DIA and Outlier Ventures invite you to join a panel of pioneers of the web3 metaverse to explore the evolution of the space, share insights and discuss which challenges and opportunities lie within this uprising new cosmos and how convergence might impact it. What are the prerequisites for connectivity for different applications? Which use cases will it enable? Which hurdles need to be overcome and which risks does an interconnected metaverse harbour?

The panel will take place on Tuesday, September 7, 2021 at 16:00 CEST in a location within Decentraland (exact location to be announced) and will be streamed across a range of platforms and channels.

• Linkedin event page
• Decentraland event page

Participants

Moderation

Hsin-Ju Chuang
Founder @ Dystopia Labs, formerly Stellar, Tezos, Solana

Dystopia Labs is a startup studio that’s run by technologists, designers, and marketers working together to prevent a dystopian future for the blockchain space. Dystopia Labs identifies knowledge gaps, share case studies, and develop operational strategies to help engineers build viable decentralized businesses.

Hsin-Ju Chuang is the Founder of DystopiaLabs, Former Head of Growth at Stellar, Lightyear and Solana Labs, Ex-Director at TQTezos and Co-Curator NY at RelayNode. As an entrepreneur and strategic problem-solver, Shin-Ju is self-directed, driven, and influential with an unswerving focus on growth and quality.

Panellists:

Jamie Burke
Founder @ Outlier Ventures

Outlier Ventures is a venture firm that invests in companies building Web 3.0 with decentralised technologies. Specifically, OV invests in creators building “The Open Metaverse,” a thesis and playbook outlining the future of freedom and equitable economics within digital environments.

As the Founder and CEO of Outlier Ventures, Jamie is a well known face in the industry regularly speaking at conferences around the World and advocating for the professionalisation of the industry in media like Forbes, Wired, Reuters and CNBC.

Paul Claudius
Founder @ DIA Association

DIA is an open-source, data and oracle platform for the DeFi ecosystem. DIA leverages crypto-economic incentives to drive supply, share and use transparent, crowd-verified price data and oracles on financial and digital assets.

Paul is a serial entrepreneur and crypto investor with 10+ years of experience building and scaling disruptive businesses and category leaders across Europe. Paul is leading BD at DIA.

Ishan Negi
NFT/Gaming Lead @ Polygon

Polygon is the first well-structured, easy-to-use platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. Its core component is Polygon SDK, a modular, flexible framework that supports building multiple types of applications.

Ishan Negi is currently the NFT & Gaming Lead at Polygon Network. Ishan is an MBA graduate from the Indian Institute of Management — Bangalore and holds a Bachelors from the Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi.

ToxSam
Founder @ Polygonal Mind

Polygonal Mind is a creative game development studio currently based in Zaragoza, Spain. Founded in London in 2016 by two friends, Polygonal Mind’s aims to grow into a large mixed community of artists and developers ​that work together to create art, games and virtual worlds for the metaverse.

ToxSam is the Founder and CEO of Polygonal Mind. As an artist, entrepreneur and metaverse maximalist, he develops environments and characters on all the different platforms in the metaverse. Made over 200 open source avatars.

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