Virtual Summit: Special Jurisdictions in a Post-Covid World (2020 archive)

DAY ONE

Eastern Daylight Times Provided

10:00 AM – Keynote
Joseph McKinney
Founder & CEO Startup Societies Foundation
Welcoming Remarks

10:10 AM Keynote
Roger Ver
CEO Bitcoin.com
Financial and Political Decentralization in a Post Covid 19 World

10:40 AM – Keynote
His Serene Highness Prince Michael Von Liechtenstein
Local Solutions for Global Problems

11:00 AM – Fireside
Mayor Ibrahim Natour of Rawabi & Omar M Hannoun Mayor City of Rawabi
Head of Venture at Mine Digital
Restarting the Global Economy With New Cities

11:20 AM – Keynote
Wade Shepard
New Silk Road Post Covid 19

11:50 AM – Keynote
Mwiya Musokotwane
Charter Cities to Empower the Global South

12:20 PM – Fireside
Mark Beer, Dr. Andreas Baumgartner, and Kim Siegel
Autonomous Special Juirisdiction Legal Systems

12:50 PM – Keynote
Taavi Kotka
The Emergence of the Governance-as-a-Service Industry

1:10 PM – Keynote
Claude Baissac
Reconstructing Globalism with SEZs in a Post Covid 19 World
 
1:30 PM – Break
Lunch
  
2:10 PM – Keynote
Robin Hanson
Variolation as a Strategy to Reduce Transmissions
  
2:30 PM – Keynote
Michael Castle Miller
Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Special Jurisdictions: Templates for Health, Security, and Prosperity
 
2:50 PM – Keynote
James Erlich
Self Sustaining Communities During Pandemics 
 
3:10 PM – Panel
Dinis Guarda, Sam Cassatt, Aaron Voisine, Trent Larson, and Bradley Hook
Venture Invetment – Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation of Goverments and Special Jurisdictions 
 
3:50 PM – Break
Networking and Break out Sessions
  
3:50 PM – Keynote
Balaji S. Srinivasan
Former General Partner –  Andreessen Horowitz
Red and Green Zones: The Future of Pandemic Control
  
4:50 PM – Keynote
Lee Hansen & Lennart Lopin
CEO – Impact Investing
Digital Currency to Enable Markets
  
5:10 PM – Closing
Joe McKinney



DAY TWO

Day Two Eastern Daylight Times provided

9:40 AM – Keynote
Mark Frazier
HOAs and Condos Against Pandemics 

10:00 AM – Panel
Jim Coleman, Lotta Moberg, Tom W. Bell, Mark Lutter, and Thibault Serlet (Moderator)
Innovative SEZs to Regrow the Global Economy
 
10:40 AM – Panel
Joe Sanchis, Marquis Cabrera, MonMondher Khanfir, Alexander Kreindler and Early Boykins (Moderator)
Investing in Special Jurisdictions and the Technology That Enables Them
 
11:20 AM – Keynote
Michael Strong
Zoning for Prosperity rather than Zoning for Poverty
 
11:35 AM – Intro
Nathalie Mezza-Garcia
Business Case with Social Impact for Floating Zones
 
11:50 AM – Keynote
Titus Gebel
How a Free Private City Can Address a Pandemic
 
12:10 PM – Keynote
Oliver Porter
Private industry and Private Jurisdictions to Prevent and Recover From Pandemics
 
12:30 PM – Fireside
Jason Blick & Brent Tanner
Banks without Borders: Using Special Jurisdictions and Digitally Enabled Banks to Allow for Global Transfers
 
1:00 PM – Break
Lunch
 
1:30 PM – Panel
Ricardo Vives and Ricardo Plata
How Muncipalities and Special Districts Can Lead the Charge Against Covid 19
  
2:00 PM – Keynote
Maria Vadel
FDI in Port Cities
 
2:00 PM – Break
Networking Session and Breakout Sessions
  
2:20 PM – Fireside
Carlos Gershenson and Yaneer Bar-Yam
Complex Governance of Pandemics
  
2:50 PM – Panel
Britanny Kaiser
Data Sovereignty and Pandemic Tracking 
 
3:30 PM – Keynote
Patri Friedman
Investor’s perspective on Startup Societies
  
3:50 PM – Keynote
Joe Quirk
Seasteading In a Post Covid 19 World
  
4:10 PM – Panel
Rik Willard, David Johnston, Joel Telpner and Brent Traidman
Digital Transformation for Central Banks and Financial Ecosystems
 
4:50 PM – Keynote
Jason Potts
Captialism After Satoshi and Covid 19 
 
5:10 PM – Keynote
Gary Lachance
Announcement about Decentralized Dance Party


The archived program listed a VIP welcome event for April 30, 2020, from 6–9 pm ET.

• Special guest listed in the program: Tim Draper, with Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Draper University affiliations shown at the time.
• Investor roundtable: the program listed participants from NeWay and Pronomos Capital.
• Breakout sessions: the program described discussion and networking opportunities.



This is historical program information. No VIP reservation is offered on this page.

Virtual Decentralized Dance Party

The program listed a virtual dance party for May 2, 2020, at 5 pm ET.

• The historical program described a remotely streamed VIP event.
• The program described multi-stream participation.
• The program described dance and electronic music.