International Blockchain Forum: Social Impacts and Applications

Name: International Blockchain Forum: Social Impacts and Applications
Start: 2019-2-14
End: 2019-2-14

14febAll DayInternational Blockchain Forum: Social Impacts and ApplicationsHochschule Luzern

Event Details

The International Blockchain Forum will be held for the second time 2019. Again, it will bring together invited researchers, promising start-ups and successful established companies. Our goal is to enable new partnerships for future research collaborations and business partnerships amidst the world know Crypto Valley Zug.

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Blockchain technology is seen as one of the most promising technologies for the future. Still its use for cryptocurrencies overshadows other application areas but their visibility is growing and finding their way in everyday life. The 2019 International Blockchain Forum focuses on the social impacts and applications of the Blockchain technology. Together with our partner countries UK, USA, Canada and Switzerland, we again bring together some of the best researchers, most promising start-ups and successful established companies from those countries. The event will take place at the Lucerne School for Information Technology in Rotkreuz, one of the leading Blockchain research centers in Switzerland. The event offers a great opportunity to get to know some of the most exciting innovations and research projects for our society and will hopefully enable you to find your partner of choice for future research collaboration projects or business partnerships.

PROGRAM

08:30 – 09:00h

Registration and Coffee

09:00h

Round Table with the Embassies

Her Majesty’s Ambassador Jane Owen (British Embassy)
Pamela Hay, Counsellor (Comercial) (Embassy of Canada)
Ambassador Edward T. McMullen Jr. (U.S. Embassy)
Prof. Dr. René Hüsler (HSLU)

09:30h

Academic track – Academic presentations to inspiring research activities about social impacts of Blockchain

Prof. Bill Buchanan (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland)
Prof. Dr. Victoria Lemieux (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Prof. Dr. Rohini K. Srihari (University at Buffalo, USA)

10:50 – 11:15h

Coffee Break

11:15h

BarCamp – Discuss 8 out of 12 suggested topics

12:30 – 13:30h

Lunch Break

13:30h

Start-up track – Start-ups pitch their solution

Evangelos Pappas (CEO Ocyan, England)
Andreas Papazidis (Co-Founder GraceAid, England)
Francisco Sarrias (Senior Sales Engineer Jelurida, Switzerland)
Ralf Kubli (Member Sela Labs, USA & Director CV VC, Switzerland)

14:30h

Company track – Social applications of Blockchain from established companies

Samuel Dionne (Founder Gremis, Switzerland, Canada)
Jonas Lötscher (CPO Procivis, Switzerland)
Martin Fabini (CTO ti&m, Switzerland)

15:50 – 16:00h

Break

16:00 – 17:00h

Use Cases – Existing use cases with Q&A

Elena Sinelnikova & Nataliya Hearn (CryptoChicks, Canada)
Vasiliy Suvorov (CTO Luxoft, Switzerland)

From 17:00h

Apéro

Moderator of the event

Ian Simpson (Chair Communications, Crypto Valley Association)

FURTHER INFORMATIONS

Fees and registration

The participation is free of charge. Please register on this site.

The number of places is limited to 150.

Language

The entire event will be in English.

Target group

The event is aimed to:

Researchers with interest in Blockchain (University / ETH)
Industry representatives, who want to know what is being researched in this area and what ideas exists in start-ups or already in the market
Government authorities, who want to estimate the impact of this technology to society
People, wishing to get in touch with the British, American and Canadian representatives