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Global Strategist & Speaker on Blockchain & AI
Emerging Technologies in FinTech & LegalTech
Web3, Cryptocurrency, NFTs, & the Metaverse
Joseph Raczynski is a global leader in leveraging emerging technologies to improve economic competitiveness, equity, and business resilience. He delivers actionable and forward-thinking technological intelligence with a focus on future trends guidance shaping the world. His focus is on Thought Leadership, Communications, Product, and Customer Success.
His primary focus is around the future of technology, speaking globally about Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Cryptocurrency, DAOs, NFTs, and the Metaverse, Cybersecurity, ChatGPT, and LegalTech. He also writes about economic, political, and global technology trends as they impact the crossroads of our personal and professional lives. He has been quoted hundreds of times in over a dozen languages. Joseph hosts Technology Snippets Today a video podcast series, exploring cutting edge technology and innovation. He served as a mentor with the Columbia | IBM Blockchain Accelerator and is a presidential committee appointee to the American Bar Association, Center for Innovation Governing Council, and serves as a corporate liaison to the Council on Foreign Relations. He earned a dual degree in Economics and Sociology and holds a Masters in eCommerce and an MBA.
My Predictions
For Fun - Based on Years of Observations & Research - Predicted in 2015
Wireless Power
2020
Wireless power will illuminate lights and charge your devices without, yes, wires. Using electromagnetic waves, our smaller, and later larger components, will no longer require cords plugged into the wall for power. It will start with phones and smaller everyday devices and later grow to lights, larger screens, and move onto the electric car.
Drones
2020
You will be receiving small packages via drone at your house. Certainly by this year these devices will fill the sky with photographers, capturing impressive angles previously only caught by helicopter or plane. These quad-copters will eventually be utilized by delivering emergency goods like a heart defibrillators or rescue buoys to those in need. When the highways in the sky are regulated for drone traffic later in the 2020's, shipments will be a common occurrence.
Digital Currency
2025
There will be a world currency – Bitcoin or like cryptocurrency. With the blockchain revolution about to take hold on a massive scale, which is the creation of secure, transferable assets via the internet, one key aspect will be the "privatization" of money. Both government agencies and private institutions can both create value using a 'tokenized' system based on blockchain technology. So you will eventually see a "Digital Dollar", or likely China, Russia or Iran doing this first. A company or a government agency will create a digital asset that can be sent around the world with easy in seconds, for low-no fee, and likely without using a bank - but could be far more traceable than cash, depending on how the currency is initiated.
Autonomous Vehicles
2025 - 2035
Your car insurer will incentivize you to NOT drive your car as driverless cars dominate. Starting in the cities first, slower ride-shares will allow for the picking up and dropping off of people by cars without drivers. On the highways you will see larger trucks without drivers delivering goods across their respective continent.
In 2035 it will be illegal for humans to drive. At this point, statistics will prove out that humans make far more errors when driving and on some roads, it will be illegal for humans to operate the cars without computer assistance. For those people that enjoy their driving, designated tracks and roads will be available - more for sport and leisure.
Cable Companies
2025
Cable TV will not exist. As content becomes digitized through a multitude of outlets, control over how people receive this content will expand. Creative individuals will begin to create professional content to be consumed by anyone globally via mobile devices and eventually virtual reality headsets. The options for content will only expand and decentralize the traditional model as next generation access 5th Gen comes into play.
Power Companies
2025
Massive power companies will be almost unnecessary – sub stations will reign. If you live in a sunnier than not area, your roof will be a cheap power source. Your home will get a batter to store the energy earned throughout the day. Increasingly roads will also supply cheaper power to cities and towns around the world.
Law Firms
2025
Many of the Am Law top 200 law firms will no longer exist. Considerable consolidation of law firms will likely happen in the 2020's. As technology takes hold and some firms do not adjust by leveraging newer, cheaper, and more efficient means, their best practice areas will be picked up and the other portions might fade away.
Higher Education
2030
A significant number of traditional colleges will no longer exist. As online learning takes flight, having the multitude of ever dollar skyrocketing universities and colleges around the world will be seen as less attractive and valuable. The ability to bottle lectures by the best teachers online, at a fraction of the cost, because of scale, will dominate. It is only a matter of time when people elect to stop paying significant sums of money for the colleges of yesteryear.
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My Latest Events, Presentations, and Seminars
Upcoming & Previous Events
AIFF – AI Film Festival – EXPO City Dubai
Judge - AI Films
Dubai, UAE – February, 2024
Panelist & Judge:
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
Global Top 10 Law Firm NYC
Presenter: Future of AI and Its Impact on Business
New York - October, 2023
Speaker:
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
Quantum World Congress
Consultant
McLean, VA - September 26-28, 2023
ALA of Seattle
Speaker: Into the Metaverse, The Impact on Legal
Seattle, WA - May, 2023
Speaker:
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
Consensus 2023 - CeFi Broke, but is DeFi Without Blame? - Grit Daily House Stage
Moderator: CeFi Broke, but is DeFi Without Blame?
Austin, TX - April, 2023
Moderator:
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
Web3 Toronto
Speaker: Blockchain and Metaverse - What's Next
Toronto, Canada - March 2, 2023
Speaker:
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
Regulating the Future Global Forum, Dubai
Presenter: Under Pressure: Global Regulations Market In Age of Disruption
Dubai, UAE - February 15, 2023
Speaker:
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
ALA of Greater Los Angeles & Orange County
Speaker: Into the Metaverse, The Impact on Legal
Marriott Anaheim, CA - February 10, 2023
Speaker:
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
Marketing Partner Forum
Moderator: - Strategy Around Web3 Technologies
Terranea Resort, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA - January 25, 2023
Moderator:
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
SYNERGY Executive Summit
Panelist: Optimizing Technology Innovation and Digital Transformation
National Harbor, MD November 16, 2022
Panelist:
Joseph Raczynski, Technologist & Futurist, Thomson Reuters
Wendy Butler Curtis, Chief Innovation Officer, Orrick
Zara Roberts Gerald, Managing Director and Chief Counsel, Technology, Digital and Innovation, Charles Schwab & Co. Inc,
Aileen Schultz, Director, Data and Model Policy and Ethics, Thomson Reuters
Kriti Sharma, Head of Product, LegalTech, Thomson Reuters
COO & CFO Forum
Moderator: Into The Metaverse
Marriott Downtown, October 28, 2022
Moderator:
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
Panelists:
Janet Balis, Americas Marketing Practice Leader, Ernst & Young LLP
Guido Molinari, Managing Partner, Prysm Group
Bill Kerr, General Counsel, Everyrealm Inc.
Mark Reinstra, General Counsel, Roblox
Dubai Future Forum - Wealth Beyond Value
Museum of the Future, Dubai, UAE - October 10-12, 2022
Panelists:
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
Duncan Cass-Beggs - Counsellor for Strategic Foresight, OECD
Dr. Susann Roth - Chief of Knowledge Management, Asian Development Bank
Vilas Dhar - Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
NEARCON
Consultant
Lisbon, Portugal - September 12-14, 2022
Consultant:
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
ILTACON 2022 – Blockchain - Are you prepared for DeFi, NFTs & DAOs?
Speaker
National Harbor, Maryland - August 20, 2022
Speaker:
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS)
Presentation: Into the Metaverse
Virtual - July 20, 2022
Presenter:
Joseph Raczynski
Technologist and Futurist
LegalTech Master's Class for 24Ore Business School, Rome, Italy
Presenter: The Latest LegalTech Technologies & Their Impact
Virtual to Italian Audience - June 11, 2022
Speaker:
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
Law Firm General Counsel Roundtable - The Metaverse and Legal
Presenter
Presenter: Into the Metaverse
Washington, DC - Hogan Lovells - June 2, 2022
Speaker:
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
Manifest Destiny: Risk, Opportunity & Reward Around Digital Currencies - Inter-Blockchain Connections
Moderator
New York, NY - The Westin Grand Central - April 14-15, 2022
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
University of Toronto Legal Hackers - Legal Start-up Pitches
Judge: Start-up Ideas
Webinar, February 19, 2022
Speaker:
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
Panel of Federal & Appellate Judges
Presenter: Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, DeFi, NFTs and the Metaverse in Legal
Webinar, February 16, 2022
Speaker:
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
Fordham University School of Law - The Metaverse & Blockchain in Legal
Presenter: Emerging Technology in Legal
Virtual - February 1 and 24, 2022
Speaker:
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
The 29th Annual Marketing Partner Forum - Startup Alley
Moderator
Presenter: Emerging Technology in Legal
Ritz Carlton, Amelia Island - January 21, 2022
Speaker:
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
ALANYC: Association of Legal Administrators of New York City
Presenter: Emerging Technology in Legal
New York - January 13, 2022
Speaker:
Joseph Raczynski - Technologist & Futurist
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