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Jul 19
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Hyperledger Global Forum Highlights: CBDCs, programmable money and interoperability – part II

By Hyperledger Blog, Finance, Hyperledger Global Forum

As we covered in Part I of this series, CBDC and other payment projects are moving quickly from prototypes to pilots and beyond with some well known projects already in production. As CBDCs and other cross border payment use cases mature, central banks continue to partner with the private sector from small to big companies to accelerate and innovate, and the Hyperledger open source community is at the forefront of the most public CBDC projects.

At this year’s Hyperledger Global Forum (HGF), those on the front lines of CBDC deployments and the development of critical underlying platforms and technologies presented a mix of talks about requirements for and challenges of implementing current and future payment solutions.

Read on for some of the more technical highlights from HGF on the CBDC, programmable money and currency interoperability:

Build CBDC Platform on Hyperledger Besu – Dive in Retail CBDC’s Architecture – Charles d’Haussy, ConsenSys

In this session, attendees got an overview of the architecture of the CBDC platforms powered by Hyperledger Besu.

 

(8:16) Charles d’Haussy on selecting a CBDC platform: “We mostly recommend building platforms that have public and private capacities so it’s a perfect fit with Hyperledger Besu…we also like to build on systems which are interoperable and global…”

This engaging discussion was then followed by a deep dive from John Velissarios from Accenture into the current landscape of CBDC research and experimentation across the globe.

(26:20) James Edwards on Bakong’s impact on the Cambodian payments ecosystem: “Bakong allows users of commercial banks to take advantage of the PSP’s huge networks of over the counter agents so it has made life a lot more convenient for Cambodians and for Cambodians small businesses. It has also incentivized PSPs to develop more bank-like services, a wider range of services, and has incentivized banks to develop a wider range of PSP-like services so it is enriching competition within the Cambodian payments ecosystem…”
Other sessions of interest from Hyperledger Global Forum on the subject:

Panel: Hyperledger Contributions from IBM – Kelly Ryan, Rakesh Mohan, Chris Ferris, Arnaud Le Hors & Elli Androulaki, IBM (Sponsored by IBM)

This session explored two new Hyperledger Labs: Fabric Token SDK, which enables the creation of CBDCs, and Smart Fabric Client, which is already in use with a major European Central Bank project.

Digital Currency Interoperability With Messages – Vipin Bharathan, dlt.nyc

This discussion, led by the Hyperledger Capital Markets SIG Chair Vipin Bharathan, focused on challenges facing digital currency interoperability and took a deep look at one of the current trends in implementing interoperability: message-based interoperability.

Smart Contracts with Tokenized Fiat Currency on Sberbank’s Platform – Oleg Abdrashitov, Sberbank

This presentation was an introduction to a platform for the 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.

Beyond Hyperledger Global Forum

In addition to being a key topic at HGF, CBDCs and other payment innovations are regular topics for discussions and activity across the Hyperledger community. Here are some talks and events, including resources for anyone looking to take part in the CBDC Global Challenge, to check out:

  • An on-demand replay of the July 13 Singapore Fintech Festival Green Shoots Series | Global CBDC Challenge session: “An impact making opportunity not to be missed” moderated by Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief Fintech Officer, MAS, with speakers for the IMF and World Bank as well as Hyperledger’s Brian Behlendorf
  • Hyperledger Capital Markets SIG talk by Saket Sinha, Global VP FSS, IBM on “CBDCs Promise and Risk : Operationalizing CBDCs”CBDCs, Promise & Risk”
  • A panel discussion from the May 26 virtual Synchronize series on CDBCs moderated by Hyperledger’s Karen Ottoni with speakers from ConsenSys, Digital Asset, SilverBank and more

How else can you get involved in this work happening at Hyperledger?

  • Join as a Hyperledger member. Our member companies are leaders in financial services and technology working on these exciting projects. Learn more about membership.
  • Participate in our open communities, like our Capital Markets SIG.
  • Deep dive into Hyperledger projects with training and certifications.
  • Attend other Hyperledger events and webinars.

 

Jul 14
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Hyperledger Global Forum Highlights: CBDCs, programmable money and interoperability – Part I

By Hyperledger Blog, Finance, Hyperledger Global Forum

Central Bank Digital Currency projects, known as CBDCs, are moving quickly from prototypes to pilots and beyond with some well known projects already in production. As CBDCs and other cross border payment use cases mature, central banks continue to partner with the private sector from small to big companies to accelerate and innovate, and the Hyperledger open source community is at the forefront of the most public CBDC projects.

As seen at this year’s 2021 Hyperledger Global Forum (HGF), the annual global event where the Hyperledger community gathers to showcase their work with Hyperledger technologies, there is a wide range of activities underway tied to CBDCs and cross border payment. Talks covered key technologies, lessons learned and industry trends  as well as production implementations like the work Hyperledger member Soramitsu has done with National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) to the leading work Accenture has been doing for years in the digital currency space.

In addition to developing products and services to deliver to their central bank customers, the Hyperledger community is also working to build the future of digital money with open source principles and goals. Efforts range from market leading discussions in our Capital Markets and Trade Finance Special Interest Groups to IBM’s recent contribution of code bases already in use in conjunction with a major European Central Bank Project. These are now Smart Fabric Client and Fabric Token SDK, two new Hyperledger Labs

Technology innovation happens when companies, academics and regulators come together to meet common goals, and Hyperledger is proud to host the development of code that will enable payment innovations around the world. Read on for highlights from HGF and to learn more about how you can get involved.

On Stage at Hyperledger Global Forum

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

During this session, National Bank of Cambodia’s Assistant Governor HE Serey Chea shared with the audience the work NBC has already put into production with a retail CBDC, working with Hyperledger member Soramitsu using Hyperledger Iroha. A deep dive into this project is also available as a full Hyperledger case study.

Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief Fintech Officer, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), shared some of the outcomes of their leading Project Ubin work and announced a new Global CBDC challenge that the Hyperledger community is supporting as a technical partner. Read more about the CBDC Challenge here.

While the National Bank Cambodia selected Hyperledger Iroha for its retail CBDC implementation, multiple implementations are using other Hyperledger projects, primarily Hyperledger Besu and Hyperledger Fabric. As highlighted below, choice in DLT protocols is important to support and nurture and with that the need for interoperability becomes more important, and during HGF many sessions addressed the needs of our community to come together and resolve.

Fireside Chat on Central Bank Digital Currencies – Dave Treat & John Velissarios, Accenture; Jennifer Peve, DTCC

In this session, both Accenture and DTCC highlighted how CBDC is fast approaching and here to stay.  Dave Treat, Senior Managing Director, Global Blockchain Lead, Accenture, and Jennifer Peve, Managing Director, Business Innovation, DTCC, covered the benefits and different approaches to developing a third form of central bank money for our digital world. They offered some practical examples of using Hyperledger Cactus and the Blockchain Automation Framework and a call for our community not to lose faith.

(23:30) DTTC’s Jennifer Peve on the positive momentum in the digital currency space: “Things are happening across Accenture, across DTCC, there many other financial institutions in this space progressing the conversation using distributed ledger and tokenized assets and even looking at the concept of digital currencies, it should be viewed as incredibly positive to see these iterations continue… these are not easy things to solve overnight..don’t lose faith, some of these things are just not easy things to solve.”
 
 
This engaging discussion was then followed by a deep dive from John Velissarios from Accenture into the current landscape of CBDC research and experimentation across the globe.
 
(52:28) John Velissarios’s call to action to get involved: “There’s a strong willingness to share to explore open source ideas, to openly develop new concepts and new ideas…get ready for innovation that will be coming out way imminently.”

(30:30) John Velissarios from Accenture on the innovation behind CBDC: “the ability to bundle both the value and the ownership in a single item that you can transfer from one entity to the next.” Why now: “The technology has become much more mature…there’s a lot more appetite in the marketplace.”

Hyperledger Besu Use Cases – Grace Hartley, ConsenSys; Adam Clarke, Fnality International

For those interested in Hyperledger Besu, this session provided an overview of how the platform is used by Fnality. Fnality International is a financial technology firm founded in 2019 by a consortium of international banks and an exchange to create a network of distributed financial market infrastructures using blockchain to deliver the means of payment-on-chain for wholesale banking markets.

(7:33) Adam Clarke, CTO, Fnality International, on working with the Bank of England: “We’ve put in our application for our first central bank account…When participants of our network fund the Fnality bank account, we will effectively tokenize that money and give full ownership of that money back to them immediately and that effectively removes the counterparty risk. They don’t have to move money through a counterparty, but also they they can also use the DLT to move money between participants instantly with legal settlement finality without having to worry about two or three day settlement period.”
(10:22) Adam Clarke on finding the right DLT platform: “It has to be closed. It has to be permissioned. We are never going to run this on mainnet for obvious reasons, we’re backing central bank money…and actually the consensus algorithm within Besu being IBFT2 or IBFT kind of algorithm allows us to actually get to the point we can show that we have legal settlement finality at a given point within the consensus algorithm so really important for central banks and for meeting regulation.”

Look for part II of this series, which will include highlights from technical talks centered around CBDC and digital currencies.

How else can you get involved in this work happening at Hyperledger?

  • Join as a Hyperledger member. Our member companies are leaders in financial services and technology working on these exciting projects. Learn more about membership.
  • Participate in our open communities, like our Capital Markets SIG.
  • Deep dive into Hyperledger projects with training and certifications.
  • Attend other Hyperledger events and webinars.
Jun 23
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Virtual Engagement: Content and Connections Bring the Global Hyperledger Community Together at Global Forum

By John Carpenter, Co-Founder, Global Blockchain Summit Blog, Hyperledger Global Forum

“Welcome to the new normal!”  When I wrote that sentence as part of the title for my panel discussion at this year’s Hyperledger Global Forum, I reflected on how much had changed since last year’s in-person Global Forum that was held right before the worldwide pandemic shut everything down. In fact, that was the last in-person conference that I have attended in fifteen months, and Brian Behlendorf, Hyperledger’s Executive Director, mentioned during his opening keynote presentation that he had a similar experience. This new normal was the driver for my panel discussion at Global Forum with Alfonso Govela, Jyoti Ponnapali, David Boswell, and Jim Mason about the significant transition of Hyperledger Meetups from always being an in-person event to now trying to have the presentations appeal to a much broader virtual audience.

It was readily apparent from attending the three days of Global Forum that the attendees were very engaged in the virtual event and that the overall sense of community had grown stronger during the past year by virtue of having universal virtual collaboration across groups due to the pandemic. Arnaud Le Hors, Hyperledger TSC Chair, did a great job of highlighting all of the significant projects and innovation under the Hyperledger greenhouse during his keynote.  

I enjoyed serving as a moderator for a few of the sessions, but I really want to congratulate the entire Hyperledger events team, especially Daniela Barbosa, Karen Ottoni, Emily Ruf, Celia Stamps and Helen Garneau, on their hard work and  the monumental effort that went into creating a very successful, inclusive and diverse two track event that highlighted all of the contributors from around the world within one seamless event. 

I attended a variety of technical, business and impact track events, and the Hopin virtual event platform worked well and allowed for good audience interaction with the breakout sessions. The virtual networking sessions in Gather.Town were also fun, as networking, whether virtual or in person, is a critical component of any successful conference. One of the other great fun networking events was the trivia session run by Alissa Worley, Global Marketing Director – Blockchain, as part of Accenture’s diversity and inclusion sponsorship, and the music provided by DJ JRIP.  Who knew that Brian Behlendorf was also once a D.J.?!

One thing that really highlighted the commitment of Hyperledger Members like IBM to the open source community for me was the keynote announcement by Kareem Yusuf, General Manager AI Applications and Blockchain, that they were contributing source code for a number of new Hyperledger Labs, including Fabric Operations Console and  one that supports token exchanges on Hyperledger Fabric.

The dynamic keynotes by David Treat of Accenture about his work with multi-party systems and FDA Deputy Commissioner Frank Yiannas around the use of blockchain to ensure food safety highlighted the thriving Hyperledger projects that are achieving real world success.

The rich content covered in the breakout sessions was phenomenal! I enjoyed many of the sessions that covered verifiable SSI credentials (Michelle Ghazal & Nate Sulat and Stephen Curran & John Jordan), industry blockchain consortia (Si Chen), blockchain interoperability (Peter Somogyvari), Central Bank Digital Currencies (David Treat, Jennifer Peve and John Velissarios), Hyperledger Ursa (Mike Lodder), supply chain security (Vipin Bharanthan), trade finance (Mark Cudden), and thriving ecosystems (Melanie Cutlan).  (You can dive into the video stream of these sessions and more here.)

Some of the other keynote presentations that stood out to me included those on topics highly relevant to today such as the use of blockchain to fight climate change and to provide health credentials for international travel as well as the overview of the Hyperledger Governing Board by Robert Palantick of DTCC. It was also nice to hear about some of the new hot items such as NFTs with Imogen Heap, Daniel Heyman, Brendan Cooper, and Daniel Heyman, as well as how blockchain can take on misinformation in general as outlined in the keynote presentation by Jonathan Dotan. 

Other highlights from Global Forum were some solid collaborations with the Ethereum and ConsenSys communities through Brian Behlendorf’s fireside chat with Vitalik Bueterin and the breakout sessions by Danno Ferrin, Grace Hartley and Adam Clark around Hyperledger Besu.

I’m proud to be a part of such a welcoming, purpose-driven, and inclusive community and looking forward to the next Hyperledger Global Forum when we can get back to having the “new normal” look much more like the “old normal.” It will be all the more welcoming when the diverse Hyperledger community can once again come together in person.

Jun 09
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Hyperledger Spotlights Diverse and Expanding Enterprise Blockchain Ecosystem at Hyperledger Global Forum

By Hyperledger Announcements, Hyperledger Global Forum

Underscores Growing Reach of Hyperledger Technologies Fueled by Continued Innovation, Accelerating Deployments and Role in New Markets

SAN FRANCISCO (June 9, 2021) – Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, today announced news from across its diverse and expanding ecosystem at Hyperledger Global Forum 2021 (HGF, #HyperledgerForum), the premier virtual enterprise blockchain event of 2021. Highlights range from development and deployment news from members around the world to new code contributions fueling the next generation of Hyperledger technologies to agenda setting talks that establish the role of blockchain in a range of emerging markets and changing business models. 

During Hyperledger Global Forum, the biggest annual gathering of the global Hyperledger community, speakers from a broad cross section of the blockchain ecosystem are addressing the growing footprint of enterprise blockchain technology. Some prime examples include these newly announced headliners: 

  • Vitalik Buterin, Co-founder of Ethereum, who sat down with Brian Behlendorf, executive director of Hyperledger, for a fireside chat on enterprise adoption of Ethereum and the Hyperledger community
  • Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief Fintech Officer at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), and Serey Chea, Assistant Governor at National Bank of Cambodia, who took to the main stage for a discussion on “Asia Pacific CBDC Innovation, Collaboration and the Drive to Interoperability”
  • Imogen Heap, musician and Founder of the Creative Passport, who will be the artist voice on a panel with executives from Palm NFT Studio and Panini America on “How NFTs Are Changing the Music and Media Landscape” 
  • Paolo Migliari from Merck Sharp & Dohme, Daniel Lavricm from Zuellig Pharma and Lidija Pozaic Frketic from Tradeticity/Antares Vision Group who will tackle the topic “Fighting Fraud and Error in Vaccine Supply Chains” in a panel discussion

“Since the last Hyperledger Global Forum, the enterprise blockchain world, and especially our community, has charged ahead with a laser focus on advancing technologies and solutions,” said Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger, and Managing Director for Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “The resulting pace of innovation and collaboration is apparent in the range of global deployments, emerging use cases and development milestones we are seeing this week. Hyperledger Global Forum is the single best place to understand what’s happening across the full ecosystem and what amazing things people are building with Hyperledger software.”

Innovation Pipeline

In a keynote this morning that highlighted how the ecosystem is expanding on the technology front, Kareem Yusuf, General Manager, AI Applications and Blockchain at IBM, announced that his company is contributing some of the core features of its enterprise blockchain platform to Hyperledger and expanding services to support Fabric users in growing their networks. The code will come in through the Hyperledger Labs in projects such as Weaver DLT Interoperability, which aims to enable data sharing and asset movements between independent blockchain networks.

Newly announced member Keleido is also making a code contribution right out of the gate with FireFly, the newest project accepted in the Hyperledger Labs, and is hosting a co-located event Friday, June 11, to jump start the community around the technology. Japan-based Datachain also introduced the community to YUI, a new Hyperledger Labs project it contributed, as part of HGF. 

These new Hyperledger Labs projects are all tackling the challenges of cross-chain and off-chain operations, areas of intense focus for all players in the industry. More than 30 projects have been accepted into Hyperledger Labs since HGF 2020, creating a robust pipeline of new developments for the ecosystem. 

Member Development and Deployment News 

BONbLOC – has successfully completed 25 test installations of the second version of its supply chain data measurement SaaS solution using IOT on Hyperledger Fabric 2.0. The solution helps customers to track temperature cluster data and fluid level data on its route trailers, storage trailers, warehouses and various fuel tanks in its distribution centers to avoid wastage, as well as to comply with various food safety regulations. For more information, please contact admin@bonbloc.com.

BONbLOC – has also successfully completed a test implementation of its “track and trace delivery status” blockchain solution using Hyperledger Fabric 2.0. The configurable, customizable and extensible cloud API solution helps customers to manage multi-participant delivery status related information, from order to final delivery, through a single collaborative data chain. Large and small e-commerce players can now use a 24*7 order status manager and dramatically improve customer service. For more information, please contact admin@bonbloc.com.

Blockforce – developed a digital blockchain platform for C&A Brasil. The Brazilian-based company and member of Hyperledger developed the platform on Hyperledger Fabric to enable integration – in real time – between the retailer’s systems and those of its suppliers, improving the monitoring of the production of each item in a clear, agile, and practical way. The pilot project aims to bring greater efficiency and visibility to the supply chain for fashion in the country. Learn more at https://blockforce.in/.

Chainyard – recently expanded the Trust Your Supplier (TYS) network. Built on Hyperledger Fabric, TYS provides an innovative supplier information network that allows organizations such as IBM, Nokia, and Lenovo to leverage advanced insights, accelerated supplier onboarding, and a trusted exchange of information across an encrypted blockchain environment. The TYS network has recently added British Telecom and RapidRatings as buyers and Global Data Consortium and ComplyAdvantage as new business partners. Integrations with business partners is a major component of the TYS platform. They provide the financial, diversity, environmental, digital identity, market and media data and updates as well as other external narratives to monitor regarding suppliers. TYS also now offers Continuous Monitoring, which alerts procurement teams when a supplier rating crosses the score threshold set by their risk & compliance team, providing enrichment to in-life processes, increasing the ability to manage risks in the supply chain, and supporting compliance initiatives. Learn more: https://trustyoursupplier.com/.

Chainyard – joined the Open Insurance Data Link platform (OpenIDL). This past April, the Linux Foundation announced the launch of OpenIDL, bringing together some of the largest insurance companies in the world. Chainyard, a long-term member of the Linux Foundation and a Hyperledger Certified Service Provider, joined this initiative to support it as an infrastructure member. We are pleased to be expediting the deployment of OpenIDL, which was built on Hyperledger Fabric by the American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS). The initial use case facilitates regulatory reporting in the Property and Casualty (P&C) industry. Chainyard will be working closely with AAIS and the insurance carrier members to streamline the reporting process, utilizing blockchain to ensure the data is accurate and complete. Learn more: https://chainyard.com/insights/linux-foundation-hosts-collaboration-among-worlds-largest-insurance-companies/.

IntellectEU – will launch Catalyst Blockchain Platform Software-as-a-Service in June. Since its initial enterprise software launch, Catalyst Blockchain has been adopted by a variety of organizations to simplify the deployment, management, and maintenance of Hyperledger Fabric networks. IntellectEU is pleased to announce that the Software-as-a-Service version of this cutting-edge platform will be available in June to enable organizations to further speed up the go-to-market and time-to-value of their solutions. For more information, please visit www.catalyst.intellecteu.com.

Kaleido – announced the beta of Hyperledger Fabric on Kaleido. When creating an environment, customers and users now have “Hyperledger Fabric” as a protocol option in addition to Corda OS and Ethereum variants Quorum, Go-Ethereum, and Hyperledger Besu. Learn more here: https://www.kaleido.io/blockchain-blog/hyperledger-fabric-is-now-available-on-kaleido.

KompiTech – is announcing the implementation of Hyperledger Fabric v2.3 as a part of the upgrade of the KompiTech Blockchain Platform. KompiTech is a technology provider of enterprise blockchain, supply chain management, IT service solutions, and a Hyperledger Fabric Certified Service Provider (HCSP). Learn more: https://blockchain.kompitech.com/.

KrypC – has announced several milestones including (1) launching a Blockchain-as-a-Service for the newly released Hyperledger Fabric 2.2. KrypC’s new BaaS service is the simplest way to build, deploy and manage HLF 2.2 based solutions. (2) The release of a free HLF 2.2 deployment template that is available in the Azure Marketplace. (3) An SI partnership with Hedera to provide a Verification-as-a-Service (VaaS) solution. KrypC VaaS is designed to provide a high degree of authenticity to digital information from any source, including Hyperledger Fabric programs, that are verifiable in the Hedera Network independently. And (4) becoming a Hyperledger Certified Service Provider. Find out more: www.krypc.com.

Sberbank – announced its tokenization platform is in the final stage of being licensed by the Bank of Russia. The platform will be used for issuance of Digital Financial Assets — a new class of financial instruments that came into force in Russia in 2021. Sberbank’s clients will be able to issue tokens to raise capital, represent their contracts and trade goods. A payment token tied to a Russian ruble supports settlement of the trades in tokens and enables delivery vs payment and smart contracts. The protocol of choice is Hyperledger Fabric adapted for the use of local cryptography and SmartBFT for its consensus. Sberbank is also opening their platform to fintech developers to create new applications based on smart contracts. The platform opened for business in December 2020 to trade renewable energy certificates. Learn more: https://www.sberbank.com/index.

Valid Network – announced a partnership with Zeeve to combine the companies’ market-leading strengths in enterprise blockchain. The partnership adds Valid Network’s Blockchain Security and intelligence capabilities to Zeeve’s automated blockchain network management to help enterprises implement and scale their blockchain operations. Learn more: https://valid.network/news/zeeve-and-valid-network-partner-to-secure-enterprise-blockchain.

About Hyperledger Global Forum 2021

Hyperledger Global Forum, the premier virtual enterprise blockchain event of 2021, is open to users and contributors of Hyperledger projects from around the globe looking to connect, network and collaborate. Hyperledger Global Forum, taking place June 8-10, will provide an opportunity to learn and understand various aspects of the ecosystem, including technical roadmaps, milestones and the latest uses and applications across industries and markets for Hyperledger projects and other related technologies. 

Event sponsors and partners include Accenture (Diamond and Diversity & Inclusion Sponsor), IBM (Diamond Sponsor), Filecoin Foundation (Platinum), Hitachi (Platinum), Siemens  (Platinum), Zuellig Pharma (Platinum), AWS (Silver), BTP (Silver), Chainyard (Silver), ConsenSys (Silver), KrypC (Silver & Wellness), DTTC (Closed Captioning and Translation), Walmart Global Tech (Parent & Caregiver Support Program), Crypto Open Patent Alliance – COPA (Birds of Feather), Black Women Blockchain Council (Community), Diversity in Blockchain (Community), Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (Community), Greater Blockchain Business Council (Community), Kerala Blockchain Academy – KBA (Community), Trusted Blockchain Initiatives (Community), Blocknews (Media Partner), Cointelegraph China (Media Partner), CoinSpeaker (Media Partner), CrytoNewsZ (Media Partner), Forekast (Media Partner), Ledger Insights (Media Partner) and Tuoluo Finance (Media Partner).  

About Hyperledger

Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration including leaders in finance, banking, healthcare, supply chains, manufacturing and technology. Hyperledger hosts many enterprise blockchain technology projects including distributed ledger frameworks, smart contract engines, client libraries, graphical interfaces, utility libraries and sample applications. All Hyperledger code is built publicly and available under the Apache license. The Linux Foundation hosts Hyperledger under the foundation. To learn more, visit: https://www.hyperledger.org/.

Jun 08
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Hyperledger Kicks Off Global Forum With New Members, New Training Offering

By Hyperledger Announcements, Hyperledger Global Forum

Announces Seven New Members, Free Hyperledger Besu Course

SAN FRANCISCO (June 8, 2021) – Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, today announced seven new members, including Information Data Systems, Filecoin Foundation, Kaleido and LACChain, on the first day of Hyperledger Global Forum 2021 (HGF, #HyperledgerForum), the premier virtual enterprise blockchain event of 2021. Information Data Systems also joins the ranks of Hyperledger Training Partners and Hyperledger Certified Service Providers.

Hyperledger, a multi-venture, multi-stakeholder effort hosted at the Linux Foundation, is hosting its annual Global Forum as a global event with virtual content delivered in two segments each day, spaced across time zones. The packed agenda includes more than 100 sessions over three days. In celebration of HGF, Hyperledger and Linux Foundation Training & Certification are offering a 50% percent discount on all Hyperledger courses and certifications the month of June. The two have also teamed up to launch a new, free course, Hyperledger Besu Essentials: Creating a Private Blockchain Network. 

“Hyperledger Global Forum is all about bringing our global community together and shining the spotlight on the work it is doing and the impact it is having,” said Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger, and Managing Director for Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “The depth and breadth of business and technical content, demos and use cases being presented this week shows that our technology is moving quickly up both the innovation and adoption curves and is reshaping a range of industries, from finance to supply chains to healthcare. Kicking the event off with this wave of new members highlights the continued investment organizations of all sizes and from all corners of the world are making to drive forward open source enterprise blockchain.”

Hyperledger allows organizations to create solid, industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support their individual business transactions by offering enterprise-grade, open source distributed ledger frameworks, libraries and tools. General members joining the community are Filecoin Foundation, Information Data Systems, IPwe, Kaleido and Surge.

Hyperledger supports an open community that values the contributions and participation from various entities. As such, pre-approved non-profits, open source projects and government entities can join Hyperledger at no cost as associate members. Associate members joining this month include LACChain and the Open Earth Foundation.

New member quotes:

Filecoin Foundation

“The Filecoin Foundation is an independent organization that facilitates governance of the Filecoin network, funds critical development projects, supports the growth of the Filecoin ecosystem, and advocates for Filecoin and the decentralized web,” said Marta Belcher, Board Chair, Filecoin Foundation. “We believe Filecoin’s decentralized storage capabilities have tremendous potential in the enterprise space. We’re thrilled to join Hyperledger, a leader in enterprise blockchain technology, to explore these possibilities.”

Information Data Systems

“Information Data Systems provides purpose-built blockchain enabled multi-party business networks for value exchange with varied degrees of decentralization,” said Mr. Sudharshan Reddy Minumula, CEO, Information Data Systems Inc. “Trustflow, our coherent supply chain management product, is powered by Hyperledger Fabric, and we strongly believe our association with Hyperledger enables us to serve our enterprise clients with best possible features and frameworks. Business competence is shifting from enterprises to ecosystems, and we are happy to contribute to Hyperledger projects to accelerate the adoption of enterprise blockchain for the benefit of shared prosperity and a level playing field for all ecosystem players.”

IPwe

“IPwe has been working with Hyperledger since 2018 to modernize the world’s IP system and accelerate innovation,” said Erich Spangenberg, CEO and co-founder of IPwe. “We work closely with leading enterprise, government, university and SME partners to create the patent asset class which has measurable benefits for our partners and improves the human condition. The importance of Hyperledger in the transformation of this critical asset class cannot be understated.”

Kaleido 

“Our team began working with blockchain over a half decade ago, helping to shape the ecosystem and accelerate enterprise adoption,” said Steve Cerveny, Founder and CEO, Kaleido. “We are excited to work more closely with the top companies and projects in the Hyperledger community and to take a more active role in shaping the next generation of open blockchain technologies. We bring with us a singular focus for our core mission —  to radically simplify the creation of blockchain-based multi-party solutions, so that businesses, governments, and society can benefit.”

Surge

“Hyperledger opened the door to a whole new set of opportunities, making it possible to develop blockchain technology-based systems that could benefit enterprises,” said Marina Raicevic, co-founder of Surge. “In 2018, we started applying Hyperledger Fabric blockchain technology to supply chain data management in the field of fashion and luxury, which allows for empowered collaboration and also supports companies in reaching their sustainability goals. After some years of working with this technology, we aim to expand our solution to different industries. Surge is truly proud of being part of the Hyperledger community. We are happy to contribute, with our real use cases, to the possibilities this promising technology offers.”

About Hyperledger Global Forum 2021

Hyperledger Global Forum, the premier virtual enterprise blockchain event of 2021, is open to users and contributors of Hyperledger projects from around the globe looking to connect, network and collaborate. Hyperledger Global Forum, taking place June 8-10, will provide an opportunity to learn and understand various aspects of the ecosystem, including technical roadmaps, milestones and the latest uses and applications across industries and markets for Hyperledger projects and other related technologies. 

Event sponsors and partners include Accenture (Diamond and Diversity & Inclusion Sponsor), IBM (Diamond Sponsor), Filecoin Foundation (Platinum), Hitachi (Platinum), Siemens  (Platinum), Zuellig Pharma (Platinum), AWS (Silver), BTP (Silver), Chainyard (Silver), ConsenSys (Silver), KrypC (Silver & Wellness), DTTC (Closed Captioning and Translation), Walmart Global Tech (Parent & Caregiver Support), Crypto Open Patent Alliance – COPA (Birds of Feather), Black Women Blockchain Council (Community), Diversity in Blockchain (Community), Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (Community), Greater Blockchain Business Council (Community), Kerala Blockchain Academy – KBA (Community), Trusted Blockchain Initiatives (Community), Blocknews (Media Partner), Cointelegraph China (Media Partner), CoinSpeaker (Media Partner), CrytoNewsZ (Media Partner), Forekast (Media Partner), Ledger Insights (Media Partner) and Tuoluo Finance (Media Partner).  

About Hyperledger

Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration including leaders in finance, banking, healthcare, supply chains, manufacturing and technology. Hyperledger hosts many enterprise blockchain technology projects including distributed ledger frameworks, smart contract engines, client libraries, graphical interfaces, utility libraries and sample applications. All Hyperledger code is built publicly and available under the Apache license. The Linux Foundation hosts Hyperledger under the foundation. To learn more, visit: https://www.hyperledger.org/.

Jun 02
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Why Walmart Supports Hyperledger’s Parents and Caregiver Inclusion Support: Program for Kids

By Archana Sristy, Walmart Blog, Hyperledger Global Forum

The ongoing COVID pandemic has disrupted the global workforce in many ways. While many people are getting back to work, others who are ready to work are unable to do so because they need to care for family members impacted by COVID. They’ve had to make the difficult decision to step back from their jobs or careers in order to step up and be a caregiver — oftentimes because there was no other option. For many in this situation, transitioning back to a career in tech can be difficult after an extended break.

That is why Walmart Global Tech actively looks to support organizations and activities that share in our desire to help those with engineering backgrounds reenter the workforce. In fact, Walmart Global Tech is sponsoring the Parent and Caregiver Keynote Activity Scholarship at the 2021 Hyperledger Global Forum. 

A recent Fortune Magazine story reported workforce participation among women has dropped 57% and may not recover to pre-pandemic levels until 2024. We believe the technology industry needs more women, especially women of diverse backgrounds, to ensure that the technologies we develop and deploy better reflect the customers they serve. Filling this gap is particularly important in the emerging tech industry, where there is well documented gender disparity. In fact, in STEM fields, only 15.7% of engineers and architects are women. Hyperledger Global Forum presents a great opportunity for women to share new ideas and bring knowledge back to their organizations.

Sponsoring the Parent and Caregiver Keynote Activity Scholarship at the event aligns with similar programs within Walmart that create or expand opportunities for women in tech, such as our “returnship” program, Live Better U college degree program, internal “Women In Tech” community groups, sponsorship of the Women in Data Science conference, and more.

The Parent and Caregiver Keynote Activity Scholarship isn’t just for Walmart associates. It’s open to all registered attendees who are also juggling the responsibility of being a caregiver. During the premier enterprise blockchain event of the year, the program will provide engaging online activities — themed immersive mystery experiences — for children ages 5-12 so that parents or caregivers can attend the keynote activities on each day of this important global technical conference. While sponsoring childcare activities may seem a little out of place at a virtual blockchain conference, we know that even the little things like this can mean a lot, especially as associates are balancing the needs of family and career.

For more information or to register your child for the Parent and Caregiver Keynote Activity Scholarship, please click here.

Jun 01
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Meet me at Hyperledger Global Forum

By David Treat, Global Technology Incubation Lead and Global Blockchain Multiparty Systems Lead, Accenture Blog, Hyperledger Global Forum

I remember the first week of March 2020 well. It was a week filled with awkward elbow bump greetings followed by inspiring conversations and good times with some of my favorite people at the aptly named Corona Ranch. It was Hyperledger Global Forum. 

In the hallway chats that ensued after my keynote, Blockchain – What’s next?, there was a common sentiment that the technology was rapidly accelerating, and sense of confidence that we could apply these technologies to prepare the world for potential disruption.  

Those conversations were prescient, but who would have ever predicted just how long, broad and deep this global disruption would be? 

We didn’t fully imagine what was about to transpire, and yet, with the help of collaboration and technology, we continued moving forward.  

In the year since we last saw each other, we’ve made immense progress in inventing new forms of money, re-platforming financial services infrastructure, rearchitecting supply chains into resilient and secure supply networks, and pursuing self-managed digital identity.  

This confirms what I know to be true: Hyperledger is at the center of the blockchain ecosystem and you all are leading the way in building real technologies and production systems the world can use to rapidly transform how business is done for massive positive impact.  

The Hyperledger community has a long-standing vision for sharing infrastructure to solve real problems. If only they had already been deployed at scale when the pandemic hit. Now, the tech acceleration of the past year proves the world is ready to embrace the possibilities of the technologies we’ve been evangelizing to position most effectively for what comes next.  

Hyperledger Global Forum 2021 may look a little different than years past, but the immersive virtual experience will give us the chance to engage with even more people from our global community. We’ve all weathered this massive disruption together – never have I felt more excited to reconnect with you all, build on our existing momentum to solve global problems and roadmap the technical milestones we’ll collectively sprint towards in the year ahead.  

Pouring over this year’s lineup of sessions, I’m seeing the following themes come to the fore:  

  • collaborative approaches to coinnovation and interoperability  
  • blockchain endeavors to preserve our privacy and our planet; and,  
  • the future of finance, supply chains and healthcare. 

Here is a preview of some of the talks related to the above themes that I am particularly looking forward to attending:  

(Coinnovation) How to Create Thriving Ecosystems on Thursday, June 10, at 20:20-20:50 CEST, Accenture’s Melanie Cutlan will discuss different consortium methodologies and how to forge multiparty systems so your ecosystem can thrive long term. 

(Interoperability) Hyperledger Cactus Project Updates on Thursday, June 10, at 19:10-19:40 CEST, Accenture’s Peter Somogyvari and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.’s Shingo Fujimoto will introduce the Hyperledger project that is solving for interoperability by bridging blockchain infrastructures and constructing distributed management services. 

(Privacy) Digital ID: Understanding Perceptions and Expectations on Wednesday, June 9, at 20:20-20:50 CEST, Accenture’s Christine Leong and Alissa Worley will showcase insights from new research on what it will take to drive acceptance and demand for digital identity capabilities. 

(Planet) Oceans Plastics Recycling Solution using Hybrid Blockchain on Wednesday, June 9, at 09:40-10:10 CEST, Wipro Technologies’ Hitarshi Buch will demonstrate a blockchain sustainability initiative to incentivize plastic recycling ratings and change the trajectory of the estimated 86 million metric tons of plastic in our oceans. 

(Finance) Digital Currency Interoperability with Messages on Thursday, June 10, at 09:40-10:10 CEST, dlt.nyc’s Vipin Bharathan will discuss digital currencies, including central bank digital currency (CBDC) and challenges with interoperability between these systems. 

(Supply Chain) Rebuilding Supply Chains into Responsible Supply Networks on Thursday, June 10, at 18:40-19:10 CEST, Accenture’s Tom Fahey & Tal Viskin will explore how sustainability and conscientious consumption have become even more ingrained as top initiatives during the COVID-19 lockdown, and the blockchain-enabled supply network initiatives underway that are meeting those new demands. 

(Healthcare) Trading Partner Authentication and Drug Verification in the US Pharmaceutical Supply Chain on Tuesday, June 8, at 20:50-21:20 CEST, LedgerDomain’s Ben Taylor will share the results of a peer-reviewed study that tested ATP authentication and enhanced verification using Hyperledger Fabric to ensure non-counterfeit, safe and effective pharmaceutical drugs. 

I hope to see you at these sessions and networking events at Hyperledger Global Forum (June 8-10). With so much great content to choose from, you can use the search function to browse scheduled sessions by the topics that most interest you. If you haven’t registered yet, you can do so here. 

As I said after last year’s Hyperledger Global Forum, for me, Hyperledger is a family. It’s a place where I can access friends, experts and colleagues. It’s a place where I can have in-depth conversations, access incredible content, platforms, and share and hear new ideas. If you’re in the blockchain space, attending Hyperledger Global Forum is absolutely essential. 

You can visit with me and others from my talented team in the virtual Accenture booth, located in the Expo area. Bring your questions and we can connect live during the event. You can also learn more about Accenture’s work in this important space at Accenture.com/blockchain. 

May 13
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Hyperledger Welcomes Six New Members, Announces More Keynotes for Global Forum

By Hyperledger Announcements, Hyperledger Global Forum

Talks On Fighting Misinformation, the Future of Food, Blockchain Lessons Learned, Health Credentials and Travel, NFTs, CBDCs and Forbes Blockchain 50 in APAC to Take Center Stage

SAN FRANCISCO (May 13, 2021) – Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, today announced the latest line-up of members joining its global enterprise blockchain community. Six additional organizations, general members ConsenSys Health, Extrimian, Revelry Labs and UNA Blockchain and associate members Blockchain Education Network and Fujian Blockchain Association, are now part of the multi-venture, multi-stakeholder effort hosted at the Linux Foundation.

Additionally, Hyperledger announced a number of keynote speakers for Hyperledger Global Forum 2021 (HGF, #HyperledgerForum), the premier virtual enterprise blockchain event of 2021. HGF will run for three days (June 8-10) and take place in two segments each day, spaced across time zones, to reach its global community. Each region will have its own dedicated content and sessions, including keynotes for each day. 

Keynotes in the Asia Pacific/Europe segment (starting at 8:00 a.m. CEST) will include:

  • Marie Masserey, Head, Industry Architecture at IATA, who will discuss health credentials and international air travel in a Q+A with Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer at Evernym.
  • Michael del Castillo, associate editor at Forbes, who will host a discussion with companies from the Asia Pacific market that were selected for the 2021 Blockchain 50 covering the latest on their deployments. 

Those taking center stage during the North America/Europe segment (starting at 8:00 a.m. PDT) will include:

  • Jonathan Dotan, writer/producer on HBO’s SILICON VALLEY and a current fellow at Stanford and the USC Shoah Foundation, who will present on the Starling Framework for Data Integrity, a ground-breaking methodology for using open-source tools in the fight against the spread of misinformation and the looming threat of deep fakes. 
  • Mary Lacity, Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence in Sam M. Walton College of Business at The University of Arkansas and the author of 30 books, most recently Blockchain Fundamentals for the Internet of Value, who will share her insights on what we’ve learned so far about blockchain for business.
  • Frank Yiannas, Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), who will cover the role of DLT in the new era of Smarter Food Safety.

Further rounding out the programming, Hyperledger will also hold mainstage panels on NFTs and CBDCs.

Hyperledger has made diversity and inclusion a focus for Hyperledger Global Forum and has earned a CHAOSS D&I Event Badge for the event. Key initiatives include scholarships, programming for kids during keynotes, closed captioning and live translations to more than a dozen languages. 

“Hyperledger Global Forum is always an energizing event for our community and the enterprise blockchain industry,” said Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger, and Managing Director for Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “This year’s format has opened the door to a powerful mix of high impact speakers and talks and created the opportunity for a global audience unlike any we’ve had before. By joining now, this latest wave of new members further strengthens our community as we head into HGF and underscores the broad-based commitment to advancing and implementing Hyperledger technologies.”

New member quotes:

ConsenSys Health

“ConsenSys Health helps the healthcare industry operate Ethereum-based solutions for cybersecurity, compliance, privacy, bioethics and identity with the deep technical capabilities of ConsenSys to advance the healthcare industry,” said Heather Leigh Flannery, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ConsenSys Health. “ConsenSys Health is aligned with the Hyperledger community’s efforts to leverage converging innovations like blockchain, tokenization, zero-knowledge cryptography, and federated machine learning to advance immediate and long-term public health goals while preserving individual privacy.”

Extrimian

“We are thrilled to join the Hyperledger community and the Linux Foundation since both share our mission to facilitate blockchain adoption in the enterprise space,” said Guillermo Villanueva, CEO of Extrimian. “Extrimian was born after many years dealing with the complexity of developing real world blockchain applications for the enterprise segment. We realized that there was a missing piece that would facilitate not only the development and operation of decentralized apps, but also the integration to the rest of the technology that enterprises and governments already have. Today we deliver an integrated, simple and intuitive platform that supports RSK, Etherum and Hyperledger Besu among others directly out of the box. In the near future, we will add support for Hyperledger Aries, Ursa and further on we will add Fabric and Avalon. We are also featuring a Marketplace that will easily integrate reusable components from our ecosystem of partners. The final goal is to have a single API and integrated experience that hides the complexities of dealing with the increasing number of platforms and technologies we have in the blockchain space.”

Revelry Labs

“As our blockchain solutions grow and mature, we want the best support available in the industry, and that’s exactly what we get from the Hyperledger community,” said Luke Ledet, CTO of Revelry Labs. “As we continue to deliver enterprise-grade blockchain solutions across a wide range of industries, Hyperledger technologies have allowed us to move quickly and with confidence in this rapidly changing environment.”

UNA Blockchain

“We are thrilled to be joining the Hyperledger community and start working alongside such formidable minds to build a blockchain ecosystem capable of reshaping the tech landscape,” said Olivier Lombard, CEO of UNA Blockchain. “Una aims to harness emerging technologies to service both mankind and nature, and contribute to the decarbonization of the blockchain and automotive sectors.”

About Hyperledger Global Forum 2021

Hyperledger Global Forum, the premier virtual enterprise blockchain event of 2021, is open to users and contributors of Hyperledger projects from around the globe looking to connect, network and collaborate. Hyperledger Global Forum, taking place June 8-10, will provide an opportunity to learn and understand various aspects of the ecosystem, including technical roadmaps, milestones and the latest uses and applications across industries and markets for Hyperledger projects and other related technologies. 

Event sponsors and partners include Accenture (Diamond and Diversity & Inclusion Sponsor), IBM (Diamond Sponsor), BTP (Silver), Chainyard (Silver), ConsenSys (Silver), KrypC (Silver & Wellness), DTTC (Closed Captioning and Translation), Crypto Open Patent Alliance – COPA (Birds of Feather), Diversity in Blockchain (Diversity), CoinSpeaker (Media Partner), CrytoNewsZ (Media Partner) and Ledger Insights (Media Partner).  

About Hyperledger

Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration including leaders in finance, banking, healthcare, supply chains, manufacturing and technology. Hyperledger hosts many enterprise blockchain technology projects including distributed ledger frameworks, smart contract engines, client libraries, graphical interfaces, utility libraries and sample applications. All Hyperledger code is built publicly and available under the Apache license. The Linux Foundation hosts Hyperledger under the foundation. To learn more, visit: https://www.hyperledger.org/.

Apr 27
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Road the Hyperledger Global Forum – Part III

By Hyperledger Blog, Hyperledger Global Forum

The third Hyperledger Global Forum (HGF) is coming up quickly (June 8-10). While this year HGF will be virtual, we’ve gathered in the past in Basel, Switzerland, and Phoenix, Arizona, and are looking forward to meeting in person again in 2022. 

One of the big goals for this year is to make Hyperledger Global Forum as successful and welcoming as past events, even in its virtual format. To help keep us our eyes on that prize, we asked speakers from past events about their involvement and experience at previous HGFs. (We’ve heard from so many HGF speaking alums that we’ve created a three part “Road the Hyperledger Global Forum” series. See Part I and Part II of this series.)

The great thing about our community is that it’s home to a mix of technologists, developers, business users and innovators from starts-ups, enterprises, solution providers, research labs and universities from around the world. And they all have a voice at Hyperledger Global Forum. 

Read on to learn what brought this group of past speakers from our extensive community to HGF and what made the event stand out to them. They also share updates on their projects and use cases and on the trends and technologies on their radars now. 

Tell us a little bit about why you chose to speak at HGF and what your goal was.

Gigo Joseph, Chainyard: “Chainyard is a general member of Hyperledger, and we are honored to share our experiences at HGF with other members in the past few years. A good number of blockchain solutions that are developed by Chainyard are using Hyperledger, specifically Fabric. Hyperledger Global Forum is not just about enterprise blockchain protocol discussions. It is an event to learn about new ways of doing business with blockchain, its challenges, opportunity to meet potential partners and build relationships in highly interactive meetings and workshops. We find that sharing our experiences help us to stay motivated, get recognized, increase our chances to attract top talents and most importantly help us grow.”

Peter Somogyvari, Accenture: “HGF seemed like a great opportunity to meet like-minded people interested in enterprise DLTs. It also seemed like a great venue to gather feedback from the industry regarding the Cactus project (which was a lab called Blockchain Integration Framework at the time).” 

Sean O’Kelly, MEI: “Collaboration, sharing, and community.”

Stephen Curran, Cloud Compass Computing Inc.: “We’re building communities around Indy and Aries and their application for verifiable credentials, and HGF is a great place to get motivated people the information they need.”

Toshiya Cho, Hitachi, Ltd.: “To dispatch information as a governing board member to increase the recognition of Hyperledger as well as promises and challenges for enterprise blockchain.”

Tell us a little about your experience speaking and attending HGF.

Carlos Alberto Castro Iragorri, Universidad del Rosario: “We were able to get interesting feedback and attention to the project. After our participation, we received a lot of emails and contacted a lot of groups with similar interest.”

Douglas Johnson-Poensgen, Circulor: “Very good – engaged audience and good Q&A afterwards. Significant follow up including new customers who were in the audience.”

Gero Dittmann, IBM: “HGF provided valuable insights into the trends in blockchains for business. Our own presentation on a lightweight IoT client for Fabric was very well attended and we received great feedback.”

Waqas Mirza, Avanza Innovation: “It was a truly remarkable experience – learning about innovations taking place in different parts of the world and meeting some very smart people in the community.”

What is the most memorable part of attending and speaking at HGF?

Alejandro Vicente Grabovetsky, AID:Tech: “Presenting and being featured for a workshop was definitely an honour and highlight.”

Bharat Gupta, Infosys Consulting: “The closing session where you get a summary view of all the sessions as well as meeting with colleagues and your clients.” 

Carlos: “The opportunity to participate with projects at different stages. We were at a very early stage but managed to get feedback and learn from the experience of others.”

Gero: “I was introduced to self-sovereign identity (SSI) and Hyperledger Indy, which motivated me to study the technology more deeply and I became an advocate for decentralized identity.”

Gigo: “HGF was a different experience for me, indeed. The entire crowd with a single focus of refining the enterprise blockchain ecosystem was a memorable experience. But the memories of HGF did not stop at the end of the event; it started from there. We recently won a new client who attended our 2018 HGF talk in Switzerland. When asked how they found out, the client was able to recollect our presentation two years back and was able to map his current problem to the solutions we presented. The most memorable feeling is that people remember us even after two years!”

Venkata Siva Vijayendra Bhamidipati: “Speaking with people regarding their use cases for blockchain tech. Whether it was an aid disbursing team in the UN, an airline company in Russia, a small municipality in Canada that used Hyperledger Indy for SSI, it was really memorable and exciting to see blockchain technology being used so widely and with such focus and precision.”

How has your project/use case with Hyperledger tech progressed since you spoke at HGF? 

Alejandro: “Nephos, my python library for deploying Fabric to Kubernetes, got into Hyperledger Labs, but was then archived for lack of maintainers (as I had to resign as a maintainer).”

Bharat: “We are seeing uptick in demand in 2021 after the pandemic year of 2020.”

Douglas: “Volvo project evolved into a full battery passport with CO2 tracking now involving two other car manufacturers. Also a new project with a different customer as a direct result of the talk. Our collaboration with Oracle continues.”

Venkata: “After the talk I gave at HGF 2018, my team and I built upon those constructs and invented a new Blockchain Consensus Protocol called “PPoM” – Predictive Proof of Metrics and published it as an IEEE paper in BCCA 2019 . We also had a slew of patent filings, many based on the work presented in this talk.”

Waqas: “We presented a project that was already delivered to the City of Dubai. Since HGF, Avanza has implemented and delivered more than a dozen blockchain solutions for tier 1 government entities and regulators in the GCC region.”

What new enterprise blockchain topics, technologies or trends are on your radar?

Peter: “CBDCs! And of course (as a maintainer of Cactus) I’m most interested in interoperability topics.”

Sean: “Identity on the blockchain”

Stephen: “The big focus we have is mainstreaming the use of verifiable credentials — issuers, verifiers, wallets and registries of issuers.”

Toshiya: “Information sharing among multiple industries (even with competitors) is raising interests in Japanese market and a consortium called NEXCHAIN has been founded and currently 33 companies (most of them are major) joining. The more participants and stakeholders, consensus building would be tougher to expand and quickly deliver services. And interoperability would be a key issue for the environment with multiple frameworks.”

Hyperledger Global Forum, taking place June 8-10, will provide an opportunity to learn and understand various aspects of the ecosystem, including technical roadmaps, milestones and the latest uses and applications across industries and markets for Hyperledger projects and other related technologies. 

To register for the virtual event, go here.

Apr 20
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Road the Hyperledger Global Forum – Part II

By Hyperledger Blog, Hyperledger Global Forum

The third Hyperledger Global Forum (HGF) is coming up quickly (June 8-10). While this year HGF will be virtual, we’ve gathered in the past in Basel, Switzerland, and Phoenix, Arizona, and are looking forward to meeting in person again in 2022. 

One of the big goals for this year is to make Hyperledger Global Forum as successful and welcoming as past events, even in its virtual format. To help keep us our eyes on that prize, we asked speakers from past events about their involvement and experience at previous HGFs. (We’ve heard from so many HGF speaking alums that we’ve created a three-part “Road the Hyperledger Global Forum” series. See Part I here and stay tuned for Part III.)

The great thing about our community is that it’s home to a mix of technologists, developers, business users and innovators from starts-ups, enterprises, solution providers, research labs and universities from around the world. And they all have a voice at Hyperledger Global Forum. 

Read on to learn what brought this group of past speakers from our extensive community to HGF and what made the event stand out to them. They also share updates on their projects and use cases and on the trends and technologies on their radars now. 

Tell us a little bit about why you chose to speak at HGF and what your goal was.

Anthony Lusardi, Digital Asset/Daml: “I was demonstrating some technology we’re developing at DA that allows for seamless interoperation of applications across different distributed ledgers. The goal was to expose the audience to this new possibility.”

Michal Piechocki, BR-AG (Business Reporting – Advisory Group): “We believed from the beginning that our participation will be a bi-directional exchange. The opportunity to bounce our ideas with such a group of experts were coupled with our belief that blockchain should solve real economy problems. And we brought a major one to the table: how do you identify that an individual claiming credentials related to a business is officially entitled to act on its behalf? This issue extends into a broad regulatory set of use cases. We were thrilled to witness an audience eagerly debating pros and cons of the presented solution. Further discussions on all relevant topics including privacy only enriched our takeaways.” 

Rajesh Dhuddu, Tech Mahindra: “My goal was to tell attendees and others about blockchain chain use cases that have not only attained scale but also delivered good impact for the common man on the street.”

Fernando Martin Garcia Del Angel, Aabo Tech: “I was interested in sharing my experience, success stories, and pitfalls of implementing blockchain technologies on government applications in Mexico. I also wanted to give a third-country perspective on the challenges of implementing bleeding-edge technologies and the ways the open-source community could make accessing documentation easier for these communities.”

Tell us a little about your experience speaking and attending HGF.

Hart Montgomery, Fujitsu Laboratories of America: “The best part of HGF–both speaking and attending–is getting feedback from the community. Are we building the proper tools that solve the problems people want to solve? Are there bottlenecks stopping development or adoption? These are some of the important questions we can find the answers to in the community.”

Isaac Kunkel, Chainyard: “The speaking engagement was good from all aspects. The facility and logistics were good. Audience (more than 125) was good. We had more than one dozen people stick around for questions and post-event engagement. Happy to say we can trace a direct thread back from a large project directly to HL Global Forum speaking opportunity.”

Manjunath A C, Intel Technology: “It was really a proud moment for me to be delivering the talk at such a huge event that is a gathering for attendees from across geographies. I learned about various Hyperledger projects and business use cases built upon them that would be difficult for me to explore all by myself. It was also a platform to exchange our thoughts or views on technologies.”

Phil Windley, Brigham Young University: “I enjoy that while everyone is interested in using ledger technology, there are lots of different use cases and I can broaden my knowledge about how people are using them.” 

What is the most memorable part of attending and speaking at HGF?

Anthony: “Talking with attendees. I got to learn a lot from them and I even met someone who we took on as an intern at DA and they’re now working for us full time!”

Fernando: “Getting to know so many wonderful people inside and outside of the community and being able to learn from their experience.”

Michal: “Meeting the experts at tables in breakout/lunch/vendors area. Open-minded conversations providing motivation, context, discussing difficulties and exploring possible solutions felt invigorating proving that HGF is a true open source community.” 

Waaleed El Sayed, sonono: “The huge public that attended my talk!”

How has your project/use case with Hyperledger tech progressed since you spoke at HGF? 

Kari Korpela, DBE Core Ltd: “Just recently we have launched our solution DBE Core Platform (Hyperledger combined with Open Peppol UBL standard) and a user interface DBE Core Portal. Additionally, we established DBE Lab as a testbed for integration (Linux Foundation member). We were here chosen as one of the most promising blockchain companies in Europe by Blockpool 2020-2021.”

Manjunath: “Since the HGF participation, Avalon has made significant progress with respect to scalability by segregating the key generation mechanism from workload execution. Wipro demonstrated a POC for cold chain for pharma use case in association with quorum blockchain. Other POCs with reputed organizations are still undergoing.”

Rajesh: “Progressed very well. Forbes recognized Tech Mahindra for its implementation and impact in 2021 Forbes Blockchain 50 companies.”

Waaleed: “I won the implementation for new projects: one for the government of Basel in Switzerland and another one from Siemens Switzerland. I also give training to prepare developers for CHFA & CHFD certifications.”

What new enterprise blockchain topics, technologies or trends are on your radar?

Hart: “More efficient zero knowledge proof systems, faster consensus algorithms, and post-quantum cryptography are some things that interest me.”

Isaac: “IOT/AI/ML/Blockchain intersection, healthcare industry applications, supply chain transparency/security are getting more attention.”

Kari: “Hyperledger for supply chain data exchange”

Phil: “New SSI technologies for creating faster, decentralized solutions to the problems of internet identity”

Hyperledger Global Forum, taking place June 8-10, will provide an opportunity to learn and understand various aspects of the ecosystem, including technical roadmaps, milestones and the latest uses and applications across industries and markets for Hyperledger projects and other related technologies. 

To register for the virtual event, go here.

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