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22nd Apr 2024

Digital Asset Innovators: Bringing Blockchain Education into the Mainstream

From product verification and quality management to smart contracts and financial clarity, blockchain is a technology solving a variety of data-centric issues.

In this episode of Digital Transformers, our host Kevin L. Jackson presents Digital Asset Innovators – a series from the National DigiFoundry that aims to highlight those individuals and organizations that are innovating across the digital asset ecosystem.

Joining for this episode are Bryant D. Nielson and Ryan Williams – two experts at the very heart of blockchain progress. Discussions kick off with the inherent association of blockchain with Bitcoin in the public eye, despite cryptocurrencies being just one single application among many. “It's impressive. It is impactful. But it's not the whole forest. Blockchain is the forest,” Nielson explains.

The guest speakers then turn their attention to the need to bring blockchain into the educational mainstream, providing students with knowledge to code smart contracts and develop tangible, in-demand skillsets. Further, Nielson and Williams also highlight the potential opportunity to tokenize and gamify learning, leveraging shortening attention spans and the societal drive towards digital dopamine hits for educational purposes.

With the spotlight on blockchain-based learning growing, both interviewees also outline the importance of standardizing qualifications and certifications. Here, The Blockchain Academy is leading the charge, working with the American National Standards Institute to develop assessments that accurately align qualifications with knowledge bases.

From exploring the future potential of tokenized assets to identifying how NFTs can transform the protection of key data such as health records or birth certificates, tune in for insight into the full potential of blockchain technologies.

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Digital Transformers
Companies and executives that are leading business transformation in their industries.
At a pace faster than any Hollywood movie, digitalization has taken the supply chain world by storm. But do you have what it takes to become a real-life digital transformer? This livestream series connects you with the information you need on the immediate value of digitalization. And who better to guide you than host Kevin L Jackson, who has been recognized as a “Top 5G Influencer” (Onalytica 2019, Radar 2020) and a “Top 50 Global Digital Transformation Thought Leader” (Thinkers 360 2019)? Join Kevin as he highlights the companies and executives leading global industries into the digital future.

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Kevin Jackson

Kevin L. Jackson is a globally recognized Thought Leader, Industry Influencer and business consultant. The bestselling author’s latest project, “Quitless: The Power of Persistence in Business and Life”, was ranked as such by both The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. He has also been recognized as a “Top 5G Influencer” (Onalytica 2019, Radar 2020), a “Top 50 Global Digital Transformation Thought Leader” (Thinkers 360 2019). Kevin also provides strategic consulting and integrated social media services to AT&T, Intel, Broadcom, Ericsson and other leading companies. He is host of “Digital Transformers on Supply Chain Now” podcast and video blog, part of a family of shows ranked by Listen Score as in the top 1.5% of 1,977,479 globally ranked podcasts. Kevin Jackson will also be featured by Red Knight Production Company on the second season of their next hit streaming TV series “The Social Movement.” Ethos and mission of The Social Movement is to impact humanity at scale, make a real difference in the world, and inspire a real social movement.

Mr. Jackson’s commercial experience includes Vice President J.P. Morgan Chase, Worldwide Sales Executive for IBM and SAIC (Engility) Director Cloud Solutions. He has served on teams that have supported digital transformation projects for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the US Intelligence Community. He currently serves as the Chief Operations Officer for SourceConnecte (https://sourceconnecte.com/), a blockchain-enabled B2B e-commerce platform that is also a member of the Trust Your Supplier (https://www.trustyoursupplier.com/) network, and a Senior Vice President of Total Network Services (https://www.tnscorp.io/), a fully decentralized global data network developed specifically to address the current needs of the blockchain community.