Parsa Haghighi

Parsa Haghighi · Founder of 3rix

Building the future production infrastructure for cinema.

22 plus years across technology, product design, AI systems, creative industries and venture building.

The story

Why I am building 3rix. Not because AI became fashionable, because everything before it pointed here.

I came to Australia more than two decades ago and built my career inside technology. Product design and systems architecture, for companies whose products sit in millions of hands: Atlassian, Telstra, News Corp, Macquarie, NSW Government. I learned how to design systems that hold at scale, and how to ship them.

Through all of it I kept one obsession: images, and the stories they carry. Photography was never a hobby on the side. It became SEED.Photo, a global platform where thousands of photographers publish and protect their work. It became an international awards ecosystem, university research into AI authenticity, and finally land: Clearview, a place set aside for where all of this is heading.

So when generative AI arrived, I was not discovering a trend. I was standing on both sides of the problem it cracked open: the systems side, where I had spent twenty years building platforms, and the creative side, where I knew exactly what storytellers need and what they will never accept. 3rix is the result of everything I have learned across technology, creativity, systems thinking and production.

My photography · parsa.foto on Instagram

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Experience

Built at scale. Designed and delivered products used by millions of people across enterprise, government and consumer.

  • Atlassian
  • News Corp
  • Telstra
  • Macquarie
  • Aon
  • Nano
  • NSW Government

Track record

I build things. Each one started from zero. Each one shipped, and is still standing.

The photo contest

Awards.Photos is an international photography contest we built and ran under the patronage of FIAP, Eurasia and SEED.Photo. I sat as a Judge Chairman.

FIAP Patronage 2023/428

A full international photo contest, end to end. Digital and NFT sections across Photo Travel, Open Color, Open Monochrome, Creative Concept, People and Nature, judged by award winning photographers from five countries. I served as one of the Judge Chairmen, alongside chairs from Russia and Luxembourg.

Winners received cash prizes and NFT certificates of authenticity, and the season closed with a live celebration at the Hilton Bosphorus in Istanbul. Every winners showcase below is from that season.

awards.photos

Special Awards showcase, 2023
NFT winners · Creative Concept
NFT winners · People
NFT winners · Nature
Digital winners · Photo Travel
Digital winners · Open Color
Digital winners · Open Monochrome
Exhibition · Elina Garipova
Secret of Middle Eastern Queens

As seen in

Recognition across SEED.Photo and the ventures around it. Third party validation, in their words, not ours.

Highlights

  • Times Square
  • Bloomberg
  • Yahoo Finance
  • Financial Standard Awards

Awards

  • Emerging Fintech Organisation, 2022
  • Best Banking Innovation, 2022
  • Excellence in Consumer Lending, 2022
  • Website of the Year, 2018

Featured in

  • AP
  • Benzinga
  • Business Insider
  • Anadolu Agency
  • Hürriyet
  • Digital Journal
  • International Business Times
  • StreetInsider
  • ADVFN
  • China Daily
  • Sohu
  • Weibo
  • Creative Bloq
  • CoinCodex
  • CryptoDaily
  • CryptoNews
  • CoinGape
  • UBJ

Partnerships

  • University of Wollongong
  • NDSS
  • CertiK
  • Cyberscope
  • The Sandbox
  • MEXC
  • Bybit
  • Gate.io
  • Biconomy
  • Toobit
  • BitVenus
  • Tapbit
  • BigONE
  • Metatheory Studio

Official integrations

  • Coinbase
  • Binance Wallet
  • MetaMask
  • Ledger
  • Trust Wallet
  • OKX
  • KuCoin
  • Robinhood
  • Bitget
  • Gate.io
  • SafePal
  • 1inch

Event collaborators

  • TOKEN2049
  • NFT.NYC
  • Blockchain Economy
  • Blockchain Expo
  • WOW Summit
  • EMERGE
  • tmrw.conf
  • WEB3wave
  • TeamZ
  • Meco Conference
  • AI Film 3
  • NFT Fest
  • InnoBlock
  • Awards.Photos 2023
Navigating the NFT marketplace
Official launch event, Istanbul 2022
Times Square, New York
University of Wollongong partnership
Lens Legacy in The Sandbox
Rorschach, Art Is Insane

The argument

What makes me different. Most founders bring technology or film. I bring both, and the disciplines in between.

TechnologyDesignProductEntrepreneurshipAIPhotographyStorytellingProduction3rix

Not one of these. All of them, pointed at the same problem.

“I did not arrive when AI became fashionable. I spent more than twenty years, without knowing it, preparing for exactly this.”
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