Block chain seems to have generated more attention and investment than any new technology since the Internet itself. Yet the speed of the block chain wave is unprecedented. Block chain advocates say that every industry is going to be disrupted, and that basic business processes like record keeping, audit and voting will be decentralized or even disbanded. This session will help calibrate the real potential of block chain and its related spin-off technologies.
- Where did block chain come from, and why?
- What does block chain do? What does it not do?
- Which business processes does block chain cover?
- What are the challenges of marrying block chain to business?
- How is block chain evolving?
- Case studies: trade finance, asset inventories, supply chain
- Surveying Ethereum, Hyperledger, R3 and beyond.
- The future of Synchronous Ledger Technologies
- What does an enterprise block chain strategy looks like?
