Futurist Keynote, UAE: Demystifying Blockchain, Crypto, NFT's and the Metaverse

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By Matthew Griffin 311 Leadership Sessions Keynote Presentations Uncategorised 4th June 2022

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF

During this keynote session with the Crown Prince of Dubai and the Crown Prince Court keynote speaker Matthew Griffin demystifies blockchain, cryptocurrencies, NFT’s, and the Metaverse, explaining what they are, how they work, and the new opportunities they create.

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Firstly, thank you to Ria for giving me the opportunity to present to Crown Prince of Dubai Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum and the UAE’s Crown Prince Court again, this time to discuss and demystify Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, NFT’s, and the Metaverse – all of which play an integral role in the future of Web 3.0 which itself, in time, will transform and upend every corner of global business, culture, and society.

During the one and a half hour session we debated and discussed the role of all these discrete technologies in the future, and where better to begin than with blockchain, a general purpose technology that underpins them all and magnifies their potential many times over.

First, we examined blockchain as a technology then dove into a host of cross sector use cases for it. Next, we dove into the world of cryptocurrencies to explore the differences between Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC’s), private crypto, and stable coins, and all of the different, and odd ways, that these “programmable” monetary systems can be used to monitor and stimulate global, local, and “glocal” economies at the granular level before shining a light on some of the new and traditionally odd monetary behaviours they enable such as the implications of users who burn their crypto to alter a currency’s value. All for starters.

Demystifying Web 3.0 Technologies, by Keynote Speaker Matthew Griffin

Next up it was time to discuss Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT’s) and how they’re already helping augment and re-invent all manner of products, from NFT pets and the “GameFi” trend to NFT art, fashion, sneakers, and beyond, and all manner of different sectors especially when deployed alongside other Web 3.0 technologies which collectively are helping create a whole new global economic system.

Then, last but definitely not least we discussed the next twenty years of the Metaverse, its transformative power, and of course its oddities.

All in a day’s work as they say. Until next time.

Matthew Griffin / About Author

Matthew Griffin, described as a "Walking encyclopaedia of the future" by NASA and a futurist polymath, is one of the world's most renowned futurists and strategic foresight experts. A serial entrepreneur Matthew is the Founder and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, a global Futures and Deep Futures advisory firm working across the next 50 years, XPotential University, the world's first free futures and foresight university, and the World Futures Forum which works with the United Nations to solve the worlds greatest challenges. 13 times author of the Codex of the Future series, Matthew is an in demand international keynote, acclaimed university lecturer, and host of the hit Fanatical Futurist podcast.

A rare talent in his past Matthew helped build and run several multi-billion dollar business units for Atos, Dell-EMC, and IBM, and his ability to identify, track, and explain the impacts of hundreds of emerging technologies and trends on global business, culture, and society has earned him a powerful reputation and a roster of clients that include royal households, world leaders, G7, G20, and G77+ governments, and many of the world's most respected brands including ABB, Accenture, Adidas, AON, ARM, BCG, Centrica, Citi Group, Coca Cola, Dentons, Deloitte, Disney, EY, KPMG, Lego, Legal & General, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Pepsi Co, Qualcomm, RWE, Samsung, T-Mobile, UBS, VISA, and many others. He was also the only futurist invited to talk at the UN COP28 held in Dubai alongside world leaders.

Regularly featured in the global media including the AP, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Discovery, Forbes, Khaleej Times, Telegraph, TIME, ViacomCBS, WIRED, and the WSJ, Matthews mission is to help organisations create a fair and sustainable future whose benefits are shared by everyone irrespective of their ability, background, or circumstances.