Martin Lees is a software engineer specialized in machine learning and blockchain. His experience includes working on embedded systems at orange, a large telecom company, for three years. Martin has been involved with several projects related to blockchain allowing him to grasp a great understanding of the technology, it’s strength, weaknesses and use cases. He has experimented with various decentralized apps on the steem blockchain including a wallet creator and a decentralized storage system. Today his main focus is steemPress, a platform he co-founded to empower WordPress bloggers using the steem blockchain.
Kazé A. ONGUENE is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of BRAINCITIES LAB. A Futuristic Thinker and Entrepreneur with over 15 years experience in IT project management, recruitment, team building and web development, he studied Software engineering at ECE Paris and computer science at la Sorbonne. Kazé Founded EMERGENCE GROUP, a digital media company in 2006 transformed into an IT consulting company in 2011. During the last 15 years, Kazé used his creativity and resources to help companies like France Telecom, Pierre & Vacances and Le Figaro adapt their businesses to digitization and develop web-based projects. Using AI, robots and blockchain to design the city of the future and a sustainable society is his engineer challenge. Kazé is militating for Data Commoditization.
Terry is the Founder of InventoryClub, an inventory financing ecosystem enabling merchants of Commonwealth Nations to access financed inventory from a global membership of financial backers. The ecosystem comprises of a peer-2-peer financing platform, IOT enabled smart warehouses and a business-2-consumer ecommerce marketplace powered by the InventoryVault blockchain to provide stakeholders with trusted, immutable and transparent data. Terry previously served as vice chair of the Entrepreneurs Specialist Group at the British Computer Society and is currently a member of the techUK Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) Working Group.
Glen Goodman is the author of The Crypto Trader, published in 2019 by Harriman House. In his Amazon bestseller, he draws on 20 years of trading experience to show how anyone can trade cryptocurrency successfully. Glen is also a cryptocurrency contributing expert for the London School of Economics. He was formerly a Business Correspondent for BBC News and ITV News, interviewing leading politicians, including Boris Johnson, David Cameron and Theresa May. Glen's Facebook page, Glen Goodman – The Shares Guy, has more than a quarter of a million followers. It focuses on teaching people how to invest sensibly in cryptocurrencies and other investments. He is regularly interviewed about cryptocurrency and other business topics on BBC TV & Radio, Al Jazeera, LBC, The Guardian, The Independent and Forbes. Glen famously turned a £3000 trade into £100,000 by betting there would be a crash in 2008, an experience he wrote about for The Times. He started trading cryptocurrencies while they were still in their infancy and quickly discovered there were enormous profits to be made. With his trading experience he was able to make those profits – and keep them, while most other traders were losing their money during the Bitcoin crash of 2018. In The Crypto Trader, Glen shows how anyone can learn to do what he did.
Tristan is the CEO and co-founder of Based Global. His deep passion for business, communications, design and brand building has seen him not only start his own small businesses but work for multi million dollar brands such as Caesars Casino, Red Bull, and Kraken. Tristan’s endless curiosity led him to become a developer where he is able to mix business with technology to positively affect and interact with people’s daily lives. Throughout his career Tristan has valued interpersonal communications and connecting with people. Echoing this value motivated Tristan to start Based which at its heart stands for connecting people around live experiences.
