Palm NFT's merge, the sold out concert we all should've been at, chatbots for teachers, & blockchain isn't dead
Women in Emerging Tech - Issue #57
Welcome to Women in Emerging Tech! I’m Carly Long from Weld Recruiting and this is the 57th edition of our weekly get-down!
Scroll through for:
👯 Women in web3… and beyond
💼 Emerging tech job openings
🗓 Tech events to pencil in & big recaps
📰 All the #emergingtech news… (AI everything, NFT alpha, crypto updates, blockchain news, metaverse minutes + more)
📚 A little bit of learning
👯 Women in web3… and beyond
Sabrina Bonini @ BFF covered how the spellbinding stages of Cirque du Soleil forged Maika Isogawa’s path in Web3.
Alexandra Nicorici has been slaying with her OOO (Out of Ordinary) Web3 Marketing Podcast. 👀 Stay tuned for Wednesday’s episode with Weld’s very own Matthew McSpadden.
Rebecca Rose dropped a thought provoking thread on legacy.
The Fabricant’s Adriana Hoppenbrouwer-Pereira compares Dior’s new B33 sneaker to her Nike+ days.
Palm NFT Studio merged with Scott Lawin’s Candy Digital! Hear more about Palm from my #womeninweb3 podcast episode with Executive Creative Director, Straith Schreder:
💼 Emerging tech job openings
🚀 If you’re a candidate looking for a new career in web3, AI or emerging tech: Submit your resume to job openings on the Weld Recruiting site.
+ Job of the week:
We’re hiring a Head of Blockchain Engineering!
You’ll work with a company that’s powering the metaverse and building the future of gaming. Their aim is to be the foundation for metaverse economies connecting games, finance, the future of work, fashion and more. The infrastructure for Ready Player One, if you will.
This role will oversee a team of blockchain engineers; responsible for integrating the company API with their currently supported and future blockchains.
Interested? Email us your resume!
+ Coming down the pipe… we’re looking for:
Finance Solutions Architects to work with a Big 4
Smart Contracts Experts
UI Designer / Web3 Design Directors
Web3 Product Manager / Directors
More opportunities:
Rahul Raina & TRM Labs is hiring.
+ TRM’s Ari Redbord spoke with Fortune’s Leo Schwartz last week about where cybercriminals are heading. V interesting.
Business Development Managers - go apply to work with the coolest, Geoff Renaud at Invisible North.
Ava Labs is seeking an Executive Publicist.
Robinhood is looking for a Crypto Content Designer.
Kraken is looking for a Senior Product Designer - Platform.
+ y’all hiring — go scoop Patty Fisher.
🗓 Tech events to pencil in & big recaps
The sold-out concert we all should have been at: Harry Styles
Meanwhile, at another concert… Drake may or may not have been performing IRL. #holographic
+ the only crypto events spreadsheet you’ll need from now on.
📰 All the #emergingtech news… (AI everything, NFT alpha, crypto updates, blockchain news, metaverse minutes + more)
If you haven’t heard, Threads is here. And apparently it’s already beating out Instagram as a place for professional networking/development.
Congrats to Jeff Hasselman on joining Blockdaemon as their new president!
Brian Solis shared some crazy cool AI art at the SF MoMA.
Water & Music made an official GrimesAI banger. Title? Eggroll
Crypto is ‘so back’ on Paradigm’s website. (The major investor who removed crypto and Web3 mentions from its front page back in May.)
Warner Music Group partnered up with Polygon Labs to launch a music accelerator program. The chosen blockchain music projects and decentralized applications (dapps) on the Polygon network will receive funding from both companies.
52% of Fortune 100 (the largest and best known US) companies are innovating and investing in blockchain initiatives. #leggo (More in the Coinbase report).
11% of them also own Web3 domain names via Unstoppable Domains. Amanda Hyslop broke down what that means.
Isai Guerrero covered the most recent funding in web3. S/o to Joshua Barraclough and One Trading at the top, with a $32.8M raise.
An AR/VR developer, Milton Omena, came up with what the logos of famous painters would look like. Thought this was cool.
Catherine Spindler and fashion brand Lacoste revealed UNDW3, a program that will reward engaged users with rarity-related NFT perks.
PepsiCo is collaborating with the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence to shape responsible AI standards. Athina Kanioura shared the standards they’re eyeing as the first CPG company to partner up with HAI.
📚 A little bit of learning
The history of the CryptoPunks NFT project will get its own physical tome as Yuga Labs and Zak Kyes’ Zak Group tap the community for an official book.
Tech workers are scrambling to reinvent themselves as AI experts. Should you join them? (Read the Vox article from Rani Molla.
Creators could rule the Fortune 500 in the next decade. Def going to read this one, thanks for sharing Justin Johnson!
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