HEC UK Blockchain Club - Update on Crypto Markets - Entrepreneurial journeys in the blockchain industry
The HEC UK Office is delighted to invite you to the conference:
UPDATE ON FTX & CRYPTO MARKETS
ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEYS IN THE BLOCKCHAIN INDUSTRY
Leadership’s Series
Tuesday, December, 6th, 2022
From 12:30 to 1:45 pm
Online event
Joint conference between HEC UK Women Club
and Blockchain@hec UK
In collaboration with
The conference will bring together leading Women in the Blockchain industry, sharing their experiences, challenges, successes and understanding of the current Crypto Market disturbances.
PROGRAM
- Update on the FTX and Crypto markets
- Experience sharing by 4 leading women on their blockchain entrepreneurial journeys through their challenges and successes.
SPEAKERS
Bridget Greenwood Focus: Overview of the Web 3 Space since its development in 2017 to present with Crypto Market disturbances, and how you can get involved with all opportunities and challenges you may encounter, including regulation insights in UK/European and US Markets. | |
Amber Ghaddar Co-Founder of Alliance block, angel investor, advisor, co-founder The200BnClub, HEC Alumni Alliance Block is creating a protocol that will bridge decentralized finance (DeFi) and traditional finance (TradFi) to help unlock the inherent value within each sector and exploit that value for each sector's needs and goals. Focus: A personal journey of a London-based founder into Web 3, from ideation to raising, accelerated growth and rapid hiring, with insights into the decentralized world of finance, regulation, and opportunities through the rising bull markets and plummeting bear markets. | |
Irina Albita FilmChain, a startup founded by Maria Tanjala and Irina Albita, is a multi-awarded fintech modernizing the payments infrastructure for film and TV, using blockchain to record transactions, money disbursements and ownership. FilmChain makes transparent, real-time payments in a market where up to 30% of revenues go missing, attracting more than 72 films (+1200 companies) using its platform to withdraw money today. In 2022 they launched an enterprise solution to automate the royalties management of distributors in-house. Unchain Fintech Festival winner'22/ "Startup of the Year" LBA'20" / "Best Woman-led Investment in Innovation" UKBAA'19" / "Blockchain Founder of the Year » / "Techstars x Barclays'20" Focus: a personal journey of London-based founders into Web 3, backed by Imperial College London, to showcase how blockchain technology was strategic and disruptive in developing their activity led by two women in a market with many barriers to entry. | |
Ava Cavaglione Co-Founder of Konkrete a platform bridging DeFi and Real World Assets (RWAs). Konkrete is introducing real world value and sustainable yields to the DeFi space through their real estate tokens. Konkrete is coupling the liquidity and composability of DeFi with the security of real estate to drive healthy growth to the ecosystem and to allow new users to get involved. Ava is HEC Paris alumni / StationF « 10 high potential female founder 2022” / Researcher with Kleros on RWAs / Initiator and core contributor of Women in DeFi. Focus: Founding a web3 startup - navigating through the difficulties of bridging two opposite but complementary worlds – opportunities brought by DeFi – the evolution of DeFi and what’s to come in the following years. |