In an exciting trend, women, are featuring more than ever at one of the world’s biggest NFT events – NFT.LONDON.
Among the 800+ speakers at NFT.LONDON 2022, (taking place 3-4 November) women make up 30% of this year’s line-up.
That’s triple the number from five years ago when only 10% of expert speakers were women.
Once a male-dominated arena, women are now stampeding in to the Metaverse/Web3/NFT/Blockchain and Fintech universe and they are an impressive force.
One woman spearheading this surge is Janine Subgang, 24, who has a psychology and design background, combined with a passion for improving human interaction.
She will be a powerful and accomplished voice and certainly one to make a ‘bee-line’ for among the 800 speakers who will descend on theQueen Elizabeth Centre, London, 3-4 November 2022.
Janine will be speaking on an expert panel about ‘How NFTs Will Revolutionize Creator DAOs’.
She has been fully down the Web3 ‘rabbit hole’ since July 2022. Janine says: “I think, in a couple of years, we wont use the word NFT anymore. We will just call it a straight utility.
“This will be similar to how we used to say: MP3 player, or MP3 song, but now straight up just call it music. We will similarly stop saying NFT Art, or NFT ticketing but just call it art and ticket.”
She adds: “The revolutionizing part about NFTs and Blockchain for me is the way it allows control and ownership. Creators, for a long time, have suffered from their work being appropriated, bought for cheap and sold for much, and generally struggled to have a fair and empowered standing next to the distribution channels they need to use to get their message across, from TikTok to art galleries.
“The power is often laid with the platform, not with the creator. NFTs and DAOs can intercept this, empowering creators, and distributing profits fairly. There’s so many amazing projects out there.”
As the Head of Governance and Community at the DLT Lounge, in Canary Wharf, Janine has to delicately manage the decentralised physical workspace on an entire level of a tower block and a blockchain ecosystem of 50 companies with 200 staff.
The DLT Lounge also combines an educational programme and FriDAO, which Janine Co-founded.
Janine’s just got back from the ‘Tech Oscars’ by WLOUNGE in Berlin, winning the Gen Z category for VitaeGum, the Oxford University start-up which she is Co-founder of and Commercial lead.
She is also an Angel Investor in student start-ups via ASIF Ventures at Amsterdam University, where she studied for her Honours degree in Psychology.
Other Web3 proficient women – also not from tech backgrounds – taking to the stage at NFT.LONDON include:
Violetta Zironi, who is a Music NFT artist, Emily Faye, a Music NFT artist, Dr. Lingling Liu, who helps sports embrace blockchain technology, Dr. Emily L. Spratt, Art and Technology Lead/Faculty, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, NYC.
To attend NFT.LONDON 2022 and hear Janine and a host inspiring women speakers share their insights, go to: https://www.nft.london
