Heather Heltzinger
Owner, Renegade Solutions | Co-Founder, RenAIssance Labs | Water/Wastewater Controls Integrator & Infrastructure AI Builder
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Heather Heltzinger is the Owner of Renegade Solutions, LLC, a water and wastewater control systems integration company, and Co-Founder of RenAIssance Labs, LLC, where she is building AI-powered tools for operator training, troubleshooting, and infrastructure knowledge preservation.
With more than 20 years of experience in control systems, SCADA, PLCs, and municipal water/wastewater operations, Heather brings a field-level perspective to emerging technology. She is also a licensed wastewater operator and has served in leadership roles within the water and wastewater professional community.
Her work focuses on the future of public infrastructure: how utilities can preserve operator knowledge, improve workforce training, and use AI, automation, and NFTs to protect the human intelligence behind essential systems. At NFT.NYC, Heather brings a practical, infrastructure-focused view of tokenization beyond collectibles.
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Proof of Connection: The Human Layer of NFTs
A community that understands and gets involved with what you’re building before it’s finished.
This panel explores what happens when founders invite their community into the journey instead of presenting them with the destination. When communities witness the pivots, challenge assumptions, and shape the product, users become contributors, holders become advocates, and ownership becomes participation.
That’s Proof of Connection.
Four founders spanning NFT gaming, real world asset tokenization, professional credentialing, and community economies share how they’ve built resilient communities through bear markets, without venture backing, by earning trust in public.
The industry spent years asking how to create utility. The next question is how to create belonging.
Trust is earned. Connection follows. Retention proves it.
Attendees will leave with a practical framework for measuring community health, earning trust, and building NFT ecosystems designed to endure.
Heather Heltzinger
Owner, Renegade Solutions | Co-Founder, RenAIssance Labs | Water/Wastewater Controls Integrator & Infrastructure AI Builder
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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