It’s all started from two long-time friends – Elena and Natalia. Natalia’s son asked them to install Ethereum wallet on her Windows laptop. They discovered that it required two Masters of Computer Science and three hours of trial and error to figure out this wallet. They also learned that blockchain is a tricky technology- one wrong click of a button and all your money is lost forever. With that in mind Elena and Natalia started a meetup group for women to learn and help each other. First night they announced a meetup fifty women joined them to learn about wallets, private keys, addresses, security, cryptography, smart contracts – all beautiful things that blockchain technology has to offer.
In a short period of time a small meetup group grew into a international organization CryptoChicks with the chapters in Canada, USA, Russia, Pakistan, Bahamas. AI technology came on board for our women in 2019. Nowadays we are a volunteer-run non-profit educational hub with a mission to grow the economic, professional and leadership potential of women and youth in blockchain and AI technologies through education, mentorship, business and diverse employment opportunities. We are proud to be nominated to Blockchain Company of the Year Award at the Canadian FinTech and AI Awards 2018 organized by the Digital Finance Institute. Our educational programs are offered in partnership with BlockGeeks – our main educational sponsor. To learn more please listen to CryptoChicks feature on Business Leadership Live Radio
This event serves our mission to grow the economic, professional and leadership potential of women in blockchain and AI technologies through education, mentorship, business and diverse employment opportunities. CryptoChicks Conference+Hackathon is a combination of a technology competition and an educational conference that is running side by side at the same location for the three consecutive days including overnights. In the program is a keynote from the Ethereum inventor Vitalik Buterin, practical demo from SingularityNET on the Robot Sophia AI inside outs. Various debates, panels, speeches, workshops from blockchain and AI world leaders. Family Day – an opportunity for entire family to play blockchain and AI games. Blockchain Art exhibit. Also in the program is a Networking Cocktail Reception, VIP Party, entertainment, decentralized hacking, hacker project presentations, and the World Championship awards.
Apply at : https://cryptochickshackathon.com
Location: Toronto, Canada
This event has a goal is to educate high school children of Bahamas in blockchain and AI technologies, provide them with support and mentorship, inspire them to create and develop their own projects and provide them with the vision for their future in technology and ways to help Bahamas community .
Our audience is
Apply at : https://bahamas.cryptochicks.ca
Location: Albany, Bahamas
We are inviting all women to use this unique opportunity to learn blockchain technology in-depth and then implement it in a project of your choice. Our sponsor BlockGeeks.com will provide all female participants with free online blockchain education.
We will be running a conference right with the hackathon. We are inviting the most outstanding blockchain professionals from all over the world to speak and share their knowledge.
Apply at : https://pakistan.cryptochicks.ca
Location: Karachi, Pakistan
EDCON week events will include:
(1) EDCON Hackathon: a 36 hours event with non-stop creative storming for participants with organizing partner CryptoChicks.
(2) EDCON Conference: a three-day conference including main conference, subconference, workshops, etc. Core Ethereum development teams will be invited to talk about the latest updates on Ethereum research and technology, and other pioneers in the field will share their thoughts on the current trends, projects and applications, as well as community building and development status.
(3) EDCON “Having Fun” day: a one-day outdoor activity. While this will no doubt be a great opportunity for network building between the community members in a more informal setting for everyone to relax after a week of hacking and sessions.
All Ethereum communities worldwide are invited to participate in this event.
Location: Sydney, Australia
We are inviting young adults 16-22 from Switzerland to use this unique opportunity to learn blockchain technology in-depth and then implement it in a project for film industry. Our sponsor BlockGeeks.com will provide all participants with free online blockchain education.This event is being held within International Innovation Film Festival in Bern, Switzerland and hosted by CryptoChicks.
Please email us at stayintouch@cryptochicks.ca to register
Location: Bern, Switzerland
We are a non for profit organization. Please help us educate more women with your donations. All donations will be appreciated and recognized. Use our contact form to inform us about your transaction details. Don’t forget to provide your name and message – we want to recognize you. Thank you for helping women and diversity in blockchain space!
Software development team lead and entrepreneur. Elena Sinelnikova founded CryptoChicks non-profit organization with the vision to empower and inspire women interested in learning about blockchain technology. She managed to involve hundreds of women who became blockchain evangelists, blockchain developers, blockchain entrepreneurs themselves. Elena developed CryptoChicks into an international hub for women talent in blockchain technology with chapters and educational events all over the world. Elena holds a Master of Computer Science and her specialties are in blockchain, application architecture, software design and development.
Natalia is a Senior Finance Executive with multi-industry experience. Her expertise is in strategic financial planning, decision support, operations management and change management. She holds Master’s degrees in Computer Science and Business Administration as well as CPA/CMA accounting designation. She is a co-founder of CryptoChicks and is inspired by its mission – to grow the industry and its adoption by engaging women. After attending multiple crypto events, she believes that “we have this incredible opportunity to gain further insight and innovation by tapping into the immense talent of women”. Natalia was introduced to Blockchain technology in 2014 and has been passionate about the industry since.
Nataliya Hearn (Ph.D. Materials Engineering University of Cambridge) Professor turned serial entrepreneur. Founder and CEO of Element 21 (ranked as the fastest growing company in Canada run by a woman W100 2009) that brought Scandium technology from the former Soviet Union to sports (baseball, golf, lacrosse), electronics, and aviation industries. Organized the launch of the golf drive from the International Space Station (2006).
Featured in Forbes (June 2010) for developing space age material for Mount Everest team with the warmest and thinnest jackets using ZeroLoft insulation material. Designed and marketed one of the most popular professional fishing rod lines — Carrot Stix.
Olga is a communication and marketing specialist.
Olga holds the degree in economics and business and is passionate about the tech industry in terms of analytics and innovations.
Her addiction for the CryptoChicks has been developed from the first meeting with them
Konstantin spent past 2 decades building corporate IT infrastructure.
He is a Bitcoin early adopter and blockchain educator.
Konstantin is currently working on a blockchain project focusing on the private key security, crypt accents governance and blockchain end-user interaction experience.
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