1.5-Day Virtual Conference
SEPT 8th to 9th · 2022
StartmeupHK Festival Organizers
Understand Metaverse & NFTs!
Event Organizer
Epic Sponsor
Venue Sponsor
Affiliate Sponsors
VIP Cocktail Sponsor
About Us
Game On! 2022 is a 1.5-day virtual conference celebrating the essence of Gaming, Art, Music and Entertainment (GAME) industries by bringing together passionate gamers, artists, developers, investors and fans in a true-to-spirit gamified environment. If you are a hardcore Gaming fan or Art / Music enthusiast or an Entertainment aficionado keen to learn more about how new technologies like Blockchain, Metaverse, GameFi, DeFi & NFTs are transforming this space, this is the conference to be at!
Customize your own avatar, watch the live stream, meet exhibitors and chat with organizers. Invite your friends to race and collect the scavenger hunt items hidden throughout all eleven rooms to earn VIP access granting you access beyond event capacity.
Summit will be a virtual event. This is your chance to network with people from around the world, speak with other major players in the community, and make your own life-changing connections.
Discussion Points
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NFTs Marketplaces & Ecosystems
Blockchain in Gaming, Art, Music & Entertainment
GameFi – Business & Community
Gaming – Creativity & IP rights
Metaverse
Who will attend?
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Investors
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Media
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Budding Developers
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Artists
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Corporates
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Gamers Development Co.
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Publishers
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Startups
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Technology Firms
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Telecom Service Providers
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Platforms
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Brands
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Venture capitalists
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Game companies
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Streamers
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Broadcasters
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Brands & advertisers
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Enthusiasts
Our Speakers
Yat Siu
Co-Founder & Executive Chariman
Animoca Brands
Full Bio: Yat Siu moved to Hong Kong in 1996, where he set up Hong Kong Cybercity, the first free web page and email provider in Asia. In 1997 Yat joined AT&T Solutions' System Integration practice, but left in 1998 to set up Outblaze, which developed innovative web-based multilingual white label communication and collaboration services.
Yat Siu's steady leadership and vision steered Outblaze through the Dotcom Bubble and several subsequent crises. Outblaze became a world leader in white label hosted web services, winning numerous awards and accolades. With over 75 million end-users under management, Outblaze secured clients and partners from all over the world and business sectors, including service providers, telecommunications operators, corporations, academia, media and publishing companies.
In April 2009, Outblaze messaging assets were sold to IBM and incorporated in IBM's LotusLive suite of services. IBM also used the Outblaze assets to open its first cloud computing laboratory in Hong Kong. The transaction established beyond doubt that -like banking and finance services- Hong Kong's local information technology can compete on a global scale.
Yat Siu was called World Economic Forum Global Leader of Tomorrow and a Young Global Leader of Tomorrow. He has also been awarded for his contributions in business and society: Standard Chartered Platinum Achievers Award, the URENCO Innovation Award, and, for the execution of his vision at Outblaze, the IT Excellence Product Award, Linux Business Adoption Award 2003 and the Asia Pacific Information & Communication Technologies Award 2003. Most recently he won the Young Entrepeneur Award from the Hong Kong Business Awards 2009.
Specialties: Internet, messaging, e-mail services, social media, development, video and online gaming industry, new media licensing and brand development
Animoca Brands
Full Bio: Yat Siu moved to Hong Kong in 1996, where he set up Hong Kong Cybercity, the first free web page and email provider in Asia. In 1997 Yat joined AT&T Solutions' System Integration practice, but left in 1998 to set up Outblaze, which developed innovative web-based multilingual white label communication and collaboration services.
Yat Siu's steady leadership and vision steered Outblaze through the Dotcom Bubble and several subsequent crises. Outblaze became a world leader in white label hosted web services, winning numerous awards and accolades. With over 75 million end-users under management, Outblaze secured clients and partners from all over the world and business sectors, including service providers, telecommunications operators, corporations, academia, media and publishing companies.
In April 2009, Outblaze messaging assets were sold to IBM and incorporated in IBM's LotusLive suite of services. IBM also used the Outblaze assets to open its first cloud computing laboratory in Hong Kong. The transaction established beyond doubt that -like banking and finance services- Hong Kong's local information technology can compete on a global scale.
Yat Siu was called World Economic Forum Global Leader of Tomorrow and a Young Global Leader of Tomorrow. He has also been awarded for his contributions in business and society: Standard Chartered Platinum Achievers Award, the URENCO Innovation Award, and, for the execution of his vision at Outblaze, the IT Excellence Product Award, Linux Business Adoption Award 2003 and the Asia Pacific Information & Communication Technologies Award 2003. Most recently he won the Young Entrepeneur Award from the Hong Kong Business Awards 2009.
Specialties: Internet, messaging, e-mail services, social media, development, video and online gaming industry, new media licensing and brand development
Becky Yeung
Regional Head of Brand Partnerships
Warner Music Asia
Full Bio: Becky Yeung is currently the Regional Head of Brand Partnerships at Warner Music Asia. Helping to drive collaborations between brands and music in more creative, strategic and authentic ways.
Becky is California born, London raised and of Hong Kong origin, with a love for languages (of which she speaks six) and learning about new cultures, which has brought her around the world through various marketing and communication roles.
She has worked in over 7 cities worldwide and spent the best part of the last 10 years in advertising in London and Hong Kong prior to moving over to Warner Music 3.5 years ago to help start the Brand Partnership department for Asia.
Since joining Warner Music Asia she has led partnerships with some of the region’s leading brands and events, including the FIBA Basketball World Cup, Mediacorp, American Express, DJI and Diageo. Worked with some of the world’s top artists, including Jason Derulo, Bruno Mars, HONNE and KSHMR. As well as leading global and local collaborations with the world’s top game publishers, including Garena, Tencent Games and Riot Games.
Warner Music Asia
Full Bio: Becky Yeung is currently the Regional Head of Brand Partnerships at Warner Music Asia. Helping to drive collaborations between brands and music in more creative, strategic and authentic ways.
Becky is California born, London raised and of Hong Kong origin, with a love for languages (of which she speaks six) and learning about new cultures, which has brought her around the world through various marketing and communication roles.
She has worked in over 7 cities worldwide and spent the best part of the last 10 years in advertising in London and Hong Kong prior to moving over to Warner Music 3.5 years ago to help start the Brand Partnership department for Asia.
Since joining Warner Music Asia she has led partnerships with some of the region’s leading brands and events, including the FIBA Basketball World Cup, Mediacorp, American Express, DJI and Diageo. Worked with some of the world’s top artists, including Jason Derulo, Bruno Mars, HONNE and KSHMR. As well as leading global and local collaborations with the world’s top game publishers, including Garena, Tencent Games and Riot Games.
Sebastien Borget
Co-Founder & COO
The Sandbox
Full Bio: Sébastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of The Sandbox, a unique virtual world where players can build, own, and monetize their gaming experiences using SAND, the main utility token of the platform. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist on the opportunity Non-Fungible Tokens brings to gaming. Sebastien also became the President of the Blockchain Game Alliance in 2020, a non-profit organization of 170 key members of the industry. He was recently named in the Top #100 most influential people in crypto by CoinTelegraph https://cointelegraph.com/top-people-in-crypto-and-blockchain/sebastien-borget
The Sandbox
Full Bio: Sébastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of The Sandbox, a unique virtual world where players can build, own, and monetize their gaming experiences using SAND, the main utility token of the platform. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist on the opportunity Non-Fungible Tokens brings to gaming. Sebastien also became the President of the Blockchain Game Alliance in 2020, a non-profit organization of 170 key members of the industry. He was recently named in the Top #100 most influential people in crypto by CoinTelegraph https://cointelegraph.com/top-people-in-crypto-and-blockchain/sebastien-borget
Dina Shin
Head of Asia Business Development; Asia Investments
WestCap
Full Bio: Dina works at WestCap, a global growth equity fund with more than $8 billion in assets under management. She started Asia operations for WestCap where she engages in investment and business development activities.
Previously, Dina spent 6 years in finance at Credit Suisse and Blackstone in New York. Subsequently, she spent 5 years in B2B and B2C tech unicorns where she managed P&L and operations in Asia.
Dina graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and sits on the Penn Alumni Board and Ivy League (Ivy Ball) Committee of Hong Kong.
WestCap
Full Bio: Dina works at WestCap, a global growth equity fund with more than $8 billion in assets under management. She started Asia operations for WestCap where she engages in investment and business development activities.
Previously, Dina spent 6 years in finance at Credit Suisse and Blackstone in New York. Subsequently, she spent 5 years in B2B and B2C tech unicorns where she managed P&L and operations in Asia.
Dina graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and sits on the Penn Alumni Board and Ivy League (Ivy Ball) Committee of Hong Kong.
Miko Matsumura
General Partner
gCC Gumi Cryptos Capital
Full Bio: Miko is a General Partner with gCC Gumi Cryptos Capital, a Silicon Valley investment fund with over $500M in assets including early-stage investments in unicorns like OpenSea, Yield Guild Games, Celsius Network, VEGA Protocol, Qredo, Agoric, Astar and 1Inch Network.
Miko fell in love with open source software 25 years ago as chief Developer Evangelist for the Java Programming Language and Platform at Sun Microsystems. Since then he has been building open source software startups in Silicon Valley including raising over $50 million in venture capital for developer platform companies such as Gradle and financial infrastructure companies like Hazelcast and has participated in multiple exits including INFRAVIO, webMethods, and Db4O. He is a board member or advisor in successful startups like Celsius (CeFi Lending), Idle Finance (DeFi Yield Aggregator), GIANT Protocol (Network Infrastructure), IntoTheBlock (algorithmic trading), LIT Protocol (NFT Access Control) and KEYLESS (ID infrastructure). He holds a Master’s degree in Neuroscience from Yale University where he worked on abstract computational neural networks.
gCC Gumi Cryptos Capital
Full Bio: Miko is a General Partner with gCC Gumi Cryptos Capital, a Silicon Valley investment fund with over $500M in assets including early-stage investments in unicorns like OpenSea, Yield Guild Games, Celsius Network, VEGA Protocol, Qredo, Agoric, Astar and 1Inch Network.
Miko fell in love with open source software 25 years ago as chief Developer Evangelist for the Java Programming Language and Platform at Sun Microsystems. Since then he has been building open source software startups in Silicon Valley including raising over $50 million in venture capital for developer platform companies such as Gradle and financial infrastructure companies like Hazelcast and has participated in multiple exits including INFRAVIO, webMethods, and Db4O. He is a board member or advisor in successful startups like Celsius (CeFi Lending), Idle Finance (DeFi Yield Aggregator), GIANT Protocol (Network Infrastructure), IntoTheBlock (algorithmic trading), LIT Protocol (NFT Access Control) and KEYLESS (ID infrastructure). He holds a Master’s degree in Neuroscience from Yale University where he worked on abstract computational neural networks.
WhaleShark
Founder
$WHALE
Full Bio: PART WHALE. PART SHARK.
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR AND INVESTOR WITH A FOCUS ON DISRUPTING THE STATUS QUO, WHILE ELEVATING THE BRAVE AND DEDICATED COMMUNITIES BEHIND THE INNOVATION.
COLLECTOR OF ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL AND SCARCE.
USE CASE MAXIMALIST.
FOUNDER OF $WHALE AND E1337
$WHALE
Full Bio: PART WHALE. PART SHARK.
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR AND INVESTOR WITH A FOCUS ON DISRUPTING THE STATUS QUO, WHILE ELEVATING THE BRAVE AND DEDICATED COMMUNITIES BEHIND THE INNOVATION.
COLLECTOR OF ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL AND SCARCE.
USE CASE MAXIMALIST.
FOUNDER OF $WHALE AND E1337
Jayne Chan
Head of StartmeupHK
InvestHK
Full Bio: Passionate about building the startup ecosystem in HK and helping startups set up and expand here.
InvestHK
Full Bio: Passionate about building the startup ecosystem in HK and helping startups set up and expand here.
Charles d'Haussy
APAC Managing Director ConsenSys
Full Bio: Charles d’Haussy is Asia Managing Director at ConsenSys, a leading blockchain engineering company. Among his responsibilities, he leads ConsenSys’ projects on central-bank digital currencies with Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Bank of Thailand.
Prior to this, Charles served as head of fintech with the Hong Kong government (InvestHK). In that capacity he helped found and scale Hong Kong Fintech Week, and supported the growth of over 450 fintech companies.
He has 15 years of prior experience in Hong Kong’s private sector and is licensed to invest and deal in securities.
In 2018, Charles was elected as a Top-50 fintech influencer in Asia. In 2021 he published Block Kong, a book about Blockchain leaders shaping the Hong Kong blockchain ecosystem.
He studied in France at Rennes International Business School and in Guangzhou, China at Sun Yat Sen University. He is a certified Bitcoin professional and studied blockchain business strategy at Be9 London.
Full Bio: Charles d’Haussy is Asia Managing Director at ConsenSys, a leading blockchain engineering company. Among his responsibilities, he leads ConsenSys’ projects on central-bank digital currencies with Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Bank of Thailand.
Prior to this, Charles served as head of fintech with the Hong Kong government (InvestHK). In that capacity he helped found and scale Hong Kong Fintech Week, and supported the growth of over 450 fintech companies.
He has 15 years of prior experience in Hong Kong’s private sector and is licensed to invest and deal in securities.
In 2018, Charles was elected as a Top-50 fintech influencer in Asia. In 2021 he published Block Kong, a book about Blockchain leaders shaping the Hong Kong blockchain ecosystem.
He studied in France at Rennes International Business School and in Guangzhou, China at Sun Yat Sen University. He is a certified Bitcoin professional and studied blockchain business strategy at Be9 London.
Zaf Chow
Director of Digital Strategy and Partnerships Animoca Brands
Patrick Tsang
Chairman
Tsangs Group
Full Bio: Patrick Tsang is the Chairman of Tsangs Group, an innovation-focused global family office from Hong Kong that bridges East and West. Tsangs Group has direct investments across the world, ranging from financial services to entertainment and AI to clean tech. Born and raised in the United Kingdom with a deeply-rooted Chinese heritage, he has a robust global network investing in companies with a positive influence and positive impact. He has worked on numerous IPO and M&A transactions.
Tsangs Group
Full Bio: Patrick Tsang is the Chairman of Tsangs Group, an innovation-focused global family office from Hong Kong that bridges East and West. Tsangs Group has direct investments across the world, ranging from financial services to entertainment and AI to clean tech. Born and raised in the United Kingdom with a deeply-rooted Chinese heritage, he has a robust global network investing in companies with a positive influence and positive impact. He has worked on numerous IPO and M&A transactions.
Doris Fong
Head of Creative Industries Invest Hong Kong
Full Bio: Doris Fong is Head of Creative Industries of Invest Hong Kong, the HKSAR government
department that is responsible for attracting and facilitating foreign direct investment
into Hong Kong.
Miss Fong joined Invest Hong Kong in 2010 and oversees a wide spectrum of Creative
Industries sectors, encompassing art and culture, design, architecture, advertising,
media, digital entertainment, publishing, film, music, createch and art tech. To date, she
and her team have assisted over hundreds of creative enterprises and entrepreneurs
in setting up or expanding their operation in Hong Kong.
Miss Fong is also a member of the Creative Industries Committee of The British
Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and Trade Development Council’s Design,
Marketing & Licensing Services Advisory Committee in Hong Kong.
Prior to joining Invest Hong Kong, Miss Fong was Head of Arts and Creative Industries
of the British Council from 2007-2010, promoting arts and creative industries in Hong
Kong and Mainland China.
Full Bio: Doris Fong is Head of Creative Industries of Invest Hong Kong, the HKSAR government
department that is responsible for attracting and facilitating foreign direct investment
into Hong Kong.
Miss Fong joined Invest Hong Kong in 2010 and oversees a wide spectrum of Creative
Industries sectors, encompassing art and culture, design, architecture, advertising,
media, digital entertainment, publishing, film, music, createch and art tech. To date, she
and her team have assisted over hundreds of creative enterprises and entrepreneurs
in setting up or expanding their operation in Hong Kong.
Miss Fong is also a member of the Creative Industries Committee of The British
Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and Trade Development Council’s Design,
Marketing & Licensing Services Advisory Committee in Hong Kong.
Prior to joining Invest Hong Kong, Miss Fong was Head of Arts and Creative Industries
of the British Council from 2007-2010, promoting arts and creative industries in Hong
Kong and Mainland China.
Bowie Lau
Founder | Partner
MaGEHold / MaGESpire |
True Global Ventures 4+
Full Bio: Game On! Summit Event Organizer
Founder & Managing Director of MaGEHold - An early-stage Technology Angel Investment Firm nurturing innovative startups that leverage Emerging technologies like AI, Big Data, Blockchain, Cybersecurity and IoT. She is also the Founder of MaGESpire - A technology education & advisory group enabling fintech ventures in areas of Strategy, Architecture & Business Development. Further, she is a partner of True Global Ventures 4 Plus - A first-of-its-kind Global Decentralized Venture Capital Fund focused on investing into promising early-stage & late stage Tech startups. She is passionate about giving back to the society and runs MaGESpire Community – a knowledge enhancement forum where she conducts lots of educational events/talks focusing on emerging technologies, family offices and investments related topics. She is also Executive Committee Member at GIFT (Global Impact FinTech Forum), leading the North Asia chapter.
MaGEHold / MaGESpire |
True Global Ventures 4+
Full Bio: Game On! Summit Event Organizer
Founder & Managing Director of MaGEHold - An early-stage Technology Angel Investment Firm nurturing innovative startups that leverage Emerging technologies like AI, Big Data, Blockchain, Cybersecurity and IoT. She is also the Founder of MaGESpire - A technology education & advisory group enabling fintech ventures in areas of Strategy, Architecture & Business Development. Further, she is a partner of True Global Ventures 4 Plus - A first-of-its-kind Global Decentralized Venture Capital Fund focused on investing into promising early-stage & late stage Tech startups. She is passionate about giving back to the society and runs MaGESpire Community – a knowledge enhancement forum where she conducts lots of educational events/talks focusing on emerging technologies, family offices and investments related topics. She is also Executive Committee Member at GIFT (Global Impact FinTech Forum), leading the North Asia chapter.
Charlie Hu
Managing Partner
Lucid Blue Ventures
Full Bio: Charlie Hu has been active in the Web3 and cryptocurrency space since 2013. In early 2015, he was co-organizer of the Amsterdam Bitcoin Meetup group and got involved into the Ethereum Berlin community, where Charlie met the co-founder of Ethereum Gavin Wood (creator of Ethereum virtual machine and yellow paper).
From 2016, Charlie started to invest in blockchain infrastructure projects such as Cosmos and Polkadot. He co-translated the Polkadot Chinese whitepaper and helped a lot of early stage ecosystem building work and events from 2017 - 2020 in the Polkadot ecosystem. Charlie and his team invested and incubated more than 15 Polkadot ecosystem projects, some of which grew to multi-billion dollar valuations, as well as listed on major crypto exchange such as Huobi and Binance etc.
As the Polygon Head of China and South East Asia, Charlie introduced more than 450 projects into the Polygon ecosystem, as well as conducted over 100 AMAs and events in China and across the globe. Charlie is the Managing Partner of LucidBlue Ventures, with more than 100 blockchain projects in the portfolio. Charlie is mostly one or two degrees away from all the important crypto leaders in the Web3 space.
Lucid Blue Ventures
Full Bio: Charlie Hu has been active in the Web3 and cryptocurrency space since 2013. In early 2015, he was co-organizer of the Amsterdam Bitcoin Meetup group and got involved into the Ethereum Berlin community, where Charlie met the co-founder of Ethereum Gavin Wood (creator of Ethereum virtual machine and yellow paper).
From 2016, Charlie started to invest in blockchain infrastructure projects such as Cosmos and Polkadot. He co-translated the Polkadot Chinese whitepaper and helped a lot of early stage ecosystem building work and events from 2017 - 2020 in the Polkadot ecosystem. Charlie and his team invested and incubated more than 15 Polkadot ecosystem projects, some of which grew to multi-billion dollar valuations, as well as listed on major crypto exchange such as Huobi and Binance etc.
As the Polygon Head of China and South East Asia, Charlie introduced more than 450 projects into the Polygon ecosystem, as well as conducted over 100 AMAs and events in China and across the globe. Charlie is the Managing Partner of LucidBlue Ventures, with more than 100 blockchain projects in the portfolio. Charlie is mostly one or two degrees away from all the important crypto leaders in the Web3 space.
Lars Holst
CEO and Founder
GCEX
Full Bio: Have a proven track record in founding and growing companies. Focus on integrity and transparency.
It is not about the product its about the people and I enjoy working with talented people.
GCEX
Full Bio: Have a proven track record in founding and growing companies. Focus on integrity and transparency.
It is not about the product its about the people and I enjoy working with talented people.
Angelina Kwan
Senior Advisor
HashKey Group
Full Bio: She has
previously held Chief Operating Officer
and Directorate positions with digital
asset exchanges, HKEX, Cantor
Fitzgerald, the SFC, and other global
financial services companies. She is also
the Managing Director of Stratford
Finance Limited, a consulting company
focused on dealing with regulatory and
operational issues in the financial services and digital assets sectors and advises
brokerages, fund managers, and technology providers.
Ms. Kwan is a Hong Kong Government-appointed Member of the New Business
Committee of the Financial Services Development Council; a member of the Lord
Wilson Heritage Trust; the Vice-Chair of The Women’s Foundation; an Honorary
Fellow and Director of the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute; and a
Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accounts and the Chartered
Accountants of Australia and New Zealand. She is a Certified Public Accountant in
the United States, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and a graduate of the
University of Southern California. Her MBA is from Pepperdine University, LLB from
HKU/Manchester Metropolitan University, and LLM from Harvard Law School. She
regularly lectures on legal, regulatory, funds management, securities, FinTech, Digital
Assets, Blockchain, and corporate governance topics for a number of international
organizations including ADB, APEC, DFAT Australia, CMDA Maldives, universities
and training providers including AICD, SIDC, HKSI.
HashKey Group
Full Bio: She has
previously held Chief Operating Officer
and Directorate positions with digital
asset exchanges, HKEX, Cantor
Fitzgerald, the SFC, and other global
financial services companies. She is also
the Managing Director of Stratford
Finance Limited, a consulting company
focused on dealing with regulatory and
operational issues in the financial services and digital assets sectors and advises
brokerages, fund managers, and technology providers.
Ms. Kwan is a Hong Kong Government-appointed Member of the New Business
Committee of the Financial Services Development Council; a member of the Lord
Wilson Heritage Trust; the Vice-Chair of The Women’s Foundation; an Honorary
Fellow and Director of the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute; and a
Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accounts and the Chartered
Accountants of Australia and New Zealand. She is a Certified Public Accountant in
the United States, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and a graduate of the
University of Southern California. Her MBA is from Pepperdine University, LLB from
HKU/Manchester Metropolitan University, and LLM from Harvard Law School. She
regularly lectures on legal, regulatory, funds management, securities, FinTech, Digital
Assets, Blockchain, and corporate governance topics for a number of international
organizations including ADB, APEC, DFAT Australia, CMDA Maldives, universities
and training providers including AICD, SIDC, HKSI.
Hanjin Tan
Singer, Producer & Actor 1st Chinese Music NFT
Full Bio: Award winning singer songwriter album producer
Winner of the Hong Kong Film Awards
First in the world to drop Chinese music NFT
Hanjin has starred in hit TV sitcoms, and played a supporting role in “Bruce Lee, my brother” which earned him a Hong Kong Film Award in 2011. Above all, he is an award-winning singer song-writer album producer. He is also the first in the world to drop a Chinese music NFT.
Full Bio: Award winning singer songwriter album producer
Winner of the Hong Kong Film Awards
First in the world to drop Chinese music NFT
Hanjin has starred in hit TV sitcoms, and played a supporting role in “Bruce Lee, my brother” which earned him a Hong Kong Film Award in 2011. Above all, he is an award-winning singer song-writer album producer. He is also the first in the world to drop a Chinese music NFT.
Jehan Chu
Founder
Kenetic
Full Bio: Jehan Chu is co-Founder and Managing Partner at Kenetic, a blockchain Venture Capital and
cryptocurrency trading firm based in Hong Kong. A former front-end developer, he started
investing in cryptocurrency in 2013 and has invested and supported over 100 projects. Jehan
founded the Ethereum HK community (2014), co-Founded the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong
(2014) and founded the Hyperledger HK community (2016).
Jehan serves as co-Chairman of the Hong Kong Fintech Association Blockchain Committee, is
enrolled in the Kauffman Fellows Program, is a Fellow of the Singapore University of Social
Science and member of the Global Patrons Board of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He
also sits on the Board of Para Site Art Space and is co-Founder and Board member of Social
Alpha Foundation, a blockchain/social impact non-profit. Jehan holds a BA from Johns Hopkins
University and MA from Hong Kong University.
Kenetic
Full Bio: Jehan Chu is co-Founder and Managing Partner at Kenetic, a blockchain Venture Capital and
cryptocurrency trading firm based in Hong Kong. A former front-end developer, he started
investing in cryptocurrency in 2013 and has invested and supported over 100 projects. Jehan
founded the Ethereum HK community (2014), co-Founded the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong
(2014) and founded the Hyperledger HK community (2016).
Jehan serves as co-Chairman of the Hong Kong Fintech Association Blockchain Committee, is
enrolled in the Kauffman Fellows Program, is a Fellow of the Singapore University of Social
Science and member of the Global Patrons Board of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He
also sits on the Board of Para Site Art Space and is co-Founder and Board member of Social
Alpha Foundation, a blockchain/social impact non-profit. Jehan holds a BA from Johns Hopkins
University and MA from Hong Kong University.
Cindy Zhang
Executive Director
Gobi Partners
Full Bio: Cindy joined Gobi as an Executive Director in 2020. Prior to joining Gobi, Cindy held positions in the investment banking division of Guggenheim Securities in New York. Cindy received her Bachelor's and Master’s Degree from the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Gobi Partners
Full Bio: Cindy joined Gobi as an Executive Director in 2020. Prior to joining Gobi, Cindy held positions in the investment banking division of Guggenheim Securities in New York. Cindy received her Bachelor's and Master’s Degree from the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Frank A. Sliwka
COO
Epulze
Full Bio: As an acclaimed and seasoned professional in his field, Frank Sliwka has almost three decades of corporate leadership and entrepreneurship under his belt in the highly competitive games, esports and media industries within both mature and emerging markets across Asia Pacific, the US, and Europe.
Frank Sliwka has shaped the gaming & esports industry since 2002 and was the Chairman of the German Esports Association and elected as Vice President of the International Esports Federation (IeSF) in 2008. Throughout his career, he has established a series of successful companies and large-scale events such as the GDC Europe, gamescom, Games Convention Asia, Meliora 42 Entertainment, Global Games Media, German Esports Association and ibMedia.
His unrelenting resolution engenders success, boasting the German Game Developer Award, the European Games Award and Asia’s Sports Industry Award (SPIA Awards) in 2017 and 2018.
Currently, Frank Sliwka offers his expertise as COO of Esports Pulze (Epulze) - a fast-growing esports engagement platform - as the CEO & Founder of ibMedia Group - Asia’s leading B2B Management Consulting company for the digital media industry - and as an Advisory Board member of several companies on business strategies within the industry (e. g. Global Top Round, Epic Meta).
Additionally, Frank Sliwka is a Honorary Professor for Esports Management at the Link Campus University Rome (Italy) since 2018.
Epulze
Full Bio: As an acclaimed and seasoned professional in his field, Frank Sliwka has almost three decades of corporate leadership and entrepreneurship under his belt in the highly competitive games, esports and media industries within both mature and emerging markets across Asia Pacific, the US, and Europe.
Frank Sliwka has shaped the gaming & esports industry since 2002 and was the Chairman of the German Esports Association and elected as Vice President of the International Esports Federation (IeSF) in 2008. Throughout his career, he has established a series of successful companies and large-scale events such as the GDC Europe, gamescom, Games Convention Asia, Meliora 42 Entertainment, Global Games Media, German Esports Association and ibMedia.
His unrelenting resolution engenders success, boasting the German Game Developer Award, the European Games Award and Asia’s Sports Industry Award (SPIA Awards) in 2017 and 2018.
Currently, Frank Sliwka offers his expertise as COO of Esports Pulze (Epulze) - a fast-growing esports engagement platform - as the CEO & Founder of ibMedia Group - Asia’s leading B2B Management Consulting company for the digital media industry - and as an Advisory Board member of several companies on business strategies within the industry (e. g. Global Top Round, Epic Meta).
Additionally, Frank Sliwka is a Honorary Professor for Esports Management at the Link Campus University Rome (Italy) since 2018.
Mia Bao
Founder | Chief Partner
BeepCrypto | WHALE
Full Bio: Mia is a serial entrepreneur with abundant experience both in the blockchain and internet industry. She is the founder of BeepCrypto, which is a deep-dive research investment and PR company, serving for several well-known projects including Animoca Brands, The Sandbox, Aavegotchi, RTFKT, Yield Guild Games, Big Times, Unicly, etc. With a deep NFT background, She is also the chief partner of WHALE, the largest NFT vault collection in the industry. Before that, she worked at 8BTC and UBM China as social network team lead and overseas manager separately.
BeepCrypto | WHALE
Full Bio: Mia is a serial entrepreneur with abundant experience both in the blockchain and internet industry. She is the founder of BeepCrypto, which is a deep-dive research investment and PR company, serving for several well-known projects including Animoca Brands, The Sandbox, Aavegotchi, RTFKT, Yield Guild Games, Big Times, Unicly, etc. With a deep NFT background, She is also the chief partner of WHALE, the largest NFT vault collection in the industry. Before that, she worked at 8BTC and UBM China as social network team lead and overseas manager separately.
Prakash Somosundram
CEO & Co-Founder Enjinstarter
Full Bio: He built his career in digital advertising and sold his company Yolk to WPP in 2011 and became part of Grey Advertising and Prakash played a role in building the business in ASEAN.
Following his exit from the agency world in 2014 he became active in the start up ecosystem by helping companies with fund raising and exits.
Notably in 2016 he brought a collective companies known as the “The Marketing Group (TMG)” to be listed in NASDAQ Sweden and he served on the board for one year.
He has been active in Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies since 2016 has been involved in various aspects including project development, acceleration and investment.
Prakash is currently the CEO & Cofounder of Enjinstarter, a launchpad focused on Blockchain Gaming and Metaverses. He led the team to raise USD$5.5M in both Private and Public sales and launched the business in early October 2021 and have since completed more than 30 IDO projects on their platform. Notable projects that Enjinstarter have invested and accelerated on their platform include Defina, The Killbox and PathDAO. These projects have delivered between 24X to 53X return on investments from their public IDO launch price.
Prakash has also been actively involved in Start-up Ecosystem development in Singapore for more than a decade including his role as Vice Chairman of Action Community of Entrepreneurship from 2014 to 2017. He has also assisted various external government agencies in the set up of their market entry strategies into the Singapore and ASEAN ecosystem. This includes the Australian, Austrian and Dutch government agencies involved in start-up promotion.
In 2021, Prakash was awarded the Public Service Medal, Pingkat Bakti Masyarakat (PBM) for his voluntary contributions to the Singapore government
Full Bio: He built his career in digital advertising and sold his company Yolk to WPP in 2011 and became part of Grey Advertising and Prakash played a role in building the business in ASEAN.
Following his exit from the agency world in 2014 he became active in the start up ecosystem by helping companies with fund raising and exits.
Notably in 2016 he brought a collective companies known as the “The Marketing Group (TMG)” to be listed in NASDAQ Sweden and he served on the board for one year.
He has been active in Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies since 2016 has been involved in various aspects including project development, acceleration and investment.
Prakash is currently the CEO & Cofounder of Enjinstarter, a launchpad focused on Blockchain Gaming and Metaverses. He led the team to raise USD$5.5M in both Private and Public sales and launched the business in early October 2021 and have since completed more than 30 IDO projects on their platform. Notable projects that Enjinstarter have invested and accelerated on their platform include Defina, The Killbox and PathDAO. These projects have delivered between 24X to 53X return on investments from their public IDO launch price.
Prakash has also been actively involved in Start-up Ecosystem development in Singapore for more than a decade including his role as Vice Chairman of Action Community of Entrepreneurship from 2014 to 2017. He has also assisted various external government agencies in the set up of their market entry strategies into the Singapore and ASEAN ecosystem. This includes the Australian, Austrian and Dutch government agencies involved in start-up promotion.
In 2021, Prakash was awarded the Public Service Medal, Pingkat Bakti Masyarakat (PBM) for his voluntary contributions to the Singapore government
Kelly Choo
Partner
True Global Ventures
Full Bio: Learning everyday about new technologies, techniques, challenges, opportunities, etc that has a positive impact on the world keeps me going.
True Global Ventures
Full Bio: Learning everyday about new technologies, techniques, challenges, opportunities, etc that has a positive impact on the world keeps me going.
Padraig Walsh
Partner
Tanner De Witt
Full Bio: Pádraig’s practice focuses on TMT work. He advises on the full range of common issues for companies in respect of their technology and media transactions, such as licensing, outsourcing, technology procurement and integration, subscription service arrangements, digital asset commercialization, data protection, cyber, and venture capital and corporate transactions. He is a member of the Fintech Association of Hong Kong, ITechLaw, and PrivacyRules.
Tanner De Witt
Full Bio: Pádraig’s practice focuses on TMT work. He advises on the full range of common issues for companies in respect of their technology and media transactions, such as licensing, outsourcing, technology procurement and integration, subscription service arrangements, digital asset commercialization, data protection, cyber, and venture capital and corporate transactions. He is a member of the Fintech Association of Hong Kong, ITechLaw, and PrivacyRules.
Ilgi Evecan Duran
Chief Metaverse Officer
PICTURETHIS.ART
Full Bio: Ilgi is heading up the NFTs & Metaverse unit at an art & tech company PictureThis. She is a creative strategist and business innovator who has helped grow many businesses and global brands in her earlier career.
Most recently she headed up Pernod Ricard’s innovation lab. She has international experience from the Nordics and Baltics to Central Asia within telecoms and the wine and spirits industry. Ilgi is also a board member and works as a strategic advisor to some of the rising stars in the startup world. She actively supports global female leaderships through the women’s network she established in 2019 and also finds time to mentor the women leaders of tomorrow. She also runs the Art & Innovation sessions for Sotheby’s Institute. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ievecan/
PICTURETHIS.ART
Full Bio: Ilgi is heading up the NFTs & Metaverse unit at an art & tech company PictureThis. She is a creative strategist and business innovator who has helped grow many businesses and global brands in her earlier career.
Most recently she headed up Pernod Ricard’s innovation lab. She has international experience from the Nordics and Baltics to Central Asia within telecoms and the wine and spirits industry. Ilgi is also a board member and works as a strategic advisor to some of the rising stars in the startup world. She actively supports global female leaderships through the women’s network she established in 2019 and also finds time to mentor the women leaders of tomorrow. She also runs the Art & Innovation sessions for Sotheby’s Institute. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ievecan/
Max Yakubowski
Opinion Editor
Cointelegraph
Full Bio: My academic interests were always in the fields of Linguistics and Anthropology. My employment experience has a wide number of positions in PR and marketing communications, with a focus in innovative technology. I also work as a freelance journalist, copywriter, and blogger.
Cointelegraph
Full Bio: My academic interests were always in the fields of Linguistics and Anthropology. My employment experience has a wide number of positions in PR and marketing communications, with a focus in innovative technology. I also work as a freelance journalist, copywriter, and blogger.
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