The Future of Work in a Decentralized World - Emmanuel Tope

with me yeah my name is Emmanuel to you might be wondering why I have two pictures there if you want to see me when I'm serious I'm on the right when I'm playful I'm on the left so that's why I have that thank you very much just to make yeah so how many of you know about this um this is covid and one thing this thing did to the human nature is that it made us realize that work can actually be decentralized it brought us to a full stop that I don't have to go to the office every day brought us to a full stop that I can create while somebody's in China and I'm also in Nigeria that's what the covid came to stamp beyond the other things he did pumping of money into the ecosystem Co did that for us and one thing the pandemic did was to ensure the interest the centralization sorry of work talents and Innovation um so understanding decentralization in work context decentralization can be discussed in so many Concepts but let's use work because I'm really here for that in the workplace decentralization refers to the dispara of decision making Authority work processes and resources away from a central Authority or a physical location I'm so particular about the physical location now what are types you know um of this decentralization we have the geographical the organizational and also the technological decentralization don't mind me I'm sounding like it's academics but don't worry I'm going to be done very soon for Geographic obviously breaking down of location barrier allowing individuals to walk remotely from various location fostering a global talent pool many of us don't know one of the reason while Nigeria came up in the map of it Global was because of the pandemic during the pandemic there was an accathon and the guy from Leia 2 actually he mentioned um the people who came for from E Global for the layer two meet up one of them who was the one in charge of the dispara of the bounty said he observed in 2020 that a lot of developers were coming from Nigeria and without the pandemic that wouldn't have been observed so remember where I'm coming from the pandemic ensur decentralization and that decentralization brought about this kind of know geographical decentralization the next one is organizational decentralization it pertains to the distribution you know um pertains to distribution of decision making power we know about that technological decentralization very very important because de centralization you know came with a technology the this aspect is driven by distributed Ledger Technologies like blockchain we all know that blockchain is just a type of DT we have Koda we have Iota there are other DTS um which removes the need for intermediary Central Power it enhances security transparency trustless and collaboration in um VAR business processes so what are the factors that are driving the centralization number one technological advancment number two remote work trends covid-19 this that number three globalization and divers of diverse talent and that's so important also to takech Fiesta globalization demand access to diverse skill set from around the world many of us don't know when I was um I was in Europe in um February for the European blockchain convention and when I whenever I'm talking to them and I say I'm from Leos I like wow they are great frontend Engineers from Lagos and great solidity developers from Lagos and that is because of decentralization also one of the factors is the cost and resources efficiency um agility and Innovation I don't want to BS employee preference and work life balance um I still believe as regards the work life balance there's a trma for everyone working remotely and the trilemma is that you are fighting between your work life balance earning and also learning many people jump into the web three space you start earning then you become obsolete you don't evolve so it's a triala for every everyone working remotely in in the globalized world um now connecting talents to the decentralized work landscape I want to talk about aaton now what's an aaton basically is an event typically hold over a concentrated period of time where individuals with different skills come together to collaborate and also provide solution to a specific challenge so when it comes to aaton I've heard a lot of people saying oh aaton is only for developers I dare to say that is very wrong on Tech Festa typically we have the front end guys the back end guys product designers people are going to be marketing and maybe someone that's going to be presenting for them do you understand so that's what an accathon is um it is an Anon creative Dynamic environment where participants work to build Innovative solution as a talent now how does aaton help you how does aaton help you to tap into that Global um decentralized um workplace that I mentioned earlier one thing it does that gives you Hands On Learning um real world problem solving exposure to imagin Technologies networking I wouldn't have been able to work with some people who I worked with if not for aaton I have a friend in France I have someone in China and how did we come together through accathon we're acing I remember we we acing on De post we're creating an escrow for um funding people projects where you can just come and you know whatever project you like just buy the nft and F the project how do I meet those people through accathon and aaton ensured that we work in a decentralized manner so collaboration and teamwork skill enhancement mentorship and learning project showcasing Pathway to employment resume enhancement I can I can say a lot back and forth back and forth um the current Dev lead for cell Africa D I met her in 2021 we did an accathon together and our journey has been from accathon to accathon to now getting a job as the lead Dev for cell do you understand so as a developer as a non-technical person acons are a way to build your resume don't play with it you might not win I think because we are African we are so much attached to winning fine it's good to get result but you might not win but that adds to your portfolio you can say oh yeah I was part of this I did this I knew about this I documented this so now let's talk about how can we now tap into aaton you do that through aaton platforms so um I'll be listing oh sorry I'll be listing three aaton platform here we have gitcoin thank God gitcoin spoke before before I came on board Dev post and now Tech Fiesta and I'm here for Tech Fiesta sorry for the buyers so what's Tech Festa like I said I rate again Tech Fiesta is an online blockchain poweron platform where we pay developers in stable coins acons are hosted in stable coins and develop are paid in stable coins remember one of the core values of the blockchain you know is decentralization security and scalability yeah try themas so we are trying to you know decentralize aing and make sure anybody from any part of the world including IM margin countries Africa can tap in there are some marathons that you cannot engage if you are from Africa how many of us know about that how many of us especially if they are US based aaton platform if you are from Nigeria you might have restrictions but with platform like Tech Fiesta all you have to do just go there connect to your wallet and act recently we concluded the S Africa Dow times bathon where um the bounties were $5,000 in um $5,000 usdc and um five projects you know one 20005 1,000 um I think 250 250 and how how did these guys do they just went to techfest ww. techfest st.dev and connected their wallet read the problem statement Pride a solution and we don't just give you you know the projects to work on we ensure that during the accathon there workshops that can help you to understand the stacks because for every aaton everyone should listen to this for every aaton there are different Stacks so if I'm if I'm building for human protocol it's different for building for gnosis chain gnosis chain might be particular about using their chain for your nft rather than using ethereum so you don't want to confuse you want to know what you're actually building and that's why we do these workshops while having this aaton um so Tech Festa like I said this is just a brief it's an aaton platform built on blockchain technology the reason is to enable developers and haers to build Innovative projects and stand a chance to work with the biggest name in the industry right about now we have hosted three acons with human protocol human protocol is um an organization in Dubai and they are so much concerned with the proof of human as AI advances um I have a little issue with W coin I don't want to talk about W coin so as AI Advance we need to prove humanity and the human protocol is doing something about that we had an aaton with cell I just mentioned that we have an aaton presently with nosis chain we haveon coming up with concordium and a lot of protocols so the reason is to enable developers and haers to build this project and stand a chance to work with the biggest name and most importantly receive fast and secure payment in stable coins by just connecting your wallet to our platform so thank you very much for your time I so much appreciate you guys thank you very much I Emmanuel peace out [Applause]