Lisa Gibbons is a strategic communications consultant and founder of the Metaverse Tourism Association. She is a passionate entrepreneur and educator. She is also advocating for a hybrid future for the travel industry where sustainability is a key factor. In 2017 she founded Orchards Near Me, a platform dedicated to sustainability, tourism and wild food. She is also co-founder of the first Irish Pub in the Web3 Metaverse. She has a Masters in International Tourism, is fascinated by the opportunities of virtual environments to create a more sustainable future. Lisa is a passionate blockchain professional with a love for emerging technology, the metaverse, NFTs, blockchain, education and sustainability.

She is aiming to use blockchain technology to showcase the value of a hybrid future of tourism and is building a platform to bridge these worlds. She writes for numerous publications, including Euronews, CoinTelegraph, Cryptoslate, Blockleaders and Blocktelegraph.

Lisa works with numerous metaverse projects, has minted her own NFTs and is fascinated by the technology that brings NFT’s to life. In the past Lisa has judged the Student Enterprise Awards and helped to organise the World’s first Simulated Crypto Trading Competition with The Blockchain Academy.