Blockchain truly is a revolutionary mechanism to bring everyone to the highest degree of accountability. Above anything else, the most critical application of Blockchain technology is to guarantee the validity of a transaction by recording it on a distributed system of registers, all of which are interconnected through a secure time-stamped mechanism. In today's digital information age, Blockchain represents a critical intersection between the financial world, social networking, and powerful decentralized networks. Stakeholders must formulate careful legal and business strategies that factor in the technology and infrastructure, as well as the corresponding market appetite and regulatory structures in rapidly evolving global markets.
This Blockchain
Technology Conference to be held on March 09, 2018 in Berlin aims to
provide a comprehensive understanding of Blockchain technology by
focusing on how to address the implementation challenges, make best use
of the opportunities and benefit from the innovation and disruption
that this technology brings along.
The event features an inspiring day of expert talks and solution based discussion by professional speakers focused on Blockchain technology and Innovation. The speaker session will be based on the latest trends and opportunities, challenges and the best practices in Blockchain implementation.
Decentralization is essential to effective use of blockchain technologies, but power consumption has caused infrastructure to be consolidate in locations that can provide cheap power. Envion recently closed the #6 ICO of all time to address this problem of centralization by solving real-world problems for the energy industry—providing a sustainable, profitable solution that address pain points for two industries. Building the blockchain technologies of the future will require even more creative infrastructure solutions with provide a bridge between blockchain and non-blockchain worlds.- Laurent Martin, VP of Special Projects & Strategic Growth, ENVION AG
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is the new EU-wide law on Data Protection coming into effect in May this year, and affects all companies doing business with users in Europe. For blockchain in particular it is a big challenge to navigate within the boundaries of this game changing regulation on data privacy.
In this talk, you will learn more about the GDPR and how it affects Blockchain environments and it’s particular challenges as well as opportunities for using blockchain to become more compliant to the GDPR.
- Silvan Jongerius, CEO, TechGDPRWhat happens when design decisions are made by engineers? Currently, that's what is mainly happening: technology got developed by geeks and engineers and at the end comes the question: so, how users can use it? Can they use it at all? Do they understand how to use it?
Any product development should start with a user need and then look at a Blockchain technology. Is it applicable in this case? Will it solve user problems? At the end, most of the products on the market are for a mass usage and should be targeted to different type of users. The talk will be about how to make a product using Blockchain technology usable and how to apply design thinking from early steps.
- Vira Smirnova, Agile Product Strategist, Product Heroes UGMost of us have heard the word „blockchain” on multiple occasions. We are aware that this technology opens a wide array of possibilities, and we heard about the use cases in fintech, logistics, governance, in energy and pharmaceutical markets. Still, the barrier to adapt the technology in running businesses is very steep.
In this session we will find out why every established company should care about blockchain today. Based on three different strategies we will talk about the use cases of blockchain adaption and work out a recommendation for the first steps on this journey. - Pavel Romanenko, Project Lead – Blockchain Circle, NKF Media
Cultural Places is the first holistic platform in the cultural sector that connects
visitors, institutions, artists, content creators and donors. Cultural Places will
disrupt the cultural sector as it redefines the relations between all stakeholders
and creates new business opportunities. The core is its own crypto currency – the
Cultural Coin – based on blockchain technology. That reinvents and simplifies
cultural financing, sponsoring and ticketing.
Cultural Places is created, developed and run by Oroundo Mobile. Oroundo is an already
successful international start-up with the vision to create the largest social
network and the most notable partner for culture and tourism. The company was founded
by Patrick Tomelitsch and Klaus Windisch in 2014 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria –
Europe’s stronghold of music and art. Oroundo operates in 6 countries with 4 offices,
more than 30 employees and 34 partners.
- Patrick Tomelitsch, CEO, OROUNDO Mobile GmbH