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Sean Ren is co-founder and CEO of Sahara. Having earned accolades including Samsung AI Researcher of the Year, MIT TR Innovator under 35 (Asia Pacific), and Forbes’ Asia 30 Under 30, Sean is a Professor at USC and has contributed significantly to AI research and innovation.
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Jessica Tian
Jessica Tian is a General Partner at Axia8 Ventures. She has 5 years of blockchain experience and 10 years of crypto entrepreneurship and marketing experience. She has invested and incubated more than 30 projects and founded several small startups.
Will Wang
Will Wang is a Founding Partner at TKX Capital, a full-service crypto investment bank in primary and secondary markets. Prior to this, he was the Head of Investment and Business Development at Huobi North America, a leading global crypto trading exchange.
Manish Gupta
Manish Gupta is the executive vice president of engineering at Coinbase, previously served as vice president of engineering at Lyft. He is a graduate of the University of Bombay and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Thomas Chippas
Thomas Chippas is the CEO of Argo Blockchain. Previously, he was CEO of ErisX and COO of Axoni.
Fang Kuai
Kaiyu (Fang Kuai) Qian is the COO of Debox and was previously a humanDAO contributor. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and a PhD in human-computer interaction from Zhejiang University.
Chesky Wu
Chen (Chesky) Wu is the founder of Discourse.
Bowei Zhang
Bowei Zhang is the head of operations at NFTGo and has worked at Fosun Group and Unilever. He holds a bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University.
Jiahui Fu
Jiahui Fu is the Global Ecosystem Lead at Chainbase. She graduated from New York University and Zhejiang University.
Qibing Lee
Qibing Lee, founder of Ownership Labs and champion of the Wanxiang Hackathon 2020, studied computer science at Zhejiang University. During his doctoral studies, he focused on AI, cognitive science, and their applications in personalized recommendations. He also served as the Technical Director of the BitHack blockchain community. After recognizing the contradiction between data, intelligence, and privacy, he left school to start a business focused on the blockchain data market. He has independently completed several open source software developments and is now actively contributing to the development of Web3.0, aiming to truly connect you, me, things, and services in the virtual space.
Niraj Pant
Niraj Pant is the Co-Founder at Ritual. Presively he was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, where he invests in early-stage cryptocurrency projects. Prior to this role, he researched privacy in the Decentralized Systems Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Niraj has also served as a Member of the Board of Directors for CoinDCX, an Ambassador for Sequoia Capital, and Co-Founder and CTO of Source Networks. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.