The Power of Decentralized Storage: An Intro to Filecoin
Discover how decentralized data storage is poised to serve as the backbone of the next generation of the Internet –– with use cases spanning human rights, journalism and media, science and academia, enterprise, AI, and more.
Speaker 1
Clara Tsao
Speaker 2
Danny O’Brien
Moderator
Aaron Stanley
Aaron looks after events, content and partnerships initiatives for the Filecoin Foundation, with an emphasis on growing the Filecoin ecosystem and advancing decentralized web narratives. He previously directed content and programming for CoinDesk’s Consensus conference, which serves as the “big tent” global gathering of the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem each year.
He is also the founder and CEO of Brazil Crypto Report, a B2B newsletter and podcast platform that provides insights, intelligence and interviews exploring the emerging digital asset industry across Brazil and Latin America
His focus is driving industry-advancing narratives through events and editorial content, as well as incorporating Web 3.0 technology into the media and event experience.
He previously covered the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry as a reporter for CoinDesk and Forbes.com, and before that spent four years in the Financial Times’ Washington Bureau covering U.S. business and politics and building out interactive and multimedia products.
Danny O’Brien is Senior Fellow and DWeb Strategy at the Filecoin Foundation and the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. He has been a tech journalist, developer, and activist for online free speech, privacy, and an open internet for over 20 years, including over a decade at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
His work within the technology sector has included being a founding employee at the Virgin brand’s ISP, Virgin Net. As a journalist, he served as Silicon Valley correspondent for the London Sunday Times and the Irish Times, and defended reporters globally from online harassment and cyber-attacks at the Committee to Protect Journalists.