Imge Su Cetin, Founder and CEO of Defy Trends

A women-led start-up that provides traders & investors with AI and data-driven crypto intelligence and education to make better investment decisions. Defy Trends uses on-chain analysis and high tech data science algorithms to provide data insights based on fundamentals and sentiment. We scrape the web and social media for cryptocurrency sentiment analysis, incorporating real-time market data, qualitative data, and forecasting AI to bring retail and institutional investors state of the art insights on crypto markets.

Our analysis can be used to understand the market, trade, compare different crypto assets and identify undervalued/overvalued coins. Our educational and community driven strategy empowers ALL crypto investors to join the space without fear by teaching them how to understand the market and use the tools that we have created.

Imge Su Cetin is a Data scientist and tech expert. Imgesu brings her skills, passion and charisma to the team. She is a multi-talented data scientist and futurist with an unconditional love for technology. She holds a Master’s degree in Data Science from UCSD and was a senior data scientist in the United Nations forecasting migration patterns. While trading cryptocurrencies, she developed an app that forecasted her 10 favorite coins out multiple weeks to aid her trading decisions. This became the prototype for Defy Trends, a platform that now encompasses data analytics and education alongside forecasting.

Chris Poulin, CTO of SingularityDAO

SingularityDAO brings DeFi and decentralized AI together in a new framework aimed at radically increasing the liquidity available to crypto assets of all types and sizes — and leveraging this liquidity to create financial value and facilitate growth for utility-token-based technology projects.

SingularityDAO is a democratically governed Decentralized Autonomous Organization stewarding a non-custodial smart contract network. It aims to foster the growth of the decentralized networks that represent today’s most valuable and promising technological and social innovations, via leveraging AI-DeFi to stimulate the growth of the utility-token ecosystem.

Chris Poulin is now Chief Technology Officer at Singularity DAO. In this role, he leads the addition of artificial intelligence efforts to distributed blockchain. He is also a research scientist and partner at Patterns and Predictions, a predictive analytics group. Previously, he was a machine learning and data science subject matter expert with Microsoft (senior director). He also served as director/principal investigator of the Durkheim Project, a nonprofit big data collaboration with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Facebook, Inc., sponsored by DARPA (The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), and was co-director of the Dartmouth Metalearning Working Group at Dartmouth College, which focused on large-scale machine learning (sponsored by IARPA). Poulin has lectured on artificial intelligence and big data at the U.S. Naval War College. He is co-author of the book Artificial Intelligence in Behavioral and Mental Health (Elsevier, 2015).

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Moderator

Lisa Yu, Co-Founder of Checkmate Crypto

Lisa is a crypto and tech investor, executive coach, and champion of people. She is a venture capitalist, seasoned entrepreneur, and advisor to startups.

She is the co-founder of Checkmate Crypto, covering blockchain, crypto, NFTs, DAOs, DApps, the metaverse, and all things Web3.

She is a coach for FEDTECH, a deep tech accelerator powering founders, startups, mentors and inventors of frontier technology.  She coaches the Department of Energy and Homeland Security Startup Studio.

She is the former Founder & CEO of Officebook and advocate for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.

She lives in Los Angeles, California where she enjoys coaching entrepreneurs, launching products, beach hopping, experimental baking, rock climbing, DJing, and speaking at global events.

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