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A group of women has come together to celebrate and recognize the contributions of women-led projects to the growth and development of the metaverse. Organized by Zuke AR and Clutch, the network celebrating its first year of operation is named Women in the Metaverse, and is made up of incredibly talented women, drawn from a diverse group of the best and most decorated founders and contributors in the tech space.

Sydney Phillips & Bec Jones, created Women in the Metaverse, to highlight the amazing inputs of female founders, whose contributions largely go unnoticed and unappreciated in the world of tech, and more specifically, in the development of the metaverse.

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CEO and Co-founder of Curious Addys’ Trading Club, a company helping to educate individuals on the worlds of NFT and cryptocurrency. Mai has a background in software engineering, she found a rich blockchain ecosystem that included other software developers, but also other industries. Curious Addys’ Trading Company began in 2021 and has helped many people learn the basics of buying or trading cryptocurrency and NFTs. Using a fun game-like structure, Curious Addys’ Trading Company makes the learning process more engaging. Akiyoshi hoped to use this format to bring more people into the world of cryptocurrency. In offering resources like this, Akiyoshi hopes to do her part to bring more people into Web3 and make it more inclusive.

Cathy Hackl is a globally recognized metaverse/ web3 strategist, tech futurist, sought-after business executive, speaker and media personality with deep expertise working in metaverse-related fields with companies like HTC VIVE, Magic Leap, and Amazon Web Services. She’s the Chief Metaverse Officer & Co-founder of Journey, where she leads Journey’s Metaverse Studio working with the world’s top brands on metaverse/web3 strategies, NFTs, gaming, virtual fashion, and how to extend their brands into virtual worlds. Her consultancy, Futures Intelligence Group, was acquired in just 10 months and now a part of Journey. Hackl was recently featured in 60 Minutes+, WSJ, TIME and WIRED’s coverage of the metaverse and is a contributor to Forbes. She has written two books and is writing an anticipated book on the business opportunities of the metaverse titled The Metaverse Economy coming out in early 2022. BigThink named Hackl one of the top 10 most influential women in tech in 2020 and in 2021 she was included in the prestigious Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led.

Lavinia is a Web3 specialist, consultant, and thought leader. She is the founder of Women in Blockchain Talks, an award-winning networking and educational platform that shines a spotlight on dynamic women in the Blockchain ecosystem, which she started in 2019. She is an international speaker, trainer, and effective event moderator. In the last three years she has been listed as one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices in Technology & Innovation 2021, and as one of Wirex’s Rising Women in Crypto Power List 2021. She have been interviewed by CryptonitesTV, and Decrypt Podcast as well as featured in several articles by CoinTelegraph – all leading media platforms in the Blockchain space. She hopes to decrease the gender gap in Blockchain and its ecosystem, by providing different ways of learning about the technology, and showing people different ways to get involved with it.

Paige is the founder of Better World Museum, Horizon Art Museum, and Women in Horizon, and was recognized by Meta as one of the Top 117 Global Community Leaders by the Facebook Community Leadership Program (2018-2019). The museum’s mission is to use creative tech to dissolve isolation and feelings of powerlessness to create more resilient individuals, groups, and communities. With a focus on teens, women, and diverse leadership development, Paige has presented at the WHO, TED, MIT Reality Hackathons, AWE, XR Global Summit, Games for Change, Facebook’s Global Wellness & Safety Summit, and Nobel Peace Prize. Paige is also a Metaverse Producer. Her recent work includes a Metaverse/NFT Action Narrative World which debuted at Cannes Film Festival. Paige has created over 200 worlds in the Metaverse.

Christina is the CEO of Metastage. Since its founding in 2018, Metastage has completed over 200 productions with major brands and award winning projects, including two Emmy nominations. Prior to leading Metastage, Christina was the CEO of VR Playhouse, an immersive content company with immersive projects featured at SXSW, Sundance, and Festival de Cannes. She is a recipient of the Advanced Imaging Society’s Distinguished Leadership in Technology Award and was named in the Huffington Post as one of 5 women changing the virtual reality scene. She has spoken as a XR expert on panels at Comic Con, SXSW, NAB, IBC, Sundance, NEXT conference (Seoul), IVRPA (Tokyo), GDC, AFI, Hardwired NYC, VRDC, TieCon, Digital Hollywood, Northside Innovation Festival, SVVR, SoHo House, Digital Hollywood, VR Fest, Digital LA, MUTEK, and is currently on the board of advisors for the Real Time Conference, University of Rochester, and the Television Academy’s interactive Peer Group.

Ashley has worked in the 3D/XR space for over a decade helping companies like Adidas, Lexus, AT&T and more create scalable 3D strategies to save costs, increase speed to market and increase sales. She has 14 patents on 3D graphics and holograms and has given talks on the future of spatial computing at SXSW, Digital Summit, Augmented World Expo, TEDx, World Economic Forum and more. She graduated from USC with a bachelors and masters in engineering and leveraged her engineering background to guide VNTANA’s overall direction and technology development to shape the future of commerce by making it easy to manage and deploy 3D everywhere.

Sara is the co-founder of Alien Worlds, the largest decentralised gaming metaverse on earth (dappradar.com, MAU). She is a founding Board member of the Open Metaverse Alliance for Web 3 (OMA3) and CEO of Dacoco who build tokenised DAOs.

Alexandra is the founder of Immersion, a creative media technology company that builds 3D online worlds for businesses. She is also the UK lead for ‘Women in Immersive Technologies’, a community of 3000 members that aims to empower European women working in XR. She is also co-chair of the UK5G Creative Industries working group reporting to the department in charge of Digital, Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS). Prior to this, Alexandra pursued an international business career at the insurance firm, Allianz, managing a $100M global business. She has also worked all over Europe during her 11 years at Sony Ericsson and had solid experience designing and launching software and service products, particularly covering user experience design and continuous improvements.

As an award-winning digital media expert, Vera serves as a catalyst for unprecedented digital products and solutions, increasing her clients’ organisational productivity and leading the way into the digital age. In combining her business management, digital and technological know-how she has continued to elevate businesses to a new level of innovation and performance.

At the intersection of Web3, Fashion, Beauty & Tech. As an advocate of diversity, equality, and inclusion, and women in tech, Aditi’s goal is to do her bit with NFTartpedia & Business of NFT to ensure there are equal opportunities for women in building the future of the internet. She sits on the XR Safety Initiative Medical Council, and continues to create opportunities to bring together practitioners across academia, healthcare, and the creative industries to create an equitable and just future for immersive technology.

An internet nerd and tech futurist, Lindsey has launched multiple projects in the metaverse and web3 space and remains excited about the ways crypto, blockchain, NFTs, and extended reality (XR) will change our digital and physical landscape. As Global Head of Technology and Innovation at AB InBev (Anheuser-Busch), the world’s largest brewer, she launched Stella Artois into the metaverse in an explosive partnership with ZED RUN, a crypto horse racing game. One of the first major brand executions in the space, the Cannes Lion award- nominated campaign, put Stella Artois on the map as the first beer brand and FMCG company in the metaverse and was well received by traditional and crypto media alike. McInerney was named to the 2023 ‘Thinkers50 Radar List’, a cohort of 30 thinkers whose ideas are predicted to make an important impact on management thinking. She has also been named one of ‘The 30 Most Influential People in the Metaverse’. As Founder and CEO of Black Sun Labs, Lindsey works with executives, teams and personalities on their web3 and metaverse strategies. She is also the CEO of Sixth Wall, a technology and entertainment company co-founded with actor/producer Mila Kunis and producer Lisa Sterbakov.

President of Vayner3, Avery Akkineni, is leading the mission to guide the world’s largest enterprises in navigating the next iteration of connected consumer behavior, Web3. In 2021, Akkineni launched the VaynerX consultancy, Vayner3, alongside serial entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk. Partnering with dozens of Fortune 500 corporations across industries, Vayner3 has successfully advised organizations on strategic Web3 initiatives across emerging technology applications, web3 program development, and immersive digital experiences. A leader, mentor, and investor in pioneering Web3 projects and communities, Akkineni is the co-host of CoinDesk’s GenC podcast; and also an active advisor for several tech platforms; serving on the Board of Advisors of OneOf and Tracer, on the Web3 Advisory Board for Salesforce, and Meta Creative X, in addition to being a founding BFF and PTTOW! member.

Krista Kim is a contemporary artist and founder of the Techism movement (2014), whose work explores the concept of the digital consciousness. Her interest in digital technology and its revolutionary effects on human perception, media, social structures, and communication had led her to work in both digital and physical realms. Having developed her signature language of shifting gradients using digital software since 2012, her works on glass and plexi hypnotize its viewers into a trance of tranquillity while her video works provide meditative experiences of colour and light. Most recently in 2020, during the Coronavirus lockdown, Kim continued to explore the creative potential to utilize screens as digital instruments of well-being by creating ‘Mars House’: a completely virtual environment using her digital zen philosophy as the first “Metaverse home” for sale as an NFT in history in March 2021. The piece received global acclaim and in March 2021 was the highest-grossing sale on an NFT on SuperRare.

Since 2020 Emma Jane has been pioneering web3 fashion by revolutionising the current extractive industry, empower designers globally, and helping them to set the tone for the open metaverse and more! She founded DIGITALAX the first web3 fashion ecosystem which is building native web3 infrastructure for supporting the entire fashion industry, digi-physical fashion supply chains, new native metaverse publishing systems, incentivised ecosystems for designer DAOs, the modding community, players to earn new livelihoods native to decentralised tech and also developing an interoperable 3D file transfer architecture using native crypto and NFT incentive models for enabling a flourishing open source developer bazaar.

Biyard is a Web3 ecosystem builder, empowering developers, creators, and investors. She provides technical advice and a platform for developers and creators to build their own Web3 world. Summer and her firm help investors to find promising web3 startups globally and to verify their technology and market validation.

Randi Zuckerberg likes to call herself “a professional mom to entrepreneurs” because nothing gives her greater joy than working closely with startups and founders. Randi currently works with more than 20 early and mid stage companies as an investor and advisor and she sits on the board of directors for The Motley Fool and Life360. Randi is passionate about helping families navigate our digital world. Through her company, Zuckerberg Media, she has created award-winning content and experiences that educate families and bring to light issues around digital literacy and safety. She is the best selling author of four books, producer of multiple television shows and theater productions, and hosts a weekly radio show on SiriusXM. Prior to founding her own company, Randi was an early employee at Facebook, where she is best known for creating Facebook Live, now used by more than two billion people around the globe.

Natalie Johnson thrives in the world where disruption and digitization have arrived. As the proud founder of both 3D Robe, a 3D design agency, and neuno, a marketplace for fashion NFTs and digital wearables – her mission is to harness the full potential of fashion technology. Natalie is paving the way towards sustainability in fashion through sartorial innovation, moving the industry towards better and more circular models of distribution. Utilizing both a keen eye for product-market fit and a strong analytical focus, she has consistently driven her teams towards a profitable position. They provide designers the service to translate their ideas from 2D concepts to hyper-realistic 3D renders. With over 20 years of experience in the apparel industry, she has a client list including (but not limited to and growing): Farfetch, The Iconic, Woolmark, ASICS, Burberry, Good On You.. Featured in: Forbes, Vogue Business, AFR, Bloomberg, Wired, and more. Advisor to the Australian Fashion Council (AFC) 2021/2022.

Janine Yorio is the CEO of Everyrealm, a metaverse-focused innovation firm and investment fund. Yorio previously worked in private equity, real estate, hotel development, and was the CEO of the fintech real estate app, Compound. She is a graduate of Yale University and is an author and a regular commentator on NFTs, ‘The Metaverse,’ Web3, real estate, fintech, and blockchain technology. She has appeared on CNN, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, and Forbes.

Is a serial entrepreneur with 2 exits. She can be found currently dressing up the metaverse through her company Blueberry Entertainment Inc. Blueberry is a digital wearables brand built upon it’s large and growing community. They create content on top digital platforms and collaborate with renowned fashion designers to bring high end fashion experiences to the metaverse.

Paula is a strategic experience builder, leveraging collaboration, innovation and equity to drive business results and social impact for good. She is an experienced Director of Marketing with a demonstrated history of delivering break-through global integrated marketing 360 programs and campaigns in the entertainment, technology and social impact sector with measurable impact. Skilled in Business Development, Strategic Partnerships, Marketing Strategy, Brand Management, Event and Experience Marketing, Creative Strategy, Corporate and Product Branding, Transmedia Storytelling, Content Strategy, Community Management and Engagement, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Social Impact Marketing, Film and VR Production, Design and Illustration.

Nonny de la Peña is regarded as one of the most influential pioneers in virtual and augmented reality and was recently named WSJ Technology Innovator of the Year. A Wired Magazine #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change, she has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative” and CNET’s 20 Most Influential Latinos in Tech for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling. As CEO of Emblematic Group, she leads the company in creating cutting edge technologies to not only tell stories that create intense, empathic engagement. Her latest endeavor, REACH.Love, is a no-code WebXR platform that intends to empower anyone to create and distribute AR/VR stories straight in the browser. Currently a member of the BAFTA virtual reality board, she is a former correspondent for Newsweek and her virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and has used her broad knowledge to innovate in this burgeoning field.

Joanna Popper is an award-winning Hollywood and Silicon Valley media executive with a track record of launching cutting edge content and technology to drive revenue, audience engagement and brand love. She is currently Chief Metaverse Officer at CAA, a leading Entertainment and Sports agency. Prior she led HP’s initiatives for Go-To-Market & Location Based Entertainment for Virtual Reality, and was EVP of Media & Marketing at Singularity University and VP Marketing at NBCUniversal. Joanna is passionate about supporting Creators & building out Metaverse & XR Content Ecosystem. Joanna is executive producer “Fight Back” by Coven premiering at Venice 2022. She was EP on Double Eye Studios’ “Finding Pandora X,” winner Venice Golden Lion Best VR Experience, SXSW Audience Award for Virtual Cinema Spotlight. Finding Pandora X is a modern day take on Greek mythology live theatre interactive experience in VRChat. She is the executive producer for “Breonna’s Garden,” a Tribeca premiere VR + AR experiences created by Lady PheOnix, Sutu and Breonna Taylor’s family to honor her life. Winner; 2 Best Societal Impact Auggie Awards, Best Social Impact at Art Basel/ Filmgate Interactive, PGA Innovation Finalist, Aurea Award.

Katy Atherholt is a founder, designer, and creative based in Brooklyn, NY. Her startup Seam is building tools for collaborative, NFT-backed social spaces. She’s also a DAO contributor at FWB, Cabin, and Thirsty Thirsty.

Heather Shaw, founder of Vita Motus Design Studio, boasts a multi-dimensional career in environmental, industrial, transportation and production design with a conscious emphasis on functional purpose and designing the future. With a BS in Industrial / Transportation Design, she began her career designing cars for Audi, specializing in futuristic concept vehicles. While at Audi, Heather used her industrial design experience to create festival stages as a passion project and brought the industrial design process into the festival and dance music community. https://vitamotus.com/about/

Anastasia has over 10 years of professional experience in local and global organisations, as well as in social and cultural enterprises, in Europe, the Middle East and North America. She has a proven knowledge of virtual reality, storytelling, entrepreneurship and innovation and is intrigued about emerging technologies and experimental with blockchain and NFTs. Anastasia is the founder of GlobeTrotter who help destinations, and travel brands develop a strategy and take advantage of the opportunities the Metaverse offers. She has a strong academic background, with an Honours in European Law and two Cambridge Awards for Business Administration and French studies.

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Women in the metaverse awards list 2022

Sydney is a serial entrepreneur on a mission to push humanity forward and live interestingly. Sydney is a futurist, keynote speaker, racecar driver, commercial real estate conglomerate and tech mogul. She is being recognized for her work as CEO of Zuke AR. Zuke AR is the leading augmented reality platform for the AEC & building industry. We bring the industry into the metaverse by transforming 3D architectural spaces into interactive AR experiences designed for communication and marketing to the experts and non-experts alike.

Camille Merré is an entrepreneur, artist, consultant, and speaker with a multicultural background with over 7 years of experience in the fields of public relations, marketing, community management, and social media. She is an expert in the luxury sector having worked for Cartier, Hermès, Shamballa Jewels, S.I.H.H (Watches & Wonders) and, Baselworld. Futurist, metaverse specialist, and women empowerment advocate, she co-founded the family-brand Camille Louise Jewellery (Zug, Switzerland), a pioneer with the first Swiss jewellery NFT & Co-Founder/Chief of Metaverse of GEM-XR.

Shefali Roy is on the board of directors at Typro Payments. She is a board member of MakerDAO, was previous COO & CCO of True layer and the former Chief Compliance Officer (Europe) and MLRO for Stripe. Prior to Stripe, she led compliance, business conduct and risk across Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa for Apple, was the Chief Compliance & Ethics Officer for Christie’s worldwide, and was responsible for private wealth compliance for Goldman Sachs across Europe and the Middle East. She currently sits on the Boards of Adas List – a women in technology network, and Photoworks – a photography collective. Shefali is also an advisor to two startups : an EdTech called Erase All Kittens, and a KidTech called Goozby. Shefali is being recognized for her continued contribution and support of web3 and fintech in both leadership, investment and advisory.

Bec Jones is the CEO and Co-founder of Clutch wallet, a next generation wallet ecosystem built to welcome participation of women into web3. She previously worked with National Australia Bank, Happify and across two different crypto companies Vid (now Vybit) and Anon as their CMO’s. Bec is a crypto and web3 content creator on Tik-Tok @cryptobec and upcoming speaker at NFT NYC. She is being recognized for her work as CEO and co-founder of Clutch Wallet which will play home to the digital assets she uses in the metaverse whilst supoorting her onboarding experience into web3.

Luise Frohberg is the founder of Taara Quest – a community for game-based female leadership growth in the metaverse. Her vision is to empower women through immersive roleplaying virtual reality simulations to develop their full leadership potential and manifest the change the world desperately needs. Her motto in doing so: close the gap between knowing and doing, fail fast, and pave the way for women into the Metaverse. For her, the Metaverse is not just a tremendous opportunity for women to advance personally and professionally, but also an emerging world that needs to be shaped, co-created by women from the standpoint of safety, inclusivity and equal access for all.

Navah Berg is a Social PR Communication professional with a twist of Social VR enthusiasm taking community to the next level with true presence through Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Social Media. Navah is an early beta tester for Facebook Horizon, hosted numerous talk shows in VR, is co-founder of Women in Horizon, has been on Virtual Umbrella’s 2019 TOP 50 VR People to Follow list and listed in Base Reality’s 25 Most Influential Women to Follow in VR in 2020. She is being recognized for her presence at the intersection of AR, VR and social media as it pertains to the metaverse.

Katarina is recognized for incredible ability to transform partnerships, developing strategies for advancement, drive change with purpose and impact. She is being recognized for her remarkable experience, know-how and pulse on the metaverse is what has launched to enable businesses to use technologies for the benefit of mankind.

Catherine D. Henry is one of the top global voices covering the Metaverse; combining tech expertise with a deep knowledge of successful branded immersive & interactive experiences to help companies reimagine their presence in a 3D web. As SVP Growth at Media.Monks, Catherine advises leading global brands on how to enter the Metaverse and navigate across platforms, protocols, communities, commercial opportunities, NFT strategies, and – deploying her skills as an economist – identify future trends, and how they will impact your industry. With a career spanning 20 years, Catherine started her career in global financial services at the World Bank and later led institutional sales for private and equity tech investments, heading complex global investment projects and large international teams. Catherine D. Henry is a tech evangelist who holds an MBA from SDA Bocconi School of Management, MA in Economics at Johns Hopkins’ University SAIS, lived in Europe 20 years and speaks five languages. She also did post-graduate work in immersive media & VR Film making at the NY Film Academy.

Nancy Beaton is the Senior Vice-President of Strategy & Marketing at Together Labs, the technology parent company behind the leading friend discovery Metaverse and social app IMVU and VCOIN, an ERC-20 token, built on Ethereum, the most widely adopted blockchain technology, that can be exchanged both inside the IMVU platform and for the first time, off of the platform.Nancy is charged with finding new ways to build and grow the business. Most recently she served as Chief Revenue Officer of a SaaS-based learning platform. Prior to that she was co-founder and EVP of SportsLabs, a media and sports technology company. She also held various executive positions at Sprint in product running a $200 million P&L and national marketing through the company’s $1B media spend.

Sarah is a serial entrepreneur and creative producer working at the intersection of XR, healthcare, and arts. She is the founder of Hatsumi, co-founder of Lemonade, co-founder of the XR Health Alliance. Sarah is the producer at Explore Deep, an award-winning clinically validated breath-controlled VR experience. In her spare time, Sarah is an End of Life Doula in training, a non-medical support for people going through the end of life process.
She sits on the XR Safety Initiative Medical Council, and continues to create opportunities to bring together practitioners across academia, healthcare, and the creative industries to create an equitable and just future for immersive technology.

Muki is a multi-award-winning Executive Digital XR Producer & Creative MetaTechnologist with over two decades creating groundbreaking content and interactive experiences for music, sport, broadcasting and tech innovation, facilitating the growth of new tools and techniques towards an inclusive, sustainable Metaverse. Recent Executive XR work has included creative Immersive XR production and playbook strategies with Red Bull Media Network, ViacomCBS, and a prestigious National Gallery ‘X’ residency with Playlines which led to launching the critically acclaimed “Art of London: Augmented Gallery”.

Muki is also the Innovation Co-Lead for the IBC Accelerators Media Innovation Programme which has showcased groundbreaking ‘tech-firsts’ via industry-led R&D consortiums, with her core focus on 5G LBXR (Location-Based eXtended Realities), Interactive Digital Humans, XR/eSports, Real-Time 3D Game Engine & Spatial Design, 6DoF Immersive Audio, Virtual Production & Fan Engagement in Live Sports, and AI-Avatar Animation Pipelines.

Previously, after 10+ years launching and pioneering MTV/Viacom’s first digital interactive platforms in the ‘00s, Muki went on to Executive Produce and revolutionise other A-List titles like BBC The Voice UK (which included “The Virtual Voice’, the BBC’s first-ever series of 360°VR “way back” in 2015), an Angry Birds/Samsung multi-platform experience, a live global interactive show for Marvel’s IronMan3, and the LBE spatial audio drum & bass hit ‘Consequences’ for Playlines AR and BOSE which was awarded the headline experience at Raindance Immersive 2019, Digital Catapult’s Surroundscapes and also won the runner up Innovation in Storytelling Prize at the 2018 Future of Storytelling (FoST) summit.

Elizabeth Hyman is the Chief Executive Officer of the XR Association (XRA), the trade association representing the technology manufacturers that power the virtual, augmented, and mixed reality industries. XRA is dedicated to the responsible development and thoughtful advancement of XR technologies across the globe. Prior to joining XRA, Hyman served as Executive Vice President of Public Advocacy at the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), where she led the association’s outreach to members of Congress, the Executive Branch, and other international, federal, state, and local government institutions that shape and influence public policies affecting the IT industry. Hyman brings more than two decades of experience in the worlds of government, policy, and technology. She began her career in government, including positions at the U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office of the President, and Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and has experience in the private sector both in the practice of law and in business.

Alex is the CEO and Co-Founder of MOD Tech Labs. Her background in physical and digital design began while earning a BS in Interior Design and Construction Technology. For nearly five years, she has worked in emerging technologies including photogrammetry, volumetric video, XR and AI among others—pushing the boundaries of technology to bring new tools to market. Alex has been recognized by Intel as a Top Innovator since 2017. She often speaks at events including SXSW, Siggraph, Augmented World Expo, Startup Week, and many more sharing insights on emerging technologies and their applications. On the human side, Alex volunteers with organizations, like Girls in Tech and the Consumer Technology Association, that further the access, education, and opportunities to move the needle for underserved communities. Her free time is with her family of two tiny humans and her husband going on family walks, cruising the farmer’s market, and watching movies.

Raffaella Camera is the Head of Brands for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine, the world’s most open and advanced 3D creation tool. In her role she directs strategic partnerships and special projects with global brands and consumer technology partners to deliver meaningful engagement within virtual worlds and, eventually, the metaverse. Through this work she also advises creative agencies on their approach to building future-proof digital experiences. Raffaella’s work has helped earned many accolades, including VR FEST’s Best VR Branded Entertainment; the AIS Lumiere Award for Best Use of VR; Communication Arts and Webby awards; and IDG’s DEMOgod Award for Best AR Retail Shopping. She combines her creative and analytical skills with an MBA from the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business and a Masters of Piano Performance from the USC Thornton School of Music. Raffaella is a member of the Screen Actors Guild.

Amy is powerhouse when it comes to ARVR. She is recognized as a part of our listers for her work specifically with Cleanbox Technologies Inc. Cleanbox Technology Inc. is a premium, eco-friendly, smart tech hygiene company, specializing in UVC surface decontamination for frequently used products. Cleanbox’s proprietary engineering of UVC light in an LED provides safe, hospital-grade hygiene, killing 99.999% of contagions without the use of chemicals, heat, or liquids.

Jen Greyson is a global advocate for crypto’s empowerment of women. In addition to being a business owner in Utah, she also sits on the board of the Kerala Blockchain Academy in Kerala, India, a female-founded institution turning out STEM and blockchain leaders for the next tech phenomenon. Jen’s global recognitions include the Female 50: Top Crypto Influencers, Top 8 Women in Crypto, 10 Most Inspiring Women in Blockchain, and Top 100 People in Blockchain. She is the co-host of CryptocurrenSHE and her hair is rarely the same color twice.

Manasi is being recognized for the many hats she wears as a woman in the metaverse. She is the founder of Women in Blockchain, a non-profit with 1500+ members and growing, is on a mission to increase diversity and break down barriers to entry in the blockchain space. Manasi also serves as Co-founder at Koromebi Collective, the first investment DAO focused on funding female and nonbinary crypto founders. She also serves as VP of Operations ad Strategy at Skynet Labs, an uncompromising blockchain infrastructure for the decentralized internet. This includes Skynet, an open protocol for hosting data and web applications on the decentralized web.

Dr. Peace Uche, aka doc.Peace, Doctor by trade, spoken word artist at heart. Is a Forbes-featured public speaker, emcee, podcast host, and educator in the NFT space. She has experienced first-hand what it feels like to transition from a corporate career as a Doctor of Pharmacy to realign with her soul purpose which is to help others align with their soul purpose and achieve their version of success. She is now the host of GOLDen Meta Sessions with doc.Peace podcast. She is a proud Tribe X Insider for the ambitious community-driven NFT project that exists to impact lives. She had the honor of sharing the stage with legends in the space, including Gary Vaynerchuk, closing out his event with my NFT spoken word flow entitled “Freedom with NFTs”. She is the official ChangeDAO Changemaker for Education as she now uses her skills working in the corporate space and launching a successful coaching business to support service providers in pivoting their services to provide them to the NFT Community and help NFT creatives gain visibility in the space.

Alana is the CEO of Eve Wealth – Helping women invest in a web3 world. She is an experienced entrepreneur, investor, and women’s wealth advocate. Eve Wealth, the worlds first Wealth DAO, has created an easy 3-level course to quickly learn web3 wealth building & basics at www.evedefi.com. This was created by a community of 25+ Wealth Coaches & Experts in support of members. Check out the discord here to stay up to date with the latest workshops & intel! She previously launched McKinsey’s New Venture group and Corporate Venture Capital Service line which included investing in, building and scaling companies with some of the most influential corporations (Fortune500). Within the web3 space Alana is a contributor & member of ValuesIndex, Seed Club HQ, Index Coop, FWB and Womenoncaptables.eth. Her art is what brought her into the early crypto space, with collectors at DG and later NFTs at Digital XYZ.

Valerie Song is a founder of f3—a community that bridges the gap between female founders and female funders. A recipient of BC Business and Hurun Report’s 30 Under 30, Val is a passionate and bold leader who loves growing plants, people, and the planet. As a co-founder of 23-time award winning smart garden brand, AVA Technologies Inc, Val had personal experience raising $5.5M. Given how tough the journey was for her, she’s taken to web3 to make funding more accessible and transparent for every woman involved.

Tegan Kline is a Founder, cryptocurrency expert, business development savant, and all-around tour de force. With a competitive background in Investment Banking, Tegan uses her experience from “the inside” of traditional finance, both at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Barclays, to bolster explosive growth of the blockchain industry at large. In Co-Founding one and launching two unicorns to date – Edge & Node, The Graph, and Orchid, a A16Z and Sequoia – Tegan is undoubtedly the blockchain ecosystem’s not-so-secret weapon.

Annee Park is a seasoned ed-tech entrepreneur whose work at ProtoHack and SoftServe has landed her the BC Business’ 30 Under 30 Award and Women Tech Founder’s Award for Gaming/AR/VR. Today, Annee is a founder of f3—a community that bridges the gap between female founders and female funders. Annee is also an active DeFi trader across multiple blockchains, author of ‘WTF is X’ – a beginner’s guide to web3, and manages events and experiences at Transak, a fiat to crypto onramp integration for developers. Dedicated to education and gender equity, she believes that web3 is how we will solve the problem of access to funding for female founders.

Brit Morin is a co-founding partner of MyBFF, a network to welcome more women, nonbinary and other friends into web3. She is also the founding partner at Offline Ventures, a venture capital fund that seeks to invest and invent new technologies that make our offline lives better. She is the founder & CEO of Brit + Co, a lifestyle and online learning company providing classes, content, product and experiences geared towards young women with a creative spirit and a do-it-herself attitude. She is being recognized for her ability to engage community in particular of 125+ million women and 2M online class enrollments as part of Brit + Co and in growing MyBFF’s network of women entering web3.

Amelia Kallman is a leading London futurist, speaker and author. As an innovation and technology communicator, Amelia regularly consults brands, agencies, and governments on the impact of new technologies on the future of business and our lives. She forecasts global trends and behaviours, helping clients navigate innovation, build strategies and deliver industry leading initiatives. She specialises in the emerging opportunities – as well as the risks – of machine learning and AI, big data, IOT, and the New Realities (XR: VR-AR-MR). She is being recognized for her contributions as a speakera and consultant distilling the metaverse and educating on its future impacts and opportunities.

Artsy is a virtual world designer, illustrator, photosgrpaher and entrepreneur, owing “Artsy in VR.” Artsy is a pioneer of VR lifestyles and is making dreams come to life as a 3D designer and architect in the social VR space. Artsy has built over 150 virtual world templates for people to live in and experience within the past 12 months. From dreamscapes to luxury lofts, penthouses and commercial locations to party buses, private islands, private jets and much much more. There are over 3,500 experiences in VR utilizing her environments. She infuses the energy of love, healing, creativity and abundance into these social experiences and they can be experienced in platforms like AltspaceVR, an immersive social VR app.

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