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With Richie Etwaru (Hu-manity.co) & Xan Ditkoff (Production Partner, Blockstack).
Mon, Dec 17, 2018 @ 05:00 PM   $27   Fairleigh Dickinson University, 285 Madison Ave
 
   
 
 
              

      
 
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The Morris Tech Meetup is thrilled to host the2018 Block & Coin Summit, a December 17th evening conference at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison NJ.
For this year's summit, we are proud to present to you:
PIONEERS OF THE CRYPTOCONOMY
The four hour event including dinner will be only $36 (+ processing fees). Sign up by November 21st, 2018 to receive a 25% discount & pay $27 (+ processing fees). Cost at the door will be significantly raised.In a sequel to last year's wildly successful Navigating the Cryptoconomy', the Morris Tech Meetup brings you more great speakers breaking down the State of the Cryptoconomy & all things Blockchain!It will be held in the Mansion (Lenfell Hall) at Fairleigh Dickinson University & will go from 5pm-9pm. We are bringing visionaries & top-level thinkers from some of the most innovative Blockchain & Cryptoasset companies in the area.In addition to an introspection, analysis & forecast of the Cryptoconomy, hear from these leaders about the groundbreaking work being done within their companies & externally with the broader community.FEATURED SPEAKERS:HU-MANITY.CO: Founders Richie Etwaru, who is also author of the bestselling book Blockchain: Trust Companies, & Michael DePalma will introduce Hu-manity.co, a New Jersey based company which is declaring a decentralized human right: Everyone has the right to legal ownership of their inherent human data as property & is using the Blockchain to acknowledge, verify & protect.Learn how our inherent human data is bought & sold in a human data marketplace without being respected as our property & about the transformative power of #my31.BLOCKSTACK: As the Production Partner at Blockstack, Xan Ditkoff is on the front lines of decentralized application development. With a background in private equity, investment banking, & the military, Xan is passionate about driving the creation, growth, & expansion of application ecosystems through his role with Blockstack PBC & with the Signature Fund.Blockstack was founded by two Princeton graduates & raised $50 million through an ICO partially funded by the Winklevos brothers & Fred Wilson's Union Square Ventures. Its mission is to build an ecosystem that gives users control over their fundamental digital rights: Identity, data-ownership, privacy, & security. Join us & help build the new internet. Learn about what Blockstack set out to do, how its grown since the ICO & how it will disrupt legacy technologies & advance the new paradigm with the help of its Signature Fund.
MORE GREAT SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!
THIS EVENT WILL BE HELPING TO RAISE MONEY FOR A GOOD CAUSE ALIGNED WITH THE INTERESTS OF OUR TECH COMMUNITY: The Morris County Economic Development Corporation is hosting a High School Shark Tank to encourage young North Jersey students to explore entrepreneurship & technology. We strongly encourage you to help support this program to continue to foster entrepreneurship at a younger age & expose high school students to creative business concepts, design thinking & a greater sense of self-reliance.If you are able to help sponsor this worthwhile program or connect us with a company who is interested in evolving young minds by sponsoring, please e-mail Marc Baskin at digikist@gmail.com.We have an active community membership of over 1,800 people & last year's 2017 Block & Coin Summit had standing room attendance of almost 200 people. This year we have moved to a bigger space & expect similar numbers.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------After 9:00 at the conclusion of the event, everybody is welcome to join us for drinks at Vanderbilt's in the Wyndham Hotel 175 Park Ave Florham Park, NJ 07932 - Just exit through the Florham Road / Park Ave exit of FDU & you will see the Hotel on the left before you reach Park Ave.
 
 
 
 
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