In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with JP Vergne, Associate Professor at University College London, School of Management. JP Vergne examines the evolution of capitalist societies since the early 17th century. In particular, he explores how socially contested organizations affect the renewal of industries at the vanguard of the economy. His award-winning research on piracy, on the global arms industry around 9/11, and on the rise of blockchain-powered organizations has been published in leading academic journals as well as in two books.

In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with Michael Zargham, founder and CEO of BlockScience. Dr. Zargham holds a Ph.D. in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied optimization and control of decentralized networks. His earliest work on peer-to-peer effects in business decision making was developing algorithms to reverse engineer the word of mouth effect in enterprise software licensing decisions in 2005. In the intervening years, Dr. Zargham has designed data driven decision systems and built a data science team for a Media Technology firm, worked on the mathematical specifications of blockchain enabled software systems with a focus on observability and controllability of the information state of the networks.

In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with Shermin Voshmgir, author of Token Economy and founder of Token Kitchen and BlockchainHub Berlin. She was the director and co-founder of the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics, a curator of TheDAO (Decentralized Investment Fund), and advisor to Jolocom, Wunder, and the Estonian E-residency program. She studied Information Systems Management at the Vienna University of Economics and film-making in Madrid. She works at the intersection of technology, art & social science.

In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with Jason Potts, distinguished Professor of Economics at the College of Business and Law at RMIT University. His work focuses on evolutionary economics, complex systems theory, innovation economics and institutional economics. His current research is on economics of blockchain and the digital economy, and on automated decision making. He is currently the Co-Director of the Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT University.

In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner, founder and head of the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center (FSBC) at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. From 2018 to 2021, he was ranked as one of the “top 30” economists by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and belonged to the “Top 40 under 40” ranking by the German business magazine Capital. Since 2017, he has been a member of the FinTech Council of the Federal Ministry of Finance in Germany. The expertise of Prof. Sandner includes blockchain technology in general, crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, the digital programmable Euro, tokenization of assets and rights and digital identity.

In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with Dr. Balázs Bodó, Associate Professor, and socio-legal researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. He has been a Fellow and Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society and a Fulbright Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. In 2013 he moved to Amsterdam as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. In 2018 he received an €1.5M ERC Starting Grant to study the legal, and political implications of blockchain based technologies, and started the Blockchain & Society Policy Research Lab. He has been invited by the European Commission to serve as an expert for various blockchain related projects.

Hosted by Ray Dogum, Podcast Chair, IEEE Healthcare: Blockchain and AI Virtual Series, this episode kicks off a special podcast series covering blockchain and AI in the healthcare industry. In this episode Ray chats with John Greaves, a globally recognized leader in technology who has pioneered development in distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and blockchain. John shares about the importance of standards for the evolving blockchain and AI space, as it relates to healthcare.