A fireside chat hosted by Sharad Agarwal.
Sharad is the Chief Metaverse Officer of Cyber Gear.
He started the first digital agency in the Middle East, Cyber Gear at cyber-gear.com in 1996.
In 2010, Cyber Gear started offering AI, Big data and other Fourth Industrial revolution technologies at cyber-gear.ai
In 2019, Sharad launched ONLYwebinars.com, which hosts corporate and community webinars and podcasts (ONLYpodcasts.io) for a global audience.
Cyber Gear entered the metaverse space in 2021 and is offering solutions in the areas of Web3 and NFTs at cyber-gear.io
Sharad’s latest ventures are Meta Shapers community at meta-shapers.com, and Meet the Metapreneur at meetthemetapreneur.com
Sharad has interviewed impact leaders, Vishen Lakhiani, Founder of Mindvalley and Dalia Feldheim, author of ‘Dare To Lead Like A Girl’ at impactleaders.io
Sharad joined the World's Top 200 Business & Technology Innovators Powerlist announced by engatica.
Sharad is also a Speaker at many international conferences on topics related to Metaverse and Web3.
Zuzana Bastian is the founder of JEVELS, an NFT platform dedicated to virtual jewerly and other fashion accessories.
To increase usability for the NFTs, JEVELS provides an AR filter for each NFT which is compatible with most video call platforms and the GLB file with usability in virtual reality.
The company is also experienced in consultancy services to brands who wish to enter the metaverse, advising mostly traditional jewerly brands.
Zuzana’s background is in science and technology, however, she was working in brand strategy and marketing at two of the five biggest pharmaceutical companies in the past 8 years.
Drawn to fashion and innovation, she decided to partner with other experts to build a state-of-the-art solution to elevate digital fashion and virtual jewelry in particular.
Xander is a creative technologist, video editor, and seasoned social media executive with 8 years of diverse marketing experience. He thrives in building and developing brand ecosystems through meaningful social and digital engagements, creative experimentation, collaboration, calculated risk taking, and challenging the digital status quo. He has an impressive portfolio in the Metaverse, NFT, and Web 3 space.
Xander is inspired by helping people achieve higher level visions of self, community, and culture by creating and sharing truly authentic human experiences that give honor to our limitless range of identities. His vision is to help raise the vibrational rate of humanity through the creative use of technology, gratitude and empathy. Xander is also passionate about the intersection of art, culture, and experimental design. He has an uncanny level of curiosity and solves complex problems with simple solutions as an art form.
Kelly Lovell is the founder of BridgingTheGap Ventures that was founded with the goal of bringing together young changemakers with the world’s top industry leaders to usher in a new era for humanity that is more connected, collaborative and empowered than the status quo.
Kelly built a global, curated community of active youth champions and passionate young people that organisations, brands and thought leaders can directly tap into.
Javier Floren is the co-founder and CEO of DNAVERSE based in Madrid Spain, a company aiming to geneticize the Metaverse through fully customized NFTs with real DNA data and a spinoff from 3DforScience, a scientific visualization studio from which Javier is also CEO and co-founder.
Javier is an economist with 10 years of entrepreneurship and executive experience as well as a biotech investor and speaker. Former corporate banking and financial advisor, he thrives on developing scientific communications strategies for companies in the life of science, biotechnology and pharma industry.
As an NFT collector, Javier is also passionate about art, technology, Web3 and Metaverse, one of the main reasons for founding DNAVERSE, an impressive concept that bridges both worlds and adds value to DeSci (decentralized Science). He finds inspiration by building up communities around the scientific world and sharing his vision about the limitless possibilities of NFT and Web3 space and how this revolution is about to change our lives forever.
Simon is a skilled entrepreneur with more than 10 years of experience in digital marketing, community building and event management. In his first co-founded fashion start-up, he was helping Polish designers to launch their collections and build communities.
From small music events to big fashion trade shows, he was managing big teams and organised and promoted more than 50 high-scale music events in the lifestyle space, working with top artists from fashion, art and music industry. After moving to Berlin, Germany, he started career in Tech startups to learn and prepare for the project that launched at the end of 2021.
For 5 years, he was guiding marketing departments in deep-tech companies, kick-starting community building, marketing efforts and fundraising.
At the current project, MaisonDAO, he is focusing on building a digital Web3 ecosystem for fashion designers and luxury fashion brands, with special tools and virtual spaces for events and exhibitions.
Michaela is the CEO and co-founder of the virtual fashion house PERSONA. She's an entrepreneur with a background in arts and business. Michaela studied Fine Art Photography in London and ran her own studio for the last 3 years. Being raised in a family with a legacy of business and entrepreneurship, she identified the revolutionary potential in the web3 space and collaborated with the designer Danielle Sasi to create the virtual brand PERSONA. Danielle is a fashion designer with experience of 10 years in luxury brands in Paris and London. She worked for brands such as Raf Simons and JW Anderson. Her last role was Head of Design at Pangaia.
PERSONA's creators are a collective of designers who worked in some of the most established luxury brands worldwide- such as Stella McCartney, Victoria Beckham, Balenciaga, Celine, JW Anderson, and Louis Vuitton together with backed expert engineers and 3D designers. The brand's mission is to move traditional fashion into a new realm. Imagine fashion in a fantasy world where the rules of physics do not apply.
PERSONA'S wardrobe is a blend of the physical and digital worlds, bringing the garments to life through cyber experiences. PERSONA uses the latest game engines to develop assets for both VR and AR experiences providing special opportunities for holders to wear digitally. The brand features exclusive collections that become collectible from day one. Each season will feature new collection releases with a wide range, from playful magic t-shirts to designer gala dresses.
Caroline Johnova is a multi-disciplinary creative tech leader, working across NFT, crypto fashion, blockchain, metaverse production & immersive storytelling to invent the next-generation of interactive experiences for web.3.
Caroline is excited about the prospect of communities joining together and democratising access to capital and strongly encourages women interested in entering the web3 sector to join several relevant communities and get involved in at least one NFT project they like.
She views web3 as a development to create new environments with a progressive culture beyond real-world divisions of race, gender, religion, politics and geography.
WEYU provides the richest ecosystem to support the adoption of NFTs through a multi-chain platform with an obsession for user experience. WEYU offers a suite of products and services to help fuel adoption and make NFTs accessible to everyone. Join us as we prepare for the Metaverse future.
Lauren Kacher (KALAU), is a Web3 fashion pioneer digital fashion consultant, and the founder and creative director of the first DAO-led fashion label, ALTERRAGE.
Since 2012, Lauren has worked in the luxury fashion industry in New York, London, and Paris. Her career includes luxury design, creative direction, project management, and technical product development.
She has led and implemented sustainable design projects in luxury fashion houses, including Saint Laurent and Loewe. Initiatives such as the "Loewe Surplus Bag Project" integrated circular methods to reduce environmental impact during the design and production process for fashion goods.
Not long into her career Lauren noticed several gaps and market opportunities for digitalisation, sustainability, and co-creation in the fashion industry. With these insights she founded ALTERRAGE to disrupt the status quo through a set of core fundamentals; empowerment through identity, disruption of unsustainable processes, and building the new golden standard using Web 3.0 technology.
KALAU (Lauren's digital alias) is also the originator of the METARALITY formula; defined as the "optimisation of a product format according to its most beneficial social and environmental impact across physical, augmented, and digital worlds".
METARALITY : IRL (in real life) + ORL (on real life) = LTL (larger than life).
Following the New York Times feature of the Crystalline Pendant Earrings (the first NFT jewelry to be worn on a live broadcast network), ALTERRAGE continues pioneering Web 3.0 fashion through the launch of ALTER[DAO]. The decentralised fashion label redefines hierarchy collectively with a modular ecosystem, built and governed by those who take an active role in the success of ALTERRAGE.
In addition to her role at ALTERRAGE, Lauren / KALAU consults with traditional fashion labels and Web3 projects to bridge the gap between physical and digital fashion . She leads weekly community calls, twitter spaces, workshops, and conference keynotes around digital fashion.
Daniela is a Colombian, living in London. She is a Positive Psychologist & Coach and used to work in cultural development in Startups. She is currently the Purpose & Community Manager for METAPHORA, an NFTs & arts project that will bring high-end amazing art pieces from the galleries to the NFTs space.
Daniela’s is a ‘Voice of Hope’ for Latam women in the new world being developed through NFTs, Web 3.0, the Metaverse, and its technology. She is fast becoming an advocate of Mental Health & Community engagement through Purpose in Web3 Space.
Daniela is passionate about connecting people to their purpose, passions, and values. She wants to inspire more people to feel worthy of dreaming bigger.
Jamie is a Social Entrepreneur, Workshop Facilitator, Metaverse Architect and Digital Economic Justice Campaigner.
His focus is on designing, developing and delivering meaningful interventions that also have a social impact. His knowledge of delivering exemplary participant experiences was forged from facilitating interventions for some of the most marginalised groups in our society. His formative roles were supporting those facing the most challenging of circumstances and possessing significant support requirements.
Jamie's method for cultivating meaningful interventions comes from an in-depth understanding of the interconnected relationship of the elements that ensure learning takes place. These elements can be surmised into four cornerstones:
1. Exploration
Immerse learners through curious investigation.
2. Knowledge
Essential access to expertise and resources.
3. Creativity
Novel and innovative approaches to ensure energetic participation.
4. Connection
Relatable content that meets learners where they are at and engages them on an emotional level.
His various ventures are all interconnected by a philosophy that centres around the participant experience being at the heart of the design.
Aline is an entrepreneur, artist, philanthropist, futurist, women empowerment advocate, and the CEO and co-founder of GEM-XR. Boasting a wide multicultural background, Aline has traveled and lived in three continents and visited more than 30 countries as a digital nomad. With an Undergraduate degree in Scientific Studies (1985) and her father being an aerospace engineer, she has always been fascinated by innovation and technology, and through her mother's side, a dedicated pianist and music teacher, granted her immense creative potential and outlook.
In 2020, she created the family-brand Camille Louise Jewellery www.camillelouise-jewellery.com (Zug, Switzerland aka Crypto Valley). Aline's journey into the blockchain space and NFTs started as the paradigms offered by blockchain technology opened up for immense creative and innovative potential. In the same year, with Camille, they designed a "crypto jewellery" engraved with a QR code in 18K gold including an NFT of digital art within the jewellery and minted the first Swiss jewellery NFT in 2021.
As luxury brands accelerate their strategies to enter the metaverse and NFTs, it is a key components of the new retail reality, first in pursuit of more efficient processes, traceability, and provenance by shifting the business model for a sustainable made-to-order eco-system. Therefore, she founded GEM XR as they bring brands into the metaverse offering them a 360° innovative vision to display sustainably their collections, in a branded and fully customisable environment, season after season.
GEM XR provides XR omnichannel 360° solutions enabling tailored real-time virtual stores and showrooms built on Unreal engine with Web3 e-commerce and immersive bespoke multiplayer (MMOG), including first-of-its-kind virtual try-on. Their mission is for brands to engage with their customers in a 3D rendered interactive shopping immersive environment at the intersection of CGI, Unreal engine, digital storytelling, and e-commerce. Their technology is custom-built and powered by the highest quality of live cloud streaming pixelised photorealistic environments with Plug&Play SDK integrations. GEM XR creates digital twins of physical luxury items (brand's assets) and mints them as NFT that can be utilised by their owners across a wide array of virtual worlds within the metaverse. Further projects and developments are currently in the works and coming soon.
Ashumi S is the Founder and CEO at MAD Global, a Top 100 CreaTech Company in the UK. She is a multidisciplinary Creative, Producer and Innovator working in the Web3, Metaverse and NFT space. She is also a panelist, keynote speaker, and lecturer on the importance of including gender and diversity when creating new digital realities and translating luxury in the metaverse.
She has 15 years of experience, producing award winning omnichannel multimedia content for the Fashion, Beauty and Retail. Her international career spans four continents from Mumbai, New York, Florence to London.
An alumni of Cambridge University's Judge Business school, Ashumi's executive education brought together Digital Disruption and Sustainability Management.
Ashumi is also a proud member of the following NFT and DAO communities, World of Women, World of Women Galaxy, Dead Fellaz, WOW Pixies DAO, My BFF, Alpha Girl Club, Joyride and TuesDAO amongst others. She is also an Ambassador for NFT Thought Leaders London and Dubai chapters.
Akina has over 20 years of experience in change management, innovative technology, consulting, finance, hospitality and global sales operations management experience starting from the Silicon Valley to worldwide. She is now leading a new department at Great Eagle to execute digital transformation and innovation at the group level and across all subsidiaries globally.
She is also starting a new startup building a marketplace for experiences in Web3 (Metaverse & NFT). She is part of the Investment Committee that evaluate start-ups in cutting-edge technology and disruptive business model across different industries.
In the short time she has been with Great Eagle, she has been able to push for IoT deployment, drone technology, ERP, HR and other transformation projects that resulted in receiving rewards like the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards 2019 and other awards for great leadership, digital transformation & innovation, social innovation and etc. She was one of the Executive that helped a built a Unicorn in Hong Kong 2017 with investors from FoxConn and Softbank.
Akina is a respected guest speaker, panelist and guest professor with notable media appearances on Bloomberg and Fox International. She covers leading technologies like NFTs and metaverse, and topics on digital transformation, big data, security, digital marketing, HR, IoT and Customer Experience. She is the Head of Global Business Model Consultancy for the AllStarsWomen NFT Club & DAO, a Board Member of Hong Kong PropTech Association (HKPTA) and an Advisor to BEETc.
Born in Jamaica and raised in Connecticut with her five siblings, Nova Lorraine is an award-winning fashion designer, Author, Speaker, and Branding Advisor for fashion and lifestyle startups, and most recently, NFT's, and the Metaverse.
Nova, founded Raine Magazine in 2007 and has interviewed Mark Cuban, Kendall Jenner, Daymond John, Nicky Hilton, and Priyanka Chopra, to name a few. Nova's debut fashion collection earned her Best Haute Couture Designer of the Year, and her designs have been featured on The View and in Vogue Italia magazine.
She's a poet and storyteller at heart and has found success in her newly released book and the Unleash Your Supernova podcast. Nova is a two time podcast award nominee, including Podcast of the Year as well as the People's Choice Podcast Awards for Best Hosted Podcast. Nova has expanded her creative and fashion pursuits into the Metaverse to include NFT's, DAO's, and digital experiences.
Nova continues to provide platforms for fashion and creative entrepreneurs through the Pink Kangaru Podcast Network the Raine School of Fashion Innovation & Sustainability. Nova spends her free time guesting lecturing, writing fiction, and cheering at sporting events for her four children.
Born in an artist's family I was in contact with Art since my childhood. Although my father has taught me to paint, I have studied it at the university anyway. Through my artistic work over several years, I was always fascinated by Fashion and its power to reveal, underline and even to change a personality. As I painted my artwork, I included fashion in them, but always felt, that something was not making me happy. Something of what I was longing for: the 3rd dimension and the movement as the 4th dimension.
And then I discovered the 3D technology and its infinite possibilities. With the development of CG, AI, 3D animation and cloth simulation software I realized, that the recent decade offers a revolutionary approach to fashion and its essential role in Metaverse. Fashion as Avatar personalization instrument and Fashion as NFTs.
As the House of Jitrois displayed my fashion images and video for his 2020 campaign - this work of mine has also been published in the Parisian Fashion Magazine "Faust" -, I have realized, that couture become the essential part of my art and my major artistic challenge as a designer and a fashion video maker. In 2021 and 2022 my designs have been shown at the Digital Fashion Week New York and are offered now for sale as NFTs.
Aleksa is a multi-disciplinary legal professional who has built a career in operational roles at tech and fintech startups. She is passionate about DAOS, decentralized finance, and the endless possibilities of blockchain.
Aleksa believes the future is decentralized, and DAOs and DeFi are here to change the world. That is why she has been exploiting the sector. She focuses on DAOS, DAO Governance, and the Legal & Compliance needs of the industry.
Aleksa is the Managing Director at WACEO, a DAO-focused non-profit that provides DAOs with a framework for compliance and legality while helping them maintain a significant level of decentralization and avoid exposing the community members to various risks and liabilities.
She is an advocate for inclusion and equal opportunities for everyone, and that is why she dedicates herself to working toward bridging the gender gap in the Web3 space. Aleksa strives to change the usual narratives of the lack of female presence in the blockchain industry by educating women on the environment and helping them establish themselves as professionals in the space.
Aleksa is involved in different DAOs, where she supports operations and governance and works with communities, and actively promotes women's education on Web3.
Marije de Roos, the Circular Fashion Detective and founder of Positive Fibers®, is a Dutch renegade economist on a mission to make fashion a catalyst for positive change. Her main mission is to make landfills obsolete through responsible supply chains for any product that is made of fibers. She is an independent circular fashion researcher, whose work at the intersection of science, design, and technology is directed towards creating a new paradigm for fashion. With a background as an economist, she has specialized in interrogating the true state of sustainability and circular economics, challenging brands to move beyond baseless sustainability statements, and empowering consumers to make better-informed choices.
By connecting the dots between different disciplines, her startup Positive Fibers aims to bring a holistic approach to sustainability to market where aesthetics meet ethics. As an independent circular fashion researcher, Marije has been investigating the fashion industry from various angles and has been writing her findings and recommendations in her monthly newsletter: Circular Fashion Detections.
Marije furthermore has been an outspoken advocate for more inclusivity and respect for garment workers as an ambassador for the NGO Justice in Fashion. As she says: "Sustainability means leaving no one behind".
In her role as the CEO of Positive Fibers, Marije works closely with 3D fashion designers to prepare truly bio-circular fashion for a phygital world. During the Pandemic, she collaborated with various designers remotely to produce the world's first compostable denim collection in a completely virtual form, which was displayed in a renowned art gallery in The Netherlands. Positive Fibers is now preparing to launch the world's first 100% bio-circular designer jacket, which will also be offered in NFT form, ready to be worn both in the physical world as in the Metaverse.
Emma Hames is the founder and CEO of Cassette Monkeys - a Web3 brand around creativity and mental health. She is also a musician, artist and film producer of the documentary film 'Playing with Life [The Soundtrack]' which is currently in pre-production.
Emma founded Cassette Monkeys and the film after almost being killed by a prescription medicine that she took as prescribed - later finding out that she was never informed of the risks, and discovering that this was a vast and global issue ( 1 in 3 American adults are on the same class of medication). Having turned to creativity in her own healing she wanted to help others do the same.
Emma's mission is to explore the power of DeFi and blockchain for positive social change, and showcase the role of music and the arts in helping people to overcome adversity. 'Our aim is to build and support a community of people interested in healing and creativity, whilst exploring the potential of Web3 with music, film and social impact'.
Dr. Martha Boeckenfeld has extensive experience of the platform economy, dynamic ecosystems, digital business, digital transformation and customer experience. She is a Thought Leader, who is passionate about Tech, Blockchain and the Metaverse, and strongly believes that the key factors for dynamically driving digital transformation are the mindset of digital leaders and the power of innovation to develop and execute forward-thinking concepts.
Dr. Boeckenfeld has more than over 20 years of experience and international exposure (Asia, Europe, Switzerland) as Financial Service Executive and Non-Executive in Institutions, such as UBS, Unicredit, Generali, Kleinwort Benson and Axa.
She is a Member of the Advisory Board of GenTwo, an investment firm focused on making assets bankable, investable, and manageable. She is also an Ambassador for Beyond Gender Agenda which seeks to improve the long-term international competitiveness of the German economy by integrating Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) into the DNA of listed and medium-sized companies.
Sami Khan is the Co-founder and CEO of Atlas Reality, a company building real value in the virtual world. Prior to starting Atlas, Sami created and executed growth strategies for some of the largest digital products in the world now valued collectively over $15B including the micro-investing app Acorns and the money-saving browser extension, Honey. He has been featured on multiple case studies featured on a Snap earnings call, at Facebook, Twitter, and Adweek.
ATLAS: EARTH is a mobile-first gaming experience that allows players to earn real life cash back on their digital properties – every second of every day.
They've now sold over 3.25 million parcels of land – more parcels of land than anyone else in the metaverse real estate space combined. Each day, ATLAS: EARTH sells a parcel of land every 5 seconds – and that demand is only increasing.
She is the Section Chief Editor: Frontiers in Blockchain, and Editorial Board of the Journal of Metaverse and Global Health Journal.
She is frequently invited to speak at international conferences on Future Technologies. She has authored "Blockchain for Global Social Change" and Applied Ethics in a Digital World.
She has also won multiple awards including Top 100 Women of the Future (2022); Top 100 Women in Crypto (2020); Women in GovTech (2019) and Top 100 Fintech Influencers for SDGs (2018).
She is a ‘Thinkers 360’ in the Top 10 Global Thought Leader and Influencer on HealthTech Sustainability, and Crypto.
Erin Grover's experience in blockchain began in asset management and crypto algo funds. She is currently focused on blockchain for impact, including blockchain verified carbon credits and smart supply chain for agriculture. She has conducted extensive field research of emerging DeFi markets in Kenya, Uganda and India. She is a part of the World Economic Forum's Crypto Sustainability Coalition as a member of the blockchain and carbon working group.
Her passion is to create more opportunities for financial prosperity and sustainable investment products for diverse populations and women in particular. She is a strong advocate for the potential of blockchain technology to bring efficiency and transparency to the delivery of funds for international aid.
Prior to her work in blockchain, she worked for the United Nations, USAID and other international NGOs as a content producer and marketing strategist.
Serge is a serial entrepreneur from Mauritius. After his Bachelor of Commerce Entrepreneurship & Tourism studies in Australia, he launched his own web and social media agency in Mauritius. While searching for his next venture, domain investment and owning digital assets appeared on his radar, and he started acquiring premium Web3 domains, with a view to building a portfolio of 300+ premium domains.
While exploring the new world of Web3 and NFTs Serge discovered blockchain domain names, along with Unstoppable Domains, ENS Domains and HNS - handshake.org. Serge was very excited by the technology and the true decentralized protocols in place to enable full identity ownership within the $100B DNS industry. He went on a meticulous domain search and secured premium .C names such as Crypto.C and Blockchain.C. Today, he owns 300+ premium domain names and 30+ TLDs.
Christina is a pioneer in the metaverse. She started her master research on the topic in 2006 using metaverse to develop international strategies for universities. In 2012, she completed a PhD in using digital twin services in the metaverse to simulate projects in the AEC industry. She is the CEO of The Metaverse Institute, which is made up of a group of pioneers in the Metaverse, AI, Smart Cities assisting organisations using related technology to improve the real world.
Christina is an award-winning business leader with 16 years’ experience turning forward-thinking ideas into ultra-high growth business with global impact. She has extensive experience working with government ministers, universities presidents, and business CEOs on industry, innovation and skills strategies. She worked for QS, the leading world university rankings agency, between 2013 and 2020, leading China business. Starting from scratch, Christina grew the UK-headquartered firm’s profile and commercial success in China. In 2016, China’s Vice Premier highlighted the use of QS rankings in a keynote speech, with the rankings impacting 5 years funding allocations to 3005 universities with 48 million students, and a budget of £750bn.
Christina was the first Chinese elected to the national executive of the UK National Union of Students (NUS) since 1922, and represented the interests of one million international students studying at 600 UK higher and further education institutions. She has sat on 20+ advisory committees for UNESCO, the World Bank, the Commonwealth, the EU, and UK Governments, and led many successful lobbying efforts with government leaders, including former UK Prime Minister Theresa May on immigration changes. Christina also contributed to the establishment of the Commonwealth Students Association, representing 2 billion youth across 54 countries. Between 2012 and 2013, she worked in the UK Parliament developing policy for the Shadow Business Secretary’s team. As a bridge-builder between the government, business, education, and innovation sector, she regularly meets with top leaders, is a frequent keynote speaker at high level events, and is interviewed by top media.
Businesswoman, VC investor and advisor focusing on high-impact projects, with over 10 years' financial market experience and over 5 years in digital assets and crypto.
Public speaker and advocate for crypto, Stefania is the founder of Cassiopeia Services, the UK Web 3 agency helping crypto, blockchain and fintech companies in PR, Media Relation, digital marketing, investor introdutions and policy advocacy. She is a board member of London listed Ondo Insurtech PLC and business development parter at Ylem Capital.
In the crypto space, Stefania has advised a variety of international blockchain application-focused companies on their ground-breaking projects, leading on business development and communications, regulatory strategy, and policy advocacy. She is part of the founding team at cross-chain bridging infrastructure Umbria Network and leads business development for brands at IO with a focus on digital identities, NFTs, product authentication and supply chain traceability.
She is a strong believer in open dialogue among innovators and regulators to further advance the crypto industry, and regularly hosts Crypto Circle symposia, private crypto networking events to bring together leaders in finance, politics, and government regulation.
Stefania is the creator and host of the financial + crypto focused YouTube channel and podcast FinancialFox.
Yunna studied fashion at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute. There she learned how to make 3D clothes with special software. She needed someone to model these clothes and so she made an avatar.
People gave active reaction, so she decided to make the avatar into a character. Now she is looking to become a real influencer, speaking about Metaverse, sustainability, and future technologies, at the same time enjoying real-world things.
Yunna in the Metaverse is known as MetaKira. She came from Metaverse to Dubai to explore the real world. She looks at all the things from the Metaverse avatar perspective.
She loves fashion. She aims to bridge the gap between physical and digital worlds. She is bringing more information about Metaverse to the real world.
Participating in Web3 events she meets professionals in the industry and exchanges experiences with them.
Anna Franziska Michel is a tech ambassador and founder.
She is known for being one of the prominent voices advocating technology in the fashion industry; connecting digitalization with sustainability and better work life balance, and enabling the retail industry to enter the metaverse and thus uncover for them all the opportunities that this new environment offers.
Anna was selected as one of the top female Business Influencers in Technology by Strive Magazine and she was awarded with the Digital Female Leader Award in the Innovation category Anna also was awarded GOLD at the Females in IT Award (the award goes to nominees who have founded a successful start-up company in the last five years). 2nd place in „The Female Founder Startup Challenge“ launched by AUDI AG and Encourage Ventures e.V & 1st „Top 3D Design Firm“ AWARD at The European Metaverse Awards! She started as a fashion designer and through learning to code she came to deep technology and using neural networks for the design field.
Her goal as founder of yoona.ai is to revolutionize the fashion industry with technology curated 3d design creation & avoiding throwaway products or overproduction – by using artificial intelligence.
In 2022 she launched Yoonaverse conference & metaverse – whose mission is to raise sustainability awareness, build a community of tech, fashion & circularity knowledge cooperation, inspire new generations, and contribute to the apparel industry with technology & innovation. The YOONAVERSE legacy and differentiating value is to be building the Berlin Metaverse: The Metaverse Fashion Mecca – the “Must” virtual meeting place for the global fashion industry.
We're the first digital fashion School in Brazil, with more than 200 companies learning our method since 2019.
Our mission is to help the fashion industry become more responsible and reduce its environmental impact once shifting for digital samplings.
We develop innovative digital solutions to help the fashion industry optimize its productive process and use less physical items as possible, like 3D sampling, 3D realistic outfits with animations, digital influencers, VR show rooms, AR outfits, digital fabrics and many others web3 solutions.
With more than 7 years of expertise in the digital fashion area, we also work as a bridge for the fashion industry by training them on how to insert digital tools inside their productive process, reducing mistakes and waste in the entire productive chain.
So far we've been working with big brands such as Adidas, Fila, Umbro and Farm Brasil, some digital influencers like Sam from Samsung and Lu from Magalu and animation studios like Fox Films.
I am passionate about neuroscience, robotics, VR and AI.
I spent my Phd and the last 15 years on combining these, with over a dozen scientific publications. Having grown up with the Jetsons, Isaac Asimov and Kraftwerk, I envision a decade with flying autonomous cars, colonies on Mars, brain implants, spacetime travel and great synthwave, and I am giving everyone the ability to make this future a reality via neurobotx.
During my PhD, I used two photon microscopy combined with patch clamp recordings in the brains of mice while they were experiencing a VR arena. The aim of my research has been to convince the brain that the VR is real, and see how the brain maps that digital space. I then applied this method in world top level labs and institutions, working under direct supervision of my Nobel laureate mentors.
I have also helped coin the terms Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) via Whole Brain Emulation (WBE).
With all these insights, I am now currently the CEO and founder of Boeing funded neurobotx, the pioneer of spatial computing via our massively scalable metaverse platform for airtaxis and autonomous vehicles.
Jamie is a Social Entrepreneur, Workshop Facilitator, Metaverse Architect and Digital Economic Justice Campaigner.
His focus is on designing, developing and delivering meaningful interventions that also have a social impact. His knowledge of delivering exemplary participant experiences was forged from facilitating interventions for some of the most marginalised groups in our society. His formative roles were supporting those facing the most challenging of circumstances and possessing significant support requirements.
Jamie's method for cultivating meaningful interventions comes from an in-depth understanding of the interconnected relationship of the elements that ensure learning takes place. These elements can be surmised into four cornerstones:
1. Exploration
Immerse learners through curious investigation.
2. Knowledge
Essential access to expertise and resources.
3. Creativity
Novel and innovative approaches to ensure energetic participation.
4. Connection
Relatable content that meets learners where they are at and engages them on an emotional level.
His various ventures are all interconnected by a philosophy that centres around the participant experience being at the heart of the design.
Alistair Pernigo is a futurist young entrepreneur who has always been fascinated by the potential of technology to enhance human experiences.
Since childhood, he was captivated by the possibilities of virtual travel and exploration, spending hours lost in Google Earth Street View. But he soon realized that something was missing from these digital adventures: the sense of smell. Driven by the desire to be able to recompose the shattered and continue that journey, Alistair began a mission to develop digital scent technologies that would allow users worldwide to fully immerse themselves in digital experiences.
Over the years, Alistair has devoted himself to studying the intricacies of olfaction, delving deep into the world of aromas, and exploring how they can be recorded, analysed, and recreated in digital form. His passion for multisensory experiences has led him to become a leading expert in the field of Sensory Enabling Technologies, with four years of researching and developing ground-breaking technologies that are redefining the way we interact with the world around us.
Having studied the latest advancements in interactive systems design and construction at the BigRock Institute of Magic Technologies, Alistair is at the forefront of the latest trends in technology and innovation. His work has already earned him a reputation as an international speaker, having been invited to share his insights at tech and metaverse events in Venice, Paris, Belgrade, London, Malta, UAE.
Alistair is poised to lead the way in the next generation of digital innovation and continuing to push the boundaries of what is possible in this exciting field.
Lisa possesses strong experiences in not only Business Development but also Investor Relations and Business Analytics. She enjoys multiple responsibilities which constantly challenge and improve her limits.
During her time with CyberLink Sales Department, she successfully built partnerships with overseas representatives, brought in new customers and established fresh overseas markets. With her passion and knowledge, she was transferred to the CEO Office in charge of Investor Relations and Business Analytics and assisted the CEO to manage the company’s global business expansion.
Lisa joined Perfect Corp. in 2015 when the company was first founded. She continues her passion in expanding businesses and pursuit of challenges in the Beauty AI/AR arena.
Anastasia Ulianova is the Co-Founder and co-CEO of A.R.I.A., Algorithmic Ratings & Investment Analysis, a crypto rating agency and financial analytics platform. With a vision of transforming the investment landscape, A.R.I.A. stands as an invaluable tool for investors and businesses navigating the complexities of the crypto market. Anastasia also serves as a Partner at BABAS Capital, an algorithmic fund operating in the Web 3.0 space.
Anastasia first discovered crypto while working at the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism in 2018. The following year, she joined Enigma Securities, an institutional crypto broker, officially diving into the world of Web 3.0. She later moved on to hone her skills as a Trader at global fintech Revolut as part of the Core Market Making team, specializing in FX, Crypto, and precious metals. Anastasia has an MA and BA from Cambridge University.
At ARIA, Anastasia is committed to ensuring that investors, both individual and institutional, have the tools and data they need to navigate a challenging crypto market plagued with complexity and risk.
Annie Siara started her entrepreneurial journey at the age of 26, establishing AsBella Models, a Sydney boutique modelling and events agency. Within six years, she grew AsBella into a global entity with 200+ events annually across Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, and New York.
Her trajectory led her to Macau, China— "The Orient of Monaco." Annie spearheaded the Integrated Resort (IR) projects there, contributing to the evolution of IRs across Asia. She was awarded and oversaw six casino opening projects, each involving multimillion-dollar software and hardware integrations. These include renowned establishments like The Venetian, Parisian, Galaxy Phase II, Studio City, Okada Manila, and City of Dreams Manila.
With over 15 years in leadership roles, Annie Siara has combined all her learnings and experiences into ONEWAYX—the ultimate gateway to the Metaverse and Web3 for brands: no more in-store constraints and 2D shopping frustration. Embrace a new era of Interactive + Commerce (iCommerce). ONEWAYX blends her passion for tech with customer experience to create unparalleled shopping adventures for the next generation of Consumers. Be part of the revolution!
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