Designing Civilizations for Web3

Joel Dietz is a cyberfuturist artist and entrepreneur who has been at the forefront of several future tech trends including blockchain, tokenization, AR/VR and AI art. He was a founding member of Ethereum, started the internal Ethereum project which became the popular Metamask wallet, was the most cited author on Google Scholar on "cryptoeconomics," put together some of the largest deals in the asset tokenization space, and is the author of the monograph "Principles of Holonic System Design." His recent projects include a wallet for the Metaverse (artwallet.co) and several academic leaning projects for MIT, Skoltech, and Notre Dame University, including a book tentatively titled "Rise of the Crypto Kings." He also has a large literary corpus and has produced several short and long films.

Most people know me as an accomplished marketer. My marketing campaigns have been recognized by Wired, NYT, and won AdAge "campaign of the year." As a content creator with over 72 Million views to my content (TV and Online), I spent 5 years codifying a decade worth of experience in mass human interaction and assessment into systems. I know how to build structures and automate funnels in any part of the org from marketing, comms, research and development, business development, or growth. One such system I won awards for at CES is a psychographic modeling software that has been recognized by Forbes and Inc. as more advanced than IBM Watson personality insights cloud services. I was able to codify one of my marketing systems to automate a part of my role at Intel and then it gained traction and became a company that I ended up selling to a larger company in a merger. I established the non-profit organization, Coding FTW, to address the gender divide in the technology sector. Having spent my formative years attending startup launch events and VC parties, I witnessed firsthand the gender divide in Silicon Valley. Coding FTW works with girls' education to provide scholarships that advance women’s roles in engineering. I was recognized by Forbes as a 30 Under 30 in 2012 for my work consulting for brands including Ford, Virgin America, Jay-Z, and General Motors.

Alexander Filatov is a Co-Founder of TON Lab. TON Labs is the core developer of the Free TON Network; a decentralized, community-driven blockchain and its major component - TON OS. Alexander is an entrepreneur and former corporate executive with 25 yeas experience. Alexander started his career in 1994 at the Russian HQ of the Procter & Gamble corporation in marketing. In 2000 he was moved to the European HQ of P&G in Geneva and led food & beverage business of P&G in Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. After finalizing his Exectuve MBA in Business School Lausanne (Magma Cum Laude) in 2004 Filatov returned to Russia, where he held a number of executive positions in strategy, investment banking and M&A. Later he served as a CEO of three manufacturing corporations: RM (2010-2011) - large Russian automotive group, RM-Terex (2012-2013) - joint venture between RM and Terex corporation, and Chelpipe (2014-2015) - manufacturer of industrial pipes and oil equipment. In late 2015 Alexander left the corporate world and moved into the private equity and venture capital field where he made a series of investments. After graduating from a Singularity University later that year he co-founded a diversified venture fund Industry 4.0., focusing on exponential technologies (blockchain, AI, big data, robotics, VR/AR, digital medicine etc.). In 2018 Filatov and his partners established TON Labs - core developer of the Free TON blockchain network.