Professor Alex Preda
Professor, Lingan University
Biography
Alex Preda is Professor at Lingnan University. He previously worked at King's Business School.
Research
Professional Hybridisations and Epistemic Practices of Cryptocapital: An Ethnographic Investigation of Cryptoasset Firms
We investigate professional collaborations involving software engineers and finance professionals in blockchain firms.
Project status: Completed
FinWork Futures
Investigating the future of financial work and new technologies for the financial professions
News
GameStop: the crowd bites back?
Campaign against hedge funds driven by algorithms as well as persuasion
Events
FinWork Blockchain: Web3.0 Societies. Cultural Configurations of Technofinancial Capitalism
A conference organised by the ESRC project Professional Hybridisations and Epistemic Practices of Cryptocapital and the Future of Financial Work (FinWork)...
Please note: this event has passed.
Adam Hayes: Bitcoin Was Never Meant to Be Money… So What Is It and Why Should Sociologists Care?
Please join us for this instalment of the FinWork Blockchain Online Seminar Series with Adam Hayes from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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A Panel Debate: Whatever Happened with FTX?
FinWork Blockchain Seminar presents a panel debate with Ian Taylor, Lodewijk Van Setten and Gayle Rogers.
Please note: this event has passed.
Koray Caliskan: The Collapse of Trust in a Trust Machine. A Blockchain and Its Community Politics
FinWork Futures Research Centre presents Koray Caliskan from Parsons, The New School in this instalment of the FinWork Blockchain Online Seminar Series.
Please note: this event has passed.
Lodewijk van Setten: Tokenisation of Off-Chain Assets and Legal Risk Management
Please join us for this instalment of the Blockchain Online Seminar Series with Lodewijk van Stetten from TriliTech, Tezos Foundation.
Please note: this event has passed.
David C. Parkes: Credible Decentralized Exchange Design via Verifiable Sequencing Rules
Please join us for this instalment of the FinWork Blockchain Online Seminar Series with David Parkes from Harvard University.
Please note: this event has passed.
Tim Roughgarden : The Long Arm of Theoretical Computer Science: A Case Study in Blockchains/Web3
Please join us for the instalment of the Finwork Blockchain Online Seminar Series with Tim Roughgarden: The Long Arm of Theoretical Computer Science: A Case...
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Vili Lehdonvirta: Cryptocracy: The Quest to Replace Politics with Technology
Vili Lehdonvirta: Cryptocracy: The Quest to Replace Politics with Technology
Please note: this event has passed.
Peter McBurney: Distributed Ledgers as the Second Great Revolution in IT: How shared data platforms are transforming business
Distributed Ledgers as the Second Great Revolution in IT: How shared data platforms are transforming business
Please note: this event has passed.
"But is it art?" NFTs and the art world
How NFTs - digital tokens tied to assets that can be bought, sold and traded - are shaking up the world of art, galleries and museums.
Please note: this event has passed.
Research
Professional Hybridisations and Epistemic Practices of Cryptocapital: An Ethnographic Investigation of Cryptoasset Firms
We investigate professional collaborations involving software engineers and finance professionals in blockchain firms.
Project status: Completed
FinWork Futures
Investigating the future of financial work and new technologies for the financial professions
News
GameStop: the crowd bites back?
Campaign against hedge funds driven by algorithms as well as persuasion
Events
FinWork Blockchain: Web3.0 Societies. Cultural Configurations of Technofinancial Capitalism
A conference organised by the ESRC project Professional Hybridisations and Epistemic Practices of Cryptocapital and the Future of Financial Work (FinWork)...
Please note: this event has passed.
Adam Hayes: Bitcoin Was Never Meant to Be Money… So What Is It and Why Should Sociologists Care?
Please join us for this instalment of the FinWork Blockchain Online Seminar Series with Adam Hayes from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Please note: this event has passed.
A Panel Debate: Whatever Happened with FTX?
FinWork Blockchain Seminar presents a panel debate with Ian Taylor, Lodewijk Van Setten and Gayle Rogers.
Please note: this event has passed.
Koray Caliskan: The Collapse of Trust in a Trust Machine. A Blockchain and Its Community Politics
FinWork Futures Research Centre presents Koray Caliskan from Parsons, The New School in this instalment of the FinWork Blockchain Online Seminar Series.
Please note: this event has passed.
Lodewijk van Setten: Tokenisation of Off-Chain Assets and Legal Risk Management
Please join us for this instalment of the Blockchain Online Seminar Series with Lodewijk van Stetten from TriliTech, Tezos Foundation.
Please note: this event has passed.
David C. Parkes: Credible Decentralized Exchange Design via Verifiable Sequencing Rules
Please join us for this instalment of the FinWork Blockchain Online Seminar Series with David Parkes from Harvard University.
Please note: this event has passed.
Tim Roughgarden : The Long Arm of Theoretical Computer Science: A Case Study in Blockchains/Web3
Please join us for the instalment of the Finwork Blockchain Online Seminar Series with Tim Roughgarden: The Long Arm of Theoretical Computer Science: A Case...
Please note: this event has passed.
Vili Lehdonvirta: Cryptocracy: The Quest to Replace Politics with Technology
Vili Lehdonvirta: Cryptocracy: The Quest to Replace Politics with Technology
Please note: this event has passed.
Peter McBurney: Distributed Ledgers as the Second Great Revolution in IT: How shared data platforms are transforming business
Distributed Ledgers as the Second Great Revolution in IT: How shared data platforms are transforming business
Please note: this event has passed.
"But is it art?" NFTs and the art world
How NFTs - digital tokens tied to assets that can be bought, sold and traded - are shaking up the world of art, galleries and museums.
Please note: this event has passed.