- DisrupTV
DisrupTV is a weekly Web series with hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. The audience can expect A-list guests, the latest enterprise news, hot startups, insight from influencers, and much more. Tweet questions to #DisrupTV or @DisrupTVShow. We broadcast live on Zoom.
Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConstellationR
Featured Guests:
Adam Lowe
Chief Innovation Officer
Arculus
From the government labs in the defense department to the burgeoning blockchain technology market, Dr. Adam Lowe has been on the cutting-edge of innovation. Lowe created ArculusTM, named for the Roman god of safes and strongboxes, a revolutionary crypto security and cold storage wallet solution that provides consumers with a digital strongbox, protected by three-factor authentication. The easy-to-use Arculus Key™ Card and its companion, the Arculus Wallet™ App, together make users powerful guardians of their crypto and identities. Arculus is the next-generation of cryptocurrency cold storage wallets making it easy for anyone to buy, swap, send, receive and store cryptocurrency in a safer and more secure way.
Arculus’ parent company, CompoSecure, has more than 20 years of experience in the design, development and manufacturing of next-generation security, payment and digital-asset storage technology solutions for a variety of clients worldwide. CompoSecure saw an opportunity to solve a chronic need posed by the Digital Assets Revolution: the need for secure, reliable and easy-to-use storage of digital assets and identities.
The answer is Arculus.
Lowe is the Chief Innovation Officer at CompoSecure and Arculus. Lowe holds a Ph.D. and MBA from Cornell University where he researched bio-nanotechnology, and a BS in Microbiology from Salisbury University. As a sought-after expert in technology, he has been published in a variety of peer reviewed journals, authored technical book chapters, and is listed as an inventor on over a two-hundred patents and patents pending.
Follow his company on Twitter: @thisisarculus
Daniela Barbosa
General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation
Executive Director of Hyperledger Foundation
Daniela Barbosa serves as General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation and as Executive Director of Hyperledger Foundation with overall strategic and operational responsibility for staff, programs, expansion and execution of Hyperledger’s mission. Daniela has more than 20 years of enterprise technology experience, including serving for four years as Hyperledger Foundation’s Vice President of Worldwide Alliances with responsibility for the member community as well as broader industry and business community outreach and overall network growth. She started her career at Dow Jones where she worked with the top global brands across various sectors, including finance, consumer and energy, to architect and deliver enterprise systems, ontologies and semantic web solutions. In the early 2000s, Daniela became involved in the early web 2.0 community helping to advance the concept of digital identity and data portability as the pathway for people to reuse their data across interoperable applications.
Follow her on Twitter: @danielabarbosa
Mike Bechtel
Chief Futurist
Deloitte Consulting LLP
As chief futurist with Deloitte Consulting LLP, Mike Bechtel helps clients develop strategies to thrive in the face of discontinuity and disruption. His team researches the novel and exponential technologies most likely to impact the future of business, and builds relationships with the startups, incumbents, and academic institutions creating them.
Prior to joining Deloitte, Bechtel led Ringleader Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2013. Before Ringleader, he served as CTO of Start Early, a national not-for-profit focused on early childhood education for at-risk youth. Bechtel began his career in technology R&D at a global professional services firm where his dozen US patents helped result in him being named that firm’s global innovation director. He currently serves as professor of corporate innovation at the University of Notre Dame.
Follow him on Twitter: @mikebechtel
