Outline:

• The fundamentals
• My take on setting up successful crypto and non-crypto traders
• Stories on what happens when you don't DYOR
• Handling emotions
• Challenges with transparency and trust
• Some industry solutions

Guest Speaker:

Jacqueline Kim Perez, Head of Operations and Token Marketing at Covalent

Jacqueline is an operations and marketing professional with extensive expertise in managing and scaling high-growth tech companies in the public and private sector. She has made a significant impact in the technology ecosystem in Canada as a thought leader, speaker, educator, and role model within the blockchain space.

She is a proponent in providing educational tools and mentorship to different audiences by sharing her 4+ years of foundational knowledge on investing in traditional stock and crypto markets, and the implementation of blockchain technology. She believes it is important to empower early adopters with fundamentals to staying abreast with the fast-paced changing markets, provide tools for retail and sophisticated investors to protect themselves , and encourage them to continue to explore emerging innovations to grow their learning curve, which will lead to adoption.

Apart from writing pieces that have been published on Hackernoon, which are utilized in institutional workshops for educational purposes, she also sits on different boards and communities as an advisor for cryptocurrencies such as Startup Canada.