Yorke E. Rhodes III Co-founded Blockchain @Microsoft, is a Program Manager on Microsoft Blockchain Engineering team, and drives strategy across the company. He earned a BS in Computer Science from NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He has worked in industry in enterprises such as Microsoft & IBM and startups in wireless, mobile, digital marketing & ecommerce. At Goldman Sachs Investment Bank he built their first wireless internet ingress and advised bankers in wireless, telecom and media.

Transforming Urban Cardiovascular Health
At the 2025 Concordia Annual Summit, leaders from across sectors gathered to address one of the most pressing global health challenges: cardiovascular disease in rapidly growing urban environments. In partnership with

