1:00 PM

Check-in and Networking

1:30 PM

Welcome Remarks:

• Yu Yuan (President, IEEE Standards Association)
• Yuying Gosser (President, CAST-GNY)

1:50 PM

Keynote “Less Carbon, More Silicon” by Yu Yuan (President, IEEE Standards Association)

2:10 PM

Keynote “Building the Superapp for the Open Metaverse” by Dirk Lueth (Co-founder & Co-CEO Uplandme Inc.; Chairperson, OMA3)

2:30 PM

Keynote “Harnessing the Power of XR to Fight Climate Change” by by Ori Inbar (Co-founder & CEO, AWE & Super Ventures)

2:50 PM

Keynote “The Metaverse Mindset for Web3, AI and the Future of Business” by Sandy Carter (COO, Unstoppable Domains)

3:10 PM

Networking Break

3:25 PM

Panel - What’s the Real Megatrend? NFT, Metaverse, or Generative AI?

Moderator: Ramesh Ramadoss (Chair, IEEE Blockchain Technical Community)

Panelists:

• Sandy Carter (COO, Unstoppable Domains)
• Zhou Yu (Co-founder & CEO, Articulate.AI; Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University)
• Sean (Sichao) Yang  (Co-founder and CTO at Oort)

4:10 PM

Panel - Will Metaverse Be a Driver or a Cure of Climate Change?

Moderator:  Rob Fish (Vice President, IEEE Standards Association)

Panelists:

• Julie Grimes Waldorf (General Counsel & VP for Business Development, Carbonbase)

• Ori Inbar (Co-founder & CEO, AWE & Super Ventures)

• Si ("C") Yang (General Manager, Glimpse Asia)

• John Havens (Sustainability Practice Lead, IEEE Standards Association)

4:55 PM

5:40 PM

Panel 3 - The Future of Young Pioneers in the Era of Metaverse

Moderator: Jaclyn Ding (President, MIT VCPE Club; Co-founder, Web3Port)

Panelists:

• Christina Chen (CMO, SWFT Blockchain)

• Charles Cheng (Co-founder & CFO at BCE.IO)

• Calvin Du (VC Investments,OP Crypto)
• Henry Yan (Co-founder, Metaverse AI)
• Jack He (Co-founder, Aspecta)

Closing Remarks

Ramesh Ramadoss (Chair, IEEE Blockchain Technical Community)

Rob Fish (Vice President, IEEE Standards Association)

5:50 PM

Networking

6:00 PM

Conclusion