Silicon Valley Bitcoin Meetup - 6pm @ Plug and Play Tech Center

The Silicon Valley Bitcoin Meetup is hosted monthly, every 2nd Tuesday from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, at Plug and Play Tech Center's 2nd Floor Event Center

Please join us and meet other Bitcoiners!

6:00pm - 6:30pm: Arrivals & Introductions
6:30pm - 7:00pm: 1. Featured Talk
7:00pm - 7:30pm: 2. Featured Talk
7:30pm - 8:00pm: Networking

Ami Lebendiker: Half Costa Rican half Israeli. Currently living in San Francisco.
Founder of Mango Startups - The First Decentralized Fund for Latin America.
Ami has 5+ years of experience at Google as Hardware Program Manager, mentor at Launchpad Accelerator and Google for Entrepreneurs.
Passionate about blockchain innovation and new tech gadgets.
Other hobbies include Basketball, Skiing and a good burger

Title: How Blockchain Could Help Emerging Markets Leap Ahead

Description: The adoption of bitcoin is breaking records in regions like Latin America.
This is not because of the general interest, but because there is a real need for an alternative to traditional high banking risk, low banking penetration and digital financing.
Emerging markets are an ideal backdrop for the adoption of blockchain-based financial solutions. Benefits include a technological leap forward and a boost to financial inclusion and growth.

Alex Aris: Aleks Aris, or also known as just "Alex", owner of Mountain Wisdom,
and the creator of the Money Abundance Project (MAP) holds
a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park
with a specialization in Human-Computer Interaction / User Experience.
He started his own software consulting & research business in 2015,
Mountain Wisdom, and enriched it with individual consulting services, mainly:
(1) relational consulting: to fix issues in people relations, and
(2) money abundance consulting: to fix money issues people have through MAP.
Alex can be reached through the Meetup group or at: https://earn.com/aleksaris/

Title: The Money Abundance Project: a look into the "heart" of money issues

Description: Bitcoin and crypto-currencies have promised freedom and sovereignty over our own financial destiny and ultimate well-being. While we are potentially experiencing one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, "wealth transfer" in history, from fiat to crypto currencies, are we all ready for the required shift in consciousness that crypto-currencies bring?
What can happen if we are not ready?
How do we adapt ourselves to this movement?
And, finally, how shall we guide our decisions?