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EVENT DETAILS |
StartOut New York is delighted to present Revolutionizing LGBTQ+Equality with Blockchain, generously sponsored by Hornet.discussion will center around how LGBTQ Token & Blockchain can help all members of the LGBTQ Community achieve equal rights & acceptance by tokenizing the $4.6T Pink Global Economy.
Hornet co-founder & CEO, Christof Wittig will discuss how the newly formed LGBT Foundation, a not-for-profit that is supported by Hornet & other digital apps, aims to harness the power & potential of blockchain technology- alongside other technological innovations - for the global good of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender community.
Schedule:
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm - Networking Reception
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm- Panel Discussion & Audience Q&A
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm- Socializing & Networking
Panelists:
Christof Wittig, chairman of LGBT Foundation & founder & CEO of Hornet
Christof co-founded Hornet in 2011, when he felt there was a need to give the gay community a better app.Christof is a serial software entrepreneur & investor, a poor triathlete, & happily married for 20 years to his husband Juan. Born in Germany, he now lives in San Francisco & frequently travels around the globe.
Maria Sjdin, Deputy Executive Director, OutRight Action Intl
Maria Sjdin is Deputy Executive Director of OutRight Action International (formerly known as the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission), which she joined in 2014. Between 2005-2014 she was the Executive Director of RFSL, Sweden's largest LGBT organization founded in 1950. Maria led the expansion of RFSL's international work from a single advocacy project to a number of projects with partner organizations in several countries & human rights & leadership training of hundreds of international LGBT activists.
Fabrice Houdart, OHRC at the UN
Human Rights Officer at OHCHR New York working on issues of sexual orientation & gender identity. Previously, Senior Country Officer for the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Malta, Libya) & Task Manager for a Nordic Trust Fund grant, "Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, & Development" at the World Bank. Former President of World Bank GLOBE, the Bank's LGBT employee resource group.During his career at the World Bank, he worked in Africa, the Middle East, & Central Asia, first as a human development consultant & later in country management units.I am also on the Board of two US LGBTI organizations: Alturi - a direct funding NGO - & the Rainbow Theater Project.
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