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Latest Episodes

Ep. 158 – Deep Dive on Plastic Bank’s Blockchain
April 25, 2021

Shaun Frankson is the CTO and co-founder of the Plastic Bank. In this podcast we discuss Plastic Bank’s model and perform a deep dive on Plastic Bank’s blockchain and token platform. This is a great example of how blockchain can be used for social good...

Ep. 157 – SLAFKA – Safeguarding Nuclear Material with Blockchain
April 18, 2021

Cindy Vestergaard is the Stimson Centre Director, Nuclear Safeguards Program & Director, Blockchain in Practice program. In this podcast we discuss the interesting work she does in safeguarding nuclear material with blockchain technology. -  

Ep. 156 – Rebalance Earth – Blockchain & Climate Change
April 11, 2021

Walid Al Saqqaf, Founder of Insureblocks and CEO & Co-Founder of Rebalance Earth joins us in this podcast to discuss the role blockchain has in fighting climate change but also the impact it can have in regenerating biodiversity.

Ep. 155 – Digital Euro – Insights from ABI
April 04, 2021

Silvia Attanasio, is the Head of Innovation at ABI (Italian Banking Association). Previously to that role she worked for 17 years at ABI Labs, the centre of research and innovation at ABI. Previously Silvia introduced us to Spunta,

Ep. 154 – Trust your supplier by ChainYard
March 28, 2021

Gary Storr, General Manager of Trust Your Supplier by ChainYard, explained to us some of the challenges that the supplier information management industry is facing with disparate sources of information and the role blockchain can help to mitigate them....

Ep. 153 – RiskStream Collaborative’s Canopy 3.0 launch – a multi-ledger approach
March 21, 2021

Christopher McDaniel is the President at the Institutes’ RiskStream Collaborative. In this podcast he announces the launch of Canopy 3.0 their latest version of their insurance blockchain platform. This new platform, built on Kaleido, supports Corda,

Ep. 152 – Blockchain insurance innovation – insights from Tata Consultancy Services
March 14, 2021

Pratap Tambe is the Head of BFSI Blockchain Consulting, UKI and Europe at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). He has has 25 years of experience has been working in commercial insurance since 2011 and in blockchain with insurance since August 2015.

Ep. 151 – How to Design your own Token System
March 07, 2021

Shermin Voshmgir is the author of the book Token Economy, the founder of Token Kitchen and BlockchainHub Berlin. In the past she was the director of the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics which she also co-foun...

Ep. 150 – Bringing innovation into the Polish Financial Sector with the Blockchain Sandbox
February 28, 2021

Blockchain Sandbox is Poland's first business and technology platform designed to accelerate the development of innovative blockchain solutions within an isolated system that simulates real world production environment.

Ep. 149 – Innovation and blockchain in the insurance industry – insights from MSG
February 21, 2021

Bernhard Lang, Member of the Board at MSG System, joins us to discuss innovation and blockchain in the insurance industry. In this podcast we discuss the importance for the insurance industry to remain relevant in an ever changing market.