venessa miemis, venture partner
Venessa is a social technologies researcher and provocateur, exploring the edges of communication, co-creation and commerce in a network society. She often synthesizes insights and analysis into video-based communications along with blogs and reports. One of her well known projects is The Future of Money project, which provided a visionary point of view for the banking industry and was presented to over 200 global heads of banks at the SIBOS Conference in October 2010.
In addition to her role with Anthemis, Venessa is a senior analyst with Constellation Research. Her current projects include work on the Future of Facebook, social currency, digital identity, and p2p finance. Her views have been featured in leading media outlets such as CNN and Forbes, as well as her own widely followed blog, Emergent by Design.
She is serving as Chief Community Officer for the Contact Summit, an innovation festival about peer-to-peer technology and networked culture. She is also a board member of the Acceleration Studies Foundation and an advisor for a number of tech startups and social change initiatives.
Venessa earned an MA in Media Studies at the New School for Social Research, with a concentration in online engagement, collaboration and trust-building, and holds a BA in Psychology from Miami University.