The Premiere

09/26/22 • 30 min

What Is Lexcon Crypto?? In the premier we answer just that! We introduce the show and discuss why we are doing this show and how we plan to roll it out! We hope that you enjoy!

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CBDCs with Jamiel Sheikh

We talk with Jamiel Sheikh about CBDCs what they are and why the whole world is talking about them. Ready or not...here come the CBDCs.
Jamiel is a founder, CEO, author, professor & educator, community builder, board member, event holder and MMA lover.

Founder & CEO of Instamint, a B2B NFT/DAO minting API platform, which is his primary focus. He is also founder of Chainhaus, a blockchain / DeFi advisory and education company, operator of Blockchain101, an online blockchain education portal and founder of the Central Bank Digital Currency Think Tank which consists of central bankers, bankers and academics and runs CBDC Insider.

He has over 20 years of experience in technology, capital markets, real estate and management. Prior to Chainhaus, Jamiel worked for organizations like Lehman Brothers, JPMorgan, Bank of America, Sun Microsystems, SONY and Citigroup. Jamiel is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, NYU and CUNY teaching graduate-level blockchain, AI and data science subjects.

Jamiel is currently authoring The Decentralized Finance Phenomenon for Columbia Press and is the author of Amazon 100 bestselling Mastering Corda. He runs Blockchain NYC, New York City's largest blockchain and digital assets Meetup group in NYC consisting of over 30,000+ local members and holds marquee conferences like DEFICON, NFT WORLDS, CBDC Summit and DLT Summit.

Jamiel is board member of the Society of Women Coders, a group that seeks to help young females in underprivileged societies better engage in technology, a cause he is deeply passionate about, and sits on board of advisors of several startups while also mentoring startups in the IBM / Columbia LAUNCH accelerator program and is Innovation Fellow at Columbia Business School's Lang Center for Entrepreneurship. He is also expert member of the United Nations Digital Currency Global Initiative and Digital Euro Association.

Jamiel holds an MBA from Columbia University's Business School and BBA from Baruch College and is completing his second Masters in Artificial Intelligence from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Jamiel enjoys cooking, coding, reading dry & boring whitepapers, dastardly excessive travel, the elegant nuances of MMA and is an active contributor in several Java, Kotlin, Python and Rust open source projects.