Sometimes known as DJ Eth Ledger, Zane is the co-founder and CTO @ Dispatch Labs, Founding partner at The Bureau, and co-organizer of the San Francisco Ethereum Meetup.
Zane is an experienced blockchain architect and distributed systems specialist. He is firmly entrenched as an expert in the blockchain world, sitting on the board of advisors for four California based blockchain companies, and is an author in the space.
Zane’s entire life is focused on his desire to build something at the bleeding edge of what is currently possible.
After listening to this episode you will learn:
- That Zane has a background in both Music and Technology
- How Zane began his career doing Technology in San Francisco
- About when Zane helped build one of the first Ethereum Meetups in the Bay area
- What use cases excite Zane as a Blockchain developer
- How Zane has tweaked functionality to bridge the gaps on smart contracts
- What the future of development looks like
- About how this technology will touch previously inaccessible smaller nations and small-town America
- What the Bureau, Dispatch Labs and their incubator does in San Francisco
- How the Cryptocurrency industry has an incredible ethos of using technology to change the world for the better
For show notes and more please visit: LAB Radio
Kim is a prolific event speaker, social media influencer, fitness enthusiast, startup mentor and has shared the stage with superstars across industries including Gary Vee.
Kim Parnell, the Cofounder of Blank, is a seasoned startup veteran originally from Toronto, Canada with a successful exit under her belt.
Blank aims to be a platform that builds apps automatically without code, thus making app development available to everyone. Her passion for Blank comes from her frustration in finding a technical partner during the early phases of her first software startup.
Alongside the team at Blank, she’s working to level the playing field so that anyone with an idea and the ambition to make it happen has the tools they need to do so.
After listening to this episode you will learn:
- How we reacted during an earthquake during our recording
- About Kim's background in film, entrepreneurship and eventually app development
- A look into the Toronto startup scene and community
- How more Women in STEM isn't necessarily the issue we should be focused on
- What some barriers are getting into Crypto and how to overcome them
For show notes and more please visit: LAB Radio
"Events are expensive operations. As a result, event organizers establish costly subsidies and artificial deals to maximize revenue and minimize risk, ultimately hurting the entire event financing process" - Jason Robert, Co-founder & CEO of Hello Sugoi
Jason is Co-founder & CEO of HelloSugoi, the world's first blockchain powered live events ecosystem. The team over at Hello Sugoi operates on principals that the event coordinators and customers deserve a fair system in which to operate. Currently, the model is flawed with intermediaries, risk, fraud and price gouging. With the Hello Sugoi platform, using smart contracts to issue tickets adds transparency and helps disrupt inefficiencies in the current system.
He also co-founded the popular "Real World Blockchain” meetup and is the founding instructor at Product School's "Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies" course in Los Angeles, CA. Jason has facilitated numerous public speaking engagements on the topic of blockchain and the entertainment industry, including appearances at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, BlockCon, SF Music Tech Summit, XLIVE, and SXSW.
After years as a touring drummer, he founded Lost Midas, a music production company. While there, he negotiated recording, publishing, and live event agreements. He released several albums to critical acclaim by the BBC and NPR, and performed extensively across North America and the UK. Jason has also composed original songs at BMG Production Music for high-profile TV shows on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, Netflix, and Showtime.
For show notes and more please visit: CoinStructive LAB Radio
Sarah Hody counsels entrepreneurs, established tech businesses and innovators on a variety of regulatory matters, primarily in the fintech and blockchain industries. Sarah is well-versed in state and federal financial services regulations, data security, privacy, intellectual property and regulatory compliance.
Sarah’s background includes serving as in-house counsel at Coinbase, a digital asset exchange company as well as assisting token crowd sales (ICOs), asset-backed digital tokens, peer-to-peer lending, corporate governance, Bank Secrecy Act compliance, FINRA arbitration and financial services litigation.
Valeria Bystrowicz-Liendo advises emerging growth and established technology companies in the United States and Latin America, with a particular emphasis on blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT).
As part of the Blockchain Technology & Digital Currency industry group, Valeria has been at the forefront of the legal and regulatory frameworks related to virtual currency and blockchain.
She has represented clients in launching commercial platforms powered by blockchain tokens and counselled teams through their initial coin offerings (ICOs) process by offering regulatory guidance and corporate advice in engineering domestic and international corporate structures.
After listening to this episode you will learn:
- How Sarah and Valeria got started in the legal field
- The challenges they faced as lawyers and how they discovered blockchains
- How the law operates and requires taking a new set of facts and sifting that through existing rules
- How there are tons of hard problems to be solved in the Blockchain world both technically and legally
- How tokens, Dapps and other Blockchain focused applications will touch everything we do behind the scenes
- How GDPR compliance, new European legislation is pushing the "right to be forgotten" data management policies
- What Sarah and Valeria would change and want to see more of in the space
For show notes and more please visit: https://coinstructive.com/category/lab-radio/