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1.5-Day Virtual Conference
SEPT 8th to 9th · 2022

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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

NFTs Marketplaces & Ecosystems

Blockchain in Gaming, Art, Music & Entertainment

GameFi – Business & Community

Gaming – Creativity & IP rights

Metaverse

Who will attend?

Investors
Media
Budding Developers
Artists
Corporates
Gamers Development Co.
Publishers
Startups
Technology Firms

Telecom Service Providers
Platforms
Brands
Venture capitalists
Game companies
Streamers
Broadcasters
Brands & advertisers
Enthusiasts

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Our Speakers

Yat Siu

Co-Founder & Executive Chariman
Animoca Brands

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Jayne Chan

Head of StartmeupHK
InvestHK

Charles d'Haussy

APAC Managing Director ConsenSys

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.

Doris Fong

Head of Creative Industries Invest Hong Kong

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.

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.

Lars Holst

CEO and Founder
GCEX

Leah Callon-Butler

Director
Emfarsis
Full Bio: Leah is the director of Emfarsis, a consulting firm providing services in market research, business strategy and strategic communications. She is also a Coindesk columnist with a special interest in how blockchain technologies can positively impact economic development across Southeast Asia. Leah wrote and narrated the mini documentary, Play-to-Earn: NFT Gaming in the Philippines, which was covered by CNBC, VentureBeat, HypeBeast, Esquire and more.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cindy Zhang

Executive Director
Gobi Partners

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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.

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.

Prakash Somosundram

CEO & Co-Founder Enjinstarter

Kelly Choo

Partner
True Global Ventures

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.

ILGI EVECAN DURAN

HEAD OF NFTs & METAVERSE
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/

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1.5-Day Virtual Conference
SEPT 8th to 9th · 2022

StartmeupHK Festival Organizers

Understand Metaverse & NFTs!

Event Organizer

Epic Sponsor

Affiliate Sponsors

Venue Sponsor

VIP Cocktail Sponsor

About Us

Discussion Points

NFTs Marketplaces & Ecosystems

Blockchain in Gaming, Art, Music & Entertainment

GameFi – Business & Community

Gaming – Creativity & IP rights

Metaverse

Who will attend?

Our Speakers

Supporting Organizations

Media Partners

Let's Pitch!

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1.5-Day Virtual Conference SEPT 8th to 9th · 2022

StartmeupHK Festival Organizers

Understand Metaverse & NFTs!

Event Organizer

Epic Sponsor

Affiliate Sponsors

Venue Sponsor

VIP Cocktail Sponsor

About Us

Discussion Points

NFTs Marketplaces & Ecosystems

Blockchain in Gaming, Art, Music & Entertainment

GameFi – Business & Community

Gaming – Creativity & IP rights

Metaverse

Who will attend?

Our Speakers

Supporting Organizations

Media Partners

Let's Pitch!

1.5-Day Virtual Conference
SEPT 8th to 9th · 2022