Pemo Theodore

Pemo Theodore is a Media Publisher and a great people connector. She was Founder Silicon Valley TV which served the San Francisco Bay Area for 14 years! She has produced Silicon Valley Events for Investors & Startups for 10 years. Pemo loves to video interview venture capitalists & founders to engage the human behind the success stories.. She has been Executive Producer of FinTech Silicon Valley for 8 years, organizing twice monthly FinTech talks & panels in San Francisco & Palo Alto and audio podcasts. She believes in learning through a great discussion with experts in the domains. Pemo has a talent to bring the right people together and is an incredible networker. Pemo's events have been seen as supporting Venture Capitalists & Angels in sourcing great deal flow from startups who attend her events. Many founders have received funding through meeting investors at her events. Her favored medium is audio & visual media and she has built up a great body of work of videos of panels & interviews and podcasts in Silicon Valley startup ecosystem. She has lived & worked in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, London, Northern Ireland & Silicon Valley. Bio https://pemo.one

Blockchain Ask Me Anything Session 3 with Jae Yang, Blockchain Engineer #blockchainama

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The third session in this series is focused on Cryptocurrency Practicals and Future of Cryptocurrencies. Operationally, cryptocurrencies include many stakeholders. In this session we will talk about problems, debates, and rewards of mining, and how code forks are handled. The session will cover the scalability debates and recent developments in Bitcoin, because Bitcoin is a great bellweather for rest of the cryptocurrencies. Moving forward, cryptocurrencies will do much more than transact, and the session will briefly introduce you to Bitcoin Script and Ethereum Smart Contracts. Finally we will cover the issue of privacy and how it is being handled in different cryptocurrencies.

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Walter De Brouwer CEO CoFounder doc.ai #ICOvVC

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Walter De Brouwer CEO CoFounder doc.ai a platform designed to let people train their own medical AI so that they can organize their own data trial to accelerate research and convert the millions of biomarkers in their body into a financial asset. He is a polymath, serial entrepreneur and investor in tech and science since he left academia in the 90’s.

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Itai Damti Entrepreneur in Residence 500 Startups Fintech (SF) #ICOvVC

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Itai Damti Entrepreneur in Residence 500 Startups Fintech (SF) He is also CEO Antifragile which is a fintech consulting firm in Hong Kong. Previously, he co-founded Leverate (160 employees, 6 offices)- an industry leader in tech for online brokers, with over 100b USD in monthly trading volume. In his ten years at Leverate, Itai served as CEO Asia Pacific (3 years), VP Products (3 years, 9 PM’s, 13 products) and engineering lead (4 years). Itai is a long time crypto enthusiast and an advisor to several companies in the space including Gatecoin, Hong Kong’s largest exchange.

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ICO versus VC Funding

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DISCUSSION: Walter DeBrower, CEO of doc.ai; Jay Eum, formerly with Samsung Ventures and now Managing Director and Co-Founder of Translink Capital; Itai Damti, Resident Entrepreneur at 500 Startups; William Quigley, Managing Director Cashel Enterprises; Michael Sidgmore, Broadhaven Capital Partners; Duncan Davidson, Managing Director of BullPen Capital MODERATOR: Robin Raskin, Journalist

This is a guest post by Robin Raskin, Living in Digital Times

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