Blockchain is set to disrupt the transportation industry, from smart contracts in autonomous vehicles to a wide range of other applications of distributed ledger technologies. This session will investigate how blockchain can be harnessed to make transportation more efficient, affordable, greener and less congested.

• The role of industrywide consortia such as MOBI
• Overview of Blockchain Use Cases in Mobility and Transportation
• Standards and Technology
• What is needed for widespread adoption of blockchain technology in the mobility and transportation sector?

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Blockchain as an emerging technology is impacted by the law in litigation from multiple angles, whether it be the regulatory enforcement of ICOs and similar token offering events, unregistered exchanges or outright fraud, civil law in terms of class actions around cryptocurrency projects or non class action cases such as breach of contract all the way to out and out criminal cases. This session will take a wide ranging look at the latest updates on blockchain litigation including:

• Enforcement by different bodies: SEC, FINRA, FTC, State & Taxation bodies
• Jurisdiction issues when dealing with borderless nature of blockchain
• Update on recent cases
• What does this all mean for startups, investors, and customers?

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There are now a wide variety of blockchain use cases, proof of concepts and pilots underway in government at all levels. Whether its voting, public benefits, secure identity, licensing and credentialing the value of blockchain in government is significant. This session will investigate the role blockchain has to play in transforming how we interact with government on a day to day basis.

• What are the current use cases being investigated by various federal and state government departments?
• An update on pilots and proof of concepts.
• What unique issues are faced when working on a government blockchain project?

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ICO mania in 2017 saw massive changes in the traditional way of funding startups. Entrepreneurs were no longer restricted to traditional venture capital avenues as crowdfunding saw the opportunity to raise many millions, or even billions of dollars in a short space of time. More recently, we have seen the start of regulatory enforcement, as well as awareness of the scam ICO as the landscape has changed.

This panel will feature experienced investors, VC and other funds as they discuss the current state of the investor and funding world, and what are the new trends in crowdfunding and investment means for both investors and blockchain startups.  

• How are regulatory trends around blockchain impacting the investment landscape?
• What sort of trends are we seeing both here in the United State and globally in funding blockchain projects?
• What are investors looking for when investing in blockchain projects?
• What can we expect in the future?

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Blockchain’s viable use cases are varied, and many of them have social or humanitarian applications.  This session will investigate these use cases and how blockchain can be used to create a fairer, more equitable and safer society.  

• What do we mean by social good?
• Blockchain Utopia: Exploring the Humanitarian application for blockchain
• Blockchain Dystopia: What happens when we get blockchain wrong?
• Social Good Use Cases: Refugees & displaced people, trafficking & slavery prevention, workplace rights,  banking the unbanked, disaster relief efforts etc

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Cryptocurrency and ICOs mainstreamed the concept of tokenizing illiquid assets. Trillions of dollars of these sorts of assets exist, recorded by pen and paper, with massive transaction costs and lacking a global marketplace.  Blockchain changes all of this, and opens up this asset class to a worldwide audience of investors, this session will investigate what this all means, and its potential worldwide impact.

• What do we mean by Tokenizing everything?
• What does this asset class look like?
• What are the regulatory implications?
• What does this mean for investors?
• What are the practical implementations
• What is required for this to become a reality

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• Banking the unbanked and underbanked, how can blockchain give access to those without access to traditional banking?

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In the blockchain space we hear people mentioning crypto economics all the time, but what do they actually mean? This session will give a deep dive into the concept of crypto economics and the token economy exploring:

• Cryptoeconomics 101: What do people actually mean when we say cryptoeconomics - do they all mean the same thing?
• How should an effective token model and economy work? What incentives are required to achieve desired behavior and outcomes?
• What does good governance look like?
• How does cryptoeconomics relate to more general economics and economic theories?

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More and more devices are connected, from connected medical devices, smart fridges to the latest vehicles and manufacturing devices. With all these connected devices there are numerous challenges ahead, from securing, them to identifying, and managing them.  This session will look at the challenges facing a world of increasing numbers of connected devices and where Blockchain might be the solution.

• Where does blockchain fit in the IoT ecosystem?
• IOT, Blockchain & Security
• Blockchain Powered Identity for IOT Devices
• Connectivity, 5G & IOT and its relationship to Blockchain

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Identity is one of the core applications of blockchain, whether its identifying a person, thing or transaction and the impact of identity will be felt across virtually any use case.  This session will investigate the role of identity, what it actually means, the role of standards and focus on core identity use cases and solutions where blockchain is already being used, or will be used in the near future.

• Decentralized ID and standards.
• Where do smart contracts fit in decentralized ID?
• Decentralized ID & Security
• Decentralized ID use cases in enterprise and government

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The CoTrust Platform℠ – HCL’s Blockchain Application Platform runs on top of Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum. The CoTrust Platform is being used today for Blockchain Applications across industries – examples include: Provenance in Supply Chain, KYC in Financial Services, Royalty Management for Media, Medical Records Management in Healthcare, Settlements Scenarios, and Invoice Discounting. Attend this session to find out how to:

• Accelerate the development of production-ready blockchain applications in your organization.
• Integrate systems of record with a blockchain through simple REST APIs.
• Reduce the effort required to integrate systems of record with additional blockchain applications.

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• Overview of the current systems and what can be done better?
• Smart contracts in insurance.
• Use Cases: Proof of Insurance,
• Regulatory Issues
• Role of consortia, business and government in blockchain implementation

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As blockchain projects are go into production, they will need to interact with existing technologies, platforms and data. Ensuring that these work well together will be a key to successful implementation. This session will discuss what is required in order to ensure that blockchain projects, whether they are public or private chains are to be interoperable with legacy systems while still retaining security, privacy and essential governance.

• Why standards and interoperability matter for wide scale adoption of blockchain projects
• What is the role of consortia in defining standards?
• What are the issues faced when integrating legacy data and infrastructure with blockchain projects?
• Connecting and communicating between different blockchains

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One of the earlier use cases to go into pilot and production stages was in supply chain. From ensuring your coffee is fair trade, to preventing slavery in supply chains or providing trustworthy tracking for product recalls, there are numerous use cases for blockchain in the global food supply chain. This panel will investigate these use cases and give insights into examples where blockchain is being tested already.

• Provenance & Chain of Custody in Food
• How can blockchain ensure safer food?
• Fair Labor Standards & Fair trade certification

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Smart Contracts – automated, contractual relationships in computer code, where the outcome is triggered after a predefined event. But what does it all mean in practice? This session will investigate smart contracts in detail from all angles: technical, legal, regulatory and practical including:

• What is a smart contract?
• Where does liability and responsibility lie?
• How can you confirm that the code reflects a contract as written?
• How will the law deal with smart contracts?

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Know Your Customer and Anti Money Laundering compliance are vital for any blockchain fintech or identity and during any fundraising process. Distributed ledgers provide an ideal tool to ensure trustworthy and compliant data if used properly.

• What is meant by KYC and AML compliance?
• When do you need to ensure compliance?
• Understanding the role of identity in compliance.
• Regulatory and legal update.
• AML/KYC Regulatory bodies
• Causes of non-compliance
• Establishing KYC compliance programs
• Blockchain solutions for AML/KYC
• Trends and the future

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As blockchain projects go into production, they will need to interact with existing technologies, platforms and data. Ensuring that these work well together will be a key to successful implementation.  This session will discuss what is required in order to ensure that blockchain projects, whether they are public or private chains are to be interoperable with legacy systems while still retaining security, privacy and essential governance.

• Why do standards and interoperability between different platforms and legacy systems for wide-scale adoption of blockchain?
• What is the role of industry consortia in defining standards and ensuring interoperability?
• How can you balance interoperability and security, efficiency, flexibility and good governance?

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It’s something we’ve all experienced, trying to explain blockchain to a potential customer, colleague or family member. More often than not, the first thing a person will think of, if anything at all is bitcoin, or some overhyped story on the news. This session will take a look at why the message matters when moving towards wide scale adoption and acceptance of blockchain.

• Does blockchain have an image problem to the general public?
• Communicating blockchain effectively to the media, business partners and beyond
• What can startups, developers, evangelists and the industry do to help?

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