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Engage in our lively, interactive session designed to brainstorm key challenges in the blockchain space, followed by a dynamic speed networking opportunity to connect with fellow blockchain enthusiasts and thought leaders.

Arbitrum Co.Lab Fellowship Problem Statement Workshop & Speed Networking

​Join our weekly onboarding call every Wednesday at 4 pm UTC to learn more about RnDAO and explore collaboration opportunities!

If this time doesn't suit you, please join our Discord server, and we can find a suitable slot for a one-on-one call with you.

RnDAO weekly onboarding call

Join our weekly onboarding call every Wednesday at 4 pm UTC to learn more about RnDAO and explore collaboration opportunities! 

Join us for an enlightening webinar, "Why Co.Lab for Arbitrum?" featuring a live interview with Shawn and DisruptionJoe from Thank ARB conducted by RnDAO Instigator Daniel Ospina. Dive deep into the significance of the Co.Lab initiative for the Arbitrum ecosystem and discover the unique opportunities it presents for innovators in blockchain and collaboration tech.

Max Pog, an entrepreneur 3X, is the founder of POGUMAX (a projection technologies company) and HYLS (an online courses platform). He conducted a 7-month research study on startup studios, which have doubled in number over the past 5 years, reaching a total of 877+. This model has garnered both criticism and enthusiasm due to the remarkable traction achieved by studio startups and he's going to have a talk on the "excitement and criticism of venture studios" with RnDAO!

Excitement and criticism of venture studios with Max Pog

​Join us for this workshop on the transformative power of Web3!

Web3 has reimagined an entire system. However, Web3 projects often struggle to truly understand customer problems and conduct thorough research, resulting in numerous failed products.

​To succeed, Web3 needs products that have excellent user experience on top of freedom and decentralization approach.

​To really build a product you need to really understand the problem, this is where we come in.

​We have created a Problem Statement workshop that is open to everybody where you will be get the benefit of peer review and expert review of your problem statement and really define something that you can build on and research.

​We want this to be open and for everybody to be able to access it as we understand the importance of having good problem statements for the progress of Web3.

​The desired outcomes for participants:

RnDAO Problem Statement Workshop

Join us for an enlightening talk on "Applications of Organizational Network Analysis" with Maya Townsend, the founder and lead consultant of Partnering Resources. 

With over 15 years of experience as an organization network practitioner, Maya has collaborated with a diverse range of clients in biopharma, agriculture, technology, and non-profit sectors across North America, South America, and Europe. Her work bridges the gap between theory and practice, enabling clients to grasp the value of network analysis and apply it to enhance organizational strategy and collaboration. She's authored the chapter on organization networks in The NTL Handbook of Organization Development and Change (Pfeiffer, 2014) and has contributed network articles to strategy + business and People & Strategy. In this presentation, Maya will share field examples, illustrating how companies have utilized ONA for strategic planning, organizational assessment, and mentoring purposes, while exploring the implications for RnDAO's work.

Applications of Organizational Network Analysis with Maya Townsend

Discover the Future of Collaboration Tech at RnDAO’s Demo Day

 for a showcase of innovation at RnDAO’s Demo Day. This event is a window into the ventures being developed within the vibrant ecosystem of RnDAO, an entity where the future of work and collaboration tech coalesce to redefine the digital workspace.

Reserve your spot for an enlightening experience that extends beyond the event, planting the seeds for a collaborative future rich in innovation and community-driven endeavors. Your journey into the heart of collaboration tech innovation begins here. RSVP now to be part of RnDAO’s Demo Day.

RnDAO Q423 Demo Day

Welcome to the Swarm: Navigating Digital Collectives with Rafa Fernandez

Embark on a captivating journey into the heart of online swarms with community architect and crypto-native explorer, Rafa Fernandez. In this thought-provoking session, Rafa unravels the dynamic world of digital collectives, their inherent ability for spontaneous coordination, and the contrasting nature of online formations with explicit protocols. 

Drawing from his rich investigative experience, including the communal response to Hurricane María, he invites us to delve deeper into understanding these networked tempests of humans and information. As we traverse through the realms of mutual aid, misinformation, and public representation that swarms embody, a lingering question unfolds: How can we steer these minimally protocolized entities towards collective good? 

Join us in this enlightening exploration of networked communication, as we seek to harness the potential of swarms in forging a collaborative digital future.

The Art & Science of Community Powered Growth presents Vee, who has had an exceptional Web3 journey, which saw her win 2 ETH Global hackathons and now head contributions for Optimism Foundation. In this twitter space, discover how Vee's experiences shaped her work & learn how she drives contributions from the large Optimism community.

This talk is a part of a new Twitter Spaces by TogetherCrew - The Art & Science of Community Powered Growth. Here the TogetherCrew team will delve into different facets of how companies can achieve community powered growth. The series will feature conversations with leaders in community building space. Follow 

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The Art & Science of Community Powered Growth with Vee

Join us for this workshop on the transformative power of Web3!

To succeed, Web3 needs products that have excellent user experience on top of freedom and decentralization approach.

To really build a product you need to really understand the problem, this is where we come in.

We have created a Problem Statement workshop that is open to everybody where you will be get the benefit of peer review and expert review of your problem statement and really define something that you can build on and research.

We want this to be open and for everybody to be able to access it as we understand the importance of having good problem statements for the progress of Web3.

"Mojo over Ego: Leadership and the Future of Work" brings you Lisa Wocken, an expert in web3 leadership development. With over 15 years of experience in leadership development and a PhD in Organizational Leadership, Lisa has played a key role in projects like talentDAO and is actively researching at Token Engineering Commons.

In the changing world of work, DAOs are reimagining how people work together. This prompts us to think differently about leadership in this decentralized setting. Our year-long study, including thorough research and interviews, uncovers what leadership means in DAOs.

Join us for an engaging discussion about the future of leadership. We'll explore why valuing mojo over ego is crucial for the workplace's evolution. Discover the significant impact of leadership in decentralized organizations and be part of the conversation about the future of work.

Mojo over Ego: Leadership and the Future of Work with Lisa Wocken

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RnDAO Speed Networking Event

, the writer/podcaster known as "The Blockchain Socialist" and author of the recent book "Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It," will be speaking with us on September 29th. Over the last decade, blockchains and crypto have opened up a new terrain for radical action. It is not surprising, however, that the crypto space has also become overrun by unscrupulous marketing, theft and scams. The problem is real, but it isn’t a new one. One of the major reasons is the way in which blockchain / crypto are framed through representational models of old models imposed on a new medium. This has been detrimental to the development of the technology and made it easily co-opted by nefarious forces. In this talk 

 will talk about how this has happened, how to recognize it, and how to think radically differently about blockchain.

How to be a Blockchain Radical with Joshua Davila

Calling all RnDAO members, participants, and anyone curious about human collaboration.

You're invited to our first Open Meeting, where we'll unveil the  world of RnDAO.

We'll share the latest of our thinking for the future of work, how we're positioning RnDAO to accelerate the transition, and how you can collaborate with us on this journey.

We'll share achievements, failures, and learnings. Get inspired by our community's positive impact as we build a new era of work.

Your voice matters! Participate in lively discussions, ask questions, and share your thoughts with fellow community members. Together, we can brainstorm new ideas and create a stronger community.

Don't miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and be part of RnDAO. Register now and secure your spot at the Open Meeting!

RnDAO Open Meeting: Building the Future of Work Together

Join us for an exciting evening with Dr. Joshua Becker, a renowned researcher specializing in "collective intelligence." Becker, with a background in mediation and communication, will be discussing "Three vignettes on decentralization, distribution, and collective intelligence."

A PhD graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Becker's research, published in top journals like Science and Harvard Business Review, investigates how group dynamics can affect decision-making and forecasting, often leading to surprisingly counterintuitive results.

In his upcoming talk, Dr. Becker will guide us through an exploration of decentralization, distribution, and collective intelligence. This event promises a valuable opportunity for anyone interested in the complexities of group dynamics and their broader implications in our interconnected world.

Three vignettes on decentralization, distribution, and collective intelligence with Joshua Becker

Join RnDAO's virtual event with Michel Bauwens, President of the Foundation for P2P Alternatives and a key member of the P2P Cooperative. Michel Bauwens is a renowned researcher and advocates for P2P-based social processes.  He connects people interested in researching and promoting P2P-based social processes, such as peer production, peer governance, and new modes of universal common access regimes, or 'peer property'. 

In this event, Michel will share his wealth of knowledge and insights on P2P ecosystems, and dive deep into the past, present, and future of P2P ecosystems. The discussion will encompass concepts such as Cosmo-localism and provide a historical framing on civilizational transitions, highlighting the impact and potential of P2P models in shaping our societies.

P2P Ecosystems: Where they’ve been, and where they're going with Michel Bauwens

, a specialist in 21st-century organizational operating systems and co-founder of Post*Shift, a consulting and software firm dedicated to digital transformation and organizational agility. Utilizing social and digital principles, Lee has guided organizations towards increased efficiency, agility, and cost-effectiveness. As an educator at Duke Corporate Education and Faculty at Emeritus, he brings extensive expertise to the table.

During the event, Lee will share his insights on comparing traditional organizations and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) from an org design perspective, highlighting the role of social and digital principles in crafting efficient, agile, and cost-effective operating systems across various organizational structures.

Applied Organizational Operating Systems: From Traditional Orgs to DAOs

 is an Associate Professor of Finance and Law at Santa Clara University and currently visiting the University of California, Berkeley.  She will be joining us to discuss the interactive role governance and culture play in scaling organizations.  Drawing on years of research examining corporate culture and governance, she will highlight how best practices in governance differ with DAOs (e.g., check out her paper on optimizing 

) as well as the ways to enhance culture in a decentralized setting (e.g., emoticons and other digital forms of empathy can help).  Through her lecture and Q&A, she hopes to provide builders and DAO community members with practical tips for growing and strengthening DAOs.  

Decentralized Governance and Digital Asset Prices with Jill Grennan

Jon Alexander studies the history of cooperative movements and shares lessons learned about how decentralized communities can create bridges that inspire larger socio-political change.

CITIZENS: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us

, and co-founder of the New Citizenship Project, a book and company that work to shift the dominant story of the individual in society from Consumer to Citizen. Among other plaudits, 

 was recently listed by McKinsey as one of its Top 5 Recommended Books in its Summer Reading Guide 2022, described as "an underground hit" in the Financial Times, and selected by the World Economic Forum for its CEO Book Club. Jon began his career with a decade in the advertising industry, winning the prestigious Big Creative Idea of the Year, before making a dramatic change. Driven by a deep need to understand the impact on society of 3,000 commercial messages a day, he gathered three Masters degrees, exploring Consumerism and its alternatives from every angle. In 2014, he co-founded the New Citizenship Project to bring the resulting ideas into contact with reality. In 

, he is ready to share them with the world.

Citizen Future: Why We Need A New Story Of Self And Society

What the Golden Age Pirates Can Teach Us About the Future of DAOs with Jon Alexander

Pmgangi will present the work they've been doing with RnDAO's Project TogetherCrew towards navigating privacy and data management regulation in Web3.

The session will cover the main concept of the GDPR from a practical point of view, i. e. the people  in charge of an entity subject to the compliance of GDPR and needing an idea of the basic concepts of GDPR and necessary policies and documents (which an external advisor prepares for them in relation to GDPR compliance).

Paolo Maria Gangi (pmgangilex.eth), LL.M., is an Italian as well as EU qualified lawyer who advises clients in relation to tech law, privacy (GDPR), IP and business law in general and has gained substantial experience in relation to NFTs, DEFI, web 3.0 start ups, tokens regulatory issues, web 3.0 scams and cybersecurity issues as well as decentralized institutions governance and compliance. His clients include national and international web 3.0 DEFI companies, NFTs creators and projects as well as DAOs. He is a member of the 

 where he sits in the Data Committee. You can read Paolo’s articles on the IP aspects of NFTs in the 

DAOs and Privacy Regulation with Paolo Maria Gangi

 Ph.D. is an Organizational Psychologist, serial entrepreneur and founder of XLNC, a consulting, training and psychometrics firm that solves difficult business problems with psychological science and innovative technology. Previously, he was the Founder and CEO of LeaderAmp, an award-winning platform for expert and Artificially Intelligent coaching and assessment until May of 2022. In his 25+ year career in multinationals such as AT&T, Motorola, Merck and Infosys, Dr. Barney has innovated interdisciplinary science and technology resulting in four patents, ten books, 43 peer-reviewed works and over 200 keynotes.

In 2020, LeaderAmp won the AI Award for Human Capital Development. In 2018, his team won two competitive international awards from the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology and the Association of Test Publishers. Since 2014, he has served on the Business Affairs committee of the board of not-for-profit scientific publisher Annual Reviews. He holds a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Tulsa.

Satoshi’s original goal was to create technology that overcomes the historical disasters of centralized, untrustworthy social systems. DAOs have potential to change that but from Mt. Gox, Three Arrows Capital, to rugpulls and FTX, human sources of risk are still limiting the full potential.

This presentation will briefly review Enterprise Risk Management history before introducing the relevant interdisciplinary organizational science of individual, team, and organizational risk management. It will introduce meta-analytically supported evidence from traditional organizations that likely generalizes to DAO management. At the same time, it will review other findings such as Cialdini’s ethical persuasion science, which is likely even more important in a DAO than in a traditional firm. The latest, metrologically-oriented, objective psychometric methods are ideal to detect and mitigate these risks in DAOs, but when these computer-adaptive assessments are deployed on Web 2.0 infrastructure, they suffer from all the traditional limitations of legacy cloud/mobile technology. This is unhelpful for realizing the full potential of DAOs.

The presentation will close with a vision for research that ultimately results in novel smart contracts, and multisig NFTs to systematically assess and mitigate these organizational risks in ways that are immutable, appropriately transparent, censorship resistant, and effective in reducing risks and potentially helping DAOs become “antifragile”.

The Case for On-Chain DAO Risk Management with Psychometrics with Matt Barney

Tim is the co-founder of scenarioDNA a research consultancy that advises global clients on how to leverage cultural trends. Tim is also a Part-Time Associate Teaching Professor at Parsons the New School of Design where he teaches trend analysis and design strategy.  He is the co-inventor of a patented methodology of Culture Mapping that analyzes patterns in language using computational linguistics and machine learning to identify and visualize trend narratives and forecasts. His work helps companies understand and leverage the dynamics of cultural change for a broad range of innovation challenges from new product and brand development to horizon scanning. Clients include Honda, KEF Acoustics, IKEA, Nike, Hilton Worldwide, and Verizon.  Tim is also a frequent speaker on topics related to culture, society, and trends and has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, USA Today, Vogue, Fast Company, and Quartz.

Culture is a story system. Today's challenges require a social science approach to analyzing culture and applying actions in sync with the natural cycle of power and dissent, from protest to policy. We can see the results of shortsighted and top-surface methods to cultural insight imploding around us. From greenwashing in the midst of a climate "permacrisis", to the commercial laziness of relying on celebrity influencers for relevance that quickly devolves into toxic hate speech. Culture matters. But our strategies need to reflect that. In this talk, Tim will explain how the concept of Culture Mapping can help us understand the system of language and stories and speculate and cultivate divergent possible futures.  New prompt engineering tools like Midjourney are rooted in language and cultural bias.  If we can unlock the linguistic system of culture we can take a more a more generative yet expansive approach to make our future more sustainable.

Culture Mapping Better Futures with Tim Stock

Dave started work in an NGO post-University and then moved on to HR & Training in the late 70s when he started working with computers. That together with a diploma from The Certified Accountants got him a job as Development Accountant in the same firm where he headed up the Treasury function and was responsible for computerisation. An MBA in financial management saw him move into consultancy and software designing decision support systems in what became Data Sciences where he became a General Manager (creating MURCO) and the Corporate Business Development Manager where he created the Genus Programme (an integration of JAD/RAD, Object Orientation and Legacy Management) which was one of the main components in the turn around of that company. IBM acquired the company 1997 and, after that, his more public career started.

At IBM, he was a director of The Institute for Knowledge Management and the Cynefin Center, and in 2004 became the founder and chief scientific officer of The Cynefin Company.

The Cynefin Co has worked for almost two decades in partnership with academics, artists and complexity scientists and has been taking a fresh look at the whole process of design. Bringing the evolutionary concept of exaltation (radical repurposing of traits) and work on weak signal detection for unarticulated need mapping representing some of the outputs of this process. The use of distributed ethnography is changing the way we design health services as well as society in general and this has been pioneered by Dave Snowden and his team.

In this talk, he'll share some of his rich experience rethinking sense-making and system design.

Rethinking Design Thinking with Dave Snowden

Lana is a Filipina, now based in the Netherlands, who designs spaces for “KAPWA” (shared inner selves) to flourish. She guides founders, community leaders and changemakers in re-imagining, designing and facilitating spaces for belonging, liberation and healing. 

Lana is the author of the book: Community Builder Designing Communities for Change and she is also the chairperson of the Neurodiversity Foundation, and co-founders of Community Rituals and Neurodiversity Education Academy.

Engagement is a big buzzword, and it's one of the main metrics that we, as community builders, weavers, founders, measure our communities. Asking our members to be highly engaged has a pitfall - It carries with it an expectation that there is one right way where members are expected to participate, a specific tempo or energy that people need to bring in to the community or organization. I prefer to see engagement as A SLIDER. We need to provide differentiated means for people to engage in ways that are nurturing for them. Engagement means empowering people to connect, contribute, activate, support and respond in ways that are regenerative. This means we take into account the depth, breadth and focus that is possible for an individual in a given moment.

Community Series #1: Rethinking Engagement as a Slider by Lana Jelenjev

Deep Democracy is a mindset and toolbox for inclusive decision-making and conflict resolution, using collective intelligence and group dynamics. It focuses on building trust, connections, feeling heard and valued, strongly believing that the real power of organisations lies in the strength and resilience of the relationships between people. Leen is a trained deep democracy facilitator and trainer. She is co-founder of All for Climate and co-spark of RegensUnite. She is also active in various local community projects.

Deep Democracy: light the fire and build trust with  Leen Schelfhout

Continuing with our knowledge exchange sessions between the world of self-management and web3, we're happy to host Francesca Pick!

Francesca’s work is dedicated to creating organizing structures and cultures that contribute to a more healthy system for all. As founding partner of Greaterthan, Edmund Hillary Fellow and co-lead at Cobudget, she guides, facilitate, and trains organizations and teams on the topics of participatory governance, network building, self-organizing, collaborative decision-making and budgeting.

In this short talk, Francesca will share common myths and misconceptions about what leadership is and is not in the context of self-management and decentralized governance. She'll share useful concepts, practices and perspectives that help groups truly step into shared leadership.

We'll start with a presentation and follow with a multi-sided discussion (your perspective and insights count to!).

Leadership misconceptions in self-management and decentralized governance with Francesca Pick

 is the executive director and founder of 

 and has been focused on modeling societal-scale deliberation, developing decision-making models, building libraries of knowledge, and offering educational content on complex issues.

In this talk, Jamie will go through the methodologies used by The Society Library to collect the arguments, claims, and evidence from across all media types, and how they bring all of this knowledge together and structure it so that everyone can get both a birds-eye view over a particular issue, and also be able to dive down as deep as they want, to find out all of the argumentation that refutes or supports a particular claim.

, which you can explore in the shape of an interactive Society Library 

Deliberation, decision-making, and libraries of knowledge with Jamie Joyce

Join us in a hands-on workshop for Community Managers and Community Leaders in Web3. We'll start by collecting and grouping your community health challenges, and then we'll workshop together strategies to increase the health of your community.

- Short presentation on Community Health Framework (previous research by RnDAO) and Q&A

- Mapping our Community Health challenges

Improving Community Health Workshop

Bartek Starodaj is currently the Director of Housing for the City of Kingston, New York. In this role, he manages housing-related grants, supports the construction of new market-rate and affordable housing, and develops policies to provide stability and protections for that need it most. Bartek is also a founding board member of the Kingston City Land Bank. He has served as the Board Secretary for three years helping to ensure that the organization’s activities live up to its mission to expand housing accessibility for Kingston’s citizens and that its programs reach households that are currently underrepresented among the city’s homeowners. 

Prior to joining the City of Kingston, Bartek was the lead account manager for two marketing agencies. He also served on the German Marshall Fund’s Urban and Regional Policy team fostering transatlantic development initiatives for major U.S. and European cities.

Small City Governance with Bartek Starodaj

Every four seconds, another person enters a human trafficking situation somewhere in the world. It is estimated that there are over 40 million people in modern-day slavery today – more than any other time in history.

In the effort to design organisations to empower individuals and "liberate them" it feels important to understand the big issue of slavery in corporations as it will probably give us interesting insights and considerations for DAO design.

To make sense of this important issue and its relevance to today’s organizations, Matt Friedman will offer a comprehensive update on this topic. His talk will explore the following:

- The changing human trafficking paradigm;

- The relationship between human trafficking and modern slavery;

- A comprehensive summary of global trends and patterns;

- A description of the relationship between modern slavery and ESG.

- A detailed description of the relationship between human trafficking and business risk; and

- A description of tangible, practical tools and approaches used by corporations throughout the world to help identify and address this potential problem.

Matt Friedman is an international human trafficking expert with more than 30 years’ experience. He is CEO of The Mekong Club, an organization of Hong Kong’s leading businesses which have joined forces to help end all forms of modern slavery. Mr. Friedman previously worked for USAID and the United Nations in over 30 countries. Mr. Friedman offers technical advice to numerous governments, banks and corporations working to eliminate all forms of modern slavery and is the author of twelve books. In 2017, Mr. Friedman won Asia’s prestigious “Communicator of the Year” Gold Award.

The Mekong Club is one of the first not-for-profit organizations of its kind in Asia to use a ‘business-to-business’ approach to fight slavery.  Bridging the gap between the public and private sectors, the Mekong Club helps companies of all sizes to understand the complexities of human trafficking and to reduce their vulnerability within their supply chains/business environment. Together with business partners, the Mekong Club is spearheading innovative and strategic projects to achieve a slave-free world.

Matt's new Penguin book, WHERE WERE YOU?: A PROFILE OF MODERN SLAVERY, has been published and is available worldwide. In this memoir, he explores the early days of meeting modern slavery survivors and recounts true stories of enslavement in Asia. He recalls painful moments that literally changed his life, reflect back on the different approaches to fighting human trafficking over the last 35 years and give an account of the early beginnings of the fight against modern slavery before the phrase “human trafficking” was adopted. As he reflects on the deeply personal lessons learned, his first and foremost goal for this book is to motivate more people to join him in helping to fight this global crime.

Here is a short fireside chat (9 minutes) to describe why he wrote the book. Note the proceeds from this book will go to fighting human trafficking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s4luN5mtA0

https://www.amazon.com/dp/9814954438/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_AYXFGFCR7NWQJH4DB5W0

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-friedman-9788555/

Modern Slavery and the Private Sector with Matt Friedman

Systems Thinking offers us a wealth of insights to design better DAOs. For this session, we have invited two experts in Cybernetics to share their learnings.

Angela has three decades of experience in Cybernetics in the Centre of Systems Studies, Hull University. She's now an Emeritus Fellow at the Centre for Systems Studies, a Fellow in the British Cybernetics Society, and an invited professor in several universities in Latin-America and the UK. She's also devoted to the Metaphorum, an NGO aiming to continue developing Stafford Beer's legacy.

Jon has worked for over 35 years in the co-operative business sector. He has established and co-managed a range of businesses including retail outlets, a manufacturing plant, and a chain of supermarkets. He pioneered the use of the Viable Systems Model, in both large cooperatives and an eco-community, co-authored the book "A Complexity Approach to Sustainability" with Angela, and consulted and run workshops for 4 Universities (in Colombia, Cuba, Spain, Oman, Romania and for the Government of Victoria, Australia) on the use of The Viable System Model.

DAOs and the Viable System Model

Nintynick is a DAO mechanism designer & governance facilitator. Contributor to Hats Protocol, Raid Guild, EvenGov, and groundw3rk. Formerly a developer of neurosymbolic AI algorithms.

Nintynick will share his work mapping the intersection of AI and DAOs to evolve and augment human coordination.

If you can't attend, follow @rndao__ for the recording

DAO contributor as a service: Designing interfaces for AIs to participate in DAOs

As DAOs mature, questions around financial transparency, accounting and budgeting are piling up. How should these concerns be addressed?

Bjarte Bogsnes is the Chairman of Beyond Budgeting Roundtable (BBRT), author of "Implementing Beyond Budgeting - Unlocking the Performance Potential", an international business speaker and is the winner of a Harvard Business Review/McKinsey Management Innovation award.

He's been heading up the implementation of Beyond Budgeting at Equinor (formerly Statoil), Scandinavia’s largest company. Equinor realized that traditional leadership and management practices no longer work in organisations operating in business environments that are more complex, dynamic and unpredictable than ever. The company implemented innovative alternatives to traditional management, like abolishing traditional budgets and calendar-based management in favour of more decentralized, agile and human processes.

We have invited Bjarte to share his insights on alternative models for large, complex organisations, so we may learn from these past experiences as we design DAOs.

Beyond Budgeting and DAOs

Ted Rau leads Sociocracy for All - a non-profit dedicated to enabling sociocracy as a sustainable form of governance. And he's the author of two books (

Many Voices One Song. Shared power with sociocracy

Who decides who decides? How to start a group so everyone can have a voice

In this session, we'll discuss the application of Sociocracy in DAOs. Join us with your questions and comments as we explore the past, present and future of governance and organisation design

Sociocracy in Web3 with Ted Rau

We're hosting a workshop to help Web3 community managers co-define a template set of practices and responsibilities that this role entails.

research project on Community Health. If you're interested in how our research can support you and your DAO, please 

Workshop: Community Management in Web3

Daniel Ospina, steward at RnDAO and ex-Head of Governance at Aragon, will host Robbie Stamp for a fireside chat. 

Robbie is an expert on AI and complexity in organisations. He's Chief Executive of Bioss International, sits on the British Standard Institute’s 

National Standing Committee on Artificial Intelligence

 and is currently working on ISO recommendations on Board Governance and AI. He was also the producer of Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy.

We'll discuss DAO design, principles of complex systems, and possibilities of combining AI and Blockhain technology to empower humane collaboration. Members of the audience will also be invited to participate and join the conversation.

Fireside chat on DAO design, AI, and governing complexity

“Humanity is facing an existential crisis. To survive, we must understand how our societies work and where we come from.”

Tamás Dávid-Barrett is a behavioural scientist, who asks what traits allow humans to live in large and culturally complex societies. His work focuses on how the structure of social networks change during falling fertility, urbanisation, and migration; as well as, how social networks vary over the human life-course. He teaches at Trinity College, University of Oxford, and is affiliated with the Population Studies Research Institute in Helsinki, Finland.

During this talk, Tamás will share his work studying cooperation in social networks, matriocracy, regulating inequality, and more.

Principles of Social Networks

Brian Robertson is an entrepreneur, organizational pioneer, and author of the book Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World. He is most well-known for his work developing Holacracy®, a self-management practise for running purpose-driven, responsive companies.

Integrating DAOs and Holacracy - a decentralised management framework

Amy Jung is a web3 veteran. She's an investor at Komorebi Collective (first investment DAO focused on funding female and nonbinary crypto founders), and has previously been Head of Community Development and Program Operations & Strategy Lead at MakerDAO, and design operations lead at ConsenSys Design.

In this session, Amy will share her work on progressive decentralisation and lessons learned from MakerDAO.

Progressive Decentralisation: From closed to open network

Edwin Jansen is Head of Strategy for Raise / Ian Martin Group, the largest self-managed recruitment company in the world. Together with his colleague, Edwin started developing and spreading Teal practices at Raise 7 years ago; and in this talk, will share the lessons from that journey transforming a family company into a 450 people strong self-managed organisation.

Before the event, make sure to check out 

 and make a note of which processes or topics make you the most curious. We’ll start the event by upvoting topics and then take an informal Q&A and discussion approach.

Lessons from the largest self-managed recruitment company in the world

Spencer is a core contributor at DAOhaus, where he helps with product development, internal operations, communications, and tokenomics. He is also a member of Raid Guild, and contributes to a number of web3 projects including 

, CommitPool, and saveDAI. He has worked full-time for DAOs since 2020.

In this talk, Graham will share a new framework for understanding capture-resistant governance, web3 communities, and DAOs.

Anticapture with Graham Spencer

Phanish Puranam is a Professor of Strategy, the Roland Berger Chaired Professor of Strategy and Organisation Design at INSEAD.

 Besides publishing his research extensively in peer-reviewed journals, Phanish has also written several books, including the “The Microstructure of Organizations” (Oxford University Press, 2018) and "Corporate Strategy: Tools for analysis and decisions" (co-authored with Bart Vanneste, Cambridge University Press, 2016) which is used as a reference in MBA programs around the world.

His current work has focused on human-centric organisation design -  understanding the evolutionary adaptations that lead us to prefer certain modes of organisations and how these can inform the design of non-hierarchical organisations, the design of informal organisation, and organisational architectures that support self-assembling teams.

Human-Centric Organisation Design with Phanish Puranam

We've started a series of events through RnDAO to facilitate knowledge exchange on practices for humane collaboration and new visions for DAO operations.

, organisational change consultant and author of The No-Limits Enterprise: Organizational Self-Management in the New World of Work. Doug will discuss the usage of 'Memorandums of Understanding' to scale a self-managed organisation.

Scale a self-managed organisation with Doug Kirkpatrick

RnDAO

Hey all,
This is the second edition of the experimental RnDAO newsletter. Please send us any feedback you have about it.

For this edition, we have two events and some more findings from our research projects.

Events:
This Friday (26th of August), aka. tomorrow, we will have Matt Friedman the CEO of The Mekong Club talking about Modern Slavery and the Private Sector. It seems important for us at RnDAO that we don't go down the path of traditional corporations and that DAOs positioned themselves to truly liberate and empower people. So, let's understand the problems so we can create better solutions! Join us in this talk with one of the world's biggest experts in forced labour. Register here: https://lu.ma/rndaotalk13

Then, on September 13th, we going to host a workshop for community managers, in the context of our Community Health project called, Improving Community Health Workshop. If you are a Community Manager or Community Leader in Web3, you should join us for this! To register for this workshop, please go to https://lu.ma/community-health-workshop2

Research:
We finally released the conclusions of our research project about SubDAOs, done with the good folks at Sobol. You can read our 2 articles about it on our RnDAO Mirror blog. The first one is about Why and How we SubDAO and the second one explores the Top 9 Challenges of DAO Unit Success.

Then, you can also read our working paper on Community Health called What is a DAO Community and when is it healthy which is a framework that goes over our current thinking around Communities and DAOs and that we believe will help DAO Community Leaders become more effective. This work is funded by Aragon Network DAO and Polygon.

And yes, all of these articles have their own NFT that you can very kindly mint into your wallet. It would be very nice of you to do so! =)

You can also follow us around the internet on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Youtube where you can watch the recordings of our previous events.

Thank you and see you around!

<div class="mirror-content">​Hey all,​This is the second edition of the experimental RnDAO newsletter. Please send us any feedback you have about it. For this edition, we have two events and some more findings from our research projects. Events: This Friday (26th of August), aka. tomorrow, we will have <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-friedman-9788555/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Matt Friedman</a> the CEO of <a href="https://themekongclub.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The Mekong Club</a> talking about Modern Slavery and the Private Sector. It seems important for us at RnDAO that we don&#x27;t go down the path of traditional corporations and that DAOs positioned themselves to truly liberate and empower people. So, let&#x27;s understand the problems so we can create better solutions! Join us in this talk with one of the world&#x27;s biggest experts in forced labour. Register here: <a href="https://lu.ma/rndaotalk13" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://lu.ma/rndaotalk13</a> Then, on September 13th, we going to host a workshop for community managers, in the context of our Community Health project called, Improving Community Health Workshop. If you are a Community Manager or Community Leader in Web3, you should join us for this! To register for this workshop, please go to <a href="https://lu.ma/community-health-workshop2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://lu.ma/community-health-workshop2</a> Research: We finally released the conclusions of our research project about SubDAOs, done with the good folks at <a href="https://sobol.io" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Sobol</a>. You can read our 2 articles about it on our <a href="https://rndao.mirror.xyz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">RnDAO Mirror</a> blog. The first one is about <a href="https://rndao.mirror.xyz/gNwffffROGdAp1tEBhkRPEL8OAQqvUOlV5HuM9VBaoM" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Why and How we SubDAO</a> and the second one explores the <a href="https://rndao.mirror.xyz/Qn0Y71EYRUB-6Kn0jH47baWulXoIe-dmTYIVuJeEOt8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Top 9 Challenges of DAO Unit Success</a>. Then, you can also read our working paper on Community Health called <a href="https://rndao.mirror.xyz/F-SMj6p_jdYvrMMkR1d9Hd6YbEg39qItTKfjo-zkgqM" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">What is a DAO Community and when is it healthy</a> which is a framework that goes over our current thinking around Communities and DAOs and that we believe will help DAO Community Leaders become more effective. This work is funded by <a href="https://andao.aragon.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Aragon Network DAO</a> and <a href="https://polygon.technology" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Polygon</a>. And yes, all of these articles have their own NFT that you can very kindly mint into your wallet. It would be very nice of you to do so! =) You can also follow us around the internet on <a href="https://twitter.com/rndao__" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/rndao" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">LinkedIn</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb3wwV0kxrFs1kpQTWL2g9Q/videos" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Youtube</a> where you can watch the recordings of our previous events. Thank you and see you around!</div>

This is the second edition of the experimental RnDAO newsletter. Please send us any feedback you have about it.

For this edition, we have two events and some more findings from our research projects.

This Friday (26th of August), aka. tomorrow, we will have 

. It seems important for us at RnDAO that we don't go down the path of traditional corporations and that DAOs positioned themselves to truly liberate and empower people. So, let's understand the problems so we can create better solutions! Join us in this talk with one of the world's biggest experts in forced labour. Register here: 

Then, on September 13th, we going to host a workshop for community managers, in the context of our Community Health project called, 

. If you are a Community Manager or Community Leader in Web3, you should join us for this! To register for this workshop, please go to 

We finally released the conclusions of our research project about SubDAOs, done with the good folks at 

. You can read our 2 articles about it on our 

Then, you can also read our working paper on Community Health called 