Janelle is the Founder and CEO of Venusventures Inc, who often describes herself as a Humanist, with a belief in Gods, living in a Post-Humanist world. She is a visionary, innovator, thought leader, serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and advisor building a world for the greater good of all humanity through Web3 and emerging technologies.  Venusventures is the world’s 1st and only global digital innovation ecosystem focused on Web3 and emerging technologies, whose core values are rooted in creating positive change and impact for all. This digital ecosystem includes various communities, as well as an incubator and accelerator operating digitally and within the Venusventures Metaverse. 

Since February 2022, Janelle has spearheaded various groundbreaking projects and technologies as the Founder of Venusventures, such as: the Women of Venusverse NFT collection, the Venusventures SoulBound Token Micro-Credential on the blockchain, 360 degree interactive NFTs on the blockchain, 3D modelling ancient artifacts for the Venusventures Metaverse Ecosystem which has 8 sections, the Venusventures Phoenician Museum and the Venusventures Sumerian and Anunnaki Play-To-Earn Metaverse experience, the Kintsugi Meditation Metaverse experience, the & 7 Anunnaki Gods Metaverse experience, issuing awards and certifications for the Venusventures global artist open call on the blockchain, and Our Lady of Beitroumine 3D model and digital twin in the Metaverse with livestreaming capabilities.

Additionally, over the last 4 years, Janelle has been invited to speak at over 300 speaking engagements across Canada and the world on some of the biggest stages, podcasts, summits and organizations, such as: 

Consensus Conference, Elevate Conference, Blockchain Futurist Conference Toronto & Miami, Future Tech Summit 2024, among other conferences and summits, Museums Canada, TD, RBC, BMO, BDC, KPMG, Deloitte, The University of Waterloo, Schulich School of Business at York University, N.A.I.T, Woxsen University among other educational institutions, Foundations Canada, chambers of commerces, enterprises, scale-ups, start-ups, cities, innovation hubs, incubators and hospitals among others.

Notably, in 2017, prior to founding Venusventures, Janelle co-founded, built, and led Canada’s first-ever $1-million & AI prize competition, the Leaders Prize. The competition was to build an AI which clearly identify fake news. This set off an Artificial Intelligence bull run in Canada, forming 111 teams across the country who simultaneously built AI’s to fight fake news and had a little over a year to do it. 

She has also been a strong advocate for founders and organizations who are building for the greater good of humanity.  Shining a light on the people and technologies that are making the world a better place, stemming from her work on the “Tech for Good” mandate, which Janelle contributed to while she was building Canada’s True North Tech Conference in her previous role as Vice President at Communitech.  

Between 2014 and 2017, she was Director of Principal Giving at the University of Waterloo, which is considered “Canada’s version of MIT”, leading all partnerships and fundraising initiatives exceeding $1 million for the institution. In this role, Janelle secured some of the biggest institutional partnerships the university has seen to date. This is also where Janelle was introduced to Quantum technology, AR/VR, gamification, artificial intelligence (another Canadian technology), and, of course, Web3, especially Ethereum. Janelle was among the first to hear about Ethereum in 2014, when Vitalik Buterin founded it at the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics. 

Prior to 2014, Janelle had her own non-profit management and consulting firm, her own jewelry line, and worked in strategic partnerships, development, innovation, fundraising, and PR for archdioceses, universities, hospitals, and non-profit organizations globally. She was the Executive Director of the Maria Ferari Children’s Hospital Foundation at the Westchester Medical Center in New York, Director of the Capital Campaign at Hofstra University in New York, Assistant Medical Director for Operations at Saint George Hospital University Medical Center in Beirut, and a consultant to the University of Balamand in northern Lebanon. She was also the Director of Community Counselling Service (CCS) Fundraising, working with the Archdiocese of Washington and Boston on fundraising campaigns. 

Most recently, in January of 2024, Janelle notified the Canadian government and Elections Canada that she had founded her own political party, the New Technicratic Democracy (NTD), with its own plan and constitution. Her intention is to run for Prime Minister of Canada independent of the current political parties and systems, which she has proven to be corrupt. She considers this her civic duty and service to her country and people who are going through the worst demise in Canadian history.

Janelle is a born Canadian who has been a builder and innovator for most of her life, which she attributes to her Father, a Civil Engineer, as well as to her Sumerian and Phoenician ancestry. Also to her various worldly experiences, both the most beautiful experiences and the most horrific, having lived through three different wars.  Her first war was at age 7, which is when she also discovered her purpose.

With a Bachelor of Arts double major in Political Science and Studio Art from the highly selective, ‘hidden ivey” Jesuit institution, The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. While at Holy Cross, Janelle studied her 3rd year abroad in Spanish at the University of Seville, Spain. She also has a Master’s in Business Journalism and was the very first graduate of the newly established degree while working full-time at  Hofstra University, Long Island, NY, USA.

Janelle is a global keynote speaker who speaks openly about a wide variety of topics, and her talks have been praised as inspiring, thought-provoking, eye-opening, educational, engaging, authentic, and transparent.

Themes are centred around building for the greater good of all humanity, using Web3 and Emerging Technologies as our new systems and structures. Some of the topics that have been covered include:

• What are Web3 and Emerging Technologies?
• Building, innovating, and digitally transforming in a new world with Web3 and Emerging Technologies. How to get started and scale through collaboration, especially.
• Discovering Purpose – personal or corporate and using it to entrepreneurialize and globalize.
• Building ethically with the best intentions and for the greater good of humanity from the onset, and not simply embedding a KPI or metric.
• Mindset shifts from centralized to decentralized.
• Owning, custodying, and monetizing our own assets, including our data and metadata, crypto, money, and NFTs. 
• What we are doing at Venusventures is changing the world with over 20 use cases as real examples of work we have done using Web3 and Emerging Technologies.
• Web3 communities and ecosystems are the stepping stones to the future of the way we work and enable on a global scale.
• Virtual environments as a way to bring the world closer together and work more efficiently.
• Gamification is the most effective way to deliver a great user experience and user interface (UX/UI).
• Micro-credentialing on the blockchain as the new form of education, records and certifications.
• My journey and how it has led to where I am today.
• My journey as a Founder on a global scale and in Canada.
• Ask me anything Q&A from the audience.

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