Our Speakers

Speakers

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Alison McCauley

Founder, Speaker, Board Member, Author, Mom

For five years Alison worked to raise awareness and understanding of the “new possible” unlocked by blockchain technology, how that translates to a next era of the web (Web3), and its implications for human behavior, culture, and organizations. This builds on two decades helping founders who work at the edge of possible to translate their work to the world and take their products to market. In 2018, she wrote a best-selling book projecting how blockchains could shape our organizations and culture; her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Venture Beat; 70,000 students have taken the course she created for LinkedIn; She is a keynote speaker at conferences around the world; Shex founded Unblocked Future, a strategy firm that helps emerging tech pioneers with thought leadership and go-to-market.

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Ciara Sun

Founder & Managing Partner C² Ventures. Former Head of Listing & Blockchain Investments HuobiGlobal 🐱 Obvious Cat Lover

Prior to founding C² Ventures, Ciara oversaw new token listings and blockchain investments at Huobi Global, one of the world’s leading crypto exchanges, with over $150B AUM. Under her management, the institutional investors daily trading volume grew 7 times from $2.5B to $18.7B which accounted from 10% to 75% Huobi Global total daily volume in 2 years. Ciara is a known female leader in the blockchain space in especial in the Asian scene. She is a regular invitee to numerous prominent global events to conduct workshop and speeches for example, World Economic Forum 2020, Bloomberg Crypto Conference, EuroMoney, Cointelegraph, Coindesk (Please add) etc. She is coined as the Female Asian Global Crypto Leader by her followers (She has 150k followers on Twitters).

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Debbie Soon

Co-founder of The Hug, 3 NFT accelerator programs and a DYOR community platform 🤗 Building the inclusiverse with Randi Zuckerberg 🌎✨ Hostess of The Girls Table | Bringing together Women in Web3

Debbie is a Chinese-Singaporean immigrant who is passionate about increasing representation in Web3 and NFTs. Having spent her entire career both investing in and building multimillion-dollar consumer businesses, she’s particularly excited about the intersection of Web3 and consumer goods. Now, she’s the co-founder of HUG, where she’s helping build a space for people to collaborate, connect, and interact with each other. Prior to Web3, Debbie graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in Economics and from Columbia University with a Masters in Financial Engineering. Then, she was an equity investor where she managed over $1 billion of global consumer sector investments for one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world, GIC. From there, she pivoted into the world of startups where she founded Singapore and Southeast Asia's first boutique indoor cycling studio. She then went on to build three businesses from scratch for one of the most successful unicorns in Southeast Asia, Sequoia Capital-backed ONE Championship. Outside of helping break down barriers for equitable representation, she enjoys lifting weights, car karaoke, and pampering her 10-year-old dog, Guinness.

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Rebekah Bastian

CEO Own Trail, contributor Forbes, Author, Founder & investor, artist, needle threader ✨ rebekahb.eth

Rebekah Bastian is an entrepreneur, award-winning writer, artist, tech executive, mentor, wife, mother and aerial acrobat. She is the CEO & Co-founder of OwnTrail and was previously vice president of product and vice president of community and culture at Zillow. Rebekah is the author of Blaze Your Own Trail, is a contributor to Forbes and an investor and advisor to AuthenTech and Web3 companies.

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Lydia Hylton

A recovering software engineer. SF maxi. Avid crossworder. Interested in DAOs, NFTs, Consumer, Gaming, etc.

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Jennifer Tran

Jennifer is the co-founder of MintGate, a membership NFT platform. She is also a Proposal Reviewer at RLY Ecosystem DAO and an Alchemist at CovalentHQ.

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Mylene Tu

Mylene has been recognized as a Top 25 Woman of Influence and Woman of Inspiration through her past work and is now building Trailblaze Tribe to fund women and girls' education in STEAM through NFTs.

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Ke

Ke is a queer and non-binary neurodivergent person living with chronic illness. They are currently building with Women Build Web3 and a proud member of Developer DAO and Boys Club.

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Ajani Smith-Washington

Associate at Base10 Partners

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Blake Finucane

CSO at Pluto Digital - VC and NFT Fund.

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Esha Gupta

Esha is Co-Founder of Mysterious - a platform for eco-friendly music video NFTs. Our mission is to make music NFTs accessible and inclusive, and to help world-class musicians realize the full value of their art.

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Evelina Lavrova

Marketing & PR Consultant, Founder of Decrypto PR.

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Lacroix Scott

NFT Collector and Advisor; NFC Lisbon 2022 Presented for Inclusive NFT Communities and hosted all-female & BIPOC panel, “Women in NFTs: Making Space in the Metaverse” during NFT NYC 2021.

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Rebecca Jones

Bec Jones is the CEO and Co-founder of Clutch wallet, a next-generation wallet ecosystem built to welcome the participation of women into web3. Bec is a crypto and web3 content creator on Tik-Tok @cryptobec and an upcoming speaker at NFT NYC.

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Neha kumari

Founder of Carret, Serving all your crypto investment needs under one roof.

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Michelle Baldwin

Michelle believes in exploring new systems, decolonization, equity and innovations to create just, equitable, and sustainable communities. She is currently deep in a learning and unlearning journey about the role of philanthropy and charity and she is exploring web3 tools and technologies to build a better future for all including @SuperBenefitDAO.

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Paff Evara

Paff is the Co-Founder of Take Up Space - a NFT project that provides mentorship, coaching & community for the next generation of diverse leaders.

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Michael Redhead Champagne

Michael Redhead Champagne is an Ininew speaker, author, helper, host and community organizer who is the chair person of Fearless R2W a child welfare education and advocacy organization.

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Davion Ziere

Liberatory systems architect, artist, serial tech impact entrepreneur, world-bridger, speaker and writer. Founder: Origyn, PBC & Culturebase, PBC; Former #1 Sales & Training at Tesla. Board: Emory Univ. QTM.

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Sneh Koul

Web3 developer who has worked at companies like Coinbase and MetaMask.

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Tammy Maggs

Tammy is the host of the MetaWomen Show and CoFounder of the NFT project MetaWomenNFT2. The show began in early January and quickly became a place many women found safe to share their journeys in Web3. She began her work on MetaWomenNFT2 in January as a CoFounder and the Sales, Marketing and Finance Officer.

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Carli Stein

Carli works as a Web3 VC building our theses and investing in early stage Web3 and Gaming startups. She went to UC Berkeley and now lives in San Francisco!

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Jessica Salama

Jessica is the community lead at GoodDollar, the anti-poverty protocol and DAO that uses free market forces and the principles of social investing to create a flow of digital (crypto) basic income. She has a BA in public health and economics from Johns Hopkins University, and a background building social health enterprises for women’s health in emerging markets. She is currently building the first DAO in Bolivia to promote greater inclusivity and opportunity, and Wing Women - a mentoring community to bring more women into web3.

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Daniella Loftus

Dani Loftus is a Digital Fashion influencer, investor and founder of DRAUP; a curated marketplace maximizing Digital Fashion's value for its consumers and creators.

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Maitree Mervana

Maitree Mervana Parekh is a Principal at Acrew Capital, a multi-stage venture capital firm. She helps lead the "Community Activated" thesis area at Acrew, and focuses intently on the intersection between web3 & consumer. Previously, Maitree helped launch T-Mobile's venture capital fund during her time at Touchdown Ventures, and started her career in investment banking at Citigroup. Maitree was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 for Venture Capital in 2022.

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Nina Plunkett

Nina conducts research, due diligence and sources promising tokens and projects for the Symmetrical. She has a myriad of interests and passions ranging from crypto trading bots to facilitate arbitrage of BTC to the application of AI/NLP to curate mass coalitions of women in web3 related DAOs.

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Heenal Rajani

Making Better Faster at SuperBenefitDAO

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Evin McMullen

Evin McMullen is CEO and Co-founder of Disco, your identity for the Metaverse. Disco enables your personal data backpack, making data and reputation portable across web2 and the web3 blockchain ecosystem.

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Barbara Liau

A maximalist at heart, Barbara has lived many lives and is currently COO of Nomad. Barbara started in crypto as an engineer at Storj; she co-founded Summa, a cross-chain consulting company, and has worked with Cosmos, Keep Network, Agoric, Near, and Binance.

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Sumrin (Sumi) Mudgil

Sumi just graduated in March with her B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford. She is an incoming software engineer at Alchemy and is passionate about NFTs, dogs, and baking “healthy” chocolate desserts.

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Alli

Alli is the Director of Education and Events at Variant Fund. In her role, she partners with founders, builders, and community members alike to provide the tools, education, and support needed to bring the ownership economy thesis to fruition. Alli has worked as a contributor to several DAOs and projects across the ecosystem. Namely, she worked on the instructional design team at Crypto Culture and Society, where she helped with the creation of curriculum, content, and structure for their Semester II.

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straightupjac

Jaclyn is a software engineer in the web3 space, a (sometimes) computer science student at the University of Waterloo, and a lover of language + art. She is currently at Coinbase working on building delightful NFT experiences. In the last 2 years, she's worked in web3 exploring and solving problems in infrastructure, consumer layer, social layer, and how to leverage web3 for social impact. Some of her recent projects include Referents, an on-chain linguistic resource, elfDAO - a web3 holiday toy drive, legacyxyz - an on-chain guestbook to enable visitors to leave their digital trail and NFT project work.

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Laura Du

Laura is the Founder of We3, the best-kept secret for women & non-binary professionals in Web3. We3 equips our 2,000+ members with access to live education, social events in 15 cities, $1M+ in Web3 investments like Buildspace, OpenSea, Syndicate, crypto funds and more.

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Claire Song

CMO of Cell Protocol, a Smart AMM liquidity provision protocol.

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Genevieve Thiers

Genevieve Thiers is a mom, investor and successful tech builder in Chicago. Her first company, Sittercity.com, raised 56mm, serves 10mm users and thousands of companies and sold to Bright Horizons in 2020. Her current company is Entertainmint, a web3 streaming and media service.

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Kendall Rankin

Kendall Rankin is the Senior Manager of Programs at All Raise–an organization dedicated to increasing gender equity in the start-up and venture capital ecosystems. She oversees the organization’s portfolio of 7 active programs and has led All Raise’s expansion into Chicago and DC. Kendall is also a Web3 and blockchain technology enthusiast. She shares educational content through her weekly "Web3 for the Culture'' newsletter (kendallrankin.substack.com), advises start-ups on their Web3 strategy, and leads workshops on topics ranging from crypto, NFTs, DAOs, and more.

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Sam Stevens

Sam is a product manager at Google by day, and web3 builder by all other hours. She is a lead of Google’s Women in Web3 community, the Boys Club Product Guild co-lead, and co-creator of Baba Brave NFT. She is passionate about unlocking the power of communities and know we are just getting started.

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Shyne Webster

Shyne is a college student by day and brand strategist also by day.