Join us for the next #AFutureByDesign Salon Series on ethics, blochchain and changing the world with Dr. Jane Thomason and Lisa Andrews

Meet our guest: Dr. Jane Thomason

Jane is a visionary leader and social innovator, with a focus on emerging economies. Advocate for digital transformation to reduce inequality and vulnerability and a move to a human centred digital economy where we measure value based on people and the planet; we use data to measure and report on impact and we collaborate to reduce social and economic disparity.

Recognised in Forbes Magazine (2018) as Blockchain’s Leading Social Development Evangelist, Dr Jane is a passionate advocate for Blockchain for social impact, the education and empowerment of women and Women in Blockchain. In 2018 she was awarded Top 10 Digital Frontier Women and UN Decade Of Women Quantum Impact Champion.

She has 30 years’ experience in emerging economies in public health, poverty and inequality. She started her own international development company in 1999, built it to $50 m revenue , merged with Abt Associates and led the growth to achieve a tripling of revenue and diversification into new sectors to $250m with 650 staff.

Host: Lisa Andrews

Lisa lives to inspire and empower businesses and entrepreneurs to think bigger in having a positive impact on the world.

Lisa Andrews is Co CEO at SingularityU Australia. She is an Angel Investor, Advisor and CEO at Ignite Alliance and WAVIA. Lisa’s businesses work with a range of Startups , SME’s and large corporates providing aspirational business owners with capital, high level advice, actionable tools and resources so they can do what they do best. She is driven by empowering people with technology to have a positive impact on humanity. Lisa resolutely believes that we live in a time where there is no problem so large that it cannot be solved with a deep collaboration between ourselves and technology.