Name: Blockchain Business Innovation with Josh Rosenthal
Start: 2025-09-19T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-19T13:00:00-05:00
Location: EnterpriseWorks @ U of I Research Park

Join us in a conversation with Josh Rosenthal, Ph.D., a former Renaissance and Reformation Historian, Repeat-Exited Start-Up Founder, and Crypto-First Investor. A Fulbright Recipient to the Sorbonne’s interdisciplinary think tank (EPHE), Josh founded multiple successful start-ups in AI and B2B SaaS, exiting to strategic and publicly-traded companies before starting a crypto-first founders’ fund, the 6ixth Event, and their family office, Narwhal Ventures.

​This talk will explore how blockchain technologies and businesses are driving a new wave of social, cultural, and technological transformation. Drawing on his background as both a Renaissance historian and a crypto-first investor, Josh will highlight parallels between past shifts in knowledge and power and today’s decentralized revolution. He’ll share insights on how people can use blockchain to reimagine innovation and collaboration, and what this means for the future of society.

​An EY Entrepreneur of the Year, his work has been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg & US News. Josh has served as an Expert Advisor to The White House under Multiple Administrations, the OSTP & ONC, congressionally mandated committees, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has also been a guest lecturer at Harvard, Hopkins, and MIT in entrepreneurship, innovation, and its resistance & adoption and a keynote speaker and featured guest at major crypto conferences and on crypto media where he explores how communities use decentralized technology to reshape our world. Based in Louisville, Kentucky, he works out of an old bourbon bar named after a horse.

We will meet in the Enterprise Works building of the Research Park where there is open parking for guests and a CUMTD bus stop. Please RSVP so we know how many to expect, as lunch will be provided!

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