Future Tech: Almost Here, Round-the-Corner Future Technology Podcast
1,842 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago -Future Technologies Poised to Transform Our Lives For The Better are the focus of this podcast. Almost here means these technologies are Now Here, or Just Around The Corner. Listen to the latest future tech news & interviews, featuring Artificial Intelligence, 3D printing, stem cells, regenerative medicine, Bitcoin, Blockchain & other cutting-edge stuff.
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David Siegel- Pillar Project- Building a User-Run Economy within a Crypto Wallet
April 16, 2018 08:02 - 28 minutes - 65 MBDavid Siegel is an entrepreneur, tokenomics expert, and the the author of five books, one of which serves as the basis for Pillar Project, a cryptocurrency and token wallet that’s being developed into so much more than that: a personal digital assistant app that automatically manages user data, including health, financial and work records. The Pillar wallet will eventually allow users to store and maintain full control over their personal encrypted data without any third-party involvement. Pi...
Roy Pereira, CEO & founder of Zoom.ai
April 16, 2018 07:43 - 24 minutes - 18.3 MBZoom.ai provides automated assistance to employees to dramatically increase productivity and reduce the time spent on various low-value tasks that often take up a large part of the workday. According to Roy Pereira, CEO, and founder of Zoom.ai, users are provided automated assistance that provides support much like a human personal assistance would. Using a chat first application, Zoom.ai has designed a platform uses a vast knowledge base that can quickly and efficiently complete tasks. For e...
Eric Solis, CEO & founder of MovoCash, Inc.
April 16, 2018 07:41 - 28 minutes - 65.7 MBMovoCash has created an innovative method of generating peer-to-peer payments safely with very little delay. Unlike traditional payments using credit cards, MovoCash has combined their unique technology called HyperBIN with credit cards to take advantage of the best of both worlds and provide a convenient way to send and spend money. Join Eric Solis, CEO and founder of MovoCash and learn how his team is giving users more control and more security without the fees that traditional banks charg...
Keith Herman- IPA Equities- Creating Efficiency, Improving People’s Lives and Encouraging the Widespread Adoption of Blockchain Technology
April 16, 2018 07:18 - 25 minutes - 20.2 MBIPA Equities is a private equity firm investing in a variety of projects, all of which have one goal in common: increasing the quality of people’s lives. While they focus on investing in projects within the blockchain space, IPA Equities also invests in philanthropic and sustainability projects. Currently in the works is the development of a blockchain-based healthcare staffing platform that’s designed to make the process of staffing healthcare professionals more efficient and cost-effective....
Andrew Keys, co-founder of ConsenSys Capital
April 16, 2018 06:27 - 25 minutes - 59.1 MBConsenSys Capital is the world’s largest software engineering company dedicated to building, improving and implementing blockchain technology. According to Andrew Keys, co-founder of ConsenSys Capital, blockchain technology represents the next generation of data bases, the internet and cloud computing and has triggered a “macro-horizontal disruption” of all industries. With over 400 team members world-wide, ConsenSys provides consultations to governments and businesses on how to incorporate b...
Matej Michalko – CEO & Found At Decent – Disrupting the Publishing World with Decentralized Blockchain Solutions
April 16, 2018 06:23 - 21 minutes - 50 MBBlockchain start-up, DECENT, has developed an open-source, P2P content distribution platform, that is changing the way individuals and organizations access and publish information for free. The highly secure platform is transparent and offers a clear audit trail with time-stamped transactions. Founder and CEO at DECENT, Matej Michalko, explains the mission behind the innovative start-up, was to remove the middle man from publishing. Compared to traditional methods, DECENT, connects people aro...
Misha Esipvo – CEO & Co-Founder Of Nova Credit – Helping Immigrants Access Good Credit
April 16, 2018 06:12 - 26 minutes - 59.6 MBWhen we are immigrating to a different country, often we are leaving behind many valuable things which made up our past lives. One of things we don’t even think of that is critical, are our financial report cards. Even for folks who may have had stellar credit in their home country, when you get to a new nation, you can’t access credit – be it student loans, credit cards, auto loans and mortgages. Essentially, we are forced to start over wherever we go, often times forcing people into poor c...
Gary Markham – Ceo At Axpire – How Businesses Are Escaping The Paper And Report Trail Hassles
April 13, 2018 10:33 - 25 minutes - 19.2 MBLet’s face it. We have all been caught in spreadsheet, pdf and paper hell in our daily work lives. Money is lost. Time is lost. Enter aXpire, a cloud-based and AI-enabled blockchain payment processing company, who are using the blockchain to speed up processes, reduce errors, and make transactions accurate as well as transparent on both a B2B level, as well as P2P, within organizations. Gary Markham, CEO at aXpire, explains how Resolvr, the interactive dashboard they have developed, is addres...
Philipp Postrehovsky – COO & Co-Founder at Rentmoola – Pay Your Rent And Get Rewards
April 13, 2018 07:54 - 21 minutes - 49.1 MBDid you forget to pay your rent this month? Are pesky and often hefty late fees coming your way? RentMoola may just be the solution you have been looking for. For the past five years, RentMoola has been one of the leading fintech companies in the United States and Canada solving the age-old hassle of paying and collecting rent. Their online global payment system benefits both tenants and property management companies, by allowing anyone, anywhere to pay their rent anytime. RentMoola’s mission...
Felipe Huicochea-Founder of CriptoMonedas TV- On the Current and Future State of the Crypto Space in Latin America
April 12, 2018 10:07 - 31 minutes - 24.7 MBFounder of CriptoMonedas TV and an influential voice among Spanish-speaking communities in the crypto space, Felipe Huicochea offers his insight on a variety of topics, including the recent cancellation of all of the accounts of the major exchanges in Chile and Brazil. The cancellations were carried out by ScotiaBank with absolutely no warning to users, and have since crippled the operations of the exchanges in both countries. “I think we’re going to see this happen in more countries in the...
Neal Reiter – Director At Identitymind Global – Using Aml & Kyc Transaction Monitoring And Fraud Prevention
April 12, 2018 10:01 - 26 minutes - 21.5 MBIdentityMind provides software to various financial institutions, money transmitters and money service organizations, including Bitcoin exchanges. The purpose of the software is to help companies meet Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) government requirements. Most recently, IdentityMind has begun to put more focus on Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) and Security Token Offerings (STO). In order to be successful and go the distance to fund a business or purpose, ICOs and toke...
Tv Personality, Michael Alden Interviews Richard Jacobs, Author, Creator Of The Future Tech Podcast And Founder Of The Future Tech Expo Coming To Dallas 2018
April 12, 2018 09:48 - 52 minutes - 38.4 MBTV Personality, author, and entrepreneur, Michael Alden, interviews Future Tech Podcast’s own creator, Richard Jacobs who is also the author of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Blockchain: Surprising Insights from 200+ Podcast Interviews of Industry. Alden and Jacobs sit down for an in-depth and real discussion on the basics of bitcoin, blockchain and other crypto topics, including the need in today’s society, as well as the challenges. Since October 2016, through the Future Tech Podcast, Jacobs has in...
Hazem Danny Al-Nakib- Humaniq- Creating Digital Identities and Providing Crypto Wallets to the Unbanked Sector
April 12, 2018 06:58 - 35 minutes - 26.5 MB“Quite simply, we want everyone who’s unbanked globally, which is approximately two billion…who are typically incredibly impoverished and many completely undocumented…we want all of them to have access to their local and global economies…to have digital identities and access to financial products and services,” says Hazem Danny Al-Nakib, Chief Innovation Officer of Humaniq. With a $20 smartphone, internet access, and the Humaniq app, impoverished and undocumented individuals will be able to ...
Cassandra Borchers – Partner at Thompson Hine – Ensuring Blockchain and Crypto Compliance for Your Business
April 12, 2018 06:52 - 25 minutes - 59.4 MBThe world of blockchain and cryptocurrency is a quickly expanding market – the ultimate disruptor some might say, even comparable if not bigger than the internet boom. Some refer to its mystery and appeal as the “wild west”. Whatever euphemism you might use to describe the space, the fact remains, the blockchain/crypto world is still largely undeveloped further translating into an unmanned, unlegislated playground with rules and laws that are still developing. That doesn’t mean, however, the ...
Richard Ettl – Co-Founder & CEO of Smart Containers Group/ Skycell – Using Blockchain and Smart Contracts to Ship Pharmaceuticals and High-Value Food
April 12, 2018 06:52 - 20 minutes - 47.8 MBSmart Containers Group, with its SkyCell AG division, is a leading manufacturer of the world’s safest temperature-controlled containers for climate-sensitive pharmaceuticals and high-value food items. Temperature control is a critical element to safely delivering most pharmaceuticals as well as certain food items, such as fish and beef, for example. Traditional methods of shipping such items has been in Styrofoam boxes packed with ice. With SkyCell’s use of blockchain technology and smart co...
George Avetisov- HYPR- Implementing Decentralized Authentication in the Financial Services Sector
April 12, 2018 06:51 - 28 minutes - 64.1 MBFor the past several decades, major banks and enterprises have been centralizing the storage of user pins, passwords, credit card numbers and biometric data, which has made that information vulnerable to security breaches, cyber-attacks and single points of failure. When the security of centralized repositories is breached, millions of people are affected, and with a dollar metric for each lost password or incident of fraud, major enterprises can end up losing millions of dollars every year. ...
Leif-Nissen Lundbaek – Ceo & Co-Founder Xain Ag – Machine Learning And Governed Blockchain Innovation
April 12, 2018 05:51 - 24 minutes - 18.9 MBXain AG, a blockchain startup is focused on developing concepts that use blockchain, artificial intelligence and data analysis on a decentralized platform. They are using a hybrid blockchain solution combining machine learning, or reinforcement learning, to strengthen the blockchain network. Leif Lundbaek, CEO, and Co-Founder at Xain AG explains how the concept began with a research project at Oxford University in 2014. It has since evolved into a system using modern machine learning on an Et...
Mark Bonchek- ShiftThinking- Helping Businesses Identify and Shift Obsolete Mental Models
April 10, 2018 09:47 - 28 minutes - 22.5 MBWe are in a time of exponential and disruptive change, so the mental models that we have don’t really apply the same way anymore,” explains Mark Bonchek, founder of ShiftThinking. For the past 20 years, Bonchek has been trying to understand the ways in which digital technology and network-based ways of communicating and connecting have affected society. As the founder of ShiftThinking, he’s applying what he’s learned in order to help leaders and organizations make the shift into new ways of t...
Colin Gounden- VIA- Using AI and Machine Learning to Prioritize Global Energy Infrastructure Upgrades and Maintenance
April 10, 2018 07:07 - 30 minutes - 22.8 MBThe energy industry spends over $100 billion per year just to maintain and upgrade the energy infrastructure that powers our lives. However, much of that infrastructure is outdated, inefficient, and carrying a high risk of failure. To make matters worse, much of the data that is necessary in order to address this problem is confidential and trapped behind firewalls. VIA is a company that is addressing these problems by using blockchain technology and machine learning solutions. With the recen...
Andy Park, Founder, And Philip Parker, Operations Lead With Coral Health
April 10, 2018 06:53 - 27 minutes - 21 MBCoral Health uses blockchain technology to improve healthcare by providing patients with control of personal medical records by improving efficiency using a streamlined process. According to Philip Parker, operations lead with Coral Health, patients currently do not have access to their own medical records which results in a healthcare system in which medical care is often based on the fragmented information. The result is an impersonal healthcare system that negatively impacts patient care a...
Gabriel Wang, Analyst With Aite Group
April 10, 2018 06:36 - 26 minutes - 20.1 MBThe next 12 to 18 months could be the “make or break” period for blockchain technology and the financial services industry according to analyst Gabriel Wang with Aite Group. Wang has been working closing with blockchain industry experts since 2016 to provide comprehensive research on how blockchain can best serve the financial services industry. Aite Group is an independent research advisory firm that focuses on the global capital market as well as evolving market structures and how to comply...
Alan Wunsche- TokenFunder- A Regulated Security Token Offering for Retail and Accredited Investors
April 10, 2018 06:19 - 28 minutes - 21 MBAmidst the unregulated ICO craze that began about a year ago, the now CEO and Chief Token Officer of TokenFunder, Alan Wunsche, was working closely with regulators to develop a fully compliant ICO that would allow retail and accredited investors to fund the creation of the TokenFunder platform. Having received Canada-wide approval, TokenFunder is now accepting investors from all around the world. The TokenFunder ICO is offering investors something that many others don’t: rights to the future ...
Reekita Shah Alias Gala – Founder of VRARE – AR/VR Solutions for Businesses
April 09, 2018 07:37 - 26 minutes - 61.7 MBAugmented reality and virtual reality are two of the hottest areas in today's marketing world. Companies are scrambling to catch up to find ways to implement these technologies to make their businesses and their products cutting edge and sexy, while at the same time creating an easy and beneficial user experience. Entrepreneur Reekita Shah Alias Gala, is the Founder VRARE, a company offering Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality solutions to businesses looking to add these technologies into ...
Yonatan Sela – Chief Business Officer – Younow – Combining Blockchain And Video
April 09, 2018 06:06 - 29 minutes - 21.8 MBYouNow, a live broadcasting service allowing users to their own live video content or interact with the video streams of other users in real time, was the first live video mobile app to gain traction in the US with over 40 million users. Yonatan Sela, Chief Business Officer at YouNow, said it was their goal to combine video and blockchain – two of his greatest passions. The founders at YouNow noticed a high level of engagement with users from the start, most spending 45 mins a day or more on...
Shane Brett – Ceo, Gecko Governance – Blockchain Solution To Managing Compliance
April 09, 2018 05:42 - 36 minutes - 37.6 MBShane Brett, CEO of Gecko Governance is quoted as saying “They say 2018 is the year of subpoenas and 2019, well that will be the year of trials.” Unfortunately, this could be a reality in the investment crypto space, if companies don’t adjust their compliance practices. Perhaps its time we all start paying attention to companies like Gecko Governance. Founded in 2015, Gecko Governance is a self-proclaimed collection of products allowing fund managers, regulators and investors to meet complian...
Nick Spanos, CEO and founder of Blockchain Technologies Corp.
April 06, 2018 11:50 - 29 minutes - 22.1 MBIt’s difficult to imagine the rise of Bitcoin without Nick Spanos, one of the earliest supports of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Join Spanos as he discusses the past, present, and future of an industry that he helped create and which he refers to as a “monetary revolution.” In some ways, cryptocurrency is not about money; but is about individual freedom. In building the world’s first trust network, Spanos maintains that his goal was always more about activism than business. Frustr...
Brian Spector, CEO of Qredo
April 06, 2018 08:07 - 29 minutes - 66.9 MBQredo is creating a secure payment space for the telecom industry and has developed Qredocoin, a quantum resistant cryptocurrency based on smartphone utilization and hardware. Qredo is creating a multi-sided platform designed to link telecoms around the world. Join Brian Spector, CEO of Qredo, as he discusses Qredocoin and explains the need for architecture to enable cross-border and cross telecom payment flows analogous to the SS7 network that connects all telecoms to deliver SMS messages ar...
John Militello, Principal of Longblink
April 06, 2018 07:47 - 27 minutes - 63.1 MBLongblink is a strategy studio that can help businesses maximize innovation and productivity by encouraging purposeful pauses. In a tech-heavy world, a purposeful pause can provide just the perfect moment for a great idea to come to mind instead of being lost in the media storm of information that people face each day. Join John Militello, a principal and founder of Longblink, as he reminds us that each day is only 24 hours long and no matter how much work you try to accomplish in one day, ev...
Matthew Carano with Swarm City
April 06, 2018 07:44 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MBSwarm City provides the tools necessary for anyone to create decentralized marketplaces where users can find each other, communicate and exchange value safely. By avoiding third party trust administrators, Swarm City uses blockchain technology to lower administrative fees and build trust with every successful transaction. According to Matthew Carano, Swarm City provides a platform to facilitate the basic human need to collaborate and obtain the best possible outcomes. Blockchain technology el...
Michele Tivey, CEO and co-founder of FinTech Payments Corp.
April 06, 2018 07:44 - 27 minutes - 62.3 MBIn 2000, innovative payment processing systems were designed to facilitate open-ended subscriptions by allowing for recurring payments to ensure continuous goods or services. Since then, the industry has grown considerably with very little change. As a result, businesses are treated with a “one-size-fits-all” model that has lead to increased problems such as declined credit cards and declined transactions. FinTech provides payment consultation to identify strategies to upgrade payment process...
Mike Edelhart – Managing Partner At Social Starts – Vc Bringing A Data-Driven Approach To Investing In Startups
April 05, 2018 10:23 - 31 minutes - 24.1 MBSelf-described geek and tech revolution pioneer, Mike Edelhart, has enjoyed a rich career taking him from prestigious positions including Executive Editor of PC Magazine and later Executive President at Ziff. Edelhart is now at the helm with Founder and partner, Bill Lohse, as the Managing Partner of Social Starts, a largely successful venture capital company with a data-driven approach to moment-of-inception investing. Edelhart and Lohse knew this generation of tech was going to be bigger th...
Steve Hoffenberg – Director, Iot & Embedded Technology Vdc Research – Helping Tech Companies Make Effective Strategies Through Innovative Market Research
April 05, 2018 08:57 - 31 minutes - 23.6 MBVDC Research is an industry analyst and market research firm providing intelligence and strategy consulting services to tech companies including vendors, end users, and investors worldwide. With over 20 years in the arena, Director, Steve Hoffenberg has become an expert of Embedded Software and The Internet of Things. Hoffenberg explains that with IoT growing so quickly, hackers and other security breach efforts are going to bleed into embedded systems; specifically targeting those with poor...
Nathan Schulhof – Inventor of the MP3 Player and Author of Father of the Mp3 Player: Lessons in Business and Life
April 05, 2018 08:56 - 20 minutes - 46.4 MBIn 1994, Nathan Schulhof had the vision of giving people the ability to download music content to wireless devices by using their personal computers as the distribution centers. Just a few years later, he took that vision and helped turn it into a reality. Today, he is well-regarded as the inventor of the Mp3 player and is the author of Father of the Mp3 Player: Lessons in Business and Life. Currently, Schulhof works as an advisor to upcoming tech companies. He offers a wealth of advice for n...
Justin Croxton – Director of Sales – Geofencing is Taking Audience Targeting to the Next Level
April 05, 2018 08:16 - 28 minutes - 64.9 MBPropellant Media, a digital marketing and media solutions provider, is helping clients maximize lead potential with the newest wave of target marketing – geofencing technology. Geofencing technology, or location based advertising, allows users to pinpoint target audiences based on precise locations. Sounds invasive? Think again. Justin Croxton, Director of Sales at Propellant Media, explains why this is an acceptable and widely sought after marketing technique. Croxton shares how doctors, pol...
Rey Pasinli – Total-Apps – Custom-Tailored Technical Solutions for Budding Businesses
April 05, 2018 07:34 - 27 minutes - 62.5 MBMany people don’t understand all of the parts that need to come together in order to successfully launch and grow a business, and without the right type of help, business owners can lose time, money, and the energy required to ultimately see their company reach its full potential. This is where Total-Apps comes in, a service provider that takes an individualized approach to giving companies exactly what they need in terms of customer support and payment processing solutions. “There are a lot ...
Matt Oguz- Venture Science- Venture Investing in Cutting-Edge Technology and Blockchain-Based Companies
April 05, 2018 07:22 - 29 minutes - 21.4 MBAt Venture Science, we are more calculated than some of the other venture investors out there…We try to quantify all of the attributes of these companies and understand how all of them contribute to the potential risks and rewards we would see,” says Matt Oguz, who is a founding partner at the San Francisco-based venture capital firm, Venture Science. When looking to invest in a blockchain company, one of the first questions the team at Venture Science will ask is whether or not that compa...
Dr. Monika Weber – CEO of Fluid-Screen – Disrupting Traditional Petri Dish Methods for Bacterial Testing
April 04, 2018 07:24 - 23 minutes - 54.5 MBFluid-Screen is a powerful startup with a focus on benefiting the world by creating a product that produces faster, less costly and more accurate lab testing results in the palm of your hand. Dr. Monika Weber, CEO and founder of Fluid-Screen, recognized the fact that every year millions of people around the world are become sick or die from outbreaks caused from bacteria contamination found in water and food. Traditional methods for bacteria cultivation and testing takes day which can lead to...
Robin Farmanfarmaian- Author of The Patient as CEO- On the Future of Technology and the Patient Experience in Medicine
April 03, 2018 06:45 - 30 minutes - 22.8 MBShe’s an entrepreneur, an angel investor, the author of The Patient as CEO, and has held over 100 talks in over 12 countries: Robin Farmanfarmaian joins us to discuss the role of technology in medicine and the active role that patients must play in their health care in order to live better lives. Just as a CEO hires and directs a variety of experts in order to reach a certain goal, so too the patient must hire the members of their healthcare team and assume the responsibility of having their ...
Paul Paradis- Sezzle- Giving You the Power to Buy Now and Pay Later with No Interest and No Credit Check
April 03, 2018 06:43 - 27 minutes - 19.8 MBSezzle is a new digital payment platform that is giving consumers the purchasing power afforded by traditional credit cards but in an interest-free and credit check-free manner. To date, nothing like it has been released in the US, and it’s quickly gaining traction. Here’s how it works: once a user signs up and attaches their bank account to the Sezzle platform, they can go to any merchant that has an agreement with Sezzle and make purchases by using Sezzle as the payment method. Sezzle will ...
Peggy Daley- Berkeley Research Group- Keeping Companies Ahead of the Curve in Cyber Security
April 02, 2018 07:37 - 28 minutes - 21 MBIt’s one of the fastest growing consulting companies in existence today and continues to expand on a global scale. Particularly well-known for its work in the healthcare and construction realms, Berkeley Research Group has a multitude of other service lines.Peggy Daley is the managing director of Berkeley Research Group’s Global Investigations and Strategic Intelligence practice, which specializes in supporting companies with investigations and litigation. The department is comprised in part...
Andre Boysen – SecureKey – Simplifying and Securing Digital ID-Based Transactions
April 02, 2018 06:44 - 31 minutes - 72.4 MBOne of the main roadblocks when it comes to accessing new services online is digital ID verification; it’s risky, challenging and sometimes just impossible. SecureKey is on a mission to change this, and they’re going about it in a unique way. “Rather than trying to construct trust out of nothing…let’s build on the success of what consumers already understand and what’s already common business practice, but adapt it so it works better online…” says Andre Boysen, who is the CIO of SecureKey. Se...
Justin Fisher & Maxwell Sanchez- VeriBlock- Backing Your Transactions with the Full Power of Bitcoin
April 02, 2018 06:27 - 30 minutes - 70.7 MBWhat if blockchains could be secured and time-stamped to Bitcoin? And how could something like that be achieved in a way that maintains the decentralized, transparent and permissionless nature of blockchains themselves? These are a couple of the big questions that led Justin Fisher and Maxwell Sanchez to the creation of VeriBlock. “The VeriBlock blockchain is itself secured to Bitcoin and acts as an efficiency and aggregation layer that allows other blockchains to secure themselves to Bitcoi...
Brian Poppe – Mutual of Omaha – Bringing Smart Contracts and Real-Time Accounting into the Insurance Industry
April 02, 2018 06:22 - 33 minutes - 77 MBInsurance companies are notoriously slow at adopting new technology, which is why Mutual of Omaha stands out among them. An actuary by trade, Brian Poppe came across blockchain technology a few years ago and has since considered the ways in which it can revolutionize the insurance industry. Poppe is the Senior Vice President of Departing Well Solutions at Mutual of Omaha, and provides insight into some of the current problems in the industry and how blockchain technology can help. When an in...
Charles Green- RFi Group- Providing the Digital Banking Sector with the Data it Needs to Succeed
March 30, 2018 11:15 - 26 minutes - 20.1 MBSince 2015, RFi Group has been releasing biannual reports surveying 12,000 customers across 10 markets about their digital banking and digital payments behavior. RFi Group is now in 44 markets, holds regular media events, and talks to 500,000 customers and 100,000 corporates a year about their aptitude for digital banking and payments. Charles Green is the founder and CEO of RFi Group and shares his insight on the structure and developmental trends in the traditional banking system, discussi...
Ali Paterson & Amelie Arras- Fintech Finance- Reaching the Best and Brightest in the Fintech Space
March 29, 2018 12:56 - 26 minutes - 19.7 MBFintech Finance is a magazine and TV channel working with and providing information from some of the biggest names in the fintech space. Ali Paterson and Amelia Arras are members of the team at Fintech Finance who bring a wealth of knowledge to the discussion on a variety of topics, including the level of global awareness and acceptance of cryptocurrency, the limitations of cryptocurrency in the US, and what factors might lead to its widespread adoption. “To make it more mainstream, you need ...
Alanna Gombert- MetaX and Digital Asset Trade Association- On Transparency in Digital Advertising and the First Lobbying Organization for Blockchain Technology
March 29, 2018 12:48 - 24 minutes - 18.4 MBWith a background in the advertising world and the realization that fraud in the digital advertising space amounts to about nine billion dollars per year, Alanna Gombert decided to join Ken Brook, founder of MetaX, in his mission to clean out and make more transparent the digital advertising supply chain. MetaX has created an unprecedented level of transparency in the digital ad space by creating the first token-curated registry on Ethereum, and here’s how it works: there is a list of publish...
Kirk Phillips- A Translator Between the CPA, Financial and Cryptocurrency Worlds
March 29, 2018 12:35 - 29 minutes - 22.4 MBKirk Phillips’ professional experience is diverse: as a certified Bitcoin professional, a certified digital currency professional, CPA and author of The Ultimate Bitcoin Business Guide: For Entrepreneurs and Business Advisors, Phillips lends unique insight on a variety of topics, including his subscription-based virtual accounting and business firm that runs almost 100 percent off of cryptocurrency, the old CPA model and how it relates to and can be improved for modern practices in the crypto...
Caspar Thykier – Zappar – Democratizing the Augmented Reality Experience
March 29, 2018 12:22 - 34 minutes - 77.9 MBZappar is an augmented reality (AR) platform that’s been around for seven years- before the majority of people had even heard of augmented reality. AR platforms in general have since moved into the mass market and continue to gain users. ”One of the things that’s really important to us at Zappar is this notion of democratization; part of our whole mission was…to put the tools in the hands of as many people as possible, to really explore what AR is capable of,” says Caspar Thykier, co-founder ...
Alex Koles from Evolve Capital Partners, Young Cho & Gennadiy Gurevich from Alt Lending – Providing Companies with Unrivaled Connections and Information in the Fintech Space
March 29, 2018 12:16 - 35 minutes - 81.3 MBEvolve Capital Partners is a boutique investment bank that focuses on assisting institutional capital and entrepreneurial-backed companies in the financial technology space. Among other services, Evolve Capital Partners performs M&A transactions, private placements and capital raises for its clients. One of the most distinctive and beneficial aspects of Evolve Capital Partners is its location: situated in the middle of Midtown, New York, Evolve Capital Partners is able to offer its clients a...
Armin Ebrahimi – ShoCard – Inverting the Ownership of Identity for Fast and Secure Identity Verification
March 29, 2018 12:09 - 37 minutes - 85.5 MB“If you think about it…everybody else owns our identity and different data sets about us…from your employer…to your bank, to Facebook, to Google, to any service that you have a username and password for that stands as your identity…if any of the personal data that you have with them is breached, you don’t have any control over it because they become the gatekeepers of it. The idea with ShoCard is to invert that,” says Armin Ebrahimi. As it stands today, there are four ways to authenticate you...