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Building bright digital futures for young women in Afghanistan through coding, with Fereshteh Forough and Code to Inspire Fereshteh Forough was born a refugee in Iran after her family fled Afghanistan because of the Soviet invasion. Despite the family’s circumstances, Fereshteh’s parents instilled in her and her siblings the value of education from an early age. Her mother sewed clothing to sell i...

The Knowledge Society: How a Society of Tech Savvy Teenagers are Reshaping and Creating Global Social and Economic Reform  Across the World with Founder Navid Nathoo Navid Nathoo is the Founder of the Knowledge Society (TKS), a human accelerator that aims to develop the potential of young innovators to successfully impact tomorrow’s world by exposing them to problem solving in different disci...

Pushing Our Limits with the Buildout of a Secure Scalable Global Metaverse with Efinity and My Metaverse, with Simon Kertonegoro. More about Simon Kertonegoro After learning about game and app development while working at Enjin, he decided to found MyMetaverse , a metaverse explorer, app store, and game library for NFT and play-to-earn experiences. MyMetaverse is also building its own games, inclu...

The Power that Improvements on Supply Chains using Blockchain has on Global Social Impact, with Samantha Ouyang and TKS This is part 2 of a 4 part continuing series on the Knowledge Society Samantha Ouyang, TKS Activator Samantha is a 17 y/o TKS Activator who has been working in blockchain research and development for the past 18 months, taking special interest in the social impact of blockchain....

Paddy Power is a veteran of the gaming industry.  As a fourth generation ‘bookie’ he has helped create, develop and ultimately personify one of the wagering world’s most famous brands, ‘Paddy Power’.Paddy Power (the brand!) is a cornerstone of the Flutter Group, which has grown to become the world’s leading gaming and wagering company, with brands including Fanduel under its umbrella. Paddy’s...

Joseph Chong is lead of Marketing and Strategy partnerships at League of Ancients. League of Ancients is a MOBA-NFT game inspired by DOTA2 and League of Legends.

Adam Majmudar - TKS Alum - Founding Team Member of ThirdWeb I am an 18-year-old learner and builder at heart with a wide variety of interests. I'm a constant truth-seeker and love exploring and learning about philosophy and epistemology. I also like to take time to prioritize diving deep into specific interests and building technical competence in a variety of fields. Recently, I cofounded Thirdwe...

Colin Fitzpatrick is a 20 year veteran of the tech industry having a distinguished career working for companies such as Oracle, Salesforce, HubSpot and Dell, in roles spanning Sales, Marketing, Programs & Management. He has a real passion for people, leading teams and working with high growth businesses. Originally from Ireland but now living in Dubai, Colin has always had a keen interest in t...

Jawad Ashraf is CEO and Co-Founder at Terra Virtua, a NFT ecosystem Jawad is a top performing technical specialist and entrepreneur with 30+ years of experience. n focus. Jawad has managed and built projects in the UAE, USA, Turkey, Australia, Norway and the UK – with teams consisting of onshore/offshore developers, business analysts, quality assurance engineers, third party suppliers and partners...

Graham Wallington Co Founder and Chief Executive Officer Graham developed a passion for nature during his first career as a SCUBA diving instructor. In 1998 he co-founded Africam.com (which grew to [one of] the biggest African websites in the early 2000s) and since then has been wholly focused on sharing nature with humanity. He is deeply inspired by the Internet and the opportunities it provides...

Carter KleinCarter is a Software Engineer and Head of DeFi at cmorq, where he's responsible for driving the product and engineering efforts behind the cmorq app. Prior to cmorq, Carter has worked on exponential-growth financial products responsible for processing $350M+ MoM at Capital One. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, working as an early engineer at a seed-fu...

Rene Stefancic is Partnerships Lead at Enjin, where he oversees ecosystem adoption and partnerships. A results-driven professional who thrives at the intersection of product, marketing, IT, and growth, Rene enjoys finding pragmatic and scalable solutions to tough problems and creating long-lasting, fruitful business relationships. His mottos are “swim or drown” and “AB test everything.” Building t...

Sophie Watts Executive Chair and Co-founderSophie is a global media executive with a focus on venture creation for A-list stars, including “Mike Tyson’s Legends Only League,” the sports enterprise which, in November 2020, staged the Tyson-Jones fight, the 8th most profitable pay-per-view event of all time. Previously, Watts served as the President of STX Entertainment, playing an instrumental role...

Arabella Proffer Arabella Proffer is a visual artist based in Cleveland. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and bred in Southern California, she has a BFA from CalArts. Her loose narrative themes revolve around the history of medicine, psychedelic visions, and biomorphic organisms. She delves into the practice of oil painting, tying together its relationships to nature, biology, and emerging sciences. Ar...

This podcast is a montage of four interviews with founders and executives, from the time period of March 2021 to June 2022, as originally published at www.anchor.fm/irish-tech-news. This podcast highlights short gems from Jamil Hasan (Crypto Hipster)'s interviews with Arabella Proffer (Tree Trunk), Graham Wallington (Wild Earth TV), Sophie Watts (executive producer and Mike Tyson’s Legends League)...

Closing the Poverty Gap by Repurposing Blockchain for Good to Help People Participate in the 4th Industrial Revolution Helen Hai Helen is the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Goodwill Ambassador for Industrialization in Africa. She is heading the Binance Blockchain Charity Foundation with the mandate to use Blockchain for Social Good. Ambassador Hai was named a 2015 Young...

About Philip Colbert Graduating with an MA in Philosophy from St. Andrews University, Colbert’s work has received international acclaim in museums and galleries worldwide for his energetic new approach to painting and pop theory. Following on from early Pop painters such as Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist. Colbert’s paintings cross high art themes from old master paintings...

Serge Gianchandani is the Co-founder of Metamall. Serge is a serial entrepreneur with twelve patents on 3D and VR imagery. He founded Egg Solution Optronics. In 2001 Serge became the leader in immersive technology. The company was initially based in France and later was acquired by a US technology group. He also co-founded Moksha and scaled from zero to $20 million with 300+ clients across the glo...

How Quentin Tarantino' 'Pulp Fiction' Inspired this U.S. Army Veteran to create a Celebrity NFT and Metaverse Collectible and Consulting Business Joey Dunne is currently fully immersed in the Metaverse by manufacturing, buying and selling NFT’s(Non-Fungible Tokens) as an anonymous artist, a self-proclaimed expert Celebrity NFT drop blogger named LeDrop WithCheese, and a trader of cryptocurrencies....

David Uhryniak David Uhryniak is the Director of Blockchain Strategy at TRON DAO. David is a digital transformation and blockchain technology expert and well-regarded in the industry. Following early work in equity research and analysis, David has since focused on emerging blockchain markets as a management consultant and senior practice leader. His ability to leverage emerging technologies to cre...

Ruben Merre is CEO and co-founder of NGRAVE , a digital asset security provider offering user-friendly maximum security solutions for blockchain and crypto use cases. At NGRAVE, Ruben created "ZERO", the world's most secure hardware wallet for crypto storage. A seasoned entrepreneur, he was selected for Belgium's 40 under 40 last year, as well as being a Google Digital Pioneer nominee in 2020. Thi...

Thibault Perrad Bio: Thibault has over six years experience working in the traditional financial markets under his belt, leading business development initiatives for a Swiss boutique currency overlay company (30bn in currency overlay assets). After getting into crypto in 2017, he moved to Beijing just before COVID struck, dedicating himself to the topic of DeFi and joining Bifrost as head of strat...

Tom's bio:Based in London, prior to Metaphysic, Tom founded OmniSci (previously MapD), the world's fastest database and first GPU in-memory analytics engine backed by Tiger Global, NEA, in-Q-Tel, NVIDIA and Google. He is co-founder of Codec.ai, a content marketing analytics tool used by Redbull, Unilever, L'Oreal, Nestle and more.

Prior to his role as Director of Blockchain Intelligence at Crystal Blockchain, Nick spent 12 years as a senior analyst working for the British Government followed by four years as an analyst in Threat Intelligence and Cyber Security, finally working as a compliance officer for an Over The Counter cryptocurrency trading desk.

Building a Vibrant Gaming Community and Agility with WAX and Blockchain Brawlers, with Michael Rubinelli Michael Rubinelli - Chief Gaming Officer at WAX Studios Michael Rubinelli is a technology & gaming leader with 15+ years’ progressive experience in executive leadership, product development, and continual revenue growth and is renowned for his success at top corporations (including Disney,...