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Lueth, Dirk

(Co-Founder & Co-CEO Upland; Author; Co-Founder & Chairperson Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3)

Dirk is a serial entrepreneur and an early adopter of blockchain and related technologies based in Silicon Valley. In addition to being the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Uplandme, Inc., Dirk co-founded and is chairman of the Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3 (OMA3). He is the author of the bestselling book, Navigating the Metaverse: A Guide to Limitless Possibilities in a Web 3.0 World (Wiley, 2022). He co-founded European and US-based companies in the FinTech and digital media spaces, including the Financial Times Deutschland and Forbatec, which has been acquired by SunGard (today NYSE:FIS). Dirk mentored over 30 startups through his work at international startup accelerators in Silicon Valley and is a frequent speaker/panelist focusing on topics about the metaverse, blockchain, and platform economics. He studied Business Administration in Frankfurt and Paris and received a Ph.D. from the European Business School in Germany, where he wrote his doctoral thesis about private and state-controlled currencies.

The platform moment for sport into Metaverse & Web 3

Dec 06, 2022

In his presentation Dirk Lueth, one of the best-known metaverse experts and book author, will talk about the rapid development of Web 3 and the metaverse. While this concept is still new to most market participants, the Silicon Valley-based expert has been dealing with the idea of representing reality online for decades. Using current cases and numerous examples, he shows us where the journey is headed.