Hyperledger Global Forum 2021: Full Schedule

Virtual Event
June 8-10, 2021
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08:00 CEST

Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks - Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger

Speakers

Brian Behlendorf

Chief Technology Officer, Open Wallet Foundation

Brian has served most recently as General Manager and CTO of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), has served as Executive Director of Hyperledger, and formerly as CTO of the World Economic Forum. He currently serves on the boards of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF... Read More →

Keynote Day1 Welcome & Opening Remarks Brian BehlendorfExecutive Director Hyperledger pdf

Tuesday June 8, 2021 08:00 - 08:10 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

Slides Included Yes

08:10 CEST

Keynote: Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Update - Arnaud Le Hors, Senior Technical Staff Member, Blockchain & Web Open Technologies, IBM

Speakers

Arnaud Le Hors

Senior Technical Staff Member - Open Technologies, IBM

Arnaud Le Hors is Senior Technical Staff Member of Open Technologies at IBM, primarily focusing on Open Source security. He has been working on standards and open source for over 25 years. Arnaud was editor of several key web specifications including HTML and DOM and was a pioneer... Read More →

HyperledgerGlobalForum 2021 Keynote TSCChair Arnaud Le Hors pdf

Tuesday June 8, 2021 08:10 - 08:30 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

Slides Included Yes

08:35 CEST

Keynote Panel: Asia Pacific CBDC Innovation, Collaboration and the Drive to Interoperability - HE Serey Chea, National Bank of Cambodia (NBC); Sopnendu Mohanty, Monetary Authority of Singapore; Brian Behlendorf, Hyperledger

Moderators

Brian Behlendorf

Chief Technology Officer, Open Wallet Foundation

Speakers

Sopnendu Mohanty

Chief Fintech Officer, Monetary Authority of Singapore

Sopnendu Mohanty is the Chief Fintech Officer at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He joined MAS in August 2015 and is responsible for creating development strategies, public infrastructure and regulatory policies around technology innovation. Since 2015, Singapore has become... Read More →

HE Serey Chea

Assistant Governor, National Bank of Cambodia (NBC)

Serey Chea is an Assistant Governor at National Bank of Cambodia. Since Cambodia is a highlydollarized economy, she as a central banker is a vocal proponent for greater use of the localcurrency to promote the country's greater independence on economic and monetary policy.Under her... Read More →

Tuesday June 8, 2021 08:35 - 09:05 CEST
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Keynote

09:30 CEST

Break

Tuesday June 8, 2021 09:30 - 09:40 CEST
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09:40 CEST

The State of Blockchain Interoperability in 2021 - Rafael Belchior, INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Técnico

Blockchain interoperability is emerging as one of the crucial features of blockchain technology, but the knowledge necessary for achieving it is fragmented. This fact makes it challenging for academics and the industry to seamlessly achieve interoperability among blockchains.Given the novelty and potential of this new domain, in this talk, we present an overview of blockchain interoperability, based on a survey comprising a corpus of 332 documents. Our review classifies studies into three categories: Cryptocurrency-directed interoperability approaches, Blockchain Engines, and Blockchain Connectors. Each category is further divided into sub-categories based on defined criteria. We discuss not only studies within each category and subcategory but also across categories, providing a holistic overview of this area including the most recent Hyperledger project, Hyperledger Cactus.

Speakers

Rafael Belchior

R&D Engineer, Blockdaemon & Técnico Lisboa

Rafael Belchior is a researcher at INESC-ID (Distributed Systems Group) and Ph.D. student at Técnico Lisboa, where he lectures since 2018. Studying the intersection of blockchain interoperability and security, he participates in different open-source ecosystems, namely at the Internet... Read More →

The state of blockchain interoperability in 2021 Hyperledger Global Forum 2021 pdf

Tuesday June 8, 2021 09:40 - 10:10 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English
Industry/Project Interoperability, Cactus
Slides Included Yes

10:10 CEST

UAE Trade Connect - UAE's First and Largest Blockchain based Trade Finance Platform - Waqas Mirza, Avanza Innovations

Banks offer various Trade Finance solutions to their clients under Letters of Credit or Open Account using products and solutions like, Trust Receipt Financing, Invoice Discounting, Factoring, Receivable Finance and Supply Chain Finance. The challenges that banks face is the risk of potential double financing and frauds as there is no robust mechanism in place to validate the genuineness of the underlying trade transactions or whether the transaction has been pre-financed through any other bank. These risks have evolved leaving the banks to grapple with severe Financial Crime Risks like, over and under invoicing, Sanctions, Trade Based Money Laundering, resulting in fraud losses to banks and reduced financing to Corporates and SMEs. Developed on Hyperledger Fabric, UAE Trade Connect (UTC) is a State of The Art National Platform for digitizing and securing Trade.

Speakers

Waqas Mirza

CEO, Avanza Innovations

Waqas Mirza is the founding CEO of Avanza Innovations - the latest venture of Avanza Group of Companies. Avanza Group has more than two decades of experience in delivering cutting edge software solutions to over 300 customers across 45+ countries. During the past 3 years Waqas has... Read More →

Tuesday June 8, 2021 10:10 - 10:40 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English
Industry/Project Trade Finance, Fabric

10:40 CEST

Break

Tuesday June 8, 2021 10:40 - 10:50 CEST
Virtual 1

Break

10:50 CEST

Blockchain Infrastructure in China: How Blockchain Facilitates the Industrial Internet and Further Achieves the Internet of Everything - Jian Jin, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology

China is under a tremendous development explosion in blockchain industry. With the massive support from the government, blockchain is built as an infrastructure in this digital era, merging with other cutting-edge technologies, such as the industrial internet, to better extend its full potential and spread benefit to the world. Doctor JIN Jian, director of Institute of Industrial Internet and IoT (IIIIoT) from China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), secretary general of Alliance of Blockchain Industry Z-Park (ABI), will deliver a speech about the latest progress of China’s blockchain industry, the use of Hyperledger framework in China, the integration between industrial internet and blockchain, introduce an innovated national blockchain infrastructure: Blockchain Infrastructure Facility (BIF), and also talk about the cooperation between Hyperledger and ABI.

Speakers

Jian Jin

Director of Industrial Internet and Internet of Things Institute(IIIIoT) from China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT);Secretary General of Alliance of Blockchain Industry, Z-park (ABI).

(6.1)HL Global Forum Jian JIN China pdf

Tuesday June 8, 2021 10:50 - 11:20 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English
Slides Included Yes

11:20 CEST

Dispute Management using Blockchain - Rangesh Sripathi & Ahmed Khan, Verizon

Verizon is building reimagined Dispute Management landscape with Blockchain in Telecommunication space, which allows Verizon and its partners to collaborate on shared business process with utmost trust and confidence. Challenges with current Dispute Management system without Blockchain includes approximately a month to dispose in-favor /against the submission of dispute , It is time consuming and manual intensive affecting cashflow /Revenue of Organization . Developed Blockchain Landscape utilizes the nature of Decentralization and Distributed Ledger results in elimination of manual intensive resolution process and provides disputes resolution to near real time thus improving cash flow.

Speakers

Ahmed Khan

Sr. Manager - App Dev, Verizon Private Ltd

Rangesh Sripathi

Blockchain Architect, Verizon Private Ltd

Hyperledger GlobalForum2021 08 06 2021 pdf

Tuesday June 8, 2021 11:20 - 11:50 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Language English
Industry/Project Telecom
Slides Included Yes

11:50 CEST

Virtual Trivia - Sponsored by Accenture

Accenture is pleased to present attendees with a well-deserved, enjoyable event featuring music and trivia! Join us to hear DJ JRIP, well known for his lively personality, great knowledge of a variety of music, and fun virtual environments. While he mixes your favorite tunes, attendees can flex their knowledge during “trivia time” a fun, live, interactive trivia game. Prizes will be awarded to the top trivia winners.

This is an event you will not want to miss!

Speakers

Kotryna Urbanaite

Manager, Decentralised Digital Identity Strategy & Consulting, Accenture

Kotryna Urbanaite is a manager in Blockchain & Multiparty Systems at Accenture. She has extensive experience in decentralised digital identity including blockchain identity and large-scale programme delivery management. Kotryna’s primary focus is within the travel industry.

DJ JRIP

Professional DJ

Julius del Rosario, also known as DJ JRIP, has 6 years of professional DJ experience. As a true open format DJ, Julius continues to spin the best of Pop, Hip-Hop, House, Global, Top 40 and 2K’s classics at clubs, weddings, corporate and non-profit events throughout the east coast... Read More →

Tuesday June 8, 2021 11:50 - 12:50 CEST
Virtual 1

Event Experience

17:00 CEST

Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks - Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger

Speakers

Brian Behlendorf

Chief Technology Officer, Open Wallet Foundation

Keynote Day1 Welcome & Opening Remarks Brian BehlendorfExecutive Director Hyperledger pdf

Tuesday June 8, 2021 17:00 - 17:10 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

Slides Included Yes

17:10 CEST

Keynote: Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Update - Arnaud Le Hors, Senior Technical Staff Member, Blockchain & Web Open Technologies, IBM

Speakers

Arnaud Le Hors

Senior Technical Staff Member - Open Technologies, IBM

HyperledgerGlobalForum 2021 Keynote TSCChair Arnaud Le Hors pdf

Tuesday June 8, 2021 17:10 - 17:30 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

Slides Included Yes

17:30 CEST

Keynote: Multi-Party Systems iN3ovation (Now, New, Next) - David Treat, Senior Managing Director, Global Blockchain Lead, Accenture

David Treat

Senior MD, Accenture Global Metaverse Continuum Business Group Co-Lead, Accenture

Dave Treat is a Senior Managing Director, leading Accenture’s Metaverse Continuum Business Group which includes its Blockchain and Multi-Party Systems business which he formed in 2015 and its Extended Reality business. He is also the Global Technology Lead for Capital Markets and... Read More →

Tuesday June 8, 2021 17:30 - 17:50 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

17:50 CEST

Keynote: The Role of Emerging Technologies, such as DLT, in Ushering in the New Era of Smarter Food Safety - Frank Yiannas, Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response, Food and Drug Administration

Speakers

Frank Yiannas

Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response, Food and Drug Administration

Tuesday June 8, 2021 17:50 - 18:20 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

18:30 CEST

Break

Tuesday June 8, 2021 18:30 - 18:40 CEST
Virtual 1

Break

18:40 CEST

Building Transformative Platforms to Scale 5G Ecosystems using Hyperledger - Utpal Mangla & Mathews Thomas, IBM

5G networks are rapidly being deployed globally but face challenges that can be addressed by Blockchain. This is because Blockchain can play an important role in implementing 5G technologies such as edge computing, network function virtualization and network slicing. The session will begin by discussing some key 5G business use cases driving ecosystem platforms including spectrum management, network slicing, infrastructure roll out and security monitoring which will benefit from Hyperledger. We will then discuss the network slicing use case and how a Hyperledger driven Business and Operations Support platform can be integrated with network deployment/management tools (MANO, event monitors, CI/CD, closed loop automation) to orchestrate and operate 5G network with xNF's based core network building blocks (vRAN, 5G core, Transport etc) and applications running at the edge.

Speakers

Amandeep Singh

IBM

Mathews Thomas

Distinguished Engineer, IBM

Mathews Thomas is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM focused on the Telecom and Media industries. With 20+ years in consulting, system integration, architecture and industry experience working with many of the major Telecom and Media companies, Mathews brings in-depth expertise and knowledge... Read More →

Utpal Mangla

VP and Senior Partner, IBM

Utpal Mangla ( MBA, PEng, CMC, ITCP, PMP, ITIL, CSM ) is a Vice President and Senior Partner in IBM. He is the Global Leader of IBM’s Telecommunications, Media and Entertainment (TME) Industry’s Center of Competency. In addition, he leads the 'Innovation Competency' focusing on... Read More →

Tuesday June 8, 2021 18:40 - 19:10 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Language English
Industry/Project Telecom

19:10 CEST

Blockchain Care for Institutionalized Children - Beatriz Ornelas, Independent & Alfonso Govela, Hyperledger Latinoamérica

Children under institutional care are faceless, non-existent, often suffer sexual violations, physical and psychological damage at the shelters where they are virtual prisoners Underlying this situation is an obsolete, inefficient legal system with limited chances for due process. Paper dossiers are lost, misplaced or simply linger unresolved. The number of children remains unaccounted for, and the status of their legal processes is frequently unknown and unattended We should go beyond the tradicional institutional care and provide alternative care Blockchain can be the instrument that guarantee their access to justice, and garantee their human rights. Provides a new legal paradigm to ensure every child have their access to justice. It empowers effective and efficient operation for institutional stakeholders, gives children the opportunity to be informed and regain their voice

Speakers

Alfonso Govela

Founding Member, Panel Moderator, Hyperledger Latinoamerica Regional Chapter

MIT. M.Arch.A.S., Co-Founder Hyperledger Latinoamerica, Co-Chair Learning Materials and Development Working Group, Hyperledger, Linux Foundation. Urban Innovation and Blockchain Consultant for Metropolis. Consultant for Digital Civics UN-Habitat. Member of Alianza Blockchain Iberoamérica... Read More →

Beatriz Ornelas Cerda

Lawyer, No company

I am a lawyer graduated from the Jesuit University ITESO in Guadalajara Jalisco Mexico, I have a master's degree in Human Rights and Peace from the same University. I began working in Institutions of the Government of Mexico, first as a Legal Assistant of the Attorney General of the... Read More →

Hyperledger Global Forum BC4IC Govela pdf

BC4IC. Hyperledger Forum pdf

Tuesday June 8, 2021 19:10 - 19:40 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English / Spanish
Industry/Project Social Impact
Slides Included Yes

19:40 CEST

Diversity and Inclusion Session - Sponsored by Accenture

Bringing people from different backgrounds and perspectives build a richer environment but what does that look like now and the future? Join Accenture for an in-depth session exploring diversity and inclusion at the workplace and beyond. Additional details will be announced soon.

Moderators

Alissa Worley

Global Marketing Director - Blockchain | Multiparty Systems, Accenture

Speakers

Christine Leong

Managing Director, MPS Digital Identity Lead, Accenture

Christine leads Accenture’s Decentralized Identity & Biometrics group globally and is also part of the global blockchain leadership team. She has over 20 years of experience in technology focused on security. Prior to her experience in IT, Christine worked for 9+ years in financial... Read More →

Laurie Henneborn

Accenture Research Managing Director; Disability Inclusion Thought Leader, Accenture

Laurie Henneborn is an Accenture Research Managing Director who leads research and thought leadership development focused on raising awareness and taking actions pertaining to disability inclusion and equality in the workplace. Some of her past works in this space have included... Read More →

Isaac Tallerine

Senior Analyst, Client Financial Mgmt., Accenture

Ike Tallerine is a senior analyst working in Client Financial Management, guiding financial performance for leading clients. With experience in a variety of technologies, he looks for opportunities to drive innovation and help create process efficiencies. Ike was born blind and is... Read More →

Hyperledger 2021 DisabilityInclusion FINAL pdf

Tuesday June 8, 2021 19:40 - 20:10 CEST
Virtual 1

Event Experience

Industry/Project Diversity
Slides Included Yes

20:10 CEST

Break

Tuesday June 8, 2021 20:10 - 20:20 CEST
Virtual 1

Break

20:20 CEST

Ask the Expert: Practical Hyperledger Aries Deployments in Enterprise and Government Environments - Stephen Curran, Cloud Compass Computing Inc. & John Jordan, Province of British Columbia

What’s involved in deploying real-world, live projects that use Verifiable Credentials and Hyperledger Aries in an enterprise environment? The Government of British Columbia (BC), Canada has put considerable effort into understanding, deploying, and simplifying these Digital Trust technologies. Their projects go across government and beyond, with several enterprise partnerships and collaborations. Major open-source contributions to Hyperledger Indy and Aries have been made along the way. Three experts that lead the Digital Trust projects in BC will be available to discuss what’s been accomplished, share what’s been learned that can help others, and answer business, legislation, policy, and (light) technical questions about deploying verifiable credentials for tangible, real-world benefit.

Speakers

Stephen Curran

Open Source Community Lead and Senior Architect, Government of British Columbia

Stephen Curran has worked with the Government of British Columbia for 5+ years on open source decentralized digital identity and trust capabilities based on the Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Aries, AnonCreds, and Indy projects. He contributes to Hyperledger on open specifications... Read More →

John Jordan

Executive Director, BC Digital Trust Service, Province of British Columbia

John Jordan is the Executive Director of the BC Digital Trust Service. He is an experienced product executive and technology strategist who has over 25 years of experience in both the private and public sectors. Currently he is leading the Province of British Columbia’s participation... Read More →

HGF 2021 Hyperledger Aries Deployments in Government and Enterprise BCGov Jordan Curran pdf

Tuesday June 8, 2021 20:20 - 20:50 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English
Industry/Project Aries
Slides Included Yes

20:50 CEST

Estainium: To Net Zero with Verifiable Credentials - Andreas Kind, Siemens

Verifiable credentials as promoted by the W3C as well as the Hyperledger projects Indy and Aries can give individuals control of their identity attributes in a privacy-preserving manner. Estainium, an association of manufacturers and trusted technical inspection organizations, extends the use of verifiable credentials for sharing product-level information in supply chains, specifically for letting suppliers cryptographically prove product carbon footprints (PCFs) down-stream while preserving common supply chain confidentiality assumptions. The aim of this PCF sharing infrastructure is to drive production towards trustworthy net zero carbon emission.

Speakers

Dr. Andreas Kind

Vice President Cybersecurity & Trust, Siemens AG

ESTAINIUM To Net Zero with Verifiable Credentials pdf

Tuesday June 8, 2021 20:50 - 21:20 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Slides Included Yes

21:20 CEST

Virtual Trivia - Sponsored by Accenture

Accenture is pleased to present attendees with a well-deserved, enjoyable event featuring music and trivia! Join us to hear DJ JRIP, well known for his lively personality, great knowledge of a variety of music and fun virtual environments. While he mixes your favorite tunes, attendees can flex their knowledge during “trivia time” a fun, live, interactive trivia game. Prizes will be awarded to the top trivia winners.

This is an event you will not want to miss!

Speakers

Alissa Worley

Global Marketing Director - Blockchain | Multiparty Systems, Accenture

DJ JRIP

Professional DJ

Tuesday June 8, 2021 21:20 - 22:20 CEST
Virtual 1

Event Experience

08:00 CEST

Keynote: Opening Remarks - Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger

Speakers

Brian Behlendorf

Chief Technology Officer, Open Wallet Foundation

HyperledgerGlobalForum2021 Welcome DAY 2 pdf

Wednesday June 9, 2021 08:00 - 08:10 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

Slides Included Yes

08:10 CEST

Keynote Panel: Using Blockchain to Fight Climate Change - Dr. Martin Wainstein, Yale Open Innovation Lab and Hyperledger Climate Action SIG; Dr. Andreas Kind, Siemens; Veronica Garcia, Bitlumens; Brian Behlendorf, Hyperledger

Moderators

Brian Behlendorf

Chief Technology Officer, Open Wallet Foundation

Speakers

Dr. Martin Wainstein

Founder and Director, Yale Open Innovation Lab

Martin Wainstein is a resident fellow at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, where he leads the research efforts behind the Yale Open Innovation Lab. Martin held appointments at the Yale Department of Electrical Engineering, the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at... Read More →

Dr. Andreas Kind

Vice President Cybersecurity & Trust, Siemens AG

Veronica Garcia

CEO, Bitlumens

Veronica Garcia was an investment consultant at Credit Suisse and UBS for Latin American Asset Managers. After finishing her graduate studies at the ETH in Zurich she joined IBM Research Lab. She also worked as a consultant for the World Bank, IADB and Castalia. Her research focused... Read More →

Wednesday June 9, 2021 08:10 - 08:35 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

Industry/Project Climate

08:35 CEST

Keynote: Fireside Chat with Vitalik Buterin, Co-founder, Ethereum

Speakers

Brian Behlendorf

Chief Technology Officer, Open Wallet Foundation

Vitalik Buterin

Co-founder, Ethereum

Wednesday June 9, 2021 08:35 - 08:55 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

08:55 CEST

Keynote: Health Credentials and International Air Travel - Marie Masserey, Head Industry Architecture, IATA & Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer, Evernym

Speakers

Drummond Reed

Director, Trust Services, Gen

Drummond has spent a quarter-century in Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust infrastructure. He is Director, Trust Services at Avast after their acquisition of Evernym, where he was Chief Trust Office. He is co-author of the book, Self-Sovereign Identity (Manning Publications... Read More →

Marie Masserey

Head Industry Architecture, IATA

Wednesday June 9, 2021 08:55 - 09:30 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

09:30 CEST

Break

Wednesday June 9, 2021 09:30 - 09:40 CEST
Virtual 1

Break

09:40 CEST

Legal and Regulatory Barriers to Digital Trade - Dr. Maria Mogilnaya, EBRD & Andrea Frosinini, Trade Finance Freelance

The global coronavirus pandemic has put a spotlight on the urgent need to move away from paper documents in trade transactions. And while trade and trade finance transaction across the developing countries are still very much paper-based, the future of trade is digital. When developed countries make the shift to digital processing of trade and trade finance transactions, it will be up to development banks to ensure that local commercial banks across developing countries are not left behind! This session will present the results of the 2021 survey of the legal/regulatory readiness by the developing countries in the EBRD regions to embrace digitalisation in trade and trade finance as well as the intrinsic barriers to digital trade and the development of ecosystems to support digital solutions. This session will also offer ideas on the adoption of legal frameworks to enable digital trade.

Speakers

Andrea Frosinini

Trade Finance Specialist, Chair for Hyperledger Trade Finance SIG and Trade Finance Freelance

Bio Senior Enterprise Analyst and Trade Finance professional with a passion for innovation. Recently, joined the Hyperledger community with the aim of offering a contribution to the industry modernization and development of new products exploiting blockchain and DLTs, more in gen... Read More →

Dr. Maria Mogilnaya

Principal Banker, Trade Facilitation Programme, EBRD

Hyperledger GlobalForum2021 Legal and Regulatory Barriers pdf

Wednesday June 9, 2021 09:40 - 10:10 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Beginner
Language English
Industry/Project Trade Finance
Slides Included Yes

10:10 CEST

Re-engineering Election Process with Blockchain and Confidential Computing - Shivendra Yadav & Vikram Sharma, HCL Technologies Ltd.

Elections are intrinsic to any democratic country and are basic mechanism for selecting representatives in modern representative democracy. It has many forms and also applies to other processes which aim at electing a representative to hold office in any private or public institution. Great amount of effort goes in to making the process impartial but, it is often subjected to skepticism as it can be manipulated in following ways: a. Voter fraud- Ballot Stuffing, Voter Impersonation, Multiple voting by same voters. b. Counting manipulation c. Machine Rigging In this session, we would cover, how the existing election processes can be re-engineered with use of technology to enforce transparency, security and impartiality. The solution leverages Blockchain and Confidential Computing to bring aforesaid advantages.

Speakers

Shivendra Yadav

Product Leader - Blockchain, HCL Technologies Ltd.

Shivendra is a Product Leader for HCL Digital and Analytics services. He carries over 13 years of strong IT consulting experience and created product propositions in public cloud, machine learning and blockchain. He devised technology roadmaps for fortune 1000 companies globally and... Read More →

Vikram Sharma

Solutions Architect, HCL Technologies Ltd

Vikram Sharma is a Senior Architect for Emerging Technologies with HCL. He has 14 years of Industry experience and leads the Blockchain Practice at HCL. He is passionate about using technology to solve business problems and provides solution architecture, design and technology roadmaps... Read More →

Hyperledger GlobalForum2021 Final pdf

Wednesday June 9, 2021 10:10 - 10:40 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Language English
Slides Included Yes

10:40 CEST

Break

Wednesday June 9, 2021 10:40 - 10:50 CEST
Virtual 1

Break

10:50 CEST

IDunion: A Public Utility for Verification of Identity Data in Finance, Manufacturing, Commerce, Public Sector and Healthcare - Andreas Kind & Marquart Franz, Siemens

IDunion is a cross-sector association of 27 partners that is building a production-level infrastructure for verification of identity data in finance, manufacturing, public sector and healthcare. The association addresses demand for migrating centralized identity systems towards decentralized self-sovereign management of digital identities for people, organizations and machines. IDunion has (i) launched an Hyperledger Indy test network, (ii) built components for allocation, verification and management of digital identities and (iii) researched aspects of governance, regulation (eIDAS, GDPR), cybersecurity, interoperability, business models and usability. This presentation will share the outcome, experience and challenges of the IDunion initiative, which might be valuable to guide developers of self-sovereign identity networks and give feedback on Hyperledger Indy/Aries.

Speakers

Dr. Andreas Kind

Vice President Cybersecurity & Trust, Siemens AG

Marquart Franz

Senior Software Expert, Siemens AG

Marquart Franz is senior software expert at Siemens Technology. He is active in digitalization, IoT, blockchain, embedded systems and software architecture and has a long history as primary representative, officer and member in industry consortia and collaborations.

Siemens IDunion final pdf

Wednesday June 9, 2021 10:50 - 11:20 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Language English
Industry/Project Identity, Indy, Aries
Slides Included Yes

11:20 CEST

Smart Contracts with Tokenized Fiat Currency on Sberbank's Platform - Oleg Abdrashitov, Sberbank

Oleg will present a platform for issuance of digital assets and smart contracts developed at Sberbank's Blockchain Laboratory. Smart contracts settle in Sber's stablecoin: a tokenized ruble. The platform uses Hyperledger Fabric with improvements: Smart BFT for ordering, and with localized cryptography. Transaction confidentiality is achieved via Confidential Non Fungible Tokens. Sber's platform is scheduled to go live in 2021 for the bank's commercial clients and will be open for developers to deploy their smart contracts and applications.

Speakers

Oleg Abdrashitov

Blockchain Laboratory Director, Sberbank

Currently heading Blockchain Laboratory at Sberbank -- the largest bank in Eastern Europe. Successful implementation of pilots on Hyperledger Fabric with enterprise clients while at Altoros. Leader of the Requirements Working Group for Hyperledger in 2016-2017. Speaker at blockchain... Read More →

Wednesday June 9, 2021 11:20 - 11:50 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Beginner
Language English
Industry/Project Smart Contracts, Fintech, Tokenization, Fabric

16:00 CEST

BoF: Crypto Open Patent Alliance - Max Sills, Crypto Open Patent Alliance; Hilary Richardson & Richard Widmann, Google

In this BoF, we have an open conversation about IP issues arising in Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, and the role of defensive patent pools in advancing innovation.

Speakers

Hilary Richardson

Open Source Attorney, Google

Hilary Richardson is an open source attorney at Google. She performs licensing due diligence for acquisitions and divestitures, reviews commercial contracts for licensing issues, and sets open source policy across the company. Hilary co-authored an open source casebook chapter about... Read More →

Richard Widmann

Global Head of Strategy, Web3, Google Cloud

Rich Widmann is Google Cloud’s Global Head of Strategy for Web3 where he leads the businesses expansion into the blockchain ecosystem alongside the newly formed Web3 team. Richard architected Google's earliest blockchain partnerships dating back to 2019, and works closely with senior... Read More →

Max Sills

General Manager of the Crypto Open Patent Alliance, and IP Counsel at Square.

Wednesday June 9, 2021 16:00 - 17:00 CEST
Virtual 1

BoF

Language English

17:00 CEST

Keynote: Opening Remarks - Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger

Speakers

Brian Behlendorf

Chief Technology Officer, Open Wallet Foundation

HyperledgerGlobalForum2021 Welcome DAY 2 pdf

Wednesday June 9, 2021 17:00 - 17:10 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

17:10 CEST

Keynote: Welcome from the Hyperledger Governing Board - Robert Palatnick, Managing Director and Global Head of Technology Research and Innovation, DTCC & Hyperledger Governing Board Chair

Speakers

Robert Palatnick

Managing Director and Global Head of Technology Research and Innovation, DTCC & Hyperledger Governing Board Chair

Robert Palatnick is a Managing Director and Global Head of Technology Research and Innovation at DTCC, where he has responsibility for driving technology innovation at the firm and leads a number of key technology initiatives, including cloud, automation, machine learning, big data... Read More →

Wednesday June 9, 2021 17:10 - 17:20 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

17:25 CEST

Keynote: Expanding the Open Source Engine Powering Enterprise Blockchain Solutions - Kareem Yusuf, IBM General Manager, AI Applications and Blockchain, IBM

Sponsored Keynote

When it comes to scalable blockchain adoption, you need a foundation that's dependable and flexible. Join Dr. Kareem Yusuf as he walks through the steps to strengthen Hyperledger and continue to meet enterprise needs. Additionally, discover how Red Hat is also helping customers bolster the open innovation across multiple organizations and industries. In this keynote session, Dr. Yusuf highlights key use cases driving innovation in supply chains and business collaborations, and shares how IBM's strategy will boost value for our customers. Join to learn more.

Speakers

Kareem Yusuf

IBM General Manager, AI Applications and Blockchain, IBM

Kareem Yusuf leads the AI Applications and Blockchain business at IBM, focused on enabling clients to leverage intelligent insights to transform how they operate, particularly in asset intensive industries. Kareem has been with IBM for over 22 years and has held senior leadership... Read More →

Wednesday June 9, 2021 17:25 - 17:45 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

17:50 CEST

Keynote: What We’ve Learned So Far About Blockchain for Business - Dr. Mary C. Lacity, Walton Professor and Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence

The biggest challenge to companies creating blockchain apps isn’t the technology — it’s successfully collaborating with ecosystem partners. Based on case studies of early adopters, Mary will discuss seven insights for executives to consider as they determine where blockchain-based solutions can add value for their own organizations and how to plan for implementation.

Speakers

Dr. Mary C. Lacity

Walton Professor and Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence

Dr. Mary C. Lacity is Walton Professor of Information Systems and Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at The University of Arkansas. She was previously Curators’ Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis... Read More →

Wednesday June 9, 2021 17:50 - 18:25 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

18:30 CEST

Break

Wednesday June 9, 2021 18:30 - 18:40 CEST
Virtual 1

Break

18:40 CEST

Panel: Consortium Building Through Business Value - Gary Storr, Trust Your Supplier; Pia Gaviria-Desvernay, British Telecom; Eric Evans, Rapid Ratings; Manikandan PY, Schneider Electric; Nuno Pedro, Nokia

This panel session will include different members from the Trust Your Supplier global consortium (Network Operator, Buyer, Supplier and Third Party Verifier). The session will start with a brief set up of the network, introduction of the panelist and main theme of the session which is building a successful consortium through business value. The key elements of the discussion will be: • The digital transformation journey and associated benefits • How this network addresses challenges within existing processes • How the solution integrates with and compliments existing systems • Long term benefits of being part of the consortium/network

Moderators

Gary Storr

General Manager, Commercial Solutions, Chainyard

Speakers

Manikandan PY

Global Procurement Director, Schneider Electric

Business Leader with rich experience in Procurement and Supply Chain Management driving Digital Transformation Programs. He has 17+ years of progressive experience in the field of Supply Chain, Strategy, Operations, Procurement & Product development in Automotive and Electronics... Read More →

Nuno Pedro

Procurement Relationship Manager, Nokia

More than 12 years experience in the Telecom industry, with various roles in managed services, resource management, project management and procurement.Currently responsible for leading, developing and managing cross functional Supplier Relationship Management strategy and execution... Read More →

Eric Evans

Managing Director, Rapid Ratings

Eric manages strategic partnerships/alliances at RapidRatings including leading partner technical integrations into procurement, supplier risk and governance risk & compliance platforms. Eric has over 20 years work experience from various companies including: Aetna, EDGAR Online... Read More →

Pia Gaviria-Desvernay

Digital Transformation Manager Procurement & Supply Chain, BT Group

Experienced transformation leader with a background in Procurement and Supply Chain operations. Currently leading cross functional teams at BT Group through the journey of digital transformation.

HGF Slides (1) pdf

Wednesday June 9, 2021 18:40 - 19:10 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Language English
Industry/Project Consortium, Fabric, Supply Chain
Slides Included Yes

19:10 CEST

Panel: Lessons Learned from RiskStream Insurance Blockchain Consortia Over Four Years of Property and Casualty and Life and Annuity Projects - Sophia Lopez & Steve Cerveny, Kaleido; Pat Schmid, Riskstream Collaborative

Research studied the effects of instituting two personal lines auto insurance distributed ledger applications within the U.S. market and found blockchain-based collaboration targeted to save $19 million and $68 million in year one, between $60 million and $190 million in year two, and between $99 million and $277 million in year three. This session will share industry best practices and lessons learned over the last four years across consortium building and governance, reference architectures, usability, and management and operation of blockchain networks.

Speakers

Steve Cerveny

CEO and Co-Founder, Kaleido

Steve Cerveny is the CEO and co-founder of Kaleido. Steve has over fifteen years of experience in emerging technologies building, launching and growing enterprise products in a variety of business and technical roles. Prior to Kaleido, he led product teams at IBM, spearheading the... Read More →

Pat Schmid

Vice President, Riskstream Collaborative

Experienced leader, corporate officer and head of insurance with a demonstrated history of working in the risk management and education industry. Strong entrepreneurial background, offering founding concepts, thought leadership and implementation efforts that led to and propelled... Read More →

Sophia Lopez

Founder and President, Kaleido

It’s well known that blockchain offers significant promise to enterprises. What’s less well known is that the development of most enterprise use cases get stuck due to the challenges of new Web3 programming models and to tackling the multi-party data flows, tokens, privacy and... Read More →

Wednesday June 9, 2021 19:10 - 19:40 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English
Industry/Project Insurance, Consortium

19:40 CEST

Break

Wednesday June 9, 2021 19:40 - 19:50 CEST
Virtual 1

Break

19:50 CEST

Verifiable Credentials and KYC - Returning Control Back to the Customer, a Loyalty Case Study - Mahesh Balan, Pravici LLC

In this presentation, Mahesh Balan, CEO of Pravici will present a unique approach to handling customer data in the context of a Loyalty program. Traditional loyalty applications and CRM systems store detailed PII data. What if we changed that paradigm and instead returned the full control of PII data to the member of the loyalty program ?. A member can then have full control of their PII data, in the form of a verifiable credential stored in an Identity Wallet in their loyalty app. At Pravici, we have built a loyalty application for consortiums based on Hyperledger Fabric which allows a set of companies to cooperate and run a common loyalty application. Inspired by Hyperledger Indy and Aries projects, we now have a novel approach to storing and using member PII data, minimizing risk for both the member and the loyalty consortium.

Speakers

Mahesh Balan

CEO, Pravici LLC

Mahesh Balan Profile Co-founder of Pravici LLC, a company focused on CRM, Loyalty, Verifiable Credentials and Blockchain solutions. Pravici's award winning (check out https://dlt.mobi/mgc ) Tokenized Loyalty Points™ is a patent pending software product that democratizes the sale... Read More →

Hyperledger 2021 Pravici TLP mp4

Pravici Hyperledger GlobalForum2021 PPT pdf

Wednesday June 9, 2021 19:50 - 20:20 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English
Industry/Project Identity
Slides Included Yes

20:20 CEST

Digital ID: Understanding Perceptions and Expectations - Alissa Worley & Christine Leong, Accenture

”Identity” is part of our everyday lives—in banking, paying bills, on social media, or boarding a plane. At its core, identity in a digital world is about trust – trust that each party in an interaction is who they say they are. Accenture is currently conducting research that explores impressions of, attitudes around and behaviors influencing, identity, privacy, data sharing mindsets—the transactional element of our personal data. What will it take to drive not only acceptance but demand for digital identity capabilities in how we engage with businesses and organizations? How do these attitudes differ by jurisdiction and experience? What is the appetite for a new model of digital id that gives us greater control and confidence around who we're interacting with in a digital world? This presentation will showcase these findings with a Q+A discussion to follow about what it means.

Speakers

Alissa Worley

Global Marketing Director - Blockchain | Multiparty Systems, Accenture

Christine Leong

Managing Director, MPS Digital Identity Lead, Accenture

Wednesday June 9, 2021 20:20 - 20:50 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Beginner
Language English
Industry/Project Identity

08:00 CEST

Keynote: Opening Remarks - Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger

Speakers

Brian Behlendorf

Chief Technology Officer, Open Wallet Foundation

HyperledgerGlobalForum Day3 Welcome pdf

Thursday June 10, 2021 08:00 - 08:10 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

08:10 CEST

Keynote Panel: Fighting Fraud and Error in Vaccine Supply Chains - Paolo Migliari, Merck Sharp & Dohme; Lidija Pozaic Frketic, Antares Vision Group; Daniel Laverick, Zuellig Pharma; Brian Behlendorf, Hyperledger

Moderators

Brian Behlendorf

Chief Technology Officer, Open Wallet Foundation

Speakers

Daniel Laverick

Head of SAP & IT Solutions, Zuellig Pharma

Daniel Laverick is an SAP and IT solutions expert, evangelizing the use of technology to drive digital transformation and innovation. Combining his 20 years’ experience working within the SAP arena for MNCs in Banking, Pharma, Oil & Gas and Telecoms, he strategises and develops... Read More →

Paolo Migliari

Connected Channel Lead, Merck Sharp & Dohme

Lidija Pozaic Frketic

Business Development Manager for Pharma; Smart Digital Innovation; Antares Vision Group Managing Director, Tradeticity; Member of Antares Vision Group

Chem Tech Eng, MrSc, MBA; have been working in pharmaceutical companies in various positions from R&D to PM and QC Management positions.Leaving direct work for pharma companies I am joining top management becoming CEO of Instrumentalia (Lab equipment, Waters representative for Croatia)In... Read More →

Thursday June 10, 2021 08:10 - 08:40 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

Industry/Project Supply Chain

08:45 CEST

Keynote Panel: The Global Reach of the Forbes Blockchain 50: Updates from China Construction Bank, Telefónica and Tech Mahindra - Michael del Castillo, Forbes; Xue Wang, China Construction Bank; José Luis Núñez Díaz, Telefónica; Rajesh Dhuddu, Tech Mahin

Speakers

José Luis Núñez Díaz

Global Head for Blockchain Businesses, Telefónica

Rajesh Dhuddu

SVP & Global Business Head - Emerging Technology, Tech Mahindra

Rajesh Dhuddu is a Blockchain & Cybersecurity Leader for USD 5.2 billion IT giant Tech Mahindra. He was instrumental in establishing Blockchain practice at Tech M that made Blockchain real and valuable for several global customers. Under his leadership, Tech M has been recognized... Read More →

Michael del Castillo

Associate Editor, Forbes

Xue Wang

General Manager, FinLab at China Construction Bank Fintech Corp

Ms. Wang is the General Manager of FinLab at CCB Fintech Corp (CCBFT). She is a domain expert with over 10 years of experience in financial technology. Prior to CCBFT, Ms. Wang was the Executive Solution Expert in FSS department at IBM China between 2005 and 2018. She is instrumental... Read More →

Thursday June 10, 2021 08:45 - 09:20 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

09:30 CEST

Break

Thursday June 10, 2021 09:30 - 09:40 CEST
Virtual 1

Break

09:40 CEST

Blockchain Eco-system in India - Kamlesh Nagware, Snapper Future Tech & Arun S M, Hyperledger India Chapter

Growing Blockchain start-ups ecosystem in India, Indian blockchain start-ups solving very interesting business problems in agriculture, waste management, skill credential. In India, various state governments are piloting e-governance use cases. As per govt. statistics more than 20+ state govt. is trying e-governance implementation. Telangana govt. has setup T-hub, one district to support and build blockchain-based solutions, Tamilnadu state has its own state-level blockchain strategy. There are many initiatives undertaken by the Indian govt. Niti Ayog (Planning commission of India), NISG (National Institute of Smart Governance) and very recent Indian Govt. issued their national blockchain strategy and Centre of Excellence for Blockchain (Apiary by Meity & STPI) start-ups to help start-ups and government to adopt blockchain technology for smart governance.

Speakers

Kamlesh Nagware

Chief Technology Officer, Snapper Future Tech

Kamlesh Nagware is Chief Technology Officer of Snapper Future Tech. He is among the top 30 Influencers of Blockchain in India. He is the Hyperledger India Chapter Co-Chair and a member of the Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee (TSC), which drives the technical direction of Hyperledger... Read More →

Arun S M

Staff Software Engineer, Walmart Global Tech India

Arun is Staff Software Engineer in the Blockchain Platforms Team at Walmart (Bangalore, India). He is a maintainer and an active contributor to the Hyperledger projects. He is 2021-22 elected Hyperledger TSC (Technical Steering Committee) member and co-lead of the Hyperledger India... Read More →

Blockchain eco system in India pdf

Thursday June 10, 2021 09:40 - 10:10 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English
Industry/Project Community
Slides Included Yes

10:10 CEST

Panel: Lessons Learned from Leading Healthcare Consortium Offering both Hyperledger Besu and Hyperledger Fabric to its Members as a Platform for their Use Cases - Sophia Lopez & Steve Cerveny, Kaleido; Alix Keller, ConsenSys Health

Blockchain offers the healthcare industry the potential to unlock the true value of interoperability and to reduce the friction and costs of current intermediaries. Capitalizing on this technology has the potential to connect fragmented systems to generate insights and to better assess the value of care. What happens when major healthcare stakeholders come together across payers, providers, employers, to reimagine healthcare system on a blockchain platform that offers Hyperledger Besu, Hyperledger Fabric, and Corda protocols to its founding members. This session will share the industry best practices and lessons learned across this healthcare consortium for building and governance, reference architectures, usability, management and operation.

Speakers

Alix Keller

VP Product Engineering, ConsenSys Health

Molecular Biologist-turned tech executive with extensive experience leading software product initiatives from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. I’ve built, deployed, and marketed 100+ pieces of software in the span of my career from the dotcom era to present. Interests: Blockchain... Read More →

Steve Cerveny

CEO and Co-Founder, Kaleido

Sophia Lopez

Founder and President, Kaleido

Thursday June 10, 2021 10:10 - 10:40 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English
Industry/Project Healthcare

10:40 CEST

Break

Thursday June 10, 2021 10:40 - 10:50 CEST
Virtual 1

Break

10:50 CEST

Building and Measuring Valuable Ecosystems - Mark Cudden, we.trade innovation DAC

The way organisations acquires, perceives and derives value from software, platforms and services is changing. No longer are organisations entering into a bi-lateral agreement with a software, platform or service providers. They enter ecosystems. What are these ecosystems? What is the minimum viable ecosystem? How is value of the ecosystem measured? These metrics can be hard to define and get right when working in world of blockchain with new business networks, disrupting existing business models, unlocking new ways of working at times, side by side with competitors, or parties who do not trust one another. Value is perceived based on the strength, reputation and participation level of ecosystems members and from the products and services available to ecosystems members. These ecosystems are based on co-opetition and collaboration with like-minded businesses.

Speakers

Mark Cudden

CTO, we.trade innovation DAC

Chief Technology Officer of Ireland based, we.trade Innovation DAC, the Joint Venture owned by some of Europe’s largest Banks.Mark develops, executes the technology strategy, designs operating model and leads the Product Delivery and Technology teams at we.trade.Mark has held multiple... Read More →

Hyperledger Global Forum 2021 pdf

Thursday June 10, 2021 10:50 - 11:20 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English
Slides Included Yes

11:20 CEST

Covid Vaccine Beneficiary Identification using Verifiable Credentials - Punit Kumar & Hitarshi Buch, Wipro Technologies

COVID vaccination drives are being carried out across the globe. It is imperative to identify and segregate persons with the highest risk of infection so that the vaccine can be administered to them first. Therefore it is important that the individual's identity is established and their vaccine eligibility is determined in a secure and trust worthy way.

Punit & Hitarshi will be showcasing a solution that leverages the power of DID (Decentralized Identity) and Verifiable credentials, which helps in determining the vaccine beneficiaries by ensuring that the individual has the required authorization. This solution is built using Hyperledger Indy and Aries and comprises of the identity holder (beneficiary), identity issuer (nation health agency) and identity verifier (vaccine providers).

Speakers

Hitarshi Buch

Lead Architect, Blockchain, Wipro Technologies

As Lead Architect of Blockchain practice at Wipro I have: 1) Delivered enterprise-grade blockchain solutions for multiple clients across industry domains leveraging public and permissioned blockchain protocols 2) Architected and implemented assets and platforms for Decentralized Identity... Read More →

Punit Kumar

Senior Blockchain SME, Wipro Technologies

Punit has diversified experience in Strategy, Consulting, Product and innovation, working with Wipro Technologies. Currently, as a Senior Solutions Consultant in the Blockchain Consulting & Advisory Team with Wipro, Punit specializes in the BFSI, Healthcare and MNT domain. He has... Read More →

Thursday June 10, 2021 11:20 - 11:50 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English

17:00 CEST

Keynote: Opening Remarks - Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger

Speakers

Brian Behlendorf

Chief Technology Officer, Open Wallet Foundation

HyperledgerGlobalForum Day3 Welcome pdf

Thursday June 10, 2021 17:00 - 17:05 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

17:05 CEST

Keynote: Trustless Truth: How Private and Public Ledgers can Take on Misinformation —and Win - Jonathan Dotan, Founding and Director of the Starling Lab, Stanford University + USC Shoah Foundation

For 78 days, culminating in the 2021 Presidential Inauguration, teams at Stanford and USC’s Starling Lab worked together with Reuters to document the transition from Donald J. Trump to Joe Biden with an array of new open source image authentication technologies and decentralized web protocols. The prototype archive the team created is a time capsule for both this historic moment in U.S. politics and a microcosm of the difficulties reporters face in our digital age.

In this keynote, Jonathan covers the tools and methods used in this case study, including Hyperledger Fabric, Hedera Hashgraph, IPFS, Filecoin, and GUN. Each is at the frontier of open source image standards, encryption, and Web 3.0 publishing technology. By orchestrating together these decentralized technologies, the Starling Lab sought to test a viable alternative to the mainstream web infrastructure of today. Joined us to learn more about this important milestone for Hyperledger Fabric and the fight against misinformation.

Speakers

Jonathan Dotan

Founder, Starling Labs

Jonathan Dotan is a fellow at the Stanford Compression Forum and Stanford’s Center for Blockchain Research, and the USC Shoah Foundation. He researches and lectures on applied strategy and policy for the decentralized web. For the last two years, he has led the creation of the Starling... Read More →

Thursday June 10, 2021 17:05 - 17:30 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

17:30 CEST

Keynote: Fireside Chat with Marta Belcher, Board Chair, Filecoin Foundation & Mike Dolan, SVP, GM of Projects, The Linux Foundation

Speakers

Mike Dolan

SVP and GM of Projects, The Linux Foundation

Michael Dolan is SVP and GM of Projects at the Linux Foundation supporting open source projects and legal programs He has set up and launched hundreds of open source and open standards projects covering technology segments including networking, virtualization, cloud, blockchain, Internet... Read More →

Marta Belcher

Board Chair, Filecoin Foundation; General Counsel, Protocol Labs

Marta Belcher is president and chair of Filecoin Foundation as well as the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, and general counsel and head of policy at Protocol Labs. She is also special counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Marta serves on the Boards of the Zcash... Read More →

Thursday June 10, 2021 17:30 - 17:50 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

17:50 CEST

Keynote Panel: How NFTs Are Changing the Music and Media Landscape - David MacFadyen, UCLA; Imogen Heap, Musician / Founder of The Creative Passport; Brendan Cooper, Panini America; Daniel Heyman, Palm NFT Studio

The Hyperledger open-source community is bringing together technical, academic, and industry-related expertise in order to solve long-standing problems in the creation, fair distribution, and legally appropriate attribution of media assets. In this panel, moderated by the Chair of the Hyperledger Media & Entertainment SIG, we will explore the topic of blockchain in current media, together with the opportunities and use cases already in action at Hyperledger. The panel includes Imogen Heap (musician and founder of the Creative Passport), Daniel Heyman (co-founder of Palm NTF Studio), and Brendan Cooper (Director of NFT, Blockchain & Digital Systems at Panini America).

Moderators

David MacFadyen

Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, UCLA

https://www.davidmacfadyen.com/aboutEDUCATIONBA/MA University of London (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, U.K)PhD, UCLARESEARCHDavid MacFadyen is the author of multiple books on the history of Slavic literature, media, and music, specifically the popular traditions of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Having... Read More →

Speakers

Imogen Heap

Musician / Founder of The Creative Passport

Self-produced British composer and recording artist for 25 years, Imogen Heap has released five solo albums, another as one half of Frou Frou and collaborated with countless and varied artists including Taylor Swift, Nitin Sawhney, Deadmau5, Eric Whitacre, Jeff Beck and Jon Hopkins... Read More →

Brendan Cooper

Director - NFT, Blockchain & Digital Systems, Panini America

Panini is the world leader in officially licensed collectibles and is the leading multi-national publisher of comics, children’s magazines and Manga in Europe and Latin America. The company is the exclusive licensor of trading cards and stickers for the FIFA World Cup, NBA, NFL... Read More →

Daniel Heyman

Co-Founder and CEO, Palm NFT Studio

Dan Heyman is a blockchain industry veteran with experience building and leading organizations through the design, development, and implementation of enterprise-grade blockchain protocols.Prior to co-founding Palm, Dan was the Co-Founder and General Manager for PegaSys, ConsenSys’s... Read More →

Thursday June 10, 2021 17:50 - 18:25 CEST
Virtual 1

Keynote

18:30 CEST

Break

Thursday June 10, 2021 18:30 - 18:40 CEST
Virtual 1

Break

18:40 CEST

Panel: Self-Sovereign Identity for Economic Empowerment: Lessons from Africa - Anna Johnson, Trinsic; Thea Sommerseth Myhren, Diwala; Lohan Spies, DIDx; Fabian Portmann, Farmer Connect; Bryan Pon, Kiva

Self-sovereign identity (SSI) is a movement that claims digital identity should be just as legitimate and nuanced as a person’s human identity, while being accessible to all, privacy-preserving, and not reliant on a single government or corporation. The worldwide adoption of SSI has the potential to increase people's access to goods and services, including for disadvantaged individuals that do not have a government ID. Kiva, DIDx, and Farmer Connect are all using SSI backed by Hyperledger Aries/Indy to economically empower people in Africa. The panelists will specifically focus on the successes and obstacles that each of them have faced in helping to bring SSI to Africa. The speakers will share insights from each of their respective projects which are diverse in industry and use case.

Speakers

Thea Sommerseth Myhren

CEO & Co-founder, Diwala

Bryan Pon

Kiva

Anna Johnson

Director of Marketing, Trinsic

Anna is the Director of Marketing at Trinsic, the proof of anything platform that makes it easy and secure for participants in any ecosystem, marketplace, or network to instantly prove things about themselves. Previous to Trinsic, Anna worked at the Sovrin Foundation and helped develop... Read More →

Fabian Portmann

CTO, Farmer Connect

Fabian is the Chief Technology Officer at Farmer Connect, a Swiss-born tech startup creating blockchain-compatible, traceable supply chains to eliminate supply chain inefficiencies and to connect consumers straight to the farmers who create the products they use. Before Farmer Connect... Read More →

Lohan Spies

Founder & CEO, DIDx

Lohan has been a co-founder of various cybersecurity and blockchain-based ventures in digital identity and personal data protection, a DApp called Amply aimed towards dematerialising the early childhood development subsidy claims to optimising the impact market with the ixo protocol... Read More →

Thursday June 10, 2021 18:40 - 19:40 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English
Industry/Project Identity, Social Impact

19:50 CEST

Panel: Driving Open Collaboration through Joint Solutioning - Nancy Min, ecoLong; Shawn Wilborne, Lid Vizion, LLC; Alicia Noel, Cultivati; Marc Liberati, United Nations

Distributed ledger technologies (DLT) holds significant potential to deliver benefits for humanitarian aid, development, and civil society institutions in general. This panel discussion will go over ways to use the open and collaborative nature of DLT to unlock social good. We will explore burgeoning use cases, barriers to innovation, and sustainment issues of the social good economy. The purpose of this discussion is to spur innovation, tackle never before addressed issues, and serve as a launching pad for future innovation.

Speakers

Marc Liberati

Policy Specialist and Pillar Team Lead, United Nations Volunteer (UNV)

Marc Liberati has consented to join our panel. Marc currently serves as a Policy Specialist and Pillar Team Lead with the United Nations Volunteer (UNV) programme and has been involved in the UNV Digital Transformation working group on frontier technologies – smart contracting... Read More →

Alicia

Founder, Vice-Chair of Hyperledger Social Impact SIG, Cultivati

I research and consult on food and agriculture supply chain innovation around the world, with a focus on blockchain applications in China, food safety, and social impact... Read More →

Nancy Min

CEO, ecoLong LLC

Nancy Min is the Founder of ecoLong, a clean energy startup located in Albany, New York. She leads the research and development of a blockchain based peer to peer transactive energy platform that is funded by U.S. Department of Energy. As an avid advocate of blockchain technology... Read More →

Shawn Wilborne

Co-Founder/Business Lead, Lid Vizion, LLC

Shawn Wilborne, Esq., MSSB, is the Co-Founder and Business Lead of Lid Vizion, LLC, a software company aimed at helping people recycle right and make sustainable choices. He leads multiple software development projects focused on sustainable materials management. He also writes for... Read More →

Thursday June 10, 2021 19:50 - 20:50 CEST
Virtual 1

Business

Audience Experience Level Any
Language English
Industry/Project Social Impact