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Wes Geisenberger

Wes Geisenberger

VP, Sustainability & ESG at The HBAR Foundation

Wes Geisenberger is the Vice President of Sustainability and ESG at The HBAR Foundation.

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

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

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

4:05 - 4:30 Networking Break

4:30 - 5:00pm Making ESG Reporting Credible

5:05 - 5:30 Beyond Carbon: Biodiversity & Nature Markets

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

Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCM) w/ GBBC @ Hotel Europe*

IWA and Working Group Members will highlight and discuss what’s real and what’s not as well as Progress since Davos May 2022. We will feature “Real World Use Cases” in TTF 2.0 that launched at UNGA in September of 2022 and discuss how Business and Technology Standards support responsible regulation.

* This is an invite-only, private event.

Carbon Emissions (CET) w/ Token Taxonomy Framework @ Hedera Haus

Addressing the Carbon Emissions ecosystem challenges is one of the biggest opportunities we all face before 2030. Work is underway. GBBC’s InterWork Alliance, Hedera, HBAR, Microsoft, EY, and other market participants have adopted a blueprint that is proving value in the real world with Use Cases that are now guiding the advancement of a larger global collaboration including unifying blockchain climate efforts. We will discuss the incremental work since 2020, which is now the blueprint for responsibly moving forward.