Tom Barrett is President and Founder of two ICANN-accredited domain name registrars founded in 2001: EnCirca, and Name Share.  Tom serves as the Chair of the Blockchain Subcommittee of the Emerging Issues Committee for the International Trademark Association.

EnCirca’s business specialty is partnering with restricted  top-level domain registries, such as .CPA, .BANK. .BOT, .REALTOR and .REALESTATE.

EnCirca is involved in several projects on Ethereum and Handshake blockchains, as well as providing a brand name claiming service for reserved TLDs and brands on these blockchains.

Tom has engineering degrees from MIT and WPI and lives north of Boston, Massachusetts.

Paul Budnitz is an American entrepreneur, artist, designer, filmmaker, author, and programmer. He has founded over a dozen companies including global entertainment brand Superplastic; art toy & apparel company Kidrobot; luxury bicycle brand Budnitz Bicycles; and Ello, the social network for creators.

Over a dozen of Budnitz’ creations appear in permanent collection of MoMA, and his short films have won awards at film festivals around the world. He programmed the backend software behind most of his companies, is the author of four books, and lectures on creativity worldwide. Budnitz is often credited with launching the designer toy movement in the US and Europe. Paul Budnitz studied art at Yale University and currently splits his time between New York City and his home in Burlington, Vermont.

Jamie Lewis is the CEO and Co Founder of Ioconic, a digital asset licensing business that integrates the world’s most iconic brands into the digital ecosystem. By curating digital strategies, Ioconic provides brand owners the opportunity to increase engagement, diversify IP risk and monetise an economy that was previously inaccessible to them.

Prior to founding Ioconic with his partners, Jamie served as the Global Licensing Director for an international consumer products business overseeing licensing acquisitions, brand development and international distribution.

Jamie has advised numerous technology based start ups across multiple industries and holds a degree in Finance from The University of Nottingham.  

Vandana Taxali (B.A.Sc., J.D., LL.B, C.Arb) is an art-tech entrepreneur and entertainment, art, business  and intellectual property lawyer with over 15 years experience practising in the area of technology, blockchain and arts/entertainment.  She is an arbitrator with the International Court of Art (Hague).

She is the founder of Artcryption, a platform to protect, manage and licence art, digital assets and IP with NFTs and blockchain technology.  She is also an art arbitrator with the International Court of Art at the Hague. Vandana serves on the Standard Council of Canada blockchain committee and the Art Identity Standard, NFT Working Group which is a consortium of art industry leaders developing a universal art ID standard.

She is a co-founder of digiArt, which looks at the innovative technologies for artists including blockchain, AI, AR, VR etc.  She also teaches about IP rights including NFTs at OCAD University.  She is a frequent speaker on intellectual property, artist rights and NFTs.

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