Speeches and Presentations
How innovation hubs get created
The CEIBS International Conference was held alongside the famous Lujiazui Forum on 19 June 2025. The annual Lujiazui Forum is...
Read moreDetailsTrust the data, take the leap!
Just a few weeks before giving this speech, I was in Zambia, and visiting the border town of Livingstone with...
Read moreDetailsAI and immortality in the year of the snake
In this playful speech given at an awards dinner in Tokyo, Japan in March 2025, I started by wanting to...
Read moreDetailsDeFi is setting the rules by which banking will be run shortly
In this wide-ranging keynote at the First Bank Nigeria's Fintech 6.0, I outlined how DeFi is setting new standards of...
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Site Visits and Travelogue
Postcard from the Antarctic
Even as visiting the Antarctic is becoming commonplace today, I think of it as a very special place on our...
Read moreDetailsPostcard from El Salvador, Bitcoin’s first nation
Highlights of my first trip to El Salvador to capture the early days of the Bitcoin economy. What’s real, what’s...
Read moreDetailsHow Ricky Thomson and his friends created SafeBoda
Ricky Rapa Thomson, a co-founder of Uganda’s first ride-hailing app SafeBoda, told me just how he and his friends digitized...
Read moreDetailsThe network effect of the Hong Kong protests
I had two views of China on its national day this year. I spent the morning of 1 October 2019...
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