About the show
If you are interested in learning more about the blockchain industry and want to hear from some of the brightest thought leaders, tune into this bi-weekly podcast. R3’s Catherine Rutter hosts some of the biggest names in the blockchain world. Be sure to subscribe and rate the podcast!
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Episodes
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Episode 42: The Marco Polo Network and trade finance talk with Dave Sutter and Tobias Nafe
December 6th, 2019 | 41 mins 26 secs
blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, life in the fast chain
Catherine sits down with Dave Sutter (TradeIX) and Tobias Nafe (Landesbank Baden- Württemberg) to chat with a beer to discuss the Marco Polo network and how the trade finance industry is evolving! Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 41: Kumbaya! David E. Rutter is on (40 episodes late, in his opinion!) to talk to Catherine and Todd about the growth of R3 and our humble beginnings at #CordaCon2019
November 14th, 2019 | 36 mins 20 secs
blockchain, catherine rutter, ceo, co-founder, corda, corda enterprise, david e rutter, david rutter, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, founder, life in the fast chain, startup
R3 Founder and CEO David E. Rutter alongside Co-founder and CPO Todd McDonald sit down with Catherine at CordaCon2019 for a fun conversation about the company's humble beginnings. They chat about the first few months of the company from the perspectives of the intern and the founders! This hilarious episode may have gotten David a ticket to join the podcast again. Listen on your favorite podcast app, or, watch it online on vimeo here - https://vimeo.com/373266195
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Episode 40: Ken Marke and Ronnie Kher join the podcast to talk InsurTech (spoooooky!)
October 31st, 2019 | 35 mins 28 secs
b3i, blockchain, blockchain insurance, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, insurance, insurance and blockchain, insurtech, life in the fast chain
Ken Marke (B3i) and Ronnie Kher (R3) join the podcast to discuss InsurTech and what B3i is doing in the blockchain space. (This episode was released on Halloween hence the spoooooky). Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 39: Richard Crook joins Life in the Fast Chain to talk all about Digital Assets
October 18th, 2019 | 34 mins 46 secs
blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, dasl, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, lab577, life in the fast chain, richard crook
Catherine and Richard Crook from Lab577 sit down in London to talk about CordaCon next week, what they are doing in the digital asset space, why they keep coming back to Corda, and much more. Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 38: "This one is for the nerds" with Simon Taylor co-founder of 11:FS!
September 26th, 2019 | 30 mins 50 secs
blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, life in the fast chain
Catherine and Simon sit down at Sibos in London to chat about the conference, 11:FS, how he got into blockchain, Libra, and much much more! Listen on your favorite podcast app or watch online here - https://www.r3.com/videos/simon-taylor-from-11fs-joins-r3s-podcast-life-in-the-fast-chain/.
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Episode 37: Try and keep it real with Richard Johnson from Greenwich Associates
September 13th, 2019 | 36 mins 59 secs
blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, digital assets, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, greenwich associates, life in the fast chain, richard johnson, securities, securities tokens, tokens
Alternative title... Catherine learns all about securities tokens~good vibes only~. Richard Johnson is on the podcast to drop some knowledge on his recent reports at Greenwich Associates. Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 36: Work hard, be prepared, be kind with Aerotrax (alternative title: Big blockchain fan)
August 30th, 2019 | 37 mins 23 secs
aerotrax, blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, life in the fast chain, villanova
Catherine (and intern Kate!) are joined by Aerotrax co-founders David Bettenhausen and Phong Nguyen Dang to discuss how they leverage blockchain in the aviation industry. They are both hard-working students who are working on building up this company in their spare time. Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 35: Satoshi plants a seed with BlockHash host Brandon Zemp!
August 15th, 2019 | 47 mins 31 secs
blockchain, brandon zemp, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, life in the fast chain, satoshi sequence
This week on Life in the Fast Chain, Catherine sits down with Brandon Zemp, author of The Satoshi Sequence and host of The BlockHash Podcast. Brandon fills us in on how he became interested in blockchain and what inspire him to write his book. In addition, we get his take on libra, cryptocurrencies, and what's next for blockchain. Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 34: Mariana Gomez de la Villa joins the pod for health shots and block talks. See what we did there.
August 1st, 2019 | 35 mins 22 secs
blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, ing, life in the fast chain, mariana gomez
Mariana Gomez from ING joins the podcast to talk about what projects ING is doing in the blockchain space and how she "accidentally" got into it! Listen on your favorite podcast app.
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Episode 33: Everybody loves a hairdryer with a sensor on it! 3D printing, cloud, logic apps, and more with Microsoft's Marc Mercuri
July 18th, 2019 | 43 mins 47 secs
blockchain, blockchain on cloud, catherine rutter, cloud, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, life in the fast chain, logic apps, marc mercuri, microsoft, microsoft azure
Marc Mercuri from Microsoft Azure comes on the podcast to talk to Catherine about a ton of topics. They cover blockchain implementation on the cloud, 3D printing, logic apps, Starbucks, supply chain, dating apps, Starbucks, farmers, apartments, and MORE. Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 32: Libra, Blockchain, AI, Ripe.io, and IoT (Internet of Tomatoes, duh).
July 8th, 2019 | 51 mins 1 sec
alisa dicaprio, blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, food on blockchain, life in the fast chain, raja ramachandran, ripe, ripe.io, todd mcdonlad
Todd McDonald is back on the podcast to give some background and thoughts on Facebooks recent announcement of Libra. Raja Ramachandran also joins us from Ripe to talk about what they are doing on blockchain, specifically Corda. We chat about IoT (internet of tomatoes) and AI working from farm to table and what they’ve done with Sweetgreen tomatoes and the Dairy Farmers of America. Alisa DiCaprio, Kate DeWinter, and Jackie Yang also sit in on the recordings. Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 31: Clinical Trials - Life or Death study with HSBlox, Q² Solutions, Microsoft Azure. Oh... and a fun game on Corda!
June 20th, 2019 | 32 mins 9 secs
azure, blockchain, catan, catherine rutter, clinical trials, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, games on blockchain, hsblox, life in the fast chain, microsoft, q2 solutions, settlers of catan, webinar
Catherine sits down with Lynn Carroll (HSBlox), Jian Wang (Q² Solutions), David Houlding (Microsoft Azure), and Stephanie Perez (R3) to discuss Clinical Trials and why blockchain tech is super important to their studies... as clinical trials really are life or death studies. She also chats with Nick Rogers, a Solutions Engineer at R3 who is porting the game Catan onto Corda! Listen on your favorite podcast app.
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Episode 30: TRIGGERED with Jesse Chenard from Monetago
June 7th, 2019 | 30 mins 41 secs
blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, jesse chenard, life in the fast chain, monetago
Catherine sits down with Jesse Chenard, CEO of Monetago for this episode of Life in the Fast Chain! Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 29: Serendipity with Alex Medana, CEO and Co-Founder of FinFabrik
May 17th, 2019 | 41 mins 38 secs
alex medana, blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, finfabrik, life in the fast chain
Catherine and Alex sit down to discuss how FinFabrik came to be, why he is interested in blockchain, how to get over jetlag, and more! Listen on your favorite podcast app and be prepared to hear lots of laughs.
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Episode 28: Grow is the way to go with Crocodile Dundee...er, I mean Josh Wilson ;-)
May 3rd, 2019 | 28 mins 18 secs
blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, grow super, josh wilson, life in the fast chain, superannuation, superannuation fund, tina
Josh and Catherine hang out in the studio so Josh can explain to Catherine what a superannuation fund is, why blockchain is a good fit for Grow, and what their platform Tina is! Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 27: NO ES UN BLOCKCHANGE
April 19th, 2019 | 48 mins 54 secs
blockchain, carlos arena, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, life in the fast chain, marco polo, mezcal, olympics, tradeix
Catherine has Carlos Arena, head of Americas business development at R3. He talks about how Latin America is adopting blockchain, cryptos, AI & IoT, the Olympics, and why he likes to drink Mezcal. Listen on your favorite podcast app!