Weekend Update

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Open Source Summit Europe

The opening day of Open Source Summit Europe (October 26-29) features two sessions focused on blockchain and Hyperledger technologies in action: 

• Si Chen, president of Open Source Strategies, will discuss “Fighting Climate Change with Blockchain and Open Source” at 12 PM GMT, Monday October 26. The session will include highlights of work by the Hyperledger Climate Action and Accounting Special Interest Group.
• Hyperledger’s Marta Geater-Piekarska will moderate the panel “Leveraging blockchain to drive supply chain resilience and accountability in the face of climate change and other disruptions” at 13:00 GMT, Monday, October 26. Panelists include Chainyard’s Gigo Joseph of Chainyard and Douglas Johnson-Poensgen of Circulor. #HyperledgerSupplyChain

More details about Open Source Summit Europe (#ossummit) are here.

Blockchain Revolution Global

Blockchain Revolution Global (#BRG2020) aims to bring together leading thinkers, builders, and pioneers to accelerate the blockchain revolution. During the week-long event (October 26-30), Hyperledger executives will help shape the discussion on two panels:

• On Thursday, October 29, at 10:10 a.m. EDT, Daniela Barbosa will speak in a session on Consortia & Industry Working Groups.
• On Friday, October 30, at 9:30 am EDT, Brian Behlendorf will be part of the “Luminaries” panel. 

For more details about Blockchain Revolution Global, go here.

Webinar: What is Trust Your Supplier?

Tune in on Thursday, October 29, at 10:00 AM EDT to learn more about how Trust Your Supplier solves supplier information management challenges in onboarding and lifecycle management. #HyperledgerSuppyChain

Register here.

CoinDesk Webinar – Governance, standards and interoperability: Getting past the roadblocks to peer-to-peer financial transactions – now available on demand

If you missed this webinar with experts on three different Hyperledger DLT platforms talking about roadblocks to peer-to-peer financial transactions and comparing notes about current and future token-based solutions from around the world (there were some technical difficulties), you can watch it on demand here.

Virtual Meetups

• Tuesday, October 27, at 13:30 UTC / 19:00 IST: Hyperledger Kochi hosts KochiOrgBook demo and discussion
• Wednesday, October 28, at 22:00 UTC / 17:00 COT: Hyperledger Latinoamerica hosts “Casos de Uso Empresariales con Hyperledger: Boston Scientific” (Spanish)
• Thursday, October 29, at 17:00 UTC / 18:00 CET: Hyperledger Sweden hosts “Blockchain for Entrepreneurs – Introduction to Blockchain and its 27 use cases”
• Friday, October 30, at 8:00 UTC / 19:00 AEST: Hyperledger Sydney hosts “Hyperledger Performance Improvements (Presentation, Demo and Discussion)”
• Saturday, October 31, at 8:30 UTC / 14:00 IST: Hyperledger Bangalore hosts “Blockchain Techfest 2020”

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here. 

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

CoinDesk Webinar: Governance, standards and interoperability – Getting past the roadblocks to peer-to-peer financial transactions   

Whether you are eyeing retail or wholesale CBDC opportunities or are looking at digital wallets, loyalty programs or other implementations of token-based transactions, you’ve no doubt realized that the technology infrastructure is just one part of the puzzle. It’s well documented that distributed ledger technologies can deliver on the mechanics of peer-to-peer transactions. The roadblocks are creating an ecosystem with a level of transparency and security that consumers, regulators and companies trust. The closer you move to central banks and fiat currencies, the higher the barriers to buy-in and deployment.

In this panel discussion, taking place Tuesday, October 20, at 11:00 am EDT, experts on three different Hyperledger DLT platforms will address these issues and compare notes about current and future token-based solutions from around the world. Get more details here.

Hyperledger Climate Action and Accounting Special Interest Group Guest Speaker: Jürg Füssler, Climate Ledger Initiative

Dial into the Climate Action and Accounting SIG meeting to learn more about how the Climate Ledger Initiative is addressing the pressing challenge of climate change with one of the world’s most promising technological innovations: blockchain and distributed ledger technology combined with other innovative information technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the use of remote sensing.

For more information on the meeting, which is Tuesday, October 20, 2020, at 8 AM PDT, go here.

Webinar: Unsolicited Commercial Communication (UCC) 

Hear from Rajesh Dhudda of Tech Mahindra about a Plug-n-Play solution, built on Hyperledger Fabric, to tackle the large-scale UCC (Unsolicited Commercial Communication) or spam call problem in India. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) acknowledges UCC these calls are a major nuisance to telecom subscribers across the country and is a growing menace that needs to be tackled with immediate effect. Learn more details about the blockchain solution that has been successfully deployed across three major telcos in India, reaching >50% market, as well as the steps Tech Mahindra is taking towards bringing the solution to the U.S. market.

Tune on Wednesday, October 21, at 10:00 am EDT. For more information and to register, go here.

Blockchain Pulse Webcast: Blockchain State of the Union for Developers and Technical Leaders

Hyperleger’s Brian Behlendorf will be part of a discussion led by Mark Parzygnat of IBM on what developers should understand and know about blockchain. The conversation will focus on how blockchain, and specifically Hyperledger Fabric, is being used successfully in many industries. Additional speakers will include Steve O’Grady, founder of RedMonk, and Russell Schwartz, part of the Payments Product Management team at TIAA, who will share his experience creating a blockchain solution working with the IBM Blockchain platform. 

To get more information or register for the webcast, which is Wednesday, October 21, 2020, at 11:00 AM EDT, go here.

Virtual Meetups

• Monday, October 19, at 22:00 UTC / 17:00 UTC -5: Hyperledger Latinoamerica hosts “Casos de Uso Empresariales con Hyperledger: IBM” (Spanish)
• Tuesday, October 20, at 15:30 UTC / 11:30 EDT: Hyperledger NYC hosts “Tackling the Hurdles of Enterprise Blockchain”
• Wednesday, October 21, at 13:30 UTC / 19:00 IST: Hyperledger Kochi hosts KochiOrgBook demo and discussion
• Friday, October 23, at 13:00 UTC / 15:00 CEST: Hyperledger Sweden hosts “Online Tech Study Circle”

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here. 

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Webinar: Optimizing supplier onboarding assessment processes through SSI

In this presentation, Luigi Riva, head of product for Swisscom Blockchain, will show a solution for supplier assessment and onboarding. This process can be optimized using Self-Sovereign Identity capabilities. In the course of supplier assessment processes, suppliers need to disclose their audits, policies and operative processes, so that their customers are capable to analyze and assess the supplier risk through a validation of the supplier compliance data. Through the standardization of supplier onboarding processes and using SSI, the Swisscom solution allows suppliers to transport data and their customers can easily validate and trust the authenticity of it.

Tune on Wednesday, October 14, at 10:00 am EDT. For more information and to register, go here.

Hyperledger Identity Working Group guest speaker: Lal Chandran from iGrant.io on MyData operators

This talk will be an explanation of MyData operators, which are actors that provide infrastructure for human-centric personal data management and governance. There were 16 organisations awarded the inaugural status of a MyData operator, including iGrant.io. The MyData Operator 2020 Award recognises operators of human-centric infrastructure for personal data management and sharing. 

The meeting is on Wednesday, October 14, at 12 noon EDT (16:00 UTC). Find more details here.

Hyperledger Developer Newsletter

Hyperledger now has a technical newsletter aimed at developers and engineers. To get the latest on Hyperledger project updates, features and milestones, sign up here.

Virtual Meetups

• Saturday, October 10, at 16:00 UTC / 16:00 GMT: Hyperledger Senegal hosts “ASK US anything about Blockchains” (French)
• Tuesday, October 13, at 16:00 UTC / 18:00 CET: Hyperledger Vienna hosts “Identitäts-Blockchains für digitale Identitäten” (German)
• Thursday, October 15, at 16:00 UTC / 12:00 EDT: Hyperledger Washington DC hosts “Simplify Deployment of Production-grade Blockchain Networks Using Blockchain Automation Framework (BAF)”
• Thursday, October 15, at 16:00 UTC / 12:00 EDT: Hyperledger Boston hosts “Deploy and manage Hyperledger Fabric networks and applications with consortia.io”

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here. 

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Webinar: Tackling Scalability and Moving into Production

While DLTs are no longer a mystery to most enterprises, we still have not yet figured out how to build and scale production grade projects. It is easy to build a POC, but moving to the real world with real customers is a whole different issue. Moreover, the young age of the DLT space shows in lack of tooling. In this webinar, experts from Simbachain will explain how to use SIMBA, a smart contract as a service and blockchain innovation platform to rapidly design, build and scale production DLT applications using Hyperledger Fabric. The centerpiece of the presentation will be a live demo.

Tune on Wednesday, October 7, at 10:00 am EDT. For more information and to register, go here.

Case Study: American Association of Insurance Services’ regulatory data solution, openIDL  

Learn more about how AAIS aligned insurers and regulators with the Hyperledger Fabric-based openIDL data reporting network in this new case study.

Virtual Meetups

• Saturday, October 3, at 13:00 UTC / 15:00 CEST: Hyperledger Sweden hosts “Online Certification Study Circle”
• Saturday, October 10, at 12:00 UTC / 12:00 GMT: Hyperledger Senegal hosts “ASK US anything about Blockchains” (French)

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here. 

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Blockchain for Social Impact And Sustainability Virtual Conference

During this virtual conference, hear from a line-up of experts about how they are using  innovative technologies and, especially blockchain, to implement processes, activities, and business practices that advance the principles of sustainability and consequent social impact.  

The conference kicks off on Wednesday, September 30, at 9 a.m. EDT. Go here to get more details. 

Webinar: Umbra – Challenges with Hyperledger Fabric simulation and debugging of applications

This webinar showcases Umbra, an emulation tool for Hyperledger blockchains. Raphael Vincente Rosa will introduce attendees to Umbra and help them get familiar with installing Umbra and getting their first Fabric network up and running. Learn how to do simple examinations of the network layout and packet flows and some simple debugging to confirm that the network is running. There will also be explanations of how to use Umbra’s network fuzzing features and how to scale to multiple servers. Additionally, there will be a discussion of this year’s Umbra-related Hyperledger mentorship projects.

Tune on Wednesday, September 30, at 10:00 am EDT. For more information and to register, go here.

Case Study: LedgerDomain’s solution for the pharmaceutical supply chain

Learn more about how LedgerDomain’s Hyperledger Fabric-based BRUINchain improves tracking and tracing of prescription drugs in this new case study.

Virtual Meetups

• Saturday, September 26, at 13:00 UTC / 15:00 CEST: Hyperledger Sweden hosts “Online Certification Study Circle”
• Saturday, September 26, at 10:00 UTC / 13:00 GMT +3: Hyperledger Riyadh hosts “Blockchain كيفية تحديد الحاجة إلى شبكة البلوك شين” (Arabic)
• Wednesday, September 30, at 22:00 UTC / 17:00 CDT: Hyperledger Latinoamerica hosts “Blockchain en el Cambio Climático y el Mercado de Energía” (Spanish)
• Wednesday, September 30, at 9:30 UTC / 18:30 JST: 9月30日 オンライン開催 Hyperledger Tokyo Meetup (Japanese)
• Friday, October 2, at 17:00 UTC / 11:00 MDT: Hyperledger Denver hosts “Can The Public Sector Benefit From Blockchain?”

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here. 

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

2020 Forbes Blockchain 50 Symposium

Forbes will be honoring the companies on the 2020 Forbes Blockchain 50 list with a free event on Tuesday, September 22, at 2:00 pm EDT. The virtual gathering will include a pair of roundtable discussions with key industry leaders about profitable strategies for moving forward in the new decade. Hyperledger’s Daniela Barbosa will take part in the panel “Infrastructure Players: Smart Strategies for Building on Blockchain.” 

For more information and to register, go here.

Telecom Special Interest Group Discussion: Using Hyperledger Fabric to Fight Spam Calls in India

All are welcome to join Tech Mahindra’s Rajesh Dhuddu for a presentation and discussion about a plug-n-play solution to curb spam calls, built on Hyperledger Fabric, that is deployed by three major telcos in India. The talk is hosted by the Hyperledger Telecom Special Interest Group (SIG).

Tune in on Thursday, September 24, at 9 a.m. PDT. Go here for more information. 

Blockchain Developer Course en Español 

The Hyperledger Latinoamérica Chapter continues its Spanish language Hyperledger Fabric training course series with sessions this week on use of private data in permissioned networks (September 19) and implementation and use of metrics with Hyperledger Caliper (September 24). 

For more details and the full schedule, go here. 

Virtual Meetups

• Saturday, September 19, at 13:00 UTC / 15:00 CEST: Hyperledger Sweden hosts “Online Certification Study Circle”
• Tuesday, September 22, at 17:00 UTC / 11:00 MDT: Hyperledger Denver hosts “Can The Public Sector Benefit From Blockchain?”
• Thursday, September 24, at 1:00 UTC on Sep 25 / 18:00 PDT: Hyperledger Eugene hosts “Hyperledger Fabric, Java and Performance”
• Friday, September 25, at 22:00 UTC / 18:00 EDT: Hyperledger Toronto hosts “The Future of Digital Identities : Hyperledger Aries”

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here. 

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Webinar: Introduction to Minifabric and How to Use It

Minifabric is the tool to help you set up a Fabric network easily and quickly. It also helps application developers with needed connection profiles and wallets when a Fabric network is up and running. In this talk, Tong Li from IBM will introduce to the audience Minifabric and also demonstrate how to develop go applications using these profiles and monitor the Fabric network using Hyperledger Explorer.

Tune in on Wednesday, September 16, at 10 a.m. EDT. Go here for more information. 

Case Study: CULedger’s MemberPass™ – a permanent, portable digital identity solution for credit union members

Get the details on how CULedger protects credit unions from fraud with Hyperledger Indy in this new case study.

Blockchain Developer Course en Español 

The Hyperledger Latinoamérica Chapter continues its Spanish language Hyperledger Fabric training course series with sessions this week on digital identity with PKI services on Hyperledger Fabric (September 12) and distributed orderer with RAFT (September 17). 

For more details and the full schedule, go here. 

Virtual Meetups

• Saturday, September 12, at 12:00 UTC / 15:00 EAT: Hyperledger Nairobi hosts “Hyperledger Africa Blockchain Modelling Session: Part II”
• Saturday, September 12, at 13:00 UTC / 15:00 CEST: Hyperledger Sweden hosts “Online Certification Study Circle”
• Monday, September 14, at 17:00 UTC / 10:00 PDT: Hyperledger San Francisco hosts “Hyperledger Performance Improvements (demos and discussion)”
• Wednesday, September 16, at 22:00 UTC / 17:00 CDT: Hyperledger Austin hosts “The Impact of Cryptocurrency Adoption on Government”
• Friday, September 18, at 12:00 UTC / 17:50 IST: Hyperledger Pune hosts “Blockchain Hype to Production Networks: Global perspective -Local experience”

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here.

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate.

Climate Action and Accounting SIG Discussion: Designing out Waste and Pollution with Blockchain

All are welcome to join Carsten Stöcker of Spherity GmbH for a presentation and discussion on  designing out waste and pollution and using blockchain to create a system for full disclosure and accounting of emissions. The talk is presented by the Hyperledger Action and Accounting Special Interest Group (SIG). 

Tune in on Tuesday, September 8, at 8 a.m. PDT. Go here for more information. 

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Blockchain Developer Course en Español 

The Hyperledger Latinoamérica Chapter continues its Spanish language Hyperledger Fabric training course series with sessions this week on API Rest with NODEJS (September 5) and specific blockchain and Fabric concepts (September 10). 

For more details and the full schedule, go here. 

Virtual Meetups

• Saturday, September 5, at 13:00 UTC / 15:00 CEST: Hyperledger Sweden hosts “Online Certification Study Circle”
• Tuesday, September 8, at 9:30 UTC / 15:00 IST: Hyperledger Gwalior hosts “Let’s Talk about Hyperledger”
• Wednesday, September 9, at 16:00 UTC / 12:00 EDT: Hyperledger Boston hosts “Indicio.tech – Identity Blockchain leveraging Indy, Aries”

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here. 

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate.

Webinar: Creating an API-first settlement solution 

On September 2 at 10:00 a.m. EDT, join Gal Hochberg of Clear for a discussion about tackling the major challenges for enterprise readiness and usability in the context of the telecom industry and specifics on creating an API-first settlement solution.

Go here to register for the free session.

Blockchain Summit Global

Catch two days of business, innovation and new technologies content at Blockchain Summit Global (September 3-4). Attend the sessions, which will include more than 40 speakers presenting real cases, for free online. And don’t miss Hyperledger’s Marta Piekarska-Geater’s presentation on “Hyperledger Greenhouse and its best applications” on September 3 at at 2:30 p.m. BST. 

Go here to register.

Blockchain Developer Course en Español 

The Hyperledger Latinoamérica Chapter continues its Spanish language training course series with sessions this week on smart contracts (August 29) and wallets and tokens in Java (September 3). 

For more details and the full schedule, go here. 

Virtual Meetups

• Saturday, August 29, at 13:00 UTC / 15:00 CEST: Hyperledger Sweden Study Circle hosts “Hyperledger Ordering Services”
• Saturday, August 29, at 15:00 UTC / 17:00 EET: Hyperledger Libya Meetup Launch Event
• Wednesday, September 2, at 16:30 UTC / 11:30 UTC -5: Hyperledger Latinoamerica hosts “Casos de uso blockchain empresariales: Revolucionando la cadena de suministro con Telefónica” (Spanish)

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here. 

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate.

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New Case Study: How Soramitsu Helped Modernize the National Bank of Cambodia’s Retail Payment System

Get the details on a new Hyperledger Iroha-based digital payment system that Soramitsu helped develop for Cambodia’s central bank in this new case study.

Blockchain Developer Course en Español 

The Hyperledger Latinoamérica Chapter continues its Spanish language training course series with sessions this week on Docker and containers (August 22) and Hyperledger Fabric networks (August 28). 

For more details and the full schedule, go here. 

Virtual Meetups

• Saturday, August 22, at 10:00 UTC / 15:30 IST: Hyperledger India Chapter hosts “Asia Pacific Online Certification Study Circle”
• Saturday, August 22, at 13:00 UTC / 15:00 CEST: Hyperledger Sweden hosts “Online Certification Study Circle”
• Saturday, August 29, at 15:00 UTC / 17:00 EET: Hyperledger Libya Meetup Launch Event

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here.