GENERAL INFORMATION

41 The Executive Club X

Date: 22.06.2021
Time: 17:00 – 18:00 (Istanbul Time)

This month’s keynote speaker will be Christoph BurgerChristoph Burger is a senior lecturer at ESMT Berlin. Before joining ESMT, he worked five years in industry at Otto Versand and as vice president at the Bertelsmann Buch AG, five years at consulting practice Arthur D. Little, and five years as independent consultant focusing on private equity financing of SMEs. His research focus is in the energy sector/ innovation/ blockchain and decision making/ negotiation. He is co-author of the dena/ ESMT study on “blockchain in the energy transition”, the “ESMT Innovation Index – Electricity Supply Industry” and the book “The Decentralized Energy Revolution – Business Strategies for a New Paradigm”. Christoph directs and teaches in open enrolment programs decision making, blockchain, innovation as a corporate model, customized programs in the energy, banking industry as well as programs for international senior executives such as the Yale Global Executive Leadership Program, CKGSB CEO/ EMBA program or the supervisory board program for Deutsche Telekom. He is a speaker in conferences of dena, eco-summit, energinet, IAEE, KAPSARC, OMIE, a member of the jury of the GreenTec Awards and the Dena Startup Energy Transition Award as well as mentor at accelerators such as the startupbootcamp, GTEC or Axel Springer Plug and Play.

In times of heightened uncertainty and unprecedented government spending to reduce the economic repercussions of the Corona pandemic, cryptocurrency Bitcoin has been coined the first “digital gold” and has attracted the attention of investors, media and general public. Platforms for digital artwork offer so-called NFTs, non-fungible tokens, that provide historical provenance and authenticity for artists and collectors. However, these mostly speculative markets tend to distract from the fast dissemination of disruptive commercial applications based on Blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies (DLTs).

Within the session „The dawn of cryptocurrencies – illusion or reality?“, we will focus on the questions:

–        What are characteristics of Blockchain technology?

–        How can we apply Blockchain technology within companies?

–        How will the future look like?

You will learn about the history of Blockchain and the efforts to overcome the scalability problem, the trend from process applications to hybrid platforms and opportunities and challenges of the future.

Bring a sense of curiosity and doubt so that we can discuss this technology from a neutral perspective.

 

We would very much like to see you among us on June 22nd. The event will start at 17:00 (Istanbul Time).

 

Your meeting login information:

In order to participate you will need to download and install the Zoom app.  Please click the  link to connect:

 

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84128598660

Meeting ID: 841 2859 8660

 

We strongly recommend you to join the session 10 minutes before the start to check the equipment and to get technical help if needed.

 

We would like to propose some rules for interaction:

  • As indicated above we invite you to join the session 10 minutes before the start to deal with the technical issues and to start on time.
  • Make sure you have a ‘clean desk’, in order to avoid distractions. However, we encourage you to have pen and paper at hand to make some notes.
  • Don’t multi-task, be with us the whole time.
  • Please have your video on as a default. As for the sound, if you are in a quiet place we encourage you to stay unmuted so that you are able to join the discussion in a natural way. If you have some background noises it may be a good idea to unmute yourself when speaking and to stay muted when not.
  • When you are sharing a thought or question, please start by stating your name or use chat area to post your question.

 

41 North Business School Team

Speaker's Language Only (English)
Online (Zoom link will be provided)

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