TokenEconomies: Academia and Practitioners Cross-Pollination for a New Field

UPDATE

Hey all!

Here is the Zoom link for the Meetup this afternoon:

https://zoom.us/j/6985322054

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Please note: The event will take place in Berlin but you can also join via video call. We’ll share the Zoom link shortly before the meetup.
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Details
TEGG 2019 was the first iteration of bringing together academia and blockchain practitioners - in this meetup we’ll take the next step.

Join us for an inspiring discussion on the following questions:

• Blockchain tokens and academia - a complicated relationship?
• Beyond economics: Scientific fields to look at for token engineering
• Re-thinking our economies: a chance for research and applied side
• Cross-pollination: Encouraging and enabling collaboration

The speakers:

1. Wassim Alsindi
   Wassim is Managing Editor at Cryptoeconomic Systems journal and member of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative. He’s just back from the Cryptoeconomic Systems Summit, a brand new conference series to crystallise a scholarly ecosystem for this field (Oct 5-6, https://cryptoresearch.pubpub.org/). Being the organizer, he’ll share his views and upcoming activities in 2020. Prior to joining the DCI, Wassim conducted and managed academic research in the physical sciences, curated avant-garde arts events, and published open-source experimental electronic music.
   Twitter: @parallelind

2. Anish Mohammed
   Anish is an accomplished multi disciplinarian who has worked as medical doctor, bioinformatician, strategy consultant and cryptographer. He has spent half his career researching cryptographic algorithms and protocols at three different research groups. He has also worked as a strategy consultant for Accenture and Capgemini and advices various start ups including Adjoint, Arteia, Ripple Labs, Hyperloop Transport Technologies and Chain of Things. Just lately, he started pretopia.fm, a podcast show with @insideNiMA on „the delicate balance between existential opportunities & risks“ of new technologies.
   Twitter: @anishmohammed

3. Kris Paruch
   Kris curated the research track at TEGG 2019, his profile comprises all the essential building blocks of cryptoeconomics. He laid his academic fundament as an MSc in technical-economic Mathematics at the University of Technology in Vienna. With five years working experience in banking and software integration he understands the financial and regulatory background at the intersection of real-world and cryptocurrency economics. His focus at the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at WU Vienna is the development of standards for token engineering, creation of network design and incentive mechanism structures and valuation and modelling of cryptoassets.
   Twitter: @paruch1

4. Akseli Virtanen
   Akseli is a co-founder of Economic Space Agency (http://ecsa.io), soon to release its economic white paper Protocols for Cryptoeconomic Networks, a Peer-to-Peer Value Creation System. He is a political economist (PhD Aalto University), currently based at Stanford University, where he is working with his team to create an economic grammar for post-capitalist economic expression. Some of his recent takes on rethinking the "economic" component of cryptoeconomics: https://medium.com/econaut.
   Twitter: @econaut6

5. Michael Zargham
   Michael holds a PhD in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied optimization and control of decentralized networks. His earliest work on peer-to-peer effects in business decision making was developing algorithms to reverse engineer the word of mouth effect in enterprise software licensing decisions in 2005.
   He has also worked on the mathematical specifications of blockchain enabled software systems with a focus on observability and controllability of the information state of the networks. Most recently, he founded BlockScience, an engineering, research, and analytics firm focused on design and analysis of complex networks.
   Twitter: @mZargham