Serwah is a multidisciplinary artist and musician based on Dharug land/West Sydney. She creates surreal cyber dreamscapes and heavenly wastelands, populated by afro-futuristic abstractions of self with strong ancestral and contemporary themes.

Serwah has worked with Mercedes Benz, Nike, GQ, Adobe, Paris Hilton and Charli XCX. Recent notable achievements include her participation in Sotheby's 'Natively Digital': A Curated NFT auction and 'Apotheosis': a live motion capture experience with Soft Centre at The Sydney Opera House.

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Betty is the co-founder and director of Deadfellaz - an NFT collection of 10,000 unique zombies minted on the Ethereum blockchain, launched in 2021. Token holders include Reese Witherspoon, Lionel Richie, Steve Aoki, Dillon Francis and Alexis Ohanian.

Deadfellaz sold out within 20 minutes of launch on the 13th September 2021, and traded over $9million AUD within its first month. They are an evolving metaverse brand that spans across multiple industries including apparel, music, media and gaming. Their focus is the evolution of gamification, IP & NFT technology within the metaverse and beyond.

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Client Liaison are an ARIA-nominated Australian indie pop duo made up of vocalist Monte Morgan, and keyboardist and producer Harvey Miller.

As part of their highly anticipated album “Divine Intervention” in October 2021 Client Liaison sold 85% of their soul – cut into pieces for their fans through an NFT and minted on Aussie web3 music platform Serenade. Token utility included soul-related perks’ such as a Golden Ticket, limo ride and lunch with the band plus a downloadable link to their new album, “Divine Intervention.”

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Forming a career through critiquing elitist rules of the art world, artist, art dealer, curator, writer, and critic NY-based Kenny Schacher navigates the monetary circulation of art in his work. Kenny minted his first NFT on Nifty Gateway in 2019.

These days, however, he’s become the contemporary art world’s most vocal proponent of NFTs. NFTism, a term Schachter has coined, represents the potential behind NFTs, the communities built around them. NFTism is how the technology of NFTs changes the art world. It’s a revolution in the way people view art and art exchange.

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Michelle the Co-Founder and CEO of Culture Vault, a web3 curated NFT platform and creative agency. For over 15 years, she has shaped some of the most innovative cultural companies and institutions - from global hospitality brands such as NeueHouse and Soho House to The New York Times largest consumer-facing live platform, and Absolut’s global online art gallery.

Michelle's creative projects have been covered in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, and more. Michelle was listed in The Australian's top 100 people shaping the cultural landscape in Australia in 2022, and the top 100 Innovators in Australia in 2022.

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Co-founder of Emanate; the world's fastest music monetisation platform, splitting payments between collaborators and rights holders instantly as audio is consumed, recently integrating music NFTs on ethereum and polygon too!

Sean is also a co-founder of MODA; the tokenized network governance layer of the MODA Foundation; a group of individuals and business partners dedicated to the advancement of the music industry via Web3 technologies. A DAO removing middlemen to increase value between creators and fans in ways never seen before.​

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Patricia is a metaverse, NFT, and web3 advisor and consultant with experience in marketing, strategy, product and growth-hacking. She assists brands in becoming metaverse-ready and enables businesses to enter the web3, NFT and metaverse space.

Patricia loves web3 and its open community around blockchain, crypto and DAOs. She brings like-minded people together and providing them with upskilling and job opportunities. She co-founded Power Women, a community to empower women in business and web3. Patricia is also host and organiser of Metaverse Sydney and MVcon.

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Lana Hopkins is the Co-founder and CEO of some.place - a next-gen social platform and metaverse built on the blockchain that makes digital culture accessible, right from the palm of your hand.

Their intuitive, multiplayer world gives users the tools to interact with like-minded others, build community in a real-time, 3D digital space, and in real life, with AR. With a marketplace, activations, and public spaces like no other, you can curate and share all that is important to you. Founded by women entrepreneurs, some·place insists on breaking down barriers to build a more equitable digital experience for all.

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Born in Lebanon and raised in the outer suburbs of Melbourne. He has always been drawn to storytelling.

As the fashion film industry has grown, Ribal has emerged as one of Australia’s leading fashion filmmakers which has led him to work with publications such as Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, i-D, Wonderland, Oyster and Vogue and has given him the opportunity to shoot with clients such as DSqaured2, Coach, Camilla and Marc, SIR, Strateas Carlucci, Myer, David Jones, Fila and Adidas. He has also worked with musicians such as St. Vincent, The Veronicas, Joey Bada$$, Jaguar Jonze and Cub Sport.

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Winners of ‘Best Digital Fashion’ at The Berlin Fashion Film Festival in 2022, design-duo Eugene Leung and Dan Tse founded Injury as a way to promote small batch slow fashion that is season-less and genderless. Since 2009 INJURY have shown their collections on physical runways across Australia, Paris, New York, Beijing and Shanghai.

However, in an effort to increase sustainability, they debuted “Rare Reality,” Australia’s first-ever physical-hybrid-digital Metaverse Show at the 2022 Afterpay AFW. The collection was available both as physical garments and also as NFTs sold on Dress X.

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Beginning life with musician Jamie xx in his London studio, Deepfaith is a one-of-a-kind audiovisual project led by Daniel Stricker (Midnight Juggernauts), Byron Spencer and Christopher Colonna (Bumblebeez), with contributions from Kirin J Callinan and Touch Sensitive.

Deep Faith were recently commissioned by The Sydney Opera House to create a Crypto Opera - combining live avatars, motion capture, NFTs and various mixed media works. The video was presented alongside a run of 50 NFTs, which allowed holders acc / Instagramess to The DeepFaith gated community where they were among the first to access new music, art and more.

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Pricilla is the Co-Founder of Power Women NFT and the Founder of OviSquare. A Management Consultant and Emerging Tech Adventurer, Priscilla is passionate about art & innovation, decentralisation, new worlds and a new connected nation with positive social impact.

She drives change in organisations to create sustainable impact, empower people and teams, as well as create and develops skills, autonomy and collaboration. She constantly explores cutting-edge technologies – mainly Web3 and XR (VR&AR)/The Metaverse, new ways of working, living, playing and likes to challenge the status quo.

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Mez Mia is a curator and project manager at Justin Miller Art. Having worked across auctions houses, museums and art galleries, she provided creative consultation and support to the eight artists that took part in the inaugural M H Carnegie & Co Fine Art NFT Fellowship Award - a pioneering philanthropic project that explored the possibilities, limitations, requirements and processes involved in creating fine art NFTs.

Eight artists were selected from across Australia to participate and explore how their diverse art practices could interact with NFTs.

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Millie is a founding partner and the head of operations for Culture Vault - a web 3 curated NFT platform and creative agency. She has been in the crypto space since the beginning of 2021 where she started working for a cryptocurrency exchange platform.

Since launching Culture Vault in early 2022 she has worked with local and international companies to help strategize and execute NFT projects that build cultural engagement and authentic communities. Some of the brands she's worked with include Glenfiddich, Jordan Gogos, Mumm, Campari, Wella, OPI, Meta and Art Aid. Millie has also helped artists from around the world mint, list and sell their NFTs on Culture Vault's web 3 platforms.

Alex Seton’s artistic practice incorporates sculpture, photography, video and installation to examine problematic ideas and concepts and give them form. Always carefully considered, Seton’s artworks playfully sit at the junction of an idea, forcing a choice in the viewer as a litmus test of their own disposition. Often with heart and humour, his beguiling surfaces reveal themselves to be not as simple or polite as they first appear.

Alex’s first NFT series, “Standing Manikin” is a fine-art series that offers marble sculpture NFTs that are ownable and viewable as AR experiences.

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Renderfruit is a 3D artist, animator, art director and NFT artist. Her futuristic, multi-layered, dreamy and surreal digital works have been sold as NFTs since November 2020 through Superrare, Foundation, Makers Place, Known Origin, and Nifty Gateway.

With more than 10 years of experience in the 3D industry, she has created visuals for Young Thug, Kodak Black, Miley Cyrus, Oliver Skyes (Bring Me The Horizon), Jack U and Skrillex. Renderfruit has also collaborated with artists and brands such as Rihanna, Kanye West, Will.I.Am, Jai Wolf, Nike, MTV and Apple.

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Giant Swan is a Melbourne based NFT artist and sculptor pushing the medium through VR and 3D exploration. His work has been minted on SuperRare and Nifty Gateway. With top collections going for hundreds of thousands of dollars, he uses modern VR technology to create shapes and colours using full body movements.

His work navigates the language that his tools encourage, acknowledging his imperfect movement as a human. This imprint converts to 3D art, organic in nature and instantly familiar, exploring a mirror of ourselves in motion.

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Katie Tholo is the Partnerships Lead at Run it Wild, a multidisciplinary blockchain development studio. Responsible for strategy, acquisition and management of partners to support the growth of web3 projects & IP from artists to blue-chip brands.

Prior to this, Katie was the Founder and Director of Satellite, Sydney’s first major 3D NFT art exhibition in Aus. Previously Katie managed business development and commercial partnerships at the Art Gallery of NSW and now leverages her diverse experience with commercial organisations to explore how web3 can provide creative-led business solutions.

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Nick Thomm is an Australian Artist living and working in Los Angeles, known for his large scale, hyper-color Spectral Paintings and immersive projection installations.

Thomm has minted several successful collections on Nifty Gateway, Foundation and SuperRare. Additionally, his physical work has been exhibited at international institutions including the ‘New Museum’ in NYC, the ‘Moco Museum' in Barcelona, and ‘The NGV’ in Melbourne. Publicly commissioned works include the ‘Live’ sites across the UK during the Olympic Games, and his three story video wall on Oxford Street, London,

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Joan Westenberg is a technology journalist, writer and creative director. She founded a digital studio called Self, which she currently runs alongside MODA DAO - an organisation that is rewriting music for creators and fans alike. Joan has been named one of the leading technology voices by Smart Company and was listed among the 100 Top Innovators by The Australian.

Her writing has been published in CoinTelegraph, The Next Web, The SF Chronicle, Wired, The AFR, The Observer, ABC, Junkee Media, SBS Australia TV network & Crikey among others. Joan's first book, #DIY, was published as an NFT in 2022.

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As a co-founding member of Siberia Records and Drummer in Australian band Midnight Juggernauts, Dan has won 2 AIR awards, 1 DMA award, and been nominated for 3 ARIA awards.

Dan is one half of the duo Deep Faith, who were recently commissioned by The Sydney Opera House to create a Crypto Opera - combining live avatars, motion capture, NFTs and various mixed media works. The video was presented alongside a run of 50 NFTs, which allowed holders access to The DeepFaith gated community giving first to access new music and art.

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Lily Wu is currently the Startup Partner Lead at Stripe working with early-stage VCs, accelerators and incubators to grow their startups in their portfolios across South East Asia and Greater China.

Lily is also an artist, creative, and two-time 7-figure entrepreneur. She's the co-founder of The 3rd Space (creating experiential spaces combining art and technology). and the founder of WOW Pixies DAO, raising $2M in 4 days using NFTs to support women entrepreneurs in web3. She was invited to the United Nations in NYC in 2022 to talk about making a positive impact to empower women entrepreneurs using blockchain technology.

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Australian multimedia artist, Made By Tsuki sets himself apart by breaking up the conventional nature of a music project, by making artworks for both your eyes and your ears. In using a combination of mediums, Made By Tsuki creates an incredible unique experience for his audience.

The music producer/3D visual artist explores the delicate balance of human & machine with 4-track audio/visual EP, Uncanny Valley is his most ambitious project to date. Made By Tsuki’s dexterous capabilities are lighting the way to an exciting future. He minted his first NFT collection on Foundation in July 2022.

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Hypno is the Co-founder and Secretary of State of Wilder World, an immersive 5D Metaverse built on Ethereum, Unreal Engine 5 and their sister company zero.tech. The Wilder vision is to create a fully decentralized and community-owned nation to be experienced in their photorealistic Metaverse.

Prior to founding Wilder World Andy was the Investment Director for the Government of Victoria, a diplomatic posting based in New York and San Francisco with responsibility for identifying and securing foreign tech investment opportunities for Australia. During this time in the US, Andy secured the regional headquarters of some of the world’s leading tech companies.

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Designer Daniel Avakian is an internationally renowned women's and men's designer. Over the past four years, Daniel and the team have been working on a radically new concept, CUSTOM REAL TIME FASHION, which they predict as The Future of Fashion.

Set to launch in late 2022, the new concept integrates the latest technologies coupled with a robust and scalable supply chain, enabling fast to market apparel, remote customer 3D body-scanning and photo realistic avatars, virtual retail and fashion NFT’s. The concept has been presented on the Runway at Afterpay Australian Fashion Week in May 2022, and recently at the DΛNIEL ΛVΛKIΛN debut at NYFW The Shows 2022.

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