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February breakfast roundtable: What are the Benefits and Risks of Decentralised Autonomous Organisations?
28th February 2023, 8:30 am - 10:30 am
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The advent of blockchain technology has spawned many new innovations including the possibility of creating a new form of corporate structure, known as a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO).
DAOs are self-governing bodies with no centralised board of directors or corporate management. Instead DAOs are based on using blockchain and smart contracts to execute tasks at the instigation of a community of voting members involved in the organisation. Often DAO members have never physically met the other participants in the organisation. However other DAO structures seem to retain some form of reserved management functions.
DAOs have been promoted as providing a good way to collaborate in a trusted manner around a common cause such as ESG or investing in women-led businesses. DAOs are also becoming increasingly popular in the digital community and have wider potential applications, for example, for the management of collective ownership of assets, charities or venture funds.
What are the benefits of DAOs and how are they being used today? What are the risks associated with DAOs and how might the legal risks be approached at law?
In this breakfast briefing we take a look at a brief history of DAOs, speak to DAO representatives to give us some real-world examples that are in use today, and look at what the ethical and legal implications of DAOs may be for their creators and members.
Panel Speakers
Tee Ganbold, Co-Founder & Executive Chair ESG DAO. Tee is a technology entrepreneur with experience as an operator and investor in frontier technology companies (from OpenESG, Tingo Inc, Clear AI, Cambridge Analytica, ConsenSys to Intrepid Capital Partners, Fabric Ventures and Stelium Ventures), specialising in identifying product market fit, growth hacking, building global business and technology ecosystems, and building go-to-market strategies.
Kate Baucherel, Emerging Technology Consultant and Blockchain Specialist, Lecturer. Kate has held senior technical and financial roles in businesses across multiple sectors including utilities, manufacturing, leisure and software, leading several enterprises through their start-up and growth phases.
Ebba Theding, CFO ChromaWay, Experienced Blockchain Chief Financial Officer with a background in the marketing and advertising industry, who is closely involved with ChromaWay DAO projects and with the setup of its blockchain games DAO (the first in Nordic countries).
Laura Clatworthy, Tier 1 Commercial Litigation Partner who established the Web 3 & Digital Assets team at Rosenblatt and Memery Crystal.
Moderated by Helen Disney, Director, The Realization Group. Top 101 Women in blockchain (produced by Crypto Curry Club), Shortlisted Wirex Rising Women in Crypto 2022, Finalist Crypto AM ‘Industry Personality of the Year’, Member of Financial Technologist Founders 50, Listed as one of top 100 Most Inspirational Women in Blockchain and in Women in Fintech Power List