International Blockchain Forum: Social Impacts and Applications
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
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.
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
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Time
14. Februar 2019 All Day CEST(GMT+00:00)