Decentralised Financial Technologies and Web3.0 Economy

Expand your knowledge of the crypto economy and understand the opportunities and risks for your business.

You will:

• Strengthen your understanding around the crypto economy and its implications for financial services industry
• Develop strong literacy around distributed ledger and blockchain technologies
• Discover the technical terms and key questions to ask about cryptocurrencies and DeFi as well as Web3.0 and the Metaverse
• Gain expert insights through real-world case studies and industry speakers
• Become a member of the AMBS Executive Education Network and benefit from top-class speaker events, regular updates, and networking opportunities with like-minded professionals

How your organisation benefits

• Reflect on the cryptocurrency and blockchain developments, spotting trends, challenges and opportunities for your organisation
• Strengthen your ability to navigate the Web3.0 economy and build an informed organisational strategy around the Metaverse space
• Confront key issues your organisation may be facing around the deployment of NFTs and other DeFi and Web3.0 applications
• Reflect on the impact of the evolving crypto and Metaverse space on your industry and competition and advise on pathways to success

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Course topics

Whichever industry you work in, the ‘mechanics of decentralised trust’ affect not just products and services, but challenge entirely how economic activity is organised across businesses.

It’s therefore essential for decision-makers to have a solid and strategically-grounded understanding of the crypto-economy and its potential to transform organisations and entire industries in financial services and beyond.

To help decision and policy-makers navigate Web3.0 and DeFi technologies, this course explores theories and knowledge from the fields of economics, strategic management and information systems.

This practical four-day course will explore a number of thematic segments:

• Introduction to Financial Technologies and Intermediation
• Dissecting blockchain technology and relevant crypto ecosystem
• Regulation and Governance of Web3.0 Technologies
• From crypto to smart contracts and private distributed ledger technology (DLT) systems
• DeFi applications and the future of money
• DLTs Powering the Web3 economy: Metaverse and NFTs (Non-fungible tokens)

Day one:

• Understand the fundamentals of money and payments and discuss the importance of financial data and value-transfer systems
• Critically evaluate the alternative architectures & organisational structures of payment infrastructures: centralised vs. decentralised
• Discover the basics of cryptocurrencies and DLT/Blockchain Technologies

Day two:

• Dissect blockchain technology: foundational principles and economics
• Understand Bitcoin in practice: consensus mechanism, applications, and ecosystem
• Explore cryptocurrency from a governance, privacy, and regulation perspective

Day three:

• Understand Decentralized Finance (DeFi) fundamentals and explore DeFi ecosystem and infrastructure
• Outline the relevance and potential benefits of stablecoins & CDBCs in the crypto payments space
• Explore alternative DeFi applications such as Decentralized exchanges (DEXes), Decentralised insurance and lending and borrowing

Day four:

• Explore the economics of Web 3, digital ownership, and tokens and understand what are NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens)
• Investigate how NFTs are disrupting the arts and collectibles market by creating unique, on-chain representations of objects
• Explain how various ecosystems and marketplaces function and highlight the key considerations in the NFT economy

There will be a networking drinks reception on evening one where you will get to know your course colleagues.

There will also be a course dinner on evening three, in an iconic Manchester venue, offering the opportunity for your class to come together with a wider cohort of short-course learners to expand your networking opportunities.

How you learn

Built with the aim of connecting theory to practice, this course will help you gain valuable industry insights from world-leading experts through a variety of interactive teaching and learning methods.

Delivered face-to-face at Alliance Manchester Business School’s Executive Education Centre, you will take part in collaborative workshops, group discussions and activities, and hear from a selection of inspiring guest speakers.

You will also have the opportunity to gain first-hand access to the latest research from Alliance Manchester Business School’s Centre for Financial Technology Studies (CFTS) scholars and faculty.

Designed to break down access barriers and reduce the complexity and confusion around blockchain-related jargon and mythology, this course uses case studies, theoretical frameworks, and practical groupwork to explore the potential of decentralised financial technologies and relevant business applications in the context of Web3.0 and the Metaverse.

We aim for several stand-out learning experiences, including: Applied Learning - A learning environment created by the course facilitator that draws on the experience and input of your course peers.

Knowledge Transfer - A steady stream of feedback from participating peers with diverse business backgrounds on, for instance, how they have implemented blockchain and/or decentralised financial technologies within their organisation.

Reflection - A rare time-out to contemplate your own opportunities and challenges while engaging with our world-class faculty.

Network Expansion - An expanding professional network drawn from your peers.

Personal Growth - An expanding self-awareness of your own competencies and how they can be honed.

Behavioural Change - An adoption of new rationales and mindsets that improve decision making especially around the use of technology in business.

Facilitated Challenge - A regular raising of difficult questions by the course facilitator designed to take you away from your work environment into new work-territory.

The Manchester Experience - An exciting and varied after-class evening programme shared with your peers in the industrial-revolution City of Manchester.

How you benefit

• Strengthen your understanding around the crypto economy and its implications for financial services industry
• Develop strong literacy around distributed ledger and blockchain technologies
• Discover the technical terms and key questions to ask about cryptocurrencies and DeFi as well as Web3.0 and the Metaverse
• Gain expert insights through real-world case studies and industry speakers
• Become a member of the AMBS Executive Education Network and benefit from top-class speaker events, regular updates, and networking opportunities with like-minded professionals
• Take time out to reflect on your own skill set and engage with AMBS’s world-class faculty

How your organisation benefits

• Reflect on the cryptocurrency and blockchain developments, spotting trends, challenges and opportunities for your organisation
• Strengthen your ability to navigate the Web3.0 economy and build an informed organisational strategy around the Metaverse space
• Confront key issues your organisation may be facing around the deployment of NFTs and other DeFi and Web3.0 applications
• Reflect on the impact of the evolving crypto and Metaverse space on your industry and competition and advise on pathways to success

Course Lead

Bringing together an exceptional amount of expertise, research and refined knowledge in the subject area of Decentralised Finance, Blockchain Technology and Crypto Economy, Markos Zachariadis, Professor in Financial Technology (FinTech) and Information Systems, is joined by Dr. Aseem Pahuja, Assistant Professor in Financial Technology, to deliver this course.

Certificate

Upon successful completion of this short business course, participants will be awarded the Manchester Professional Certificate in Decentralised Financial Technologies and Web3.0 Economy.

You will also receive a digital Manchester Professional Certificate in Decentralised Financial Technologies and Web3.0 Economy from Accredible, in the form of an online certificate and badge which can be displayed on LinkedIn profiles and represents completion and participation in the course.

You can choose to curate your own curriculum by attending any four courses from our extensive portfolio. On completion of the four courses of your choice, you will be awarded the Manchester Professional Diploma in Leadership.

Who should attend

This course is designed for participants interested in decentralized finance and the recent innovations jointly referred to as “Web3.0”, including cryptocurrency, blockchain, NFTs, DAOs, and the metaverse.

It is a non-technical course open to those without prior knowledge of the space.

Professionals from all industries and backgrounds with interest in financial technologies, blockchain applications, token-based and crypto economy, NFTs, Web3.0, and the Metaverse will benefit from this course.

Mid-senior management responsibilities

Upon successful completion of the course, you will be awarded a Manchester Professional Certificate. Paper copies of certificates will be given to you on the last day. Within ten days, you will also receive a digital certificate and digital badge to share on your social media.

Courses will also be offered at a discounted price for those completing the Manchester Professional Diploma in Leadership.

Manchester Professional Certificate

Hard copy certificate - Included