SPEAKER’S PROFILE

Jordan French is an award-winning journalist and the Founder and Executive Editor at Grit Daily News and at BlockTelegraph News. He is a sought-after moderator for "big tent" events including Paris Blockchain Week Summit.

Jordan French is best known as the Executive Editor at Grit Daily News — the champion of live journalism based in New York. Grit Daily is the premiere startup news hub, covering funding rounds, acquisitions, and emerging startups and scaleups. Based in New York, its team hails from ABC, CBS, CNN, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Forbes, PopSugar, SF Chronicle, VentureBeat, Verge, Vice, and Vox. It contributes Miami Art Summit (Miami Art Week), Park City Summit (Sundance), and Grit Daily House (SXSW & Consensus Festival) to top events globally. 

He is also a cofounder of NFT authentication company, ViciNFT, and cofounder of the 3D food printing pioneer with NASA origins, BeeHex. In the 2000s, French worked for NASA’s Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program which looked at bone-loss rates in mice. Mousetronauts, as they were called, paved the way for NASA to look into food systems, spurring the groundbreaking work that led to BeeHex. French was named a “top growth hacker” by CIO magazine.