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In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde spoke with Chris Were, an accomplished tech entrepreneur from Australia, with more than two decades of expertise spanning finance, media, and healthcare industries. He currently serves as Co-Founder and CEO of Verida, a decentralized data storage network. Nurtured under the Open Web Collective and selected as part of the 2021 CoinList Seed Spring Batch, Verida strives to enhance personal data ownership, implement interoperable messaging, and streamline single sign-on solutions for web3. The company has successfully secured $3.5M in financing.

Driven by a vision of user-centric business models, Chris advocates for individuals controlling their digital identity and personal data to foster equity and innovation. As the technical leader at Verida, Chris has steered the development of the Verida protocol, a decentralized, self-sovereign data network, and continues to shape its technical direction for promoting self-sovereign technology's mass adoption.

Before Verida, Chris co-founded Community Data Solutions, a CRM provider for non-profit organizations and government sectors, growing it to serve 150 enterprise clients across Australia. In June 2023, Chris delivered a keynote address titled, "Welcome to the API of Me," at BLOCKCHANCE 23 in Hamburg, Germany.
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