We are excited to host Lan Shi, founder and CEO of cocafe, Poseidon Ho, Founding Partner of Outliers Fund, and Michael Sung, Founder & Chairman of CarbonBlue Innovations to discuss NFT, metaverse, revolutionized brand experience, and creator economy! Ms. Lan Shi is the founder and CEO of cocafe. cocafe is a pioneer in NFT development in China, dedicated to metaverse marketing and creator economy. cocafe has a creative studio "CoDeco " and a blockchain studio "CoLab", with rich resources in designers, artists, creators, and blockchain developers. cocafe has abundant experiences in providing a one-stop NFT service from creative pro-duction to distribution and sales . She is also the board member of MIT Sloan School of Management, the founder Y-CITY, and serves as the judge of Forbes China 30 Under 30, Hult Prize, and the MIT Inclusive Innovation Competition. She is the core organizer and promoter of Davos World Interchain Forum and Davos Digital Summit. Poseidon Ho is the Founding Partner of Outliers who operated Outliers Fund I (16.2x), Outliers Fund II (11.2x), Outliers Lab #1 that incubated 9 startups with $100M+ raised collectively and two filing IPO. He just raised $50M for Outliers Fund III and is shipping all fund terms/operations on smart contracts as a VC DAO. Prior to founding Outliers, Poseidon researched collective intelligence/reality computing at MIT Media Lab, Microsoft Research, San Diego Zoo Research, and studied M.S. from University of Washington (dropout), Tsinghua University (dropout), B.S. from National Taiwan University. Michael Sung is a technology venture builder and investor, having founded various companies over the years in diverse high-tech industries spanning the AI, blockchain, semiconductor, and new materials industries. Prof. Sung is the Founder and Chairman of CarbonBlue Innovations, a cross-border Fintech venture building platform that is focused on rapidly commercializing and scaling internationally-sourced blockchain, Fintech, and digital finance innovation to developing countries. He is also Co-Founder of LucidBlue Ventures, a leading investment firm focused on DeFi, NFT, Game-Fi, Metaverse innovation.
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM UTC
| Networking + Food + AR/VR |
| Fireside Chat |
| Networking |
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