AI Girl Gang - with Dr Lauren Ingram

Jenny From The Blockchain is the co-host of the hugely popular podcast NFT Catcher. She’s been a content creator in NFTs since their early days, being one of the first couple of thousand people to buy an NBA Top Shot and sharing her learnings on YouTube. She’s also the Head of Marketing for an NFT trading platform called Evaluate.xyz, and prior to falling down the Web3 rabbithole she was a beauty...

Marieke Flament is the CEO of NEAR Foundation, which launched NEAR protocol, a well known blockchain development platform. Marieke is French born, and after completing her degree in computer science she started her career in Shanghai in China at the luxury business LVMH, which owns Louis Vuitton and other brands. She’s spent the last 16 years working across tech and crypto, including at Expedia’s...

Chana Kanzen has a long history in tech and education and wears many hats. She is an advisor to TinyTap, the education startup recently acquired by Animoca Brands for $39 million, which recently sold out its first NFTs for over 138 ETH, and she's the founder of professional networking group London Women Leading Web3 (LWLW3). Chana is a partner at Digital Wealth Fund, and alongside her many roles,...

Adriana Hoppenbrouwer-Pereira is the cofounder of digital-only fashion house The Fabricant. Originally from Brazil, now based in Amsterdam, Adriana has over 20 years of experience across huge brands like Nike, HEMA and Coca-Cola, before she decided to embrace digital-only fashion. The Fabricant raised $14 million in funding earlier in 2022, and they have some great names amongst their advisors lik...

Emily Rose Dallara is a marketing consultant and Fractional CMO (something we cover during the episode), she’s originally from England, spent 8 years living in Vietnam and now lives in France. She has been a crypto marketer since 2017 and is also retraining as a coach. Emily recently started a podcast Web 3 And Thrive to help women survive and thrive when working in Web3, ​and she was also selecte...

Oyin Adebayo is on a mission to economically empower Black women. She is the Founder and CEO of Niyo Group, with a set of bootcamps, a hair & beauty offering, and now a Web3 offering with Niyo Dapp rewarding creators and users in crypto for creating content. She has advised charities, policymakers, worked on youth engagement and has now turned her attentions to helping Black women succeed in t...

Sandy Carter is something of a celebrity in Web3, as Senior Vice President at Unstoppable Domains and the creator of Unstoppable Women of Web3. Sandy has over 20 years of experience in innovation in-house for example as the General Manager for Ecosystems and Startups at IBM, and VP of Strategic Partnerships at Amazon Web Services, alongside experience running her own business Silicon-Blitz. We cov...

Ashumi Sanghvi is the Founder of creative production agency MAD Global based in London, where clients include names like Tory Burch, Cartier, Net A Porter, Vice Media, and premium NFT platform Exclusible. The agency started out offering print, social media and films before adding XR (AR and VR) content, digitally immersive experiences and NFT projects. She is also a mentor on the recently announce...

Marianne Le Coyte Grinney is a family and systemic psychotherapist who believes that 'the person is never the problem' and that people are best understood within systems, for example their family, work and social life. So she has a unique take on the world of Web3 and NFTs, including the impacts on mental health. Alongside her multiple dayjobs in healthcare in the UK, Marianne is also the cofounde...

Erika Wykes-Sneyd was already Web2 royalty before she made waves in Web3 leading the /// Studio at adidas. She began her career at a motorcycle brand before working at tech giants like Google, Uber, and latterly she was Global Head of Brand Innovation and Experience at PayPal where she helped integrate cryptocurrency within the PayPal app. Erika became CMO for adidas originals, collaborations and...

Aahliyah Amerat is a serial entrepreneur who’s made her way up starting with door-to-door sales as a teenager in London, later building up two beauty salons and a training academy where she taught specialised beauty treatments and entrepreneurship for disadvantaged communities. She’s now marrying up training for creatives with Web3 technologies and has started Creataland, a learn-to-earn game for...

Shira Lazar is an Emmy Award winning host, she’s a Canadian TV personality, entrepreneur, and now NFT royalty. She made a name for herself presenting shows before later creating her own through her business What’s Trending. She has amassed a following of over 500k people on her personal channels, and over 1 million on What’s Trending thanks to cutting edge content and her witty, personable takes o...

Carly Long is a Web3 recruiter, obsessed with connecting brilliant people with fascinating Web3 roles. Having made her way up through PR, she made the sideways leap into hiring, before falling further and further down the Web3 rabbit hole. Carly has made a name for herself through her thoughtfully curated weekly newsletter Women in Web3; she also has a podcast of the same name, and she’s a contrib...

Influencer, community builder and all round internet queen Heather Parady started a podcast with a friend in 2021 to introduce newbies to NFTs and Web3, and within 8 months they had hit 1 million downloads. Heather has a background in photography and psychology, and comes at the Web3 space with a thoughtful approach - she wants to get rid of unnecessary jargon and make Web3 more human. We talk abo...

Rakhee Shah is a PR aficionado by day, Web3 cofounder by night, having started Gold Bangle Club in 2022 to bring more South Asian women into the Web3 space. Rakhee has a background in leading campaigns in social purpose and behavioural change such as cancer awareness and the rights of women in the workplace during maternity leave and post-baby. She has worked at various PR agencies ranging from Fr...

Caitlin Lacey recently became Senior Director of Product Marketing for Niantic’s AR Developer Platform, if Niantic sounds familiar it’s because they’re the creators of Pokemon GO. Niantic was previously a startup within Google before being spun out as very much its own company, and they are leaders in the augmented reality field. Caitlin spent years at Facebook, now Meta, later leading their AR/VR...

Nicola Mendelsohn CBE is one of the best known women in tech globally, reporting directly to Sheryl Sandberg at Meta (previously known as Facebook). She was born in Manchester in the UK and first made a name for herself leading advertising agencies including Karmarama, being President of the IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising), and later she was given a CBE in 2015 for Services to the...

Today we have a special episode: an AMA (Ask Me Anything!) with Women of Web3 founder Lauren Ingram. Covering the most commonly asked questions from the Women of Web3 community, Lauren talks about: Why she started Women of Web3 How to get a job in a Web3 startup And where to start your learning journey - especially if you’ve got the overwhelm Lauren started her career in advertising agencies, work...

We have two incredible guests this week: Molly Dickson from Computer Cowgirls, and Alexis Miller from Endaoment and we’re talking about using art and Web3 to raise money for abortion access! Molly Dickson is a fashion photographer and collage motion artist and self-confessed “accidental” NFT artist. Her genesis collection Computer Cowgirls sold out, and she’s since created the “F*ck You” collectio...

We have another *very* special guest this week, it’s none other than Cathy Hackl, the godmother of the metaverse! Cathy’s company was recently acquired just 10 months after being founded, and she is now on the founding team of Journey and is their Chief Metaverse Officer. She’s previously worked at Magic Leap, HTC and Amazon Web Services, and has a huge amount of experience in VR. Cathy is a tech...

Lavinia Osbourne is a leader in the blockchain space thanks to her diversity and inclusion focused business Women in Blockchain Talks. Having worked in finance, Lavinia pivoted her career after the 2008 financial crisis and started her own financial wellbeing consultancy and has since gone onto explore blockchain and its fascinating applications. Lavinia has some amazing and progressive ideas for...

We have a *very* special guest today, Randi Zuckerberg, queen of the metaverse and the "Original Mother Hugger", joins Lauren to talk about creating the friendliest place in all of Web3. Randi spent her early career at Meta back when it was Facebook, where she created Facebook Live. She then spent time in the arts including producing theatre, singing on Broadway and even winning an Emmy award. Fee...

Paff Evara (they/them) is the cofounder of Take Up Space, a social impact startup helping skill up the next generation of diverse leaders using the power of Web3. They have had an incredible career so far across social media and digital marketing, most recently leading a digital agency in Edinburgh - this was as a result of moving all the way from Australia to be with the love of their life, who t...

Maliha Abidi is a Pakistani-American artist and social activist who has been painting and campaigning for the last 10 years, having published two books ‘Pakistan For Women’ and ‘Rise: Extraordinary Women of Colour who Changed the World’. She has now taken her talents and applied them in Web3 to create a collection of 10,000 women on the blockchain in the form of NFTs - whether as female coders, sc...

Chrissy Hill has been a lawyer, an investment banker, a COO of an institute and now has turned her attention to the blockchain. Chrissy sits on the C-suite of Parity Technologies, which builds blockchain infrastructure for other companies and where she is General Counsel. Chrissy is four months into her Web3 career, having made a major pivot from being COO at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Ch...