Business Applications of Blockchain

Workshop Topics

• Introduction and Overview
• Basic concepts of how blockchain works
• Key business applications
• IBM’s Hyperledger Project
• Ethereum and EOS
• Consensus Types and Use Cases
• Hardforks and DAO Attack
  • Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
• The whitepaper that started it all
• Regulatory Environment
  • Initial coin offerings and the SEC
  • Market confusion
  • Impact of the JOBS Act
• What’s happening in Silicon Beach?
• Blockchain activity in Zug (Switzerland), Singapore, Belarus, and China
• Blockchain and the Entertainment Industry
• International Use cases
  • Refugee identification
  • Banking for the unbanked