Neha Narula
Director at MIT Media Lab | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money
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Neha Narula is the Director of the Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, where she leads research on cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, and the future of money. A former software engineer at Google, Neha has a PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley.
Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR's Planet Money. Neha's insightful talks explore the societal impact of emerging financial technologies, empowering audiences to understand the disruption ahead.
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The future of money
What happens when the way we buy, sell and pay for things changes, perhaps even removing the need for banks or currency exchange bureaus? That's the radical promise of a world powered by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. We're not there yet, but in this sparky talk, digital currency researcher Neha Narula describes the collective fiction of money -- and paints a picture of a very different looking future.
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