About the Author

Karen Kilroy is a lifelong technologist with heart. As CEO of Kilroy Blockchain, she led her team to win the IBM Watson Build Challenge/North America 2017, for their app Riley, an artificial intelligence application for people who are blind and visually impaired. Karen is a full-stack ecommerce developer and an IBM Blockchain Foundation Developer. She is also an associate director of the Austin Blockchain Collective. Frequently a featured speaker at blockchain events, Karen most recently moderated the Real World Blockchain Applications panel for Australia House at SXSW 2019 and was a judge in the 2019 Future Frontiers Radical Innovation competition.