DeFi Toronto – November Meetup (via Zoom) – Aave / Sacred Finance / Platz

Agenda:
7:00 – 7:20 | DeFi News Recap
7:20 – 7:45 | 1st speaker + Q&A: Ajit Tripathi, Aave
7:45 – 8:10 | 2nd speaker + Q&A: Lisan, Sacred Finance
8:10 – 8:15 | Break + Community Announcements
8:15 – 8:40 | 3rd speaker + Q&A: Manuel Badel, Platz.co

Speaker backgrounds:

~~ Ajit Tripathi ~~

Aave is the world's leading DeFi liquidity protocol. Decentralised finance creates significant opportunities for financial institutions to enhance market transparency, market efficiency, financial inclusion and systemic risk reduction for consumers worldwide. My role involves driving institutional growth, strategy and partnerships to enable institutions to participate in decentralised finance.

The last five years of my career have been devoted to building bridges between financial institutions and the crypto/internet of value ecosystem. This includes building banking and payments rails for Binance and Paxful, advising crypto startups, driving the buildout of the fintech practice for ConsenSys and building the UK Blockchain Business for PwC. Clients I have served include We.Trade, Komgo, Nasdaq, Deutsche Bourse, MUFG and BBVA.

I am also the crypto co host of Breaking Banks Fintech podcast and a columnist for Coindesk in addition to being an active angel investor in high quality crypto startups.

~~ Sacred Finance team ~~

Lisan leads the team at Sacred, managing overall operations, strategy, business development, and investor relations. As a hands-on designer and builder with over 9 years of experience bringing new blockchain products to market, Lisan has successfully delivered solutions across all the various blockchain user types from DeFi degens to CEO's of high profile crypto firms. Spearheading technical development, Paul is a seasoned blockchain developer with 11 years of professional software development experience. Paul holds a degree in Computer Science and leverages his aptitude for understanding the entire software development life-cycle to build decentralized blockchain applications. Next on the team we have JAM-- A DeFi research analyst, and serious privacy advocate, JAM is responsible for token model design at Sacred, including research pertaining to regulations, legal, and governance. Lastly, we have Trinity, a serial entrepreneur with 8 years of experience running startups. Trinity has been in the blockchain space since 2016 and leads marketing, communications, and community development at Sacred.

~~ Manuel Badel ~~

A specialist in business models and product design in the creative industries, Manuel Badel initiated the first blockchain PoC in the Canadian broadcasting sector (Blockchain TFO - 2017). He also organized the first conference on film and blockchain at the Berlinale-EFM (2018), and is the author of the only industry report in this particular field in Canada (2019). As a researcher and entrepreneur, he is developing Platz.co, an IP management and impact investing platform.