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- Analytics & Blockchain for Community Focused Financial Institutions
- October 18th, 2016 from 10:30am - 4:00pm
- Room E14-240; 20 Ames Street, Cambridge MA
Co-Hosted by Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland and the Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, this event provides an opportunity for a small group of invited stakeholders, innovators and thought leaders to explore the transformative potential of analytics and blockchains for community-driven financial institutions.
Our host, MIT Media Lab Professor Pentland will open the event by framing key issues, ideas and questions, followed by a handful of topic-centered sessions about MIT projects and innovations. Tentatively, MIT Sloan Professor Simon Johnson may also be able to join us for some portion of the day, bringing a uniquely valuable perspective on global development, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Lightning talks will explore innovative capabilities of analytics and blockchain technologies for economic development and community-focused financial services, highlighting opportunities in the context of lending processes, operations and success measures. The talks will serve as "Firestarters" to catalyze discussion of key topics, questions and ideas.
Scenarios under development include:
- Automated Loan Funds and Blockchain Border Bank (Human Dynamics/DCI)
- Self-Issued Blockchain Identity Hypothesis (Human Dynamics)
- Credit-Collective (DCI/Human Dynamics)
- Crypto-Solar Security Hypothesis (DCI)
The ideas and questions surfaced during this session will form a basis for attendees to form smaller breakout groups after lunch.
- During lunch, attendees will have opportunity to informally discuss and consider which key topics, questions and ideas to discuss more deeply in smaller group breakout sessions
- A short Media Lab Tour is available for attendees at some point during lunch
- Smaller Group Discussions
- 2:30 Report Backs
- Smaller group discussions
- 3:30 Report Backs
A wrap up discussion will focus on effective tools, best practices and example models for harnessing innovation to explore, test, adapt and adopt these emerging technologies, concluding with remarks by Professor Pentland
Attendees are invited to continue the conversations that evening at an optional social dinner at a local venue, to be decided and announced at the close of the day. Immediately following the event (4:30-5:30), attendees are invited to an optional reception at the Cambridge Innovation Center for demonstrations of relevant blockchain and analytics technologies and networking with "civic hackers" who volunteer with organizations like yours to rapidly develop projects with open source and open standards on GitHub.
This MIT Media Lab event is a collaboration of the Human Dynamics Lab and the Digital Currency Initiative.
