Laura Estefania views Web3 through the lens of public opinion, narrative, and responsibility. At Conquista PR, she focuses on shaping perception, guiding founders through communication and policy, and building leadership grounded in clarity, resilience, and long term trust rather than hype.
Mona Shaikh did not enter Web3 with a whitepaper. She entered with a punchline. Through “Web3 Is a Joke,” she roasts crypto culture, industry egos, and hype cycles, turning satire into a surprising bridge between mainstream audiences and an ecosystem often accused of taking itself too seriously.
Shardeum is building blockchain infrastructure around India’s real constraints, cost, accessibility, and scale. By prioritizing usability, community run validation, and gradual scaling over raw throughput, the network aims to create an ecosystem where everyday users can transact onchain without friction.
In a market constrained by taxes and regulation, Pi42 is building India’s first INR margined crypto futures exchange to bring trading onshore. CEO Avinash Shekhar bets that compliance, local currency design, and institutional discipline can rebuild trust and reshape India’s role in global digital asset markets.
At its Bengaluru summit, ConvoZen unveiled an end to end conversational AI stack and two indigenous speech models, Akshara and Ragini, built for India’s multilingual, voice first ecosystem. Backed by enterprise adoption, the platform positions itself as sovereign AI infrastructure for large scale customer operations.
