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Consensus 2017
May 22, 2017 @ 8:00 am - May 24, 2017 @ 5:00 pm EDT
Hyperledger members and staff are very excited to share details about deployments and innovation happening within our community at Consensus 2017 in NYC.
There are four ways to engage with Hyperledger members and staff at Consensus:
- Get to know Hyperledger members and staff on Monday May 22 in our Mini-Summit (View Monday’s Agenda)
- Be inspired with demos, talks and give-aways on Tuesday in our Mini Summit (View Tuesday’s Agenda) and at the Hyperledger booth
- Build with Hyperledger technologies at the Building Blocks Hackathon
- Learn all about Hyperledger business blockchains in the wild throughout the Consensus agenda
Get to Know Hyperledger Monday in the Belasco room on Floor 5
Hyperledger will host a mini-summit in the Belasco room on Floor 5 Monday and Tuesday. On Monday, we will feature a line up of leaders from the Hyperledger community who will answer all your questions about Hyperledger. Talks will cover topics like why being part of the Linux Foundation essential to Hyperledger’s mission of creating sustainable industry-standard business blockchain technologies, the role security plays in our development processes, how our umbrella strategy that includes diverse approaches to business blockchain technology works, and much more.
Monday’s line-up
Be Inspired Tuesday in the Belasco room on Floor 5 and in the Hyperledger Booth
Tuesday in the Hyperledger mini-summit be inspired by leading practitioners actively solving business and humanitarian problems using blockchain technologies. Ashish Gadnis with BanQu will share how blockchain is saving lives. Daimler will share how they use blockchain technologies, you’ll hear from Norbloc on KYC, IntellectEU on streamlining asset transactions, Huawei will share more about blockchain in telecoms, and more.
Tuesday’s line-up
| Time | Presentation | Speaker |
| 10:30am – 11:00am | Telecom and Blockchain – Practice from Huawei Software | Dr. Qiuling Pan (Huawei) |
| 11:00am – 11:30am | Redefining the KYC process using a permissioned and legally compliant blockchain platform | Astyanax Kanakakis (Norbloc) |
| 11:30am – 12:00pm | Blockchain for Good Panel | Alissa Worley (Accenture), Shailee Adinolfi (BanQu), Greg Bawden (Leading Directions) |
| 12:15pm – 1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30pm – 2:00pm | Hyperledger in Action: Deploying and Managing Global Blockchain Networks | Duncan Johnston-Watt (Cloudsoft) |
| 2:00pm – 2:30pm | How an industrial enterprise involves Blockchain | Eva-Marie Scholz and Jonas von Malottki (Daimler) |
| 2:30pm – 3:00pm | Utilize Blockchain Platform to Reverse Carbon Emissions in China | Cao Yin (Energy Blockchain Labs) |
| 3:00pm – 3:30pm | Streamline Asset transactions through Reconciliation, Matching and Resolution among multiple parties | Dirk Avau (IntellectEU), Frank Roessig (Telindus; Proximus Group) |
| 3:30pm – 4:00pm | Blockchain for business and regulation, how Deloitte uses Hyperledger for solution centers and labs |
Tanmoy Jadhav & Antonio Senatore (Deloitte)
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Also Monday and Tuesday at the Hyperledger booth #20/21, located on Floor 6, members intellectEU and Soramitsu will give talks and demos of real world blockchain deployments running Hyperledger technologies. We’ll also have cool new T-shirts, giveaways and raffles.
| Monday Booth Demo Times | Presentation | Speaker |
| 11:30am – 11:50am | Deploying Hyperledger Fabric on Kubernetes with Cloudsoft AMP | Duncan Johnston-Watt, Andrew Kennedy, Mike Zaccardo (Cloudsoft) |
| 11:55am – 12:15pm | Connect A Cloud: Connecting orgs together on Hyperledger Fabric on hosted cloud providers of your choice. | Nick Gaski, Mihir Shah and Mark Parzygnat (IBM) |
| 1:25pm – 1:45pm | Hyperledger Iroha KYC/user Identity and the Byacco Local Digital Currency in use at University of Aizu in Fukushima | Makoto Takemiya (Soramitsu) |
| 1:50pm – 2:10pm | Streamlined Asset Transactions Through Reconciliation, Matching and Resolution Among Multiple Parties | Frank Roessig , Telindus (Proximus group) and Dirk Avau (IntellectEU) |
| Tuesday Booth Demo Times | Presentation | Speaker |
| 10:25am – 10:45am | Deploying Hyperledger Fabric on Kubernetes with Cloudsoft AMP | Duncan Johnston-Watt, Andrew Kennedy, Mike Zaccardo (Cloudsoft) |
| 11:30am – 11:50am | Streamlined Asset Transactions Through Reconciliation, Matching and Resolution Among Multiple Parties | Frank Roessig, Telindus (Proximus group) and Dirk Avau (IntellectEU) |
| 11:55am – 12:15pm | Hyperledger Iroha KYC/user Identity and the Byacco Local Digital Currency in use at University of Aizu in Fukushima | Makoto Takemiya (Soramitsu) |
| 1:30pm – 1:50pm | Connect A Cloud: Connecting orgs together on Hyperledger Fabric on hosted cloud providers of your choice. | Nick Gaski, Mihir Shah and Mark Parzygnat (IBM) |
Building Blocks Hackathon
Hyperledger is sponsoring the CoinDesk hackathon the weekend prior to Consensus. The free event will take place Saturday, May 20, 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, May 21, 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 40th Floor, NY. Hyperledger Executive Director Brian Behlendorf will be one of the judges of the main CoinDesk Hackathon. In addition to the main Coindesk challenge, Hyperledger will also invite hackathon participants to compete in the following challenge: Take any board game in existence – Monopoly™, Clue™, even Risk™ – or come up with your own – and implement it using 1 or more Hyperledger projects as a blockchain application.Winners of the Hyperledger challenge will receive a GoPro and some Hyperledger swag.
Consensus Conference Sessions
Roundtable
Hyperledger will host a roundtable on Monday, May 22 at 10:30 – 11:30 a.m., “Get to Know Hyperledger’s Distributed Ledger Technologies & Use Cases.” Participants will discuss the projects’ technological advantages, differences and best use cases. Join us in the Duffy/Columbia room on the 7th-floor.
Enterprise Blockchain Session Panels
Catch the Hyperledger Projects panels on Tuesday, May 23 from 1:30 – 3:50 p.m. in the Astor Ballroom on Floor 7. You’ll hear about the state and vision of Hyperledger, the role of open source in blockchain with Hyperledger’s main contributors, POCs, pilots, deployments, as well as security, privacy and the enterprise blockchain.
Introduction – Brian Behlendorf, Hyperledger Executive Director – State and vision of Hyperledger, history of Hyperledger Fabric, community involvement/contributions in 2017.
Panel: Role of Open Source in blockchain
- Moderator: Brian Behlendorf, Hyperledger Executive Director.
- Panelist: Intel, Dan Middleton, head of technology for Intel’s blockchain and distributed ledger program (representing Hyperledger Sawtooth)
- Panelist: Monax, Casey Kulhman, CEO
- Panelist: IBM, Chris Ferris, CTO Open Technology
- Panelist: Soramitsu, Makoto Takemiya, CEO, co founder
- Panelist: J.P. Morgan, Amber Baldet, Executive Director, Blockchain Program Lead
Panel: Blockchain in the wild, POCs, Pilots and Deployments!
- Moderator: Brian Behlendorf, Hyperledger Executive Director
- Panelist: Accenture, David Treat, Managing Director
- Panelist: MonetaGo, CEO, Jesse Chenard
- Panelist: Hashed Health, CEO, John Bass
- Panelist: Deutsche Boerse, Ashwin Kumar, MD Group Business & Product Development
- Panelist: CLS Group, Ram Komarraju, Managing Director of Technology
Panel: Security, Privacy and the Enterprise Blockchain
- Moderator: David Huseby, Hyperledger Security Maven.
- Panelist: Justin Newton, Netki, CEO, co founder
- Panelist: Astyanax Kanakakis, Norbloc, CEO
- Panelist: Andre Boysen, SecureKey, digital identity evangelist
- Panelist: Bloq, Jeff Garzik, CEO, co founder
- Panelist: Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer of Evernym, Secretary of Sovrin Foundation
Closing Remarks: Brian Behlendorf, Hyperledger Executive Director
We are excited to see you in New York!
