Christopher has over 20+ years creating digital experiences, including 6 years with Ethereum and blockchains and 2 years spent creating and collecting NFTs. He is the Director of Engineering @ HyperMint and the former Head of Tech for VaynerNFT.
Chris is passionate about web3 and the future of digital identities and expression. He is father to a 6 month old daughter, a member of DefDAO, and has been fascinated with the concept of the Metaverse since reading Snow Crash in the 90s.
Tim is CTO and Co-Founder of MOD Tech Labs. He leads the company to create the groundbreaking AI-powered technology that is reshaping the future of content creation. After graduating from Full Sail University, Tim began his career as an animation artist and, over two decades, expanded into more highly technical developer roles at leading game and production studios. He worked at Sony Picture Imageworks, Two Bit Circus, Gameloft, and GameHouse to name a few. Aside from helping produce countless games, movies, and XR experiences, Tim has used his deep knowledge of technology and entertainment paradigms to make novel solutions to scale content creation with interoperable files for transmedia.
Daniel Adams is a developer for Zesty Market, creator of the WebXR Discord server (a community of 2000+ members), and a contributor to open-source WebXR projects. Some of his notable work includes Silk Brush, a port of the open-sourced Tilt Brush to WebXR, the updating of A-Painter, and most recently the creation of an A-Frame wrapper for the Exokit Avatars system.
Meadows is an artist, author, and inventor. Since 2019 he has served as CTO for Idoru Worlds, guiding the development of tools to create, edit and place XR avatars. His professional interests include conversational portraits, interactive narratives, and natural language processing. With over twenty years in virtual reality, character design, artificial intelligence and over ten years in blockchain he has participated as a founder and advisor to startups and fortune-100s around the globe. As a 100-ton USCG captain Meadows has sailed four of the seven seas, speaks English, French, and Spanish and lives on his boat with his family in Mexico.
David is a Denver-based XR developer. He is currently exploring the intersection of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and XR. He previously spent 5 years at HTC VIVE working on developer relations & support.
In AR for 12 years
John Haddick is a Distinguished Engineer at Lenovo Intelligent Devices Group focusing on developing technologies for the ThinkReality commercial AR/VR portfolio of solutions. As the CTO of ThinkReality, John is a leading strategist for AR/VR product design and development for the company.
Before joining Lenovo, John was the CTO of the Osterhout Design Group, a company pioneering AR technologies, where he was in charge of new product innovations and long range product strategy across the company.
Eve Weston believes in storytelling as a force for positive change. Weston is writer/director of the award-winning world’s first 360VR immersive sitcom, The BizNest (bit.ly/TLCBizNest). She is also a published expert in XR narrative, author of the taxonomy for immersive POV and a professor of VR filmmaking, TV writing and immersive storytelling at top-ranked film schools.
As CEO of Metaverse Talent Group, she provides real people for virtual worlds, connecting businesses of all kinds with experienced individuals who can host, perform, sell, and represent their business in the metaverse. Learn more at www.castingthemetaverse.com.
Weston is co-founder of TheLook.Club, the first searchable database of immersive narrative, which also features a review show. Weston’s speaking engagements include Stanford University, SIGGRAPH and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences of Emmys fame.
An award-winning journalist, Weston has written about VR for Ms. Magazine and The New York Post. A produced television writer, she’s written and developed for several ABC/Disney channels and shows, including Wizards of Waverly Place – where she wrote and choreographed a viral YouTube sensation for Selena Gomez. Weston is an alumna of Princeton, USC and Goldman Sachs. Follow her at https://medium.com/@eveweston for cutting-edge insights.
Elisabeth Chase founded HelloFutureBuzz on Twitter to advocate for the Ħedera Community as a #SpacesHost featuring Ħashgraph Biz/Projects, Ħedera team, NFT Creators, Dapp devs+
Coming in Q1 2023, is HelloFutureDAO which is a Social Philanthropic organization which plans to build Hello Future Museum in the metaverse to highlight the history of crypto and showcase today\’s digital artists.
Iliana Oris Valiente, CPA, CA is widely credited for being a trailblazer in the blockchain industry dating back to 2013. She’s advised fortune 500 companies, government leaders, regulators, and startups – often acting as a translator between web2 and web3 worlds. Iliana is a published author and sought-after speaker; has been featured in various print, radio, and television outlets; sits on the board of several prominent organizations; and is passionate about web3 + philanthropy, DAOs, venture investing, and travel. Currently, Iliana is a Managing Director and Canada Innovation Lead at Accenture, working with senior executives and boards of F500 companies to support their strategic transformation journeys, leading multi-disciplinary teams across design, data, and the latest emerging technologies.