A Case Study in Systemic Change
Sweetbridge
a new approach to international
economic development leveraging blockchain
When: February 28th, 2018
Location: Impact Hub San Francisco
1885 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
Cross Streets: 15th & Mission St.
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You are warmly invited to a gathering of individuals who care about blockchain’s potential for systemic change. We will be joined in this community of practice by individuals at the forefront of making systemic change happen. Our goal is to think creatively—together—about how to leverage synergistic social innovations and social enterprises to create broad-ranging social change.
Systemic thinking is needed to help the social enterprise and social innovation sectors access the support they need to succeed and scale.
Dear Bay Area Systemic Change Community,
We are hosting an event, Sweetbridge - a new approach to international economic development leveraging blockchain.
We will be hosting a delegation from Sweetbridge. The initiative I co-founded, CrowdDoing has been organizing a group of volunteers to help Sweetbridge. Sweetbridge is emblematic of how blockchain can become a leverage point to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. They have the potential to exponentially reduce the cost of interest for small and medium sized enterprises in the supply chain. Because Sweetbridge is probably one of the most at-scale efforts currently underway using the blockchain for constructive purposes, they are an ideal case study for the Bay Area systemic change community to learn more about.
About Sweetbridge’s economic systemic change mission:
Sweetbridge is a social impact project building protocols for prosperity to grow global economic activity. By using blockchain Sweetbridge over a period of time assuming growth, Sweetbridge has the potential to exponentially reduce interest rates users pay to borrow. Reducing the interest cost of borrowing has the impact potential to benefit innumerable stakeholders, reduce poverty and scale economic development in new ways.
“The rise of the blockchain and the new network age presents an opportunity for a new economic framework designed for a world where everything is connected to everything. There is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to anticipate these changes and create a new economic framework that addresses the issues of the network age. This can be done in a way that is transformational and minimally disruptive. We don’t need to destroy what exists as much as we need to transform it into something new. The economic power of the network age can be harnessed to pay for this transformation by building a new layer for the digital-era on top of existing national economies. Sweetbridge harmonizes these economies and applies a common framework to all trade. We believe there is a better way. Sweetbridge is dedicated to creating this better way in a new digital economy.“
Agenda
9:00 am
Networking / refreshments / name tags - Open Video Room - Share your insights
9:40 am
Introduction by Bobby Fishkin, Co-Founder CrowdDoing
9:50 am
Scott Nelson - Sweetbridge Co-Founder, Chairman
A new approach to international economic development leveraging blockchain
10:30 am
Co-hosts feedback
10:45 am
General Q&A session
11:00 am
Mac McGary - Sweetbridge President - Alliances
Protocols for Prosperity
11:30 am
Co-hosts feedback
11:45 am
General Q&A session
12:00 pm
Networking/refreshments - Open Video Room - Share your insights
12:30 pm
Event Concludes
Thank you for joining us!
Michael Sofaer
is the Chief Technical Officer of Brian Kelly Capital Management, a digital asset company. Michael is passionate about finding and supporting projects that provide real value to regular people. He was previously Chief Information officer of Tradehill, a US-based Bitcoin exchange, one of the first digital currency exchanges. Michael was an early employee at CloudFlare and is an expert on blockchain technology and is an experienced software developer.
Neal Gorenflo
Neal Gorenflo is the co-founder, chief editor, and executive director of Shareable, an award-winning nonprofit news outlet that has covered the latest innovations in the sharing economy, the future of work, and cities for nearly a decade. He's a prolific speaker, author, and consultant on Shareable's coverage areas. He's the editor of multiple books including most recently, “Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons.” He advises leaders around the world on how to meet their goals through sharing - Seoul Metropolitan Government, the city of San Francisco, the Sharing Economy Association of Japan to name a few.
Scott Nelson - Sweetbridge Co-Founder & Chairman
Scott has more than 35 years of experience in applying technologies to the Logistics industry working for both buyers and sellers of services. He is a successful entrepreneur who served as CEO of Trax Technologies, Inc. for 22 years. He was the founder of Trax, a global logistics analytics and freight audit & payment firm. Under his leadership, Trax evolved from a small logistics consulting and software development firm into a global SaaS and managed services company with operations on four continents.
Rhonda Milligan - Sweetbridge Co-Founder & Chief Builder
Rhonda has been building companies and leading teams for over 30 years in the technology space. Prior to Sweetbridge, Rhonda was President and Founder of DKM and helped leaders of fast scaling companies build cultures and teams. Earlier in her career, Rhonda worked for KPMG as a Tax Accountant and at Fujitsu and NCR where she led teams to effect process improvement and business optimization across a wide range of industries – finance, manufacturing, technology, non-profit, education and government. Rhonda has been an active fundraiser for several non-profits in education and policy. Rhonda joined Sweetbridge because it married her passion for giving a "hand up" with her passions for business and technology.
Mac McGary - Sweetbridge Co-Founder & President
most recently Mac was Chief Revenue Officer of GT Nexus – the largest supply chain network in the cloud. When he joined GT Nexus the company was $20M in revenue, five years later the company reached $170M in revenue and was acquired by Infor for $675M. Mac has held sales leadership positions in two companies, i2 Technologies and Information Management Associates, which achieved impressive growth and successful IPOs. Mac begin has career in software in 1985 as a computer programmer and has a degree in economics from Claremont McKenna College. He has lived outside the U.S. for 14 years and has held global revenue responsibilities for several large companies for more than a decade.
Glenn Jones - Sweetbridge - Global R&D Executive
Glenn has a proven track record of growing businesses by building and leading product management/marketing and R&D organizations. He works to define, develop, position, and sell highly innovative and high value enterprise solutions delivered in leading edge technologies. Glenn comes to Sweetbridge with a wealth of experience including experience integrating acquisitions (i2, One Network and E2open), being acquired (Steelwedge), and enabling an IPO (E2open). He also brings a wealth of development experience including configurable Supply Chain, B2B, Business Intelligence and Analytics applications delivered as cloud services, reliable and scalable software platforms, and highly effective Web 2.0 UI’s and mobile apps.
Alejandro Caminos
a Registered Representative of New York Life (Member FINRA/SIPC), has had decades of experience financing development projects worldwide, assisting development agencies including US A.I.D., E.U. Water Commission and GTZ.
Chelsea Rustrum
is the organizer of the Blockchain for Good meetup of San Francisco. Chelsea is a sharing economy advocate and community builder (check out 'Sharers of SF' on meetup), the author of "It's a Shareable Life, and an international speaker on the topics of shared ownership, marketplaces, and increasingly blockchain technology.
Tony Lai
is a Silicon Valley based entrepreneur and legal informatics researcher at Stanford Law School, where he co-chairs the Blockchain Group. As the CEO and Co-Founder of Legal.io, Tony leads a team of lawyers, engineers, and designers building and deploying scalable legal, regulatory, governance and smart-contract solutions.
Fyodor Ovchinnikov
is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the Institute for Evolutionary Leadership - a social enterprise that builds leadership capacity in public, private, and social sectors to address world's pressing challenges through cultural and institutional redesign. Besides that, as Lead Instructor, Mentor, and Board Member of Oakland's award-winning cooperative business accelerator Uptima Business Bootcamp and the main driving force behind Academy of Management's prestigious Entrepreneurship Practice Award.
Bobby Fishkin
is CEO Reframe It Inc, Co-founder of CrowdDoing, a joint initiative between Reframe It and Advance Social Innovation to connect the social enterprise sector and volunteers; he also serves as a strategic partner of the Social Stock Exchange. Bobby has also co-led deliberative democracy projects internationally.
Natalie Nasseri
is a Founder of Advance Social Innovation and a co-Founder of CrowdDoing a joint program with Reframe It to support social enterprises. She is also Founder of Kzoom, a startup that intends to promote diversity and inclusion in entrepreneurship. Natalie has an MBA, with over 25 years’ experience in developing startups, non-profits, and programs. She has lived and worked in four different continent including Africa.
Derek Razo
is partner at Purpose.ag. Purpose.ag is a social impact fund for for companies pursuing ownership innovation. Platform Co-ops, world-changing technology, Purpose-driven networks and more. Derek has been a social entrepreneur at Enspiral.
Delia Sabau
Sr. Portfolio Manager, Menta Capital, formerly of Barclays and ING, CrowdDoing Finance Lead Volunteer
Ted Lanpher
co-founder of Pareto Network, Focused on blockchain and decentralized products. Executive consultant for CUVIA Labs, Consultancy for blockchain and distributed ledger technology. Clients include F500 Enterprise, SME, and professional services firms. CUVIA provides strategic analysis, executive training, use case analysis, IP strategy, blockchain architecture, protocol definition, and development of decentralized applications. "CUVIA" represents the five core properties of blockchains: Consensus, Uniqueness, Validation, Immutability, and Authentication.
Event Format
The format will feature co-hosts sharing brief narratives of reaction to the keynote speakers about how they are currently involved in systemic change—with moderation and commentary by Bobby Fishkin. Please join us for this event in a series designed to spark collaboration, conversation, and creative problem-solving. Fyodor Ovchinnikov will be filming this event. Please be advised that by attending this event you grant us permission to include you in the filming.
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