How to bring sustainability in the blockchain world? / Bengisu Berispek

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foreign [Music] hello hello hello um yeah so today I will bring you another aspect which is maybe not super sceneable and like now in the blockchain world and also in nft world and um yeah so like my actual initiative is like sustained all and we are a

collaboration lab on sustainable development goals which we are doing also like a different kind of projects like I found it also like a flint Arts Collective rare Collective so today I will bring you some examples from two different initiatives one from like artistic perspective about nfts and one is more relating to like energy and blockchain principles so how can we bring sustainability in blockchain so maybe this also helps in the hackathon that because I saw the track called like sustainability so it's super nice actually [Applause] um yeah so how do I go with slides

exactly so I will introduce you first like sustain all like my team and what we are doing at the University at Tu Berlin Technical University Berlin and um what is our motivation what is our aim what is our motto and then um I will go through like sustainable development goals maybe you heard of them maybe you didn't and then um yeah I will bring like blockchain I will try to uh merge the sustainable growth with blockchain and what is actually the official initiatives like United Nations what are they telling about that so and um I will talk about then our artists

Collective which is doing the artworks for sustainability uh it's a rare and then I will show some artists from the collective and their artworks and how we match the artworks with the sdgs okay so this is my core team and um basically uh yeah I'm the founder of sustain all and rare Collective and the sustainable Lab at the city of Berlin and and um yeah as you see I'm environmental engineer and I developed in my master this is a concept how to make the buildings like the public buildings like

climate Naturals with binding uh sustainability and a new renovation plans renewable energies motivating the user in the buildings how to reduce the energy how to like how we can educate the people actually to reduce energy consumption and yeah I was bringing all these accepts aspects together and also monitoring the data for one year in one school building in Berlin and yeah we also reached actually this is like another project but we also reached like a super nice energy consumption in three months like 12

percent of consumption of electricity and um yeah but today I will talk about uh different projects and um yeah basically my other team member is Gregor and he's a communication lead and he's also designer and maybe if you were in nft Berlin Conference maybe you solve him also he was in the core team and um basically and the thing is we are looking for a third or four team members because it's super exciting this is super growing right now

and uh our developer just uh left so we need a tech developer and business developer if you're looking for something to work with us [Applause] um so our mission is to accelerate the transmission to more sustainable worlds with engaging everyone to our vision so basically we are destroying the planets so and we are running out of resources to sustain life as we know it and we need to do something about this but what so um basically maybe so now this is like my research I'm also checking if

nfts and if blockchain can help save our environment and maybe give long term like sustainability Financial sustainability and because maybe we are creating some tokens and maybe this can be also like for the Land Titles and for the carbon credits maybe this can be a solution so but we will see and so what is the problem the problem is basically there is a lack of sustainable blockchain based platform which brings people to collaborate and also like on Innovation Innovation and sustainable topics and um one of like most of the Flint artists they're like so many artists and they

are not visible and also scientists in the universities they are doing lots of research projects but they're also not visible and there are not enough funds so maybe blockchain can be like the solution to bring funds to this sustainable projects so I will show our concept later and there is lack of sustainability awareness in the blockchain so I'm laughing but uh yes you know why um so what is our solution so we are basically now building like a collaborative platform and lab based on global share Knowledge and Skills met with the projects and people there

expose themselves and they find partners and funds but how it works so basically you are maybe a project maker and you have an idea so for example you're a farmer and you want to build a solar panel in your lens and but you are missing a Workforce because you can't do this alone right and maybe you need also an education how to build your solar panel do it yourself at your lens and then you come to us basically to the platform and you make a call and then we bring you actually like students or like different project

Partners which you can collaborate and then at the end you see here the sustainable development goals I project partner is happy and then sustainable development goals are also a bit reached so but it's important to measure and track this so what is our impact actually like in every project so and now I'm coming back to the lab part so what is actually this collaboration lab on sdgs and I will come later to the sdgs but I'm shopping first the concept so basically we are in the lab at the TU Berlin we are focusing on every sdg

and um they're like we are trying to find projects project Partners which we can support every scg and we bring this project Partners to the students so basically every semester this is a module and every semester it runs and um it's like more and there are like different workshops we are giving like project management workshops expert talks excursions resource discussions like we are bringing like for 17 sdgs 17 experts and uh basically Building Bridges between non-university partners experts and students and um

yeah so this was basically the idea when I was a student I was thinking okay there are like so many like technical stuff it's a Technical University and I'm learning lots of nice things but I want to implement and I want to see like okay what's the implementation causing what and um yeah so this is basically our stakeholders students project makers and investors so basically students they're like starting with actually learning and they're involving their like directly with the projects to their career and project makers they basically project exposure like their projects

exposure and also they collaborate they find funds and they share knowledge and in the important factor is investor of course so in this part is actually coming we are to the blockchain and and they basically they can invest they can return with money they can have green impact they can compensate their CO2 emissions so they're like big companies now they are trying to do trying to merge sustainability to their companies and it's super hard for them and um yeah basically this is like what we are building right now a platform where you can see in a map with different projects that you can

just collaborate invest or like you can see the project partners and um yeah our motto is like team global collaborate that sustainable um yeah but now I'm coming to the lab team so basically you see like what we are doing in the lab like now I'm gonna go to the concept so how are we actually merging the sustainability in education so how universities can actually go more Innovative more like education like in sustainability and also implements this projects so basically our supervisor is like Andrea kaminola and he's from the

Einstein Center of digital future and also chair head of chair of Smartwatch networks the tubal and um I'm not gonna tell myself again and share well and I get back there my two tours and they're also helping with the content in the class so basically sustain lab so what we are talking is consists of three different Labs educational lab project lab and integration and awareness lab so in the education lab we are basically trying to Foster the education on sdgs and with guest lecturers on 17 sdgs and journal clubs and in the project lab

what we are doing is we are implementing with different partners non-university partners these projects and also giving workshops taking workshops from different initiatives in our lab and also in the integration events lab it's not just saying what we are doing in the lab at the University but we are trying to also make these comment events like bringing actually what is sustainability what is like the sdgs we are trying to bring it out so we are organizing like climate days we are organizing sustainability markets so there are like different community events and now I'm trying to find the emergency

the emergency in the blockchain and yeah we had like different guest speakers on education ICT the critic critics and sustainability um like different digitalizations and like water sdg so we match with every speaker with sdgs and like they're like different project partners are helping with the students like that we bring these partners that they do projects with the students and at the end this research projects they also gain like different knowledge the partners are also learning from students and also like students are learning from Partners so this is like actually like peer-to-peer

and yeah here we have a little technical problem but okay I guess like here something's uh happened um yeah so basically the idea is we have this pool right so we have like we have like different project partners and students every semester they're like getting these challenges so there are like different challenges like for example like being Sally is bringing like a Mobility challenge so the students are trying to solve like group of students trying to solve this challenge German Resource Center brings like a flood risk management challenge for example and then they're like trying to solve this Challenge and um and then we are collecting collecting collecting all these projects and then we are

measuring the impact on sustainability so but now I'm going front so now you see the concept how it works how we are doing it and now I will actually like go to the basic terms what is sustainable development so I was like saying okay we are bringing this guest speakers on 17 different STDs and uh basically but what is also scg in the beginning so because it's so many people they actually didn't know like they don't know when I'm talking about hey like um scg like most of the like people they don't know that's yet so um when I go to the beginning to the

basics so sustainable development is a development which meets the needs of current Generations without compromising the ability of future Generations meet their own needs so basically we need to save our resources so if we just don't like videos reuse recycle and we have this planet and we have this boundaries and we can't go outside of the boundaries because this this is the boundaries we can go and that's why we need to find Solutions how

we can say in the boundaries right and um yeah basically this is the term from United Nations our common feature so this is our common feature so like this is this we need to do something like we need to get together we need to collaborate and we need to find a community that we can sustain ourselves and um yeah this is a basic thing that we need to create this United Community with increasing environmental awareness with shared sustainable goals identifying problems worldwide and

suggesting implementation of these sdgs okay and going to the other basic what are the sustainable development goals so they're like this is the 2030 agenda so 2013 because we need to reach this goals until 2030. so and how much time do we have so it's like 2022 so we have eight years okay cool but most of the population doesn't know this term so this is a thing now this 17 goals there are 17 different goals on the scgs and

they have different action areas so the first area is like putting the human dignity at the sensor and then the protecting the planet promote the prosperity for all promote the peace and build Global Ops and build Global Partnerships so we need to come together we need to think we need to rethink about our generation and we need to reach this goals in eight years okay so but there are also critics about this so this is not something like okay this is super good we are gonna do this but there are Critics on this

because how are we gonna do it as like citizens this is the most important question so we need to educate ourselves and we need to also see okay if this is like really implementable so this goals actually they have three different dimensions environmental economical and also social so I will show you the goals in detail so the first one is like no poverty basically um yeah this all goes like select they have super like for the different countries there are like they have different meanings because this is not the same for every country and all these goals

they have like different indicators so I will I won't go like through all of these goals but just like to hear if you didn't hear about it before so for example like climate action I think you heard of it right so basically yeah we have one planet we need to say the climates we introduce the CO2 company CO2 emissions for example like this quality education like a the educating is for example maybe here in Europe is something normal but still there are like some places they don't have this right and for example like reduce inequalities like we see even like now like women in

business for example like there are like different kind of indicators which for each goal like this they are making this pillars like social economic and environmental and we are trying to measure the impact with the projects that we are doing okay which sdg like we are having the impact on oh okay so this is like the scg indicator so what is an scg indicator they are basically the indicators there are like different indicators in each like goal and this indicators helps to Target to check to measure the goal so for example like the for the indicator

like climate change climate action we have an indicator as like CO2 emissions so this is like our track measurements so this is for the info but so how are we gonna implement this scg so this is the thing so first we need to understand so you're seeing it right now if you're understanding about it we are trying to reflect about it okay which STG what I'm doing in my life maybe which I can have an impact on and then we are defining the priorities and we are seeing it okay this scg is important maybe for example your company or like your like um what you are doing it right now and

then you are setting the goals and then after you set the goals then you start to integrate and we see now we will see okay how we can integrate this sdg to the blockchain huh what happens I think I clicked on something else should I click again I see it here but I oh yeah okay um sorry for that so like blockchain and sustainability um so basically on this thing like on like United Nations

they already like published about okay maybe blockchain technology will help and maybe they will be like an instrumental in funding these goals and like for example like nfts and also like blockchain technology they can be a funding source for the projects for the sustainable projects and um and then what we thought about okay but we are minting something for example for the nfts when you mint like I also also like the numbers like for example on ethereum like it's it's super

super sadly it's uh it's too much um so then we said okay maybe we can compensate this emissions but through the projects that we are doing so we get the money and we compensate so it's like win-win um so but like actually like the nfts are also like damaging the environment because it's proved that they have a higher consumption than several countries okay um so what are we gonna do um so first of all why blockchain so because like now I'm merging with the

sustainability so now I'm not starting like blockchain like 100 uh one uh 101 um but it's really like uh if you're thinking of energy and climate change so scg7 clean energy and affordable energy so if you're thinking of it so it's actually blockchain can automate the electricity consuming systems for example they can con like automate the smart meters which for example it shows like for example in the building when there is no need to put the light on they can actually with the smart contracts they can actually automate the systems

and this is actually this is for the sustainable Community this is super good because this is decentralized so basically if we have our decentralized energy in our own houses our PV systems wind systems so we don't need actually the central authorities like to get the electricity and we don't need to pay them right and this is transparent like it's I mean it's not like okay I give you this you gave me this this later like a banking currency is like it's something transparent so like basically we see in the traditional database centralized

trust environment okay we have the database we have the central Authority and then we are the participants as Citizens and we can have the access through this Authority but if you have like a decentralized blockchain environment it is actually like we are the participants maybe more happier because we can automatize like optimize like our own energy resources and um yeah so this is like the the thing which you can merge with the sustainability and blockchain and so like here comes like more explanations

so this is actually like the key priority as we said decentralization is super important for the Energy savings and also like to be to maintain our sustainable living and sustainable communities and so for the transparency so every pair knows the data so you can see actually in your smartphone you can see like how much like energy you're like consuming how much like not just from the bills but you have your own data and you can just uh play with it you can just automize it and then it's also like uh um it's since there's a transparency any

peer can also verify the correctness of the state of distributed Ledger and it's also any peer you can verify the Integrity of the distributed Ledger so but what is like the application actually to energy and climate Solutions so energy Market decentralized decentralization lies enhancing in the combination of blockchain Technologies with artificial intelligence The Internet of Things like smart meters I was talking about and also like affordable renewable energy production for example solar

panels on your rooftop and storage equipments like batteries so you can store it actually your own energy you can create your own energy you can store it you can use it like you can make your hot water and like this will be your own resource so you can sustain your actually house right um so actually how is this like this technology like closing the loop and maybe in climate financing and accounting so you're seeing here like we have like the financial capitals and they are basically bringing like optimizing the process like to climate

action and we have the value it's positive positive and we have the account so it's like a loop and it's closed so this means like um it's also like a life cycle thinking it's closing the loop means something good right so like for the sustainability and um so you see for example you you just imagine that you are this guy or yeah and you're sitting here and you have your own project and just imagine that you can basically decentralize your

decentralized project you can do it and you have an impact on the climate value directly with your project operation through aggregation business models of blockchain so basically what is like the the emissions so like let's come to the point the emissions was the carbon footprint of like one nft because I was talking about okay blockchain is like Goods like nfts are Goods maybe we can sustain Our Lives maybe we can just like fund our like sustainable projects and [Music] um so there are like two different kinds of like sake of proof stake of work I think

you already heard about it um sake of proof is like carbon natural main thing but sake of work so like here is that comes the points that we need to actually like think okay how are we gonna if you are doing this job how are we gonna make it sustainable right so we need to think about it it's not like hey yeah I have Bitcoins like an ethereum so this is not super like I mean you know we need to think about like if you're a mean thing like this nfts we need to think about okay this is like my carbon Footprints actually as a human being like

um this number you see like 33.4 kilogram Co I'm doing this all the time um four kilogram CO2 is like one of the like the produce the production of like one ethereum when you are mincing it in the ethereum blockchain and um one person in one year produces also 11.3 tonne carbon uh CO2 per person so if you compare like in your minds like how is the difference it's actually a lot so we need to find Solutions how if you

are doing this business if you are in blockchain if you're in nft world we need to find Solutions how to bring sustainability inside and how we are gonna make it carbon natural and how we are going to compensate like the emissions and saw and at this point I said okay this is like super good what we are doing at the University like we have our like project lab we are inviting it speakers and we are working directly with students project Partners but how I can bring to the blockchain the nft world actually

like sustainability with doing something different at that moment like it was actually super new it was four months ago um I was talking with them like a friend of mine an artist and is actually then at that point we started this rare so like rare is the collective like this philanth artist Collective and um which we are aiming like that we make a difference in the blockchain like in the nft world with our arts on sustainability so our aim is basically exploring like the

blockchain in nfts and contributing the Fulfillment of like the United Nations sdgs with our artworks and also in the community of like women intersex trans folk and non-binary people and the motto is okay the 17 scgs are at the heart of agenda like 2030 and we need to find like we need to find the merge like with the blockchain technology and with the nfts so and then we made a concept oh I have a big tree um so we made a concept we said okay let's organize an open call and let's

check the artist like that maybe they will do something for like sustainable like an artworks like and Mission with their sustainability and then with this artworks maybe we can mint nfts and then we can make we can fund our sustainable projects in the sustainable lab so then we make like a financial concept we said okay Arts gets percentages in yogas percentages that artists choose sustain August percentages NFC company gets personalities project team gets persons but the main points is that we are like with this nft fundings we are giving like the most of the resources to the ngos and like the sustainable

projects and we can skip this and then like in the first open call we already covered so much sdgs this was like unbelievable like uh one two three four five six seven eight I add them eight so um we were like covering actually lots of the sdgs and we were like trying to see okay it's actually doable so I will go now like to the open gallery so um so you can like just see like however how I how did we do it actually so like the first artist is like uh and like she basically did this like 3D art

and um matching with like the gender equality sdg the other one was like this life on lens and life low water sdgs matching this 3D artworks and then the other one was like General like she was doing like the new world era it's like it's also kind of like matching with the climate change and sustainable communities because this was like this um basically pointing like the carbon Footprints like this artwork and the other one was like curling and she was doing this like Gaia images like with the AI and um she was basically also matching like with the seven the sdg seven

sustainable communities and the other one was like petia and she was uh basically she did this like woman um like this emotional materialized like woman like with this um like um healing with like wand healing bioplastic so this is basically also going into the direction of like gender and also like this plastic usage and um yeah and she did actually like a tattoo but I think like this tattoo was here but something happened so um but if you want I can show it later and said that was this oh and Bruno was like doing basically like

the feminine like cool like this bringing like the feminism like up and bringing like woman in this world like because I think nft world is like lots of men and um yeah and then we had also another 3D artist she did a video but I think it's yeah I think the videos are gone somehow or yeah anyway so the Miko was also like working on the Aesthetics of uh like the nature so you see like life is a flower this

life is a flower but we need to give this flower like water right and Syrian was also doing like different burning pixels of like this climbs action and digital like uh fashion and like for the sustainable communities she did also some different videos and this is actually a moving image but this is not moving here right now um but yeah I can like I can send you this this artworks are also in the website actually and Mimi was also like a this was this is like an artwork from her and this was she was doing this coffee cup sauce circular thinking like thing basically

you see this all the coffee capsules around her and maybe like thinking of like this each capsule is basically yeah okay so I'm going fast so but this is the last artist Stacy and she is also empowering like the female identity and you can see all these like artworks this will be also in the platform and we'll be also um salt soon so um yeah actually I'm coming to end um you see like our Concepts like two different like initiatives like sustain all rare Collective the collaboration

Lab at the associate at the table balloon so basically this all needs like of course maybe like this is the community maybe I can ask for if you are like interested you can uh just like come to me talk to me write to me like on LinkedIn everywhere um so basically we need this this um all like because this is like a bringing together collaborating for sustainable future so we need of course investors we need like more artists like in our Collective but we are we were already like 30 right now and but of course like why not more and more students like who would like to join the class and it's every semester is 30 students in the lab and

um yeah and developers of course um so there are like some resources you can find it and yeah basically this is like the official ones like EU kids and like United Nations and you can reach us um from our websites you can just uh scan like the QR codes Instagram LinkedIn uh if you're a student you can go to the portal and yeah basically I'm super on time yo thank you so much and um

yeah this was it [Laughter] [Applause] okay I think we have a bit of time for some questions if anyone has any questions in the audience I forgot about the question there's a roving microphone okay uh then I guess we will take it from here perfect very much thank you so much [Applause]