The Convergence of Web3 and Finance: A New Era of Digital Economy

Dr. Jianing Yu (George), Ph.D. in economics, associate professor, digital economist, expert on blockchain, metaverse and Web3, and the initiator of the concept of “industrial blockchain”. He has been hailed as “a leader in cultivating blockchain thinking” by China Weekly, and has compiled classic books such as Metaverse (Translation into six languages) and China Blockchain Industry Development Report. Dr. Yu has served as the Director of the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Information Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China.

Ciara Sun is the founder and managing partner of C² Ventures, a chain-agnostic blockchain investment company focuses on empowering builders to build and scale the next generation of Web3 applications.

Prior to founding C² Ventures, Ciara was the Vice President of Huobi Group. She was the spokesperson of the company and led the global business development, global markets, institutional business unit, partnership, blockchain project listings, incubation and investments department.

As a leading female leader in the blockchain space, Ciara is constantly invited to prominent global events and also coined as the Female Asian Global Crypto Leader by her 200k followers on Twitter. She is a strong advocate of gender equality and has founded an NGO Women Who Crypto.

Michael has 16 years of experience in financial markets. He began his career within equities at an international investment bank and transitioned to Bloomberg in 2017. While in equities, he worked within a leading edge quantitative analysis platform and equities sales divisions. At Bloomberg, Michael worked in sales development across Portfolio Analytics, Index and Enterprise Sales divisions. Most recently, he transitioned to head the strategy development team in Hong Kong. One of the teams responsibilities is developing Bloomberg’s Crypto product and sales strategies.