Cami joins the hosts of the Inside The Loop Podcast to discuss the inaugural ETHCHicago conference and hackathon.

Despite the cratering crypto markets and snarky headlines, major institutional players in the Midwest are still all in on Web3. This panel explores the reasons for their long term optimism and discusses the ways that these tools are about to start changing lives IRL. 

Panelists : Marcie Bomberg-Montoya of Wipfli, Cami Darling of Decasonic, Michael Morris of Wipfli, and Jon Gregis of LinkPool. 

This official 2023 SXSW event was recorded from Half Step, in Austin, Texas as presented by Midwest House.

Since joining Decasonic in April 2022, Cami Darling has led all marketing efforts for the Chicago VC firm that invests in blockchain, metaverse, NFTs and other Web3 technologies. The VC firm closed a $49 million fund at the beginning of the year. At Decasonic, Darling helped launch the Blockchain for the Billions podcast, where she interviews founders in the space about what it was like to build their products, and she led the Web3 Investor Day conference as she continues to be a key player in the growth of Chicago’s Web3 ecosystem.

Despite the cratering crypto markets and snarky headlines, major institutional players in the Midwest are still all in on Web3. This panel explores the reasons for their long term optimism and discusses the ways that these tools are about to start changing lives IRL. 

Panelists : Marcie Bomberg-Montoya of Wipfli, Cami Darling of Decasonic, Michael Morris of Wipfli, and Jon Gregis of LinkPool. 

This official 2023 SXSW event was recorded from Half Step, in Austin, Texas as presented by Midwest House.

I led the production, organization, and execution of the Midwest's premier Web3 conference, Web3 Investor Day. The event gathered 350+ founders, investors, and industry thought leaders to engage in a full day of networking and demo's on July 28, 2022, which kicked off another cultural crossroads moment in Chicago, Lollapalooza. Esteemed speakers included Brett Harrison, Sam Yagan, Rumi Morales, and keynote fireside chat Jason Pritzker.

The intention was to bring together the community, both from Chicago and around the nation, to deepen conversations and connections around capital and powerful ideas. 

This conversation, which takes place in a live conference setting and includes audience Q+A, ranges from defining differences between centralized and decentralized finance, focusing on value propositions in DeFi, borrowing and lending, growing a company sustainably, and why FTX chose Chicago for their first US HQ.