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Video Recordings of the Nov 6&7 Vendor Conference Are Now Available

Here are the recordings of all the Keynote talks, Panels, and Vendor Presentations from the Nov 6 & 7, 2022 Vendor Conference and Expo, held in the Grand Theater of the Decentraland Conference Center https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUs5GHLWhNi35lsV2CudQBvjCx20l7fNz

Original announcement and full info about the conference is here:
https://dclconf.com/2022/10/28/vendor-conference-expo-nov-6-7/

Arlington International Film Festival – Voices of our Youth

20 Student Short Films from the Arlington International Film Festival,
Nov 13-20 at the Star Cinema theater in the Decentraland Conference Center.
For more info about the festival, visit: https://aiffest.org/
To see the list and schedule of the 20 student films, visit: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g79__o7YOyMaBF-PhORxUDOwsOzsA9oLptrG5PyJCCs/edit

Vendor Conference & Expo Nov 6 & 7

Calling all metaverse citizens, the Vendor Conference and Expo is set to take place at the Grand Theater in Decentraland! 🎭

Vendors from all around Decentraland will be presenting their products and services, and conducting Q&A sessions with the audience, and having booths n the Expo. You’ll also have the opportunity to hear interesting Keynote speeches and Panel Discussions moderated by Nodo, the founder of MetaViu 🟩

Dates/Times: Sunday and Monday, Nov 6 & 7, 15:00 to 21:00 UTC each day
Location: https://play.decentraland.org/?position=26,111&realm=dg

Recordings of all the talks and panels

Here are the recordings of all the Keynote talks, Panels, and Vendor Presentations from the Nov 6 & 7, 2022 Vendor Conference and Expo, held in the Grand Theater of the Decentraland Conference Center https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUs5GHLWhNi35lsV2CudQBvjCx20l7fNz

Full Conference Schedule and Expo Booth Directory

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19-ab8FM1H8SpUCTR95KFdB3eQpwqcV3dNRw6V5Tmohc

Keynote speakers

Ian Corzine
Founder and Host of Metaverse Mastery

Ian Corzine – Founder and Host of Metaverse Mastery
Topic: Legal Aspects of Web3, NFTs and Fund Raising
Date/Time: Sunday Nov 6, 15:05 UTC

Dara Albright
President of DWealth Education

Dara Albright – President of DWealth Education, decentralized finance expert – Topic: Mankind’s Evolution to Web3 and the Participate-2-Earn (P2E) Economy
Date/Time: Sunday Nov 6, 20:00 UTC

Carl Fravel, Founder of the Decentraland Conference Center, CoFounder of the Decentraland Film Festival, Principle of Applied Talent LLC, and member of leadership team of Aetheria district.
Topic: Why I’m investing in the MetaVerse, and in Decentraland in particular.
Date/Time: Monday, Nov 7, 15:00 UTC

Esteban Ordano
CoFounder of Decentraland Project

Esteban Ordano – Cofounder and tech lead of the Decentraland Project.
Topic: DAOs and the Future of Collaboration and Decentralization.
Date/Time: Monday Nov 7, 20:00 UTC

Zabine Van Ness
Founder and Director of the Unity Museum

Zabine Van Ness – Founder and Director of the Unity Museum
Virtual Museums and Education – Building Global Peace
Date/Time: Monday Nov 7, 20:30 UTC

Conference Session Facilitator

Nodo Ivanidze
Founder of MetaViu.io

Nodo Ivanidze
Nodo is the Founder of MetaViu.io. He has 10+ years experience in the advertising business and has built several successful tech startups. He is also a regular Web3 investor and advisor.

Panel Discussions

1) How to Utilize Decentraland for Business

Sunday Nov 6, 15:30 UTC
Panelists are:
* Nodo Ivanidze – Founder of MetaViu.io, facilitator
* Yaroslav Volovoj (@MrV) – Founder of MetaAds, successful serial entrepreneur focued on Web3 and the Metaverse.
* Brandon F. Johnson (@PRZM) Chief Experience Officer (CXO), TerraZero
* William Gomez (@CipherWill) CEO, MetaZone.io
* Ian Corzine (@Ian Corzine), Founder and Host of Metaverse Mastery

(Panelist Information below)

2) Financing Decentraland Projects

Monday Nov 7, 15:30 UTC
Panelists are:
* Nodo Ivanidze – Founder of MetaViu.io, facilitator
* Gia Castello, Grant Support Squad Advisor, Decentraland Foundation
* James Ashton, lead of the Vegas District
* Chris Oniya – Founder and Visionary, MetaTrekkers NFT
* JessieJess – NFT Artist, head of Corporate at nonfungible.com
* Steve Deery – Co-Founder Decentraland Films / Star Cinema.

(Panelist Information below)

Vendor Expo during the Conference

During the conference, we will also have a Vendor Expo area with information booths you can visit to get more information about what these vendors can help you with.
Vendor Booth Directory:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19-ab8FM1H8SpUCTR95KFdB3eQpwqcV3dNRw6V5Tmohc/edit#gid=278828608

Panelists

Nodo Ivanidze
Founder of MetaViu.io

* Nodo Ivanidze – Founder of MetaViu.io, facilitator
Nodo is Founder of MetaViu.io. He has 10+ years experience in the advertising business. He has built several successful tech startups. He also Web3 investor and advisor.

Yaroslav Volovoj (@MrV)
Founder of MetaAds

* Yaroslav Volovoj (@MrV) – Founder of MetaAds, successful serial entrepreneur focued on Web3 and the Metaverse.

* Brandon F. Johnson (@PRZM) Chief Experience Officer (CXO), TerraZero

* William Gomez (@CipherWill) CEO, MetaZone.io

* Ian Corzine (@Ian Corzine), Founder and Host of Metaverse Mastery

Gia Castello,
Grant Support Squad Advisor, Decentraland Foundation
  • Gia Castello, Grant Support Squad Advisor, Decentraland Foundation
    Gia has worked managing grant programs for 10 years, supporting open source initiatives that foster collaboration. She joined Decentraland as an Advisor to the Grants Support Squad to support the grantees, foster transparency in the grants ecosystem and guarantee an efficient use of the community treasury.
James Asthton
Leader of the Vegas Disrict

* James Ashton, leader of the Vegas District

Chris Oniya
Founder and Visionary, MetaTrekkers NFT

* Chris Oniya – Founder and Visionary, MetaTrekkers NFT
Chris is the CEO and founder of Life of Musk and MetaTrekkers NFT. He earned his  Master of Business Administration Cum Laude and is now a candidate to graduate with a degree of Doctor in Business Administration and focus innovation management. He is also the Houston Ambassador for Texas Blockchain Council and works as a Decentraland Reporter. He is also an investor of Ripple and an Open Sea Angel investor. 

JessieJess
NFT Artist, Marketing

* JessieJess – NFT Artist, head of Corporate at nonfungible.com

Steve Deery
CoFounder Decentraland Film Festival and Star Cinema

* Steve Deery – Co-Founder Decentraland Films / Star Cinema.

Mark your calendar, and come to this great conference…

Join us, talk to your favourite vendors and increase utility for your land.

Mark the date: 6-7 November, 3:00 PM – 9:00 PM UTC both days. 🚀

Location: https://play.decentraland.org/?position=26,111&realm=dg

Decentraland Calendar event:
https://events.decentraland.org/event/?id=e9bee3f4-a12b-4920-9c5b-5a0398497f23

Hauntology of the Retrodromomania Oct 24 – Nov 2, 2022

Hauntology of the Retrodromomania

How would Artificial Intelligence imagine the Nostalgic Paradigm?

Enter a Neo-noir postmodern Paris and discover the Hauntology of the Retrodromomania! For a Sociology of Nostalgia revisited, narrated by an Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Sociology of Nostalgia: avant-garde documentary on the phenomenon of the Nostalgic Paradigm, discoursing on a late capitalistic landscape of social emotions, in a postmodern Neo-noir Paris, escorted by the spirits of French post-structuralists.

https://play.decentraland.org/?position=11,101&realm=baldr

Arlington International Film Festival – Voices of our Youth

23 Student Short Films from the Arlington International Film Festival, were shown Oct 10-23 at the Star Cinema theater in the Decentraland Conference Center.
For more info about the festival, visit: https://aiffest.org/
To see the list and schedule of the 23 student films, visit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o73qcMVZ6crygAYLs8X1gyBAlqQPaUIdV2C9e_ghyJo/edit

Luther Blisset Legacy NFTs exhibit in The Gallery Oct 1-31, 2022

The retrospective “Satanic Panic” invites the visitor to explore a handpicked selection from the 428 NFT video artworks of the Luther Blissett Legacy collection created by ARTOLDO crypto in memory of the super folk hero Luther Blissett (1994-1999). The exhibition reflects on the different selves of the Luther Blissett pseudonym which was used by hundreds of left-wing artists in Europe to produce art, perform pranks, and publish books. Their most famous novel “Q” may have been abused by right-wing renegades as inspiration for their conspiracy theory of QAnon.

Besides this historical political homage, the Luther Blissett Legacy goes one step further by employing a philosophical aspect of the crypto culture and establishing the suppositional protocols of Proof of Workerism vs. Proof of Prank. The artwork in the name of the credo of NFT may be seen as a liberation of slavery of work but at the same time as an orgy of capitalistic speculation, pure “cognitive labour” greatly subsumed by the capital once more in an eternal mocking. A concept prophesied about the destiny of industrial labour by some of the protagonists of a critical Italian radical current of political thought called Operaismo, i.e. Workerism, yet in a forward, joking and fresh interpretation. PoW and PoP (culture) combined form a bright communist anti-capitalist stance which the duo explains academically by hijacking the identities of recognised leftist professors and intellectuals using the same techniques as Luther Blissett but in an updated fashion for the Web 2 and Web 3. Their white paper offers a deeper look into the world of the Luther Blissett pseudonym in the form of collected texts and interviews and an own understanding of the power to stay anonymous by transferring the actual (hi)story of Luther Blissett to the technical evolution of the Blockchain and the world of crypto itself – concluding their essay that Satoshi Nakamoto has much in common with the pseudonym of Luther Blissett which may be seen as some sort of reincarnation of the ideals of anonymity, as a reformation of the doctrine (FIAT dogma vs. the crypto millennialism, akin Luthers’ rebellion), and as miseducation of “received” canon.

Project website: https://lutherblissettlegacy.github.io/collection/

NFT collection on OpenSea: https://opensea.io/collection/lutherblissett

Curators: Carl Fravel, Pondweed

Ritman Library – a documentary film by Sara Ferro and Chris Weil – Oct 1-10, 2022

A documentary film about the Ritman Library of Hermetic Philosophy (Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica) was hosted in the Star Cinema Theater.

For more information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotheca_Philosophica_Hermetica

https://www.facebook.com/RitmanLibrary/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6581616/

Equinox Mountain Environmental Film Festival held at the Star Cinema theater in the Decentraland Conference Center, Sept 21-28

An extended showing of 30 top films from in this international film festival was held in the Star Cinema theater. The films ran on a repeating 4 hour schedule. The festival was free and open to the public . Visitors also were able to vote on the People’s Choice award.

Cros Ads Platform Launch event held in the Athena Ampitheater Sept 3, 2022

Cros is thrilled to announce the launch of its first product; the Cros ads Manager platform. To commemorate this phenomenal milestone, the team is hosting an immersive 4-hour event covering the following activities:

Panel Discussions

With industry leaders from renowned brands like Amazon, Polygon, Parity, Microsoft, Huobi, Decentraland, Cros, Bitscrunch, SevenX Ventures, among others, to provide their insights on how to build a Metaverse Economy

Cros Ad Manager Launch

Product launch presentation & demo making the metaverse economy real for publishers, creators and advertisers through our Ad Platform infrastructure.

  • Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) session with team from CROS, Polygon and Decentraland

Fun & Socialize

There will be fun activities happening throughout the 4 hours, including lucky draws for free Multiverse Pass passes to be won.

The event will wrap up with DJ Music & socialize event next door at Unity Café.

Yes! we are ecstatic about creating an inclusive experience for users that matches reality whilst they navigate the metaverse!

We hope to see you at the event!

Want to follow Cros’ adventurous quest to build the next-generation advertising in the metaverse?

Come hang out with us on our media platforms

Saturday, Sep 03 from 06:00pm to 10:00pm (UTC)
Theater Athena
Decentraland Conference Center