There is going to be panel discussion with following guest on August 31

7 pm Dubai time, 11 am New York time,  4 pm London time and 11 am Toronto Time, Aug 31

Gerard Dache - is the President of Government Blockchain Association which he started in 2016 and has over 50 chapters around the world, sits in boards ‎of many start ups. He also runs famous podcast - The Future of Money, Governance and the Law and is passionate about implementing voting in blockchain and DAOs governing organisations.

Sonja Davidovic is an economist in the Offices of the Managing Director and a Digital Expert in the IT Department of International Monetary Fund, IMF where she has been for past 11 years. As Digital Expert, she is working on central bank digital currency implementation considerations. She is one of the co authors of paper "A Survey of Research on Retail Central Bank Digital Currency". She is also founding Advisory Board members of the IMF Innovation Lab.

Alex Tapscott along with the famous Don Tapscott co-founded the Blockchain Research Institute (BRI), a global think-tank investigating blockchain strategies, opportunities and use-cases. Alex is the co author of best selling books - Blockchain Revolution and Financial Services Revolution. Alex has extensive governance experience and is an advisor to the International Monetary Fund, Elections Canada and the World Economic Forum.

Gabriel Abed is the CEO of Bitt, cofounded in 2014, whose current clients include the Central Banks of Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank. Currently, Bitt is known for its application of mMoney, which is championed by Barbados' Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley and has seen widespread adoption across services in Barbados including large merchants such as The Sol group, ICBL (Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited) and other 500 merchants. He has spoken in leading conferences across the world.

Vipin Bharathan is the founder of dlt.nyc and is the chair of the Identity Working Group in Hyperledger . A frequent contributor to Forbes magazine, he has also helped create a project in Hyperledger labs to explore standards of CBDC on ethereum called eThaler. Being the only coder on our panel. we will discuss more about possible architecture of CBDC with him.

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