Bio:

Jordan O'Connor is an engineer by trade and a self-taught digital marketer. He is founder of Closet Tools, a Poshmark automation tool. He builds intuitive and performant products, provides SEO services and courses, and shares his ideas and thoughts through his blog and Twitter to help & inspire others on their digital entrepreneurship journey.

Find Jordan:

• Website: https://jdnoc.com/

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/jdnoc

Relevant links:

Website: https://mahmoudrasmi.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Decafquest

For more info: [email protected]

Bio:

Hassan Osman is a creator on the side. His full-time job is as a Senior Vice President at NWN Carousel (views are his own) where he leads the organization’s Professional Services team.

He also writes short books for busy managers.

He is the author of several Amazon Bestsellers, including “Influencing Virtual Teams,” “Don’t Reply All,” and most recently, “ChatGPT for Nonfiction Authors.”

Hassan also hosts the “Writer on the Side” podcast (www.writerontheside.com) which helps other full-time employees write and publish their nonfiction books.

Find Hassan:

• Website: https://www.writerontheside.com/

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuthorOnTheSide

• Projects: www.creatorontheside.com

Relevant links:

Website: https://mahmoudrasmi.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Decafquest

For more info: [email protected]

Bio:

Joy Batra is founder of Quartz Consulting, a freelance consulting firm that has advised start-ups, venture capital firms, and Fortune 500 companies. She previously worked at Goldman Sachs, Gunderson Dettmer, JioSaavn, briefly as a Bollywood actress (long story), and most recently as Head of Legal at Syndicate Protocol. Joy has lived or worked in India, Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand, the UAE, and the UK. She currently splits her time between NYC and Boston. Joy holds a JD/MBA from Harvard University.

Links:

Website: https://joybatra.com/

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joybatra

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoyBatra

Instagram: https://instagram.com/joybatra

The Freelance Mindset: https://a.co/d/ev6xTs7

Relevant links:

Website: https://mahmoudrasmi.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Decafquest

For more info: [email protected]

The Marketplace Discussions podcast is an attempt to bridge the gap between disciplines.

Bio: Utkarsh Amitabh is the chief executive officer of Network Capital and the chief marketing officer of http://5ire.org, a blockchain unicorn valued at $1.5 billion. http://5ire.org acquired a stake in his company Network Capital (http://networkcapital.tv), one of the world's largest mentorship platforms that empowers 1.6 million school students and 150,000-plus young professionals to build meaningful careers. Educated at Oxford and INSEAD, Utkarsh worked at Microsoft for seven years across the US, Europe, and India, leading business development for big bet projects. He writes for Harvard Business Review and World Economic Forum.

Links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/utkarsh_amitabh

Network capital: https://www.networkcapital.tv/

The Seductive Illusion of Hard Work: https://a.co/d/0iEAP2O

Passion Economy and the Side-Hustle Revolution: https://a.co/d/6cfoIGz

Relevant links:

Website: https://decafquest.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Decafquest

For more info: [email protected]

This event is part of the Marketplace Discussions series in an attempt to bridge the gap between disciplines.

Summary: Are NFTs dead? In this marketplace discussion, Pete Noble will discuss the hype that surrounded the NFT market. He will be exploring whether or not they will have any relevance, and will cover some potential use cases NFTs might still have. He will also be addressing questions and criticisms surrounding NFTs. 

Bio: Peter spent two decades as an executive in the Software industry, selling and building high-performance sales organizations.  In 2016, he left conventional employment and has since served as a consultant.  Having learned about Bitcoin in 2015, Peter grew increasingly curious about crypto and has developed a high-conviction view of our future - filled with potential for new, creative applications of technology for everyone.  He lives in the US Pacific Northwest, is married with 3 girls, and is devoted to habits of personal growth.

Links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/petewnoble

Relevant links:

Website: https://decafquest.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Decafquest

For more info: [email protected]

​This event is part of the Marketplace Discussions series in an attempt to bridge the gap between disciplines.

​Summary: In this marketplace discussion, Colin Gorrie will introduce you to a few of his favourite dead languages, explain how we know anything about languages spoken before the days of the tape recorder, and offer some advice for anyone crazy enough to want to learn one.

​Bio: Colin Gorrie received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Arizona in 2014. Since the pandemic started, he has been teaching courses online on a mission to bring linguistics out of the ivory tower.

Links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/colingorrie

Relevant links:

Website: https://decafquest.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Decafquest

For more info: [email protected]

​This event is part of the Marketplace Discussions series in an attempt to bridge the gap between disciplines.

​Summary: In this marketplace discussion, the main discussion will center around innovation in consumer goods: where all those new products in your supermarket and drugstore come from. How big corporations try to figure out what you'll be willing to buy, and usually fail to get it right. What sustainability & impact investing actually means, and how simple it is to do well if you understand how it should work (which isn't how it currently works).

​Bio: Costas is co-Founder of the global creative innovation agency Happen Group, which created over $5Bn incremental revenue for its clients. Sold to Accenture in 2019, after which Costas considered living under a bridge but instead dabbled with VC. He now writes books about the ugly reality of innovation and doing business in consumer goods. In the past 25 years, he has led innovation projects across cultures and categories on all continents (including the Antarctic), for over 100 major consumer goods companies. Before starting Happen, Costas worked as a product designer and engineering manager.

Links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/grumpyinnovator

Relevant links:

Website: https://decafquest.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Decafquest

For more info: [email protected]

This event is part of the Marketplace Discussions series in an attempt to bridge the gap between disciplines.

​Summary: Residuality provides a new theory of software engineering through applied complexity science. This session will introduce the idea by comparing and contrasting the philosophical differences between residuality and the accidental philosophy that software engineers have inherited from the industry and their education - and shows how this potentially represents the first steps out of the permanent crisis that has been the history of software engineering. The session will also introduce the basic tools required to enable software design in conditions of high uncertainty.

​Bio: Barry is a PhD Candidate within Complexity Science and Software Design. He runs Black Tulip Technology and is a former Chief Architect and leader of the global Solution Architect Community at Microsoft with 20 years experience in the design of distributed systems.

Links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TechnologyTulip

Relevant links:

Website: https://decafquest.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Decafquest

For more info: [email protected]

This event is part of the Marketplace Discussions series in an attempt to bridge the gap between disciplines.

​Summary: In this marketplace discussion, Prab Randhawa sheds light on how cryptography-enabled technologies are transforming digital identity, altering the concept of ownership, and reshaping financial markets.

​Bio: Prab spent a decade working at Apple and Shell on a variety of interdisciplinary projects. In 2021 he left to work for (but really on) himself, and among other things, founded a crypto business. These are notes on his plebeian journey into degeneracy.

Links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/prabhchintan

Relevant links:

Website: https://decafquest.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Decafquest

For more info: [email protected]

This talk is part of the Marketplace Discussions series in an attempt to bridge the gap between academia and industry. 

In this marketplace discussion, Jordan B. Goldstein takes us on a quest about how philosophy can help us live a good life not only intellectually, but also through exerting our bodies physically.

Jordan Goldstein has a Ph.D. in Sports History and 7+ years teaching sports philosophy, sociology, and history. 

He recently quit academia to build a coaching and consulting business Phya Academy, and to work on curriculum development at Synthesis School.

Links:

Website

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JB_Goldstein

Relevant links:

Website

Twitter

For more info: [email protected]