Dinis Guarda

Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur, and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation, and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C-level positions, and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, driven ICOs, regulation, compliance, and legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies.

Dinis has created various companies under the ztudium tech platform, a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc), and founder of global digital platform directory Businessabc.net; digital transformation platform to empower, guide and index cities citiesabc.com and fashion technology platform fashionabc.org. 

Dinis also created an AI-enabled education platform, Wisdomia.ai, that blends wisdom to accelerate the wise use of AI for education with edutainment technology.

He has been working with the likes of UN / UNITAR, UNESCO, European Space Agency, Davos WEF, Philips, Saxo Bank, Mastercard, Barclays, and governments all over the world.

Some of the companies Dinis created or has been involved have reached over 1 USD billions in valuation. Dinis has advised and was responsible for some top financial organisations, 100 cryptocurrencies worldwide and Fortune 500 companies. 

The Dinis Guarda YouTube Podcast has been listed as top 1, 5, 10 global thought leaders, influencers by Thinkers360 in Tech, AI, Blockchain and has garenered over 19.5 million views and over 2 million followers across multiple platforms. 

Ranked in the top 1000 global tech YouTube channels by Social Blade, the podcast has featured more than 350 personalities including Naokazu Takemoto (Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy of Japan), Sobhi Tawil (Director, Future of Learning and Innovation, UNESCO), Xiaolan Fu (Director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development TMCD – University of Oxford, Founder OxValue.AI), Prince Adewole Adebayo (Prince of the Ondo Kingdom, former candidate to president of Nigeria, founder of KAFTAN TV), Scott Edward Parazynski (former NASA Astronaut, Founder of Fluidity Technologies, Inc., best-selling author of “The Sky Below”), Eric Pounds (Director of Product Marketing, NVIDIA), Kevin Farrar (Head of Sport Partnerships for IBM UK, Partnership Executive to Wimbledon/AELTC), Eric O’Neill (Legendary FBI operative and Spy Hunter, National Security Attorney, Author of Bestseller "Gray Day", Founder of The Georgetown Group), and 
Leonardo da Vinci AI Agent assistant (created using AI.DNA technology of ztudium’s Wisdomia.ai).

Dinis has also authored several books, whitepapers, and articles. He is also the publisher of intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com and tradersdna.com. 

Dinis has been a guest lecturer at Copenhagen Business School, Group INSEEC/Monaco University, where he coordinates executive Masters and MBAs. He is also an author of several books and white papers on the topics related to 4IR, Society 5.0, Digital Twins, Smart Cities, Artificial Intelligence, and Web 3.0 technologies.

He is ranked as one of the most influential people in Blockchain in the world by Right Relevance and Thinkers360 as well as being listed in Cointelegraph’s Top People In Blockchain and Rise Global’s The Artificial Intelligence Power 100.

Dinis Guarda was born in Portugal. His family is from Portuguese and French backgrounds. He has lived in Portugal, France, Sweden, and Denmark and is based in London, UK since 2011.

He coursed his BA in Languages and Literature from the Universidade de Lisboa between 1992 and 1997 and achieved a Master's in New Media from London South Bank University in 2011. Dinis has lived in Sweden and worked in Denmark prior to moving to London.

Dinis started his professional career back in Portugal in 1997 as the Founder Member of the cultural organisation Número – Arte e Cultura and created the arts and fashion magazine NumeroMagazine between Lisbon and Paris with Didier Fiuza Faustino. Still in Portugal, he collaborated with Alcatel and the Portuguese Government Department of Technology and Development UMIC between 2003 and 2006. He was also involved with the Portuguese government as Curator and Project Manager, for the Portuguese Presidency of the Republic in 2006 and 2007.

Moving to London he worked as Strategy Project Manager, Account Manager, and Analyst at Greenlight Digital, until 2008. That same year, he became the Global Head of Content, SEO and social media at Saxo Bank until 2011. While he was working at Saxo Bank, he founded one of the world's first fintech, social trading platforms tradingfloor.com.

In 2011, he founded ztudium Limited. Ztudium created and manages the technology and AI-blockchain-based FinTech solution blocksdna, the media intelligenthq.com and lifestyle and healthcare platform as a service software lifesdna.

Ztudium features a publishing division that manages intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, and tradersdna.com among others.

Between 2014 and 2015 he was involved in creating a fabbanking.com a digital bank between Asia and Africa as Chief Commercial Officer and Marketing Officer responsible for all legal, tech and business development. 

In 2019, Dinis co-founded: 

• fashionabc.org, a social impact blockchain fashion directory platform, techabc.org a 4IR - digital transformation blockchain, AI, and Fintech fund. 
• Businessabc.net, the business B2B wiki directory and search engine - a new financial blockchain AI empowerment platform and fintech marketplace.

These products and platforms offer multiple AI P2P, fintech, blockchain, search engine and PaaS solutions in consumer wellness healthcare and lifestyle with a global team of experts and universities. 

Dinis is involved as a strategist, board member and advisor with the payments, lifestyle, blockchain reward community app Glance technologies. For this company he built the blockchain messaging / payment / loyalty software Blockimpact that he sold in 2017. He is an advisor and small shareholder of Hyperloop Transportations project.

He is a shareholder of the Fintech social money transfer app Moneymailme and the math edutech gamification children’s app Gozoa. 

He is also the creator of FreedomX, Wisdomia.ai, and metaverseabc, the 4IR enabled platforms offering solutions for the Web 3.0 era.

Academic career

Dinis’s first passion and specialisation was in literature, arts, and poetry, and started publishing magazines and books when he was 14 years old. He did his Master's in new media, digitisation and transforming knowledge in content, using social media and digital transformation in his studies at London South Bank University. 

He has been lecturing at Copenhagen Business School, Group INSEEC/Monaco University, where he coordinates executive Masters and MBAs in fintech, social media, blockchain, and AI, and others for business executives. He has been invited to give guest lectures at Cambridge University, Harvard University, and King's College.

Published works, articles and books

Dinis has published numerous books and articles in publications such as intelligenthq.com, tradersdna.com, hedgethink.com, openbusinesscouncil.com, cityam and many more. 

List of books:

• 4IR Book, http://www.4irbook.com/ Publication Date: October 16, 2019, Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC, Language: English, ASIN: B07Z816N27, 377 pages.
• The Next Tsunami: Blockchain, AI, Cybersecurity and IOT, ztudium /intelligentHQ editions, upcoming, 300 pages.
• How Businesses and Governments can Prosper with Fintech, Blockchain and AI?, ztudium /intelligentHQ editions, 300 pages upcoming.
• Tokenomics and ICOs - How to be good at the new digital world of finance / Crypto, ztudium /intelligentHQ Editions, 2017.
• How Map Who You Are, ebook, published by ztudium/IntelligentHQ
• How To Map Who You are, ztudium/intelligentHQ edition, Amazon, 2016.
• Innovating in a Forever Recession, ztudium/intelligentHQ edition, Amazon, 2016.
• Video Art and Art and Essay Film in Portugal, an arts video curatorial Book project, N_Books (numerodna), 2009.
• Excess Globalisation and Emotional DisOrders
• Portugal : um retrato cinematográfico Portugal : a cinematographic portrait, N_Books (numerodna), dir. e ed. Nuno Figueiredo, Dinis Guarda ; textos de Eduardo Lourenço, Paulo Filipe Monteiro, Jorge Leitão Ramos... [et al.], Description: 263 p. 21 x 22 cm, ISBN : 9789729770565, 2004.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/portugal-um-retrato-cinematografico-portugal-a-cinematographic-portrait/oclc/278069532

http://bibliothequekandinsky.centrepompidou.fr/clientBookline/service/reference.asp?INSTANCE=INCIPIO&OUTPUT=PORTAL&DOCID=0361199&DOCBASE=CGPP

https://alpha.sib.uc.pt/?q=node/261249/cit

• Mutantes, curated, edited and participated as a writer and artist, N_Books (numerodna), 2004.
• Corpo FastForward - Fast Forward Body,  curatorial Book project, editors Dinis Guarda and Joao Urbano, N_Books (numerodna), 2001.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zE9UDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=Corpo+Fast+Forward,+numero+arte+e+cultura&source=bl&ots=jZ6FK38fLI&sig=ACfU3U0oamKezU45eaEmpJfQtRb8RrUzAQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiM4diY7PjlAhUuSxUIHY8xBS0Q6AEwAXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Corpo%20Fast%20Forward%2C%20numero%20arte%20e%20cultura&f=false

https://www.facebook.com/pg/paulo.henrique.performance/photos/?tab=album&album_id=585603348178098

• Rahasya: mistério, Graça Sarsfield, Dinis Guarda, Portuguese Presidência da Républica, 2006 - 81 pages, ISBN 9789729579776, https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Rahasya.html?id=neKHnQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
• 00:00:01, curatorial Book project, editors Dinis Guarda, N_Books (numerodna), 2001.
• NumeroMagazine, fashion, arts and culture quarterly magazine, average 100 pages, N_Books (numerodna), 1997-2005.

Rankings

• #RefinitivSocial100 | Top finance influencers 2019 | Refinitiv https://www.refinitiv.com › top-100-finance-social-media-influencers
• The artificial intelligence Power Influencers https://www.rise.global/display/the-artificialintelligence-power-3
• top-fintech-people https://www.rise.global/top-fintech-people/p/2246701/r/2571685
• Rise - The 100 Most Influential People in FinTech - Dinis Guarda https://www.rise.global/top-fintech-people/p/2246701/r/2442265
• Blockchain Who's Who - the blockchain power 100 https://www.rise.global/display/the-blockchain-power-100
• Fintech 2018: Top 100 Influencers and Brands https://onalytica.com/blog/posts/fintech-2018-hot-topics-top-influencers/
• Fintech 2016: Top 100 Influencers and Brands http://www.onalytica.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Onalytica-Fintech-Top-100-Influencers-and-Brands.pdf 
• #Blockchain: Top 100 #Influencers and #Brands http://www.onalytica.com/blog/posts/blockchain-top-100-influencers-brands/

Dinis is a thought leader and believes that emergent tech presents fresh avenues for humanity at multiple frontiers. With his YouTube podcast, he presents the various facets of technology and how it leaves an ever-lasting impact on humanity and taking it to new horizons.

He advocates the applications of AR, VR, AI, and ML in our-day-to-day life, where humans are leveraged into an immersive world of the metaverse and Web 3.0.

In a recent interview, Dinis shared his vision regarding new tech and the Metaverse:

"The Metaverse transcends traditional technological parameters, moving towards a world where our physical and digital identities entwine. At this stage in human history, it is the ultimate augmentation of human perception.

We have become digital magicians, scientists and subjects in the great ongoing experiment of virtual society. Across Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, to more niche platforms like Fortnite, Second Life, Decentraland and countless others, we are readily communicating and stimulating each other remotely, through interactions that are, for the most part, emotionally indistinguishable from experiences in the ‘real’ physical world.

The Metaverse is thus the next chapter in this story of co-creation and mutual influence, and one where convergent reality takes centre stage."

Dinis Guarda is listed in various global fintech, blockchain, AI, social media industry top lists as an influencer in position top 5/10/20 within global first 100 rankings as well as being highlighted in some of the lists as Cointelegraph’s Top People In Blockchain, Rise Global’s The Artificial Intelligence Power 100 and he is ranked or listed as one of the most influential people in Blockchain in the world by Right Relevance and as “30 Most Influential People in the Blockchain Space” by Crypto Compare.

Published works, articles and Books

Dinis has published numerous books and articles in publications such as intelligenthq.com, tradersdna.com, hedgethink.com, openbusinesscouncil.com, cityam and many more. 

List of books:

4IR Book, Publication Date: October 16, 2019, Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC, Language: English, ASIN: B07Z816N27, 377 pages.

The Next Tsunami: Blockchain, AI, Cybersecurity and IOT, ztudium /Intelligenthq Editions, upcoming, 300 pages.

"How Businesses and Governments can Prosper with Fintech, Blockchain and AI?”, ztudium /Intelligenthq Editions, 300 pages upcoming.

“Tokenomics and ICOs - How to be good at the new digital world of finance / Crypto”, ztudium /Intelligenthq Editions, 2017.

How Map Who You Are, ebook, published by ztudium / intelligenthq

How To Map Who You are, ztudium / Intelligenthq Editions, Amazon, 2016.

Innovating in a Forever Recession, ztudium / Intelligenthq Editions, Amazon, 2016.

Video Art and Art and Essay Film in Portugal, an arts video curatorial Book project, N_Books (numerodna), 2009.

Excess Globalisation and Emotional DisOrders

Portugal: um retrato cinematográfico Portugal : a cinematographic portrait, N_Books (numerodna), dir. e ed. Nuno Figueiredo, Dinis Guarda ; textos de Eduardo Lourenço, Paulo Filipe Monteiro, Jorge Leitão Ramos... [et al.], Description: 263 p. 21 x 22 cm, ISBN : 9789729770565, 2004.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/portugal-um-retrato-cinematografico-portugal-a-cinematographic-portrait/oclc/278069532

http://bibliothequekandinsky.centrepompidou.fr/clientBookline/service/reference.asp?INSTANCE=INCIPIO&OUTPUT=PORTAL&DOCID=0361199&DOCBASE=CGPP

https://alpha.sib.uc.pt/?q=node/261249/cit

Mutantes, curated, edited and participated as a writer and artist, N_Books (numerodna), 2004.

Corpo FastForward - Fast Forward Body, curatorial Book project, editors Dinis Guarda and Joao Urbano, N_Books (numerodna), 2001.

Time, Science and the Critique of Technological Reason: Essays in Honour of ... - Google Books

Rahasya: mistério, Graça Sarsfield, Dinis Guarda, Portuguese Presidência da Républica, 2006 - 81 pages, ISBN 9789729579776, https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Rahasya.html?id=neKHnQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

NumeroMagazine, fashion, arts and culture quarterly magazine, average 100 pages, N_Books (numerodna), 1997-2005.

Rankings

#RefinitivSocial100 | Top finance influencers 2019 | Refinitiv

The artificial intelligence Power Influencers

top-fintech-people

https://www.rise.global/top-fintech-people/p/2246701/r/2571685

Rise - The 100 Most Influential People in FinTech - Dinis Guarda ... | Richtopia

Blockchain Who's Who - the blockchain power 100 | Rise Global

Fintech 2018: Top 100 Influencers and Brands  | Onalytica

Fintech 2016: Top 100 Influencers and Brands http://www.onalytica.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Onalytica-Fintech-Top-100-Influencers-and-Brands.pdf 

#Blockchain: Top 100 #Influencers and #Brands | Onalytica