Humanity 2.0 is a self-described “human accelerator” dedicated to fixing humanity’s greatest challenges by supporting organizations and companies that make a difference. The official partnership between Pledgecamp and Humanity 2.0 has been announced previously on this blog.

In recognition of Pledgecamp’s mission to bring decentralized crowdfunding to the world and its potential for social impact, Humanity 2.0 will help support potentially world-changing companies to list on the Pledgecamp platform, and invited us to speak at their annual forum in the Vatican in Rome.

The Collegio Teutonico of the Vatican City, not traditionally open to the public.

Matthew Sanders, CEO of Humanity 2.0, says the goal isn’t to align religious beliefs, but:

“to provide humanity a new way to collaborate in tackling human challenges that leverages every asset at our disposal…by bringing to bear new technologies, expertise and strategies, we stand a much better chance of making it as a species”

One of the platforms supporting this is the Catholic Church, which Sanders calls the “largest NGO in the world”.

The support of this initiative can be seen in the guest list for the event, which included the President of the Government of Serbia, President of the Republic of Malta, President of EMEA Partnerships at Google, SVP Corporate Affairs at Cisco, Lead Government Relations at HP, CSR Director at Dell, SVP Renewals at Salesforce, Global Head of Public Affairs of IKEA Group, VP Healthcare at Google Cloud, Dean of the Faculty at Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and many others.

Pledgecamp President, Eddie Lee, participates in a panel discussion at the 2019 Forum

Pledgecamp was invited to speak on the topic of “Emerging Technology for Good” to discuss the ways in which new technologies can be utilized to accelerate human progress. We discussed how crowdfunding has not yet fulfilled its global promise to democratize fundraising, and how blockchain technology could be the key that finally makes it accessible and secure for all.

In media coverage from the event, CruxNow highlights Pledgecamp as one of the partners of the event, alongside highly recognizable companies:

Big-name sponsors include Cisco, Google, Dignity Health, Pledgecamp, Crown Sterling, Falkon Ventures and Burst iQ. https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2019/05/11/humanity-2-0-answers-popes-call-for-entrepreneurs-with-a-conscience/

After the panels, networking, and a media interview on Pledgecamp with The Traders Network, the day came to a close with further networking at the St. Regis in Rome.

Business, education, and faith leaders congregate to form strong relationships with a common purpose.

We look forward to bringing you further developments on this partnership and others, and to the future world-changing startups that we may have the privilege of supporting in partnership with Humanity 2.0.