A 1-day event filled with talks, panels, workshops and experiences that connects builders, creators, investors and other web3 industry pioneers from the global NFT community.
William brings NFT applications to the world including government, enterprise and individual artists. He leads workshops to teach web3 concepts and teaches entry-level smart contract programming as well as advisory for the most technical projects. He is the lead author of ERC-721, the technology on which modern NFTs are launched.
Avery Akkineni
VaynerNFT
President
Avery serves as the President of Vayner NFT. She leads the company's mission to build long-term strategic NFT projects for the world's leading intellectual property owners serving brands, celebrities, athletes and associations looking to incentivize and reward brand advocacy and customer loyalty. Avery previously led VaynerMedia's expansion into APAC, growing a team from 0-150+, opening offices in Singapore, Bangkok, Tokyo, and Sydney, and was awarded SEA Independent Agency of the Year, within 2 years. Prior to joining Vayner, she spent six years working at Google, in both Silicon Valley and New York City. Avery will drive meaningful cultural relevance for others to unlock the potential of one of the biggest technology shifts of our time.
David Prinçay
Binance
Director for Binance,
Eastern Europe
David is the Head of Marketing for Europe, as well as manager for France and Italy at Binance. He started as a Binance Angel, later joining the team fulltime. Now, he is implementing the "Objective Moon" project announced by CZ in November 2021, a €100 million plan to develop R&D and education programs. David bases his strategy on community facilitation and education.
Prior to Binance, he co-founded the largest French crypto community as well as the blockchain association at HEC Paris, 1st Business School in Europe. Overall, David has been involved in the blockchain ecosystem since 2017. His goal is to transform the current centralised information organisation into a decentralised system that is more flexible and representative of our society.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will give a keynote and participate in a panel about digital art and collectables, discussing the importance of NFTs as the next step for art creation and helping people understand how to get started with this world.
Andres Sutt
Government of Estonia
Minister of Entrepreneurship and Information Technology
Andrus is the Minister of Entrepreneurship and Information Technology of the Government of Estonia.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will participate in the web3 policy panel, discussing why Estonia should embrace web3 technology solutions and how to ensure that the private and public sectors could collaborate more about this topic.
Irina Karagyaur
Unique Network
Head of Metaverse Growth at Unique Network
Irina Karagyaur is the Head of Metaverse Growth at Unique Network, where she leads the business growth activities for the organization. She focuses on establishing strategic partnerships and community building to bridge the off-chain world with the metaverse.
She is also the Head Ambassador for Western Europe of the Polkadot network and London’s Regional Co-Chair to FIBREE (Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise).
At the NFT Tallinn event, she will participate in the panel on P2E games and metaverse, discussing the future of metaverse projects, why there are seemingly so many such projects, and how gaming will change in the coming years.
Stenver Jerkku
Solid World DAO
Chairman of the Board
Stenver is the Chairman of Solid.World DAO, which is helping to bootstrap new carbon projects by providing liquidity.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will participate in the green tech in the web3 panel, discussing how NFTs can be used to fight global warming, making it possible to verify the effects of various green tech solutions.
Shirly Valge
Velas
Chief Operating Officer
Shirly is the COO of Velas, which is creating the fastest ethereum virtual machine blockchain.
At the NFT Tallinn event, she will participate in the panel about other use cases for NFTs, discussing where the NFT technology can be utilised outside of art, gaming and green tech solutions.
Luukas Ilves
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications for Estonia
Undersecretary for Digital Development
Luukas is the CIO of the Estonian government and the Undersecretary for Digital Development.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will share his extensive knowledge about web3 technologies, their use cases and the changes they will bring to societies.
INTRO WORKSHOP ABOUT BLOCKCHAIN DEVELOPMENT
Sten Tamkivi
Taavet+Sten
Partner
Sten is the Partner at Taavet+Sten, a partnership of founders backing founders with their own capital, analytical diligence and long term patience.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will participate in the investing in web3 panel, discussing the changing trends in the technology sector and why every investor needs to start embracing NFT and web3 technologies into their portfolio.
Erki Koldits
PopSpot
Founder and CEO
Erki is the founder and CEO of PopSpot, a web3 company that's creating social media where everyone gets paid.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will participate in the social tokens panel, discussing how artists could win by embracing social tokens and the best practices in this field.
Costa Titch
Costa Titch
Musical artist
Costa Titch is a hip-hop artist from South Africa who has been meddling with NFTs lately.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will participate in the social tokens panel, discussing how artists could win by embracing social tokens and the best practices in this field.
Katrina Gamueda-Smith
pizzaDAO
Co-Founder
Katrina is a co-founder at PizzaDAO, whose mission is to use Web3 to fundamentally change the world’s relationship with food.
She has spent the last year working on several NFT projects and consulting with Web2 companies on the potential for DAO and token models within their frameworks. Katrina plans to launch an NFT project in 2022 to begin testing the possibility of a Web3 fueled open-source pizza franchise, starting in Chicago, IL.
At the NFT Tallinn event, she will be sharing her extensive knowledge about DAOs, how web2 companies can transform via DAOs and token models and the future of entrepreneurship.
Johannes Tammekänd
NFTPort
Co-Founder & CEO
Johannes is the CEO & Co-Founder of NFTPort, the Stripe for NFTs: a one-stop and multi-chain NFT infrastructure which speeds up NFT projects go-to-market, from months to hours. It is used by over 10 000+ developers with 250+ NFT projects launched, including leading NFT companies such as Protocol Labs, Nifty Gateway, etc.
Johannes' blockchain experience spans back to 2014 when he was researching the security model of Bitcoin in NATO.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will participate in the panel on P2E games and metaverse, discussing the future of metaverse projects, why there are seemingly so many such projects, and how gaming will change in the coming years.
Rauno Kinkar
Lextal
Attorney
Rauno is an Attorney at Lextal, an Estonian law firm that has worked with several dozen web3 companies.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will be sharing the extensive knowledge he and their firm has gathered over the years, working with a variety of web3 and NFT companies.
Henri Ratnik
Lextal
Attorney
Henri is an Attorney at Lextal, an Estonian law firm that has worked with several dozen web3 companies.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will be sharing the extensive knowledge he and their firm has gathered over the years, working with a variety of web3 and NFT companies.
Henri Allik
Stakin
COO
Henri is the COO at Stakin, a non-custodial infrastructure provider for Proof-of-Stake blockchains. Stakin works with institutional crypto players, foundations, custodians, exchanges as well as a large community of individual token holders. In total 20+ thousand delegators have trusted over $1.2bn of assets to Stakin across Ethereum, Cosmos, Solana, Polygon, Polkadot, Near, and 30 other PoS blockchains.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will host a staking workshop to introduce how to earn rewards from holding crypto tokens and why is it important to stake. The workshop covers custodial and non-custodial ways of staking and how to choose a validator to trust with your crypto
Vivek Prasannan
Polkadex
Co-founder & Executive Director
Vivekk is the co-founder and Executive Director of Polkadex, the trading engine for Web3 and DeFi built on Polkadot.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will participate in the panel about other use cases for NFTs, discussing where the NFT technology can be utilised outside of art, gaming and green tech solutions.
Paul Adrien Lamoureux
Whaleroom
Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer
Paul-Adrien co-founded Whaleroom in January 2021, a social platform for crypto communities. He is responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the WhaleRoom community and developing the long-term vision. His goal is to help crypto teams, creators, talents, brands, or any organization make the most of their community through tokenization. He also wants to contribute to finding new use cases for social tokens.
He believes token and NFT gating is to become a new standard in the years to come.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will participate in the panel about other use cases for NFTs, discussing where the NFT technology can be utilised outside of art, gaming and green tech solutions.
Kerry Murphy
The Fabricant
Founder & CEO
Kerry is the founder of The Fabricant - a digital fashion house that operates at the intersection of technology and fashion. They use technology to create intriguing and seductive fashion narratives of endless possibility, unconstrained by the boundaries of the physical realm.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will participate in the panel about other use cases for NFTs, discussing where the NFT technology can be utilised outside of art, gaming and green tech solutions.
Peter Vesterbacka
FinEst Bay Area
Founder
Peter is an entrepreneur from the Finest Bay Area at the Heart of Eurasia, Helsinki, Finland. Branded communities co-created and initiated by Peter include the HP Bazaar, Mobile Monday, Slush and Startup Sauna to name a few.
He was the Mighty Eagle at Angry Birds for many years taking that brand to unprecedented heights.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will participate in the panel on P2E games and metaverse, discussing the future of metaverse projects, why there are seemingly so many such projects, and how gaming will change in the coming years.
William Entriken
ERC-721
Lead Author
William brings NFT applications to the world including government, enterprise and individual artists. He leads workshops to teach web3 concepts and teaches entry-level smart contract programming as well as advisory for the most technical projects. He is the lead author of ERC-721, the technology on which modern NFTs are launched.
Richard Draper
Koia
Co-Founder
Richard is a co-founder at Koia, a community-driven platform to buy, collect and trade Fractions linked to iconic assets. Koia uses NFTs to fractionalize unique and rare assets, starting with collectibles such as watches, whisky and Pokémon Cards.
Before co-founding Koia, Richard spent a decade in asset management. He worked at Barclays, UBS and an event driven hedge fund, in client facing and trading roles. He also advises start-ups throughout the capital raising process.
At the NFT Tallinn event, she will participate in the panel about digital art and collectables, discussing the importance of NFTs as the next step for art creation and helping people understand how to get started with this world.
Jakub Chmielniak
Fanadise
CEO
Jakub Chmielniak is a young Polish entrepreneur, who proved time and again in a short period of time that all you need to achieve global success is passion, commitment, and perseverance. He created brands and projects such as Fanadise, Mr. Gugu & Miss Go, Live Heroes, or Carpatree. He and his companies have recently received worldwide media coverage, including New York Times and Forbes, thanks to NFT's latest project, Fancy Bears Metaverse, whose ambassadors include Floyd Mayweather and Jay Alvarez.
Stephan Brusche
iSteef
Visual Storyteller
Acclaimed viral artist that draws on bananas!
He will also launch an NFT collection at NFT Tallinn
Petri Rajahalme
FOV Ventures
Founding Partner
Yrjo Ojasaar
Change Ventures
Investment Partner
Yrjo is the Investment Partner at Change Ventures, an Estonian venture investment firm.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will participate in the investing in web3 panel, discussing the changing trends in the technology sector and why every investor needs to start embracing NFT and web3 technologies into their portfolio.
Chris Reinberg
WAGMI
Founder
Chris has been involved in the web3 field since 2012, more seriously since 2020. He is the co-founder of a web3 development agency & studio Sunbase (sunbase.co), as well the founder of Estonian web3 community and movement (wagmi.ee) which has over 300 members, all of whom are local leaders in the field.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will participate in the panel about other use cases for NFTs, discussing where the NFT technology can be utilised outside of art, gaming and green tech solutions.
Kilvar Kessler
Financial Supervision Authority
Chairman of the Board
Kilvar is the Chairman of the Board at the Financial Supervision Authority.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will participate in the web3 policy panel, discussing why Estonia should embrace web3 technology solutions and how to ensure that the private and public sectors could collaborate more about this topic.
Matis Mäeker
Financial Intelligence Unit
Head of FIU
Matis is the Head of Financial Intelligence Unit.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will participate in the web3 policy panel, discussing why Estonia should embrace web3 technology solutions and how to ensure that the private and public sectors could collaborate more about this topic.
Raido Saar
Estonian Cryptocurrency Association
Chairman of the Board
Kristaps Grinbergs
Salto X
Solidity Web3.0 developer
Kristaps is the crypto cat (developer) at Salto X. He knows how to build stuff on mobile and web platforms. He knows what it takes to be a startup founder. He speaks at conferences, mentors and regularly blogs about technology. His passion lies in building products, Web3, and sustainability. He is an activist in such organizations as RigaTechGirls, Animal Freedom Latvia, etc.
Rain Vääna
Kwota
Co-Founder
Rain is the co-founder & CEO of KWOTA. Their goal is to disrupt the reuse of materials. They create unique competitive advantage for manufacturers to use more recycled material in their products. This in turn
increases consumer demand for sorting and reduces the demand for raw material mining. Previously, he has worked as CEO of the environmental company Ragn-Sells.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will participate in the green tech in the web3 panel, discussing how NFTs can be used to fight global warming, making it possible to verify the effects of various green tech solutions.
Darius Tamauskas
Hold Earth
Co-Founder
INTRO WORKSHOP ABOUT BLOCKCHAIN DEVELOPMENT
HOW TO CREATE YOUR FIRST NFT?
HOW TO CREATE YOUR FIRST NFT?
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TAXES?
HOW NOT GO TO JAIL?(Basics of legal tokenisation)
HOW TO BUY YOUR FIRST NFT?
HOW TO CREATE YOUR FIRST NFT?
Herkko Labi
Biotoopia
Kaaskuraator
Thomas Auväärt
Ministry of Finance
Head of Financial Markets Policy Department
Thomas is the Head of the Financial Markets Policy Department at the Ministry of Finance.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will participate in the web3 policy panel, discussing why Estonia should embrace web3 technology solutions and how to ensure that the private and public sectors could collaborate more about this topic.
Peeter Luikmel
Bank of Estonia
Head of Monetary Policy and Foreign
Economics Division
Peeter is the Head of the Monetary Policy and Foreign Economics Division at the Bank of Estonia.
At the NFT Tallinn event, he will participate in the web3 policy panel, discussing why Estonia should embrace web3 technology solutions and how to ensure that the private and public sectors could collaborate more about this topic.
Astrid Laupmaa
Kanvas.ai
Founder and CEO
Astrid is the founder and CEO of Kanvas.ai, an online gallary that also enable artists upload their art as NFTs.
At the NFT Tallinn event, she will participate in the panel about digital art and collectables, discussing the importance of NFTs as the next step for art creation and helping people understand how to get started with this world.
Dmitri Sarle
Earthians
Founder
Dmitri Sarle explores humanity through entrepreneurship. Having founded companies, invested in startups, exited businesses, and bankrupted a couple - he is keenly exploring what “work” means in our society and what it is going to mean in the future.
To that end, he is a philosopher, an entrepreneur, and a mentor. Formerly he was the CEO of ArcticStartup, Arctic15, and co-founder of Co-Founder Magazine.
Equally as important is his passion for martial arts, tea-drinking, stoicism, teal methodologies, and zen.
Edilson Osório
OriginalMy
Founder and CEO
Founder, computer scientist, teacher, information security and infrastructure specialist. Graduated in Copyright on Harvard Law School, Convenor of Security, Privacy and Identity representing ABNT/Brazil @ ISO/TC307 - Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, Member of EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum. Author of Hääl - the first open-source protocol for Secret e-Voting on Public Blockchains.
Has been chosen as the #1 most important and influential personality in cryptocurrencies and blockchain in Brazil, by CoinTelegraph.
Developed the first NFTs back in 2016 and was awarded with a Bronze Lion in Cannes Festival with SweetBlocks in 2021, an NFT project for fighting censorship.
Mateja Sela
Artano
CEO
I am Mateja, CEO at Artano, a quadrilingual digital nomad born and raised in Serbia. After finishing my studies in the US, I worked as a software consultant for a few years before deciding to start my own business. Now I’m working with top fashion brands, artists and designers to bring them and their clients to web 3.0, specifically making high-quality NFT art and programmable (evolving) NFTs.
Benjamin James
Eesti Arhitektuurikeskus
The winner of Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2022 Installation Competition is Fungible Non-Fungible by IHEARTBLOB. In their proposal they set forth a new role of the architect – no longer the ‘Master Builder’ of The Fountainhead – but rather one of a system designer who weaves together innovative technologies to empower communities and enable local craftsmanship through the usage of Blockchain, specifically the emergence of Non-Fungible Token (“NFT”), and Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). This project would be the first ever blockchain-funded architecture. It would serve as a test for the new decentralised architectural design model, which can lead to works that are more reflective of community and environmental awareness. The outcomes are physical-digital hybrids that balance the ‘slower’ constantly evolving physical components with real time reactive digital updates.
Sten Saluveer
Moderator
Ecosystem builder and Media x Tech Visionary with a global track record in high impact content and media industry innovation, tech, and governance (Accelerate Estonia / Startup Estonia / European Commission), startup growth
Taavi Kotka
Moderator
Entrepreneur and first CIO for the Government of Estonia. Pioneer of e-Estonia, the world’s most advanced digital nation, and cofounder of the world’s first e-Residency programme.
Everything about NFTs and taxes
HOW NOT GO TO JAIL?(Basics of legal tokenisation)
HOW TO FIND QUALITY ART IN THE NFT SPACE?
THE BASICS OF STAKING
Randu Riiberg
Depository.me
Founder, investor, attorney
Randu is founder & CEO of Depository.me. Their goal is to create decentralised register for storing and administrating investment vehicles related data for easing the sale process and increaseing vehicles value. Annual ca 30 BN worldwide business has no quality tools that would ease the sale process and related digital data management. WEB3, including NFT´s, provide technical framework on the roadmap to empower the asset owners.
Depository.me is his third start-up, latest early exit at the end of March 2022.
Randu is also active as attorney at law, with more than 20 year experience (currently partner in Glimstedt), having extensive experience in stragetical advising, M&A, real estate and restructuring.
At NFT Tallinn event, he will participate in the „investing in web3 panel“, discussing the barriers which currently limit the interest in wider adoption of WEB3 and of challenges in investing into NFT and web3 technologies. He sees blockchain and NFT´s as trustworthy way of creating registries, allowing also decentralised data validation with respect to certain assets..
