Speakers

I’ve been focused on crypto 24/7 since seeing the crypto light on June 29, 2017.

I’m a Partner at Blockchain Coinvestors, a crypto fund-of-funds and CEO of Blockchain Coinvestors Acquisition Corp., a SPAC focused on merging with a rapidly growing crypto compnany. We also do 30+ one off crypto investments a year.

I also build crypto communities, including CryptoMondays, one of the largest crypto Meetup group in the world. I’m also an active crypto blogger via Medium, now as part of Quantum Economics.

Game Developer & Multimedia Artist, Design & Community Guild Co-Facilitator at CityDAO

VC: a100x, Securities lawyer media commentator. Part of wef/Wharton dao paper

George Dowd is an attorney and also provides subject matter expert consulting services related to the foreign exchange, futures, cryptocurrency, and metals markets. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the College of the Holy Cross, a J.D. from the DePaul University College of Law, and is admitted to practice law in Illinois. He served on the Board of Directors of the Global Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Association in 2020 and 2021.

Jules is a Partner at Mindset Ventures, investing in early stage enterprise tech startups including Web3.  She is also actively working on VC3, an investment DAO, in partnership with the Kauffman Fellows network.  Previously Jules co-founded IBM Blockchain Ventures, and was a serial entrepreneur in the legal tech space.  She earned her BA from UCLA and her MSc from The London School of Economics.

Marshall co-founded SporosDAO which builds solutions to make it easy for DAOs to reward contributors with ‘sweat equity’ tokens that contain governance rights while complying with US legal, tax, and securities regulations but with minimal administrative overhead. We believe upside should be shared by those who provide real value to a project, not just those who are in the boardroom.

Niklas is a physician scientist and founder of LabDAO, a community-run network of wet & dry laboratories. Prior to launching LabDAO he was a researcher at the Broad Institute and the German Cancer Research Center.

🎩 Working as Committee Member at Decentraland’s DAO.
💪 Running operations at one of the most active DAOs.
👨‍💻 Background in Software Engineering. Blockchain Veteran.
🚀 An early contributor to Decentraland (2016-2017).

Mendes is the CEO and cofounder of Avenue, an upcoming collaboration and communication platform for DAOs that aims to replace Discord. He has been in Web3 and the blockchain world since 2017, having worked with companies like Utrust and Protocol Labs.

Good guy with a big heart 🙂

I would like to help align the economic incentives of our society with the long term vitality of our ecosystems and the well being of all people. I am working to put DAO tooling into the hands of communities moved by inspiration and compassion for the benefit of all beings.

LAWYER-TURNED-WEB3 ENTREPRENEUR. PREVIOUS CEO OF DECENTRAL AND JAXX CRYPTO WALLET (SCALED TO 2M+ USERS), MENTORED BY ETHEREUM COFOUNDER ANTHONY DI IORIO. BUSINESS LAWYER. ADJUNCT BLOCKCHAIN PROFESSOR
 AT YORK UNIVERSITY. WEB3 ADVISOR @DELOITTE JA TEAM. CURRENTLY CAPTAIN @GMGN DAO, BUILDING 100 COMMUNITY-BASED AND WELLNESS-FOCUSED CPG BRANDS.

Web3 muse who populates JB blog as a writer, hosts the MovementDAO podcast, and works in web3 marketing and creative writing endeavors, including creating the Bannyverse histories for JB. I have been writing creatively and as a ghostwriter for 20 years, and have created some amazing content for web3 DAOs where needed.

A recovering professor, blockchain nerd, and social impact fellow, Richard is the Chairman of the Advisory Board for 5ire.org – one of the world’s fastest blockchain unicorns. He also advises global family offices and foundations. He is a founding member of the Silicon Valley Blockchain Society.

Growth @ Move.xyz | Building & investing in the ReFi economy

Rob is a Cofounder at DIMO, which is a protocol that enables drivers to mint their car as an NFT, stream their data, and earn tokens. After working with Zappos & The Downtown Project on their implementation of Holacracy, an interest in DAOs led him to join ConsenSys in 2017 and focus on web3 full-time.

Marlene Ronstedt is the co-founder of the Data Union DAO. Previously, she’s been working in various project management and communication roles in Web3, crypto and fintech. She has a background in journalism and her writing has appeared in publications such as Wired Germany and Coindesk. She is based in Berlin but has lived in many places, including London, Bali and The Hague. When She is not working, writing, or traveling, she enjoys DJing and painting.

Jose Andres is an Artist and Community Builder in the NFT space. In early 2021, he helped cultivate the CleanNFTs community to address the ongoing discussions about NFTs and their environmental impact. This community of concerned artists & developers evolved into a grassroots movement towards Proof-of-Stake chains like Tezos. His past experience supporting non-profit arts organizations has led him to DoinGud where he leads a global team of leaders. DoinGud is an NFT platform that brings creators, curators, collectors and social impact organizations together to support one another and become self-owned, self-governed and self-sustained.

Humpty helps fast-growing businesses solve complex information challenges with optimized communication and technological solutions that inspire people and augment customer experiences. He delivers thoughtful initiatives that increase collaboration across global organizations and their communities.

Over his 15 year career, Humpty has launched successful ventures in education, fintech and Web3.

Lisa Wocken is a DAO educator and founding member of talentDAO. She holds a PhD in Organizational Leadership and her DAO research and ecommerce start-up, Bolster Leadership, focus on developing leaders for the decentralized future.

LawPunk DeGen

Senior equity research analyst with over 24 years of experience on both sell-side and buy-side. Coverage areas include FinTech, Payments, Digital Assets, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and the Metaverse. Background includes high yield/distressed credit research/portfolio management and leveraged finance banking.

Savva is a Commercial/IP Consultant Legal Counsel and a NZ and Australian Patent and Trade Mark Attorney with 18+ years experience advising in relation to IP, commercial law and crypto. He conducted his LLM thesis on alternatives to the patent system for developing medicines. He is the founder of the Web3 DeSci project Crowd Funded Cures.

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) will change the way we organize people and resources, from high school chess clubs to national governments and everything in between. Our company MIDAO helps DAOs incorporate in the only jurisdiction that explicitly recognizes the unique structure of DAOs and ensures limited liability to its members, the Marshall Islands. And through DAOPlatform.io, I provide consulting to help select tech stacks for, launch, and operate DAOs. nextcreators.simplecast.com

Founder / Head of Strategy @atomicno8, C-Founder @HerHouse_io, Member @FWBtweets, Contributor @Forefront__ Alexa is a brand builder turned venture builder collaborating with founders to concept, launch and grow brands with sustainability and community at the core. She specializes aligning strategy, design and technology. After a decade in beauty & CPG working with brands at Estée Lauder and Unilever, she started Atomic N°8. Early clients included sustainably-minded founders in wellness (beauty, food, health) & lifestyle (travel, hospitality.) Nowadays, she focuses on the emerging tech space (web3, blockchain, crypto, NFTs, DAOs, AI, AR / VR & the metaverse.)

Clarence Liu, CTO of Owl Protocol & Vulcan Link, a blockchain industry veteran with over 10 years of software engineering experience, and was previously the CTO of Tacen, a US-based crypto exchange platform. Clarence has traveled the globe speaking on blockchain, legal regulations, and technology; most recently he was a key panelist at Paris Blockchain Week speaking on DAOs.

Aidan believes there are 5 crucial areas we can use in combination to save our planet and improve people’s lives. Content, Commerce, Community, Capital, and Charity. Let’s create the education to help people understand our problems, build the companies to solve those problems and shift consumers’ dollars, empower communities to take action, provide capital to all areas where needed, and work with the charities fixing our problems. Web 3 will play a crucial role everywhere, especially in fostering communities of people sharing the same values.

Co-Founder of Kleoverse, the DAO Working Platform. Helping DAO Contributors to build their professional identities with our Proof-of-Talent (i.e. project-based verified credentials) and DAOs to acquire talented contributors.

Jenn Sanasie is a content director for Windranger Labs, a core contributor to BitDAO, the world’s largest token-governed treasury with billions in assets and a mission to support the builders of Web3. Prior to Windranger, Jenn worked as an on-camera journalist and commentator at CoinDesk where she regularly covered NFT and metaverse news. 

Today Jenn is focused on analyzing the trends that are shaping society through the lens of business and popular culture. She has an MBA from the Rotman School of Management and a Master of Laws from the University of Toronto.

Mark Lurie is the CEO & Co-Founder of Shipyard Software. He is a serial entrepreneur and investor who previously founded two venture-backed startups. One of these, Codex, is a blockchain-based title registry for art & collectibles used in the offline auction world. Previously, Mark was an investor at Bessemer, where his investments included Twilio (TWLO). He is currently a Venture Partner at FJLabs and a board member of GMO Trust (issuer of GYEN, the first Yen-backed stablecoin) and the Foundation for Art & Blockchain. Mark also spearheaded the push to legalize DAOs in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, marking the first sovereign nation to allow DAOs to incorporate as legal entities.

Tara believes web3 is the new frontier and will fundamentally alter the way the world works and what is possible. She began investing in crypto in 2019 and went down the rabbit hole as Chief Revenue Officer of Alto, a leading cryptoIRA and digital asset IRA custodian. There she established partnerships with institutional crypto firms and asset managers, and grew company revenue by more than 25X in 18 months. She previously was Chief Commercial Officer of CommonBond, where she led an advocacy campaign to change the tax treatment of employer-sponsored student loan repayment programs that was passed into law as part of the CARES Act. She is a graduate of Harvard Business School and the University of South Carolina.

Erin is a neuroscientist yogi turned developer building as a serial entrepreneur and web3 consultant at the intersection of community, technology, and possibility to enhance our human experience. She’s been recognized for her work as a Top 100 Innovator Worldwide.

Ed Moss, formerly AngelList, is currently leading Product & Growth at the DeSo Foundation. DeSo is a custom-built L1 Blockchain designed to decentralize and scale social networks. He is also leading development on DAODAO, the first ever DAO platform to combine community, investing, governance and trading on-chain for virtually any currency and zero gas-fees.

Co-Founder of DAOHQ. Emmet is a previous founder in the edtech space who left Harvard to co-found DAOHQ, the first marketplace for DAOs. DAOHQ is a one-stop shop to find, invest, and participate in DAOs.

Jared is a co-founder of InCred, a web3 platform for moving professional achievements onto the blockchain, and runs Threes Brewing, a craft beer brewery in Brooklyn. He built the Operating System as a member of LexDAO. He’s been an exec, coach, advisor, and investor at a long list of tech startups.

For over 20 years Urbane has been a leader in the Diversity & Inclusion space. Whether running operations for a new tech start-up or as CEO of his own ventures; these topics, their application and the promotion of concepts have been embedded in everything he does.

Maddy is the co-founder and CEO of Angel Alliance, a Venture DAO focused on female founders and web3 analyst training program. She has previously scaled a successful business, worked as a VC Analyst and start-up accelerator.

Open Source contributor and technology entrepreneur. Participated or co-founded web infrastrcuture, telecom, AI and DeFi projects.

Justice Conder | 0xJustice – Agile organizational design and delivery expert turned DAOpunk. Leading governance at BanklessDAO, ParticleDAO, WGMI Community, and EthAdoptionDAO.

De-Fi Beats is an entrepreneur and DAO contributor obsessed with the human condition, dedicated to making sure Web3 stays human centered.

I am 45 a father of three, and a husband of one.
I grew up working in a family run upholstery shop.
When I turned 18, I moved to Florida and started my own shop. I did this successfully for about 10 years.
I spent many years in hotel construction, and the last 10 years as a general contractor in Florida.

I have developed one industry app, for hotel renovation. It is being used by a company as an internal tool.

I am one of the cofounders of the DOI coin, and the DOI Foundation. We are a DAO project committed to making the web 3/crypto revolution meaningful and impactful for humanity.

Jay is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, and is the Founder and CEO of Belong.net, the first NFT social network. Prior to Belong, Jay founded Callision.com, the first WebRTC enterprise contact center solution back in 2011. Some of his other brands and companies include Silicon Forest, Nomad Calendar, Beta Week, and Neuvey, among others.

Solene is member of SpaceShip DAO, global group of crypto natives, founders, builders, and investors. .
Solene has been working in crypto for 5 years in business development and growth. She has been with SKALE Labs since 2020 and helped grow the protocol to $1B TVL and now focused on onboarding many customers & partners.

Gennaro D’Urso, Ph.D., is the founder of Genetic Networks, a technology company that is revolutionizing how drugs are mapped to genetic modules to expedite the development of new treatments. Gennaro launched Genetic Networks in 2015 with a team of world-renowned researchers including Nobel laureate Leland Hartwell. He is also the visionary behind PharmaDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization to fund discovery and development of candidate therapeutics to heal.

Gennaro earned his BA at UC Santa Cruz in 1984, and his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 1990. Prior to starting Genetic Networks, Gennaro spent over 20 years researching the functional interactions between genes and the cell cycle at institutions including the University of Oxford, the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. He was part of the research team in the lab of Sir Paul Nurse that worked on the discovery of genes required for cell division that resulted in the 2001 Nobel Prize.

Gennaro also holds the position of Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of Miami where he continues to stay connected to the research community.

Gennaro is currently building PharmaDAO to decentralize the discovery and development of pharmaceutical products.

Sky is a full-time DAOist, highly focused on DAO2DAO relations and seeking out and supporting projects that are building what proper DAOs need to function in a truly decentralized manner. His focus is often on bizdev, partnerships, operations and governance. Hangs around the MetaCartel, DXdao, DAOhaus, DiamondDAO, Logos DAO communities and more.

Mr. Chu has over a decade of experience in global markets and investment management. He is the founder of Orthogonal Asset Management and currently advises Tracer DAO and NFTGo in the Web 3.0 space. Prior to founding Orthogonal Asset Management, he worked as a trader at Capula Investment Management, a global fixed income specialist firm that manages absolute return, enhanced fixed income, and tail risk strategies, primarily for sovereigns, institutions, and financial intermediaries. At Capula, he developed and managed systematic alpha strategies employing quantitative investing and machine-learning techniques. Before joining Capula, Mr. Chu worked as a sell-side trader and market maker in U.S. Treasury securities at Jefferies. Earlier in his career, he held positions with the treasury department of D.E. Shaw and the Division of Monetary Affairs of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. Mr. Chu earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University. In 2012, he was awarded a Certificate of Distinction as a teaching fellow in economics at Harvard University.

COO Housebit, protocol and marketplace for real estate tokenization on Polygon, ETH Miami organizer, AlmaDAO catalyst member – fostering web3 education in Latin America. Ex-EBANX, cross-border payments for Latin America, and Ex Ab-Inbev Open Innovation Coordinator.

Legal Studies Student from Milwaukee, Wi, starting law school at Marquette University next spring. Consultant for Sporos DAO. Co-Author of Around the Blockchain , a weekly newsletter dedicated to the intersection of Crypto & Law. Contributor DAO Research Collective.

Founder & CEO @Dwell_fi, Ex Punchh inc exit for $500 Mill

Ben is the CEO of Origami (joinorigami.com), a DAO platform for some of the most valuable DAOs on chain, and cofounder of Orange DAO, the web3 YC alumni community.

Bridging Web2 and Web3, investor and entrepreneur Ben Metcalfe is the Founder & General Partner of Monochrome Capital, co-founder of NFT Intelligence API Mnemonic and a founding member of the VC3 DAO

Dave Rosenberg is a Founder and Genesis Member of VC3 DAO. He also serves as the Head of Marketing for NetSuite EMEA. Prior to NetSuite, Dave was a Managing Director for Merck Ventures and GE Ventures, and Head of Technology Investment for the Invention Development Fund (IDF). Prior to joining IDF, Dave was CEO and founder of Nodeable and CEO and co-founder of MuleSoft. He’s held marketing and technical roles at The Linux Foundation, Glass, Lewis & Co, Sprint, OmniSky, Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs.

I help build developer tooling and developer communities for people looking to move into web3 from web2.
This includes creating onboarding journeys and opportunity pathways, and helping build communities that support and are supported by DAOs.

Currently, doing a deep dive into the future of work – as web3 builders early to the space, we have the opportunity to shape community and culture in the way we leverage emergent blockchain technology to democratize access to and create opportunity for people who may not otherwise have platforms to share their art/work; their perspectives; find the projects and teams they want to work with; and own what they create and contribute, how and where it’s shared/used, and by whom.

Jonathan is a software engineer, working in data, web3 frontend, and AI art. He is currently working on building juicebox.money and abraham.ai

Co-Founder Data Union DAO, also Director of Product @ Polygon, former Chainalysis.

Originally from Guayama, Puerto Rico, Ramphis is the Co-Founder and General Partner at ScienceVest, a first-check New York-based early-stage venture capital fund for deep-tech companies. He is a founding genesis member for VC3 and co-chair on the Governance Committee. VC3 brings together a vetted network of venture professionals, starting with the Kauffman Fellows, to invest in Web3 companies and funds through a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) structure.

Hi, I am Sachin Narode, Founder and CEO of XENI DAO – Web3 startup in travel. I started my career as a doctor and molecular biologist at the University of Pennsylvania. I’ve built multiple startups, including a diagnostic healthcare business called Sovagen which I successfully exited in 2014.
After my exit, I decided to spend some time traveling while enjoying my vacation; I became fascinated by the supply chain issues in the travel industry.

Scott if the Founder and CEO of Complex Labs, an operating system for Web3 communities. Previously Scott has sourced power and infrastructure for miners, led fundraising for large Defi protocols and built several DAOs and communities.

CPO & Co-Founder @ Tacen, Budd is a self-proclaimed cryptography nerd since ’09 and is passionate about solving issues in the financial system with blockchain, smart contracts, & distributed ledgers. He cut his teeth in SV where he became an expert in developing/deploying b2b products, working with security, encryption, & workflow technologies.

“Corey currently heads up partnerships at Vertalo and has been deeply involved in the Blockchain & WEB 3 space since 2014.

Prior to Vertalo, Corey co-founded The Anti, a ServiceNow Elite partner specializing in improving the employee experience and Abstrakt, a WEB 3.0 “Venmo for Crypto” wallet app that can be white labeled or reskinned using Abstrak’s API.”

Prev: As an executive leader in technology solutions, sales, products and professional services

WEB 3.0 Adviser:
I have been heavily involved in the Blockchain space and Bitcoin since 2014. I have clocked about 7,000 hours in the Web 3.0 space which includes knowledge in the following areas.

+DAO Governance
+NFTs and Stable coins
+Defi
+US Regulations & Tax
+Tokenization
+MetaVerse
+Digital Asset Securities
+Use cases in Private Capital Markets, TA , and secondary liquidity (ATS’S).
+Consensus Layers (PoW, PoS, DPoS, PoL,etc)
+Private/Public Keys & Encryption
+Wallets and Security
+Layer 2 blockchain solutions