Speakers
Founder – VNCCII
Sami is the Founder, Multi-Media Artist, and Chief Metaverse Officer at VNCCII.
She is a creative technologist that adopts the virtual persona of a Web 3 SuperHeroine Super Sentient A.I character, VNCCII.
Since 2018, Sami Tauber has been representing her project VNCCII as a 3D avatar character which has enabled cross-media integration.
With full ownership of her multi-media IP, VNCCII has been able to leverage these assets and content to create metaverse-native IP, a Galactic Space A.IPERA story that traverses music, novel, animation, gaming, digital fashion, and merchandise for the open metaverse.
Sami intrinsically understands the culture of Web 3, the Metaverse, and NFTs and how it can create an empowering Web 3 creator economy. She has been listed as one of the Top 10 Personalities disrupting the music industry in 2022.
VNCCII has also been listed as a thought leader by media outlets: Music Tech on ‘Web3, NFTs, the Metaverse and the future of the music industry.
Senior Art Director
British and Polish multi-disciplinary fashion NFT artist, Adriana was born in late 80’s and works in visual and musical mediums to make personal and uplifting art.
A born storyteller, she uses her art, creative direction, music, video, and fashion to meditate on the personal and the universal journey. Her exhibition ‘Now Fashion Time’ at Station Gallery of Art has been the first physical NFT exhibition on fashion illustration in the world.
Adriana has also been a guest speaker on NFT panels internationally, advised on NFTS (Hewlett Packard, Valde Beauty, Middlesex University London) and had her work exhibited on NFT exhibitions (NFT.NYC , Digital Fashion Week NYC).
Naturally inclined to music and art from childhood, her early talents were eventually matched by her growing passion for fashion. After graduating from London’s famous London College of in 2014 she gained vital industry insight working at Hunger Magazine, SHOWstudio and Lulu Guinness.
CEO – NFT Technologies
Mario Nawfal is the CEO of NFT Technologies & founder of International Blockchain Consulting and has been of utmost value in terms of contribution at numerous crypto events and panels, including Dcentralcon Miami, AIBC Summit (they invited him to several editions in Dubai and Europe), CoinfestUK, Agora Group etc.
Nawfal is also already booked for numerous big events in 2022 like nft.nyc and several others.
CEO – MootUp
Danny is CEO and Founder of MootUp – the 3D Metaverse Virtual Events Platform.
He is renowned for creating the world’s first metaverse and is considered a pioneer in the Metaverse for Business field, having been involved in the creation of ground-breaking 3D businesses for over 27 years.
He is also the founder of the world’s first WebXR learning experience platform, LearnBrite, and founder of 3D internet company ExitReality Inc – the world’s first web metaverse.
On top of his corporate roles, he has assisted companies with angel investment, international licensing, acquisitions, exits, managing distributed teams and has personally closed IP acquisitions valued at $85MM.
Founder – DK Advisors
Dajana Ko is a Seasoned Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Board of Director, and Advisor who supported the raise of $175MM in private funding for Start-Ups for over a decade.
Founded DK Advisors in 2013 upon seeing a huge gap in the market where Founders needed capital runway. She curated a proven concept with nearly 1,800 clients which led early stage businesses into mass global commercialization, thus, attracting substantial private financing.
As a Harvard Business Online School Alumni, she is a proud Investor within The Yard Ventures and several VCs giving her direct access to nearly 36,000 affluent family offices worldwide looking to grow their portfolio.
Her keen and sharp eye at seeing which Start-Ups companies have the ability to succeed in their respective spaces, allows her to support capital raises at their conceptual stages. With six VCs backing her company, Dajana’s network is top tier and only privy to a select few.
Head of Technology Advocacy – Klaytn Foundation
Neo is currently the Head of Technology Advocacy at Klaytn Foundation leading the open-source R&D efforts of its blockchain protocols and technical ecosystem development. Klaytn is a public blockchain focused on supporting use case developments in metaverse, gamefi, and the creator economy. Officially launched in June 2019, it is one of the go-to L1 blockchain ecosystems in the industry. Klaytn Foundation has been on a mission driving global adoption of Klaytn blockchain and its ecosystem. Formerly acting as the Group Blockchain Lead at De Beers Group, Neo led the development and engineering effort of blockchain initiatives in value-chain traceability and digital asset development across the group of companies. He has been serving as Director of Technology at Oxford Blockchain Society, and technical advisor for UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, blockchain-related startups and EC-Council as their Senior Member of their Global Blockchain Advisory Board and Cyber Research Editor.
Join us as we take a look at the vast playing fields of Web3.
Virtual is the new real, or so many pundits are suggesting.
The question is, are they right?
And if yes, how do we each play – literally or metaphorically – in the Metaverse with NFTs..?