Alison Mackie, Executive Director of BlockchainNZ, on blockchain, female leadership and arts degrees

Опубликовано: 23 Август 2022
на канале: Crypto Girls

Alison Mackie is the current Executive Director of LocationTech, BlockchainNZ, IoT Alliance, and EdTech New Zealand.

EPISODE LINKS:
BlockchainNZ Org: https://blockchain.org.nz/
IOT Alliance NZ: https://iotalliance.org.nz/
BerkleyX Blockchain Fundamentals course: https://www.edx.org/course/blockchain...

PODCAST INFO:
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OUTLINE:
01:02 Alison Mackie Introduction
06:56 Is being a young person an advantage in tech?
07:58 Social Anthropology background
09:04 Tech not for Tech's sake
11:08 Marketing in crypto
12:04 TikTok - upsides and downsides
12:52 Arts degrees in the tech industry
14:06 New Zealand as a tech hub
15:26 Learning about blockchain, BerkleyX programme
19:08 Realities of being a tech nerd
21:36 MeterMe and challenges for blockchain companies
23:26 Cryptocurrency is not blockchain
24:50 NFTs and money laundering
25:32 Y2K, parallels between internet and blockchain
27:00 Girlsplaining crypto
27:28 The growing membership of BlockchainNZ
28:18 Most exciting use cases of blockchain
29:34 Reasons to love supply chain and blockchain together
30:20 Use cases of NFTs
32:30 DAOs
36:50 What is a DAO? (in Alison's words)
40:02 Why decentralise things?
43:04 Environmental costs of blockchain
48:06:00.00 Advice to women who want to get into tech
54:48:00.00 Anthropology Degree

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