Breaking Barriers, Building Blocks Women in Web3 Switzerland
EthereumZuri.ch 2025 · 31 Jan 2025 · 9:16
Sabrina Boudefar and Elodie Sogan speak about Women in Web3 Switzerland under the theme Breaking Barriers, Building Blocks. The short talk at EthereumZuri.ch 2025 focuses on women's participation in the Swiss web3 and blockchain community and on lowering the barriers that keep more women from taking part.
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From EthereumZuri.ch 2025, hosted by EthereumZuri.ch.
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[Applause] um hi everyone thanks for being here so today we are presenting woman in web 3 uh many of great women um are here a Kinga stefia um sael um so what is woman in web three we are nonprofit uh Association dedicated to creating a strong community of women in web3 and to increase the the strength the voice and the visibility of uh many female experts in the in the
space we have Sabrina uh with me today you can present you yeah great to be here so uh quickly about me member of uh woman in W in the French part since since the beginning and I'm also the founder of Noma toomics the company that I founded in 2020 we support startup designing their economic model mechanism parameter the simulation of their protocol so that their token launch is sustainable talking about utility token and I'm super happy to be part of the Romanian W Community because that help us connect network uh and find new partner and uh I'm El again uh I'm also part of
the uh community in the ri um I'm the founder of L defi uh the Youtube channel um it's about um of course investment finance and web crypto a bit about uh woman in we numbers so yeah it's been it's been an adventure to be part of of this community the growth was uh extremely extremely fast I remember I joined the telegram group we were like 15 15 women and it grow exponentially in uh in two years I can even um not say how many we are in total between LinkedIn Instagram
and Twitter but we have thousands of impression uh more than 70 70000 members that joined since 2023 more than 50 partners ship and 30 nationality so it's quite quite a gross and and and we can see that we still have demand and we will discuss that after then why we exist um so we have a Community First approach we create um a platform for women in web3 to support Empower collaborate uplift and uh yeah uplift one another we are also so promoting Talent so we want to increase diversity uh
create a safe space for women in the sector and uh yeah and uh yeah women women empowerment obviously we want to empower uh the wonderful women that are roing it in the industry because we are we are a lot and we want to create new model for for the new girl so that's that's why we are here and obviously a swis focus uh it's it's an ational community and we have chapter everywhere uh but uh we we do have a a Swiss a Swiss focus with our Swiss chapter our miss our mission so we have one big mission is education we want to address the Gap in
practical courses so we organize many conferences we uh take part to other conferences and uh yeah um we also provide speakers because when you go on a web uh when you go to a web three conference you can see that um on the panel you have many many many men that's uh so many women so if you organize events you can also um you can always ask us and we can provide you with a like great uh woman speakers yeah and I would say that the community
is also um a good place for career growth and and and job opportunity uh I I've personally recruited someone from the from the community uh and yeah so there is the opportunity to to grow to to transition and to to meet with a new web free leader through the the several chapter that we have in in Switzerland and in the world and we have also Global Outreach because uh we have yeah lot of chapter uh in Africa in Dubai in Italy uh in um Eastern Europe Europe and plenty of other here you can see the the partners so we have many great Partners uh such
as the crypto crypto valy definity uh trust square and all the others yeah you you can follow us uh in in LinkedIn and we are here also uh because we need uh we need more people in order to develop uh the community and answer the the demand so we are looking uh for um partnership on Volunteers in order to organize event um so yeah follow us and and join us now we would like to take time to explain you a bit of our our great members um career path so we have Kinga
here in the audience uh great Community member and uh also part of the committee she's doing a lot of stuff for a woman in web three so uh I would like to have her uh with us no okay but yeah you can talk to her um she has met many uh great ladies um uh during our events and um she get uh inspired um she gained many U experience while leading Partnerships for woman
refere associations and um yeah she found uh her job after uh leading great project for the woman rep three Association yeah it's thanks to her that we have so many uh so many partners and now she is a yeah head of partnership in a big web free company and also wanted to highlight some prominent women in in web fre just to to inspire and and show that even if there is not a lot of women there is women that are rocking it for example uh I think we don't talk enough about Elizabeth Stark founder of lightning Network work uh Danielle Dixon CEO of uh Stellar development foundation and many more many many more and uh we
will obviously highlight them in in our uh in our communication because they are doing a very very good uh job and obviously the next one uh will be part of the community so as I said earlier we we need more people so we were uh last uh the last event we were in dasas as well and um you can follow us uh and you can um get in touch with us if you want after uh during the Appo or um you can also uh uh connect to LinkedIn or
YouTube um now I think uh well L thank you very much at this stage also from my side as proud member of 3 and um also member of the board and head legal and um I think again an Applause for you and also for our wonderful Kinga again I must really say there's a reason she's on this slide she is our amazing woman she has been driving this forward last year that's why I take this opportunity to thank her again and thank you for taking the initiative and being brave here and stand up it takes courage to present this and to say we are women we are here and it's a great thing so a round of
applause for us all I would say for us all right [Music]