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# 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   |