Leah shares the moderator's chair with Web (@web3smb),
the pair fronting Dog Talk — the talks programme that runs the full working day on
September 3 at Bodega Negra, 10am to 5pm. Between them they'll put the questions to a
line-up of more than thirty speakers, headlined by keynotes from Doginal Dogs co-founders
Barkmeta and Shibo, with Shield, the company's CFO,
also on the bill and twenty-seven community panelists filling out the room.
It is the biggest room Doginal Dogs has ever built. The community has self-funded more than
25 events across four continents since January 2024 — DDNYC, DDVegas, DDMiami,
DDToronto and stops at technology and culture conferences in North America, Europe and Asia — and
DDNYC 2026 is the third flagship it has produced with TAO Hospitality Group, whose
portfolio runs to TAO, Marquee, Lavo and Avenue across New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago,
London and Sydney. The last of those collaborations, DDVegas at The Venetian in October 2025, peaked
at 2,500 people and sold out in full.
Doginal Dogs is bringing “everything we have learned from two years of global events to New
York in September” — calling DDNYC “the largest stage we have worked on to date.”
Shield, CFO, Doginal Dogs
The timing is the other half of the story. DDNYC 2026 runs directly alongside
NFT.NYC (September 1–3), which makes it the community event of a week when
New York is already full of the people the rest of the year is spent talking to online. Tickets
went in under an hour and have since traded on the secondary market above $700 — and the format is
pointedly not a conference hall. Doginal Dogs has taken over a hotel: the talks, the pool, the
rooftop and the closing night all sit inside one building, so the programme and the hallway track
are the same place.
For Simply Crypto it is a natural fit. Moderating is one of the formats Leah is booked for all year
— keeping a panel on time and on point, drawing out the quiet expert, and translating the jargon
live so nobody in the audience gets lost. Doing that in front of a room of
10,000+ Doginal Dogs holders is the same job at the largest scale she has done it,
and she comes to it as an early investor in the project who called the free mint in a Substack in
2024. Expect In Finance Today to be filmed from the floor across all three days.
There is a product story underneath it too: Doginal Dogs Legends — a premium
hand-drawn trading card game whose debut set, Rise of the Pack, runs to 111 original cards —
officially launches at DDNYC, alongside the biggest physical collectibles release the brand has put
out.
The two moderators and the featured speakers, as published on the official event page. Each card links
to that person's account on X.
Published by Doginal Dogs, in the event's own artwork. Times and venues are theirs; the schedule is
subject to change, so confirm anything load-bearing through the official channels.
