Invite-only breakfast at the Skoll World Forum

RippleWorks Foundation and the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business would like to invite you to a private breakfast where we will:

Explore the basics of blockchain and how it can drive social good
Interview social impact leaders who are using blockchain to unlock innovative solutions in sectors such as financial inclusion, international aid, and governance
Share actionable insights from evaluating 193 blockchain initiatives dedicated to social good

We hope you will be able to join us for breakfast to gain a better understanding of what blockchain's current and future impact can be.

Featured Speakers on Blockchain Initiatives

Ivo Lohmus, Guardtime
Guardtime is a blockchain platform company that ensures the integrity of data and systems at industrial scale. Guardtime provides the distributed ledger technology that allows the Estonian government to provide 99% of its services as e-services (E-Estonia), including e-health records.

Shaun Conway & Fennie Wang, ixo Foundation
ixo Foundation leverages blockchain technology to optimize sustainable development impact. Using the ixo protocol, organizations and funders can create a "proof of impact," making evaluation more efficient, transparent, and cost-effective.

Doug Galen, RippleWorks

RippleWorks Foundation helps the world’s fastest growing social ventures solve their most critical scaling challenge. RippleWorks connects leading expertise from Silicon Valley and the larger tech sector with social ventures for short-term, high-impact volunteer projects that unlock the ventures’ capacity for growth.

In addition to being CEO of RippleWorks, Doug Galen is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Agenda

7:30 - Breakfast and networking
8:05 - Presentation & Discussion
8:45 - Audience Q&A

How can blockchain actually help solve problems that matter?