Ian Putter
Head of Blockchain, Center of Excellence at Standard Bank Group
With over 26 years’ experience in the banking industry and over 5 years’ experience working and collaborating with blockchain companies around the world, Ian brings an immense blockchain knowledge and expert guidance to the team. Ian holds a Master’s Degree in Banking and Economics from the University of Pretoria and a Honours and CTA from University of Johannesburg and is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.
Future of Regenerative Finance @ Hedera Haus
12:30 - 12:45 Bringing the Balance Sheet of the Planet to the Public Ledger
- Wes Geisenberger
12:45 - 1:15 Credible & Open Innovation: 30 Minutes
Focusing on Financial Inclusion w/ Standard Bank - Ian Putter
1:30 - 2:00 Making Sustainable Finance Auditable
- Moderator: Katherine Foster (CH)
- Alexey Shadrin - Evercity (Germany)
- Anete Garoza - Founder, 1MTN (Estonia)
- Stenver Jerkku - Solid World DAO (Estonia)
2:05 - 2:35 Digitizing & Open Sourcing Methodologies
What is dMRV - What are methodologies? Why should they be digitized? Largest Open Source Digitized Methodologies on Hedera
- Moderator: Anna Lerner, Climate Collective (USA)
- Daniel O’Halloran - CEO Tymlez (Australia)
- Dr. Vincent Peikert - Founder, Noumena Digital (CH)
- Max Song - Founder - Carbonbase & CarbonBlock (Hong Kong)
2:35 - 3:00 Networking Break
3:00 - 3:30pm Scaling Validation & Verification
- Moderator: Hania Othman (Netherlands)
- Jheroen Muste - Co-Founder & Board Member - KrypC (Netherlands)
- Raphael de Ry - Allcot.io (UK)
- Gregory Landua - Regen Network
3:35 - 4:05pm Liquidity in Climate Markets & Discovering a Global Carbon Price
- Moderator: Kristina Lucrezia Corner - CoinTelegraph EIC (Italy)
- Matthew Porter - Tolam Earth (MO, USA)
- Ana Karen Zapata - ClimateTrade (Spain)
- Neil Cohn - Co-founder, CodeGreen (USA)
4:05 - 4:30 Networking Break
4:30 - 5:00pm Making ESG Reporting Credible
- Moderator: Jonathan Rackoff (WA, USA)
- Alasdair Were - IETA (CH)
- Dr. Nisha Kohli - Founder & CEO, CorpStage (Singapore)
- Dr. Alan Ransil - Sustainability Lead, Filecoin (WA, USA)
5:05 - 5:30 Beyond Carbon: Biodiversity & Nature Markets
- Revathi Kollegala - Exec Director Regen Foundation
- Simon Zadek - Exec Director, Nature Finance
- Frederic Degret - CEO, NOAH Regen
6:30 - 7:00 Climate & ESG Innovation in Enterprise: Hedera Governing Council Perspectives
- Andy Gastwirth - Chief Innovation Officer, DLA Piper
- Tasker Generes - ServiceNow
- Nilmini Rubin - Chief Policy Officer, Hedera
- Paolo Tasca - UCL
Future of Finance @ Hedera Haus w/ Standard Bank & Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine
Standard Bank Group has been a pioneer in leveraging blockchain and distributed ledger technologies to bring speed and transparency to its large and growing customer base across Africa. It has leveraged this technology for several use cases, including foreign exchange (FX) payments and settlement across partner banks, clients, and counterparties involved in trades.