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Timothy Hughes is a bestselling author, creator, influencer, and a content sales professional. Tim is currently the co-founder and CEO of DLA ignite after a 25+ year career in sales and executive positions in companies like Oracle, Fujitsu, Sysao and more. Using his social media networks, Tim Hughes has been contributing to the creator economy in his given subjects of social and digital selling, digital marketing, leadership, and management.
 
Timothy is a bestselling author, having co-authored “Social Selling - Techniques to Influence Buyers and Changemakers” now in its second edition and “Smarketing - How To Achieve Competitive Advantage through Blended Sales and Marketing”, both published by Kogan Page.
 
Having worked extensively for more than 35 years in sales and marketing, Tim has made possible large-scale sales transformations within different organisations, including Fujitsu, Sysao, e-Vector and DSP Global. But his most important role has been at Oracle as UK Business Development Director. His position at Oracle brought large-scale sales transformation and with the result of increasing by more than $100m the sales uplift of the company.

Interview Questions

1. About your professional and academic background
2. Early career and motivations
3. Your role and the stories behind the foundation of DLA Ignite
4. About DLA Ignite:
5. Can you explain more about the impact of social media to every business function and how your transformation products can tackle the current challenges?
6. Could you explain more about the 5 cornerstones of Social Selling?
7. What do you think about “Influencer Marketing” since it has become more and more viral in recent years?
8. Do you have any significant advice that you would like to give our audiences, especially the ones who are doing Business Development/ Sales or companies who are looking for a wide transformation?
9. Please summarise the five pillars you mentioned in your book ‘Social Selling - Techniques to Influence Buyers and Changemakers’.

About DLA Ignite

Timothy Hughes and Adam Gray formed DLAignite when they saw the effect that social media could have and realised that in the future social media would probably play a crucial role in the effectiveness of all organisations. They founded DLAIgnite in September 2016 and were almost immediately joined by Alex. 
 
DLAignite maintains a permanent presence in all of earth’s diverse continents The benefit of global partnerships gives DLAignite the ability to pair organisations with local associates who understand specific regional linguistic nuance and cultural sensitivities.
 
To date through its associate and partner networks,  DLAignite operates in territories covering well over 40% of the world’s population and is constantly expanding this.

References

Company Website: DLAIgnite.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothyhughessocialselling/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Timothy_Hughes
You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/c/TimothyHughes1 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimHughesSocialSelling/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tim_hughes1/
Clubhouse: @timothy_hughes 
Tik Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@timothy_hughes

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QuHarrison Terry is an author and digital global expert growth marketer. QuHarrison is head of growth marketing at Mark Cuban Companies, a Dallas, Texas venture capital firm.

A true personality in LinkedIn and digital marketing, QuHarrison has co-authored the NFT Handbook, a detailed guide on how to create, sell and buy non-fungible tokens without the need for a technical background, and more recently, The Metaverse Handbook: Innovating for the Internet's Next Tectonic Shift, a guide to every aspect of the technologies and cultural change related to the metaverse.

QuHarrison has also been featured on CNN, Huffington Post, Xconomy, Cointelegraph, MobiHealthNews, MedCity News, and as the Co-Host on CNBC’s No Retreat: Business Bootcamp, a series that centres around the philosophy of Wall Street famous broker Joe De Sena and is materialized in his off-the-grid, elite Vermont training facility known as "The Farm".

QuHarrison Terry made it 4 times as LinkedIn Top Voice in Tech for his contribution to digital marketing and technology.

QuHarrison Terry Interview Questions

1. Redefining metaverse
2. You say the metaverse is till not here, but in my opinion, I’d say we are someway here. What in your vision of metaverse, is the feature that needs to be developed to create a bridge?
3. Please summarise your vision for metaverse in the near future
4. Your views on NFTs in the metaverse
5. Pods (Artefacts) in the metaverse
6. What do you think is the way to harness the true potentials that lie within the metaverse?
7. My own vision of metaverse is holograms going around to create an immersive experience. What is your take on digital twins and latest advancements?
8. How do you see sports and entertainment in the metaverse?
9. If you certify everyone in the metaverse, the bots disappear. But, creators need those networks- a challenge and an opportunity here. How do you see this?
10. How can users find their element in the metaverse?

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Braham Singh is a seasoned executive leader, author and global thought leader with more than 30 years of experience in the telecom industry, content delivery networks, and cloud services. Currently, Braham is the CEO of Big Data Exchange (BDx).

As an author, he has written the novel ‘Bombay Swastika’ and contributed to the Amazon Best Seller, Greener Data: Actionable Insights from Industry Leaders.

Braham Singh Interview Questions

1. Background - Early Years
2. About your professional journey from being in sales to an analyst in telecommunications, and then to data centers and cloud exchanges.
3. Where does your passion for writing come from? How do you link it up to your science background?
4. What would you highlight from your career?
5. The Telecom Industry today
6. What is BDx Data Centers?
7. BDx and Data management in the web 3.0 era
8. Data and metaverse
9. Final remarks

Braham Singh Biography

Bombay born and chemistry science graduate, Braham Singh got his first job as a software systems analyst and spending some time in the telecommunications field, Braham made his way to the world of data centers around 2008.

Along his career, Braham Singh has worked with brands like Hutchinson AT&T, Sprint International, Globe One, Teleglobe International, BtN Access (now PCCW Global), and Hutchison Telecommunications, among others.
As an executive leader, Braham Singh has held key positions as SVP at Global Product Management of Reliance Communications & Global Cloud Xchange and also the CEO of Red Snapper, a Malaysian government-funded initiative, to promote the growth of wireless broadband in the country.

As the CEO of IDC and Associated Business, Braham played a leading role in developing HGC’s cutting-edge Big Data Exchange (BDx) services – a one-stop content exchange platform built for content providers, with a focus on cyber and physical security, as well as on containment.
CEO of BDx

Since 2020, he has been leading BDx as the CEO, overseeing the developments of the company’s data center, colocation and hybrid cloud solutions in Asia Pacific. Thanks to Braham’s leadership, BDx empowers enterprises to scale across the world from their centers in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Singapore.

As an author, he has written ‘Bombay Swastika’ a thriller that swings from a Nazi Berlin gearing up for its Final Solution, to 1964 Bombay, where Ernst Steiger, a German Jew, accidentally finds himself caught up in the murder of a young tribal, killed amidst allegations of something being stolen from a secure, American compound.

Braham Singh is also a contributing author to the Amazon Best Seller, Greener Data: Actionable Insights from Industry Leaders that debuted on Earth Day – April 22, 2022. Greener Data shows a series of insights from industry leaders pushing the boundaries of the sustainability conversation in the data industry and challenging all of us to collectively do more.

He is also a writer, author of articles like “Following The Sun”, where he commits to renewable energy in the context of Data Centers; “Traders & Astronauts” where he draws a parallelism between traders and astronauts from the Netflix show Away;

He also wrote the screenplay for Emperor, a political thriller set in Malaysia and based around their May 1969 race riots. Emperor, the novel, is near completion.

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Lars Seier Christensen is a Danish businessman, entrepreneur, and investor who co-founded what was to become Saxo Bank, a financial multi-asset trading and investment platform and the founder and CEO of Concordium.

After 20 years as co-CEO of Saxo Bank, he stepped down and founded Seier Capital to focus on investments in blockchain projects, including most notably the foundational blockchain protocol, Concordium. As the CEO of Concordium, Lars oversees the company’s development to become the first project to have an innovative user identity layer built-in at the protocol level. Based in Zug, Switzerland, Concordium utilises smart contracts and the cryptographic concept of zero-knowledge proofs, wherein users can verify that something is true without physically seeing the evidence.

Lars Christensen’s passion for the restaurant business drove him to own several gourmet restaurants, most notably Denmark’s first three Michelin star restaurants, Geranium, the hi-tech restaurant Alchemist, and the iconic Cafe Dan Turell in Copenhagen.

Lars Seier Christensen Interview Questions

1. About professional and academic background
2. About Saxo Bank and as a pioneer in FX and trading
2.1 Founding history
2.2 Technology and trading platform
2.3 Culture and ecosystem
3. Views on blockchain, first contact
3.1 Opportunities and challenges for businesses
4. Founding Concordium
4.1 Mission and Vision
4.2 Goals
5. Can you explain to us about the "big migration"? Businesses moving to blockchain
6. Research from Citibank highlights the metaverse could be a $13 trillion industry by 2030. You wrote an article with the CEO of banknote and stamp printer, Royal Joh Enschede, about using secure virtual banknotes in the Metaverse.
7. How do you see the ID in the inception of the data Avatars we are creating that will increasingly get bigger and bigger as the metaverse tech becomes mainstream?
8. The future of Concordium, blockchain and businesses in the context of the metaverse
9. Utility of Concordium in distinguishing between Digital Identity vs Physical identity.
10. About maintaining security in the digital world.
11. Future plans
12. About Seier Capital
13. Advice as a serial entrepreneur and investor.

About Concordium

Concordium is a public-layer 1, science-backed blockchain, designed to balance privacy with accountability through its ID layer. The protocol level ID, ensures that every wallet is associated with a real-world identity that has been verified through a third party ID provider, so that people and companies can trust one another, while remaining private, with zero-knowledge-proof. With safe transactions, Concordium can unlock a global, multi-trillion-dollar economy, so bankers to regulators actually want to use blockchain.

Concordium offers unique and global ID credentials for DeFi degens, metaverse players, and gamers, available to smart contracts, whilst preserving privacy. This, according to them, is the key to the mass migration of web2 to web3 and beyond. 

Concordium’s native coin, CCD, is used for paying transaction fees, staking, rewards for node operators, and as a collateral/settlement medium for Concordium’s DeFi landscape.

With leadership from Volvo, IKEA, Credit Suisse, and 52M EUR raised to date, the team is now scaling the chain to their extensive network of the world's biggest enterprises.

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Taaha Nizam, CEO of HashCase and creator of 40 NFT collections, features at the latest episode of Dinis Guarda YouTube Podcast series, powered by openbusinesscouncil.org, fashionabc.org, and citiesabc.com to discuss how NFTs are opening the gates to overall Web 3.0 experience.

Taaha Nizam Interview Questions

1. Introduction
2. Personal background, education, family, involvement with Polygon, early career
3. Experience as a young entrepreneur
4. Taaha’s company HashCase, new solutions in NFTs, Web 3.0
5. NFT adoption, democratisation: the basics
6. How to make NFTs more secure and easier to buy
7. Clients and case studies from HashCase
8. Democratisation of NFTs: issues (gas fees, NFT fraud, etc.) and solutions
9. Metaverse, Web 3.0 discussion
10. India’s tech ecosystem
11. Final remarks

Taaha Nizam Biography

A graduate in engineering sciences from BITS (Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences), a technology and engineering institute in India, Taaha has been dedicating his efforts to understand blockchain and sustainability, allowing him to benchmark his knowledge for bringing up solutions for inefficiencies in different industries.

Taaha Nizam has an extensive background in different industries, such as AI, Cybersecurity, Fossil Fuels, Sustainability, and most notably, Web 3.0 and Blockchain Technology.

As an entrepreneur and CEO of HashCase, his goal with the platform is to allow users to access their NFTs without ever having to create a web3 account, bringing NFTs and digital assets closer to mass audiences.
As a researcher, he enjoys sharing his knowledge with the masses, particularly college students, and has given talks and hosted workshops with several colleges.

He also maintains an active blog centered on upcoming projects and innovations.

It is his belief that the gap between those who can/do use emerging technologies and those who don’t is something that is worth noticing and dedicating efforts to bridging. In doing so, he aims to bring the wonders of Blockchain technology to the masses and bring about a revolution akin to Paypal for digital payments.

About Hash Case

Founded in 2021, HashCase is a platform that offers a novel custodial wallet solution to allow users to access their NFTs without ever having to create a Web 3.0 account.

Their goal is to create a decentralised ownership of luxury items that ensures authenticity, and warranty, and becomes a utility token to a now verified and gated community that still retains the ability to stay anonymous. All this, without ever having to create a web3 account.

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Dr. Yıldız Tuğba Kurtuluş Kara is a social entrepreneur and a senior international political economy expert. Dr. Yıldız Tuğba Kurtuluş Kara is the current founder and president of the London-based Society 5.0 Institute. Along her career, she has played pivotal roles as a trade expert at the Ministry of Economy, Turkey and also represented the Istanbul Chamber of Industry in the national and international arena.

Dr. Yıldız Tuğba Kurtuluş Kara Interview Questions
1. Introduction
2. Can you tell us about your education and studies background
3. You have been working between many countries like Turkiye and the UK but also Japan and others. Can you tell us more about that experience and how do you see the importance of trade corridors and culture bridges?
4. Can you please tell us why you had an interest in Society 5.0? You established the Society 5.0 Institute in August 2017. It is a crucial undertaking, given that very few institutes and think tanks worldwide are active in this field. Can you share your story? How did you decide to launch this social enterprise?
5. What would you say if I asked you to make a five-minute pitch on Society 5.0 definition and vision?
6. Please elaborate on the importance of Society 5.0 vision for developing and developed countries.
7. What Society 5.0 means for economies and businesses?
6. How else is Society 5.0 vision named by other countries or relevant institutions? What is the general terminology referring to this concept?
7. What kind of services do you provide as a Society 5.0 Institute?

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The current COO of Blocksport, Samir Ceric is well-known as an investor, serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, guest lecturer, mental health campaigner, and public speaker. He has managed various C-level roles at some of the leading brands, football clubs, and art & design organisations.

Interview Questions

- Academic and professional background
As investor
Entrepreneur
Senior Executive
- About Blocksport.io
- About the Sports industry and SportsTech
- Blocksport use cases
- Blockchain and Sports
- As a mental health campaigner

Samir has a strong legacy within the creative industry including launching award-winning businesses. He is focused on blockchain technology and innovation in the fields of finance, investment, creative industry (film, music, fashion and art) and sport; aiming to create more transparency and openings in these industries for high level investments.

Currently, Samir Ceric is the COO of Blocksport.io, one of the world’s leading SportsTech solutions providers. He is also the Chairman of the Board at the Mayfair Investment Club, Chief Strategy Officer of RESULT Sports and sits on the Advisory Board of Walton Group, cross asset (crypto & fiat) digital brokerage and asset management firm.

He has been labelled as one of the ‘UK’s Most Powerful People in Art & Fashion’ by the Times Magazine and ‘London’s Top Tastemaker’ by Time Out London (alongside his wife, a renowned British fashion designer).

In addition to that, he has been working with a number of institutions and individuals as a mental health campaigner supporting initiatives Prince Harry, Prince William, and Princess Kate put together called Heads Together as well as Mind charity led by Stephen Fry.

Samir has appeared live or recorded on ITV, BBC, NBC News and has published articles in The Times, The Financial Times, Time Out London, the Guardian, The Sunday Times, Vogue Italia, Vogue UK, Madame Figaro.

In addition, he also won HCLUB 100 Award in Art & Design Category Issued by The Hospital Club in Nov 2013, and Walpole Brand of Tomorrow Class, Issued by The Walpole in Sep 2012, while being associated with Wolf & Badger.

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Dr. Mark van Rijmenam is a speaker and best-selling author on the future of work and technology. A Digital Speaker, Dr. Mark has deep expertise in how AI, big data, blockchain, the Internet of Things, and other digital technologies disrupt businesses, governments, and society.

Mark van Rijmenam Interview Questions

1. Background - Education and early career
2. Digital transformation today
3. Mark’s books: Think Bigger
4. Challenges and opportunities of emerging techs and blockchain
5. Insights about the metaverse
6. User cases of the metaverse
7. Step into the Metaverse: How the Immersive Internet Will Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Social Economy

Mark van Rijmenam Biography

He has a Bachelor's in Hospitality Management, a Master of Science in Marketing Management, and a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Technology Sydney. He has collaborated on research topics:

- Revising the ‘science of the organisation’: theorising AI agency and actorhood, Innovation, 23(1), pp.127-144

- Avoid being the turkey: how big data analytics changes the game of strategy in times of ambiguity and uncertainty, Long range planning, 52(5), p.101841

- The politics of openness. Cambridge Handbook of Open Strategy, Cambridge University Press, pp 307-325

He has inspired businesses, their employees, and audiences to embed smartness in their organizations, remain competitive in years to come, and apply technology responsibly. Nonetheless, he has worked with the likes of Santander, EY, 3M, Nestle, Fujitsu, Microsoft, Wipro, YonYou, FWD, and Capgemini.

Dr. Van Rijmenam has spoken in 20 countries across the globe and collectively inspired over 100.000 managers, directors, and C-level executives at leading organizations in banking, technology, insurance, and a range of businesses.

As an author, Mark has presented his insights through his books: Think Bigger, The Organisation of Tomorrow, and Step Into The Metaverse. He has also contributed to Blockchain by Dr. Philippa Ryan, and Blockchain Technology as the Operating System of the Digital Age, for Platform Revolution.

Dr. Rijmenam assists organizations to apply technologies in ensuring sustained competitive advantage. He thrives in an environment where he can apply digital technology to reimagine business models and governments to ensure their ethical application.

Step Into The Metaverse: How the Immersive Internet Will Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Social Economy

In this book, Dr. Mark van Rijmenam maps out the extraordinary opportunities and challenges facing business leaders, consumers, regulators, policymakers, and other metaverse stakeholders trying to navigate the future of the Internet.

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Jason Michael Primrose is a serial entrepreneur, writer, storyteller, creator, strategist, experiential marketing guy, and influencer. Jason is well known for creating The Lost Children of Andromeda bestseller series. Being from a family of literature, poetry, and prose, Jason was magnetised to the world of storytelling from his tender years.

Jason Michael Primrose Biography

Jason Michael Primrose worked twelve hard years of consulting in brand and creative marketing to nurture his brainchild "The Lost Children of Andromeda" which is the first IP under the TCC umbrella.

He worked as a brand strategy consultant with Primrose Productions, XOMAD Digital Marketing, Three Cherries LLC, Coordinates Collection, good hYOUman, and Calaesthetics in the Greater Los Angeles area. He evolved in influencer marketing at I.AM+ and Blue Revolver Inc. He founded a consulting business "Caged Creative" in 2015 that is focused on connecting the talent of today with socially conscious and ethical brands (and vice versa) for partnerships, storytelling, disruptive content, and activations.

But it was Cluster Chronicles, a media, technology, and publishing company, that Jason founded and is currently the CEO of where Lost Children of Andromeda debuted.

He also founded AndromedaBEETS- an IP Expansion through coordinated NFT projects, leveraging literature as source material to create a gamified reading experience.

The Lost Children of Andromeda

The Lost Children of Andromeda is an immersive sci-fi experience that mixes elements of literature, art, and music. The story starts with Zosma, a Dystopian novel following a young, African American man on his heroic quest to rescue an alien refugee.

The original book series serves as the foundation for the NFT offshoot, which incorporates the use of non-fungible tokens into the reading experience.
 
Set 30 years in the future, the “Lost Children” metaverse combines role-playing, storytelling, and a timeline.

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Chris Cummins is the founder and CEO of Iconic Moments, the first NFT marketplace for the 450,000 museums, archives, and cultural institutions around the world. A former attorney, Chris has been involved in venture capital firms, education and in cultural businesses. Chris is now leading the NFT wave and its practical uses for museums and cultural institutions with Iconic Moments.

Interview Questions

1. Background: History, from attorney to NFTs
2. How did you enter the world of technology?
3. How did you begin your journey of storytelling?
4. The inception of Iconic Moments: The Narrative
5. How are going to take your marketplace?
6. What are your efforts to put NFTs to real-world value?
7. How are you highlighting metaverse experiences with your work?
8. How are you building your platform for Iconic Moments?
9. How are you taking it forward in terms of funding, and planning? a bit of the roadmap

Chris Cummings Biography

He started his career as a law attorney at Blanchard, Walker, O'Quin and Roberts. He was also a Research Assistant to Prof. John Randall Trahan at Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University. He also worked as an Extern, Federal State Defender; Judicial Law Clerk for Judge Gur Holdrige and Judge Tureau at 23rd Judicial District, and for Chief Justice Bernette J. Johnson at Louisiana Supreme Court.

He was also the CEO of SwiftWing Ventures, a venture capital firm located out of Chattanooga, Tennessee, investing in great ideas, mentor companies, and bringing startups to the market.

Prior to founding Iconic Moments, Chris founded Pass It Down, an award-winning digital exhibit design platform transforming how museums and cultural institutions engage their visitors.

He was also the co-Founder of Woople, LLC. Woople makes e-learning simple, affordable, fun and easy for organizations. The company has delivered over 200 million minutes of educational content to Fortune 500 companies around the globe, liked over 1,000,000 times.

He is a graduate in Political Sciences & International Studies at Louisiana State University, and specialised in advocacy from LSU Law, where he was awarded as Robert Lee Tullis Moot Court Champion, ABA National Appellate Advocacy Octofinalist, and Chancellor's Cup Senior Appellate Challenge Champion.

About Iconic Moments

Iconic Moments is the world’s first NFT marketplace and blockchain exclusively for museums and historical institutions.

The company helps to create a sustainable model for the preservation of history and for the cultural industry. Looking at the grim condition of this industry, and its future during the COVID-19 period, the team created a new model for the cultural heritage industry.

Iconic is a product of Pass It Down, an award-winning interactive storytelling platform, is one of the 40 organisations worldwide to be recognised for using technology as means of achieving UN's SDGs.
Iconic Moments was recognised at the World Summit Awards Global Congress 2022, awarded in the Culture and Tourism category in March.

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