Welcome to The Bigger Pie
DIVERSITY IN BLOCKCHAIN
The Bigger Pie is here to support professionals and businesses in the blockchain, cryptoasset and distributed ledger sector.
As women represent less than 10% of those involved in this sector we focus our efforts on supporting the incredibly talented and pioneering #womeninblockchain. Research shows that businesses which embrace diversity and inclusion in gender, ethnicity and culture are profitable and successful.
It’s our job to make it easier for businesses to adopt good practice in a diverse workforce. We help you by providing support and resources for female founders and employees, raising visibility, attracting talent, and finding the right expertise for your teams.
ACCESS OUR EXPERTISE
The Bigger Pie community includes experts across the field of blockchain and cryptocurrency, from project managers and developers to consultants and keynote speakers. Advisors have decades of experience in industries from banking and fintech to agrifood, construction, healthcare, marketing, HR and professional bodies.
Blockchain and distributed ledgers are nascent technology and the promise of their potential and successful widespread delivery is yet to be bridged.
The businesses that will harness this technology to deliver new solutions across the globe have yet to be built, which makes this emerging technology doubly exciting.
JOIN OUR COMMUNITY
The Bigger Pie has a thriving and active global community whose members share their experience and learn from each other. The community is open to women and gender minorities interested in blockchain, crypto, de-fi and emerging tech.
Its purpose is to connect and support the incredible women who are already in the space, shine a light on the work they do to highlight these role models. Make sure women have a platform to share their expertise at events, and enable them to learn and develop their careers together, while attracting more women into the sector.
Alongside The Bigger Pie events, there is a programme of wider events sourced from our members, often with VIP access. Community Rules.
Our Experts
We have a panel of experts available for consultancy and keynote speaking across multiple industries
Bridget Greenwood
Founder
Inspired by both blockchain's potential to fundamentally change the way we do business and the pioneering women working in this nascent space, Bridget is determined to see more #womeninblockchain succeed. Bridget has worked in financial services since 2000, originally an IFA, then running her own companies following the birth of her son. She became interested in Bitcoin and blockchain in 2017. She's worked with start ups in the sector, both retail facing and servicing institutional clients, gaining an insight into the market place, challenges, pitfalls, regulation and breadth of projects and businesses in this rapidly evolving space.
Veronica Mihai
Advisor
Veronica Mihai is founding partner and Head of Investor Relations at Bloomwater Capital, a regulated hedge fund based in the BVI that employs proprietary quantitative algorithmic trading strategies for cryptocurrency markets. She is an angel investor with a portfolio of blockchain and women-led start-ups and enterprise grade cryptocurrency mining farm. Veronica believes in inclusion, diversity and gender equity in the blockchain space, technology and beyond, and she is part of the core team of an inspiring international movement of women in blockchain,
Genevieve Leveille
Advisor
Genevieve is the Principal Founder of AgriLedger, a FinTech venture aiming to empower agricultural producers by democratising their access to financial services and improving the transparency of the supply chain. She is leading the collaboration of AgriLedger with the Haiti Ministry of Commerce and Industry and other local partner ESIH for the delivery of a DLT Pilot sponsored by the World Bank. The solution is addressing the Haitian fruit farmers, their customers and families who can look forward to this year’s harvest and to reaping the benefits of market inclusion and improved food security.
Jannah Patchay
Advisor
Jannah Patchay is an experienced and industry-recognised subject matter expert and consultant in the financial markets sector, specialising in financial markets innovation, and in helping firms to define, develop and execute their commercial strategies in a highly regulated environment. Her particular passion is for market structure - the participants in financial markets, how they interact, and the consequences of the ways in which they interact - and for finding creative solutions to the challenges around access to markets and liquidity. This encompasses both traditional financial markets and asset classes, and the emerging field of digital asset market structure and regulation.
Helen Disney
Advisor
Helen Disney is listed as a Top 100 Regtech Influencer, one of the Financial Technologist's inaugural Fintech Founders 50, and one of Innovate Finance’s Women in Fintech 2016 Powerlist. She founded Unblocked Events in 2017, is a co-founder of the British Blockchain and Frontier Technologies Association, and a member of TechUK's DLT working group. She is a regular conference speaker and commentator on Bitcoin, Blockchain and innovation policy for organisations including The Economist, The Times, The Evening Standard, Dagens Industrie and The Fintech Times, and has given evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain.
Kate Baucherel
Advisor
Kate Baucherel BA(Hons) FCMA is a business development and emerging technology consultant with a focus on blockchain and distributed ledger technology. Over the last 30 years she has held senior technical and financial roles in businesses across multiple sectors including software, leisure, manufacturing, construction and utilities, and in organisations from FTSE100 to startup. She is an experienced speaker and chair of virtual and real-life events. Her writing includes Blockchain Hurricane: Origins, Applications and Future of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (2020) and the SimCavalier science fiction series.
Ash Costello
Advisor
Ash Costello is a privacy lawyer, author & speaker. She is a member of the Blockchain Chamber of Commerce and Executive Board of the Global Blockchain Organisation, and co-founded the Blockchain Lawyers Network. Formerly Global Head of Legal at MUFG Investor Services, a division of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (“MUFG”) and spent ten years working in law firms in London, Dublin, Edinburgh and Guernsey. Author of ‘GDPR for American Corporations – a toolkit for easy compliance’ (Spring 2020). Co-author of ‘CryptoHog: conversations about blockchain and crypto‘ (Summer 2020).
Laura Degiovanni
Advisor
Laura Degiovanni was a young entrepreneur in the fashion sector before taking charge of reorganising the retail multi-channel business for multinational group Mioglio in the EMEA markets, and developing Asian markets for selected French brands. In 2016 Laura founded a startup adopting emerging technologies to tackle the problem of trust in assessing an individual's professional background. Her passion is people empowerment, helping companies redesign the employer/employee paradigm and facilitate the integration of internal staff and independent freelancers in a unique liquid workforce.
Sorcha Mulligan
Advisor
Sorcha Mulligan supports FinTech & Blockchain Platforms who are seeking to achieve sustainable growth through Investment, Joint Venture Partnerships & direct Client Acquisition. Essentially, matching leaders with other leaders who can work together to achieve a combined, aligned objective in their field. EQ with IQ is the winning formula.
Heather Swope
Developer
Originally from Indianapolis, but has lived in Amsterdam for over 19 years and worked globally.. Heather has many years experience in the IT sector, 14 of which I spent working as an integration specialist. She is an experienced developer, developer team lead, scrum master, and architect. Her interest in blockchain started in 2018 and decided to learn Ethereum development through the B9Lab Academy Ethereum Development course and the Blockchain Training Alliance Blockchain Solution Architect certification. She's worked on contract as a solidity developer for a DeFi startup for three months, and I is now a Blockchain Engineer at Boson Protocol.
Services
Community
Community
A valuable community and eco system that ensures that women are involved at this greenfield stage and increase diversity within blockchain - providing a safe space to learn and grow both online and in person. To enjoy premium benefits join our exclusive membership.
Women to Watch
Women to Watch
Raise awareness of the work individual women are doing through interviews, podcast, blogging, guest blogging and most importantly getting more female experts speaking on stage.
Mindset & Education
Mindset & Education
Women are looking for accountability, balance, continuous improvement, coaching/mentoring and empowerment. We will offer our members a variety of programmes to support this. We'll also collate trusted educational resources. Training materials for online, remote or in person delivery. Offer the chance to become a Mentor/Mentee
Events
Events
Events Directory - working with event organisers to highlight events and make it easier for them to access expert speakers Speakers & Panelists - working with our members to give them more speaking and panelist opportunities. Connecting members before an event and at events. Organising events and helping members organise their own events
Supporting Founders
Supporting Founders
We need to grow more female founders and support those we have: Educate female founders on the types of investors and how to Pitch to them. Offer a panel of skilled professionals who can help improve areas of a business's plan and pitch. Use the network to find your team members and cofounders. Create a Panel of Investors. Intelligently match founders to Investors.
From the Blog
Testimonials
Resources
A list of useful resources in the Blockchain, Crypto and De-Fi space
Github Blockchain and Bitcoin Compilation
Curated list of blockchain and general cryptocurrency resources. Bitcoin Books Blockchain Art Blockchain Books Courses Documentaries Ethereum and Smart Contracts Explorers Infographics Talks White Papers Youtube Channels Assets Private Blockchains
Decrypt
Decentralised finance has ballooned over the past year—but what is DeFi, and how can you get started with its set of tools? Decrypt explains: In brief The decentralised finance world is made up of a multitude of decentralised, non-custodial financial products. They include decentralised exchanges, lending protocols and synthetic derivatives. DeFi is a highly experimental and risky niche within the wider cryptocurrency space.
Visual Capitalist
A 3 part Infographic explaining 7 flaws of the Global Financial System, Decentralised Finance as an emerging alternative and How Decentralised finance can make investing more accessible.
OpenSea The NFT Bible
This post serves to provide an in-depth overview of non-fungible tokens: the technical anatomy of an ERC721, the history of the NFT, common misconceptions about NFTs, and the current state of the NFT market. We hope it will be relevant both to folks who are new to the space, as well as those who already know about NFTs but want to better understand the nuances of their inner workings.
Events
Upcoming events in the Blockchain, Crypto and De-Fi space
Africa Blockchain Week
Along with smart regulation in hand, with numerous supporting industry associations and a growing generation of adaptable young professionals and would-be entrepreneurs, Africa is developing a strong infrastructure for the adoption of cryptocurrency transactions and blockchain technologies for e-commerce and entrepreneurship frameworks. However, application of blockchain across Africa is not limited to finance. The technology is widely spread in such industries as self sovereign identity, agriculture, energy, healthcare, insurtech, supply chains logistics and even to the creator economy for NFT’s. Register your attendance for the event 28th June - 1st July
Blockchain Ireland
A week of events bringing entrepreneurs, developers and corporate leaders together to build momentum and create opportunities in blockchain technology and crypto across the island of Ireland. The European Commission defines Sustainable Finance as “the process of taking environmental, social & governance (ESG) considerations into account when making investment decisions in the financial sector, leading to more long-term investments in sustainable economic activities & projects.” BlockW & The Bigger Pie are delighted to present this partnership event during Blockchain Ireland Week 2021.
Arab Em Tech
Arab EmTech & Startups Conference focuses on how organisations or Startups in the Arab World are rethink and transform not only businesses but also the life of its residents. In order to prepare for the future, transform their businesses, and gain a competitive advantage. And Making Cybersecurity major part to achieve this. The Conference will gather 500+ EmTech Specialists including C-level executives, Key Decision Makers, & Tech-preneurs across the entire EmTech ecosystem covering all domains of Emerging Technologies.