Blockchain Adoption in Business and Enterprise [Expert Panel] - Aug 23rd
from Thursday, August 23, 2018 5:30PM to Thursday, August 23, 2018 8:00PM
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BlockchainNYC.org has become a leader in Blockchain Events in New York over 2017-18. Events that we have hosted were covered by Forbes, Fortune, Huffington Post, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance and many other media outlets. We bring the highest quality speakers to our panels with the latest perspective from thought leaders in the blockchain and crypto space. Update:Early bird tickets sold out. Later bird tickets sold out. August 22, 5pm. Down to last (1) regulat ticket. If we you trying to select a ticket and they all sold out, it means we are fully booked. Please follow our future events at BlockchainNYC.org -- On this panel we have speakers from EOS, Consensy (Ethereum), Blockchain Driven, Hyperledger, Ebay, plus networking at the event. This panel will be focused on observing the shift in how businesses and specifically enterprise level companies are adopting blockchain and what we can expect in the near, mid and far future. We will have networking before and after event for you to connect with the inovators in the field as well as drinks and snacks. "While most other blockchain projects focus on cryptocurrencies and tokens, the projects around Hyperledger demonstrate a strong potential to build the backbone of non-monetary, high scaling industrial applications of blockchain technology." - Blockgeeks What will be covered at the event: Blockchain reality vs fiction? What are the myths and what are the facts? Timeline of blockchain / DLT adoption. Where we are now and where it is going? Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology Difficulties? What are some obstacles that need to be figure out for faster / wider scale adoption Learn how businesses and enterprise are adopting blockchain technology What industries are to be affected the most by blockchain in the near and far future Latest use cases and case studies that highlight how blockchain and distributed ledger technology is used Where we are in terms of timeline, when compared to the 90s internet boom EOS, Ethereum and Hyperledger vision for enterprise and business adoption in the near and far future And much more "ConsenSys Ventures, the venture arm of the ConsenSys Ethereum blockchain powerhouse, has invested in a new round of six companies and is today formally launching its Accelerator, 'Tachyon'." - TechCrunch ----Panelists: Karen Ottoni is currently the Ecosystem Manager at Hyperledger Hyperledger is a global consortium including leaders in finance, banking, Internet of things, supply chain, academia, and technology. Karen works with the 250+ member companies that are part of Hyperledger alliance and the broader community to help them leverage Hyperledger frameworks, tools, and resources for their blockchain initiatives. Phil Kelly is National Director of Business Development at ConsenSys (Leading Ethereum Company) Phil helps clients and partners launch and grow blockchain businesses using both public and private Ethereum platforms. He moved to ConsenSys from IBM, where he was head of business development for IBM North America for the Service and Solution Provider segment, across all technologies - blockchain, AI, security and more. His prior experience includes strategy consulting at Booz & Co, and the Bank of England. Kevin Rose - Co-Founder of EOS New YorkEOS New York is a top 21 Block Producer on the EOS Mainnet Blockchain. Currently in top 3 block producers in the world. EOS is a blockchain platform for the development of decentralized applications (dapps), similar to Ethereum in function. It makes dapp development easy by providing an operating-system-like set of services and functions that dapps can make use of. EOS brings together the best features and promises of the various smart contract technologies out there in one simple to use, massively scalable dapp platform for the everyday user to empower the impending blockchain economy. Michael Haley - Product Manager, AlphaPoint AlphaPoint's trading platform, currently powering 80+ digital currency exchanges worldwide, and is currently building a compliance framework for security tokens. AlphaPoint a financial technology company that powers cryptoasset exchanges on every major continent, and provides institutions a blockchain platform to digitize, trade, and manage any asset. It is while lable digital asset exhcange platform. AlphaPoint has developed the AlphaPoint Distributed Ledger Platform™ (ADLP), a general-purpose blockchain platform, from the ground up to streamline the deployment of distributed financial applications Over $2 billion transacted on platform to date. Backed by Galaxy Digital and Blockchain Capital. Peter Borovykh - BlockchainDriven.com - BlockchainSolution Architect Peter Boroykh is a renowned consultant on blockchain and its future possibilities, and has been covered in numerous publications such as Business Insdier, MSN, Future Trends, Yahoo Finance, Fortune, Inside Bitcoins and many others and has spoken at conferences on blockchain and crypto markets across the world. He is a solutions architect at BlockchainDriven and author of the book Blockchain Applications in Finance. "Blockchain consultancy firm BlockchainDriven has worked with large companies such as Saint-Gobain, STCC and others, and has a good view of just how important consultancy is." - HackerNoon -----"What has made EOS so popular is the fact that in many ways it’s seen as an improvement of the Ethereum platform. EOS promises to handle millions of transactions per second and also to take away any transaction fees." - Seeking AlphaThis year we have seen a number of announcements across various large companies about adoption of blockchain not just as a trial, but as a potential core level of functionality.From Facebook, to Maersk, to Walmart to UPS and list goes on, the blockchain is no longer the crypto fad that it seemed last year. There were over 2 billion dollars allocated this year on various blockchain projects within organizations, and this number is expected to skyrocket over the coming years. Reserve your spot in advance as this is a topic of a high interest.
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