From left: NEM Thailand Chief Representative and Country Manager, Laura Takenaka, HIT Foundation COO and Co-Founder, Elizabeth Chee and Xarbon Co-Founder Jeffery Liu

On 12th July 2018, NEM Singapore kick-started the first of what would be a series of regular monthly NEM Meetings in Singapore, that will be held at BitTemple’s Singapore premise.

Called NEM Talks, the monthly meetings will be an opportunity for the NEM and business community in Singapore to network with each other as well as find out and present ongoing NEM projects in the country or internationally. With 40 attendees on the first meet, the topic of choice was on health and the environment.

Laura Takenaka giving a brief explanation of blockchain to the audience

NEM Thailand Chief Representative and Country Manager, Laura Takenaka, started the meet off with a Blockchain 101 presentation which was followed by presentations by the HIT Foundation and Xarbon.

HIT Foundation (Switzerland) COO and Co-Founder, Elizabeth Chee demonstrated how they will empower the individuals in sharing their health data. She emphasised that by putting health data into a NEM public blockchain and utilising multisignatures, a designated trustee can access relevant data needed by health administrators should a patient fall unconscious during times of emergency.

Xarbon (Hong Kong) Co-Founder Jeffery Liu on the other hand, presented an overview of what they do, the various sustainability efforts they are involved in (including having reduced about 200 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere and has protected over 500 thousand hectares of rainforest) and how they’re using the NEM blockchain to digitise carbon assets to increases the transparency, efficiency, and liquidity of carbon markets.

Around 40 attendees were at the first NEM Singapore NEM Talks at BitTemple

“With the NEM Talk monthly meetings, we hope that it will be a NEM Highway for cross-pollination of ideas within the business and start-up community in Singapore,” said NEM Singapore Head, William Tan.

For more updates on NEM activities in Singapore and the next NEM Talk schedule, head over to the NEM Singapore’s Facebook page HERE.