Today we are announcing the first 48 Brands Track Speakers who will take the stage to share their knowledge and experience at NFT.NYC 2024 (Times Square and Hudson Yards, April 3-5).
Brands play an important role in helping NFTs "cross the chasm" to mainstream audiences, and ultimately increased adoption. Early movers, including brands such as Starbucks, Nike, Ticketmaster and COACH have shown how NFTs can enhance the consumer experience in their respective industries.
Join us in April as our Brands Track Speakers discuss:
- NFT Brand Use Cases
- Enterprise Brands
- Luxury Brands
- Service and Hospitality Brands
5 Speakers who will be discussing NFT Brand Use Cases
May Mahboob
Co-Founder - MBD Financials
Entrepreneur, Executive Leader, Innovator, Visionary, and Creator. A disruptor of systemic barriers of poverty, inequality, and segregation. Providing accessibility of resources, opportunities, and financial inclusion through the use of emerging technology such as digital finance, cryptocurrency, web 3, metaverse, blockchain, and financial literacy.
Marti Romances
Territory Studio LTD
Marti Romances is Creative Director and co-founder at Territory Studio in San Francisco. Born and educated in Barcelona, Marti draws from a range of influences, disciplines, and perspectives to design breakout content for gaming, film, brand and digital clients.
A motion graphic designer and multi-media artist by trade, Marti articulates stories in the most captivating ways, blending creativity with technology to realize innovative future-facing experiences, visual and experiential narratives that define the future.
His work on Ex Machina, Blade Runner 2049, The Martian, Avengers franchise as well as extensive gaming work has attracted brands such as Nike, GM, Lotus, Jaguar, Mercedes, Oculus, EA Sports, Warner Bros. Games, Netflix, LIV Golf, and Microsoft.
Grace Gong
CEO - Smart Venture Capital LLC
Grace Gong is the founder and host of Smart Venture Podcast where she interviews top tech companies’ founders, C-level/VP level leaders and investors about career development.
She worked in VC and PE firms focusing on consumer tech and real estate investment. Passionate about entrepreneurship, she is eager to learn from the world’s top talents. Grace shared how American entrepreneurs created their companies in her first book, The Last Key To Success, with 21 founders featured on Forbes 30 under 30 in 2016. In 2017, she interviewed 22 investors who were featured on the Forbes Midas List for her second book How To Be A VC (Amazon No.1 New Release in Venture Capital Category) on how they invested in companies like Facebook, Apple, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.
She is passionate about learning and sharing knowledges she learned from top founders and investors in Silicon Valley.
Michael Litman
Senior Dir. Emerging Tech - Media.Monks
BIMA 100 2023 Tech Pioneer. Collector, connector & explorer. All about the intersection between Creativity, Community, Culture & Commerce. Sneakerhead. Ex Startup Founder.
He has spent 15+ years in the digital comms industry with experience in PR, advertising, consulting and founding a venture backed tech startup.
He loves immersing himself into emerging trends at the intersection between brands, tech, culture and commerce. Figuring out the NFT’s and BTC’s from the WTF’s and LOLs.
As a globally recognized brand strategist, working for and on some of the most leading brands across industries, he lives and breathes the web3 world in and out of work, educating, onboarding and inspiring across the Media.Monks network and externally with clients.
Zach Burks
CEO, Founder - Mintable
Zach Burks is a blockchain developer with 7+ years in the Ethereum space. He gained prominence for contributing to the ERC721 standard with the Ethereum Foundation and authoring the ERC-2981 royalties standard, key building blocks for NFTs.
In 2018, Zach founded Mintable, an NFT marketplace with over 1 million users. It revolutionized accessibility and user experience in the NFT sector. In 2021, he launched Mintology, Mintable's B2B arm focused on NFT solutions for enterprises. He's also known for innovating gasless minting on Ethereum mainnet, removing significant friction from NFTs and easing onboarding for many users.
Zach has spoken at high-profile events, including NFT.NYC (2021, 2022), BEYOND Expo, and ETH Denver, establishing himself as an industry expert.
Round 1 Brands Track Speakers
View all approved NFT.NYC 2024 Brands Track Speakers at NFT.NYC/Speakers
NFT Brand Use Case
- Troglodyte Society - @TroglodyteSoci1
- Alfred Arundel - Ambria Michelle Social - @CoffeeCatsNFT
- Amber Welch - Finsuite Consulting Group LLC - @AmberWe1ch
- Anay Patel - TheMintDrop - @themintdrop
- Anna Bittner - 5 GOATs - @AnnaBittner
- Brian Yurachek - Parallel Worlds, Inc. - @ParallelWorldsO
- ppmcghee - Pudgy Penguins - @ppmctweets
- Chris Hortsch - nftlab.berlin - @chrishortsch
- Christian Ferri - Web3Pro - @Web3Pro_
- Mackody - Whag - @mackody_
- Dan Carr - NiftyKit - @0xdancarr
- THENFTPHD - Saint Joseph's University - @thenftphd
- devAlex - OBYC Labs - @AlexDotEth
- Dom - eekigai Labs - @pyrrhonVe
- Francesca Witzburg - ESCA Legal
- Grace Gong - Smart Venture Capital LLC - @gracegongGG
- Iona - Fair.xyz - @misosoupqueen
- Drone - BrandXR - @dronerogan
- Kacper Bartoszak - 3gital.xyz & Thanatos.club - @kacperbartoszak
- Khoa Le - Sutudu - @khoalefilms
- Kuleen Nimkar - Solana Foundation - @knimkar
- Marti Romances - Territory Studio LTD - @martiromances
- Martin Gauss - airBaltic - @Gaussm
- May Mahboob - MBD Financials - @MayMahboob1
- Melvin Thambi - Emm & Enn - @ThambiMelvin
- @MLitman - Media.Monks - @mlitman
- PolyAnnie - PolyAnnie Studios - @polyannie01
- rhahn - METASALT - @RogerHahn
- Ryan Horst - Blockchain Insight Group - @CryptoRy_
- Sam Barberie - Horizon Blockchain Gaming | Sequence - @samusb
- Scott Lawin - Candy Digital
- Serena - Passion Consulting - @anereseth
- Shaz - PowerStation Studios - @SharonWeisman2
- Sina Sadrzadeh - Athena Labs - @AthenaLabsHQ
- Sunny - DeAthletics - @sunnymaanz
- Tokenizer of Carbon - Meta Carbon - @tokenizercarbon
- Zach Burks - Mintology by Mintable - @ZachSpaded
- Zara Zamani - ChromaWay - @zzzzZarazzzz
Enterprise Brands
- Alex Levin - L+R - @levinspired
- Atown - Metaseed Labs LLC - @AtownBrown
- Girl In the Verse - Girl in the Verse - @girl_intheverse
- Vivien Zhang - Solaire - @VivienZhang18
Luxury Brands
- Elian Decrypto - Explordinal - @eliandecrypto
- Gokce Guven - Kalder - @0xGokce
- Nikita Cikaluk - DRESSX/Rug Radio - @cikaluk_n
- Pierre-Nicolas Hurstel - Arianee - @mr_pnh
- Tara Kwon - Kalder Asia
Service and Hospitality Brands
- TheNFTChef.eth - Noble Promise - @SakariSmithwick
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