Thursday, August 3, 2023
Born Global Circle Time: Blockchain
The Born Global Community is excited to announce the Blockchain Track in partnership with the Houston Blockchain Alliance, where we will feature topics in the blockchain, crypto and web3 space to both communities.
Here's the agenda of the one hour session:
1. In the first 30 minutes, we will learn the latest insights from industry experts. This part will be live streamed and recorded across social media platforms to benefit and impact a larger audience.
2. In the second 30 minutes, we will stop streaming and recording to open discussion. Participants are encourages to share and get support from peers and industry experts.
We would like to invite you to be part of this very special program and showcase your startup for feedback and support (aka "not a pitch competition").
If you would like to get in touch or have any questions, please feel free to join our slack space and #track-blockchain. Look forward to seeing you soon!
We will feature two speakers:
Aman Quadri, Chief Strategy Officer, Amsys Innovation Solutions
Mahesh Sashital, Founder, Houston Blockchain Alliance
Aman Quadri, PT, DPT, Cert. MDT currently resides a consultant in several different technology verticals including: healthtech, fintech, and future tech. He serves as the Chief Strategy Officer at Amsys Group where he helps across a conglomerate of over 14 companies. Spending over 2 decades combining technology, healthcare, and emerging opportunities, Aman has built a solid foundation around the empowerment of others and believes that technology can build the gap throughout our lives.
Recently, he has helped to build out healthcare data platforms giving insights into medication usage and behavioral health that has impacted tens of thousands of lives, payment rails utilizing blockchain for ease of cross border payments, and has recently worked with groups bringing healthcare payments to the Caribbean. His recent endeavor was to work on the financial health of refugees and helped to create a neobank that served to provide equal access to products only available to the wealthy and to create high yield savings for those with limited documentation.
He believes that the impact new technologies can help accelerate every day products and services, such as blockchain, AI, and various Web3 initiatives. His newest advisory projects include decentralized Carbon Credit Trading, creation of medical records as NFTs, and mental health screening as a service.
Mahesh Sashital has been a passionate technologist for over 20 years. He is the cofounder of Lucrisma, a fintech web3 startup which enables users to aggregate and own their financial information and rewarding them for sharing it with financial institutions. He also founded the Houston Blockchain Alliance in 2018, which aims to educate and increase awareness & adoption of blockchain, crypto and web3 in Houston. He is also the cofounder of Smartereum, a crypto news site which he started in 2017 and grew to over 600,000 monthly users.
Mahesh has extensive experience in software engineering and product management, developing, leading, and launching projects and products at Fortune 500 companies, such as J.P.Morgan and Ford, as well as startups.
Thanks to The Born Global Community for news and the graphics for this virtual startup event.