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Attend the World Food Forum Masterclass:“Blockchain 101`- a United Nations Rome Based Agencies Masterclass

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Attend the World Food Forum Masterclass:“Blockchain 101`- a United Nations Rome Based Agencies Masterclass

Attend the World Food Forum (WFF) Masterclass:“Blockchain 101”, a United Nations Rome Based Agencies Masterclass

Monday, 4th Oct. 2021, 14:00 (CEST)- Register here !

Young innovation enthusiasts of all ages are invited to join the United Nations Rome-Based Agencies (RBAs), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) on 04 October 2021 in an interactive, online World Food Forum (WFF) Masterclass on “Blockchain 101”.  Participants of this masterclass will learn about the challenges and great potential of blockchain for fintech, food, agriculture, emergency intervention, and sustainability.

After the opening from FAO Digital Agriculture and Innovation Specialist, Erik VanIngen, who will introduce the UN Rome Based Agencies and the enormous potential that frontier technologies have to foster growth and accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, the participants will be distributed in 3 different break rooms, one per organization, in two cycles, to discuss specific topics that will provide them insights of the specific work of the RBAs in the blockchain field.  In FAO room, Max Rünzel, CEO from HiveTracks and Gerard Sylvester, FAO Investment Officer will present on ´Distributed Ledger Technology (DLTs) for Agriculture: Cutting through the hype´ and provide a walk through the promising use case of hybrid smart contracts in agriculture. The IFAD room will have as Guest speakers Brenda Gunde, Global ICT4D Senior Technical Specialist from the Sustainable Production, Markets and Institutions Division and Maria Fernanda Miranda Munoz, Policy Specialist, TRACE Blockchain by IFAD from the Financial Controller's Division to cover the topic of ´Blockchain Applications to Development Finance: Enhancing transparency, growth and social inclusion´. The IFAD session will focus on the results of IFAD’s research and development of blockchain solutions to increase transparency, fight fraud and corruption, and to offer small-scale farmers tools that contribute to reduce transactional costs and to increase their income. The discussions on the WFP room will be led by Kyriacos Koupparis, Head of Frontier Innovations, from the Innovation Accelerator, focusing on “Blockchain applications for financial inclusion, logistics and supply chain”.

Each session will be followed by Q&A, that will be moderated by the main speakers of the thematic breaking rooms, before going back to the plenary session for a Shared Lessons session between the two cycles that will be moderated by Senior Innovation Adviser from the Change, Delivery and Innovation Unit (CDI) Gladys H. Morales. Closing remarks will be delivered by Jean-Martin Bauer, Senior Advisor on Digital from WFP.

Through this extremely interactive session, based on dialogue and collective exchange, youth attendees will not only gain knowledge on blockchain topics but have increased awareness and trust that the RBAs are well prepared to guide global policymaking in relation to the implementation of the SDGs in general and more specifically on the key impact of blockchain on food systems improvement.

Join us to create a better food future for all. Register for the “Blockchain 101” Masterclass today! 

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