Rethink trust

Schedule

• 8:00-8:30

  

  Coffee Break
• 8:30-8:45

  

  Grand Welcome Alexy Khrabrov

  Speech
• 8:45-9:30

  

  Keynote I The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts Christopher Ferris

  Speech Interview
  Hyperledger was formed with the vision of establishing a community where we could bring together the smartest minds to solve the challenges of delivering blockchain technology for the enterprise. Two and a half years later, that vision is being realized. Hyperledger's "greenhouse" is not only incubating new technologies, but is now entering into the collaboration and consolidation phase, and out of this is emerging some important new innovation.
• 9:30-10:00

  

  Keynote II The state of trust: can DLT really help re-building it? Mariana Gómez de la Villa

  Speech Interview
  In a world where trust has become one of the leading values, enabling our digital lifestyle, how well is the financial industry positioned to support the shift of mind and to empower our customer to transition to a distributed economy? During the presentation, I try to explain where are we come from and what is ING’s vision, touching upon some of the challenges we have yet to overcome.
• 10:00-10:10

  

  Coffee break
• 10:10-10:25

  

  Insights from Enterprise Blockchain Engineering Nick Kurat

  Speech Interview
• 10:25-10:40

  

  Paradigm shift in confidential data control Gene Galanter

  Speech Interview
  Gennady will share emerging trends in application architecture for handling confidential data and compliance by design.
• 10:40-11:00

  

  Trust but verify: a missing link between IoT and a trustworthy, computationally verifiable reality Roman Shaposhnik

  Speech Interview
  Blockchain has fundamentally changed our relationship with trust. At its core, blockchain networks (and their consensus protocols) provided to us a feat of engineering that seemed impossible just a few years ago. A system can now be computationally proven trustworthy as a whole without every individual entity within that system needing to be fully trusted. Still, so far we mostly dealt with blockchain systems rooted in the virtual reality (crypto currencies, digital identities, smart contracts, etc.). This talk will briefly cover: What is a cyber-physical system and why cyber-physical systems are fundamentally different from systems rooted in virtual reality. Why cyber-physical systems require a hybrid approach to building a trustworthy, digitally verifiable "digital twins" of the physical world they are embedded in. An approach, built around using Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPOS) Consensus blockchains coupled with trustworthy, fully disaggregated software computational enclaves, allowing for the creation of radically different kinds of oracles. The kinds of oracles that can finally provide to be the missing link connecting blockchain and smart contracts to the trustworthy, computationally verifiable reality and all of its rich information sources.
• 11:00-11:10

  

  Coffee break
• 11:10-11:30

  

  Bridging the gap between untrusting devs and trust-seeking users Yonatan Sompolinsky

  Speech Interview
  While Satoshi's achievement in designing a consensus protocol for a totally decentralized system isn't overrated, the setup of total trustlessness imposes severe limitations on its scalability. Protocols which give some authority to recognized nodes are easily more scalable and efficient; yet, this boost in performance comes at the expense of needing to trust these nodes. This trust can take vastly different forms, from trusting a single entity with the integrity of the data, to trusting it with the persistence of the state, to trusting it merely for good performance of the system. This spectrum of trust can potentially bridge the gap between developers who advocate for full decentralization and redundancy of the base platform and product managers who are interested in use cases for ordinary trusting end-users.
• 11:30-11:50

  

  NuCypher KMS: Uncensorable decentralized encryption service Miсhael Egorov

  Speech Interview
  We introduce NuCypher KMS: decentralized key management network. Unlike traditional key management systems, it only re-encrypts data and never decrypts. Access permissions are represented by re-encryption keys which are used by our threshold split-key re-encryption scheme [Umbral]. The talk explains how the system works, token economics behind the network, and how to build multu-user end-to-end encrypted applications with it.
• 11:50-12:10

  

  Managing confidential data on a public blockchain. Draltan Marin

  Speech Interview
  We present a real-life use case for proxy re-encryption in the context of the Unicorn Bay solution. Unicorn Bay is a blockchain solution for the Asset management industry where we keep track of portfolio management strategies and classic assets trading operations. These are highly strategic information for our clients and as such should remain confidential. Keeping the right balance between a fully decentralized architecture and private data requires a method for encrypting data and having access control on that data. In order to solve this issue we use proxy re-encryption.
• 12:10-1:00

  

  Lunch
• 1:00-1:30

  

  Pact: Smart Contracts You Can Take To The Bank Douglas Beardsley

  Speech Interview
  The revolutionary idea of putting computer programs in a blockchain to create smart contracts has opened up a whole new world of possibilities. But, these programs have very different characteristics from other software. This talk explores these differences, some of the challenges that have been encountered, and then discusses how Kadena is solving these problems with its smart contract language Pact.
• 1:30-2:00

  

  Beyond DAPPS, building an application protocol Christopher Georgen

  Speech Interview
  When Topl began development in early 2017, Chris and his team set out on a truly unique course for the blockchain space. Instead of trying to build the next Ethereum, a single blockchain meant to run a myriad of decentralized applications (DAPPS) or simply building a DAPP on top of someone else's blockchain, Topl set out to build one of the very few application specific blockchains. The Topl blockchain incorporates a significant but finite set of features, including prediction markets, smart contracts, supply chain integration, and identity management, all in support of a single process, socially-responsible investment into developing countries. In this talk, Chris and Topl's CTO, Jim Aman, will detail Topl's approach to the building its own application-specific blockchain, covering both the benefits and drawbacks of such a strategy.
• 2:00-2:10

  

  Coffee break
• 2:10-2:40

  

  Forks: Eroding the Trust Infrastructure of Blockchain

  Kristen Stone

  

  Kristen Stone

  Matthew Werner

  

  Matthew Werner

  Speech Interview
• 2:40-3:00

  

  Making Enterprise Blockchain a Reality Joost Volker

  Speech
  After all the experimentation with blockchain in prior years, are the enterprises ready to go live? What do enterprises need to succeed with blockchain projects, and how is Oracle responding? We’ll share a number of these examples from real world enterprises, and explain how they are re-engineering their business processes to raise the level of trust through the use of permissioned blockchain technology integrated with identity management and role-based access control. We’ll also look at what challenges companies are working to address, and how blockchain technology is evolving to bring greater performance and plug-n-play integration capabilities to meet the needs of the enterprise.
• 3:00-3:10

  

  Coffee break
• 3:10-3:30

  

  What are the Actual Problems we solve with Blockchain Jonathan Levi

  Speech Interview
• 3:30-3:50

  

  Developing Platform Agnostic Blockchain Applications Adi Ben-Ari

  Speech Interview
  Adi Ben-Ari looks at how to design and build future proof, platform agnostic, blockchain applications, by solving for identity, privacy, and security outside the blockchain.
• 3:50-4:00

  

  Coffee break
• 4:00-4:20

  

  Open source blockchain for the energy industry Ana Trbovich

  Speech Interview
• 4:20-4:40

  

  Scaling blockchain in depth Alexander Vlasov

  Speech Interview
  Scaling a public blockchain has been proven to be a challenge. Now everyone understands the trade off between partial data and processing locality (delegates Proof of Stake consensus) and true distributed participation (Proof of Work). Following a brilliant idea from the original Plasma whitepaper (plasma.io) BANKEX has developed its own implementation that allows to scale an asset transfer transactions to 10k transactions per second, provides customer protection and can resolve disputes automatically through the smart contract. Here an BANKEX we believe that delegation of processing to sibling chains with possibility of dispute resolution on the patent one is a right way to solve processing speed/ distribution trade off in public ledgers
• 4:40-5:00

  

  Distributed Trust Design Dr. Johan Pouwelse

  Speech Interview
  We now have the ability to create trust with software, as shown by Ebay, AirBnB, and Uber. Delft University of Technology is home to the oldest research group creating online trust at scale with real people. A total of 1.8 million people have installed our Tribler software over the years. It offers a Youtube-like experience with Bittorrent support, Tor-like anonymous tunnels, and our own bandwidth token economy. In August 2007 we launched a primitive distributed ledger together with Harvard University for "bandwidth-as-a-currency". It provides an incentive to donate seeding bandwidth or Tor-like relays. We have expanded upon this initial operational system ever since. Our system is based on trust, instead of crypto puzzles. Our IETF standard outlines "Trustchain" in detail. Trust and trustworthy identities are essential. We worked for years on the problem of fake identities and we will go live with the first government-backed self-sovereign identity after the summer. We want to generalize the various isolated profit-driven communities which try to build trust, to form a public utility. Our audacious ambition is to establish a new scientific field, we call Distributed Trust Design. Distributed Trust Design provides a coherent framework to transform mutually non-trusting people into trustworthy online communities of arbitrary size, that have a process for democratic decision-making, the ability to punish those who freeride on the community or are dishonest in order to manage a marketplace, govern a resource sustainably, schedule activities, or achieve a common purpose in general.
• 5:00-5:10

  

  Coffee break
• 5:10-6:00

  

  Panel The Future of Business Blockchain

  Nik Scharmann

  

  Nik Scharmann

  Roberto Mancone

  

  Roberto Mancone

  Clara Durodie

  

  Clara Durodie

  Rashid Hoosenally

  

  Rashid Hoosenally

Workshops

• 10:10-12:10

  Berlage zaal

  1st Floor

  Workshop 1 Hyperledger Fabric

  Speech

  Description

  This presentation will introduce the audience to Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies for business. This will cover the goals of the organization and its different projects and activities.The presentation will then focus on Hyperledger Fabric, a modular and flexible blockchain framework design to address the requirements of the business use cases benefiting from the use of blockchain technology. This part will cover the design principles which motived the development of Fabric and which differentiate it from other blockchain technologies. It will introduce the audience to Fabric's overall architecture and process flow, as well as give specific information on how to get start with developing a blockchain application using Fabric.
  
  Anyone can benefit from the first part of the presentation but the second part is much more technical in nature and aimed at giving network admistrators and application developers a good understanding of how a Fabric blockchain network and application function.

  

  Arnaud Le Hors

  Senior Technical Staff Member of Web & Blockchain Open Technologies at IBM

  BIO

  Arnaud has been working on standards and open source for over 25 years and has been involved in every aspect of the open technology development process: technical, strategic, political, and legal. Arnaud was editor of several key web specifications including HTML and DOM and was a pioneer of open source with the release of libXpm in 1990. Arnaud is the main representative for IBM at W3C, an elected member of the HyperledgerTechnical Steering Committee, a contributor to Hyperledger Fabric, and a member of the Hyperledger Speakers Bureau.

• 1:00-2:10

  Berlage zaal

  1st Floor

  Workshop 2 Blockchain POC Development for the Enterprise: Best Practices, Process, Overview of Available Platforms

  Speech

  Description

  At our workshops, certified blockchain experts will explain the types and differences of centralized and distributed solutions, including public and private blockchains, and lead participants through the comparison of private blockchains.
  

  

  Tim Kozak

  Head of Technology at Intellectsoft Blockchain Lab

  BIO

  Tim has been a СТО in several tech companies which allowed him to gain a deep expertise in product development and embrace a startup nature. Currently he drives technological development of Intellectsoft Blockchain Lab while guiding the innovation efforts of the entire division.

  

  Nick Kurat

  Director of Intellectsoft Blockchain Lab

  BIO

  Nick has over 14 years of experience in growing technology businesses. From San Francisco based innovative startups to international tech companies servicing Fortune500 clients, he provides hands-on advising on business strategy, enabling technologies, and global business expansion. Both his entrepreneurial spirit and expertise benefit clients by meeting their business objectives and getting ahead of competition.

  Since the time he got acquainted with Distributed Ledger Technologies, Nick became its evangelist helping others understand the benefits of blockchain to both business and society.

  Currently Nick is leading Intellectsoft Blockchain Lab, top rated blockchain studio in 2017 and 2018, according to Clutch.

• 2:20-3:40

  Berlage zaal

  1st Floor

  Workshop 3 Blockchain in Scala

  Speech

  Description

  In this workshop, Nick Edmonds, CTO and Co-Founder of Topl, will introduce you to their Edda framework. Designed to be deployed as single-use public, permissionless blockchains, Edda incorporates the first implementation of the Ouroboros Genesis consensus algorithm, allows for domain specific smart contracts, and supports complex actor types and attributes. Leveraging the JVM for its cross-platform capabilities along with the built-in JavaScript runtime environment the Nashorn Engine, this framework takes advantage of the concise structure of Scala in combination with the ability to write smart contracts in JavaScript, one of the most popular programming languages in the world. A blockchain created with the Edda framework can be deployed on nearly every device, with a smart contract language most developers are already familiar with. Scala’s Akka actor model provides for a highly concurrent and distributed system, important for decentralization and speed when settling transactions within a distributed network. pattern matching, case classes, and strong typing system within Scala allow the Edda framework to easily create new tokens and digitize assets onto the blockchain. The immutability of functional programming in Scala lends itself well to abstracting data structures used to build blockchains. Abstracting core components into easy to reason models allows multiple developers or teams to quickly add new features within the framework. Through this session, you will become familiar with the motivations behind a Scala and functional-first blockchain implementation, the architecture of a single-use blockchain, and the steps needed to deploy your own specialized chain.

  

  Nick Edmonds

  Co-founder and Lead Blockchain Engineer of Topl

  BIO

  After solidifying a love for programming in his high school robotics team, Nicholas went on to graduate from the University of Houston with a degree in computer science. His former projects range from computer vision and virtual reality to neural nets and distributed computing. After reading the seminal Bitcoin whitepaper shortly after it was released in 2008, he has kept an eye on the burgeoning cryptocurrency market. Nick now leads technical development for the Topl protocol working with the rest of the technical team to continue pushing the potential of blockchain technology.

• 3:50-5:00

  Berlage zaal

  1st Floor

  Workshop 4 Provectus Blockchain Framework: Trustless Cooperation Within and Between Enterprises Utilizing Blockchain With Other Complementary Technologies

  Speech

  Description

  This workshop is the inaugural presentation of Provectus blockchain framework, which is designed to build decentralized next-level DApps. Yuri Vizitei, CTO of Provectus, will start the session and introduce the main features of the framework.
  
  Experts and developers from Provectus will share how the framework combines blockchain, traditional databases, message brokers, DevOps processes and other complementary technologies to achieve balanced, real world, functional synergy without any loss of decentralization.
  
  The framework empowers companies to build and deploy enterprise-level decentralized applications and cooperate without any single point of failure or control. It enables business process modelling approach, simple and secure network onboarding and automatic deployment of new network nodes, API constructor, failure analysis and reaction system, availability of low-level API and other features.

  

  Yuri Vizitei

  СТO at Provectus

  BIO

  Yuri brings more than 20 years of experience developing solutions for market-leading companies in the US in such areas as Healthcare, Travel & Hospitality and Blockchain.