August 2020 New Members Presentation
Dear Blockchain Game Alliance members and Blockchain Enthusiasts!
Don’t miss out on August 28th at 5PM CET, our fifth BGA New Members Virtual Presentation featuring amazing games and services companies who joined us this month!
Welcome to the Blockchain Game Alliance!
New Members online presentation is a monthly activity of the BGA to introduce our members to the community. New members and old members who have not presented their game companies and services are given opportunity to showcase what they do.
Speakers Agenda
- 17:00–17:05 A word from the BGA President — Sebastien Borget
- 17:05–17:15 Chromaway (Riccardo Sibani, Lead Developer)
- 17:15–17:25 Waterdeep (Joshua Heilman, Owner & CEO)
- 17:25–17:35 Dapp.com (Kyle Lu, CEO)
- 17:35–17:45 Sorare (Nicolas Julia, Co-founder & CEO)
- 17:45–17:55 Rarible (Alexander Salnikov, Co-founder)
- 17:55–18:05 Dacoco GmbH (Robert Allen, Director)
- 18:05–18:15 GameCredits (Steve Wand, CMO)
- 18:15–18:25 Altcoin Buzz (Ezekiel Ng, Head of Blockchain Gaming)
- 18:25–18:35 PANEL
ACCESS TO THE STREAM (August 28th at 5PM CET)
This is a great opportunity to get engaged, network and generate new business partnerships while learning more about our new members. Each speaker will be presenting for 10 minutes then will be given 5 minutes for Q&A.
About the Speakers
Steve Wand (GAME Credits, CMO)
Steve comes from the financial world prior to him joining the blockchain space in 2013. His energy and love for all things both digital and collectible have led him to the GameCredits project. Steve travels the World helping spread the message of blockchain and cryptocurrency and he serves as GameCredits’ marketing specialist for this very reason. GameCredits is well represented on the global stage due to Steve’s desire to spread the virtues of the platform and technologies to the public.
Ezekiel Ng (Altcoin Buzz, Head of Blockchain Gaming)
Short bio: I am a writer from Singapore, who is passionate about blockchain gaming. I got extremely interested in blockchain gaming in 2018 and joined Altcoin Buzz in 2019. I’m run the blockchain gaming department for Altcoin Buzz and I hope to bring as much interesting content as possible to the people in this space.
Alex Salnikov (Rarible, Co-founder)
Alex Salnikov is the co-founder and Head of Product at Rarible, a community-governed NFT marketplace. He holds Data Science MA, previously co-founded MarginCall exchange and served as CTO at CoinOffering.
Nicolas Julia (Sorare, Co-founder & CEO)
Nicolas Julia is the cofounder and CEO of Sorare, bringing blockchain gaming to all football fans.
Prior to Sorare, Nicolas was the VP of Operations at Stratumn, an enterprise blockchain company, where he signed 6 figure deals and scaled operations after an $8 million round. He also worked as a Senior Consultant for Eurogroup.
He holds an MSc Management from EM Lyon and an MSc in Economics from the Hanken Scool of Economics.
His favorite football club is France’s Olympique de Marseille.
Kyle Lu (Dapp.com, Founder & CEO)
Kyle Lu is Founder and CEO of Dapp.com, a leading global marketplace and analytics platform for blockchain apps. He was the former Partner and VP at Achain for its global business development and investments. Prior to his journey in the crypto space, Kyle was the solution architect and head of BD for Talkingdata, an Asian-based big data unicorn and director of Country Garden, a Fortune 500 company listed in Hong Kong.
Kyle is also a regular speaker at crypto conferences and writer for crypto media, in particular on topics including blockchain technology adoption and application.
Robert Allen (Dacoco GmbH, Director)
Rob is a Director of Dacoco and has been working on technology implementation projects for over 25 years with a focus on software innovations. Alongside running occasional game servers, he has implemented software projects for large financial sector companies and government institutions.
Rob orchestrated the first airdrop of tokens onto the EOS distribution and the first successful conversion of tokens from Ethereum to EOS. He is now focused on the WAX blockchain ecosystem and especially NFTs through the development of the Alien Worlds Metaverse.
Riccardo Sibani (Chromaway/Chromia, Lead Developer)
Riccardo developed concepts and proof of works in Ethereum, SSO solutions on the blockchain, land registries in multiple countries over 4 continents, non fungible token protocol and roles management over blockchain.
Chromaway is the creator of relational blockchain, a class of blockchain platforms that combine the power and flexibility of mature relational database systems with the secure collaboration and disruptive potential of blockchain.
Chromaway acquired Antler Interactive, a gaming company which aims at showcasing the blockchain capabilities in the game industry.
Joshua Heilman (Waterdeep, Owner & CEO)
Joshua aka penguin is an entrepreneur, artist and game developer. Joshua earned his B.S. in Computer Science and specialized in Bioinformatics From University of California San Diego. He earned his Masters in Business Administration from Quantic School of Business and Technology and is currently enrolled At Northwestern University School of Law for his Doctorate of Jurisprudence. Joshua is the Owner and CEO of WaterdeepMud Entertainment and a Blockchain Developer.
Welcome to our new members in August
We are happy to announce the company members who recently joined the organization: Dacoco GmbH, IMVU, Rarible, Dapp.com, GAME Credits, Validation Capital, AMD and Cartesi!
Welcome to the Blockchain Game Alliance!
About the Blockchain Game Alliance
The Blockchain Game Alliance is an organization committed to promoting blockchain within the game industry.
Our goal is to spread awareness about blockchain technologies and encourage adoption by highlighting their potential to foster new ways to create, publish, play, and build strong communities around games.
The BGA also provides an open forum for individuals and companies to share knowledge and collaborate, create common standards, establish best practices, and network.
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Learn more about the BGA: http://www.blockchaingamealliance.org
