HUT Consulting on Blockchain Expert Panel, “Modern Stores of Value and the World Economy”
With blockchain’s underlying technology still so young, there remains a lot of room for innovation and improvements. Subjects discussed in the webinar varied from financial trading to legal & compliance across to marketing communications and technology. These areas were focused around addressing big questions like:
Are cryptocurrencies really acting as stores of value?
What can we do to bring more transparency?
What’s the “it” that will push this technology and investment vehicle into mainstream?
Presenting alongside Harumi Urata-Thompson were respected peers Bryan McGurk, investor and writer experienced in non-profit sector and legacy market trading, Xenia Vyazemskaya, co-founder of It Takes Two content marketing and PR firm for startups in fintech and digital assets, and Manny Alicandro, NYC attorney and former candidate for New York Attorney General and NYC Public Advocate.
The online event was hosted by the Blockchain Center and Bitcoin Center NYC, with special thanks to Anna Ginzburg, Nick Spanos and Scott Spiegel.
ETC Labs Accelerator Interviews Mentor and HUT Consulting CEO, Harumi Urata-Thompson
Recently Harumi was interviewed in her role as a mentor in the ETC Labs Accelerator program on the state of blockchain technology. Among the many key insightful thoughts from the Q&A session, Harumi answered a question that is particularly relevant today,
“What do we need for the next generation of workers and employees to understand about blockchain? What does it mean to have blockchain as a skill?“.
See Harumi’s response in the original medium article.
“We believe having a robust board of mentors with a breadth of experience within innovation, blockchain, and financial sectors is a crucial component for the startups coming through our program,” said Liz Kukka, Executive Director of the ETC Labs accelerator program. “We’re elated to work with Harumi and bring her scope of experience and expertise to the Ethereum Classic ecosystem.”
Liz Kukka, Executive Director of the ETC Labs accelerator program
ETC Labs Accelerator promotes the advancement of blockchain technology and Ethereum Classic; providing technical support for blockchain and digital asset startups through the Ethereum Classic Labs Accelerator. One aspect that makes them a leading accelerator for Ethereum Classic and other blockchain projects is their esteemed board of mentors. Harumi Urata-Thompson is honored to be one of them.
Podcast Appearance by HUT Consulting: What Blockchain Looks Like in a Post-COVID-19 Economy
Harumi Urata-Thompson was the guest speaker at LairEast’s podcast hosted by Ron Hamenhem.
Harumi addressed the LairEast community to talk about what we are going through at the moment as we continue to stay in COVID-19 lockdown and its impact on economy. She discussed what blockchain can do in this environment and what it could become.
November 8, 2019 – HUT Consulting Discusses FinTech and Blockchain for the Lawyers
HUT Consulting was invited to speak on a panel at the “Fintech 2019: A Regulatory Overview of Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Digital Coins & Tokens” event at the New York City Bar. The panel topic was Ethics of Bitcoin and ICOs Enforcement.
HUT Consulting Presents at Digital Assets Symposium at Rise
HUT Consulting was invited to present on the topic of digital assets at the symposium held at Rise in New York. Extract from the event description: “Usage of the term ‘Digital assets’ is proliferating…entities ranging from tokenized…to secured hardware data storage to stock photos, videos and other presentation assets accessible in digital form. There is an as-yet-unrealized opportunity for creators and consumers of Digital Assets to deepen their understanding and improve their own particular processing of these entities by learning from practitioners across the spectrum of Digital Assets”.
The Top 3 Most Powerful Technologies Driving Economic Growth in the 4th Industrial Revolution, Part II—The True Power of Using Combinations of Multiple Technologies
As a follow-up to Part I, which introduced the 3 most powerful technologies driving economic growth in the fourth industrial revolution, HUT Consulting published Part II on Medium.
In Part I, we described how in the fourth industrial revolution — driven in part by the mainstream adoption of the smartphone — there has been explosive proliferation of massive datasets or “Big Data”. We described what’s behind the top three most powerful enablers: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and Blockchain. These technologies leverage and capitalize on Big Data.
In Part II, the concept of “employing a combination of AI and Blockchain [which] can be a truly powerful way of enabling the amplification of the economic benefits” is introduced. We conclude, “At this stage, with what we know today, we’d put a stake in the ground that the fourth industrial revolution will follow the trend and become a faster and greater economic expansion than the previous ones. This economic reality could be just around the corner.” Read more here.
This article is part of Tokyo FinTech publication series.
The Top 3 Most Powerful Technologies Driving Economic Growth in the 4th Industrial Revolution, Part I
HUT Consulting published an article with Part I about the top 3 most powerful technologies driving economic growth in the fourth industrial revolution.
In today’s fourth industrial revolution, driven in part by the mainstream adoption of the smartphone, there has been explosive proliferation of massive datasets or “Big Data”. In actuality, there are more than a handful of emerging technologies enabling the fourth revolution, all of which have advanced very quickly in only a few years. In the article, we describe the top three most powerful enablers: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and Blockchain. Interestingly, these leverage and capitalize on Big Data. Read more here.
This article is part of Tokyo FinTech publication series.
Where Space, Big Data, and Healthcare Converge, a celestialdata and Sullivan Law event in New York City
Wearing two hats, HUT Consulting CEO and Co-Founder of celestialdata, Harumi Urata-Thompson moderated a lively panel addressing the convergence of the Space economy, Big Data, and Healthcare IT services. Harumi balanced the Q&A by tying together myriad threads of discussion around block chain, big data and artificial intelligence, healthcare and big data analytics.
Panel experts in their fields, Sullivan Law’s Chair of Fintech and Blockchain, Joel Telpner sat with Chief Scientist, Symanto & Columbia University’s Adjunct Professor Yassine Benajiba, and Kelly H. Zou, VP, Head of Medical Analytics and Insights, Upjohn, Pfizer. Alongside them, Lucas Fonseca, Co-Founder and Chief Space Officer of celestialdata, spoke to the trends in the Space economy and how big data from outer space can be brought down to help life sciences leapfrog to improve human health on earth.
Bridging the Gap Between Secondary Markets & Blockchain
Blockchain Innovation & Networking Club and Fintech Connector hosted an evening where select group of subject matter experts provided their insights on everything from the sentiment and role of secondary markets in today’s industry. HUT Consulting was invited to take a part of event. The evening was filled with active discussion.
Let’s Have a Hard Look at Blockchain
Harumi Urata-Thompson conducted a “Blockchain 101” webinar presentation on what blockchain is, what it can do for businesses, roadblocks to adopting it, and best practices for using it.