seoul
meta week
2023

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of The Sandbox decentralized Metaverse, a virtual world where players can create, play, own, govern and monetize their experiences using NFTs & SAND, the main utility token of the platform.

Sebastien also became the President of the Blockchain Game Alliance in 2020, a non-profit organization of 500 key members of the industry. He was recently named #4 in the Top #100 2022 most influential people in crypto by CoinTelegraph https://cointelegraph.com/top-people-in-crypto-and-blockchain/sebastien-borget.

The Sandbox has been featured in TIME100 Top 100 most influential companies of 2022 by Times magazine https://time.com/collection/time100-companies-2022/6159401/the-sandbox/.

Cong is the Head of Generative AI and XR Product and an expert with over ten years of experience in AI and Metaverse Industries. As the principal architect, he directed the development of the Tencent intelligent Bot Platform (AI Chatbot), Tencent Intelligent Media Platform (Generative AI), and Tencent Immersive Media Platform (Metaverse).

He has solid experience with machine learning algorithms, engineering, and productization. Before joining Tencent, Cong worked for Amazon AWS AI and led the team to develop the conversational AI service Lex from scratch, which supported the world’s first AI voice assistant, Alexa.

Cong earned his bachelor’s degree at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and a master’s in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in the USA. Later, he studied AI algorithms at Stanford University, under Professor Andrew Ng.

Dade Orgeron has been building virtual worlds for over 25 years. He has worked as a 3D Designer, Art Director, Creative Director, 3D Director and mentor – helping 3D artists hone the skills they need to become masters of their craft.

In 2013, Dade joined TurboSquid to help build and curate the world’s largest 3D content library and to bring 3D models to an even wider audience of non-3D users. Since then, his focus has been to simplify the overtly technical challenges facing 3D artists by developing standards, tools, and training that allow artists to focus more on the creative side of 3D content creation.

Now at Shutterstock, his vision for feeding content to the Metaverse gains even sharper focus as he looks toward harnessing AI and ML technologies to help 3D content creators build, conform, manage, and distribute their 3D content. Dade is based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Natalia Modenova is in the list of 50 disruptors of the USA by Newsweek, Top 50 people who shaped fashion in 2021 by Glossy, Highsnobiety for TOP13 experts on Fashion NFT, and in Threedium TOP50 Voices in AR, VR and 3D and featured in Forbes USA, Financial Times, Vogue Business, WWD, Business of Fashion, Dazed and other media.

Natalia has more than 10 years of experience in the fashion industry, her main activities include founding a showroom More Dash in Paris and the international conference Fashion Tech Summit alongside her business partner Daria Shapovalova. Natalia was a curator of the Fashion Business course at Kyiv Fashion Institute, curator at the Creative Ukraine conference, organized by the Ministry of Culture in Ukraine, an expert at Google Woman Digital Academy, SXSW speaker.

Starting as press-attaché at Mercedes-Benz Kyiv Fashion Days, Natalia became its COO. Later she co-founded More Dash showroom in Paris, promoting designers’ collections ro the internationally. In 2019 More Dash expanded to the US with its Fashion Experience Pop-Up Stores in Los Angeles. In 2020 Natalia launched their first tech company DRESSX Metacloset, which is disrupting the fashion industry by the digital transformation, bridging with the metaverse, web3, AR and tech.