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Towards a New Social Contract for the Digital Age

Towards a New Social Contract for the Digital Age

Dr. Len Epp Will Interview Dr. Don Tapscott ’66, Trent University Chancellor

Friday, November 16, 2018

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Student Centre Room 1.20

Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough ON

Register for this event online

https://mycommunity.trentu.ca/chancellor

Dr. Don Tapscott is one of the world’s leading authorities on innovation, media, and the economic and social impact of technology. In 2017, he was ranked the second most influential management thinker in the world by Thinkers50. With aTED talk garnering over a million views, his most recent book Blockchain Revolution is the first book to thoroughly explain why blockchain technology – an open, distributed, global platform – will fundamentally transform the way we move, store, and manage value online.

Dr. Len Epp is a former investment banker with a doctorate in English Literature from the University of Oxford. He is a co-founder of Leanpub, a platform used for writing and selling ebooks and online courses that is popular with creators in the tech sector. Len is also the host of the Frontmatter and Backmatter podcasts, where he interviews authors and publishing industry experts, respectively.


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