About speaker:
Since childhood, I have been obsessed with solving problems. It started with puzzles and highly complex toys, to now studying philosophy and figuring out solutions to problems that plague our society. I hope to hone these skills as well as provide as much value to organizations as possible.

My brainchildren, Totle and ProductCult have helped me gain incredibly strong networks with finance, product, crypto, and thought leaders around the world.

Always up for a conversation! Hit me up if you'd like to talk about game theory, decentralized finance, blockchain, behavioral psychology, Product management, Puzzles, Social Hierarchies, Self Help, Fitness, and of course, western philosophy.

If you're planning on working for/with me, This is your call to action! don't hesitate, my polarising nature will make your mind in one call.

Presentation Topic:
Onboarding No coiners into NFT businesses

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As someone who runs a Non profit to promote the spirit of NFTs, I see the challenges no coiners face when entering the NFT mania. I will provide a comprehensive guide on how to convert them into paying customers.

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I was part of 3iQ's executive team that IPO-ed the 1st Bitcoin Fund on Toronto Stock Exchange and also developed one of the first multi crypto-asset OM fund in 2017. Prior to this, I spent time as a trader for a $160M quantitative ETF portfolio. I spent 15 years in capital markets and asset management with focus on alternative investments, mining, and fixed income. My interest is now to focused on blockchain and I'm a Co-Founder of a venture called PERCS. My team and I are exploring the collision of brands (blue-chip or upcoming) & DeFi focusing on NFT minting, its use case, and leveraging its utility. The long vision is to make NFT useful, and in the interim, we've focused on bridging eCommerce and Ethereum based NFTs.

Presentation Topic:
NFT Ecosystem: Net New Economy

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Understanding the opportunities in this nascent space and how to participate in it.

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Young Passionate Lawyer.

Advisory, Consultancy, licencing and directorships: Financial Services (EMI/PI licencing), Investment Services, and Virtual Financial Assets Sector (Crypto & Blockchain Activities and Licensing).

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Ashok joined CasperLabs in 2019, when the company's Co-Founders convinced Ashok that Blockchain and Web 3 would transform industries. As Director of Professional Services at CasperLabs, Ashok works with the company's enterprise clients to help them build high-value business applications on the Casper blockchain.

Prior to joining CasperLabs, Ashok spent 12 years at Google in India, Singapore, and the Bay Area where he led global professional services, large technology programs, and operations teams. Before Google, Ashok served with the Indian Navy and retired as a Commander after a full commission of 20 years.

Ashok is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering and a post-grad in Nuclear Engineering from IIT, Kanpur. He has an MBA from XLRI and an Executive MBA from Stanford University.

Presentation Topic:
How CasperLabs is transforming NFTs into industrial applications that connect the physical and digital world

About speaker:
Mr. Gatto co-heads Sheppard Mullin's Blockchain Team and its Games Team. For more than 30 years he has been a thought leader and has provided strategic advice on all aspects of intellectual property and technology law, especially ones driven by new business models and/or disruptive technologies. His practice focuses on blockchain (including blockchain games, cryptocurrency/NFTs); interactive entertainment (metaverses, virtual worlds, games, AR, VR, fantasy sports, esports); digital art, AI and online gambling. He advises clients on IP strategies, development and publishing agreements, licensing and technology transaction agreements and tech regulatory issues (securities, gambling, AML). Mr. Gatto has been involved with blockchain since 2012 and has been recognized as a thought leader by leading organizations including Best Lawyers in America 2021-2022; Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Fintech Trailblazer, The National Law Journal, 2018; and Thought Leader on Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies, National Law Review, 2018.

Presentation Topic:
Keeping NFTs Legal

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One of the hottest technologies is blockchain and one of the hottest applications of blockchain is non-fungible tokens (NFTs). However, there many legal issues arise with NFTs. This session will address an array of legal issues that can arise with NFTs, including securities law, anti-money laundering, tax and other financial regulatory issues; unique considerations of patents, trademarks and other IP protection, monitoring and enforcement; NFT licensing; gambling and more.

Presentation Topic:
Tech & Product challenges and solutions of NFT launches

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Taras will take us for a quick tour over technical and product problems and solutions he and his team have dealt with in Q4 2021 / early 2022 preparing and launching NFT mints. A content intensive mix covering multiple topics from solving randomization to metaverse-ready NFTs.

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With 20 years of experience in the creator economy, Sofiane has contributed to startups intersecting technology and creativity, including three positions where he contributed to major successes:

1. As head of growth for a mobile content distribution network, working with the music industry (Warner, Universal...), acquired in 2005 by a telecom giant.

2. As co-founder of a digital media group specialised in luxury and fashion, working with Vice/i-D, Vogue Paris and top tier luxury brands and haute couture Maisons such as CHANEL, Saint-Laurent, Dior, Kenzo, Givenchy, Burberry, Cartier, Faith Connextion, Guo Pei and many others.

3. As customer acquisition consultant for multiple startups acquired for a total with 9 digits.

With this knowledge and experience in algorithms and content, Sofiane fell in love with techno-utopian ideas of abundance, equality and decentralisation, leading to the discovery of Bitcoin in 2011 and the Ethereum smart contract platform.

The idea of merging the creative economy with the Internet of Value has then become an obsession and he has been envisioning the Newlife concept since 2016, which gave birth to the first MVP of the platform in 2019, featured on PAPER Magazine, Vice and DAZED.

Since then, the NFT space has accelerated the convergence of the creative economy and the Internet of Value in a chaotic manner and it is now the mission of Newlife to meaningfully organise this nascent ecosystem through its protocol.

Part of the NVIDIA Inception program and Farfetch Dream Assembly laureate, we connect blockchain AI governance, deep learning, sustainable development and financial inclusion into one social networking app. This is our new life, join our growth!

When he's not actively building, Sofiane learns relentlessly from books and podcasts, including:
Sociology: Michel Maffesoli, Alexander Bard, Scott Galloway, Fernando Flores
Personal development: Mel Robbins, Eckhart Tolle, Joe Dispenza
Startups/tech: Naval Ravikant, Caterina Fake, Chamath Palihapitiya, Peter Thiel, Garry Tan, YCombinator, NFX, a16z, Blitzscaling

Presentation Topic:
Social 3.0: the building blocks are here to reshape the internet

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Anti-fragile and result driven, my experience and interests are mostly linked to decentralized economy through the adoption and revolution of technologies including blockchain and DLT. I am a straight shooter who thinks outside the box.

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Paula Marie is a Web3 luxury fashion retail and lifestyle innovation lecturer & consultant with 20 years international experience in Luxury & Fashion Industries.

She is developing the Web 3 and Metaverse ecosystem for luxury fashion brands to create omniversal fashion experiences using IOTs, AR/VR/XR AI/ML & Blockchain Development in building new and sustainable innovative solutions with circularity and entrepreneurism as the focus.

She is head for creative partnerships at Clout. art, an NFT powered Social Media Platform and luxury partnerships Threedium 3D Immersive Retail.

Presentation Topic:
Web 3 Technologies in Fashion Innovation

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How Web 3 Technology is empowering retail businesses to explore opportunities in new business models that focus on innovation entrepreneurialism and circularity in with Web 3.

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Better known as BruceTheGoose; Bruce is a very widely recognized member of the #NFT community. In the NFT space, BruceTheGoose is a renowned digital artist, art/NFT collector, public speaker, blogger, and innovator.

Founder of The Nifty Pride Foundation and NFThub.com

Arist at: Terra Virtua, Async Art, Known Origin, NFT Showroom, Ghostmarket, Foundation, Zora, OpenSea, Rarible, AtomicHub, Charged Particles, Mintbase, Paras, and more!

Art created for : CryptoNOMs, CryptoTwerpz, Wildcards, GYSR, Meme Force, meTokens, as well as others.

Presentation Topic:
NFTs Beyond PFPs

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Exploring the unrealized potential of the technology enabling NFTs and discussing the potential for NFTs to disrupt or revolutionize nearly every established industry known to man.

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I've been a Marketing Manager for cryptocurrency companies since 2017 and fell in love with the blockchain industry. I believe that blockchain technology can help a lot of people in developing countries to become financially free and love to educate people on the different aspects of blockchains and their use cases.

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Moish chairs FRB's Intellectual Property Practice Group and co-chairs FRB's Emerging Technology Practice Group. Moish advises numerous companies on blockchain, cryptocurrency, Web3 and NFT matters, with a focus on the intersection of IP and cryptocurrency. Moish has been advising cryptocurrency ventures since 2014, and combines his knowledge of the blockchain with a decade of IP and business law experience where he helps entrepreneurs grow their businesses and brands.

Moish has been quoted in numerous publications on NFT and blockchain matters, including Time, CoinDesk, ABA Journal, LA Magazine, TheStreet, and Law360. He has also presented at numerous conferences and webinars on similar topics, including speaking engagements at NFT.NYC, DCentral, and NFTCon.

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Accomplished partnerships and business development professional with cross sector network breadth and long term relationship depth. Super connector with big wins putting venture founders, creative resources and funding sources together. Fiercely loyal to many great people. Primary industries and clients served include, entertainment, crypto currencies, fintech, capital markets and social impact. Currently developing NFT campaigns for star filmmakers, leading eSports talent and government sanctioned metaverse dominions.

Cut my professional teeth in the financial world, exceeding sales quotas as Vice President of Institutional Markets at The Reserve Funds, closing more than $1 Billion in new assets under management. Previously served as Compliance Officer for First Institutional Securities, managing sales practices of 65 Series-7 licensed professionals.

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Experienced Product Marketing Manager with a demonstrated history of working in distributed systems, security, and public blockchain / distributed ledger infrastructure.

About speaker:
Product Manager Executive | 15+ years of success visualizing and building best-in-class products complemented by expertise in identifying customer needs and developing novel solutions.

A passionate Product Manager who is able to visualize the final product and trace a strategic roadmap to a successful delivery and a go-to guru in researching, designing and implementing Web and Enterprise applications.

Most recent executive role as lead all of Monat's day-to-day tech development efforts, owning all of customer facing systems and applications, including eCommerce platform, customer portals, mobile applications, corporate website, and CRMs

Presentation Topic:
NFT adoption is imminent across all industries. Heres why..

About speaker:
Chris is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for digital and advertising technologies.

Chris has demonstrated a proven track record of business development, building and managing top talent and teams, strategic business management, fundraising, product and technology management and launching Companies across Europe, Asia and USA.

He was founder and CEO of Odyssey, a pioneering mobile advertising platform serving over 200 fortune 500 brands including Nike, Lexus and Warner Brothers. Within 5 years he sold his profitable tech business to Phunware Inc, a rapid scaling VC backed Company and continued as EVP of Advertising and oversaw all elements of ad product, running a team of over 50 staff. Phunware are now listing on the NASDAQ.

Chris went on to launch and run a video streaming platform specialising in gaming and eSports which delivers video to over 30 million users.

With the promise of DLT and a much needed solution required in the industry to improve the video publishing industry, Chris Co Foundered Verasity, a new protocol providing the infrastructure and tools required to build a supercharged online video experience.

Chris is also an active investor and advisor in web 3.0 businesses.


Presentation Topic:
Unlocking the potential of web3

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This talk will explore what what the metaverse hype is about and how NFTs are fast becoming a part of our culture.

About speaker:
Entcounsel is an arts, media and entertainment agency and law firm with legal services in intellectual property legal matters protecting ideas, processes, confidential information and creativity with a collaborative and cooperative approach to dispute resolution.

We provide legal services to a diverse set of clients in the software, arts, media and entertainment industries representing business owners, artists, publishers, producers, musicians, broadcasters and others.

Vandana also represents artists as an agent in the merchandise, product development and special exhibitions for artists and assists with management, branding and licensing of visual art intellectual property. The additional services provided under We Art That, the creative agency wing, includes:
- curating special exhibitions and projects in the areas of art, design and experiential;
- creative brand collaborations with artists;
- product development and licensing of art properties;
- press release and public relations;
- event and exhibition management.

Presentation Topic:
Protecting intellectual property via NFT

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NFTs - definitions:
- NFT and IP Overview.
- Why NFTs are valuable.

NFT IP Infringement Cases / Fakes and Counterfeits:
- Metaberkin.
- Basquiat.
- etc.

NFT Fakes and Counterfeits on Platforms:
- Opensea issue.
- Washtrading.
- Other NFT scams and hacks to watch out for.

How to Buy an Authentic NFT and what to look for:
- How to purchase an NFT safely.

What do you get when purchasing an NFT:
- How to determine what rights you are getting on purchase.

Best Practices for Addressing IP Rights and Infringement:
- Copyright registers.
- Terms of Service.
- DMCA and Notice and Notice.

About speaker:
Inbound Marketing Director
Growth Hacker
Digital Media Guru
Crypto Visioner #NFT Creator

Presentation Topic:
Marketing for NFT and Crypto projects

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How to find your customer, how to promote projects, what channels to use, how to build community

About speaker:
Esteban van Goor, completed his master's degree in Tax Law in 2010 at the University of Maastricht and has worked as a tax lawyer for (1) Taxand, (2) PwC and (3) Baker. Mr. Van Goor is currently managing partner of Megalodon, a management consulting firm focused on fintech, digital assets and digital securities. He has officially been appointed as an Executive Advisor for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Central and West Africa, for his specific expertise in relation to fintech and digital assets. He has been working with several legislators on legislation regarding, digital services, including (co-)writing a position paper for the G20 in relation to the GST/VAT treatment of bitcoin in 2014.

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Kamal Hotchandani, Global CEO of Haute Media Group a leading celebrity and luxury media platform and Co Founder of DMusic.io.

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