The 2022
WISe.ART NFT AWARDS will be
Announced at the
WISeKey Davos Event
on May 25These awards will recognize, celebrate,
showcase and promote the most outstanding NFT artworks, projects
and concepts and connect their outstanding creativity and artwork
with investors, patrons, and collectors from all over the
world.
Register at:
https://www.wisekey.com/davos-2022/
Geneva – May 6, 2022 – WISeKey International
Holding Ltd. (“WISeKey”) (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a leading
global cybersecurity, AI, Blockchain and IoT company, today
announced the WISe.ART NFT AWARDS 2022.
Since 2007, WISeKey has been
organizing annual gatherings in Davos, fostering the
dialogue about the future of technology with industry experts. This
year WISeKey will present the awards to individuals who have made
great impact globally to the development of NFT industry in the
past year.
The WISe.ART NFT platform is secured by
WISeKey’s various security technologies enabling the authentication
of digital identity based NFTs, physical objects as well as digital
assets, in a safe end-to-end process. The user is in full control
of its WISeID NFT and other NFTs need to request access to its
identity information so WISeID NFTs users can decide by themselves
what level of information they wish to share, thus keeping full
control. The WISeKey approach to the Metaverse has as objective to
provide safe infrastructure identity services based on blockchain
technologies for a wide range of users, including individuals,
corporations, and government institutions.
As our digital lives become increasingly
digitalized, Metaverse will leverage the advantages of the internet
to establish a virtual world for its users. Businesses and
communities will depend on users’ digital identities to manage
assets. As interest in NFTs continues to accelerate, WISeKey is
committed to promoting a more environmentally friendly consumption
and distribution model.
The 2022
WISe.ART NFT Awards
will be given to:
Mayte Spínola, Artist-
Patron and founder of Grupo por Arte y Cultura for her outstanding
contribution to art. As Patron and founder of Grupo por Arte y
Cultura in 1990, Mayte Spínola has created, together with him,
several museums and contemporary art collections such as those of
Sofia (Bulgaria), Salta (Argentina), Marmolejo (Jaén), Azuaga
(Badajoz), Calviá (Mallorca), Mèrode Palace (Germany), Hoenems
Palace (Germany), Gmünd Palace (Austria). She has received several
awards and recognitions such as the Golden Keys of Madrid, 1960;
First Prize of Watercolor Chateau de Forges, 1959, Tertulia
Ilustrada Prize, Madrid, 2007, Bagration Cross, Monarchic Society,
Adoptive daughter of Marmolejo... and others.
Gunter Pauli, Director, ZERI
and initiator of the blue economy concept for the first
ever-sustainable NFT project using the Porrima.CH solar panels
installed in 2010. Using limited resources effectively is the core
philosophy underpinning the Porrima, a concept boat centered on
environmental research, which aims to show how sustainable
technology could revolutionize the shipping industry.Each solar
panel is encased in a special cover that protects the panels from
sea water. There are 800 panels only - and these are the ones that
undertook the world's first tour around the world using only solar
energy. WISeKey and Porrima.CH are seeking to share this incredible
solar project with the growing number of sustainability enthusiasts
on Web3 as a way to engage with new audiences around renewable
energy, environment and tokenization technology.
Fernando
Fitz-James, Vice President Fundación Casa
de Alba & Duke of Huéscar for :his contribution to the NFT
digital transformation.Casa de Alba Foundation to begin
its digital transformation by bringing prestigious private
collections to the field of NFTs presented on the new entrusted
WISeKey WISe.ART NFT platform. This new venture from
Casa de Alba Foundation will commence with one
of Christoph Columbus’s letters, part of the
Foundation’s collection appraised at over one hundred million
dollars by Christie’s. The Casa de Alba Foundation, based in the
Palacio de Liria in Madrid, is the owner of
invaluable and best private collections of cultural heritage art,
preserved in more than twenty palaces and castles scattered
throughout the Spanish geography, some of which are ceded to
public institutions for better conservation and use. Throughout
history, its prevailing position has allowed Casa de Alba
Foundation to interact with the best in the world of Spanish
arts and letters.
Archduke Andrés
Salvador Habsburgo-Lorena, recognized as
a scientist to the study of aquaculture in temperate inland waters.
With the change of the Water Law of 1972, he was able to establish
an astaculture center in Isla Mayor, which has become a total of
five today. Rice polyculture has been created and has given jobs to
industrial fishermen in the processing of crab from the Marismas.
His research will be presented as NFT on WISe.ART and is awarded as
a world-renowned thinker, humanist, scientist, aqua-culturist, and
is the Chairman of the María Nobrega International Foundation,
based in Bagno di Ripoli, Italy, the ITKI Foundation, Austria, and
other institutions, and Dean of the Austrian Golden Fleece. The
Archduke Andrés Salvador Habsburgo-Lorena and Salm Salm
(Persenbourg, Austria, 1936) is Emeritus of the International Order
of Saint Hubertus.
Pedro Sandoval, for his
contribution to NFTs as a worldwide renowned Artist moving art to
the Metaverse. Born in Venezuela in 1968 and currently based in
Spain, the name of Pedro Sandoval is currently closely associated
with the abstract neo-expressionist movement and is the creator of
the PENTA-ABSTRACTIONISM movement worldwide. At the age of six he
has won the triennial of contemporary art in the city of Osaka in
Japan. The artist has a close relationship with Andy Warhol and
also with his friend Gianni Versace. He has also been a disciple of
Jesús Soto and has been the favorite artist for years of Sofía
Inver, founder of the Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art, and of
Leo Castelli, one of the best gallery owners. of the world
currently the president of the proarte group worldwide. Today the
works of Pedro Sandoval can be found in different museums around
the world, as well as in large collections such as the White House,
the Vatican Museums, the Kennedy family, the Thyssen-Bornemisza
family, among others. The only artist in the world who has won the
Florence Biennale twice in 2015 and 2019, apart from everything he
has been decorated in several countries around the world with
different awards and many prizes.
Mons. Lucio Adrián Ruiz, or his
leadership addressing numerous conferences, seminars and articles
on The Church in the Digital Age and the Metaverse. Head Office of
the Vatican Internet Service, Direction of Telecommunication,
Vatican. IT-Assessor of the Argentine Episcopal Conference;
Executive Secretary of the System Office of the Latin American
Episcopal Council (CELAM) Bogota IT-Assessor of the
Argentine Episcopal Conference; Executive Secretary of the System
Office of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) Bogota and
Technical Coordinator of the Digital Network of the Church in Latin
America (RIIAL). Systems Manager for the Congregation for the
Clergy and collaborator of the Pontifical Council for Social
Communications. University professor in the Pontifical University
of the Holy Cross, Rome in Digital Technologies; Visiting Professor
of Teleformation at the Pontifical Gregorian University; and
Visiting Professor in Meta-languages of communication in the
Instituto Teológico Pastoral, (ITEPAL), Colombia. In June 2015,
when the Dicastery for Communication of the Holy See was created,
he was appointed as Secretary of this Roman Dicastery and Technical
Coordinator of the Digital Network of the Church in Latin America
(RIIAL). Systems Manager for the Congregation for the Clergy and
collaborator of the Pontifical Council for Social
Communications.Wang Wei, China Metaverse,
Founding Chairman of China Mergers and Acquisitions Association
(CMAA). Wang Wei is the Founding Chairman of China Mergers and
Acquisitions Association (CMAA) and serves as the Chairman of China
M&A Group. During his career, Mr. Wang has organized and
supervised IPO underwritings of over 40 Chinese companies in
domestic and overseas markets, and has provided guidance and
advisory services on restructuring, financing, and M&A
activities to many other leading companies in China. He has worked
for a number of international corporations, including Nomura
Securities Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, the World Bank in Washington D.C.
and the Chase Bank in New York. He serves as economic advisor
in several ministerial and provincial governments in China, as well
as independent director for several public companies.
Mr. Wang received his bachelor's degree in
accounting and master's degree in finance in China, and a Ph.D. in
economics from Fordham University in the United States. He has
authored several books and journal articles, and is a frequent
lecturer at universities in China, including CEIBS and Cheung Kong
Graduate School of Business. Mr. Wang has received several awards
including: "Top Five Chinese Investment Bankers" by Talents
magazine, "The Most Influential Independent Director" by Directors
& Boards magazine, and "The Most Influential Investment Banker"
by China Finance Network. He received the 2012 Lifetime
Achievement Award from The M&A Advisor in New York, the 2013
Social Innovator Award from The Wall Street Journal, and the 2015
IFFM Financial Literacy Award. Mr. Wang has been a member of
Shanghai Stock Exchange Corporate Governance Advisory Committee
since 2007. He founded the Chinese Museum of Finance (Group) in
2010, an organization that currently runs 6 museums in Beijing,
Shanghai, Tianjin, Shenyang and Suzhou. He was elected
Chairman of Asia Mergers & Acquisitions Association (AMAA) and
Co-chairman of International Federation of Finance Museums (IFFM)
in November 2015. In January 2017, he became a director of the
Board of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), founded by
25 countries. Juan Antonio March Pujol, President Fundacion Onuart
for his cintribution to NFT for Humanitarian causes. - 2019
President Fundacion Onuart - 2013 - 2019 Member of The
International Advisory Board of Abertis - 2011 Partner of
Council at ECIJA Law Firm - 2007 – 2011 Ambassador of
Spain in the Russian Federation - 2007 – 2011 Ambassador
of Spain in Turkmenistan - 2007 – 2011 Ambassador of
Spain in Uzbekistan - 2007 – 2011 Ambassador of Spain in
Belarus - 2007 – 2011 Ambassador of Spain in
Armenia - 2004 – 2007 Ambassador of Spain to the U.N. in
Geneva - 2004 – 2007 Ambassador of Spain to the World
Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva - 2007 - 2007
President of the Disarmament Conference in Geneva - 2007-
2007 Chairman of the Council of the International Migration
Organization in Geneva - 2006- 2007 Chairman of the
Finance Committee of the World Trade Organization
(WTO) - 2001– 2004 Political Counselor at the Spanish
Embassy in Mexico - 1996 – 2001 Political Counselor at
the Spanish Embassy in the United Kingdom (UK) - 1995
Representative of Spain in the Development Assistance Committee of
the Iberoamerican Conference.
Juan Carlos
Sainz-Borgo, Professor and Dean at
University for Peace (UPEACE) for the best NFT on the fight of
Illicit Trade on the Metaversa and Sustainability Campus at the
University for Peace in Costa Rica. He is also Associate Professor
of International Law at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in
Caracas since 1998. Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Washington
College of Law at the American University in Washington DC
(2008-2009) Professor of Humanitarian International Law at the
Universidad Sergio Arboleda (2009-2014), Universidad Javeriana and
Universidad El Rosario in Colombia. He is also Professor at the
Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio in Madrid since 2009. He was Jurist
to the Regional Delegation of Venezuela and the Caribbean of the
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). He served as
member of the Venezuelan Foreign Service between 1991-1999 and
Deputy Director of the Diplomatic Academy. Juan Carlos Sainz-Borgo
has a Law Degree, Master in International Law and Doctorate (Cum
Laude) from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas and a
Master Degree from Oxford University, UK. He has published four
books on international law and international relations and a
numerous articles in different publications in the field.
About WISe.ARTWISe.Art is a
fully-fledged marketplace. It can connect all actors of the arts
industry. Our white-labeling options and special NFT designs ensure
that besides an authenticated and signed version of the actual
digital asset, creating an irreversible link to the physical
object, providing proof of ownership, provenance, and a set of
smart contracts describing future use and monetization streams. The
WISe.Art NFT platform is fully secured by WISeKey’s innovative
security technologies enabling the authentication of digital
assets, in a safe end-to-end process based on our experience and
proven expertise in this domain.
About WISeKey
WISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN)
is a leading global cybersecurity company currently deploying large
scale digital identity ecosystems for people and objects using
Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the Human as the Fulcrum of the
Internet. WISeKey microprocessors secure the pervasive computing
shaping today’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey IoT has an install
base of over 1.6 billion microchips in virtually all IoT sectors
(connected cars, smart cities, drones, agricultural sensors,
anti-counterfeiting, smart lighting, servers, computers, mobile
phones, crypto tokens etc.). WISeKey is uniquely positioned to
be at the edge of IoT as our semiconductors produce a huge amount
of Big Data that, when analyzed with Artificial Intelligence (AI),
can help industrial applications to predict the failure of their
equipment before it happens.
Our technology is Trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey’s
Swiss based cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) provides secure
authentication and identification, in both physical and virtual
environments, for the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial
Intelligence. The WISeKey RoT serves as a common trust anchor to
ensure the integrity of online transactions among objects and
between objects and people. For more information,
visit www.wisekey.com.
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