Rendering the Metaverse

Ariel Emanuel is Chief Executive Officer of Endeavor (NYSE: EDR), a global sports and entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most dynamic and engaging storytellers, brands, live events and experiences.

In 2009, Emanuel orchestrated the largest talent agency merger in history when Endeavor, the original agency he founded in 1995, joined forces with agency William Morris to form William Morris Endeavor (WME). Three years later, WME forged a strategic partnership with Silver Lake, a global leader in private investments in technology. In 2014, the group acquired premier sports, fashion, events and media company IMG before acquiring premier mixed martial arts organization UFC® in 2016 – Emanuel helped accelerate the growing sport’s popularity through a series of blockbuster media rights deals, including a multi-year broadcast partnership with ESPN. UFC® now produces more than 40 live events annually in some of the most prestigious arenas around the world, broadcasting to nearly 900 million TV households across more than 170 countries. One year later, Endeavor was formed as the holding company for the global portfolio of businesses. Since then, Endeavor has been named one of Inc.’s Fastest Growing Companies in America and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, debuting on the New York Stock Exchange in 2021.

A graduate of Macalester College, Emanuel is an associate member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. He is based in Beverly Hills.

“As technology continues to become democratized — including the sort of remarkable results you can get with Octane — more diverse and unique stories will be told. Worlds, familiar and extraordinary, will be created and distributed in ways that could not have been imagined a decade ago.”

“As an advisor to OTOY since the beginning, I applaud their new architecture for transactions and security. The Render Token is by far the most interesting project that I've seen in the space, as there is already a vigorous market for the service, dominated by OTOY, that can be rationalized and harvested through blockchain technology.”

Beeple is Mike Winkelmann, a graphic designer living in Charleston, SC, USA who does a variety of digital artwork including short films, Creative Commons VJ loops, everydays and VR / AR work. He has done work for Apple, Space X, Nike, Coca-Cola, Adobe, Pepsi, Samsung and many more.

After he began releasing a set of widely used Creative Commons VJ loops he has worked on concert visuals for Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Childish Gambino, Imagine Dragons, One Direction, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Zedd, Skrillex, deadmau5 etc..

Beeple's artwork was featured on Louis Vuitton’s Women's Spring 2019 ready to wear collection as well as window displays at their flagship stores all over the world. They also worked together to build a bespoke custom handbag featuring bendable LED screens that featured his videos.

One of the originators of the current "everyday" movement in 3D graphics, he has been creating a picture everyday from start to finish and posting it online for over thirteen years without missing a single day.

“In a world where originality, creativity, and deep talent don't always come from the most obvious places, the RNDQ token can bring cutting-edge rendering tools to empower countless content creators and users. In BRIC countries and other emerging markets, the decentralized nature of this blockchain technology makes the RNDQ network's impact exponential. The dawn of a new form of creative economy is here, and here to stay.”

Demian is co-founder and CEO of Zeppelin Solutions.

He sets the strategic direction of OpenZeppelin and zeppelinOS, and leads Zeppelin Solution's auditing and consulting business.

Demian has been active in the space since the early days and pioneered the first implementation of Bitcoin's payment channel protocol - Streamium.

His work has been featured in major publications including Forbes, Bloomberg and Techcrunch, and industry-specific publications including 'Blockchains in the Mainstream' book and 'A Securities Law Framework for Blockchain Tokens'

Manuel has been working with smart contracts for the past 4 years, building popular apps and libraries in the space (Proof of Existence, Streamium, Bitcore and Decentraland).

He's currently CTO at Zeppelin Solutions and lead developer of OpenZeppelin, an open-source framework to build secure smart contracts in Ethereum.

He's also advisor to several high-profile projects in the blockchain industry, and a partner at INBlockchain.

David is the CEO and founder of the Sia project (since 2015). His contribution to reinventing cloud storage through blockchain technology has opened up new possibilities to the computing industry and created a necessary storage layer to a distributed cloud storage market.

“The past decade has seen the emergence of numerous disruptive marketplaces, and the product being built at RNDQ is bringing that same power to the rendering industry. At Sia, we’re honored to be able to assist RNDQ with their goals by providing a storage solution for the projects and renderings that move through the RNDQ network.”