ENTR U Speaker Series - A Conversation with Mr. Yat Siu, Animoca Brands | The journey, NFT-Centric Investment and Future of Learning

ABOUT YAT SIU:

Co-founder & Chairman, Animoca Brands; Board Director, Dalton Foundation

Yat Siu is a technology entrepreneur/investor based in Hong Kong. He is co-founder and chairman of Animoca Brands, a company focusing on leveraging popular brands, gamification, AI, blockchain and mobile technology to make engaging apps ranging from games to fitness solutions.

Yat is a director for TurnOut Ventures, a partnership between Outblaze and Turner Entertainment that brought to prominence the hugely popular emoticon character Tuzki. In 2017 he set up the Dalton Learning Lab, an afterschool lab environment that supplements Hong Kong students with skills not emphasized by the local education system, including divergent thinking and design thinking. He is the founder of ThinkBlaze, the research arm of Outblaze investigating socially meaningful issues in technology.

Yat has earned numerous accolades, including Global Leader of Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum and Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the DHL/SCMP Awards.

A classically trained musician, Yat is a member of the advisory board of BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) and a director of the Asian Youth Orchestra. 

More on Yat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yatsiu/

ABOUT ANIMOCA BRANDS:

Founded in 2014, Animoca Brands, a Deloitte Tech Fast winner and ranked in the Financial Times list of High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021, is a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification. It develops and publishes a broad portfolio of products including the REVV token and SAND token; original games including The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes; and products utilizing popular intellectual properties including Disney, WWE, Snoop Dogg, The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Formula E. The company has multiple subsidiaries, including The Sandbox, Blowfish Studios, Quidd, GAMEE, nWay, Pixowl, Bondly, Lympo, and Grease Monkey Games. Animoca Brands has a growing portfolio of more than 150 investments in NFT-related companies and decentralized projects that are contributing to building the open metaverse, including Axie Infinity, OpenSea, Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot), Yield Guild Games, Harmony, Alien Worlds, Star Atlas, and others.

ABOUT PROFESSOR ERWIN HUANG:

Associate Director of Technology, Leadership and Entrepreneurship, ISD, HKUST

Professor Erwin Huang is a leader in a social enterprise and the eLearning field more than 30 years. His mission is to promote Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship to university students. He is Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of DreamStarter, a community initiative that makes dream projects initiated by school students come true, and Chairman of Social Career, a nonprofit organization that educates the public about volunteerism. Erwin sits in various companies and Government advisory committees. More on Erwin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Huang