Top 50 B2B Thought Leaders, Analysts & Influencers You Should Work With In 2024 (APAC)

Top 50 B2B Thought Leaders, Analysts & Influencers You Should Work With In 2024 (APAC)

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Top 50 B2B Thought Leaders, Analysts & Influencers You Should Work With In 2024 (APAC)

Thought Leader (Alphabetical) Thought Leader Profile & Portfolio Top Ranking Thinkers360 Leaderboards
Dr. Mazlan Abbas
FAVORIOT
Contact Dr. Mazlan Abbas
IoT, GovTech, Smart Cities
DV Abhang,C.P.M.,CPSM
Ram Ratna Group
Contact DV Abhang,C.P.M.,CPSM
Procurement, Supply Chain, Change Management
Jane Anderson CSP
Jane Anderson Communications
Contact Jane Anderson CSP
Sales, Personal Branding, Social
Khairul Anwar
DT LEADERSHIP
Contact Khairul Anwar
PropTech, Design Thinking, Open Innovation
Dr Stacey Ashley
Stacey Ashley
Contact Dr Stacey Ashley
Change Management, Coaching, Management
Arthur Carmazzi
Directive Communication International (Asia) PTE LTD
Contact Arthur Carmazzi
Culture, Mental Health, Change Management
Ashley Galina Dudarenok
ChoZan
Contact Ashley Galina Dudarenok
Marketing, Digital Disruption, Business Strategy
Apoorv Durga, Ph.D.
Real Story Group
Contact Apoorv Durga, Ph.D.
Marketing, Customer Experience, Digital Transformation
Chenthil Eswaran
Aspire Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd
Contact Chenthil Eswaran
PropTech, ERP, CRM
Sally Foley-Lewis
Sally Foley-Lewis
Contact Sally Foley-Lewis
Coaching, Management, Leadership
Alvin Foo
Chain Valley Capital
Contact Alvin Foo
Samiran Ghosh
unblox Solutions
Contact Samiran Ghosh
Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
Gokul Alex
KPMG India
Contact Gokul Alex
Open Innovation, Blockchain, Quantum Computing
Luke Jamieson
www.LukeJamieson.live
Contact Luke Jamieson
Design, SportsTech, Future of Work
Mayur Joshi
Riskpro Management Consulting Private Limited
Contact Mayur Joshi
Risk Management, Careers, EdTech
Ratan Jyoti
Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
Contact Ratan Jyoti
Privacy, Blockchain, Cybersecurity
Keith Keller
Global Social Media Coaching
Contact Keith Keller
Social, Marketing
Harjeet Khanduja
Reliance Jio
Contact Harjeet Khanduja
HR, 5G, Leadership
Aditya Khullar
Adani Digital Labs
Contact Aditya Khullar
Privacy, Risk Management, DevOps
Kashyap Kompella
RPA2AI Research
Contact Kashyap Kompella
RPA, AI, Cloud
Prof. Marek Kowalkiewicz
QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Contact Prof. Marek Kowalkiewicz
Generative AI, AI, Creativity
Dr Ram Kumar G, PhD
Volvo Group
Contact Dr Ram Kumar G, PhD
Risk Management, Cybersecurity, Privacy
Avdhesh Kumbhar
Global Business Hub
Contact Avdhesh Kumbhar
Startups, Public Relations, Sales
Anndy Lian
Mongolian Productivity Organization
Contact Anndy Lian
Blockchain, Digital Disruption, Business Strategy
Adv (Dr.) Prashant Mali [MSc, LLB, LLM, Ph.D.]
Cyber Law Consulting (Advocates & Attorneys)
Contact Adv (Dr.) Prashant Mali [MSc, LLB, LLM, Ph.D.]
Legal & IP, Privacy, Creativity
Navin Manaswi
WoWExp
Contact Navin Manaswi
AR/VR, Startups, Retail
Siobhán (Shiv-awn) McHale
Dulux Group
Contact Siobhán (Shiv-awn) McHale
HR, Future of Work, Culture
Pradeepta Mishra
Data Safeguard Inc
Contact Pradeepta Mishra
Predictive Analytics, Analytics, AI
Prof M Nazri Muhd
MyFinB Group| Centre for AI Innovation (CE.A.I)
Contact Prof M Nazri Muhd
AI, Digital Transformation, Predictive Analytics
Vidusha Nathavitharana
Luminary Learning Solutions Private Limited
Contact Vidusha Nathavitharana
Management, Health & Wellness, COVID19
Steve Nouri
AI4Diversity
Contact Steve Nouri
NFT, Generative AI, RPA
Arpita (Mukherjee) Pamnani
Axis Bank
Sameer Paradkar
Eviden (An AtoS Business)
Contact Sameer Paradkar
Data Center, Design Thinking, Open Innovation
Kalilur Rahman
Contact Kalilur Rahman
Agile, Big Data, Analytics
Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D.
MSR Leadership Consultants India
Contact Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D.
Leadership, Business Strategy, HR
Amenallah Reghimi
RegASK™
Contact Amenallah Reghimi
FinTech, Procurement, AI
Dr Mark van Rijmenam
The Digital Speaker
Contact Dr Mark van Rijmenam
NFT, Metaverse, Blockchain
Marie-Claire Ross
Trustologie
Contact Marie-Claire Ross
IT Leadership, Health & Safety, Management
Prof.(Dr.) Sanjay Rout
Innovation Solution Lab
Contact Prof.(Dr.) Sanjay Rout
Open Innovation, Mergers & Acquisitions, GovTech
Rahul Sasi
CloudSEK
Contact Rahul Sasi
Risk Management, Cybersecurity, Big Data
Praveen Singh
CyberPWN Technologies
Contact Praveen Singh
National Security, Privacy, Cybersecurity
Roger Smith
Care MIT
Contact Roger Smith
Security, Cybersecurity, Risk Management
Aarron Spinley
SPINLEY.CO
Contact Aarron Spinley
Customer Experience, Lean Startup, Marketing
Robin Tommy
Tata Consultancy Services
Contact Robin Tommy
AR/VR, Sustainability, EdTech
Steve Tunstall
Contact Steve Tunstall
Richard Turrin
Contact Richard Turrin
FinTech, Blockchain, Innovation
Dr. Sunil Kumar Vuppala
Ericsson
Contact Dr. Sunil Kumar Vuppala
Emerging Technology, IoT, AI
Friska Wirya
Fresh by Friska
Contact Friska Wirya
Change Management, Personal Branding, Careers
Dr. Mehmet Yildiz
Digitalmehmet
Contact Dr. Mehmet Yildiz
Mental Health, Design Thinking, Health & Safety
EUR ING. Ts. Sukor Zainal CEng FIMarEST CMarEng
EFTECH ENERGY SOLUTIONS
Contact EUR ING. Ts. Sukor Zainal CEng FIMarEST CMarEng
Data Center, Project Management, Entrepreneurship

 

Our listing includes members of Thinkers360 and who have curated and shared their thought leadership content from around the web – including articles, blogs, books, keynotes, media interviews, panels, podcasts, social media, speaking events, videos, webinars and whitepapers – via our platform to build their Thinkers360 profile, portfolio and media kit.

Our differentiation from the various influencer leaderboards on social media, is that we take a holistic view of thought leaders and experts, beyond their social media activity, and look across all the hats they may wear – such as academic, analyst, author, consultant, entrepreneur, influencer and speaker – and all the types of thought leadership content they produce.*

To see the full list (including industry-leading in-depth profiles, portfolios and media kits) or to participate in any of our leaderboards (by sharing your own thought leadership content), SIGN-UP  for Thinkers360 today!

We focus on cutting edge business, technology and sustainability topics including 5G, Agile, AI, Analytics, AR/VR, Autonomous Vehicles, Big Data, Blockchain, Business Continuity, Business Strategy, Careers, Change Management, Climate Change, Cloud, Coaching, COVID-19, Creativity, CRM, Corporate Social Responsibility, Cryptocurrency, Culture, Customer Experience, Customer Loyalty, Cybersecurity, Data Center, Design, Design Thinking, DevOps, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, Diversity & Inclusion, Ecosystems, EdTech, Education, Emerging Technology, Entrepreneurship, ERP, Finance, FinTech, Generative AI, GovTech, Health & Safety, Health & Wellness, Healthcare, HealthTech, HR, Innovation, InsurTech, International Relations, IoT, IT Leadership, IT Operations, IT Strategy, Leadership, Lean Startup, Legal & IP, Management, Manufacturing, Marketing, Mental Health, Mergers & Acquisitions, Metaverse, Mobility, National Security, NFT, Open Innovation, Open Source, Payroll, Personal Branding, Predictive Analytics, Privacy, Procurement, Product Management, Project Management, PropTech, Public Relations, Quantum Computing, Recruiting, Renewable Energy, Retail, Risk Management, RPA, Sales, Security, Smart Cities, Social, SportsTech, Startups, Supply Chain, Sustainability and Telecom.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

What specific criteria were used to select the top 50 thought leaders and influencers? 

The Thinkers360 thought leadership leaderboards are by participation and everyone is invited to join by signing up at Thinkers360.com. There is no difference in how we calculate the rankings between free and paid members.

The Thinkers360 leaderboards are based on member’s personally authored content and experience curated from around the web and added to their Thinkers360 profile, portfolio, and media kit.

Unlike social media leaderboards which can be gamed via the purchase of fake followers, spamming of hashtags, and sharing of third-party content, the Thinkers360 leaderboards are based on member’s real content and accomplishments. Something that’s a true measure of expertise and hard to fake.

For more information, please see our article “Understanding the Thinkers360 Leaderboards”.

 

How can I get on the Thinkers360 list in the future? 

Simply Sign Up for Thinkers360 and start building your profile, portfolio, and media kit. You can add personally authored content, awards and recognition and tag each content item with up to 3 relevant keywords that count towards the leaderboards.

 

How can I recommend others who should be on the list?

Know others who should be on our leaderboards? Help us grow the Thinkers360 community by inviting them to participate by sharing their own content today! We amplify your content for free!

 

What are some other resources available to learn more? 

Thinkers360 is an opt-in network of the world’s foremost B2B thought leaders — including academics, advisors, analysts, authors, consultants, executives, influencers, and speakers — with over 100M followers on social media combined.

To access resources from our members, simply Sign Up for Thinkers360 and visit our Content menu. There you can filter by any topic of interest from over 90 cutting-edge business, technology, and sustainability topics. You can also filter content by over 70 content types such as articles, blogs, books, keynotes, media interviews, panels, podcasts, social media, speaking events, videos, webinars, whitepapers, as well as awards, certifications, and many other professional positions, credentials, and achievements.

You can also view each thought leader’s content by going to their profile on Thinkers360, scrolling down to the “Publication” section, and then expanding to see all their content, awards, and recognition. This includes direct links to their content published around the web such as articles, blogs, books, podcasts and speaking.

To work with any of these thought leaders simply join any of our enterprise plans.

 

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Thinkers360 is the world’s first, largest and premier B2B thought leader and influencer marketplace — including academics, advisors, analysts, authors, consultants, executives, influencers and speakers — with over 100M followers on social media combined. We are differentiated by our unique patent-pending algorithms that measure thought leadership and authentic influence looking far beyond social media alone.

Brands & CompaniesSign up to find and work with advisors, analysts, authors, influencers and speakers in your niche and to amplify your own executives, thought leaders, employee advocates and content among our opt-in community with over 100M followers on social media combined! We specialize in B2B strategic marketing, B2B analyst relations, and B2B thought leadership marketing putting your brand in front of active B2B buyers and influencers worldwide – Explore membership today!

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Our Methodology

* The Thinkers360 patent-pending algorithm helps to produce leaderboards that look across all thought leader roles and across the quantity and quality of their thought leadership content. It provides a valuable measure of thought leadership content, encourages genuine content creation, incorporates social media influence as one of the measures, and encourages richer profiles and portfolios through gamification.

Of course, no measurement system related to influence or thought leadership is perfect, but the thought leadership scoring system within Thinkers360 is a highly-differentiated approach to help you identify authentic thought leaders – looking far beyond social media – serving as the tip of the spear for your strategic marketing, thought leadership marketing, PR & corporate communications, and analyst and influencer relations objectives.

 

Source: https://www.thinkers360.com/top-50-b2b-thought-leaders-analysts-influencers-you-should-work-with-in-2024-apac/

Anndy Lian is an early blockchain adopter and experienced serial entrepreneur who is known for his work in the government sector. He is a best selling book author- “NFT: From Zero to Hero” and “Blockchain Revolution 2030”.

Currently, he is appointed as the Chief Digital Advisor at Mongolia Productivity Organization, championing national digitization. Prior to his current appointments, he was the Chairman of BigONE Exchange, a global top 30 ranked crypto spot exchange and was also the Advisory Board Member for Hyundai DAC, the blockchain arm of South Korea’s largest car manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group. Lian played a pivotal role as the Blockchain Advisor for Asian Productivity Organisation (APO), an intergovernmental organization committed to improving productivity in the Asia-Pacific region.

An avid supporter of incubating start-ups, Anndy has also been a private investor for the past eight years. With a growth investment mindset, Anndy strategically demonstrates this in the companies he chooses to be involved with. He believes that what he is doing through blockchain technology currently will revolutionise and redefine traditional businesses. He also believes that the blockchain industry has to be “redecentralised”.

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Anndy Lian Named Top 50 B2B Thought Leaders & Influencers You Should Work With In 2023 (APAC)

Anndy Lian Named Top 50 B2B Thought Leaders & Influencers You Should Work With In 2023 (APAC)

Top 50 B2B Thought Leaders & Influencers You Should Work With In 2023 (APAC)

Thought Leader (Alphabetical) Thought Leader Profile & Portfolio Top Ranking Thinkers360 Leaderboards
Dr. Mazlan Abbas
CEO at FAVORIOT
Contact Dr. Mazlan Abbas
IoT, GovTech, Smart Cities
DV Abhang,C.P.M.,CPSM
Vice President & Head -Corporate Procurement & Supply Chain Group at Ram Ratna Group
Contact DV Abhang,C.P.M.,CPSM
Procurement, Supply Chain, Change Management
Gokul Alex
Co-Founder and CTO at Semiott Systems
Contact Gokul Alex
Blockchain, Open Innovation, Quantum Computing
Puteri Sofia Amirnuddin
Senior Law Lecturer | Programme Director for Master of Laws Programmes | CIRI Chief Project Officer | International Consultant | Keynote Speaker | E-Learning Strategist | AR, NLP and Gamification Practitioner | Thought Leader in Transformative Higher at Taylor’s University
Contact Puteri Sofia Amirnuddin
EdTech, AR/VR, Health & Safety
Jane Anderson CSP
Business Coach to Female B2B Consultants and Thought Leaders at Jane Anderson Communications
Contact Jane Anderson
Social, Sales, Marketing
Bhavana BP
Founder & Chief Empowerment Officer at LET ME LISTEN
Contact Bhavana BP
Mental Health, Health & Wellness, Diversity & Inclusion
Arthur Carmazzi
CAO at Directive Communication International (Asia) PTE LTD
Contact Arthur Carmazzi
Culture, Mental Health, Change Management
Ashley Galina Dudarenok
Founder at ChoZan
Contact Ashley Galina Dudarenok
Marketing, Digital Disruption, Business Strategy
Apoorv Durga, Ph.D.
Vice President Research and Advisory at Real Story Group
Contact Apoorv Durga, Ph.D.
Marketing, Customer Experience, Digital Transformation
Chenthil Eswaran
Top Cloud Apps (ERP/CRM/HCM)/Prop Tech Thought Leader at Aspire Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd
Contact Chenthil Eswaran
PropTech, CRM, ERP
Alvin Foo
Venture Partner at Chain Valley Capital
Contact Alvin Foo
Samiran Ghosh
Co-Founder at unblox Solutions
Contact Samiran Ghosh
Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
Luke Jamieson
Global Content Director at Centrical
Contact Luke Jamieson
SportsTech, Future of Work, Customer Experience
Monica Jasuja
Head of Money Management at GoTo Financial
Contact Monica Jasuja
FinTech, Digital Disruption
Ratan Jyoti
Chief Information Security Officer at Ujjivan Small Finace Bank
Contact Ratan Jyoti
Privacy, Blockchain, Cybersecurity
Keith Keller
Twitter Video Marketing Specialist at Global Social Media Coaching
Contact Keith Keller
Social, Marketing
Harjeet Khanduja
Senior Vice President at Reliance Jio
Contact Harjeet Khanduja
HR, 5G, Leadership
Aditya Khullar
Head – Cyber Security & Data Privacy at Adani Digital Labs
Contact Aditya Khullar
Risk Management, Privacy, Cybersecurity
Kashyap Kompella
CEO and Chief Analyst at RPA2AI Research
Contact Kashyap Kompella
AI, RPA, Cloud
Dr. Ram Kumar G, PhD
Cyber Security GRC Leader at Nissan Digital
Contact Dr. Ram Kumar G, PhD
Risk Management, Cybersecurity, Privacy
Avdhesh Kumbhar
Director Marketing Advertising & Communications at Bahama Beach Club Resort
Contact Avdhesh Kumbhar
Sales, Public Relations, Startups
Anndy Lian
Chief Digital Advisor at Mongolian Productivity Organization
Contact Anndy Lian
Chris Luxford
Change Agent and Senior Consultant at The ASPIRE! Group, LLC
Contact Chris Luxford
Sales, Customer Experience, Leadership
Adv (Dr.) Prashant Mali [MSc, LLB, LLM, Ph.D.]
Founder & President at Cyber Law Consulting
Contact Adv (Dr.) Prashant Mali [MSc, LLB, LLM, Ph.D.]
Privacy, Legal & IP, Cybersecurity
Navin Manaswi
Founder & CEO at WoWExp
Contact Navin Manaswi
AR/VR, Retail, Startups
Siobhán (Shiv-awn) McHale
Executive General Manager: People, Culture & Change at DuluxGroup
Contact Siobhán (Shiv-awn) McHale
HR, Future of Work, Culture
Pradeepta Mishra
Director of Artificial Intelligence at Fosfor by LTI
Contact Pradeepta Mishra
Predictive Analytics, Analytics, AI
Prof M Nazri Muhd
Prof. (AI Practice); Founder / Group CEO, MyFinB Group; Chairman, MyFinB Ventures; Chairman, Centre for AI Innovation (CE.A.I); Honorary Consul, Cabo Verde at MyFinB Group| Centre for AI Innovation (CE.A.I)
Contact Prof M Nazri Muhd
AI, Digital Transformation, Predictive Analytics
Vidusha Nathavitharana
Founder / Destiny Architect at Luminary Learning Solutions Private Limited
Contact Vidusha Nathavitharana
Management, Health & Wellness, Leadership
Steve Nouri
Founder at AI4Diversity
Contact Steve Nouri
NFT, RPA, AR/VR
Arpita (Mukherjee) Pamnani
Deputy Vice President HR at Axis Bank
Contact Arpita (Mukherjee) Pamnani
Sameer Paradkar
Enterprise Architect at AtoS
Contact Sameer Paradkar
Data Center, Design Thinking, Emerging Technology
Kalilur Rahman
Novartis Operations – Data Digital & IT/ Director – Platform Services
Contact Kalilur Rahman
Agile, Big Data, Analytics
Pravin Rajpal

Founder at INNOVATIONEXT
Contact Pravin Rajpal

Open Innovation, EdTech, Renewable Energy
Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D.
Founder at MSR Leadership Consultants India
Contact Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D.
Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy
Dr Mark van Rijmenam
Future Tech Strategist at The Digital Speaker
Contact Dr Mark van Rijmenam
Metaverse, NFT, Blockchain
Marie-Claire Ross
Speaker | Mentor | Facilitator at Trustologie
Contact Marie-Claire Ross
Health & Safety, Health & Wellness, Management
Prof.(Dr.) Sanjay Rout
CEO at Innovation Solution Lab
Contact Prof.(Dr.) Sanjay Rout
Mergers & Acquisitions, Open Innovation, GovTech
Rahul Sasi
Chief Technology Officer at CloudSEK
Contact Rahul Sasi
Management, Cybersecurity, Big Data
Jeremy Scrivens
Director at The Emotional Economy at Work
Contact Jeremy Scrivens
Agile, Diversity & Inclusion, HR
Akanksha Sharma
Global Head ESG – Social Impact, Sustainability & Policy at STL – Sterlite Technologies Limited
Contact Akanksha Sharma
CSR, Ecosystems, Sustainability
Roger Smith
SME’s Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Care MIT
Contact Roger Smith
Cybersecurity, Security, Risk Management
Aarron Spinley
Growth Anthropologist, Futurist, Speaker at SPINLEY.CO
Contact Aarron Spinley
Lean Startup, Customer Experience, Culture
Danielle Stein Fairhurst
Financial Modeller at Plum Solutions
Contact Danielle Stein Fairhurst
Analytics, Management
Robin Tommy
TCS Rapid Lab Head at Tata Consultancy Services
Contact Robin Tommy
AR/VR, Sustainability, EdTech
Steve Tunstall
Director and Owner at Tunstall Associates
Contact Steven Tunstall
Dr. Sunil Kumar Vuppala
Director – Data Science at Ericsson
Contact Dr. Sunil Kumar Vuppala
IoT, Emerging Technology, AI
Friska Wirya
Principal Founder at Fresh by Friska
Contact Friska Wirya
Change Management, COVID19, Digital Transformation
Dr. Mehmet Yildiz
Thought Leader for Architecting Digital Transformation at Digitalmehmet
Contact Dr. Mehmet Yildiz
Health & Safety, Mental Health, Design Thinking
Sukor Zainal
Executive Director at EFTECH DRILLING SOLUTIONS
Contact Sukor Zainal
Project Management, Data Center, Public Relations

 

Our listing includes members of Thinkers360 and who have curated and shared their thought leadership content – including articles, blogs, books, keynotes, media interviews, panels, podcasts, social media, speaking events, videos, webinars and whitepapers – via our platform.

Our differentiation from the various influencer leaderboards on social media, is that we take a holistic view of thought leaders and experts, beyond their social media activity, and look across all the hats they may wear – such as academic, author, consultant, entrepreneur, influencer and speaker – and all the types of thought leadership content they produce.*

We focus on cutting edge business, technology and sustainability topics including 5G, Agile, AI, Analytics, AR/VR, Autonomous Vehicles, Big Data, Blockchain, Business Continuity, Business Strategy, Change Management, Climate Change, Cloud, COVID-19, CRM, Corporate Social Responsibility, Cryptocurrency, Culture, Customer Experience, Customer Loyalty, Cybersecurity, Data Center, Design Thinking, DevOps, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, Diversity & Inclusion, EdTech, Emerging Technology, Entrepreneurship, ERP, FinTech, GovTech, Health & Safety, Health & Wellness, HealthTech, HR, Innovation, InsurTech, International Relations, IoT, Leadership, Lean Startup, Legal & IP, Management, Marketing, Mental Health, Mergers & Acquisitions, Metaverse, Mobility, National Security, NFT, Open Innovation, Predictive Analytics, Privacy, Procurement, Project Management, PropTech, Public Relations, Quantum Computing, Renewable Energy, Retail, Risk Management, RPA, Sales, Security, Smart Cities, Social, SportsTech, Startups, Supply Chain, Sustainability and Web3.

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Join us on Thinkers360  Connecting Global Brands with the World’s Foremost Thought Leaders and Authentic Influencers for Game-Changing Results!

Thinkers360 is the world’s first, largest and premier B2B thought leader and influencer marketplace — including academics, advisors, analysts, authors, consultants, executives, influencers and speakers — with over 100M followers on social media combined. We are differentiated by our unique patent-pending algorithms that measure thought leadership and authentic influence looking far beyond social media alone.

Individuals: Connect and work with global brands as an advisor, author, consultant, influencer, speaker and more. Showcase your thought leadership profile and portfolio, build your media kit, amplify your content, and participate in our global leaderboards and opportunity marketplace: Sign-Up (free) | Subscribe to our Newsletter

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Want to find and work with advisors, authors, consultants, influencers and speakers (including access to our unique thought leader profiles and portfolios, in-depth reports and analytics, warm personal introductions, and our zero-transaction fee speaker bureau)?

Contact us to discuss any of your project needs at info@thinkers360.com

For custom influencer lists, advertising and sponsorship opportunities, please contact info@thinkers360.com.

Our Methodology

* The Thinkers360 patent-pending algorithm helps to produce leaderboards that look across all thought leader roles and across the quantity and quality of their thought leadership content. It provides a valuable measure of thought leadership content, encourages genuine content creation, incorporates social media influence as one of the measures, and encourages richer profiles and portfolios through gamification.

Of course, no measurement system related to influence or thought leadership is perfect, but the thought leadership scoring system within Thinkers360 is a highly-differentiated approach to help you identify authentic thought leaders – looking far beyond social media – serving as the tip of the spear for your B2B influencer marketing objectives.

For more information, contact us today at info@thinkers360.com.

 

Source: https://www.thinkers360.com/top-50-b2b-thought-leaders-influencers-you-should-work-with-in-2023-apac/

Anndy Lian is an early blockchain adopter and experienced serial entrepreneur who is known for his work in the government sector. He is a best selling book author- “NFT: From Zero to Hero” and “Blockchain Revolution 2030”.

Currently, he is appointed as the Chief Digital Advisor at Mongolia Productivity Organization, championing national digitization. Prior to his current appointments, he was the Chairman of BigONE Exchange, a global top 30 ranked crypto spot exchange and was also the Advisory Board Member for Hyundai DAC, the blockchain arm of South Korea’s largest car manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group. Lian played a pivotal role as the Blockchain Advisor for Asian Productivity Organisation (APO), an intergovernmental organization committed to improving productivity in the Asia-Pacific region.

An avid supporter of incubating start-ups, Anndy has also been a private investor for the past eight years. With a growth investment mindset, Anndy strategically demonstrates this in the companies he chooses to be involved with. He believes that what he is doing through blockchain technology currently will revolutionise and redefine traditional businesses. He also believes that the blockchain industry has to be “redecentralised”.

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What is Decentraland and how does it work?

What is Decentraland and how does it work?

Imagine living in an alternate reality where you can move seamlessly from place to place and socialise in real-time with thousands of other people, all within the same digital universe.

This is the metaverse, a term first coined in Neal Stephenson’s science fiction novel Snow Crash, which refers to a combination of virtual reality, augmented reality and the internet.

Decentraland is a three-dimensional (3D) virtual reality platform that stands at the forefront of this growing metaverse trend which has seen meta-related coins proliferate by up to 37,000% this year according to data from Macro Hive.

Founded in 2015 by Ari Meilich and Esteban Ordano, and launched in 2017, Decentraland is powered by Ethereum and its native ERC-20 token known as MANA allows users to purchase plots of LAND, monetise LAND parcels and avatars and pay for in-world goods and services.

More specifically, LAND can be bought by burning MANA, which destroys the token in order to create a new entry in the registry. Decentraland is also governed by a decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) that enables token holders to vote on policies within the metaverse.

Although the company claims that it is the first ever virtual world owned by its users, Decentraland began simply as a proof of concept for allocating ownership of digital real estate to users on a blockchain. This digital real estate was initially implemented as a pixel on an infinite 2D grid where each pixel contained metadata identifying the owner. Decentraland has since evolved into a 3D virtual world which is divided according to different districts.

The platform has been growing at an accelerated rate and currently has a market capitalisation of $6.8bn (as of 6 December 2021). The company’s thirty-day non-fungible token (NFT) sales volume is up 417% at $41.5m, while its seven-day total sales volume is $15.7m, with 467 NFTs sold during that time, at an average price of $33,700.

How does Decentraland work?

Decentraland is most well-known for providing an infrastructure to support shared virtual worlds. The platform consists of a decentralised ledger for land ownership, a protocol for describing the contents of each LAND parcel and a peer-to-peer network for user interactions. Through the DAO, users can propose policy updates and vote on upcoming LAND auctions.

Decentraland’s protocol consists of three layers:

  • A consensus layer which tracks LAND ownership and content through smart contracts,
  • A LAND content layer which uses a decentralised distribution system to render content in the virtual world, and
  • A real-time layer which provides peer-to-peer connections for users to interact with each other.

Users claim ownership of virtual lands through a blockchain-based ledger of encoded parcels and each piece of LAND is marked by a distinct set of cartesian coordinates. Content can range from static 3D scenes to interactive systems such as games.

In addition to selling their creations, users can rent out plots such as buildings, parks, hotels and casinos to other players. Decentraland’s metaverse is divided into 90,601 individual LAND parcels which are exactly 16×16 in size and can be found at specific coordinates in the metaverse.

If you’re wondering what the main idea of Decentraland is, look no further than its thriving marketplace where users can create and sell items through a unique in-world economy. More generally, web 3.0 metaverse worlds are part of a larger interconnected crypto cloud economy in the sense that these decentralised protocols interoperate with and provide the technical infrastructure to support metaverse virtual economies.

Web 3.0 metaverse economies can use their own digital currency or the currency of the crypto cloud economy platform they’re built on – in Decentraland’s case, this is the MANA token.

Overall, this decentralised distribution system enables the platform to work without the need of a centralised server infrastructure.

In terms of identity verification, Decentraland uses a decentralised identity system which allows users to easily track and verify consent through cryptographic signatures.

An all-immersive digital world: Pros of the MANA coin

The pros of the MANA coin lie in the fact that it enables users to create games, applications, gambling services and even dynamic 3D scenes which can be monetised or rented out to other players. This in turn drives the expansion of digital goods and services within the Decentraland metaverse.

Through the LAND Estates function, users can easily manage their lands by associating adjacent plots – a feature which serves as a boost for the coin since users were unable to connect two or more parcels of LAND directly through the marketplace before Estates was introduced. Much to their dismay, users could only create, edit, transfer and dissolve Estates during the first release of Decentraland.

Another benefit of the MANA coin is that there are theoretically no limitations on how it can be used to facilitate the creation of LAND parcels within the metaverse. For those who want to earn MANA through Decentraland, there are no technical specifications in terms of what can be built in Decentraland which means that users are free to explore a range of different virtual structures.

“Decentraland has pioneered a type of virtual social space (or metaverse) that is operated entirely by its users,” Ari Meilich, Decentraland’s founder, told Capital.com.
“They serve the content that players publish on their virtual lands, streamline the communications between avatars, and vote with their MANA tokens to decide on the economic policies of the virtual world – all while distributing the DAO’s $1bn endowment among content creators,” he added.
“Decentraland’s success resided in its ability to accelerate growth even when the original development company was dissolved,” Meilich concluded.

An emerging DeFi space: Cons of the MANA coin

Decentraland is still a relatively new project that was only launched five years ago and it operates within a nascent decentralised finance (DeFi) space. Its coin is also hindered by scalability issues that are inherent to the blockchain network.

During times of high network congestion, blockchain transaction times are known to increase. In addition to processing delays, high transaction fees are also common on the blockchain network. For example, the average fee on Ethereum is currently $33.43, according to data from BitInfoCharts.

Also, MANA lacks real-world utility since only 205 merchants worldwide are accepting it as a payment, according to Cryptwerk – a scarcity which could serve as a con for the crypto.

Anndy Lian, chairman of BigONE Exchange and chief digital advisor for Mongolia’s national productivity agenda, believes that the Decentraland concept provides limitless opportunities for users.

“Decentraland has become a fertile breeding ground for businesses, artists, content creators and application developers,” Lian told Capital.com.

“For me, I don’t see many cons, however if you are going to go full steam ahead with Decentraland, I would suggest getting a suitable graphics card for an enhanced experience,” Lian added.

“Also, Grayscale launched its Decentraland Trust in February this year which proves the heightened demand for metaverse-related products. Investors who believe in the virtual world economy would surely see this as a potent sign of further growth to come,” Lian concluded.

Anndy Lian is an early blockchain adopter and experienced serial entrepreneur who is known for his work in the government sector. He is a best selling book author- “NFT: From Zero to Hero” and “Blockchain Revolution 2030”.

Currently, he is appointed as the Chief Digital Advisor at Mongolia Productivity Organization, championing national digitization. Prior to his current appointments, he was the Chairman of BigONE Exchange, a global top 30 ranked crypto spot exchange and was also the Advisory Board Member for Hyundai DAC, the blockchain arm of South Korea’s largest car manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group. Lian played a pivotal role as the Blockchain Advisor for Asian Productivity Organisation (APO), an intergovernmental organization committed to improving productivity in the Asia-Pacific region.

An avid supporter of incubating start-ups, Anndy has also been a private investor for the past eight years. With a growth investment mindset, Anndy strategically demonstrates this in the companies he chooses to be involved with. He believes that what he is doing through blockchain technology currently will revolutionise and redefine traditional businesses. He also believes that the blockchain industry has to be “redecentralised”.

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