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Carlos Salas, a cybersecurity expert, is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda YouTube Podcast Series.

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Carlos Salas is a software architect and AWS cloud specialist with more than 12 years of experience in fields such as Unix Administration, Software Development, Database Administration, Cloud Architecture, and Research and Development.

Carlos joined digital security and privacy solutions company NordLayer in 2021 and currently serves as an engineering manager there, supervising and coordinating the company’s efforts towards updating and deploying their privacy and security solutions. 

A Master’s Degree in Informatics by the University of Vilnius, Carlos Salas is always innovating and looking for better ways to grow both professionally and personally.

Carlos Salas Interview Questions

1. Career and Academic Background
2. About NordLayer
- Mission
- Objectives
- Context
- Achievements
3. Cyber Security And the Metaverse
4. Information Authenticity
5. Manipulation of Data
6. Confidentiality
7. How can we better protect people?
8. The cutting-edge technologies of Web3 are revolutionizing industries and parts of everyday life, which also means they bring with them novel security threats. This begs the question: With such nascent technology, what other kinds of emerging threats are out there? And how do we protect ourselves?
9. Cryptojacking and blockchain vulnerabilities
10. Phishing Threats - as companies rush to be the first product on the market, holes and vulnerabilities that weren’t expected can appear, and there is a higher chance of data compromises.
11. Education - Additionally, next-generation antivirus (NGAV) and endpoint protection solutions are a necessity - We need a combination of the human brain, instinct and AI machine learning to detect and flush out novel threats.
12. The “freedom” and end-user ownership that Web3 will offer consumers is the same freedom that cybercriminals will also be able to enjoy. We need to find a solution whereby the vision of an autonomous web for all can be experienced, without opening up a huge can of worms.

About NordLayer

Nord Security is one of the leaders in providing digital security and privacy solutions for individuals and businesses. They are a home for advanced security solutions that share the Nord brand and values. Today, their products are used by millions of customers worldwide and acknowledged by the most influential tech sites and IT security specialists. Since 2012, NordLayer have been creating and building award-winning solutions for millions of customers and partners around the world, including:

NordVPN - world’s most trusted online security solution, used by over 15 million of Internet users worldwide.
NordPass - a password manager that securely stores and helps users organize their passwords by keeping them in one convenient place.
NordLocker - a file encryption tool that secures sensitive files and folders with zero-knowledge AES-256 encryption.
NordLayer - network access security that scales with businesses.
NordWL - An infrastructure, know-how and tools for businesses who want to build their own VPN products.

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Carolina Conforti is the co-founder of The Art Talks brand, designed to highlight the wonderful enthusiasm and creativity around the art world. Carolina was born in Napoli, one of the most romantic cities of the Italian “Magna Graecia” heritage. Her childhood memories are embedded by the dazzling baroque explosive colors of the Mediterranean Sea, whilst her mind is filtered by the sleepy yet eruptive monumental cities of Paestum and Pompei. Her life was a roller coaster of wonderful Art wanderings in the most charming European cities, which fed her restless passion for Art whilst touching multiple Art facades.

Carolina Conforti Interview Questions

1. Background
2. From Christie’s to present: Carolina’s professional journey
3. Gradual evolution of art from traditional to modernisation and digitalisation of art
4. Creating a bridge between the repressions from personal life, and creating your own ventures now
5. What are your goals with Art Talks?
6. Digital tools are capable of ensuring a thriving art economy, but are not accessible to all the artists: The paradox?
7. Ingression of technology in art world: Bridging the communities through education
8. Dealing with the dynamics of art economy and educating the art community: democratising the creative and art economy with sustainability
9. Word of advice and good notes for the creator economy and art world

Carolina Conforti Biography

Carolina's first academic steps were taken throughout the breathtaking walls of the Louvres, where she fell in love with “Dessin Ancien”. Her Art career led her to the World’s most challenging auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s. Lately, she has been going through her own “Renaissance rebirth” fascinated by the more digital conversion Art is embracing. It is Carolina’s belief that in this surreal moment, what our culture and Arts are facing is best illustrated by Giuseppe Tomasi’s words in “Il Gattopardo”, “for things to remain the same, everything has to change”.

Through words, whispered in the sweetest way in one’s ear or howled to one’s heart, Carolina Conforti, a Zug based art historian, art critic, art collector and writer, has been pursuing her philanthropic meaning of Art.

About The Art Talks

Co-founded by Carolina Conforti in 2020, the “Art Talks” brand was designed to highlight the wonderful enthusiasm and creativity around the art world during these challenging past months. The goal is to pursue client engagement and the development of strategic partnerships through different initiatives like video-podcasts and a magazine.

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Christoph Zaknun is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at DAO Maker, a blockchain launchpad and a pioneer organized decentralized ecosystem that efficiently leverages human capital.

A Doctor in Medicine and holding a bachelor degree in Robotics, Cristoph Zaknun has had a diverse experience. Starting as an Assistant Neurological Head Trauma in Children in the Hospital of Austrian city Salzburg, he then moved to the Austrian Armed Forces as part of the AFRDU, Austrian Forces Disaster Relief Unit.

Cristoph entered the crypto and private business sphere in 2018, when he co-founded TGE Alpha Corp & DAO Maker. In 2019, he became CEO of DAO Maker. A position he still holds today.

As the Head of DAO Maker, he has been overseeing this blockchain launchpad project. DAO Maker is a growth technologies provider that creates SaaS solutions for nascent and growing crypto startups. Its flagship product is the DAO Pad, a multi-investment platform that allows DAO token holders to participate in early-stage token sales for stringently vetted upcoming projects.

Interview Questions

1. Academic Background
- As a Doctor
- In the army (Relief Unit)
- Moving to crypto and private business
2. About DAO Maker
- Crypto and blockchain based launchpad
- Decentralization
- Exchange
- NFTs
- DAO Token
3. What does decentralization mean in Venture Capital?
4. Future plans

About DAO Maker

DAO Maker is a growth technologies provider that creates SaaS solutions for nascent and growing crypto startups. Its flagship product is the DAO Pad, a multi-investment platform that allows DAO token holders to participate in early-stage token sales for stringently vetted upcoming projects.

Some of the most prominent projects launched via DAO Maker include My Neighbor Alice (ALICE), Orion Protocol (ORN), Seascape Network (CWS) and Infinity Pad (IPAD). A full list of projects and their performance is listed on the DAO Maker website.
Besides its popular DAO Pad product, DAO Maker also provides a range of additional services to nascent blockchain-based projects. These include incubation services, operations and advisory services, and another of its flagship products — social mining. Projects can use social mining to reward value-adding community members with their native token — helping to raise awareness, incentivize participation, increase liquidity and grow the number of holders.

The platform is powered by its native utility token, known as DAO. The token is used to participate in token sales on the DAO Pad platform, and can also be staked to earn a yield via one of DAO Maker’s vaults. The token will also be used for community governance in the near future.

DAO Maker is the brainchild of co-founders Christoph Zaknun, the platform's CEO and an early mover in the initial coin offering (ICO) space, and Giorgio Marciano (CTO), a heavily experienced entrepreneur and IT engineer with over 13 years of experience in software development. The two co-founders are joined by other C-level staff, notably including Hassan Sheikh (CMO), a former lecturer in Mathematics and experienced business strategist.

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Andrea Bonaceto is an artist and investor, focused who is well-known for creating colorful portraits of well-known people. Fellow at the Royal Society of Art in the UK of @thersaorg Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) @niftygateway, @asyncart

Andrea has been involved in NFTs through Eterna Capital, an investment management firm focused on blockchain technology. He launched Eterna Capital with 3 ex-BlackRock employees in 2018. Eterna Capital has established itself as a leading firm with a successful track record and institutional grade solutions.

Recently, he launched an exhibition on London’s major commercial street Oxford Street called “ab infinite”. The Italian contemporary artist and blockchain pioneer took over Flannels’ flagship store from 16th May with a new interactive installation of his work titled AB Infinite 1. The artwork represents an interactive snapshot of Andrea Bonaceto’s life in the eternal cycle that goes “ab infinite” (Latin for “from infinity”) to the origin, symbolised by the number “1”.

Andrea has launched a number of successful exhibitions combining technology, robotics and digital tools. For example, he launched a collaboration with Sophia the Robot in 2021. As with most of Bonaceto's work, Sophia's art is a self-portrait that combines the former's art history and previous works as well as the robot's own physical paintings and drawings on multiple surfaces that have been processed by its creator David Hanson.
Hanson, who works at Hanson Robotics based in Hong Kong, described the work as "iterative loops of evolution."

Andrea Bonaceto Interview focus:

1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
2. How do you manage the differences between your work as an investor and the work as an artist?
3. How do you see your evolution as an artist?
4. How do you see the evolution of NFTs as someone that has been involved in blockchain and tech?
5. How do you see your work as an artist in NFTs?
6. How do you see the piece of art from the perspective of IP, ownership, NFT and technology wallet ownership?
7. The ways to keep a NFT digital art piece? The technology, the wallets?
8. How do you see human creativity and the robot - android collaborations?
9. As we get into AI and singularity how do you see the collaboration between artists and machines - robots?
10. How do you see the NFTs market and its impact in the art world?

About AB Infinite 1 Exhibition

As an interactive digital installation AB Infinite 1 invites members of the public to become artists themselves, encouraging viewers to alter the digital artwork through a specially designed AI (Artificial Intelligence) mechanism. Andrea’s purpose-built AI collects viewer interactions online through social media channels and turns these reactions or suggestions into visual responses which then appear as part of AB Infinite 1. This represents a new user-friendly form of AI, which does not require the user to be a software specialist or coder in order to manipulate it. Those viewing the installation on Oxford Street will be able to watch as AB Infinite 1 morphs in appearance as people interact with the piece on social media.

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Mr. Pradeep Multani is the president of the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, India. Mr Multani oversees the decision-making process of this National Apex Chamber working at the grass-root level and with strong national and international linkages. The Chamber acts as a catalyst in the promotion of industry, trade and entrepreneurship. PHD Chamber, through its research-based policy advocacy role, positively impacts the economic growth and development of the nation. PHD Chamber is more than an organisation of the business community, as it lives by the chosen motto In Communities Life & Part of It and contributes significantly to socio-economic development and capacity building in several fields.

Interview Questions

1. An introduction from you.
You have been involved in the world of yoga and Natural medicine for the last 40 years. Can you let us know more about it?
And can you tell us more about Ayurveda?
2. You are currently serving as the Secretary General of the apex pan India MSME centric PHD representing 130,000 direct and indirect business entities. Can you tell us about the organization and efforts?
3. Can you tell us more about ongoing projects from the chamber to support businesses and provide policy advocacy, policy intervention, capacity building initiatives and socio economic development?
4. The PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry was established in 1905. Since then India has been established as one of the leading business and economic nations. How do you see the history of the organization?
5. With 42 million SMEs that represent around 45% of India workforce and exports. Can you tell us your efforts in this area?
6. With 150,000 companies as its members base, PHD Chamber is a major organization focused on the development of small and medium businesses. What are your goals and how do you see the present and future of SMEs as the most important sector of our society?
7. The PHD Chamber has been authorized by the Government of India to issue Certificate of Origin (Non-Preferential) to Indian exporters. Can you tell us about this?
8. With Covid-19 there is an opportunity to redesign SMEs with digital transformation technologies and social impact. Can you tell us about doing business and commerce in India and how your organization can help?
9. What are your final words and visions for the present and future of India?

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Sameep Singhania, Co-Founder of QuickSwap, is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda YouTube Podcast Series. Powered by citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil and hosted today by Hilton Supra.

Sameep Singhania, QuickSwap’s co-founder, has been a professional programmer for the past six years and has used his programming knowledge to become a software developer and consultant. Due to his extensive experience in blockchain, Singhania has been involved in different contracts, such as being the lead developer at ParaSwap, the blockchain developer at Bonded Finance and the blockchain consultant at YourVC.Club. For the software engineer, blockchain is his life, and because of his resilience, QuickSwap has become the biggest decentralized exchange on Polygon, seeing that it has reached a $1 billion valuation.

Sameep Singhania Interview Questions

1. Career and Academic Background
2. Entering the blockchain space
3. The state of blockchain today
4. How the blockchain works
5. Founding Quickswap
6. How Quickswap plans / support businesses from a decentralized perspective
7. Decentralization in business
8. Hack on GoDaddy

Sameep Singhania Biography

Sameep Singhania has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and has been a professional programmer for the past 6 years. He would characterize himself as a Software Developer, Blockchain Engineer and consultant who loves to work on exciting new projects and to meet new people from different cultures and backgrounds.

Sameep is a blockchain enthusiast who helps teams adapt their use cases to blockchain technology. Recently Sameep has been focusing his energy more towards Blockchain Technology (BC) to devise strategies for business clients to adopt Blockchain technology to solve transparency and trust issues.

Sameep co-founded QuickSwap, which has become the biggest decentralized exchange on Polygon, seeing that it has reached a $1 billion valuation.

One of his main goals is to bring diversity in technology and promote widespread adoption of Blockchain Technology. He is a co-Founder of Blockchain Development company and an active keynote speaker at University of Malaya, University of Kuala Lumpur, Institutions like IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, and other MBA institutes.

About Quickswap

QuickSwap (QUICK) is an Ethereum token that powers QuickSwap, a decentralized exchange that runs on the Polygon Network in order to provide faster and cheaper transactions on Ethereum. QUICK can be used to create and vote on proposals governing QuickSwap and can be staked to earn a portion of trading fees.

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Lars Rottweiler is an expert in banking and financial services transformations and understands how to improve operations and leverage modern technology. He has over 25 years of banking and consulting experience and is a distinguished speaker and influencer in digital banking.

Along with Vladimir Lounegov, Lars founded Mbanq in 2017. Mbanq is a FinTech company which sets up and operates banks for clients using its digital banking platform on a Software as a Service (SaaS) basis. Its proprietary technology provides an advanced, modular, end-to-end banking platform with everything required to instantly launch financial services for any use case.

Before founding Mbanq, Lars was Managing Director at Deutsche Bank and headed senior executive roles for PwC, Accenture and Infosys. His extensive banking industry knowledge is built on top-level engagements across the world.

Despite his role as CTO of Mbanq, Lars has also featured in events as a speaker and as a lecturer.

Lars Rottweiler Interview Questions

1. Academic and Professional Background
2. Digitization in today’s finance industry
3. Working for multinationals to starting a fintech
4. What prompted the establishment of Mbanq?
5. Underlying technologies and Mbanq use cases
6. How is Mbanq (or BaaS) changing the current systems?
7. How does Mbanq solve the conventional challenges of banking, especially overseas transfers?
8. Creating parallel financing solutions still pose a paradox (less than 10% of wallets hold more than 90% of the crypto. This is more centralised than the conventional system). How does Mbanq help solving this paradox?
9. Cloud computing as a service by Mbanq
10. Bringing up of labs for fintech education

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Today's guest of Dinis Guarda YouTube Podcast Series is Sundeep Reddy Mallu, the head of analytics and hiring at Gramener, which solves business problems for its clients by identifying data insights and presenting them as data stories.

Mallu advises executives at leading enterprises and NGOs on data science, helping organizations transform by building teams and adopting a culture of data.

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Sundeep Mallu Biography

Mallu’s journey started in 2003 selling seeds at farmers' meets. A stellar journey which has brought him to now delivering business value to Fortune 100 clients globally via custom Data Science solutions.

In his current role as SVP Analytics, Sundeep Mallu advises executives on 1) aligning their data science strategy with business vision, 2) building teams to apply advanced analytics and data visualization, and 3) helping businesses adopt a data-driven culture.

Likewise, as a TA head, he owns the hunt for great team players, across industries and school campuses, and attracts them to join Gramener.

Sundeep Mallu has a diverse experience in client handling and working in multi-cultural teams across North America, Europe, Singapore and India. As an international speaker, he’s taken the stage at leading events conducted by organizations such as TEDx, O’Reilly Strata; and has conducted 100+ hours of corporate training and do guest lectures at B Schools.

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In the latest episode of Finding Your Atom podcast, Valentina Castellani creates a gripping narrative out of her experiences for co-hosts Amrita Sen and Dinis Guarda to throw light on the essence of a crafting process while realising life’s goals. 

“Finding Your Atom” is the new podcast series by Amrita Sen, artist, designer, and producer, and Dinis Guarda, author, and founder of citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil.

Amrita Sen and Dinis Guarda come together again, after the success of their previous podcast series “Music For” with another concept of recognising unique identifiers, and motivating the audiences with an increased mindfulness and self-awareness. The podcast is available on Dinis Guarda YouTube channel, and major podcast directories.

The presenters of the podcast are adept with the knowledge of meditation fundamentals, and consequently emphasise on negating the cacophony of the thoughts in our lives, focussing our energies on the relevant one. Thus, “Finding Your Atom” could be a unique opportunity to glue yourself with your own personality.

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Valentina Castellani Biography

Valentina Castellani is an Award Winning Film Producer, President and Chairman of Quinn Studios Entertainment, which continues the Legacy of Academy Award Winning Actor Anthony Quinn, in the fields of art and entertainment.

Valentina Castellani produced many Academy Awards candidate films, Internationally recognized and distributed.

About Amrita Sen

Originally from India, Amrita Sen is a US-based designer, singer, producer and business woman of Indian-themed products and entertainment for global markets. Amrita Sen combines the creation of original artistic content with extensive business experience to commercialize unique products at retail and on-the-air.

Among her many achievements, Amrita performed at the 2009’s Academy Awards with music legend AR Rahman, singing Jai Ho from the Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. As an entrepreneur, Amrita creates original Indian-themed art on successful lines of fashion and home products and distributes it through her own personal brand, Amrita Sen Designs.

About Dinis Guarda

Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies.

Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, fashionabc.org and tradersdna.com. Dinis is also the co-founder of techabc and citiesabc, a digital transformation platform to empower, guide and index cities through 4IR based technologies like blockchain, AI, IoT, etc.

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Professor Lisa Short is recognised as one of the top thought leaders and influencers in the world to follow for her work in digital tech, blockchain, crypto assets and EdTech. Lisa is a preeminent innovator, systemic change digital technology analyst, strategist & design ecosystem thinker with vast international experience founding & managing multiple companies and significant cutting-edge digital technology, value chain improvement projects, across different industry segments, and global markets including UK, APAC, Africa, Singapore, Europe & UAE.

Interview Questions

1. Prof Short’s Background
2. Bridging academics with business and technology
3. Implementing the basics to practice (bridging principles to business): real-time cases
4. Case study of work done in Africa
5. Examples of work with United Nations
6. About discrimination with women at work
7. About EdTech

Lisa Short Biography

As Founder of Areté Business Performance, Mind Shifting, Hephaestus Collective Limited, P&L Digital Edge Ltd & Africa Agri Tech Ltd, and inventor of several Patents, Professor Lisa Short is at the driving force of digital technology enabled by resilient, cyber healthy businesses & people, fuelled by inclusion & education, and driven by impact commercially, and for a better place to live and work.

Authoring multiple papers, articles & reports, her current work includes co-authoring books on blockchain enabled ecosystems for higher and continuing education, and on blockchain, data, AI, IoT, privacy and cyber health for business. Appointed to the Global Foundation for Cyber Studies & Research as an expert Senior Policy Analyst, Lisa leads and is Group Chair of the Special Interest Group, CySME that focuses on cyber public health and research to support SME's and start-ups. Professor Short holds multiple Board Roles for EWOR, UK Cyber Security Association and International Cyber Security Expo.

A motivational and influential international leader Professor Short is regularly invited to analyse and resolve through digital technology some of the most pressing complex and difficult socio-economic problems.

Professor Short has delivered and worked with the United Nations; the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates; the Kairos Society EU, International Network of Appropriate Technology, UN Women; the International Immersive Learning Networks; The 36 Group; The UK Cyber Security Council Formation Project, and AAPG’s for Blockchain and AI in London.

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