Liberty in Our Lifetime

Titus Gebel

Keynote Speaker

Dr Titus Gebel is the inventor of the Free Private Cities concept and CEO of TIPOLIS Corporation. He is a serial entrepreneur with a doctorate in law. He has founded many companies, including the multinational energy and resources group Deutsche Rohstoff AG. Titus is focused on creating an entirely new product in the “market of living together”, which aims to fast-track economic and societal progress. His enterprise, TIPOLIS, focuses on the practical side of implementing his Free Private Cities concept and partners commercially with trade zones and city authorities around the world.

Why We Need Parallel Structures

Titus’s opening speech introduces the conference theme “Parallel Structures for Progress”. He makes the case that rather than trying to change existing structures from within, supporters of liberty should focus on building something new in their place. There is a need for parallel structures in governance, finance, and knowledge-sharing. Titus explains how our conference showcases the progress that is being made in each of these fields.

Find out more

Follow the links to read Titus’ Free Private Cities whitepaper visit the foundation’s website and Tipolis.

Magatte Wade

Governance

Magatte Wade is a U.S.-based entrepreneur who manufactures products in Senegal that are sold at US Whole Foods Markets. She serves as the director of the Center for African Prosperity of the Atlas Network. She advocates for entrepreneurship and economic freedom in Africa. Magatte seeks to empower Africans to become prosperous innovators. She has spoken at the U.N., Aspen Institute, Clinton Global Initiative, MIT, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Wharton, UC Berkeley, and more. Forbes named her one of the “Twenty Young Power Women of Africa.”  She is working on developing new zones in Africa that create jobs and broad-based prosperity.

A Blueprint for Creating Prosperity in Africa

Magette makes the moral case for developing Special Economic Zones in Africa in this talk. African governments rank near the bottom globally concerning economic freedom. As a consequence, Africa remains the poorest region in the world. Still, it is nearly impossible to change the thousands of laws needed to empower Africans to become prosperous. China achieved economic progress primarily through Special Economic Zones. Newer zones in Dubai, Honduras, and elsewhere include novel legal and governance systems in their zone design. New zones such at these cost governments very little. We can accelerate economic and societal progress by supporting the creation of new zones and advocating that they become widespread across Africa.

Find out more

You can learn more about Magette via her personal website, Twitter account and LinkedIn page.

Stephan Livera

Finance

Stephan is a Bitcoin podcaster and managing director of Swan Bitcoin International. His popular Bitcoin & Austrian Economics podcast features leading CEOs, developers, authors, economists, and analysts working in the Bitcoin industry. Stephan is also a writer and contributor for various media outlets including Bitcoin Magazine, Ticker News, Yahoo Finance Australia and the Mises Institute.

Bitcoin: Changing Business & Disrupting Finance

In his talk, Stephan draws on insights gained from hundreds of hours interviews with Bitcoin experts to share how the digital currency is impacting businesses and the disrupting traditional finance. He will talk about new business models being made possible by Bitcoin, why every business needs a “smart Bitcoin thesis”, and how Bitcoin is eating into the market share of government-controlled currencies.

Find out more

Follow the links to visit Stephan’s website and Twitter account. For content focussed on Free Private Cities, see Stephan’s interviews with Titus Gebel and Peter Young.

Michael Strong

Knowledge-sharing

Michael Strong has created schools for gifted students, Montessori secondary schools, a top-ranked charter high school, Expat International School of Freedom and Entrepreneurship, and The Socratic Experience: a virtual school for creative, entrepreneurial, and intellectual children. He has also been involved in creating jurisdictions with new governance models for 15 years in Honduras and Africa. He is the author of The Habit of Thought, Be the Solution, and Strong’s Law.

Learning in a Post-School Era

In his talk, Michael makes the case that transcending state institutions will accelerate learning. For more than a century, governments have dominated education. A subsidized, coercive monopoly has largely confined formal learning to government-controlled institutions, even in the case of private schools which are constrained by state-authorized accreditation. Cultural norms and practices often have a more influential impact than curriculum and pedagogy, and many of the most effective learners have been autodidacts. The realms of human development that either increase human flourishing or add to human capital are much larger than the subset recognized by government schools. For these reasons, Michael argues that a different approach is needed.

Find out more

You can learn more about Michael’s Expat International School project, and follow him on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter via the links.

Marc-Felix Otto

Knowledge-sharing

Marc-Felix Otto is a Foundation Council Member for the Free Private Cities Foundation. He is a Partner at The Advisory House, a leading management consultancy to the energy industry Switzerland, Austria and Germany. He has supported the idea of contract-based government for over 20 years and co-authored economic articles on the topic of coercion. Marc holds a PhD in Physics and lives with his wife and two sons in Switzerland.

CogIndo: Fostering A New Generation of Independent Thinkers

In his talk Marc, will introduce his new educational project CogIndo. CogIndo offers a unique learning and community experience to outstanding students, with a focus on encouraging independent thinking. It aims to support intelligent and entrepreneurial young people between the ages of 11 and 15 by equipping them with the skills they need to develop their own perspectives, rather than simply deferring to authority. Through a novel educational approach, Marc’s project aims to equip the next generation with the critical thinking skills that will be needed for societies to achieve greater liberty.

Find out more

Follow the links to read Marc’s academic papers and visit the website of The Advisory House.

Sean Pawley

Finance

Sean Pawley is the founder and CEO of Seshat Bank: the premier bank for the ZEDE ecosystem in Honduras. He is an expert on banking, finance and agriculture. His newly established bank departs from traditional Central American banking. It allows customers to manage their business needs directly from their phone or laptop, without ever stepping foot in a branch office and provides customers with full API access, enabling them to programmatically control their money. Drawing inspiration from Meryvn King’s work in The End of Alchemy, Seshat Bank also operates under an improved regulatory regime that eliminates risks for its depositors and allows for more efficient usage of long term capital.

Banking in Free Private Cities

The international financial system today is fraught with systemic risk and prone to recurring crises. In his talk, Sean explains why existing regulatory regimes fail to identify and prevent these crises and how the more flexible regulatory environment of Free Private Cities would improve stability, support economic growth and better serve the population. He will also discuss how improved laws can make financial services more accessible and increase the proportion of bankable businesses.

Find out more

Follow the links to check out Seshat Bank’s website and Twitter account.

Peter Young

Governance

Peter is the managing director of the Free Private Cities Foundation. Prior to joining the foundation, he spent most of his career in China supporting British businesses operating within the Chinese market. He has also worked as a writer and analyst for Bitcoin-focussed businesses Saifedean.com, Incrementum AG and Blockstream. Peter is passionate about the Austrian School of Economics and worked with economist Saifedean Ammous to develop a free online course that allows students worldwide to learn about economic principles.

Find out more

To learn more about Peter’s insights on Free Private Cities, you can listen to these podcast appearances with Stephan Livera, Daniel Prince and Aleks Svetski. You can also follow Peter on Twitter.

Joyce Brand

Joyce is a writer and editor. She is co-author of the book Economics and the Spiritual Life of Free Men, and the intellectual heir of philosophers Spencer Heath and Spencer Heath MacCallum. She lives in the ZEDE Ciudad Morazán in Honduras, a prototype Free Private City based on the ideas of the two Spencers.

Daniel Prince

Knowledge-sharing

Daniel is author of the book Choose Life, host of the Once BITten! podcast and a father of four. His book offers practical advice for adventurous families seeking to engage in long-term world travel while providing their children with first-rate education. For the past six years Daniel has taken his children on an educational journey across twenty countries, that has allowed them to experience diverse cultures, develop practical skills, and achieve impressive academic results.

The Case for Worldschooling

In his talk, Daniel makes the case that education through emerging online learning services and tutoring networks, presents an attractive alternative to state-run schooling. Whether you’re seeking to stay in one place or travel the world, there are more tools available than ever before to provide children with quality education. Daniel draws on lessons learned through his family’s experience to present some practical tips for parents looking to homeschool or “worldschool” their children. He also explains why he thinks that, for most, alternative education will produce better results, and lead to a more fulfilling family life, than opting for conventional state schooling.

Find out more

Follow the links to find Daniel on Twitter, check out his Once BITten! podcast and his book Choose Life.

Joe Quirk

Governance

Joe Quirk is President of The Seasteading Institute and co-founder of Blue Frontiers. He is also a science writer, novelist, and memoir ghostwriter, having published national bestsellers in each category. He is co-author with Patri Friedman of Seasteading: an Amazon bestseller in the category of marine engineering. Joe is leading a team of lawyers, engineers, business leaders, artists, and investors to establish the first floating community which promises residents unprecedented political autonomy.

Find out more

Follow the links to find out more about the Steading Institute, Blue Frontiers and follow Joe on Twitter.

Mark Edge

Intentional Communities

Mark Edge co-founded Free Talk Live 20 years ago with the aim of spreading peace, love and liberty around the world. His show has over 200 stations, has received numerous awards, and has been ranked as one of the most influential political radio shows in the United States. Mark’s early exposure to innovative business ideas through thousands of hours of radio interviews has helped him to become a successful investor. He joins the conference to introduce his intentional community Coral Beach Village.

Coral Beach Village: Liberty in Paradise

Coral Beach Village is a purpose-driven community for conscientious individuals who value freedom, crypto, and private property rights. Alongside a spectacular location, Utila offers no taxes on foreign-sourced income, and low taxes everywhere else. From roads to security, almost everything in Coral Beach Village is handled by the private sector. Mark’s talk explains how all this is possible and how liberty-minded people can get involved in the project.

Find out more

Follow the links to find out more about Coral Beach Village, Free Talk Live, its affiliate station Liberty Radio Network and follow Mark on Twitter.

Prince Philip of Serbia and Yugoslavia

His Royal Highness Prince Philip is a member of the House of Karađorđević and heir apparent to Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia and Yugoslavia. He is an expert in finance and macroeconomics. Alongside his royal duties, he works for a renowned global asset manager in London. He has previously worked at Landsbanki in the City of London and Cypriot hedge fund IKOS. He speaks English, Spanish, French and Serbian. He advocates for limited government and sound money as a path to achieving more prosperous societies.

The Future of Nation States

In his talk, Prince Philip draws on lessons from Balkan history and recent developments in the global economy to make the case that the role of nation states is shifting. He argues that, in the 21st century, freer societies with greater individual autonomy and a financial system underpinned by sound money are likely to emerge. He makes the case that this shift will empower people across the socioeconomic spectrum and bring about more prosperous societies for all.

Find out more

Follow the links to find out more about Prince Philip on the website of the Serbian Royal Family, and follow him on Twitter.

Rahim Taghizadegan

Rahim Taghizadegan is the last Austrian economist of the Austrian School in the direct tradition and has been teaching at universities in Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Germany.

As one of the last Viennese polymaths, he is also a physicist (specialization in nuclear physics and complex systems), philosopher, investor and entrepreneur.

He has written more than a dozen books, some of them best-sellers, and is the founder of the private university Scholarium in Vienna, where the Austrian School is kept alive in its original interdisciplinary form of the Hayek- and Mises-Circles. He is originally from Iran, but has grown up in Austria and studied in Switzerland and the US. 

Penda Gebel

Panel Moderator

Penda Gebel is an entrepreneur and president of the National Parents Association of Monaco. Her career in the IT and telecommunications industry has spanned multiple countries and given her expertise in cross-cultural working. She speaks six languages and has studied applied linguistics at Sorbonne University in Paris. She joins Liberty in Our Lifetime as a moderator for our education panel.

Alexandra Kons

Alex has worked as a crypto journalist since 2017. She completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Oriental and Asian Studies at the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Bonn, then studied German as a foreign language at the Goethe Institute and completed her Master’s Degree in Arabic studies at the Free University of Berlin.

Find out more

Follow the link to find out more about Alex: Alexandra Kons, Author at BeInCrypto

Christoph Heuermann

Christoph Heuermann is the founder of Staatenlos: an agency offering consultancy services and resources to expats, perpetual travellers and digital nomads. At the age of 24, after studying administrative sciences, Christoph gave up his residency in Germany with the aim of travelling to every country in the world. He seeks to position himself optimally according to flag theory and to advise others to do the same. Staatenlos has generated millions of euros in revenue and has a Facebook community with more than 20,000 followers.

Find out more

To find out more about Christoph and Staatenlos visit www.staatenlos.ch.

Trey Goff

Topic: Governance

Trey Goff is chief of staff and chief of marketing at Próspera, and the co-founder of Learn Arena. Prior to joining Próspera, Trey led the Out of Last Place Institute in Mississippi, co-founded the National Liberty Coalition, and co-authored “Promoting Prosperity in Mississippi” with the Institute for Market Studies.

Próspera is a digital governance platform and business ecosystem with an innovative legal and regulatory environment. Próspera is stimulating growth, entrepreneurship, and innovation, while keeping businesses on equal footing. The Próspera platform was built using legal and regulatory best practices from the most forward-thinking Special Economic Zones, offering entrepreneurs a space to create innovative and impactful businesses that compete on a global scale.

Follow Trey on Twitter here and find out more about Próspera here.

Francisco Litvay

Francisco Litvay is a Brazilian digital nomad and online entrepreneur. At 17 he moved out of Brazil and at 20 he opened his first company, having been to more than a twenty countries on four continents since. He specializes in Flag Theory and how Free & Special Economic Zones can help with offshoring and internationalization. He is the Adrianople Group’s Head of Internationalization and the co-founder of Settee, an internationalization company for the Lusophone market.

Mason Leschyna

Mason Leschyna is the Chair of Atlas Island, an organization dedicated to supporting individual sovereignty by applying the principles of Free Private Cities to the world of seasteading. Atlas Island aims to become an archipelago of independent seasteading platforms which adhere to a common set of rules that protect natural rights. The project has a five-stage plan for developing an online community of seasteaders into a full offshore community. You can find out more about Atlas Island on their official website: Atlas Island.

Vera Kichanova

Vera Kichanova is an urban economist and policy researcher at Zaha Hadid Architects and King’s College London. Her PhD thesis explores the future of private urban development — from charter cities in emerging economies to start-up nations in neutral waters. Vera’s career has spanned roles including elected Municipal Councillor in Moscow, Editor-in-Chief at the Atlas Network-affiliated publication in Kyiv, and President of the Oxford Hayek Society.

Vera’s works — focused on bridging the gap between urban planning theory and classical liberal thought — were published by New York Times, Forbes, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Telegraph, among others. She is a Frédéric Bastiat Fellow at the Mercatus Center (US), a contributor to the Adam Smith Institute (UK) and a Mont Pèlerin Society member. She holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Oxford and a BA in Journalism from Moscow State University.

Find out more

You can learn more about Vera’s work on her personal website Kichanova.com and follow her on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

Michael Cobb

At the height of a successful career in the computer industry, Mr. Cobb left to pursue more pioneering opportunities in the emerging real estate markets of Central America. In 1996, he and his business partner formed a company, Exotic Caye International, providing loans to North Americans purchasing throughout the region. As the need for capital outstripped the supply, the mortgage company was converted to an international bank under the jurisdiction of Belize. Mr Cobb continued in development creating opportunity for inspired lifestyles for adventurous souls.

Aleks Svetski

Topic: Free Communities

Aleks is an entrepreneur, author and podcaster. After spending thirteen years working in the startup scene, Aleks now spends the bulk of his time researching ways Bitcoin will impact the world sociologically, economically, politically and culturally.

Aleks’ talk will focus on individual responsibility as the basis for freedom, and how Free Cities can foster stronger, more robust and cohesive communities.

To find out more about Aleks visit his website.

Jeff Deist

Jeff Deist is president of the Mises Institute, where he serves as a writer, speaker, and advocate for property rights, markets and civil society. He is interested in private legal systems and free-market money as tools for decentralizing political power. Jeff has also worked on the congressional staff of Congressman Ron Paul, for whom he wrote hundreds of articles and speeches. In his years with Dr. Paul, Jeff worked with grassroots activists and organizations dedicated to reducing the size and scope of government. Jeff has also spent many years as an attorney advising private equity clients on mergers and acquisitions.

Follow Jeff on Twitter here and find out more about the Mises Institute here.

Joel Bomgar

Topic: Governance

Joel is an entrepreneur and technology executive. He currently serves as President of Próspera and as a State Representative in the Mississippi legislature. Joel is the Founder of Bomgar Corporation (now BeyondTrust): the global leader in remote support technology and Privileged Access Management, with more than 20,000 customers, including 78 of the Fortune 100, and offices worldwide. Joel is the Honorary Chairman of the Hazlitt Coalition of Young Americans for Liberty and the founder of Out of Last Place Institute in Mississippi.

Próspera is a digital governance platform and business ecosystem with a revolutionary legal and regulatory environment. It’s designed to stimulate growth, entrepreneurship, and innovation — while keeping businesses on equal footing. The platform was built using legal and regulatory best practices from the most forward-thinking Special Economic Zones, offering entrepreneurs a space to create innovative and impactful businesses that compete on a global scale.

Follow Joel on Twitter here.

Niko Laamanen

Niko Laamanen is an educator and founder of Konsensus Network, the first bitcoin only publishing house. By working through a distributed network of volunteers, Konsensus aims to adopt the anti-fragile properties of a starfish as a means of avoiding censorship. For this reason, it classifies itself as a “starfish enterprise”. Konsensus translates and publishes the best books about liberty, economics and bitcoin.

Konsensus Network’s unique model is allowing it to grow rapidly into an international educational collective, working in 20 languages and with over 50 volunteers. The model supports global cooperation through self-governance, reputational capitalism and leadership via example.

Niko is the author of Wielding Bitcoin, a book about harnessing the liberating power of what he regards as the greatest weapon of mass creation. He is currently based in Madeira, working to support the island’s autonomy through economics and bitcoin education.

André Loja

André Loja is a native Madeiran, father of four, serial entrepreneur and founder of the F.R.E.E Madeira initiative. On the island of Madeira, he manages numerous companies ranging from real-estate to running a coworking space.

Madeira, a Bitcoin-friendly island

A new non-profit organization has been established in Madeira, with support from the local government, to guide the archipelago’s strategy on all things Bitcoin. For the first time ever, an island like Madeira can compete on the same leagues as every other jurisdiction and it is part of the government’s strategy to diversify the island’s economy into a tech and digital hub. Bitcoin is the base layer that can help this vision and it is recognized as the most advanced monetary technology to exchange value in a true global and fair society.

Find out more
Follow André on Twitter here.

Seb Bunney

In the early years of his career, Seb worked as a backcountry mountain bike guide and coach while spending most of his spare time trying to understand real estate, the financial markets and the monetary systems that underpin our economy. In recent years, Seb has pivoted his love for educating others to the digital realm, where he now writes about our macroeconomic landscape with a focus on Bitcoin. It is through his love for educating others that has led him to where he is today, building the educational platform, Looking Glass.

The Importance of Sound Money Education for the Wage Earner

Living in a world with limitless information at our fingertips, you’d expect it to be easy to introduce friends and family to the benefits of opting into a sound money system, such as Bitcoin. Unfortunately, there is a distinct lack of jargon-free, concise content geared towards those who need it most, wage earners. With no challenge too large, the team at Looking Glass has decided to tackle this problem.

In this talk, Seb Bunney discusses how Looking Glass came to be and why they’ve decided to direct their focus toward sound money education for the wage earner and educational system.

Find out more

Follow Seb on Twitter here and read more about Looking Glass Education on its website and Twitter.

Doug Casey

Virtual Presenter

Doug Casey is a world-renowned author and libertarian thinker. He is author of Crisis Investing – a New York Times #1 best seller about how to invest during times of economic turmoil – and the books Totally Incorrect and Right on the Money. Doug has been a guest on hundreds of radio and TV shows, including David Letterman and Charlie Rose, and has been featured in publications including Time, Forbes, People, and the Washington Post. Doug is the founder of Casey Research and a regular keynote speaker at FreedomFest, the world’s largest gathering of libertarians and like-minded thinkers. Doug will be dialling in to Liberty in Our Lifetime to give a virtual presentation with an audience Q&A.

Knut Svanholm

Knut Svanholm is a Bitcoin author, educator, and armchair philosopher. His first book, Bitcoin: Sovereignty through mathematics, is considered to be one of the classics in the space and is a recommended read on the subject on many educational sites, including MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin site hope.com. He is also known for coining the meme (and penning the book) “Everything divided by 21 million”.

Knut is a pure voluntarist and sees Free Cities as a practical means of supporting human progress by implementing Austrian principles in real-world societies.

Alex Voss

Alex is a Senior Advisor of the Free Cities Foundation. He has a background in investment banking and joined Titus Gebel as the CFO of TIPOLIS Corporation from its beginning.

Alex lives in Chicago and is working to expand the ideas of the Foundation to the Americas. He studied economics and finance at University of Chicago and Notre Dame and holds the CFA Charter. More recently Alex has formalized his study of Austrian Economics under the tutelage of the Mises Institute.

Neil Woodfine

Neil Woodfine has almost a decade of experience in the bitcoin industry, working at startups involved in exchange (Okcoin), cross-border payments (Remitsy and Wyre), infrastructure and mining (Blockstream), and custody (Unchained Capital). Neil currently leads marketing at Unchained, a bitcoin financial services company based in Texas, USA. Unchained provides cold storage solutions and financial services that put you in maximum control of your bitcoin. Neil is a leading voice in the bitcoin industry, and has featured in Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Financial Times, and the BBC.

Find out more

Connect with Neil on Twitter and LinkedIn by following the links and learn more about Unchained by visiting their official website.

Katie The Russian

Katie is CEO of Plan B Passport and host of The Bittersweet Podcast. As a former pro-athlete, Katie immigrated to the US where she traded her career in sport for entrepreneurship. With a passion for sovereignty and Bitcoin, she founded Plan B Passport: an organization that helps bitcoiners obtain more freedom via jurisdictional arbitrage.

Find out more

Follow Katie on Twitter and find out more about Plan B Passport via their official website.

Jessica Hodlr

After obtaining her Industrial Engineering and Technology degree at Purdue University, Jessica knew that the 9-5 desk job was not fitting for her, so she decided to go the entrepreneurial route. She later joined Plan B passport as COO where she helps people obtain more freedom via jurisdictional arbitrage.

Find out more

Follow Jessica on Twitter and find out more about Plan B Passport by visiting their official website.

Massimo Mazzone

Massimo is the founder of Honduran ZEDE Ciudad Morazán and president of Central American conglomerate 3C.

After graduating in business administration Massimo was conscripted and had to complete 15 months as a second lieutenant in the Italian Army. He started his career in management consulting firm Cresap-Telesis. Shortly after, he was lucky enough to find an equivalent job in the Boston Consulting Group, which he considers his real alma mater. After working 10 years in the offices of Milan, Chicago and Monterrey, Massimo requested a sabbatical to go and work for one of his clients in Monterrey, Vitro, where he became head of the Float Glass business unit.

Massimo left the company one year later to join PuntoCom Holding, a B2B internet start-ups holding company funded by Cemex, as head of Mexico operations. Having burned through 30M$ in one year without any appreciable result, Massimo and his colleagues where swept away by the bursting dot-com bubble. They decided to liquidate the company and give back the little money salvaged to the shareholders. Without a job, in 2000, he accepted the offer from Motorola to move to Honduras and run Celtel, at the time the only cellular telephony operator in the country.

The company was sold 6 month later and the new owner promptly sacked him. Sick and tired of being (in his opinion) serially mistreated, Massimo decided to break free and to start 3C in 2001. He has happily ever since!

Centro American Consulting and Capital (3C) a conglomerate operating mostly in Central America with 1Bn$ of yearly sales and 5000 employees. Its most important division is the largest pharmacy chain in the region, and the most exciting business unit is Ciudad Morazan, a ZEDE in Honduras.

Massimo is a father of four and an Italian national married to a Honduran.

Find out more

Follow Massimo on Twitter. Follow the links to find out more about Ciudad Morazán and 3C.

Lawrence a.k.a. Lando Rothbardian

Lawrence is the CEO of ShopinBit.com: Europe’s biggest Bitcoin store with over 800,000 products. At ShopinBit you purchase all the daily items you need using bitcoin: from toothpaste to the newest iPhones. Lawrence will be speaking on why bitcoin fixes consumerism.

Russell Lamberti

Russell is head of research and strategy at Sakeliga: a club of businesses, professionals and investors taking up their constitutional duty to resist state power, establish a just commercial order, and form thriving trade and financial networks. He is also co-author of When Money Destroys Nations: a fascinating book on Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation.

Find out more

Follow Russell on Twitter and find out more about Sakeliga via their official website.

Max Hillebrand

Virtual Panel

Max is a free software entrepreneur focused on building tools to define and protect property rights in cyberspace. He applies his sophisticated understanding of praxeology and cypherpunk strategy to create a second realm with a sound monetary economy in which sovereign individuals can freely pursue their entrepreneurial action. He is contributing to numerous free software projects, most notably Wasabi Wallet, a privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet.

Talk: Applied Liberation Strategies

The mean time to harrassment of the average individual is laughably low, coercion is the everyday default, and market manipulations are omnipresent. It does not have to be like this. Freedom can and is being achieved in our lifetime. With strategies of the second realm, we can build a parallel polis of individuals who act voluntary and are not vulnerable.

Find out more

Follow Max on Twitter via the handle @hillebrandmax and visit Max’s “Towards Liberty” website. For more about Wasabi Wallet, visit their official website.

Lawrence Lepard

Virtual Panel Discussion

Lawrence Lepard is an investment manager and Austrian School economist. In 2006 he founded Equity Management Associates: an equity investment management firm that invests in growing private and public companies located around the world. He joins us on Sunday 23rd October for a virtual panel on bitcoin.

Find out more

Follow Lawrence on Twitter and learn more about Equity Management Associates via their official website.

Jeff Booth

Virtual Panel Discussion

Jeff Booth is a visionary leader who has lived at the forefront of technology change for 20 years. He led BuildDirect, a technology company that aimed to simplify the building industry, for nearly two decades through the dot-com meltdown, the 2008 financial crisis, and many waves of technological disruption. He joins us on Sunday 23rd October for a virtual panel discussion on bitcoin.

Find out more

Follow Jeff on Twitter and find Jeff’s book The Price of Tomorrow here.

Greg Foss

Virtual Panel Discussion

Greg is a self-proclaimed Bitcoin enthusiast and realist. He has spent 32 years in high-yield credit trading and analysis as a portfolio manager and trader, and is currently the Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives at Validus Power Corp in Toronto. He joins us on Sunday 23rd October for a virtual panel discussion on bitcoin.

Find out more

Follow Greg on Twitter.

Juraj Bednár

Juraj Bednár @jurbed co-founded Paralelní Polis in Prague.

He a serial IT security entrepreneur and author of several books, including Cryptocurrencies – Hack your way to a better life.

He will speak on Paralelní Polis’s strategy for achieving liberty in our lifetimes.

Jon Vandenheuvel

Jon is founder of Small Farm Cities Africa, a developer of agribusiness enterprises, municipal infrastructure, and applied technology systems. He also serves as Senior Advisor for Africa for the Charter Cities Institute. Previously, he was executive director of E-Commerce Africa at Dubai Ports World. Jon has organized infrastructure, agribusiness, and e-commerce initiatives in Ghana, Nigeria, Somalia, Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Malawi. Jon has co-authored a book with Dubai multimodal transport pioneer, Issa Baluch, entitled, Africa Risk Dashboard (www.riskdashboard.org), and has been a visiting scholar for African urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Small Farm Cities Africa: Building Affordable Planned Communities

Most Africans are engaged in the agricultural sector and are trapped in economic systems that are informal and therefore unbankable. As an informal sector, private property rights are not recognized, making it impossible for African farmers to store and transfer the value they create, and making it impossible for commercial lenders and investor to finance the sector. Small Farm Cities Africa is solving this problem by building bankable assets, blending affordable housing with greenhouse horticulture, fish farming, and value-added services.

Andreas Jürgens

After studying communication, media sciences and psychology, Andreas founded the Sons of Libertas an online platform which has an average reach of more than 1 million people a month. In 2016, Andreas founded the Freedom Today Network and it currently the organization’s CEO. In his Liberty in Our Lifetime talk he will share the latest updated on Guanaja Hills: a liberty project in the Caribbean.

Find out more

To visit the Guanja Hills official website to find out more.

STAATENLOS

Founded by Christoph Heuermann, Staatenlos is a consultancy firm focussed on emigration, asset protection, citizenship, foreign residence, and international banking for expats, perpetual travellers and digital nomads. Through personal consultations, ebooks, video courses, seminars and social media content, Staatenlos helps to provide people with strategies to achieve more freedom and wealth. Christoph and his team describe themselves as perpetual travellers. Staatenlos’s spans multiple countries and is comprised of German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian and Arabic speakers. Visit their website: www.staatenlos.ch to find out more.

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