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Lauren Ingram is banking heavily on AI in developing the first blockchain killer app
May 22, 2024 marked a special night for women in the blockchain and future technology industry. Coinciding with London Blockchain Conference (LBC) 2024The Women in Blockchain panel event brought together around 50 female tech professionals and entrepreneurs, including attendees of the London Blockchain Conference and locals.
In addition to providing an intimate networking opportunity for like-minded women, Lavinia Osbourne of Women in Blockchain Talks moderated a panel with Christine Leone by nChain, Divya Prashanth by JurnyOn and Lauren Ingram of the Women of Web3.
After the panel, Behind the scenes at CoinGeek had the opportunity to meet Ingram, who founded Women of Web3 in 2022 after leaving Meta (NASDAQ:META). With a newborn in tow, Ingram was trying to figure out what she would need to learn to get a job in tech again.
“The more I learned about things like NFTs, tokenization, blockchain, and the metaverse, the more I thought, oh, this sounds really interesting. Maybe there’s a career in this,” he shared with CoinGeek Backstage.
Ingram saw the lack of women in this space as “pretty bad,” citing that last year, nine out of 10 blockchain startups had no women on their co-founding team. He realized there was an opportunity to change that.
“We’re starting to see more women in leadership and more women applying for jobs at every level of the company, so I think we’re finally on the right track. But that’s a reason to be Women of Web3,” she said.
During the panel, Ingram explained that there is a lot of jargon out there Web3 and said we need to move beyond buzzwords before we get to widespread adoption.
“It’s when people use it without realizing it that we realize it’s fully there,” Ingram said.
“Often when we talk about blockchain, aside from the people who are actually building blockchain-based products, it feels like we’re talking about the future. And I think the thing that’s going to change all of that is some kind of killer application. And I think that’s probably going to be around artificial intelligence,” he predicted.
Ingram went on to explain the massive amounts of data generated artificial intelligence (artificial intelligence) is creating and we need a way to verify that information, which is where Blockchain enter.
“I think once people realize this and have this killer application or set of applications, that’s when we’ll see widespread adoption, where it becomes incredibly normal for us to use blockchain every single day,” he said.
When asked about the evening itself and why it’s important to bring together motivated women, Ingram described it as “really special” and “amazing to have so many women in a space who are in some way connected to blockchain or Web3.”
“I think you get a special kind of energy when you bring together women who are normally in the minority at an event. And then when you put them all together in a room in the majority, it creates this wall of noise that you can even hear outside. And I think that’s something really special,” she said.
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