W3B Talks

Our planet is under a lot of stress.  Climate change is causing instability in populations and food production. We need to to find news ways of incorporating sustainability into the products we use and how we act. When the circular economy meet decentralized finance we find regenerative finance.

In this episode we are joined by Tian Zhao, founder of Circonomy, to look at how Web3 and blockchain technologies are being leveraged to build functional economics around sustainable practices.

Smart Contracts and AI will be two of the most important building blocks of our increasingly automated future.

In this episode of W3B TAlks we look at Web3 automation, Smart Contracts, AI and the insurance industry. We are joined by Florian Herzog.  Florian is the Co-Founder & CTO of DGTAL, and the Founder & Chairman of Deon Digital.  DGTAL is an insurtech company bringing AI and automaton to the Insurance industry and Deon Digital delivers a transaction lifecycle and analytics platform for automated management of complex business processes.  Florian was also a long time researcher

There are around 608 million farms in the world. Our survival as a species quite literally depends on them. They are anchors and sources of stability for the communities in which they operate. With a growing population demanding more agricultural produce and geo-politics, war, supply chain defunction, and a changing climate threatening supply, the world is looking for innovative solutions to the looming agricultural crisis. It may seem strange to ask the question of how Web3 and blockchain technologies can help but that is exactly what we are going to do in this episode of W3B TALKS.

This episode takes a look at data oracles and the role of climate data in the Web3 era. We are joined today by Manavi Garg, Head of Strategic Partnerships at dClimate. 

In this episode we revisit the topic of how Web3 and blockchain are improving healthcare.   Pradeep Goel, the founder and CEO of Solve.Care, Helps us explore the idea of forming networks of healthcare entities and how we may all be interacting with the healthcare system in the not too distant future. 

In this episode Don Tapscott, executive chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute and coauthor of Blockchain Revolution, shares his experience and impressions of Davos 2023. Every year business and governmental leaders gather to discuss renewable energy and environmental degradation, global monetary policy, Global trade and investment, the future of cities and local economies and emerging technology at the World Economic Forum. This year’s conference was themed “cooperation in a fragmented world”

In this episode we talk to Alexander Di Giovanni, a lawyer who specialized in Web3 and Blockchain.  We discuss the current state, strengths and weaknesses, of the regulatory landscape that is shaping Web3 and blockchain. We explore how to strike the balance between protecting consumers and providing a stable framework for commerce and overburdening an emerging technology and slowing innovation.  

This Episode explores how enterprises are working together to leverage Web3 and blockchains. It examines why some efforts succeed while other fail. Host Douglas Heintzman of the Blockchain Research Institute welcome's Irving Wladawsky-Berger back to the podcast to discuss.

In this episode we are looking at how Web3 and Blockchain are helping build the metaverse.

By now, most of us have heard about the metaverse, although there isn’t necessarily a consensus on what exactly it is. We had versions of it for the last 15 years or so. But there has been a renewed interest in it of late and today big companies are making big investments in it. So, what has changed? What is new? What does the metaverse future look like?

This episode's guest is Jim Slotta, Professor of Education at the University of Toronto

In this Episode we look at blockchain's role in solving the ESG challenge. Environmental, Social, and governance are top of mind for many people. ESGs are driving investment strategies and are being bult into corporate policies. For some pressing environmental issues such as the carbon crisis we are seeing credit marketplaces emerge. Most people will agree that being able to measure and account for ESGs is in principle a very good thing on many levels, but it has historically been a very difficult to execute.

This episode's guest is Alexis Pappas, Chief Innovation Officer at Guild One, a Canadian blockchain and fintech firm.