Susan Oh: AI & Metaverse Expert

Impact tech and metaverse strategist who shows organizations how to leverage blockchain, AI, and web3 to drive sustainable business models.

Quick Facts:

Highlights:
  • CMO, Daoverse Capital; Advisor to Burble Galaxy & Hangry Animals
  • Founder & CEO, MKR AI; Blockchain AI Industry Lead, Trane AI
  • Former CMO, Beyond Imagination robotics
  • Founding Board Member, Blockchain Commission for Sustainable Development (UN GA)
  • International keynote speaker at UN HQ, WEF Davos, Vatican Academy, and ITU AI4Good

Formats: Keynote (30–60 minutes), fireside chats, panel discussions, workshops on AI, blockchain, and digital ethics

Audiences: Global conferences, corporate leaders, tech innovators, policymakers, academic institutions, sustainability forums

Outcomes:
  1. Learn how AI and blockchain tools can advance digital financial inclusion and sustainability.
  2. Understand strategies for content attestation, trust-building, and navigating misinformation in the digital era.
  3. Explore how ethical innovation drives competitive advantage and long-term trust in emerging technologies.
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  • Travels from: Dubai - United Arab Emirates
  • **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000

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Keynote Topics:

I’ve always said for years that I want robots to do the work that people don’t want to do, cannot do, or should never do. This is the stuff that is repetitive, needs speed and consistency over hundreds of thousands of steps, or is plain dangerous or unhealthy.

I see robots freeing us from manual labour to let humans be more human and humane. That’s the hope. History won’t back me on this, but every hundred years, life does get better for all.

The UN gave us Sustainable Development Goals — which is a framework, but poor as a  metric system. Metrics are data-focused and must be hyper localized. I’ve focussed on financial inclusion and to end slavery – and slavery I have a broad definition of, meaning you are working for free without reward for your personal benefit.

We’re not the first nor the only ones doing this, but with NFTs, Defi protocols and digital assets, it’s possible to come up with a more accurate valuation of upright trees to the global economy, using spectral satellite data for a carbon offset, specifies to areas by coordinates, even down to the trees. For landowners, this provides liquidity, and land stewards, better metrics to be able to harvest sustainably. And we, investors get to decide what holds value for us, not just as market makers and consumers.

Technology like AI and blockchain are only tools that can help productivity- that’s why I’ve also had to do a dive on business and revenue models as to who creates value, assesses that value, and partakes or benefits from the value created. Bad business models — like the ad revenue model — ruins perfectly good tech. It’s all how you use it.

I know what I’d like to see, and then balance it with what I’m seeing. In the long run, technology improves the quality of life and lifespan for all. In the short term, though, there will always be speculators and bad actors. The most critical factor is human and self-hacking.

People, do your own research, learn as much as possible on your own, validate your assumptions through fellowship with others who are principally aligned with the world you want to create. And don’t let the bastards get you down.

I see a world where everyday people get to determine value, and have the heavy lifting of manual labor taken over by robots.

And those adoption cycles get shorter and shorter. How this tech gets used, all these systems, needs us humans to be responsible and accountable.

Talent Short Bio

Susan Oh is an AI leader who focuses on making data science practical, ethical, and product-focused. She helps organisations move from experimentation to operational AI by aligning technical teams with product goals and governance practices. Susan’s talks and workshops centre on scalable workflows, deployment safeguards, and the human systems needed to sustain AI projects.

Her presentations blend policy, ethics, and hands-on operational tactics so organisations can deploy models responsibly and measure their impact. Susan emphasizes cross-functional collaboration: translating model outputs into product decisions and ensuring governance frameworks prevent risk while enabling value.

Clients typically engage Susan for executive briefings, product-team workshops, and governance design sessions. She equips teams with checklists, deployment playbooks, and measures to monitor model performance and impact. For organisations that want ethical, scalable AI that ties back to real business outcomes, Susan offers practical frameworks and immediate next steps to operationalize AI responsibly.

Susan Oh is a multi-award winning former business journalist (CNBC, Economist Intelligence Unit), trans media marketing campaigns creative (Expedia, Twentieth Century Fox), and civic technologist who has worked in Silicon Valley, New York City, Hong Kong, and Dubai.

She is a globally respected thought leader and pioneer as among the first to model a commercially available platform using AI and blockchains in 2017, as head of enterprise for New York-based started up, Trane AI. She began her her career in start ups as the first non-technical hire for San Francisco-based AI start up Breinify as Chief Storyteller. As CMO of humanoid robotics company Beyond Imagination, co-founded by former Google Chief Scientist Ray
Kurzweil and XPrize founder Harry Kloor, she increased its social media mentions by 3000+% within a month (Meltwater Media).

She is also a founding Chairperson of NGO Blockchain Commission For Sustainable Development with Support of the Office of Partnerships UN GA which held two global summits at UN HQ in 2018. She is also the recipient of NGO Decade of Women’s Top Influential Women in Digital at the UN GA in 2018. A global speaker who has spoken at UN GA HQ, ITU’s AI For Good, WEF Davos, and Nexus Global, her 2018 Tedx talk has garnered 250,000 views.

Susan is currently advisor to StableUnit stable coin; Raiinmaker Web3 app, an agentic AI creator economy, crypto fund DKG (USDT100mil AUM) and is a contributor to academic textbook The Future of Money published by Springer Nature with other luminary contributors including David Chaum, Lord Syed Kamall and technologists, entrepreneurs and researchers from RAND Corporation.

She was on Newsweek’s winning team of the Overseas Press Club’s Best Reporting From Abroad in 1997; and led her team at Corus Entertainment to two Media Innovation Awards by Marketing Magazine.

Susan is a third-generation serial entrepreneur, whose grandfather, property-developer mother and engineer father all founded multi-million dollar companies, and has been working since the age of 14. A lifelong nomad, she is based in Bali, Indonesia and Vancouver, Canada

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KEYNOTE Financial inclusion in the Data-Driven Economy

Marrying machine learning with blockchain to crowdsource trustworthy data, align incentives, and build human-centric systems (smart cities, SDGs).

Data is the new economy: We’ve moved from industrial → information → knowledge → data-driven. Cleaning, labeling, securing, and storing data is the cost center—and the bottleneck—for ML.
AI training reality: Building ML = expensive loop: collect → clean → label → train → re-label → re-train. Accuracy targets (~90%) require large, validated datasets.
Why blockchain: Not magic storage—an immutable, transparent transaction log. Useful to:

Prove provenance of data/labels.
Tokenize contributions (pay people for high-quality annotations/validation).
Coordinate multi-party ecosystems without a single gatekeeper.
Crowdsourcing model: Reward citizens for validated contributions (e.g., labeling, reporting hazards, providing sensor data). Tokens can be redeemed (utilities, parking, merchant discounts) → aligns incentives.
Human-in-the-loop is essential: Best results = machine proposes, humans validate. Diverse contributors reduce bias (avoid “skinny white dudes” problem).
Smart city use case (Hoboken): Public-private partnership with:

City wallet/app (opt-in messaging + token rewards).
Transparent procurement/bidding on-chain.
Edges: kiosks, sensors, AR signage, artist content.
SDGs & climate projects: Use ML + edge computing to verify carbon capture/restoration; blockchain for transparent measurement & funding flows. Scale from 7 projects → 700 via open, shared infrastructure.
Governance & risk: Tech can be weaponized (e.g., punitive “social credit”). Mitigations:

Transparency by design (auditable hashes/consensus).
Aligned incentives favor good actors.
Collaborative business models > after-the-fact regulation.

Key Moments

0:00 – 2:30 → Opening, audience poll (ML vs blockchain understanding, topic choice).
2:30 – 10:30 → Susan’s background, AI + fake news classifier challenge, transition to blockchain.
10:30 – 20:00 → Data economy, machine learning loops, cost of training, crowdsourcing/ tokenomics.
20:00 – 27:00 → Smart city model (Hoboken project), citizen tokens, transparency in procurement.
27:00 – 33:00 → UN/SDG climate projects, carbon capture verification, blockchain + AI for scale.
33:00 – 39:00 → Governance + risks: transparency, incentives vs regulation, misuse examples.
39:00 – 41:00 → Audience Q&A (legacy vs new builds, regulation, AI for wrongdoing detection).

In this 61-minute in-depth interview, Susan Oh shares her journey from journalism to AI and blockchain leadership, exploring innovation, financial inclusion, and trust in digital systems.

In this hour-long conversation, Susan Oh provides a comprehensive look at her professional background, entrepreneurial ventures, and advisory roles across AI, blockchain, and sustainable development. She begins by recounting her early career in journalism and media, and how those experiences shaped her interest in information integrity and the future of trustworthy content.

Susan then highlights her major career milestones, from co-founding startups to her role as Founder of Muckr AI. She explains how the platform applies machine learning to assess the trustworthiness of news and digital content by analyzing behavioral signals from sources, with the goal of combating misinformation.

She also discusses her involvement with BeOmni by Beyond Imagination, one of the world’s most advanced humanoid AI robots, outlining how robotics and AI intersect in real-world applications. Her global impact work features prominently, including her founding Board Member role at the Blockchain Commission for Sustainable Development, which operates with the support of the UN General Assembly Office of Partnerships.

In the latter part of the interview, Susan elaborates on her ambassador and advisory roles with NeoFlow Asset Management and Impulse4Women, emphasizing her commitment to financial inclusion, investment access, and empowering underrepresented entrepreneurs. She ties these initiatives back to her central theme: using AI for automation where it creates efficiency, and blockchain as a trustless system for secure, verifiable transactions.

The conversation concludes with forward-looking insights on how these technologies may reshape global markets, improve access to opportunity, and strengthen the reliability of digital information.

Key Moments

00:00 Introduction and background: early life, education, and media career
06:15 Transition into technology and entrepreneurial ventures
13:40 Founding Muckr AI: mission, technology, and combating misinformation
22:05 Overview of BeOmni humanoid AI robots by Beyond Imagination
30:10 Role as founding Board Member of the Blockchain Commission for Sustainable Development
39:20 Advisory and ambassador work with NeoFlow Asset Management and Impulse4Women
47:45 Financial inclusion models: AI for automation, blockchain for trustless transactions
55:50 Future outlook: AI, blockchain, and building trust in global digital systems
01:01:24 Closing remarks and key takeaways

In this 64-minute discussion, Susan Oh explores blockchain’s role in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting transparency, inclusion, and the power of decentralized systems.

This conversation centers on how blockchain can support and accelerate the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The moderator begins by outlining the first five SDGs, including no poverty, zero hunger, good health, quality education, and gender equality, before asking Susan Oh about the value exchange between blockchain technology and sustainable development.

Susan explains that the SDGs represent a holistic framework for building economies and communities, where climate restoration, poverty alleviation, and meaningful work must be pursued together. Blockchain, she notes, offers transparency, eliminates single points of failure, and introduces trustless systems for social impact initiatives. She illustrates this with examples such as Paybook, which allows nonprofits to transparently publish the use of donated funds.

She then discusses the origins of Blockchain for Impact, which began as a workshop at MIT tackling the question of whether carbon dioxide could be removed from the atmosphere. By convening small, interdisciplinary groups—scientists, activists, funders, and community representatives—the initiative generated actionable solutions and viable commercial pathways.

Susan highlights projects like Pressland, which applies blockchain to journalism supply chains, and Earth Ledger, a marketplace for sustainable products that uses token incentives to crowdsource solutions to global challenges. She emphasizes the opportunities blockchain creates in developing economies, such as digital wallets for the unbanked and digital identities for refugees, leveraging mesh networks and satellite bandwidth to overcome infrastructure gaps.

The conversation also addresses gender diversity in blockchain, where Susan stresses the economic and social benefits of including women and underrepresented groups in leadership and entrepreneurship. She identifies SDG 8—ending modern slavery and advancing financial inclusion—as a personal priority, framing predatory lending and human trafficking as forms of economic exploitation blockchain can help mitigate.

Finally, Susan reflects on the role of governments, arguing that regulation often lags behind innovation. She suggests that governments function best as neutral frameworks that balance citizen needs against corporate interests, while leaving room for decentralized technologies to evolve and scale.

Key Moments

00:00 Introduction and review of UN Sustainable Development Goals
04:15 Susan Oh’s background and connection to blockchain for social good
10:40 Blockchain’s value proposition: transparency and trustless systems
16:25 Example: Paybook and financial transparency for nonprofits
21:30 Founding of Blockchain for Impact and MIT climate restoration workshop
29:00 Collaborative ecosystem design: funders, activists, scientists, communities
35:10 Use cases: Pressland for journalism and Earth Ledger for sustainable commerce
44:30 Blockchain applications in developing economies and refugee identity solutions
52:50 Gender equality, diversity, and the business case for inclusiveness in blockchain
59:00 Focus on SDG 8: ending modern slavery and advancing financial inclusion
01:05:00 The role of government: regulation, innovation, and frameworks for participation

In this 13-minute talk, Susan Oh shares her journey from refugee to global technologist, weaving personal history with lessons on AI, blockchain, and human-centered innovation.

In this concise but powerful presentation, Susan Oh introduces herself as a Korean-born Canadian New Yorker shaped by a life of displacement and resilience. She recalls her family’s flight from South Korea’s dictatorship to Iran just before the revolution, then to London and Canada, where she grew up as both immigrant and refugee. These formative experiences gave her a deep understanding that global challenges are always personal, and that belonging often comes through contribution rather than identity.

Susan describes her early journalism career, which lasted more than two decades, covering industries such as aviation, finance, and technology. Often one of the few women in the room, she developed the ability to translate complex systems into accessible narratives. That skill led her into consulting for startups, and eventually into technology itself, when she joined a Silicon Valley AI startup in 2014.

She recounts how her team approached her to lead Muckr AI, an initiative focused on using machine learning to track source behavior and fight misinformation. Susan explains how this effort introduced her to blockchain, which she initially resisted but later embraced as a tool for transparency and decentralization.

Her talk concludes with reflections on integrating AI and blockchain for social good, her role in co-founding a UN-supported NGO to align technologists and funders, and her current leadership in robotics. Susan emphasizes authenticity, compassion, and human-centered design as essential for harnessing technology to solve global challenges.

Key Moments

00:00 Introduction and personal background: immigrant and refugee roots
02:10 Childhood experiences of displacement and resilience
04:00 Journalism career: covering finance, aviation, and technology
06:15 Transition into startups and Silicon Valley AI
08:20 Founding of Muckr AI and addressing misinformation
10:10 Embracing blockchain: decentralization, transparency, and synergy with AI
12:00 Co-founding UN-supported NGO and leadership in robotics
13:20 Closing reflections on authenticity, compassion, and human-centered innovation

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