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Valentina Castellani is an Award Winning Film Producer, President and Chairman of Quinn Studios Entertainment, which continues the Legacy of Academy Award Winning Actor Anthony Quinn, in the fields of art and entertainment.

Valentina Castellani produced many Academy Awards candidate films, Internationally recognized and distributed.

She won the prestigious US CONGRESS AWARD, The HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD, the English WIFTS Award as a “Visionary Producer” together with Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel and actress Gal Gadot.

Because of her ethical work as a producer, and her service to global society, Valentina Castellani was invited to speak at many International Organizations, including, The US Congress, United Nations, UNESCO, The YPO/Young President Organization and a number of International Universities.

Valentina Castellani Interview Questions

1. Academic and Professional Background
2. Getting into the film industry- from training to work/career
3. How do you choose your projects?
4. What is your production process?
5. How would you describe your transition from real world film production to the digitisation of the process?
6. How do films act as tools to make an impact on society?
7. How can you channelise your energy for better leadership?
8. Final Remarks - An Inspirational note

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Or Lenchner is a tech entrepreneur and a web and technology enthusiast. He is currently the CEO of world-known web data platform Bright Data, and in 2020, he became an official member of the Forbes Technology Council.

Ever since he became CEO of Bright Data, he’s helped to expand the company’s market base as an online data collection platform dedicated to delivering complete web transparency.

Furthermore, for the past three years, under Lenchner’s leadership, Bright Data has advanced its product offerings to include first-of-its-kind automated solutions, enabling its customers to collect and receive data in a matter of minutes. Among Bright Data’s thousands of customers are Fortune 500 companies, major e-commerce firms and sites, prominent finance firms, leading security operators, travel sites, academic and public sector organizations.

Prior to his career at Bright Data, Lenchner founded and managed several web-based businesses, developing digital assets and online marketing programs. Initially joining Bright Data as head of product development, Lenchner’s career and evolution at the company has been driven by his firm belief in a transparent, ethical-by-design web environment that contributes to an open, competitive market benefitting both businesses and society as a whole.

Or Lenchner Interview topics

1. Academic and Professional Background
2. What is Bright Data?
3. What issues does Bright Data aim to resolve?
4. What are some of your main use cases?
5. Technical - How do clients receive the data?
6. What makes Bright Data unique?
 7. Information is power… Ethics And Data
8. Values - making the web transparent and giving back
9. The future of the web data domain and how Bright Data plans to address it

About Bright Data

Bright Data Inc is a leading web data platform. Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions and small businesses all rely on Bright Data’s solutions to retrieve crucial public web data in the most efficient, reliable and flexible way, so they can research, monitor, analyze data, and make better decisions.

Their platform is used worldwide by 15,000+ customers in nearly every industry. They provide a cost-effective way to perform fast and stable public web data collection at scale, effortless conversion of unstructured data into structured data and superior customer experience, while being fully transparent and compliant.

Bright Data strongly believes that making public web data easily accessible is essential to keeping markets openly competitive, benefiting all of us.

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Dana Todd is a 3-time founder and digital innovation pioneer with 20+ years making digital experiences for humans, including a patent for SEO technology. Currently CEO of a global fashion marketplace, Balodana, Ms. Todd has been a subject matter expert regarding digital business for trade and national press, conferences, academic and legal engagements. Leadership background includes both agency-side and brand-side operations. As a former CMO, she employs a blend of digital and traditional marketing methods for integrated strategic planning and execution.

Interview Questions

1. Personal and Academic Background
2. Career
3. Creating Balodana: Vision, Mission, What does it try to solve…
4. Views on fashion industry
5. Inequality in the global fashion market
6. Digital transformation and Innovation in the fashion industry
7. New techs: metaverse, NFTs, VR...

Dana Todd Biography

Dana Todd is a USA-based founder and businesswoman at the forefront of digital innovation for 20+years. She is currently the founder and CEO of Balodana, the first only marketplace that is exclusively women's made to measure fashions from around the world. Dana Todd founded Balodana in fall 2019 after many years in and out of the corporate world and entrepreneurship. Todd said the freedom of entrepreneurship ultimately led her to pursue this startup, which she hoped can give women greater confidence in their appearance and clothing. But the business doesn’t come without challenges. Accessing funding as a woman has been especially difficult, she said.

Dana has had a 20+ year career in management and executive positions. She has been an Internet pioneer through roles as co-founder of a top ranking digital marketing agency, founding board member of a global search marketing trade organization, patent holder for advertising tech innovation for digital news, and now a marketplace platform for disrupting the global garment supply chain.

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Jeff Hood currently serves as the CEO and Co-Founder of MetaCurio, a full-service Web 3 strategy company. MetaCurio works with global brands and talent looking to enter the world of Web 3.

Prior to founding MetaCurio, Jeff served as the Co-Founder of Block Squared Capital as well as an advisor to numerous blockchain companies. His passion for crypto led him to playing a major role in the ICO space in 2017 by starting a blockchain company in hopes of solving a real-world problem of transparency in the charitable donation industry; he later formed Block Squared Capital in an effort to create a funding vehicle for mature blockchain projects.

Interview Questions

1. Academic and Professional Background
2. Early career in blockchain and tech companies
3. Unveiling blockchain beyond financial applications: NFTs
4. About Metacurio: Vision, Mission, Goals
5. Views on Web3
6. The NFTs Revolution
7. The Metaverse
8. Working with Mike Tyson and project overview
9. What the future holds for these technologies

Jeff Hood Biography

In 2021, Jeff was responsible for bringing Mike Tyson into the world of NFT’s and architecting his first collection in August of 2021 with renowned artist Cory Van Lew. That first collection sold out in 30 minutes, Tyson's second drop with Jeff sold out in 27 minutes and those two drops have generated over $20 million in sales to date.

Prior to co-founding Metacurio, Jeff was the co-founder of Block Squared Capital and a Managing Partner for Sciath Capital, as well as an advisor to numerous blockchain companies. With over 19 years in technology and consulting experience, and with extensive fundraising and M&A experience in Asia and the Middle East, Jeff is a global leader and spokesperson on leveraging the benefits of Blockchain in daily, real-world applications, and on the power of tokenization as a capital source. He has had a career that has included executive leadership roles in companies such as HCL Technologies and Zensar, as well as a successful IPO and exit with GSS Infotech.

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Today's guest is Author and Thought Leader Dirk Collier. In this episode, the three of them go on a journey through Asian and Indian culture, and how society changes over time fuelled by ideas.

“Finding Your Atom” is the new podcast series by Amrita Sen, artist, designer, and producer, and Dinis Guarda, author, and founder of citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil.

Amrita Sen and Dinis Guarda come together again, after the success of their previous podcast series “Music For” with another concept of recognising unique identifiers, and motivating the audiences with an increased mindfulness and self-awareness. The podcast is available on Dinis Guarda YouTube channel, and major podcast directories.

The presenters of the podcast are adept with the knowledge of meditation fundamentals, and consequently emphasise on negating the cacophony of the thoughts in our lives, focussing our energies on the relevant one. Thus, “Finding Your Atom” could be a unique opportunity to glue yourself with your own personality.

#FindingYourAtom #DirkCollier #FindingYourIdea

Dirk Collier Biography

Dirk Collier is an author, lecturer and expert in Asian and Indian culture. His passion for Asian culture and history was aroused as a result of his travels throughout the continent, predominantly in China and India.

As an author, in 2011, he published The Emperor’s Writings, a historical novel on the life and times of Akbar the Great (1542-1605); in 2013 came his essay Paths to Peace: Religion, Ethics and Tolerance in a Globalizing World, and in 2015, he published The Great Mughals and Their India, a non-fiction chronicle of one of the greatest dynasties in world history – the Mughal –from its founder Babur to Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last of the clan.

About Amrita Sen

Originally from India, Amrita Sen is a US-based designer, singer, producer and business woman of Indian-themed products and entertainment for global markets. Amrita Sen combines the creation of original artistic content with extensive business experience to commercialize unique products at retail and on-the-air.

Among her many achievements, Amrita performed at the 2009’s Academy Awards with music legend AR Rahman, singing Jai Ho from the Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. As an entrepreneur, Amrita creates original Indian-themed art on successful lines of fashion and home products and distributes it through her own personal brand, Amrita Sen Designs.

About Dinis Guarda

Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies.

Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, fashionabc.org and tradersdna.com. Dinis is also the co-founder of techabc and citiesabc, a digital transformation platform to empower, guide and index cities through 4IR based technologies like blockchain, AI, IoT, etc.

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Kewal Kapoor has an extensive and diversified portfolio, enabling him to have a deep understanding of various industries. Besides being a founder and creator of the CHAI Kreative & Advisory agency and its whole concept as well a chai lover himself, Kewal has also been: an assiduous researcher, a proficient writer, investigator and journalist, an experienced producer and director. This cross-industry experience is what makes him an exceptional consultant and creative strategist.

Kewal Kapoor Interview Topics

1. Career and Academic Background
2. How multiculturality in India is pushing innovation and social change
3. How did you get into writing?
4. And into creative industries?
5. Writing and creativity in the Web3.0
6. The Digital Transformation struggle for businesses and individuals
7. About CHAI Kreative & Advisory

Kewal Kapoor Biography

Kewal Kapoor served as the Executive Producer with UTV, wherein he researched, scripted, conceptualized and created the first ever series on Tax Laws in India. He was also the force behind the first Human Rights show on Indian television. He went on to work on a story on the Kargil martyrs. As a journalist, he contributed several write ups in prominent Hindi dailies. As a Producer/Director, he researched, conceptualized and created groundbreaking TV documentary shows and series that bestowed him with acclaim and accolades.

He has been a consulting partner with some of the top advertising agencies in India. Since 2012, his focus has shifted towards work that creates genuine value in people’s lives. He has since dedicated himself to looking for, and often creating, opportunities and projects that focus on social communication and that redefine spaces of how subaltern issues can be dealt with, while making unique use of the advertising and digital ecosystem.

He is enthusiastic in technology as a tool to empower people and to add value to their lives, and in the lives of communities in general.

Ever since 2015, Kewal Kapoor’s voice has become synonymous with extensive work undertaken in technology related areas in addition to having conceived a first of its kind not for profit trust project on Mahatama Gandhi.

Today Kewal Kapoor is an opinion leader and influencer in technology related areas.

Kewal is also a registered member of FWA Mumbai. He is on the Advisory Board of The Poddar Foundation and has played a key role in the Mental Health and Mental Health brand "Silence Todo". His new company CHAI Creative and Advertising Private Limited is duly recognized by DIPP Government of India and has in very short time won the mandate of Advisory, Advertising and Marketing, including Digital Ecosystem of the largest affordable housing company of India.

Success requires having a strong leadership presence. Kewal possesses the vision, flexibility and resilience needed to steer the direction of our leading creative and consulting firm.

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Today's guest is Fitness and Boxing coach Andrew Woods. In this episode, the three of them go on a journey identify our core through fitness, mental health, and mind-body alignment.

“Finding Your Atom” is the new podcast series by Amrita Sen, artist, designer, and producer, and Dinis Guarda, author, and founder of citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil.

Amrita Sen and Dinis Guarda come together again, after the success of their previous podcast series “Music For” with another concept of recognising unique identifiers, and motivating the audiences with an increased mindfulness and self-awareness. The podcast is available on Dinis Guarda YouTube channel, and major podcast directories.

#FindingYourAtom #AndrewWoods #FindingYourCore

About Andrew Woods

Andrew Woods has dedicated himself to the world of boxing, fitness, and healthcare through instructing, educating, and inspiring communities for over 10 years. He started his formal boxing training in the city of Watts, California at the Broadway Boxing Gym as a (ABA) American Boxing Association coach while continuing his education in World History & Kinesiology at Cal Polytechnic University Pomona. Andrew’s achievements also include training amateur fighters as a certified USA Boxing Coach and as a group fitness boxing instructor at the Equinox Fitness Clubs in South Bay, Newport Beach, Westwood, Downtown LA, and Century City. He is also a well respected speaker & educator for the greater Los Angeles public schools, churches, recreation centers, and community colleges.

About Amrita Sen

Originally from India, Amrita Sen is a US-based designer, singer, producer and business woman of Indian-themed products and entertainment for global markets. Amrita Sen combines the creation of original artistic content with extensive business experience to commercialize unique products at retail and on-the-air.

Among her many achievements, Amrita performed at the 2009’s Academy Awards with music legend AR Rahman, singing Jai Ho from the Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. As an entrepreneur, Amrita creates original Indian-themed art on successful lines of fashion and home products and distributes it through her own personal brand, Amrita Sen Designs.

About Dinis Guarda

Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies.

Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, fashionabc.org and tradersdna.com. Dinis is also the co-founder of techabc and citiesabc, a digital transformation platform to empower, guide and index cities through 4IR based technologies like blockchain, AI, IoT, etc.

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David Uhryniak is the Blockchain Strategy Director at TRON, a leading blockchain platform dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the Internet via decentralized applications (DApps).

David joined TRON in January 2022 right after the platform completed full decentralization in Dec 2021 and has become a purely community-governed DAO. In that regard, Dave will be a visible part of the team driving that effort and will identify key opportunities within the broad blockchain ecosystem, and ensure TRON is positioned to act on the opportunities.

Interview Topics

1. Academic Background
2. Early career
3. Joining Tron
4. First steps into blockchain. How did Tron become a blockchain platform?
5. What’s the scope of Tron today?
6. What’s Tron's legacy and what the future holds?
7. What have been some major milestones for TRON in 2021?
8. How is TRON getting involved in the booming NFT and GameFi space?
9. Current vision on blockchain developments: NFTs, DeFi - Finance, Crypto
10. Blockchain opportunities for the Metaverse

David Uhryniak Biography

David has been actively involved in blockchain since 2015 and has provided strategic guidance for global payment companies and insurance companies, among others. He has led the successful development of multiple use cases in financial services, healthcare, and the supply chain. He continually finds unique and creative ways to apply emerging technologies to enable corporations to achieve their strategic goals.

“Following early work in equity research and analysis, I have since focused on emerging blockchain markets as a management consultant and senior practice leader. My ability to leverage emerging technologies to create customer-focused solutions is proven, and I am always seeking out new means of minimizing risks and capitalizing on emerging opportunities,” David said about focusing on blockchain and emerging technologies.

David began his career as an equity research analyst at a leading U.S. mutual fund company, where he conducted a thorough bottom-up analysis of global and regional financial services companies. David has often been quoted in leading media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg, and other publications.

About TRON

TRON is a decentralized, open-source blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, proof-of-stake principles. That is the principle for what its consensus algorithm and a cryptocurrency native to the system, known as Tronix (TRX), works too. TRON is  dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the Internet via blockchain technology and decentralized applications (DApps). Founded in September 2017 by H.E. Justin Sun, the TRON network has continued to deliver achievements since MainNet launch in May 2018. July 2018 also marked the acquisition and the ecosystem integration of BitTorrent, a pioneer in decentralized services boasting nearly 100M monthly active users.

The TRON network has gained incredible traction in recent years, with over 74 million users on the blockchain and upwards of 2.8 billion transactions. In addition, TRON hosts the largest circulating supply of stablecoins across the globe, overtaking USDT on Ethereum in April 2021.

The TRON network completed full decentralization in Dec 2021 and is now a purely community-governed DAO.

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Chris is a unique combination of insightful strategic thinker and highly-awarded writer. Chris is the Founding Partner and CEO of Verbal Identity, a strategic brand consultancy specializing in the power of language. Clients include Alphabet’s ‘moonshot factory’, LVMH, Vauxhall, John Lewis, and start-ups from fintech, data science, and beauty.

He founded Verbal Identity in 2010 to help company and department leaders define the strategic vision for their business and bring it to life with language. His firm has guided global and national brands, relaunches, and start-ups, from B2B and B2C to tech and luxury and everything in between.

Previously, Chris ran a project-based advertising agency for 10 years working with global clients and before that, he was one of London’s most awarded copywriters for his work across the Guardian, adidas, British Airways and the Conservative Party. In 2016, he was the convening President for the inaugural verbal branding jury at the LIA.

Chris is also a Bestselling Author. He has written two books to date: ‘Strong Language: The Fastest, Smartest, Cheapest Marketing Tool You're Not Using’ and ‘How Words Work’.

Chris West Questions

1. Education and academic background
2. The future of work - marketing
3. The importance of verbal / language in today’s world
4. About Verbal Identity
5. Business success: the process
6. How do you manage expectations with clients, business partners, etc?
7. Leadership and motivation: How to be a good leader?

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Luke Stokes is the Managing Director at FIO, Hive Witness, FoxyCart.com and Co-Founder of eosDAC Custodian. An early adopter of crypto and blockchain technologies, Luke Stokes strongly believes that these emerging techs can be a mechanism for global non-violent consensus.

Topics:

1. Can you tell us about your background and how did you end up in Puerto Rico?
2. You have been working on payment and wallet solutions for some time now. Can you tell us your trajectory on it?
3. Can you tell us about the Foundation for Interwallet Operability?
4. You spoke about DAOs, governance solutions, and rethinking human coordination that is focused around intrinsic motivation, flow, dharma and the like and NOT based on extrinsic motivations like rewards, punishments, and threats. How do you see this and specifically the challenges between centralised and decentralized systems?
5. According to crypto.com research in 2021, the number of global crypto owners almost tripled, from 106 million in January to 295 million in December. If we extrapolate a similar rate of increase in 2022, we are on track to reach 1 billion crypto users by the end of 2022. As someone very involved in crypto and the industry, how do you see this and what needs to be done to create a truly internet of trust?

Luke Stokes - Biography

As the founder of The Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO), Luke manages this industry consortium, consisting of leading wallets, exchanges, crypto payment processors, and various other entities and community members dedicated to the pursuit of blockchain usability through the FIO Protocol.

Luke Stokes is passionate about voluntary systems of governance and has been involved in bitcoin since early 2013. He's been a consensus witness for the Steem blockchain since early 2018 and a custodian for eosDAC, a community-owned EOSIO Block Producer and DAC Enabler, since its inception. 

With a computer science degree from UPENN, he built, bootstrapped and co-founded the shopping cart software company FoxyCart over a ten year period and is now focused on blockchain technology as a means to create a world we all want to live in.

Luke currently lives in Puerto Rico with his wife and three children and enjoys discussing everything from philosophy, to consciousness, to voluntaryism, to love and awakening.

About The Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO)

The Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) is an industry consortium, consisting of leading wallets, exchanges, crypto payment processors, and various other entities and community members dedicated to the pursuit of blockchain usability through the FIO Protocol.

The Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) intends to operate as a Decentralized Autonomous Consortia in the future, with many active members of the community contributing value to the project. The vision of FIO is to operate as a Decentralized Autonomous Consortia (DAC), guided by the community and blockchain ecosystem. FIO encourages everyone to participate in helping define the FIO Protocol and to provide feedback on how to improve blockchain usability. As a Foundation they value:

• Openness and Transparency
• Diversity in Community
• Fairness

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