BuzzAR is poised to be Southeast Asia’s first metaverse startup that has fully scaled the 7 enablers of the metaverse, which are online gaming (2013), VR (2015), Augmented Reality (AR) (2018), Digital Twin (2019), Avatar engine (2021). In 2022, BuzzAR launched the last 2 enablers, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and Social Networking (2022), a by-invite platform (beta). The company has raised US$3.8mil from investors in Hong Kong, Singapore, US to create an inclusive metaverse.

El is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at DTC, and two times winner of the Asia FinTech Leaders Awards 2019 and 2020. El drives the expansion of DTC business by acquiring key clients and striking strategic collaboration with complementary partners. DTC is a licensed major payment institution in Singapore. El is an early adopter of crypto, who dedicates his time to drive adoption and tackle industry issues, partly through education of organisations and investors.

Notably, he spoke at Global Bitcoin Festival 2022 and Token2049 recently and was interviewed by institutions like CoinLive and MoneyFM 938. El established Singapore’s first pure play digital asset custodian prior to the payment gateway at Digital Treasures Center. He is a former investment banker ith experience from previous banking stints at CIMB Group and J.P. Morgan. He is an alumnus of Singapore Management University, who founded the varsity’s Macintosh club and was a recipient of the Apple WWDC scholarship.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elxlee/ Email: el.lee@dtcpayment.com

George Wong is the Head of Singapore & Malaysia for The Sandbox, a leading decentralized virtual world and a subsidiary of Animoca Brands. Concurrently, he’s the Sub-committee Chairperson for NFTs & Metaverses in ACCESS Blockchain Association Malaysia, the Honorary Secretary for Women in Blockchain Asia and the Founder of Reactive Labs, a blockchain advisory. Prior to this, he has ventured more than 20+ start-ups from retail to publishing, most notably in the investment and blockchain space. He has managed a variety of investment-related firms, supported the growth of a regional investment community, and even successfully completed an ICO in 2018

Edmund has over 20 years of experience in Software, Financial Technology (FinTech), and Supply Chain. A serial entrepreneur, he has founded 3 start-ups and helped one grow into S$20m valuation within the span of 2 years.

He is also an unwavering procurement advocate with a mission to combine the best technologies to build the best trade ecosystem with procurement at its core.

On top of being a passionate advocate for digitalisation, he is also a mentor at Tribe, advising and sharing with other startups.

Danielius Stasiulis is a co-founder and CEO of Learnoverse – a Web3 learning metaverse with learn & earn token economy and NFT assets, pioneering web3-native education. Learnoverse is developed by BitDegree, the #1 Web3 Educator globally and one of the leading EdTechs globally. Since its establishment in 2017, BitDegree has amassed a community of 1.3M learners globally and has been awarded numerous global prizes, including being crowned as the Global Champion of the UN-backed World Summit Awards in the field of Education for leveraging technology to bring digital skills to the masses.

Previously, Danielius has spent 10 years in management consulting at Civitta, Emerging Europe’s leading consultancy covering 16 countries with 400+ consultants, where he served as a Partner and a Board member developing the Startups and Innovation stream. For his work in building the European startup ecosystems and personal entrepreneurial example, Danielius has been awarded the prestigious Junior Achievement Europe FERD’s List honouree title 2019 and  in 2018 was named as one of the 5 exemplary Junior Achievement Lithuania alumni from over the last 25 years. In 2020, Danielius was recognised by Global Lithuanian Leaders with other BitDegree co-founders as the Lithuanian leaders whose ideas lead globally.

CHRIS SIM SOON WEI was born in Penang, Malaysia on July 27, 1988. He is an entrepreneur, software engineer and philanthropist. He is proficient in English, Malay, Chinese, Thai and other languages.

CHRIS SIM SOON WEI graduated from KOLEJ TUNKUN ABDUL RAHMAN with a double degree in Economics and Business Administration. He came into contact with the internet when he was 12 years old, and has since begun to use ICQ and MSN applications to communicate with internet users all over the world, thus he has loved and liked the internet. In high school, he developed a campus social software with his classmates. At that time, the number of registered users of the software platform exceeded 1,000 users, enabling him to win the title of "Young Creator" of the school. Chris graduated from university in 2004 and he worked as an engineer under Intel. In 2008, he joined Netflix and oversaw the accounts in Southeast Asia. In May 2012, due to pressing call from his family, he returned to handle the family business as the general manager, responsible for the management and operation of the company. “I encountered Bitcoin by chance in 2014, and I was deeply attracted by Bitcoin technology. In 2018, I began to fully invest in the blockchain industry. Since then, I have focused on and planted my roots blockchain technology and operations. I believe that blockchain technology can change The world, and cryptocurrencies is allowed to circulate freely in the world.

Akinori Nakajima Graduated from Information and Communication Engineering, Nagoya University. So far, He have built many real-time audio and video distribution services mainly for Japanese companies. He also does OSS activities related to WebRTC. Develops and sells the virtual office VoicePing, a collaboration tool that maximizes productivity and engagement.

Enterprise Singapore is a Singapore government agency championing the growth of local enterprises with the goal to enable them to scale and internationalize.

As part of the New Industries team looking at the metaverse portfolio, Nicolas is focused on supporting the growth of the local Metaverse ecosystem, by identifying potential enablers and opportunities, with an emphasis on strong commercial outcomes.

Chain Capital & Krin Fund: https://capital-chain.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/lxm19871231

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.cn/in/simon-%E6%9D%8E%E7%BF%94%E6%95%8F-5b9a64107

Junde heads up the international business at Cobo. Prior to joining Cobo, he has held executive roles in web2 companies in the AI, big data and mobile apps space, and was most recently GM of Global Gaming at App Annie. In his current web3 role, Junde is excited to help onboard web2 companies into web3 in a secure, and efficient environment. Junde graduated with a Computer Science degree from the National University of Singapore.

Ian spent the past 10+ years running strategy, product, and commercial teams in the telco & fintech sectors. He was an early pioneer in the digital microcredit space in SEA, combining telco, social, and financial data to fully automate credit scoring & underwriting to serve the unbanked and underserved. Previously he founded Foundry Partners, a boutique end-to-end consulting firm specializing in product development, software engineering, and regulation/compliance. Prior to this he was the founding COO of JG Digital Equity Ventures, the corporate VC arm of the JG Summit Group, a $10B+ diversified conglomerate in the Philippines, responsible for investing in early to mid-stage startups in SEA. In fintech, he focused on managing microcredit products and growing loan portfolios. He was the Head of Strategic Partnerships & Strategic Initiatives at Cashalo/Oriente (founded by ex-Lu.com/Ping An veterans) and the VP of Consumer Lending at GCash (an Alibaba/Ant Financial company). In telco, he was a senior member of the strategy team of the Philippines' leading telco, Globe Telecom, where he delivered enterprise-wide programs focusing on mobile prepaid, consumer lifecycle management, MVNO, loyalty, and customer experience.

Azarul Hakim is the founder of Swipe Malaysia pvt. ltd., a cutting-edge financial technology firm that helps businesses accept, manage, and distribute payments globally.

At the beginning of his 16-year career, Azarul got his start as a technical consultant at Oracle. He then went on to Accenture as a technical architect before becoming Chief Technical Officer at RaudahPay, a fintech company and an MBA graduate AAGBS Universiti Teknologi Mara before founding Swipe Malaysia. 

Kevin Sin is Director of the International Racehorse Owners Network (IRON). IRON is formed by key global racing stakeholders from breeders to stud farms, auction houses to agistment farms and trainers to notable owners. Our overarching objective is to promote the sustainability of the thoroughbred racing industry by making racehorse ownership experience accessible to a younger generation of audiences through the application of blockchain, NFT and web3 technologies.

Social media links:

www.racehorsenft.io

https://twitter.com/RacehorseNFT

https://www.instagram.com/racehorsenft/?hl=en

Kishor M started his career with an OTC Broker and thereafter worked in USA (Silicon Valley) with Asia-Tech a B2B Marketplace. He then moved to Singapore and started his own hedge fund. He then founded Future1Exchange a licensed Cryptocurrency exchange in Europe , Estonia. He then joined Propine as Director Business Development. Propine is a Singapore MAS regulated Tokenization and Custody service provider for Digital Assets serving Institutions/Funds/FamilyOffice/VC and Crypto Exchanges. Thereafter he joined Playermon a Play To Earn NFT Gaming Metaverse as Chief Growth Officer. He is currently CEO of www.crowdfundjunction.com a community driven DAO Crypto Venture Capital. He is also founder of www.madfornfts.com , at MFN we Design, Create, Market, and Launch your NFT collection.

Mr. Subramanyan R (Subra) is a technologist turned to Technopreneur, having around three decades of expertise in Management & Information Technologies (ICT & ICM). He has positioned himself in Singapore as a base and sharpens his knowledge from the 1990s. Prior to being a Technopreneur, he has over a decade of expertise by working with SME's, Leading Singapore Telco-GLC's (ST-Telemedia STMD), and research institute in the USA (InterDigital Inc). Some of the anchor projects he was leading during the tenure, which includes Singapore – Israel Joint Research project on Wireless technology & 3G protocol (UMTS). He co-founded and successfully established IDD SolutionNet in 2002 in Singapore, followed by IDD SolutionNet in Malaysia in 2008. 

Bitrise Capital : https://www.bitrisevc.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevinshao6

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-shao-381140a9/

Naveen Madhan, COO & CTO of Wrexa LLC. He helped the company grew from zero to US $1,000,000 in less than 2 years. Working closely with officials from Government of Oman, and Abu Dhabi, at a very young age, Naveen developed a insightful knowledge in this Industry and led and delivered 7+ metaverse projects, with valuation of over 2 Million USD, from all across the globe (Dubai, Latin America, UK, USA, Nigeria, Russia). 

Working with unicorns, and founders of early-stage startups, Naveen grew his knowledge on Business Strategy, Advisory, System Design, and keen interest to risk on new technologies and that’s how Naveen stepped into building Metaverse projects.

Serial entrepreneur, the latest project was to build the first Direct to Consumer Clear Aligner brand in China; It is the first and only brand that have accumulated >10,000 posts on social platforms such posts on the Red and Tiktok.Previously work as investment banker and investor in NYC. Directed numerous cross-boarder M&A deals, built and led the post-investment operating management team.Forbes 30Under30, Oil & Gas Investor 30Under40, Petroleum Economist Future Leader Award.MBA from Harvard Business School.

Avinash Kaushik is a Serial Entrepreneur and Investor. He is currently building the WAKA World (waka.world), a suite of Metaverse and Web3 infrastructure Stack ranging from NFTs, Tokens, Dao launchpad to Gamefi, Immersive Virtual worlds, Gaming, Livestreaming and AR filters powering Spatially immersive Fan experiences in Sports , E-sports, Fashion ,Gaming and Entertainment. Fans and Creators are rewarded with Waka Tokens along with Play& Earn NFT to create a unique blend of Immersive 3D Virtual Fan Experiences through Private Suites, Showrooms, Digital Fashion  NFT Galleries, Ramp walks, Concerts, Closets and Web3 based Live AR Filters in real-world Video Content.

As a Tech Geek, Avinash worked for Verizon during the dot com era spearheading the post merger integration of GTE & Bell Atlantic. Subsequently, Avinash was a VC at Radioshack backed Innoventure Partners with portfolio companies such as Palantir, 23andMe, Trax image etc
Avinash founded Revvx Ventures with a portfolio of over 80 startups into Smart Wearables and DTC Fashion and Beauty Brands.

Avinash brings his vast experience from across diverse geographies including Brazil, Argentina, USA, South Africa, Indonesia, China, Singapore and India.

Kenneth Tan is MyLearnZone's Senior Vice President Of Technology and leads the company's Metaverse Technology Innovation & Ecosystem Group. Kenneth also serves as Chairman of MyLearnZone AI Digitalization Global Committee.

In addition to overseeing MyLearnZone's technology strategy, Kenneth has the responsibility of driving innovation through R&D activities in MyLearnZone's Fourth Industrial Revolution Metaverse Labs and leverages emerging technologies to bring the latest Training & Development innovations to clients.

Kenneth's experience spans 20 years across operations, sales and marketing, training and development, education technology sector. He incorporates and lead initiatives including the introduction of metaverse technologies, adaption to AI digitization and disruption, delivery of multiple performance improvement, and transformation programs.

As SVP of Technology, it is Kenneth's job to ascertain that envisaged metaverse ideas become reality solutions. Taking this client-facing role, he is equally comfortable in deep-dive technical workshops and in board-level sales presentations. Having earned his stripes in designing web-based architectures with metaverse and AI solutions, he has no problem finding the scope in large-scale, complex projects.

DIAMOND VENTURE LTD is a seasoned venture capital firm, focusing on metaverse, NFT, blockchains and other early-stage projects. It is committed to pushing forward Web3.0, accelerating the merge between real physical world and digital world, promoting the use cases for digital world. With multiple businesses, DIAMOND VENTURES LTD is on the way to a sustainable growth. Since its inception, the firm has incubated 25 projects relevant to Web3.0 and metaverase, providing those start up teams with public listing advice, sales channels and liquidity.

Bojian LIU is an expert, researcher and business consultant on digitalization, blockchain and globalization. Founded by bankers, venture capitalists and tech evangelists, iMetaOffer Lab is devoted to digital asset research and development embracing metaverse, where we currently work on building a global marketplace driving real-world-asset-backed NFT. With a strong impetus of the global Web3.0 community, iMetaOffer Lab integrates NFT solutions of investing, issuing, trading and socializing. Believing in decentralization and Metaverse, iMetaOffer Lab seeks more efficient interactions between virtual (mostly NFTs or Semi Fungible Tokens) and real-world assets, as the bona fide Metaverse and digital globalization should lead to.

Nida Sahar, the founder of Nife, one of Asia’s leading edge computing startups - multi cloud edge computing is one of the cornerstone technologies that will make our transition from 4G to 5G seamless.

Nida is passionate about technology, and has explored and taken many interesting roles from community building, podcast producer, a full stack developer, and a CTO for a fintech startup before her latest role as the founder of Nife.

Nida volunteers for Anitab.org, works as India Director for Startup Leader Program and is also an editor of Verse of Silence, a literary magazine. In her free time, she indulges in reading, editing or writing poetry. 

Director of Sales at iPollo Miner, mining since 2018, advocate for POW and decentralisation. Mother of 2 kids, formerly Bitmain. Looking forward to see more women involved in the crypto mining scene

Eloisa Marchesoni is a Tokenomics Engineer focusing on token model architecture, token macro-/micro-economics structure, crypto market simulations and gamification strategies for Web3 businesses. She  is currently a partner to VCs and accelerators, while also working as an advisor to self-funded crypto startups, which she has been doing since 2018.

Bocconi University Bachelor ‘19, HULT MiB ‘20.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eloisa-marchesoni-blockchain/

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/eloisa.marchesoni

Twitter: https://twitter.com/eloisamarcheson

In crypto space since 2016. Crypto and blockchain enthusiast. 

Founder of indonesian crypto forum, one of the most active crypto community from indonesia, community and blockchain advisor on several project, and founder of CORE, representative of 26 crypto community from Indonesia with more than 100k members.

Equipped with extensive experience in sales & marketing for the past 16 years, after serving 12 years in the Republic of Singapore Navy. Successfully built businesses with billions of revenue in global sales, and acquired over a million customers globally.  He has started advising blockchain projects and companies since 2019, advising metaverse and NFT project with successful launch that raised over $20 million and achieved a fully diluted $1 Billion Valuation in Jan 2022.  Co-founder of Adamas Technologies focusing in building and creating a global ecosystem for Lab Grown Diamonds.  His goal and contribution towards the crypto space is to offer his knowledge, experience and passion in strategy building to ensure sustainability, longevity and profitability in crypto related business models.

哥伦比亚大学交流博士生&访问学者、华为中央研究院前区块链顾问、G20 Professorship特邀专家、亦来云DAO联合创始人