Um uh I'd like to welcome you to our session here today. Women disrupting Web Three. And whilst we're all going, you've got three lovely people here today. Um And we're all going to introduce you ourselves when we talk a bit.But what we're gonna do is just do a quick round who's in the room of our name. So, I'm Alison Alexander. I'm the Director of Ethics and Social Policy at Metta Campus.

My name is Ricky Exner. I'm a software developer um in Berlin at the company IAV and I'm also part of the Women Build Web Three Collective and working there. Coding.

That's big soon. Yes. And I'm Taco. I am a founder, co-founder of uh Unicol Las and Sma. It's a metaverse for fashion and lifestyle for content creation and monetization. And we as a woman l uh start up um utilizing haring, I would say the power of diversity and creating the programs for including more um diverse audience into the back three, including people with different abilities and um um that they're still gender.

Perfect. Thank you. Um That's us. So, and you'll hear from each of us. Um And what we want to cover and we hope by the end of the session, you think that we've covered a brief insight into Web three and the importance of the transition into web three. I'm gonna up that stuff. Then Rika is going to cover the importance of transitioning into web three for engineer developers. Um And then tax is gonna end the session. We've taken us through the innovations made possible through web three. Um And how you can use all forms of metaverse for creative artists. Um And as a founder in the metaverse, so we're likely to touch on all of those and a bit more. Um If you have questions, drop them in the chat and one of us might answer during the session or we'll save them up and come back to those at the end of the session. So um I'm going to kick us off. So um the thing that I noticed about web um three and I say this as somebody who's older and um was more into Web two. was that when, when web two was here, we had different images for our different social platforms. We were always told that gotta have different images, your professional self, your fun self, your, I don't know your kind of chilled self. Everybody had a different one and actually people were worried about bringing them together.

And what I notice in this web three world is that that's all disappearing. People are really comfortable having some people um have two images, their kind of avatar and their whole person in the actual on their linkedin profile. Um And some just use the same one throughout everyone.

And I think that that for me really shows that especially I want to say Gen Z and those coming after are much more comfortable with the coming together of their physical world and their virtual world. But this slide was not just up to show you us and our wonderful, like lovely pictures. It was up to say um to ring um to share with you um A thought that I have around um edge walkers and if anyone's wondering what an edge walker is, it's not walking on the cliffs of Dover. Um It is actually about people who are taking risks who are um looking at doing new things, investing of themselves, their own money to find new solutions to problems that they've identified. It's about building bridges um from one technology to another and it's about breaking new ground, bringing something new into the world. Um I heard this concept on our web three session and uh Susan Furness was talking about Judy Nell's works. If you wanna have a look, check out the book brilliant. It is such a lovely idea and I literally am here to say that we are all risk takers and building bridges and you're gonna hear about that today from my colleagues and actually, we're breaking new ground.

And for me, the risk taken bit is why I joined um Metta Campus. So I joined Metta Campus because I have a long history in working in public sectors and about bringing about change for Children, young people, disadvantaged groups. And actually because I'm comfortable with taking risks and using new innovation, actually, I joined uh Pera and the team at Metta Campus because they wanted to take and develop new technology and take risks. But what they wanted was somebody who would keep an eye on the ethical aspect of that. How do we do that? So we're as inclusive as possible. How do we do that? So we allow and give opportunities to those people that might not have had the same opportunities. So that for me is why I joined and I'm so to be honest, I'm such a fan of Web Three and the tools of Web Three. Um So Metta Campus is a um we are here to help people transition from Web two to Web three, but more businesses. How does a whole business take their whole workforce and induct them into it? How does a professional, not a, a tech or an engineer? How does an artist, how does somebody who's an accountant, um who's a surveyor? How do they start to think about the new careers that are going to be in Web three that we're also going to hear about?

So I spend my days with the team looking at ethics um and how we apply that and also starting to have conversations um a across the globe and we, we have those conversations on Twitter Spaces and in linkedin and looking at actually, as we're taking risks building new and breaking new ground, you have to do a check and balance, do the rules we have apply really well to that or do we now need to start looking at making new legislation that will help us address and protect people in this new evolving world.

And I think the whole focus needs to be about how do we minimize the additional legislation and rules that we bring? But how do we make sure the ones that we've got can be adapted if they can. So for us Web three and its ecosystem. Now, I was new to Web Three in November and I tell her every word on here, I mean, I didn't even know these words or how they were being used, but I have learned so much about um Web Three and about the whole ecosystem, what it is and, and it's a tough journey to learn. What does this mean? What does like what the wallets mean? Soft wallets, hard wallets, what does NFTS? What does Blockchain all one of these things which we're gonna talk about? What is the metaverse? And is there only one metaverse? I was convinced there was one metaverse. Now, I understand there are many, many meta verses so, but it really is a, a really complicated place and anyone who says no, probably grew up in it. So they started in Roblox or they've just been working with it all their time. But for anyone like me who's like new to it, we really do need to help people move into it. And so what is it that they are moving into it is? And because people often say, well, what's the difference? Web three. Web two. Web one. And so for me, it's like web one is where like we used to input data.

Um Web two is where everyone says um the, the uh lots of expressions I hear is when AOL came about and everyone heard you plugged it into your telephone at wire and you heard the ringing of, do you have Mao? And that's often like what a lot of people do, but it was more interaction. It was a social, it's where we really came into that place of feeling comfortable being social. But Web three is really about changing that and doing it differently and giving ourselves like more opportunities um to actually interact, to own, to become much more decentralized. And that is what the whole world of Web three is about. And you're gonna hear a lot of those opportunities um as we talk further. So why um why should we do Web Three? And why should we transition? And I think it is a, it is a good question. And it's an important one to answer for me. The importance of it is cos it's here and some people say, yeah, but it's here. But it will be ages. Well, actually Web One took a long time to great, get everyone to use. Web two, took shorter time and Web three is absolutely changing. And people are getting more comfortable and moving into Web three much more quickly than they did any, anything else. So why?

Because it's here two, because it's going to be the employment of the future, we know that everyone is going to be able to work in jobs that will be operating in the web three ecosystem. So for me and also, I mean, most importantly is our Children are using it, they are comfortable with it and actually the future generations are going to live more and more of their virtual life and their physical life, they're going to see them integrate, integrated and working together.

So for me, I really do feel that it's, it's so important that we induct those people who have not been in web three into Web three using a variety of different tools so that then they can actually comfortably move into employment in web three and actually take advantage of all that it offers.

So the thing that I am also around web three, that really for me, I love is the Blockchain. The Blockchain is something that I think can solve. So many complicated issues and questions that we often have as a society and I think it can help us have our identity in um Web three. But I'm going to leave that for aka to talk to you about or mention the Blockchain. So over to you.

Thank you. You can switch the slide, please. Thank you. So, as we heard from Alison Web three is moving forward at a, at a breathtaking space and creating a lot of new opportunities. And for me, as a software developer, Web three is like a vast space of new exciting technologies and um I dived into it since I began to read about it in my Twitter tech bubble just last year. And since then, I've been exploring the space and kind of love the spirit in it really. So the Web three Blockchain development space can still be seen as a fairly new one. So you definitely don't have to worry about missing out or being late or something like this. And if you start now having a look into it or making a shift, you'll definitely still be early. So um we have already discussed some of this of the most exciting parts of the space and ideas around NFTS, but there's also defi decentralized uh finan finance taos decentralized organization and behind all those concepts and real world applications, there's of course, always the hidden work of software developers that do all the coding of the so called smart contracts and decentralized applications, the foundations of the free.

So what I brought here today um as a software engineer working in Web two, but very excited about Web three is a small road map and on what to learn and how to start doing hands on web free development. That means building decentralized applications on top of a Blockchain, including smart contracts. And what is great is that you can have a look into it regardless of what your former experience as a software developer was. Whether you were a Java C# Python javascript, front and back and mobile, whatever developer expert, you were web three technologies are not something that is that is completely new or will replace web two technologies but rather work as an extension to existing tech de. So step one, you're one step today, Ali in one step, he's gonna um demystify the base concepts. Um This is the point where I'd recommend to start reading, consuming some videos about blockchains as the foundations, cryptocurrencies, decentralization, other characteristics of web three, maybe listening to some talks like this one and you will find out about all those buzzwords in the space.

And yes, there are a lot to handle. I have to admit and we saw Alison's Word Cloud, but this is really the first step and maybe you heard of Ethereum before. It's uh one of the most popular blockchains, especially among developers. And it's quite crucial to understand how it differs from um for example, Bitcoin Blockchain in terms of programmability. Um and why coding and deploying smart contracts uh On top of its virtual machine really revolutionized Blockchain development in the last years. So step two oh Alison, you stopped sharing.

Thank you. Do things in the web. Three. Before you start coding, I'd suggest this. So set up a web wallet like media mask. For example, it's the most popular one. Connect your wallet to existing decentralized applications, for example, Open Sea, the NFT marketplace or maybe buy some Ether or Solana or avalanche, whatever crypto coin you like maybe join decent land or whatever. Um What I can recommend as well. Um A lot is um is doing stuff on the so called test nets that accompany the like main blockchains that work exactly like the real blockchains. But all your transactions are made with fake or worth worthless, either coins to play and test around. So you can even purchase an NFT on the test net. Open Sea to get a feeling how web three works and all you can do all that without spending a single dollar. So this is really helpful for me at least step three as developers the way the best way to learn is actually build projects. Um So I'd recommend starting with Ethereum development since the ecosystem is really fantastic and you will find a ton of resources for it. The community is quite big and very nice. There are constantly hackathons, workshops community gatherings um where you can learn and participate for free.

So what you will um then probably first stumble upon is creating smart contracts with the language solidity, which looks a little by little bit like javascript. And in combination with the web front end that you can build to interact with your smart contract backend, you can ship your first decentralized application. And um yeah, there are some really great frameworks and tools that can help you during the journey that you shouldn't miss.

And I put some of them on the next slide just to give you a little glimpse of the ecosystem that awaits you. Um This is the Ethereum develop tooling landscape. Um Maybe check it out, maybe you find um some tools you already know like um VS code, which is a very popular ID E for SOF software developers you can also use on the web three, no problem. And we have tools that handle your wallet and addresses and accounts like media mask that serve as the gateway to web three applications. And there are are other really great frameworks and tools um for client coding, storage infrastructure and and so on. The ecosystem is, is really wild right now. You know, there are so many new protocols, tech solutions and so on on, I'd say on a weekly basis. OK, let's proceed to step four. My favorite step because community is key, this is true in every field. And I think it's especially true in web three. And personally, I never experienced the community so supportive, open minded and by being as the web three developers community, so give it a try find a Twitter peer group or a Discord server you like or even a dow uh to contribute to where you can build and learn together.

And there are already some really great communities also for um for only female or uh non-binary folks um that help their members to break into that field to begin coding. Um They're giving out hackathon scholarships and many more, many male things. It's really cool. Um Maybe you can also check out the um blog post I linked in that slide that includes a lot of communities that are very active in this field right now. Yeah, I want to recommend like two communities um that helped me a lot to feel comfortable and welcomed in the space. And the first is developer Tao and the second is women build web three and some words about the latter. It's a collective of women and non binary folks that build apps in the web three. And we are about to start um um a 30 days long curriculum um like a mini hackathon um where you will learn to build and ship decentralized apps, very beginner friendly, supportive, including incentives and accompanied by some really awesome partners of the space and you could check it out.

And um yeah, you're very invited. Um if you became curious to have a look into our collective. Yeah, if you want to read more about the developer stuff at web three, you can also check out my web page. Of course, there's a broad web three chapter on it. Yeah, this was for the tech people among you guys. And um yeah, Taco will now share her show her thoughts about Web three from another point of view.

Thank you. I um I think I will be like given maybe the different perspective on what you were talking about and why you have to learn um coding smart contracts. Um I will dive into how actually smart contract contracts can be used on an example of the metaverse and NFTS. Um And shortly about what NFTSE are, uh it's a no budget tokens, tokens that represent unique digital assets stored on one of the blockchains. Uh There is only one copy of that asset on the entire Blockchain and when you meet or buy an T you are becoming an owner of that asset and the proof of your ownership is stored on the Blockchain and is publicly accessible. So what is a metaverse? Well, Alison was saying, you know, there is a lot of different um versions how people describe the metaverse. Uh But there is like a common idea that the metaverse is some kind of a shared virtual environment that we can join and experience simultaneously. Uh There is a notion that uh again, like there is a one only metaverse just like a second iteration of the internet. But there are multiple platforms that can create virtual worlds for specific proposals on the internet. You can think about different websites, about web platforms, about mobile platforms as an analogy how metaverse uh in different platforms can um be working. And the different proposals that it can actually have is maybe a gaming, it might be a social networking platform.

It might be a digital uh commerce like stores uh on the in the Metaverse or educational or recreational centers or a mix of them. And the possibilities are limitless. Uh The difference between the metaverse and the virtual worlds and chats and platforms that already exist uh and existed before is that the metaverse functions on the Blockchain. And it means that everything that is presented any object or asset in the metaverse can be an NFT which uh you can control with smart contracts, uh an exchange of these assets uh control like who, how the ownership uh goes from one person to another and everything can be controlled by the functions uh indicated in smart contracts.

Um Of course, uh there are like multiple channels how um metaphors actually controlled but like, you know, for now we're talking about the Blockchain side and not about the content creation uh side. Um As I said, like, you know, everything can be um NFT and in the beginning, I said that uh NFT, when you buy it and mint it, you become the owner of it. And another, maybe the answer of why we three and Blockchain and Metaverse um is worse of uh getting into is because the ownership of assets changed the whole game of the things that we are creating um digitally uh when you own the NFT or any asset in the metaverse. I'll give you the example uh on even our platform for fashion and lifestyle metaverse. Um Let's say you own you, you've got a about the space, the room uh as NFT, whatever you create in this space, whatever the other NFTS, you mean that you own them and the difference between the things that existed before, let's say other gaming is that if you play the game online and you buy in-game assets, you actually do not own this, the ownership of these assets are still in the hands of game developers and if they block you or if they um and their work uh and the, you know, the uh the company is closed, you lose all your assets um as soon as the game is closed.

But when you own uh your assets as NFTS, you will never lose your ownership status. Um So how it can be used, let's say you are creating your own platform. Uh The ownership gives the power for the developers to control who can access their experiences on the platform. So your smart contract can have the function that identifies specific, uh, NFTS or digital items, uh, in, in crypto wallets of, uh, potential users as soon as they come to your website to a platform, then connect their wallet and your smart contract reads. Uh, what are the assets in their, in their wallet? And it, uh, finds and identifies specific items that, um, meet the requirements from, um, from the site. The user will get speci it can get the specific access to different other experiences or get specific rewards or um open a special uh you know, room or whatever. Actually, creativity is kind of endless. You can create whatever you want. Um Another example can be uh how you can utilize uh in the metaverse. Uh Their NFTS is actually in smart contrast is actually if somebody creates uh let's say there's a two users that are creating um a world together and two of these um people, they have their own uh crypto wallets that are their identifier I DS and your smart contract for instance, reads them.

Um And they create together an NFT. You can put the logic that when the NFT is sold, it automatically splits the income. Uh This is kind of like a two example how NFTS can be used. Uh If the smart contract is written with a functionality uh that led people to utilize their NFTS. Uh The possibility of course, are endless. Um And uh it all depends on their, what's already um been um written by others or what can be explored in the future. OK. Next slide. Uh Yes. So I will talk a bit more about the opportunities in terms of like uh jobs in the uh metaverse. As Alison said that, you know, it's the future. So it means that um everything that in the future will be developed and it will be linked to the back three. Um It will bring more uh employment opportunities. And I would say that for now, what we're talking about from today's perspective, there is already three professions that are most saved in the space. The first one is, of course, is uh uh Blockchain developers. Uh Because everything we create, everything that we work with will is controlled by smart contracts. So people who have these skills are very, very uh highly valued in the space. Second one is a community management and building. Uh Third one is actually 3d designers and creators.

Uh I would also add that um the possibilities in the space that do not end on the things that you see on the, on the slide because as the space progress and as we go forward, uh there will be rising new roles that didn't exist right now because of the um needs of uh the community or as soon as we develop the platforms and as soon as the infrastructure proceeds, so like we had that, you know, we didn't have that, you know, like social media managers before.

But as soon as uh Instagram, tiktok and other platforms, um you develop fully developed, there was a new different types of professions that arise. The same things comes to the about three. in generalizing, I would say if you think about how you can uh join the NFT, I would suggest you to look at your previous background and identify what kind of skills did you have before and think about uh let's say like what you see in, in, in on the slide and see which direction you would like to um continue growing and then try to actually um making active steps to this.

And the next slide will actually identify some ways how you can start joining it. Uh Web Three Space in general is very, very active, especially from uh the side of uh start ups young projects that are actively scaling and building new um environments, whether it's metaverse or something else. Uh One of the best way how you can quickly join and start learning and uh scaling the your opportunities in the space is actually looking for web three start ups and uh asking them actively about, are there any roles open for you to join, either as an intern or maybe um full time, a full time employee?

There's also a lot of uh projects NFT Collections um and collectives that provide a lot of opportunities from learning experience. And some of them Riki uh Rike already covered in terms of, you can join their discords, you can join their uh other uh other platforms where they uh communicate with the communities and actively ask like what kind of roles are open for. Now, I would highly suggest to join Today Courts and the list that we could share because um I would say like if you want to join and if you want to learn, it's kind of like it passed away. It's the most active uh platforms who um actively providing the information and uh actively looking for people to on board them into the NFTS. Because we do all understand that to make this uh web three scale. Uh we need more people in, in, in the space. Uh and also in your company, if you have a Blockchain and Metaverse departments, well, of course, you can join. And if you don't, then you have an opportunity to actually uh on board your uh company and be the person who going to p and um um be the person who is going to, who are going to uh who's going to actually educate your department and your employees and become their leader in, in this sector uh for your company um to join the Blockchain and be uh in, in the list of first companies who actually um adopted uh we three.

Um This is all for me. Uh Thank you all for listening. And uh there is like a information how you can connect to us. And of course, if you have any further questions, feel free to ask and we will try to go deeper into each of the um each of the questions.

OK. I'm going to stop sharing my screen. Are we going? So questions I am I can't see any but I can't seem to see the comments box. So are there any questions?

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So we did share multiple resources and links to interesting um websites and you can find them in um the PDF we shared. So you can have a further look into it. This was asked multiple times. So I mention it again.

Brilliant. And did you have we put the PDF in a location where everybody could get? Yeah.

Sure. Yes. Yeah, we have a question from Mark. Uh How long can a beginner be trained to be a professional black three developer? I think it's kind of like a question to you, but I would give my give as a non person who also learned contracts. Um Of course, it all depends on the personal uh possibilities like you know, how fast they learn and stuff. But I would say it can take about a month to go from zero to kind of start in understanding how to write a smart contract and how to read it. Maybe you won't be able to do you know some advanced features. Uh But at least you will be able to read the smart contract and kind of learn. And maybe I would also try to find one of the sources that I used. Um And now you can answer more professionally.

Um It depends on your previous knowledge. Um If you are already a professional like, but two developer in any kind of field, maybe you're a C# professional developer. Um I think you will, you won't have some problems to dive into that space and learn new web three technologies and frameworks because you're already in the developer's mindset. And maybe you will have to like do some projects, do some hacking, do some coding for around one or two months and you will I think have the most important experience, most important um knowledge. Um You will need um Taco Yeah, you um drop the link to crypto zombies, which is a very famous starting tutorial for solidity developers. So solidity is probably the, yeah, a very good start to get a feeling for smart contract development. But I have to say um my feeling is also that in web three, there is a lack of front end developers. So um we also need persons that do know front end development. So mostly javascript and typescript that are able to um create the functionality to connect to smart contracts and provide the user experience on the front end. So if you if that's your space, you you are very welcome in web three development area.

Agreed. Yeah, there is an actual understanding of what kind of role you want to take in the space and um kind of identify how you're going to.

There's also a very great um need for developer relationship manager. Um Because we have so many new frameworks, protocols and tools in this um uh in the field. And all those mostly have a person that does some community management for those protocols and tools. And um yeah, does events or um manages like the network um around this tool and this is um mostly called developer relationship management. So if you, if this is something you're interested in, have a look at shit.

Yes. Um I see another question asking from Larkin. Uh what do you all see in the major problems downsides of web two that web three solves? I kind of have my answer from my side but maybe you have yours

first. No, go, no, go for it. You kick up with an answer and then we can build on that. Yeah. OK.

Perfect. Well as um like again, because I'm a founder of a platform metaverse about uh co creation and content creation is actually that's one of the problems that we see in, in the web two world. Like let's uh social platforms like tiktok, Instagram and others, you do create your content and again, you're under the control of the platform because the platforms are centralized. So the way you earn your income from your content is also kind of dependent on these platforms.

And when it comes to Web three, um the, you know, the ownership because it's owned by you, you actually own the data that uh you monetize. So I would say that one of the way how one of the problems that webs resolves is actually the monetization of the content that it creates, whether it's for just for fun and you post, you know, like in the social media, um photos of your parties or if you are professionally um hosting your um social account.

And the more a platform is decentralized, uh whether it's web two or web three, the more power you have uh as an owner um from my side. Again, I do see that when the platform is maybe still curated uh and created in a way that supports um creators in terms of promoting their work and just encouraging them to promote their work and not create any barriers is one of the powers of the B A three compared to web two.

Um And if I can add, um somebody's obviously agreed with you decentralization. Um And um I would want to pick up that one too, to say that to me feels really important. Um But to, to throw in another one, I'd also want to say that through the Blockchain that we've heard about from, from both of you, I, I think that there's that real ability to have that sovereign ident identity held within the Blockchain so that if you are somebody like we no longer, in a sense, you could get rid of passports, you could get rid of birth certificates.

There's really so many unique things that we can use. Um, the Blockchain four. And I think, especially if you think of, um, instances where people, like have to leave their country. Um, and therefore the country economy collapses actually, if they are both using the Blockchain to store their identity and their personal possessions of who they are, then when they leave their country, they already are taking that with them. And then if they're also used in it um with the crypto, then I think that also gives them another opportunity that they can therefore take that with them rather than um arriving in a destination without that resource that they previously had and that identity. So for me, I see those as important. But Rika, before we get cut off at 230 I wonder if you want to add one as well. I was just,

I was looking up some female non binary comedian in the space to answer Patricia's question. Um Yeah, but another question from Patricia about people and there forgetting

II, I think that is, is a big one that people are now starting to raise. If I want to be forgotten actually, can I be um if it's therefore stored on the Blockchain and that becomes one of those ethical questions as well, doesn't it is it right to be, do I have a right to, to be present and then be forgotten and, and if I do actually what happens um, to those other people that were connected with me, if I've been forgotten.

So, I think, I mean, that is a whole, um, great topic in itself to talk about, but I think we're going to be closed. Go for it. Taco.

Yes. I wanted to answer Patricia's question. I know a couple of uh communities. I just tried to find the link and the internet is not working, but it's Christina Fly and Mac, like a two person who really promotes the uh women and non binary communities in the space. So uh if you connect to me in linkedin or Twitter, I will try to share with you like the links unfortunately and quickly I can do this like from tech point of view. And also I think, you know, how we two and web three gonna change uh more perspective than OK, Patricia is actually, you know, even thinking beyond the content creation and our self expression and ownership. It's also um thinking about how um organizations can skip the mediatory in terms of like banks. When you, for instance, uh NGO and you raise funds, you can actually raise these funds like directly from uh potential um people who are going to, you know, um donate uh creating the whole dow that raise specific money for specific reasons. You kind of skip this, uh, middleman part when, uh, you don't need to pay extra fees and extra, uh, percent to like third parties just because the things are built in web through world. So you kind of have to work with them. With the Daws.

You can do it directly or if you are start up, you actually can raise visa funds directly from either DAS or your potential, uh, future community. So there is a lot of different ways how Web three is different from Web Two. Unfortunately, we don't have time enough to discuss all of these aspects. Um but we can continue these conversations if you connect with us uh in social medias.

Did, did you want to add anything Rita?

No, just thank you to you guys uh for listening and let's connect wherever you want.

Of course. Thank you everyone. It's been really great.

Yes. Thank you all. Um and I, yeah, hope to connect with you. Good day. Ok, bye bye bye bye.