Barbara Bickham is a 35+ year serial CTO and systems architect who has built major tech shifts from scratch including early wireless data, mobile messaging, and QR codes, and now brings this hands-on engineering experience to her venture capital investing at Trailyn VC. She focuses specifically on the practical convergence of AI and blockchain technologies, and previously created the Women's Innovation Fund Accelerator, an Opportunity Zone venture fund that required portfolio companies to have at least 50% women in their C-suite. Barbara Bickham is a 35+ year serial CTO and systems architect who has built major tech shifts from scratch including early wireless data, mobile messaging, and QR codes, and now brings this hands-on engineering experience to her venture capital investing at Trailyn VC. She focuses specifically on the practical convergence of AI and blockchain technologies, and previously created the Women's Innovation Fund Accelerator, an Opportunity Zone venture fund that required portfolio companies to have at least 50% women in their C-suite.