. She also supports portfolio companies on a range of strategic and operational challenges. Cailleach De received her MBA with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and graduated with honors from Georgetown University with a degree in Mathematics and Classical Studies. Gary Brandeleer is a visionary product leader at Salesforce, where he serves in the Emerging Tech and Products department. He is leading the product development of Salesforce Web3, a platform that enables businesses to leverage the power of blockchain and smart contracts to engage in new ways with their customers. Achieving product-market fit in six months, the product was launched in under a year, establishing Salesforce as a competitive force in the web3 space. Gary Brandeleer also played a key role in scaling Salesforce Field Service, contributing to areas such as Maintenance Management, IoT, and AI. Before joining Salesforce, he successfully digitally transformed Johnson Controls field service operations on a global scale.
Christian has two decades of experience in enterprise software in a variety of roles at startups and large companies, including marketing, product management, product marketing, and sales management, and is the Chief Marketing Officer for Hedera. He was previously the Vice-President of Marketing at DataStax, where he was responsible for developer education and open-source Apache Cassandra community initiatives during a period of hyper-growth. A Brit by birth, Christian has degrees from the University of Manchester and the London College of Music.
Madhukar has always bet his career on next generation technology advancements. Starting from a humble background in India - he has lived and worked in 4 nations across the globe. He transitioned gradually from the hardware world to tech in 2009 in the world of electric and self drive / shared autonomous vehicles at Ridecell. There he was instrumental in launching some of the largest all electric global shared fleets. He then worked at Checkr to empower millions of people to get Gig jobs fast especially in the depth of the pandemic where he worked with some of the largest delivery and online brands to master remote hiring Since late 2021 he has been at Sardine building an ecosystem to empower traditional financial institutions and consumer brands as well as web 3 native companies to charter the future of digital money and blockchain. Sardine is a unified fraud AML and payments platform that allows money to move faster as well as safer across borders and entities.
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- 05/05/2023 | 11:15 am – 11:30 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall J&KSpeakers
Jack O'Holleran is a veteran entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of SKALE Labs, the core team behind the SKALE Network, a blockchain scalability platform that enables developers to build and deploy Ethereum applications quickly and cost-effectively. With over two decades of experience in enterprise software and blockchain technologies, Jack is a recognized expert in blockchain and decentralization. Prior to co-founding SKALE Labs in 2018, Jack founded several successful startups, including IncentAlign, a digital currency platform, and Aktana, the global leading machine learning/AI platform for the life science industry. He also held numerous senior roles at Good Technology, which was later acquired by Motorola, where he continued to serve as an executive. Throughout his career, Jack has been a driving force behind the development of innovative solutions that improve scalability, security, and user experience. Jack has been actively involved in the cryptocurrency industry since early 2013, and he is committed to creating a more open, transparent, and decentralized world by leveraging the transformative power of blockchain technology. Under his leadership, SKALE Labs has emerged as a leader in the blockchain industry, providing an innovative solution that enables developers to build and deploy decentralized applications quickly and cost-effectively. Jack earned his BS from the University of Nebraska, where he was a two-time letterman for the Nebraska Football team and twice named to the Academic All-Conference first team. He is a proud father of three young children and resides in San Francisco.
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- 05/05/2023 | 11:30 am – 12:00 pm PDT
- 30 mins Hall J&KSpeakers
Miko is a General Partner with gCC Gumi Cryptos Capital, a Silicon Valley investment fund with over $500M in assets including early-stage investments in unicorns like OpenSea, Yield Guild Games, VEGA Protocol, Qredo, Agoric, Astar and 1Inch Network.
Miko fell in love with open source software 25 years ago as chief Developer Evangelist for the Java Programming Language and Platform at Sun Microsystems. Since then he has been building open source software startups in Silicon Valley including raising over $50 million in venture capital for developer platform companies such as Gradle and financial infrastructure companies like Hazelcast and has participated in multiple exits including INFRAVIO, webMethods, and Db4O. He is a board member or advisor in successful startups like IntoTheBlock (algorithmic trading), LIT Protocol (NFT Access Control) and KEYLESS (ID infrastructure). He holds a Master’s degree in Neuroscience from Yale University where he worked on abstract computational neural networks.
Dami OsunsanyaDirector
Softbank Opportunity Fundhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/dami-osunsanya-06b7b54 Anand Chandrasekaran is a partner at General Catalyst, a venture capital firm that partners with founders from seed through growth stages to build companies that withstand the test of time. Anand drives General Catalyst’s investment activity in India and leads activity in the Consumer, Enterprise, Crypto, and Health Assurance areas.
Prior to joining General Catalyst, Anand was a CPO at Five9, Bharti Airtel and Snapdeal and a board member of Future Group India. Previously, he led over 80 seed investments in companies across a spectrum of industries from climate and agriculture to healthcare. At General Catalyst, Anand has backed a range of software and services leaders including Loop Health, OneCode, and FarMart.
Anand holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. from PSG College of Technology, India. In 2010, Anand was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and in 2017, he was named to Fortune's ‘40 under 40’ India.
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- 05/05/2023 | 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm PDT
- 30 mins Hall J&KSpeakers Jim Louderback is among the most respected figures in digital media with a 30-year history of leadership at the intersection of traditional media, digital media, experiential events and technology. He recently ended an 8-year run with VidCon, starting in 2014 as editorial director of the industry track, taking over as CEO in 2017. In early 2018 he led the sale of VidCon to Viacom (now Paramount). He previously led investments in numerous startups as a Venture Partner at Social Starts, built and sold online video network Revision3 to Discovery, was editor-in-chief of PC Magazine and founding content lead for cable network TechTV. Jim writes the popular weekly newsletter "Inside the Creator Economy" on LinkedIn, develops, curates and moderates experiences globally, and co-hosts the Creator Feed podcast with Renee Teeley. Siddarth Sridhar is the Co-Founder and General Partner of the Draper Round Table alongside Tim Draper, Sid Mofya, Joe Vezzani, and NBA All-Star Baron Davis. Sid S has held various roles at leading companies such as Apollo Global Management, Alchemy, FalconX, Celonis, SAP, and CasperLabs, and has also made significant contributions as a core team member of CityDAO, where he was the youngest signer. As a teenage intern with the Draper Network, Sid came up with the idea of the Draper Round Table at the end of a weekly Zoom call. In addition to his professional pursuits, Sid S has an educational background from the Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology Program at UC Berkeley. Jeremiah is well recognized by both the tech industry and the media for his grounded approach to deriving insights through rigorous research. Jeremiah is the former CMO of RLY Network Association a Web3 project backed by a16z, Coinbase Ventures, Battery Ventures and others. From corporate innovation, autonomous technology or modern wellbeing, he views every aspect of emerging technologies through the lens of growth, opportunity and constantly shifting consumer behaviors and expectations. Forever at the forefront, he identifies trends and advises major companies to adapt their business models to better connect with customers. His clients include Adobe, Cisco, Wells Fargo, Nestle, Esurance, Johnson & Johnson, Visa, and Colgate among others. An acknowledged thought leader and widely read publisher, Owyang has appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today and Fast Company. He also publishes numerous research reports, playbooks and frameworks to help businesses navigate change, improve customer experiences and identify trends before they happen. Owyang's career took shape as an analyst with Forrester Research, advising on social strategy for the interactive marketer. He was a Founding Partner and Research Director at Altimeter Group, specializing in customer strategy and emerging technologies. He formed Catalyst Companies in 2013 to focus on the emerging collaborative economy and the maker movement. Owyang is recognized as the definitive authority on corporate innovation programs, ready to translate the next wave of powerful technologies and transform the way you do business. A popular speaker and presenter at conferences and events around the world, from global conferences, corporate kickoffs, or on a TED stage, Jeremiah is ready to translate the next wave of powerful technologies and transform the way you do business. Taehoon Kim (TK) is a serial entrepreneur in the high-tech and online gaming sectors. As the co-founder and CEO of nWay, a San Francisco-based developer, publisher, and platform for web2 and web3 games across mobile, PC, and consoles, TK plays various roles in the development and marketing of all the company's products. nWay was acquired by Animoca Brands in 2020 and currently operates as an independent subsidiary. nWay has a strong track record of developing high-quality multiplayer games on mobile, PC, and console, such as ChronoBlade, Power Rangers: Legacy Wars, Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, WWE: Undefeated, Battlepalooza, and Olympic Games Jam: Beijing 2022. Previously, TK co-founded Nurien Software, which created the 3D virtual world platform Nurien and launched the successful music-based online game MStar. Nurien received over $25 million in venture funding and was eventually acquired by Netmarble. Before Nurien, TK led the Korean studio for Realtime Worlds, a UK-headquartered developer behind Crackdown and APB. Taehoon is also an advisor to various successful tech startups, including SundayToz, Coffee meets Bagel, and Cloudgine. Early in his career, TK was part of Samsung Electronics' New Business Development team, where he worked as a product manager for their smartphone-based mobile gaming platform. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Master of Engineering degree in Operations Research and Information Engineering from Cornell University. Kirthiga ReddyCo-Founder & CEO
Virtualnesshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kirthiga
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Track Chairs
Curious Addys
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.
Curious Addys
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.
Orbis86
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.
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