Junyoung Bae, the Division Manager of the Intelligence Labs, is in charge of AI/ML, Data Analysis, Platform Development, UX and related businesses at Nexon Korea.

Nexon Korea was founded in 1994 and is now the largest online game development and publishing company in Korea, prodding various genres and styles of game services.

Furthermore, leveraging their expertise in live-services, Nexon Korea Intelligence Labs is providing a game developmet platform service called GameScale.

Junyoung Bae joined Nexon in 2007. He began with platform development and has continously expanded into the fieds of AI/ML, and even into the metaverse game/platform MapleStory World.

Betty is the CEO and Co-Founder of Deadfellaz, a first-of-its-kind project that launched in 2021 as an NFT collection of 10,000 zombies and has rapidly evolved into a modern-day media company cemented in pop culture. A celebrated Web3 thought leader driving conversations, Betty consistently brings progressive ideas and creative solutions into the spotlight, with the ultimate goal of building bridges from internet futurists to the traditional media world.

With a proven track record of successful Deadfellaz partnerships with Wrangler, DraftKings, Rolling Stone and Chicago Bulls to name a few, Betty has become a resource for Web2 brands to authentically engage in Web3.

Richard Chae is the Head of Korea at Roblox. He leads business operations and strategy in the Korean market, including initiatives and local partnerships aimed at driving the growth of the Roblox platform in the country. Richard has spent 20 years working at various tech and entertainment companies including Samsung Electronics, NHN Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Kabam, and Zynga.

Prior to joining Roblox, Richard held several senior-level positions at Kabam and Zynga, where he was responsible for driving growth in the Asia-Pacific region. He was also the general manager at Kabam’s publishing business, overseeing several successful mobile games.

Richard holds a B.A. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego.

Extensive international strategic planning experiences in various fields. Previously, Flora has successfully assisted several multinational companies in new product development and cross-industry projects.

Prior to blockchain, Flora has served as the Chief Operating Officer at an international gaming group, overseeing its development team and formulating operational plans. Outside of work, Flora is an avid e-sports player, and angel investor in web 3 and traditional games.

Ikhwan Cho, Head of SKT Metaverse Development Group, worked in Samsung Electronic DMC R&D Center and Mobile Business Department as research engineer for AR/VR technology development.

He moved to SKT R&D Center as a AR/VR technology team lead, and developed T real Platform with core technologies. Based on it, he has been invited at Google I/O 2015 and 2017 as the first Korean company and introduced new AR/VR technologies powered by SKT.

He launched ‘SKB Live Fairy Tales’ for the first kids AR TV service and ‘oksusu Social VR’ for the first co-watching service in VR space.

From 2019, he became 5GX Service Development Team Lead and developed JumpAR & JumpVR service as core 5G services. And He launched Jump Studio for volumetric video production and has been leading SKT social metaverse ‘ifland’ as Head of Metaverse Development in SKT since 2020.

Josh Drean is Co-founder & Director of Employee Experience at The Work3 Institute, Web3 Advisor at the Harvard Innovation Labs, and Co-author of Employment is Dead (Harvard Business Review Press, 2024).

He is an HR Transformation and Metaverse expert who marries web3 technologies with workplace strategies. As Co-founder of The Work3 Institute, a research, and consulting agency focused on human-centric digital transformation. Josh’s aim is to help companies thrive in the rapidly changing world of work.

Josh’s work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fast Company, and The Economist and he has made appearances on The Today Show, NBC, and FOX Business. He speaks internationally to bring market insights to digital first leaders.

Josh earned his undergraduate degree in I/O psychology and a masters degree at Harvard University, where he incubated and sold an HR Tech startup pioneering sentiment analysis in real-time.

Currently, Jin, Ho is the head of the digital business division in charge of metaverse and creator platform business. He also worked for the mobile and digital conversion before that position in Lotte Home Shopping.

As a marketer, Jin, Ho developed my career at Lotte Department Store and finally became a digital expert by working as an online and omnichannel team leader. With all his passion, he has kept new experiments such as Belligom, digital human Lucy, WYD, and ITOO platforms. It will make Lotte Group and Lotte Home Shopping to become a leader in the metaverse ecosystem.

Joanne Hyojung Joo is currently the Senior Vice President of Digital Strategy at Amorepacific, where she is responsible for digital strategy, data marketing, Amazon Biz. and various digital new businesses such as metaverse, virtual influence, etc.

In 2016, she contributed to the introduction of the first in-house venture program, ‘Lean Startup’, and led the company’s digital transformation with supporting the brand’s e-commerce and digital marketing. Amorepacific, Korea’s first beauty company with over 80 years of history, is a global company with 23 overseas subsidiaries across the globe, and a Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies.

Prior to joining Amorepacific, she worked at SK Telecom and SK Planet in new business development and strategy roles, including Gifticon, 11st, and Syrup. She graduated from Yonsei University in 2006 with a degree in Business Administration.

With over 15 years of experience as a seasoned tech professional, Julie currently holds the position of Head of Product at DRESSX, a leading digital fashion company.

In her role, she leverages her expertise to lead the development of innovative products for metaverse that drive the company’s growth. Julie’s dynamic leadership style and extensive tech knowledge have earned her recognition as an accomplished industry leader.

Her contributions to DRESSX have been instrumental in driving the company’s continued success and growth.

Mingu Kim director has been leading the strategic alliance and development of new business and new service at LG U+. LG U+ is leading telco in South Korea, is pursuing the Uplus3.0 strategy to lead future growth. Uplus 3.0 creates platform business through developing an outstanding user experience.

Now, he is leading Web3 business development Lab. His team is experimenting new concept providing differentiated user experience based on metaverse & web3 tech. For achieving product-market fit is making prototypes and testing for gathering user feedback like Startup. He had experience in planning and launching 5G AR and 5G VR contents services at the time of global first 5G commercialization. He is a business developer creating new business in large corporations.

Woosuk Kim successfully introduced LINE’s crypto asset LINK and blockchain platforms in 2018 as an early member of LINE’s blockchain business. Since then, he has contributed to the expansion of LINE’s blockchain and token economy ecosystem by leading the global LINE blockchain business, such as developing a reward solution for issuance of LINK and launching various DApps through the LINE blockchain platform.

In addition, Woosuk is a fintech business expert who graduated from the Department of Business Administration at Yonsei University. He co-founded Sentbe, a fintech company specializing in foreign exchange, and served as CMO.

Dan Lee currently leads Business Development efforts in NOD Games, the creators of the first Web3 MMORTS game League of Kingdoms. NOD Games is a leading Web3 game studio, backed by a16z, Sequoia, Binance Labs, Hashed and Blocktower.

Since ’22, Dan is dedicated to making NOD Games one of the world’s best and largest gaming studios.
Prior to NOD Games, Dan was a consultant at BCG, brand manager at Samsung Mobile, and financial analyst at the Kraft Heinz Company.

Lee Seung Joon, NFT TF Lead manager at Shinsegae I&C, is a specialized DX consultant who has performed various NFT projects and consulting within the Shinsegae Group. Based on this experience, he has led the planning and development of the retail industry-specific NFT service, SpharosNFT, launched by Shinsegae I&C.

He started his career at GS Neotek in 2007 and oversaw domestic and international IT planning and operations. In 2018, he moved to Pulmuone to establish and execute DX promotion strategies.

Through tasks related to domestic cold chain management and overseas customs clearance innovation, he entered the blockchain industry. He joined Shinsegae I&C in 2021 as a consultant for the emerging technology team and NFT TF Lead.

Kodai Morishita is a game producer at GREE, Inc. Since 2022, he has been working as a producer for a brand-new blockchain game that is currently in development. He joined GREE in 2016 and led the development of several mobile games as a game producer.

He specializes in forming alliances and collaborations with Japanese major game publishers and IP licensors and has extensive experience in global publishing of mobile games.

In 2018, GREE launched REALITY, an avatar metaverse app, and in 2022, GREE entered the web3 space through BLRD PTE. BLRD also operates blockchain as a validator for Avalanche, Polygon, Oasys, and other major chains.

Kerry is the founder of The Fabricant, a digital fashion house leading the fashion industry towards a new sector of digital-only clothing.

His education is in film and visual effects and he worked in the advertising industry for companies like Facebook, Nike, Asics, Under Armour, Playstation, Philips and many more for over a decade, before establishing The Fabricant full-time in 2018 following two-years of technical and business development.

Finland-native Kerry combines his technical 3D/VFX, creative direction and business skills to form the foundation of The Fabricant.

Jin Oh, a Partner at BITKRAFT Ventures, is responsible for the Firm’s Asia investments.  BITKRAFT is a global early-stage venture capital firm for games and immersive entertainment technology.  It has a dominant brand, over $850M in AUM across five funds, a strong track record, a team of ~25, and an institutional-grade platform and investment process underpinning its work.

Prior to BITKRAFT, Jin was the President of World-Wide Publishing at Riot Games and a core member of the Executive Team.  Before becoming President, he was the Vice President of International and started as the Country Manager of Korea and Managing Director of Asia. Jin was also the CEO of Garena (Sea Limited) and Managing Director of Korea and Southeast Asia at Blizzard Entertainment.

Yawn Rong is Co-Founder of Find Satoshi Lab, a development studio that specializes in AI and Blockchain technology. With a proven track record of delivering exceptional products, Yawn is a key player in the company’s success.

He is responsible for the conceptualization, gamification, and tokenomic strategies for various products built by Find Satoshi Lab. Notably, Yawn has been instrumental in the development of STEPN, a revolutionary Web3 Fitness App, MOOAR, an innovative AIGC Tool & NFT Marketplace, and DOOAR, a cutting-edge Multi-chain DEX.

Find Satoshi Lab is dedicated to creating an inclusive Web3 ecosystem that features new and exciting game, social, and NFT elements.

Bryan Song is the lead of Biz&Ops for Project Migaloo. Project Migaloo is a mobile interactive content platform co-developed by Krafton and Naver Z, utilizing Enreal Engine, deep learning technology, and blockchain.

Before joining Krafton, Bryan founded xSync, an event-based SaaS service, and successfully managed it for around 6 years. Prior to that, he worked as a concert director and producer at Plan A Production Group for approximately 6 years.

Philipp Sostmann is Lead of Metaverse Partnerships & Solutions at PwC Germany.

He is recognized as international thought leader in the area of work& collaboration in the metaverse.

His previous metaverse engagements got awarded internationally as best-practice.

Artur is Founder and CEO of Somnium Space. He has been navigating virtual worlds for more than two decades starting with Ultima Online in 1999, then Second Life and many more.

Artur strongly believes in the ultimate future of Virtual Reality worlds with open and decentralized economy based on blockchain, amazing creation tools where imagination is the only limit.

Artur has worked as an investment trader for many years before creating his first startup and becoming a serial entrepreneur. He is husband and a father of two wonderful children.

Yuliya Prokopyshyn is an Associate at Gunnercooke LLP with a focus on Web3, metaverse, DeFi and NFT projects.

Based in the UK, she has extensive experience advising clients on the legal and regulatory implications of emerging technologies and has been at the forefront of the blockchain industry for several years. Before joining Gunnercooke LLP, Yuliya worked at Stephenson Law, where she helped ambitious startup projects navigate the complex legal landscape of Web3 and assisted international businesses with building their Web3 strategies.

Yuliya is a sought-after speaker and has spoken at numerous conferences, including NFT.London and London Law Conference, and will now be speaking at METACON in South Korea. She holds legal degrees from universities in the UK and US and is passionate about the potential of blockchain and Web3 to transform the economy.