As the world’s largest and most influential gathering, Consensus 2023 brings together every aspect of the cryptocurrency, blockchain, and Web3 community. There’s no better time than now to unite following a turbulent year in crypto history and work towards rebuilding.
Since its launch in 2015, Consensus has been a platform for professionals and builders worldwide to collaborate, calibrate and find resolutions that shape the future of finance and the digital economy.
Consensus 2023 is a call to action for developers, investors, policymakers, founders, brands, and others to come together, confront the most challenging issues facing the crypto industry, and deliver on the technology’s transformative potential.
This years conference is packed full of interesting speakers, panel discussions and Pitchfest and side events to entertain the world of crypto and blockchain all week. Here are just a handful of the talks and events that provide amazing learning opportunities on the ground.
April 25
EOS Kick Off event
Kick off Consensus event with the EOS Network Foundation, Blockchain Game Alliance, Upland and Telos. The event takes place in the Central District Brewing for a casual networking event with food + drinks and a short panel conversation about the Future of Gaming. Speakers include: Zack Gall, Co-Founder and Chief Communications Officer, EOS Network Foundation, Danny Brown Wolf, Chief of Staff, Upland, Justin Guidici, CEO, Telos Foundation, Anton Umnov, CEO, Helika Analytics. Moderator: Saro McKenna, CEO & Co-Founder, Dacoco GmbH (Alien Worlds) and Co-Founder, Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3 (OMA3)
April 26
Where Does TradFi Go From Here? Recalibrating the Risks and Opportunities
- Matt Halstead Director of Real Estate and Digital Assets at Texas Teachers
- Dan Tapiero, Founder, CIO and Managing Partner of 1Rountabale Partners
- Dawn Harflinger, President of Lili’uokalani Trust
- Joe Marenda, Global Head of Digital Assets Investing Cambridge Associates
Web3 Gaming’s Role in Emerging Economies
- Kavin Mittal, Founder of Hike and Dr.Jane Thomason, Chair of the World Metaverse Council
- Artificial Intelligence and the Creator’s Dilemma
- Josie Bellini, Founder and CEO of CyberBrokers
- Jeff Nicholas, Executive Creative Director of Authentic Artists
- Jiabao Li, Assistant Professor at The University of Texas Austin
The Power of Community
- Nick Adler, Founder of MNTGE
- Farokh Sarmad, Founder of Rug Radio
- Carly Reilly, Founder of Overpriced JPEGs
April 27
How Web3 Can Help Fix Social Media and Consumer Apps
- Sriram Krishnan, General Partner at a16Z Crypto
- Angie Lau, Editor-in-Chief at Forkast Labs
- It’s Time to to Make Real-World Assets Real
- Sam Lessin, General Partner at Slow Ventures
Women Who Web3 Lounge
- AMA: Mariam Nusrat, Founder and CEO at Breshna Game
April 28
How to Make Crypto Games That Don’t Suck
- Marc McGinley Game Director of Animoca Brands
- Saro McKenna, Co-Founder of Dacoco and Alien Worlds
- Andrew Campbell, Product and Market Growth Lead of Laguna Games
Dressing the Digital World: Cutting Edge or Out of Fashion?
- Derek Edwards, Managing Partner at Collab+Currency
- Nick Gonzalez, Co-Founder of UNXD
- Megan Kasper, Founding Member of Red DAO
Exclusive: Mastercard’s Vision for Crypto’s Next Chapter
- Raj Dhamodharan, Head of Crypto and Blockchain at Mastercard
- Danny Nelson, Managing Editor at CoinDesk
Women Who Web3 Lounge
The Women Who Web3 Lounge is a place for leaders, entrepreneurs, artists, developers and more to start the day with mindfulness exercises and then connect with like-minded women in the industry and participate in programming designed to empower and educate women in the Web3 space.
Grit Daily House is a media hub and side event at Consensus 2023
Grit Daily is proud to present the HubSpot pitch competition, which will take place on April 26th at Grit Daily House. It will be a “Shark Tank” style competition, which will allow budding entrepreneurs to showcase their business ideas to a panel of experienced investors that include CEO of Republic Crypto Andrew Durgee and CEO of BizFamous.com ERock Christopher. The pitch competition will be open to the public, and it is a great opportunity to network with other entrepreneurs and meet investors.
ReFi House
A multi-day event space bringing the ReFi community together for content, thought leadership conversations, workshops and demo’s discussing net zero goals, ESG, sustainability and blockchain. The agenda includes speakers and panel discussions from April 27 – 29. Some are invite only so be sure to check out the full schedule here.
