Biography: A vociferous advocate for an open metaverse, Yat Siu is well known as a crusader for true digital property rights and is among the most prolific investors in the crypto ecosystem. Siu has donned multiple roles throughout his long career, with an unwavering passion for technology that can bring about a positive change in society at large. Siu is known primarily as a serial technology entrepreneur, and his all-around focus and societal contributions have won him laurels as a global leader on platforms such as the World Economic Forum. Born to musically inclined parents, Siu was enrolled in the Music and Arts University in Vienna to follow in their footsteps. However, in pursuing a faster way to compose music, Siu wrote his own software program that landed him his first job and defined a different career path than his parents had imagined. Siu launched Cybercity as Hong Kong’s first internal and email provider in 1996 and has been a serial entrepreneur ever since, founding companies such as Outblaze, Animoca and Animoca Brands. Siu’s work over the past two decades has established him as one of the central characters in online gaming, nonfungible tokens and other blockchain applications. Having co-founded Animoca in 2011 as a gaming app company that could cater to the global NFT gaming market, Siu has overseen over 380 investments in the blockchain space, with more than 170 being NFT-based projects that are contributing toward his vision of building an open metaverse. Among his top investments are projects such as OpenSea, The Sandbox, Yield Guild Games, Dapper Labs and Decentraland, with Siu continuing to dedicate most of his time toward driving digital property rights through gaming and NFTs.