How are the future cities going to look like? How are we going to feed our growing population? How can we use blockchain to create solutions? Climate change is happening faster than anyone thought.

United Nations Climate Conference (UN COP24) and Hack4Climate together with Startup Societies Foundation, and Baltia World are calling for action to reduce the carbon emissions by using blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies.

Join this event to present your solutions to climate change and hear experts in the field talk about the future of food and future cities. Check the event about future societies, governance and software.



Keynote Speaker

Aylon Steinhart - business innovation specialist at the Good Food Institute (GFI). Aylon has co-founded two startups, and has worked with companies such as Kellogg's, Applebee's, and Nestle. At the Good Food Institute, Aylon helps entrepreneurs launch the next generation of good food startups.

Ulysses Vinson - Chief Smart Communities Officer and director of SMC Labs. Ulysses is living by the moto - Silicon Valley Innovation - the Peoples Way.

Speakers

Wendy Leicht - Food anthropologist and founder of evolve.ag. She believes that vertical farms have the potential to make food systems for sustainable, local, and just.



Meisha Donaldson – chef, expert in various multinational cuisines, founder of RumCrums. Meisha's specialties are working with exotic ingredients and developing new products and concepts in the baking industry.

David Tze - CEO of NovoNutrients, serial entrepreneur and ex-investor in aquaculture. He was the co-founder and sole manager of Aquacopia Ventures, a portfolio that, along with his previous start-ups, raised over $250M.



Michael Eliot - Founder of Ventive House. Michael has a background in home construction and mechanical design, among other interests he is following decentralized law, city concepts, and seasteading.

Moderator

Louis Mikal – Sustainable community space developer, co-creating an impact accelerator, working with sustainable energy storage





Agenda

5.00 - 5.45 Doors open/Welcome

5:30 - 5.45 Special address by City Chain

5.45 - 6.00 Greeting by

Miriam Lynn McGovern - NODE

Louis Mikal - Baltia World

Aya Miyaguchi - Ethereum Foundation

6:00 - 7:00 Pitches for UN COP24 solutions - Hack4Climate

7:00 - 7.30 Keynote by Aylon Steinhart

7.30 - 7.45 Keynote by Ulysses Vinson

7:45 - 8:45 Panel Discussion

8:45 - 9:30 Q&A and mingle

9.30 —— Event ends —







Co-organized by the Node SF, Startup Societies Foundation and Baltia World. Huge thanks to Node membership space for opening the space for incredible conversations to happen.