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Join us from the Javits Center in NYC for United Nations Climate Week 2020 with the Next Summit powered by FINTECH.TV, where our host discusses the importance of blockchain technology invented by Greenfence Technology. Mitch Chait joins us from Laguna Beach in California as the wildfires rage with climate change being top of mind for everyone on the left coast right now. Food, safety, and affordability are critical as we focus on feeding our fast-growing population to sustain human life - we need to think about sustainability.Register to receive this segment via email as soon as it becomes available.In partnership with the Climate Group and FINTECH.TV, The Nest Summit is an official event of Climate Week NYC, dedicated to advancing sustainability in the US by convening the organizations, visionary researchers, and influential policymakers driving climate action and leading the way to a cleaner and safer environment.

Climate Week NYC is the biggest climate summit taking place this year. As the focus shifts to how we rebuild after COVID-19, Climate Week NYC 2020 will explore what lessons we can learn in the pursuit of a net-zero future through just transition. Join us on September 21st - 24th for a meaningful discussion. Stephan Nicoleau Managing Director, Head of Capital Formation FullCycle

In partnership with the Climate Group and FINTECH.TV, The Nest Summit is an official event of Climate Week NYC, dedicated to advancing sustainability in the US by convening the organizations, visionary researchers, and influential policymakers driving climate action and leading the way to a cleaner and safer environment.Realigning investments for a cleaner, smarter, more environmentally friendly future is everything - welcome to the Terra Impact Fund of tomorrow by the Terra Group Holdings. The Terra Group has created the Terra Impact Fund as presented by the Next Summit at the Javits Center during United Nations Climate Week by our FINTECH.TV's Kavita Gupta with Tony Saxton from Terra Group and Paul Savoldelli is a manager for the Impact Fund. From their roots in flexible solar, they have evolved into a group providing power, lighting, agriculture, and much more with governments, Fortune 500s, and small businesses worldwide.

In partnership with the Climate Group and FINTECH.TV, The Nest Summit is an official event of Climate Week NYC, dedicated to advancing sustainability in the US by convening the organizations, visionary researchers, and influential policymakers driving climate action and leading the way to a cleaner and safer environment.The innovations and advancements in climate change scoring for products, portfolios, and macro analysis for the New World are essential as we combat humanity's forces that have put our world's future at grave risk. The European Commission and its various constituents are putting clarity on environmental products throughout the European Union - specifying at least 50 different parameters that investors will have to report on this taxonomy for their investment portfolio. This climate change adaptation then drives the future passive and active product creation. Jeff Gitterman and Todd Arthur Bridges discuss integration methodologies in this discussion for the Nest Summit on Climate Change with the United Nations.

In partnership with the Climate Group and FINTECH.TV, The Nest Summit is an official event of Climate Week NYC, dedicated to advancing sustainability in the US by convening the organizations, visionary researchers, and influential policymakers driving climate action and leading the way to a cleaner and safer environment.Except for virtual experiences, the $1 trillion events industry has largely been on pause during the Coronavirus pandemic. To build back better in the new post-pandemic “normal”, improving the environmental performance of in-person events will increasingly be a top priority for the industry. In this session leaders from three major stakeholders in producing events – Stephen Carter, Group CEO, Informa (the world’s largest event organizer), Carrie Freeman Parsons, Chair of the Board, Freeman (the world’s largest brand experience and event service provider), and Alan Steel, CEO, the Javits Convention Center (one of the world’s greenest venues) will provide valuable insights on how the industry is advancing sustainability. All aspects of staging events including the vital role they play in conducting business in an environmentally responsible manner will be examined. Alan Steel President & CEO Javits Center Carrie Freeman Parsons Chair of the Board Freeman Stephen A. Carter CEO Informa

Impact Public Service Fund, an NYC based non-profit hosts an important discussion on investing for climate change and the role of private sector actors in addressing the challenge. We will hear from expert speakers from Columbia University, Gitterman Wealth Management, Capital for Climate, Goldman Sachs, Kepos Capital, Ernst Young, Boston Common Asset Management, and Four Twenty Seven. This riveting and provocative conversation is organized into 3 panels: > Understand the science behind climate change, what's on the cutting edge and where experts might disagree > Discover what climate change has in store for us socially, environmentally, politically, and financially > Learn how to invest for a new future and the implications for companies old and new We bring together investors, scientists, thought-leaders, and innovators to address an important topic for generations to come.   Speakers Radley Horton, Lamont Research Professor, Columbia University Emilie Mazzacurati, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Four Twenty Seven Tony Lent, Co-Founder, Capital For Climate Elodie Timmermans, Senior Manager Climate Change and Sustainability Services, Ernst Young, Jeff Gitterman, Co-Founder, Gitterman Wealth Management, Geeta Aiyer, CFA, President and Founder, Boston Common Asset Management Bob Litterman, Chairman of the Risk Committee and Founding Partner, Kepos Capital,

TheIMPACT focuses on ESG, Impact Investing, and advancing the 17 United Nations-supported Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The show profiles people and companies committed to changing lives and creating a sustainable world.In this segment of FINTECH.TV’s TheIMPACT, our host Eileen Wu is joined by Dr. Ossama Hassanein, Chairman of Rising Tide.Ossama has co-managed over $1 billion of international technology funds in diverse leadership roles including EVP of Berkeley International in San Francisco, Chairman of Technocom Ventures in Paris, President of Newbridge Networks Holding in Canada, Senior Managing Director of Newbury Ventures, and Chairman of the Rising Tide Fund in Silicon Valley. In the eighties, Ossama had the opportunity to co-lead the mezzanine financing of 80+ Silicon Valley based IT companies that became spectacular successes, including: Adaptec, Cirrus Logic, Atmel, PMC-Sierra, LSI Logic, Linear Technologies, and Oracle. Their combined market value today exceeds $200 billion. On the social entrepreneurship side, he is a charter member of the C100, a Silicon-Valley based association dedicated to mentoring and angel financing Canadian entrepreneurs.Watch the full video to see how impact plays a role in Rising Tide's investment thesis. Learn more about the companies and breakthrough technologies that they believe will address the challenges and opportunities in the Post-COVID world. Their upcoming International Electric Vehicle Expo – Silicon Valley Business Forum started with a focus on electric vehicles, then expanded to include clean energy, smart cities, sustainable agriculture and safety. Rising Tide hopes that building bridges between Korea and Silicon Valley will result in innovations and positive human impact that will significantly accelerate in the next decade. To learn more about the International Electric Vehicle Expo or register for the event: http://sustainrt.wpengine.com/ To learn more about Rising Tide: https://rtf.vc/

Join the Top women leaders in the new digital economy, where money meets emerging technology in our expanding digital world. Women in Technology, moving Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Technology, and AI to higher heights, building a better, brighter future!Welcome to Women in Crypto Online Series! Today's interview is with Justyna Osowka, the CEO and Founder of Women in Blockchain Canada out of Ottawa. Justyna’s organization works with the Futurist conference and offers virtual events and evangelism of the people’s money, cryptocurrency. Giving people access to money without discrimination. We discuss a virtual reality world and the outlook towards a cashless society in the future and the social impact of crypto.

Join the Top women leaders in the new digital economy, where money meets emerging technology in our expanding digital world. Women in Technology, moving Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Technology, and AI to higher heights, building a better, brighter future!Welcome to Women in Crypto Online Series! Today's interview is with Janine Moir, Blockchain Assurance Leader with Deloitte Canada. Janine shares with us the benefits of cryptocurrency, recent blockchain initiatives, smart contracts, and developmental directions in which companies are considering when using this technology within their organizations.

Join the Top women leaders in the new digital economy, where money meets emerging technology in our expanding digital world. Women in Technology, moving Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Technology, and AI to higher heights, building a better, brighter future!Welcome to Women in Crypto Online Series! Today's interview is with Ingrid Vasiliu Feltes, Innovation Officer with MEDNAX. She heads Innovation in the Healthcare Industry with a focus on AI and blockchain workflow possibilities with Healthcare data. We discuss the importance of multidisciplined considerations for humanizing AI programming in the long term care of individuals' private healthcare information offering increased quality control.

Join the Top women leaders in the new digital economy, where money meets emerging technology in our expanding digital world. Women in Technology, moving Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Technology, and AI to higher heights, building a better, brighter future!Welcome to Women in Crypto Online Series! Today's interview is with Lisa Loud, COO of IOUR FOUNDATION, the Internet of Universal Resources. Lisa walks us through some history of technology and how we got to where we are today with our current Internet. IOUR foundation promotes the development and adoption of new protocols, using blockchain, to enhance the fundamental properties, of our current internet.

The effects of COVID-19 have caused businesses and workers alike to completely rethink the way they work and interact with the rest of the world. Zoom meetings and remote work have become the new normal, which is causing businesses to reevaluate the way that they conduct themselves and what type of SaaS offerings they provide.    This is where the world’s view on exciting new technology such as blockchain and cryptocurrency has begun to really show their worth to the world. Prior to this pandemic, these technologies were still slowly making their way into the mainstream - but these strenuous circumstances have caused businesses and large corporations to reconsider the value that this revolutionary technology can bring them.  Visa, Mastercard, JPMC, IBM, Microsoft, and many other Fortune 500s have already begun to test out the crypto waters and are beginning to roll out exciting new frameworks and services that are set to revolutionize the way work is done, payments are handled, and how identity and sensitive data are managed.  While this is true, cryptocurrency is still a hotly debated topic in finance.  Many believe it can provide a real benefit to society while others remain skeptical of its true utility.  Many people found out about cryptocurrencies originally due to the headlines you would see every day about massive investment returns people were cashing out with nearly every week. This hype was well-founded - crypto was actually rooted in advanced and very relevant improvements to the current financial system that resulted in the crash of 2008. At the time, though, this was overshadowed by big money and over-speculation of its true monetary value.  In order to understand how crypto is shaping the future of the remote workforce and even how businesses will function after this pandemic, it is important to understand why cryptocurrency and the underlying blockchain technology is so valuable for society - especially in the current climate. What is Blockchain Technology?  Bitcoin and its mysterious inventor Satoshi Nakamoto brought with it the concept of “trustless” transactions, among other innovations.  This simply means that there is no trust involved in a bitcoin transaction, as the exchange of value is permanently stored, publicly visible, and verified by multiple parties with an incentive to ensure its verification. Therefore, two untrusting parties can engage in a transaction without the need for a moderator (i.e. the potentially biased banks). As you can see, this is a big improvement to the current monetary system and removes control from a few executives to an entire population.  Cryptocurrency’s ability to conduct private, secure, third-party free transactions is revolutionary, and could truly change the way business transactions are handled as well as how monetary value and data are distributed throughout society. It has the potential to lessen the disparate wealth gap in America, and make complex procedures like loans and financing smarter by making data permanent and unified.  Basically, it can allow strangers to engage in business dealings without worrying about getting overzealous fees, data breaches, or the negative effect that human error can bring.  At its core, it removes the need for banks and corporations to always have a hand in your financial dealings, digital tools, as well as your personal data - which is something the new generation is very concerned with.  The use for Bitcoin has been established - it can, in fact, have the impact it says it will have. The only barrier now is integrating into a society that is still transitioning into a digital age. This has been the question that has caused this revolutionary technology to have such a gradual and slow integration so far.  Blockchain technology has taken a backseat in the media to the currencies it supports. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Monero, and more have all been hot topics that have brought up heated debates on whether or not they actually contain any value. But, blockchain has not received the popular media attention that the cryptocurrencies it supports have. As it turns out, the underlying blockchain framework that supports these currencies is what gives them value and allows for each of the digital currencies to have so many revolutionary features.  Blockchain allows for a digital distributed ledger to be used to facilitate transactions between two parties that are fraud-free and without any third party manipulation or interference. It can revolutionize the way information is stored, secured, and exchanged between the two parties and remove fraud and trust from the equation while streamlining the process and drastically improving efficiency.  Big Corporations Are Bringing Blockchain to the Mainstream Many of the world’s biggest corporations are beginning to integrate cryptocurrency and blockchain into their service offerings.  In late July 2020, Visa announced that they will be rolling out a crypto-supported payment system that will support Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, and other prominent currencies. This is huge for the crypto world because it finally shows how these big corporations are realizing the value of the technology.  From May 2019 to May 2020 there was over $10 billion of crypto transactions that took place, which shows the. trending popularity of this new monetary system.  This new service from Visa will come in the form of a Visa digital wallet that allows for the use and storage of cryptocurrency easily and securely. With people using cash less and less and the need for banks beginning to dwindle with stay-at-home orders and social distancing norms, this announcement is hardly surprising and very fitting for the time of the announcement.  Just as this announcement was happening, regulators in the U.S. were also announcing that it is now perfectly legal for large institutions to provide cryptocurrency services. Brian P. Brooks, the Acting Comptroller of the Currency, commented recently “This opinion clarifies that banks can continue satisfying their customers’ needs for safeguarding their most valuable assets, which today for tens of millions of Americans includes cryptocurrency.” This decision shows that the shock of 2020 is beginning to have an effect on the highest level of corporations and regulators in the US, and that they are becoming more open than ever before to new forms of technology that threaten many of the financial and societal norms that have been in place for decades.  Other companies such as IBM have integrated crypto services into their framework to bring about next-generation payment solutions. In 2019, IBM rolled out a service called World Wire that is able to provide a much easier mechanism for cross-border payments between out-of-country businesses. This technology is yet another example of a tool that is completely necessary during a pandemic where many Americans have trouble reaching clients or businesses not located in the U.S. In 2020 so far since COVID, the World Wire service has been critical for many to more easily make payments across the world.  As you can clearly see, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a tipping point for blockchain and cryptocurrency in the mainstream. It has fueled a renewed faith in crypto as the world begins to shy away from paper money and dependence on banks. In fact, one in three millennials now state that they will likely buy and hold bitcoin within the next year, which just shows how deeply this new idea is starting to solidify in our society.  With remote work becoming more prominent, it is looking more and more likely that people will be able to get paid in crypto sooner rather than later. This will help improve the confidence and trust that our generation has in the current financial system and trigger a more independent and self-sufficient workforce that will be more able to withstand the effects of any future pandemics or disasters.