[SOLD OUT] Decentralization & Alternative Finance: A Holiday Panel Event

***SOLD OUT - join the waitlist for ticket updates & to stay posted to future ParTecK events. About This Event The ParTeck Collective + Friends invite you to a holiday event designed for creative (and cognitive) connections over the topic of decentralization and alternative finance. If you’ve ever wondered what decentralization really means to your life, your organization or the greater culture you’re participating in, this evening is a great opportunity to dive in deep with other changemakers, thought leaders, and philosophers, including five speakers who are experts in their fields. A huge holiday shout out to our partners the Human Data Commons foundation, ParTecK Network, Conscious Lab, Startup Vancouver, TransTech Vancouver, Stratos, Consciousness Hacking Vancouver and the Decentralized Dance Party (DDP) whose collective spirits will fill our cups over this holiday event to be remembered. Ticket Etiquette Capacity is limited, so we anticipate this free event will sell out before the day. If you reserve a ticket and can’t end up attending, please give us notice so we can extend it to someone else. What to Wear//Prizes The spirit of the DDP, we’ll be giving away some awesome prizes for best dressed. Your favourite funk attire; retro, onesies and neon are all fair game! Watch more of the DDP style on YouTube. Details Arrivals @6:30pm. Dialogue kicks off @7p.m. at Conscious Lab in downtown Vancouver. Our Speakers Kris Constable is a globally recognized privacy and information security expert, CEO and advisor on digital security and responsible data practices. He is an advisor for several blockchain tech orgs and sits as a director of several non-profits, including PeaceGeeks. He is the founder of ideasmeetings.org, ideawave.ca, and several other community events, where he has often been described as a super-connector. He's currently prioritizing building privacy tools and technology for anyone doing legal business activities. Mia Cosco, founder of Consciousness Hacking Vancouver, demonstrated her deep passion to heal hearts and minds by leading the first entheogenic research organization at her university at age 20. Since then, her impact has been profound, through activating conscious capital and advancing psychology to integrate the newest paradigms into science. She’s passionate about technology, wellness, and women's empowerment and sees decentralization as an intrinsic part of our emerging world. MaRi Eagar is an award-winning digital future trends consultant whose focus for more than 15 years has involved distributed approaches to leadership and culture development and whose organization Digital Futures continues to rethink the distributed future of the digital economy. As a decentralized finance expert, she’s organized and spoke at a plethora of related events, including Blockstack Hackathon, DogeCon2018 and BC Blockchain Forum events. Gary Lachance has been a tireless advocate of Radical Decentralization for over a decade, from the Burning Man playa to cities around the world. For the past 8 years, he has been operating the Decentralized Dance Party; a uniquely powerful demonstration that has united hundreds of thousands worldwide in revolutionary acts of shared experience. Gary’s ultimate goal is to host a Simultaneous Global dance Party and win the Nobel Peace Prize for Partying. Scott Nelson is an integral futurist and open source evangelist. He founded one of Canada’s first web agencies and was an early adopter and promoter of decentralized digital currencies. His current focus is assisting in building structures that buttress the transition to Game B. He’s also the Founder & Co-Chair of the Human Data Commons foundation, a non-profit dedicated to equitable and sustainable digital futures.