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Unlocking Web3 Infrastructure | (with Ahmed Al-Balaghi, Co-Founder of Biconomy) | Web3

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Crypto mass adoption is a hot topic in the crypto world, but how do we actually tackle it? 

In this wide ranging conversation, Ronit Ghose and Gaurav Dhar explored the main opportunities and painpoints in the evolving Web3 world, his career journey from China to the UAE, and what the future is holding for the space.

Get ready to listen various inspiring stories and killer insights from Ahmed 👇

🏅 What is the founding story of Biconomy?
❄️ Are we in winter season for NFTs and decentralised Metaverse?
🤔 What actually happened to play-to-earn?
🌍 Does Ahmed see himself in another location for making mass adoption a reality?

You can watch the sessions below on Youtube, or listen it on Apple and Spotify Podcasts.

Episode Guest

Ahmed Al-Balaghi

Co-founder of Biconomy

Ahmed Al-Balaghi is Cofounder & CEO at Biconomy. Before founding Biconomy, Ahmed worked for Jabbar Internet Group, a Dubai based VC. He also founded Encrypted, the largest podcast in MENA dedicated to fintech, blockchain and crypto assets. Prior to that, Ahmed spent time as a blockchain researcher in Shanghai, China. He has also worked for institutions such as Citibank, Dow Jones and Ofgem. Ahmed can also speak Arabic and Mandarin.

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Podcast hosts

Ronit Ghose

Ronit Ghose

Ronit Ghose is the lead author of Citi’s GPS Bank of the Future and FinTech report series – the first edition has had more than 250,000 downloads making it the most read report ever published by Citi, and one of the most read FinTech reports ever published. Since joining Citi in 1997, Ronit has covered banks in the Americas, Asia and EMEA. He is the Global Head of Future of Finance in Citi Research. He is also an Advisory Board Member at the Centre for Finance, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. Ronit previously worked at the British Bankers’ Association and as a research assistant in Parliament. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Oxford, a postgraduate diploma from the University of London and is a CFA charter holder.

Gaurav Dhar

Gaurav Dhar is the CEO of the Payments Solution Provider Marshal in Dubai. Gaurav has been working at Marshal for over 19 years now He strives to continually be on the frontier of building FinTech ecosystems and solutions. His personal time is spent on working with and investing directly in innovators, with a view to the future of Fintech both locally and globally via his cache of relationships which include VCs, incubators, accelerators, and start-ups and Angel Syndicates. In his position as a board member of the MENA FinTech Association and several advisory positions to international family offices, start-ups, and funds, he looks to grow the relationships within the FinTech and start-up ecosystem to contribute towards the education of budding disruptors and eventually the growth of economies and the job market where possible in the MEA Region and abroad.

Gaurav Dhar

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Fintech & Web3 Founders Podcasts

Hosted by Gaurav Dhar and Ronit Ghose