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News Flash || SZC Founder Is Attending the World’s Largest Impact Investing Conference-GIIN Investor Forum 2018
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Oct 29, 2018 · 2 min read
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On 30 and 31 October 2018, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) is hosting the GIIN Investor Forum 2018 in Paris, France. The forum, being the largest impact investing conference of the year, aims to advance and scale impact investing market through insights from industry leaders, leading-edge research, and unrivalled networking opportunities.
The GIIN expects over 1000 attendees, 150 speakers from across 60 countries will attend the forum. This year’s practitioner-focused agenda features four streams covering six core themes, deals with the full spectrum of impact assets and strategies to provide participants with invaluable insights to delve deeper into the industry’s most pressing issues. View the full agenda.
The founder of Shanzhai City, Dr. Tat Lam, is invited by the GIIN to participate in a streamed session titled “How blockchains and crypto could change impact investing” on the GIIN Investor Forum Day 2. Dr Shaun Conway, the founder and president of the ixo Foundation, a non-profit open-source software development foundation building the ixo Blockchain for Impact, will chair the session, while Dr. Lam, Simon Granger, Christo Thekkel and Telly Onu will be the panelists. In this streamed session, the delegates will present and discuss
Examples of applications so far and the paths to scale;
Is Tokenization a new asset class, ;
Programmable capital and how it can be used in optimizing risks and returns; and
Open marketplaces, dis-intermediated and decentralized?
The GIIN Investor Forum 2018 will be a very important meeting for anyone interested in learning about impact investing and its best practices. It is also an excellent opportunity to speak with like-minded professionals, and learn about new products and initiatives set up by IFIs and other institutions.
If you are attending the GIIN Investor Forum, don’t miss your chance to meet Dr. Tat Lam by attending streamed session “How blockchains and crypto could change impact investing”. It will begin at 12:15pm on 31 October (Wednesday) at Theatre C of Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel, Paris, France.
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