Hope for the World – The Climate Engineer

New Year Event 2020

Date: Monday 20th January 2020, 6 pm to 9 pm

Venue: Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP

As Greta Thunberg becomes Time Magazine’s person of the year, many wonder what each of us can actually do to address the range of climate change issues that are facing us.

Could we find some inspiration and practical steps closer to home?

Oxfordshire Technology & Media are delighted to welcome serial entrepreneur and engineer Vinay Gupta, CEO and Founder of Mattereum, Hexayurt and in between launch manager of the world’s second-largest blockchain Ethereum 

In conversation with clean air consultant Alex Bigham, Vinay will explore the development of Hexayurt, his work with Ethereum and how Mattereum addresses the excesses of human consumption and opens the door to a sustainable future.

A classic opening event for 2019 – we look forward to seeing you there!

Part of Oxfordshire Technology & Media’s 10 Years to Save The World series.

Photographs courtesy of Hexayurt and Mattereum.

Speaker Biographies

Vinay Gupta – CEO, Mattereum

Vinay Gupta is the founder of Mattereum, a London-based fintech company using legally enforceable smart contracts to enable the sale, lease, and transfer of physical property and other legal rights.

He is a technologist and policy analyst with a particular interest in how specific technologies can close or create new avenues for decision-makers. This interest has taken him through cryptography, energy policy, defence, security, resilience and disaster management arenas.

He is known for his work on the hexayurt, a public domain disaster relief shelter designed to be built from commonly-available materials, and with Ethereum, a distributed network designed to handle smart contracts

Alex Bigham – Principal, Alex Bigham

Alex Bigham is a strategic communications consultant who works for a range of

private and non-profit clients. He is an associate in Deloitte’s crisis and resilience

practice and provides advice to campaigning organisations including those working in sustainability and clean air. In his previous career, he worked as a special adviser to the Labour Party on education and was a councillor in south London.