Through the IEEE Blockchain Initiative Q&A podcast series, IEEE Future Directions interviews experts in the field of blockchain across various industries. IEEE Blockchain Podcasts provides you access to the industry’s blockchain innovators, experts and enthusiasts.
Episode 17: A Conversation with Alex Norta, PhD, Researcher and Entrepreneur
In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with Alex Norta, head of the IEEE Finland Blockchain Group about his early theoretical research and how it relates to today's blockchains and decentralized autonomous organizations or DAOs.
15 Feb 2023
Episode 16: A Conversation with Kevin Werbach, Liem Sioe Liong/First Pacific Company Professor; Chair, Dept of Legal Studies & Business Ethics, Wharton School, UPenn
In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with Kevin Werbach, author of "The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust", to discuss the dynamics of trust as they relate to smart contracts, regulatory issues, and contract law.
2 Feb 2023
Episode 15: A Conversation with Jeremy Clark, Associate Professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with Jeremy Clark, Associate Professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, about his research associated with central bank digital currencies or CBDCs. Jeremy breaks down his stakeholder analysis and shares practical information on the intricacies of privacy as it relates to stakeholders in the CBDC space.
27 Jan 2023
Episode 14: A Conversation with Christine Fahey, Executive Director and co-founder Blockchain901
In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with Christine Fahey, IEEE Blockchain's regional lead for the Americas local blockchain groups and Executive Director and co-founder of the non-profit organization Blockchain901. Christine provides insights on blockchain's potential and the importance of community building to advance the technology space.
2 Aug 2022
Episode 13: A Conversation with Dr. Chris Elsden, Chancellor’s Fellow in Service Design, Institute for Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh
In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with Dr. Chris Elsden, Chancellor’s Fellow in Service Design in the Institute for Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Elsden discusses the role of design as it relates to blockchain and how it can shed light on utilizing decentralized technologies in tangible, safe, and ethical ways.
22 Jun 2022
Episode 12: A Conversation with Julie Frizzo-Barker, Lead Researcher, Maiden Global
In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with Julie Frizzo-Barker. Julie Frizzo-Barker recently completed her PhD at Simon Fraser University's School of Communication, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Her dissertation investigated the social shaping of blockchain through interviews and participant observations with women working in the space. She is currently a lead researcher on a project conducted by MIT's Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) and Maiden Labs, funded by Financial Services for the Poor at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, focused on whether and/or how central bank digital currency (CBDC) may influence financial inclusion for low- and middle-income populations in India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Mexico.
6 May 2022
Episode 11: A Conversation with Victoria Lemieux, Associate Professor and Blockchain@UBC Cluster Lead, University of British Columbia
In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with Victoria Lemieux, Associate Professor of Archival Science at the School of Information and lead of the Blockchain research cluster, Blockchain@UBC at the University of British Columbia. Her research is focused on risk to the availability of trustworthy records, in particular blockchain.
22 Apr 2022
Episode 10: A Conversation with Dr. Paul Dylan-Ennis, Assistant Professor of Business, University College Dublin
In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with Dr. Paul Dylan-Ennis, an Assistant Professor of Business at University College Dublin. His research focuses on the social, cultural, and political dimensions of crypto, especially within the Ethereum ecosystem. Dr. Dylan-Ennis is a thought leader in the web3 and DeFi space and has published extensively on topics ranging from philosophy to political science.
8 Apr 2022
Episode 9: A Conversation with Gün Sirer, Founder, Avalanche Protocol
In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, Gün Sirer, Founder of Avalanche Protocol, explores the risks and rewards of moving from academia to entrepreneurship and shares his views on how blockchain can support credential management. He also discusses the science of distributed and applied systems and how new technologies are impacting governance and change management in blockchains.
25 Mar 2022
Episode 8: A Conversation with Lana Swartz, Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia
In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with Lana Swartz, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Her work focuses on money and new media technologies. She is the editor of Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (MIT Press, 2017) and the author of New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale University Press, 2020).
11 Mar 2022
Episode 7: A Conversation with JP Vergne, Associate Professor at University College London, School of Management
In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with JP Vergne, Associate Professor at University College London, School of Management. JP Vergne examines the evolution of capitalist societies since the early 17th century. In particular, he explores how socially contested organizations affect the renewal of industries at the vanguard of the economy. His award-winning research on piracy, on the global arms industry around 9/11, and on the rise of blockchain-powered organizations has been published in leading academic journals as well as in two books.
18 Feb 2022
Episode 6: A Conversation with Dr. Michael Zargham, founder and CEO of BlockScience
In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with Michael Zargham, founder and CEO of BlockScience. Dr. Zargham holds a Ph.D. in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied optimization and control of decentralized networks. His earliest work on peer-to-peer effects in business decision making was developing algorithms to reverse engineer the word of mouth effect in enterprise software licensing decisions in 2005. In the intervening years, Dr. Zargham has designed data driven decision systems and built a data science team for a Media Technology firm, worked on the mathematical specifications of blockchain enabled software systems with a focus on observability and controllability of the information state of the networks.
1 Feb 2022
Episode 5: A Conversation with Shermin Voshmgir, author of Token Economy
In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with Shermin Voshmgir, author of Token Economy and founder of Token Kitchen and BlockchainHub Berlin. She was the director and co-founder of the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics, a curator of TheDAO (Decentralized Investment Fund), and advisor to Jolocom, Wunder, and the Estonian E-residency program. She studied Information Systems Management at the Vienna University of Economics and film-making in Madrid. She works at the intersection of technology, art & social science.
30 Nov 2021
Episode 4: A Conversation with Jason Potts, Co-Director, RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT University
In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with Jason Potts, distinguished Professor of Economics at the College of Business and Law at RMIT University. His work focuses on evolutionary economics, complex systems theory, innovation economics and institutional economics. His current research is on economics of blockchain and the digital economy, and on automated decision making. He is currently the Co-Director of the Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT University.
17 Nov 2021
Episode 3: A Conversation with Dr. Philipp Sandner, Frankfurt School Blockchain Center (FSBC), Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner, founder and head of the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center (FSBC) at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. From 2018 to 2021, he was ranked as one of the “top 30” economists by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and belonged to the “Top 40 under 40” ranking by the German business magazine Capital. Since 2017, he has been a member of the FinTech Council of the Federal Ministry of Finance in Germany. The expertise of Prof. Sandner includes blockchain technology in general, crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, the digital programmable Euro, tokenization of assets and rights and digital identity.
29 Oct 2021
Episode 2: A Conversation with Balázs Bodó, Associate Professor, Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam
In this episode of the IEEE Blockchain Podcast Series, we speak with Dr. Balázs Bodó, Associate Professor, and socio-legal researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. He has been a Fellow and Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society and a Fulbright Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. In 2013 he moved to Amsterdam as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. In 2018 he received an €1.5M ERC Starting Grant to study the legal, and political implications of blockchain based technologies, and started the Blockchain & Society Policy Research Lab. He has been invited by the European Commission to serve as an expert for various blockchain related projects.
23 Oct 2020
Episode 1: Q&A with John Greaves, Director, Global Standards, Architecture, Conformity and Propagation at ConsenSys Health
Hosted by Ray Dogum, Podcast Chair, IEEE Healthcare: Blockchain and AI Virtual Series, this episode kicks off a special podcast series covering blockchain and AI in the healthcare industry. In this episode Ray chats with John Greaves, a globally recognized leader in technology who has pioneered development in distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and blockchain. John shares about the importance of standards for the evolving blockchain and AI space, as it relates to healthcare.
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