New Finance: Unpacking DeFi, FinTech, Crypto & Blockchain

 Programme Overview

Online Learning Experience: 
Our online courses are designed as synchronous learning experiences. Participants are required to attend sessions in real-time, as active engagement is essential for course completion. Learn more about our online learning experience .

What does the programme offer you?

Given recent and rapid technological changes impacting most businesses, we’ve consulted industry partners and analysed skill needs by sector to design this course which offers you:

• A practical introduction to blockchain technology, cryptocurrency and digital assets.
• An understanding of the role they are playing and will play across industries and sectors in the future.
• An understanding of governance and regulatory challenges associated with crypto and how organisations and regulators are working to overcome these challenges
• First-hand experience in opening a cryptocurrency account, setting up a digital wallet, creating an NFT, staking assets, and participating in DeFi protocols.
• The knowledge to harness the power of blockchain technology, cryptocurrency and digital assets.

Programme details

This course covers:

• What are blockchain, crypto & Web3 and how do they work?
• Cryptography 101 & blockchain fundamentals
• Digital wallets
• DeFi (decentralised finance)
• Staking
• Challenges & opportunities: regulation ethics, the environment & sustainability
• Identification of use cases and applications for specific sectors and industries, and how new business models and ecosystems are being created
• Blockchain project implementation risks
• A framework to develop and lead blockchain Communities of Practice (CoP)
• The long term “prognosis” for blockchain & crypto

Who is this programme designed for?

The programme is suitable for those from all business disciplines and levels of expertise, in particular:

• leaders and managers working in digital transformation, change management, digital innovation, technology and policy development.
• professionals working in finance, regulatory & compliance functions or in commercial operations, strategy and future positioning of organisations.
• business professionals with an interest in crypto and blockchain.

Programme delivery

Six evenings online

Programme Director

 Lory Kehoe

 Lory Kehoe is EU Director at Aave Labs, an onchain finance company, and CEO of Push Ireland, an EU-regulated digital asset firm. With     over a decade of experience across blockchain, tokenisation, stablecoins and digital assets, he previously held leadership roles at   Coinbase,  BNY Mellon, ConsenSys and Deloitte. Lory is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Trinity Business School, a PhD researcher     focused  on blockchain entrepreneurial ecosystems, and Founder and Chair of Blockchain Ireland.

Adjunct Teaching Fellow

Damien Conroy

Dr. Damien Conroy is a Dublin-based barrister with an extensive background in technology. Prior to joining the Bar of Ireland he was a director of software engineering with Mastercard, working across blockchain projects ranging from CBDC implementation consultation with central banks to on-chain data analytics. Prior to that he was an engineering lead and solutions architect with blockchain technology company ConsenSys. Damien holds a PhD from the University of Limerick where his research focused on software component integration.

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