# Live Stream Guests

## Booked Guests

| Date| Company | Guest | Topic |
| -------- | -------- | -------- | --- |
|03/01/2024 | Auth0 Labs/Okta | Will Johnson, Dev Advocate | Prototype wallet with verifiablecredentials.dev |
|03/08/2024 | Spherity | Dr. Stöken, CEO | caro.vc - VCs for Pharmceuticals |
|03/15/2024 | Accenture | Daniel Bachenheimer, Digital Identity Innovations Technical Lead | Standards, Guidance, Digital Travel Credentials |
|03/22/2024 | Veramo | Nick Reynolds, Technical Lead | JavaScript Framework for Verifiable Data |
|03/29/2024 | Portabl | Nate Soffio, CEO | Portable Financial Identity |
|04/05/2024 | Disco.xyz | Evin McMullen, CEO | VCs in the metaverse |
|04/12/2024 | TBD | Nick Burgess and D'Khari | Regulations and compaliance in Decentralized Identity |

## Reached out to

| Guest | Company | Note |
| -------- | -------- | -------- |
| Sarah Clark, VP | Mastercard | Suggested by Angie. Messaged her via inMain on Linkedin 🤞🏾 |
| Orie Steele, CTO | Transmute | Suggested by Gabe - doing VCs with GitHub Actions. Orie suggested Sapan do the stream but Sapan never responded |
|Amit, CEO | Finclusive | Potential partners. Target for stream in May |
|Ride Fair Hackathon winners | RideFair | Dev Post Hackathon winners. They said yes, but they haven't booked |
|Nader and Adam | Mattr | They said they're interested but too busy to join. Maybe in the future |
|Nick Thomas | Fincity | This guy invented bluetooth and built Fincity which was then acquired by Mastercard |
|Fifth Poll Hackathon winners | FifthPoll | Dev Post Hackathon winners. They said yes, but they haven't booked |
|Rohit Gulati | Microsoft | Introduced by Matthijs but Rohit never responded |
|Kristina Yasuda | Microsoft | No response; advised by Daniel that we should have a different guest from Microsoft named pamela dingle |
|Justin, CEO | Zion.fyi | They have Web5 built into their platform I think. Responded but never booked; messaged a few more times, but still didnt book. May be busy. |
|Paul Frazee | Blue sky | Responded to my initial message; never booked; messaged more than once |
|DevCareer Hackathon winners | Hackathon | No response |

## Past Guests

| Guest | Company | Topic |
| -------- | -------- | -------- |
| Nick, Laura, Bekah | Open Sauced | Hacktoberfest |
| Zaïda Rivai | Danube Tech | Data Science and SSI |
| Anthony D | Netonomy | AI and Web5 |
| Limari N | Decentralized Idenity Foundation | What is DIF |
| Nick Dazè and Julian | Heirloom | Carry your degree in your phone |
| Neal R | TBD | How to create a VC |
| Eric Lapin and Jon West | FormFree | Web5 and lending |
| MoisesJ | Hackathon winner | Why devs like Web5 |
| Zachary | Trinsic | IDTech |
| Jeff Schwartz | Dentity | SSI in businesses for fraud reduction |
| ALR | TBD | TBD's Open Source Testing Strategy |
| Simon | Kin | ChatGPT alternative built with Web5 |