Blockchain Pro Podcast

Leah is co-founder and Chief Impact Officer for intimate.io, a cryptocurrency bringing safety and security to the Adult Industry. With over a decade's experience spearheading the business development and growth strategies for a range of emerging tech startups, she devoted a large part of her MBA to the topic of social entrepreneurship. Leah is an official member of Women of Sex Tech; has been featured on Women@Forbes; and has consulted to the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) on SDG 5.

Connect with Leah

Twitter: https://twitter.com/leah_cb

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahcallonbutler/

Connect with Adriana

Twitter: https://twitter.com/abelotti

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianabelotti

With 15 years experience in engineering and software development, James has worked in a variety of domains from industrial/home automation, to local tech companies and startups.

The last 7 years have covered development, product management, and tech advisor roles, both locally and abroad.

As organiser of the OzBerry IoT MeetUp and smart-contract developer/auditor, James is exploring applications using IoT and Blockchain technologies that can positively impact society.

Currently working with the Goera team (from AgriDigital) on their asset tracking platform, whilst still facilitating and running Ethereum education initiatives. Recently started auditing a smart-contract library.

Get in touch with James

Twitter https://twitter.com/james_zaki

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameszaki/

Get in touch with Adriana

Twitter https://twitter.com/abelotti

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianabelotti/

In this episode, Adriana and Lucas talk about developing applications for the early days of the web, bitcoin, coloured coins and ethereum. The importance of being part of the community and giving back. Getting paid in crypto and much more.

Connect with Lucas

Twitter - https://twitter.com/bitcoinbrisbane

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucascullen/

Connect with Adriana

Twitter - https://twitter.com/abelotti

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianabelotti/

In this episode, we'll get know Nick Addison, who over the past few years has been pretty active in the Sydney Blockchain community. Adriana and Nick talk about ethereum development, blockchain technology progress, and tools of the trade, as well as the career paths for computer science graduates and how to become a blockchain expert.

TLDR; It takes effort, but it's most definitely doable.

Nick's Bio:

Nick Addison is a Developer at ConsenSys where he designs and builds Ethereum based solutions. Nick's IT career has seen him work in logistics, payments, banking, funds management and agriculture.

Get in touch with Nick:

Twitter https://twitter.com/naddison

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-addison

Get in touch with Adriana

Twitter https://twitter.com/abelotti

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianabelotti/

Website: https://blockchainpropodcast.com

Topics discussed: bitcoin, blockchain, ethereum, trading, software engineering, computer science, ethereum developer tools, docker, remix, security tokens, Ethereum 2.0, Sigma Prime, genAlpha, teaching kids, hackathon, bitfwd, community.

In this conversation, Samuel and Adriana chat about how inspiring having access to technology at an early age can be, rebuilding the internet and the pitfalls of centralised systems, being a CTO in an incubator and solving 'first principles' problems, cypherpunks and bitcoin, the technologies that will most impact the future, using electricity to secure value and, finally, what needs to happen next in order to take this 'internet upgrade' to the next level. Plus, great advice for those trying to figure out what to do with their life, or looking to change their course.

Sam's Bio:

Samuel Brooks is Chief Technology Officer at Block8, Australia's leading DLT venture studio.

He is an expert in connecting next-gen technology with current-gen business problems, specialising in the development of blockchain economies and distributed ledger systems. Sam's experience spans financial services, energy and utilities as an engineer, analyst and project manager, and has been actively working with blockchains since 2015.

Sam is also an active member of the Australian Computer Society Blockchain Technical Committee and the Standards Australia Working Group for Smart Contracts (IT-041).

Sam holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from UNSW, and sometimes posts on his blog at samuelbrooks.io.

Connect with Sam

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_samuelgbrooks

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelgbrooks/

Connect with Adriana

Twitter: https://twitter.com/abelotti

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianabelotti/

Pip Ryan Intro

Dr. Philippa Ryan, a.k.a. Pip Ryan or Dr Pip, is a barrister and senior lecturer at the UTS Faculty of Law, on 31st of October 2018, the day that marked the 10th anniversary of the publishing of Bitcoin whitepaper, we had a quick chat about her career and how interesting it is to live during this time and being part of creating a new financial world. Her passion about education, law and blockchain is almost palpable through her words. Listen up :)

Links mentioned:

A New Classification for Barners v Addy - Dr Philippa Ryan

http://bit.ly/bppep11-1

Smart Contracts Open Source Model DNA - Scott Farrel and Clare Warren

http://bit.ly/bppep11-2

Smart Contract Relations in e-Commerce: Legal Implications of Exchanges Conducted on the Blockchain - Dr Philippa Ryan

http://bit.ly/bppep11-3

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

http://bit.ly/bppep11-4

Pip's Bio

At UTS Law, Pip coordinates and teaches Disruptive Technologies and the Law and a capstone subject that explores the ethical and policy considerations that guide the law's interaction with technology. Pip's PhD explored the liability of third parties for fraud and breach of trust.

Pip is currently researching the regulation and status of smart contracts and trust protocols enabled by blockchain technology.

Pip co-wrote a book released in September 2018, titled "Blockchain: Transforming Your Business and Our World".

Pip's memberships include:

- the Standards Australia Technical Committee IT-041(Blockchain)

- the Industry advisory board of the Australian Digital Commerce Association (ADCA)

- the Blockchain Technical Committee of the Australian Computer Society; and

- Women in Payments

Pip is an independent external member of the board of Lander and Rogers and she has a regular spot on ABC Radio with James Valentine where they chew the legal technology fat and contemplate the future of humanity.

Contact Pip

LinkedIn

Twitter

Contact Adriana

LinkedIn

Twitter

Laura Degiovanni is very much the typical Italian, warm, friendly and loud. She speaks with her hands and her heart, and her energy flows into the conversation. We caught up at the end of July at the Imperial College in London, as she was preparing to host her first Trustless Ecosystems meetup. This is why we had to wrap up quickly, making this one short and sweet. We talked about how to create trust with "trustlessness". Nonetheless, we discussed the 5-keywords of blockchain, how to measure someone's "love" for what they do, trusting before knowing and building before raising.

Laura's bio:

Laura Degiovanni is a serial entrepreneur building innovative business models from scratch and developing multi-channel businesses on EMEA markets. Laura experienced work from different perspectives: employer, senior manager in a multinational group, and consultant. Her experience led her to identify the need for a scalable solution to efficiently integrate outsourced, on-demand resources with internal workforce of organisations, whilst satisfying the growing demand for flexibility of the business world and the work style of the new generations looking for meaningful work and independence.

Founder of TiiQu, a platform that uses blockchain technology to create an immutable digital "passport" as verified proof of an individual's professional trustworthiness. This passport tracks identity, qualifications, certifications, memberships, previous work experience, performance metrics and education.

Contact Laura

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ldegiovanni/

Twitter https://twitter.com/degiolaura

Contact Adriana

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianabelotti/

Twitter - https://www.linkedin.com/in/abelotti/

Topics discussed: building community, the 5 keywords of blockchain, how to measure someone's love for their work, trust without knowing, building before raising.

Derek has found great success in providing energy deals to businesses, whilst offsetting electricity carbon emissions. Taking this offer to the general public with The Zero Carbon Project is a natural development. Personally, what I like about this project is the "right now" approach using carbon credits to offset emissions. It's a great way to reduce the impact of dirty energy, whilst the world move to greener sources, which will take a couple of decades, if not more, to fully happen.

**Disclosure** I didn't not get paid to interview, Derek. I fully support his project for the benefits it can bring on mitigating the environmental impact of electricity production and trading, as well as the ability to offer better deals for consumers.

Contact Derek

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/derek-myers-579379/

Website https://www.zerocarbonproject.com

Contact Adriana

Twitter @abelotti

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianabelotti

Website http://www.adrianabelotti.com/

Derek's bio:

Derek Myers started his career with Macquarie Bank where he was involved in designing derivative products; and trading options and futures in bonds, bullion and the energy markets. After completing his MBA, he joined Accenture as a Strategy Consultant in financial services and energy markets.

In 1999 Derek established iVentures Capital to take advantage of software technology and innovation opportunities in the energy markets.

Derek raised funds to establish PowerEx an online power exchange for energy suppliers, generators and suppliers which he sold to Amsterdam Power Exchange to facilitate their entry into the UK energy markets.

Derek acquired Beond in 2003 and has since worked on developing its services, servicing its clients and building its team. He is the Chairman of West London Sustainability and Climate Change Commission.

Kate has plenty of experience with financial markets and hedge funds. She and I caught up in St. Petersburb on the day Russia kicked Spain out of the World Cup on a thrilling penalty shoot out. We discussed financial markets and how anyone can transfer their skills to work in crypto.

Contact Adriana

Twitter @abelotti

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianabelotti

Website http://www.adrianabelotti.com/

Kate's bio:

Kate has close to 20 years of diverse business experience with leading financial institutions in the USA, Russia, UK, EU and HK. She is Business Development Partner with background in Investment Management, Investor Relations, Finance and Lifestyle.

She is co-founder of the Blockchain Development Technology Group (Russia), a member of The Financial Markets Association ACI Russia and a member of IDACB ICO Advisory Board. She also is a co-founder of Wine Alchemy, a venture uniting wine industry with entertainment, travels and consumer goods.

She has successfully established a global network and long-term relationships with institutional investors, hedge funds, private equity funds.

Through her career in finance, Kate held several executive positions, including Director of International Sales and Trading at MDM Bank and Senior VP Equity Sales at Glitnir Securities, was an International Equity Sales at AGCO and, earlier buy-side analyst at Rudman Capital.

Prior to her career in finance, Kate was a part of Deloitte practice in New York and managed Data Analysis department for fast-growing US telecom company TelX. In 2009, she founded a NY-based advisory boutique firm Galatea Capital Advisors LLC focusing on cross-border transactions.

Kate holds MBA in Finance and Operations, from University of Rochester (USA) and MS and BS in Applied Mathematics from Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia).

Episode 7 features Paul Puey, CEO of Edge.app (formerly Airbitz) and overall cool guy.

Paul and I caught up at Consensus, earlier this year. We tried to find a quiet corner for our chat, but that was next to impossible! We chatted about the start of his career and a software engineer and how he had to make a very difficult decision to improve his health. Our chat covers how his career, what are his plans for Edge, some hiring tips and much more.

Enjoy!

Contact Paul

Twitter @paullinator

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulpuey/

Download Edge Wallet https://edge.app/

Contact Adriana

Twitter @abelotti

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianabelotti/

Website http://www.adrianabelotti.com/