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How Digital Fashion Will Entice People into the Metaverse with the French American Chamber of Commerce
Oct
19
Join us, in partnership with the French American Chamber of Commerce, for a discussion about fashions future as an entry point to the metaverse.
Could the next few years see digital fashion NFTs inspire mass adoption of the metaverse?In 2021-22 we saw Non-Fungible Tokens ("NFTs") become one of the mainstream ways that people adopted web3 and crypto technologies. Could the next few years see digital fashion NFTs inspire a similar mass adoption of the metaverse? Many new digital accessories and clothes are being designed as NFTs – so a whole new set of potential users will come for the fashion, and end up onboarding onto a whole new set of technologies.
About French American Chamber of Commerce
The French American Chamber of Commerce (FACC-NY) is the only bi-national organization of its kind. Our mission is to develop business relationships between France and the United States and their respective business communities. With a diverse member base—from manufacturing to legal, accounting, startups, food & beverage, tech, HR, luxury fashion & beauty, and beyond—we create the connections and networks that help your business grow.
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Speakers
John Borthwick
John Borthwick has been a leader in the New York startup, technology business for over two decades. He is the Founder and CEO of betaworks, a New York-based startup platform that builds, accelerates & invests in early-stage consumer technology. Companies built by betaworks include Giphy, Dots, bitly, Tweetdeck, and Chartbeat. Investments & accelerated companies include Twitter, Tumblr, Kickstarter, Medium, Anchor, Gimlet and recently Hugging Face, RecRoom, Superplastic, and XMTP.
He serves on the boards of WNYC, New York Public Radio, Data & Society, and several DAOs. John holds an MBA from Wharton and a BA in Economics from Wesleyan University.
Megan Kaspar
Megan Kaspar is a founding member of Red DAO, the world’s first digital fashion focused DAO. Red invests in the emergent opportunities arising from dematerialized fashion and apparel trends, powered by blockchain technology. To date, Red DAO holds the most valuable fashion NFT, the Dolce & Gabbana Doge Crown purchased for 423.5 ETH. She is also a co-founder and Managing Director at FirstLight, a privately held digital asset, blockchain agnostic investment and incubation firm.
Dennis Crowley
Dennis Crowley is a technology entrepreneur working at the intersection of the real world & digital world. His work focuses on creating things that make everyday life feel a little more fun and playful.
Dennis is Co-Founder & CEO at Hopscotch Labs, working towards building a "Marauder's Map for AirPods." He is also the Co-Founder/Co-Chair at Foursquare, one of the world's leading location technology platforms. Previously, he founded Dodgeball, one of the first location-based mobile social services (acquired by Google in 2005) and co-created PacManhattan, one of the earliest "big urban games" (2004).
He is also the Co-Founder/Co-Chair at Street FC ("building the biggest football club on the planet") and the Founder/Chairman of Kingston Stockade FC, a semi-professional soccer team out of Hudson Valley, NY that competes in the 4th division of the US Soccer Pyramid.
He has been named one of Fortune's "40 Under 40" (2010, 2011), a member of Vanity Fair's "New Establishment" (2011, 2012), won the "Fast Money" bonus round on the TV game show Family Feud (2009), and was worth $400 on Jeopardy (2020). He was previously an Adjunct Professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).Dennis holds a Master's degree from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and a Bachelor's degree from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.
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