Unbundling Of Financial Services: The Blockchain(s) RevolutionGeorge Samuel Samman
This is a deck which talks about blockchain(s) and their use cases, It is based off of some o the best thought in the space and looks at why banking and financial services will be changed.
Buckets of Permissioned, Permissionless, and Permissioned Permissionlessness ...Tim Swanson
This was first presented on July 20, 2015 at Infosys in Mysore, India with the Blockchain University team. It is a heavily modified version of a previous presentation covering the distributed ledger landscape. All citations and references can be found in the notes.
First presented on June 27, 2015 for Blockchain University hosted at PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Francisco. [Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-OxnJip-bA ] Additional notes, references and citations are in the comments of each slide. I would like to thank Arthur Breitman, Richard Brown, Alexandre Callea, Pinar Emirdag, Andrew Geyl, Dave Hudson, Hyder Jaffrey, Yakov Kofner, Antony Lewis, Todd McDonald, Piotr Piasecki, Robert Sams and John Whelan for their feedback.
Unbundling Of Financial Services: The Blockchain(s) RevolutionGeorge Samuel Samman
This is a deck which talks about blockchain(s) and their use cases, It is based off of some o the best thought in the space and looks at why banking and financial services will be changed.
Buckets of Permissioned, Permissionless, and Permissioned Permissionlessness ...Tim Swanson
This was first presented on July 20, 2015 at Infosys in Mysore, India with the Blockchain University team. It is a heavily modified version of a previous presentation covering the distributed ledger landscape. All citations and references can be found in the notes.
First presented on June 27, 2015 for Blockchain University hosted at PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Francisco. [Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-OxnJip-bA ] Additional notes, references and citations are in the comments of each slide. I would like to thank Arthur Breitman, Richard Brown, Alexandre Callea, Pinar Emirdag, Andrew Geyl, Dave Hudson, Hyder Jaffrey, Yakov Kofner, Antony Lewis, Todd McDonald, Piotr Piasecki, Robert Sams and John Whelan for their feedback.
Blockchain - Use Cases. Typical existing Blockchain Domain projects by Industries Presentation by Andrew Darley, Industry Sales Leader Europe IBM Cloud. Held at Watson Sweden Summit 2017.
Blockchain for Financial Institutions (the beginning)Karnan Ariaratnam
Organizations ranging from small start-ups to major global banks and government agencies are already investing in Blockchain technology, is your organization thinking about it?
See our point of view on Blockchain, please reach out to me to discuss further (karnan.ariaratnam@ca.pwc.com)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mVcWps1VQ0
First presented at the Ethereum Palo Alto meetup on August 7, 2016: http://www.meetup.com/EthereumSiliconValley/events/233053122/
All citations and references can be found in the Notes section.
I would like to thank Ian Grigg for his constructive feedback on these slides.
Blockchain: the solution for transparency in product supply chainsJamie Sandhu
We live in the world we buy into. How brand and supply chain transparency will enable conscious consumerism ethical business practices to thrive and how blockchain technology can make it happen. A summary of the whitepaper by Provenance.org.
Nick Meyne Enterprise Architect - Capgemini
At Global Architecture Week 2015, we covered ‘Digital Currencies and Cash’ and their relevance to Tax and Welfare Authorities, concluding with the message: “It’s not about Bitcoin, it’s about the Blockchain”. Blockchain technology has the potential to enable a new mutually trusted, transparent way of sharing and transacting. In the UK Public Sector, Sir Mark Walport’s report Distributed Ledger Technology: beyond blockchain encouraged Government to assess its early use and potential. Meanwhile in the private sector, Blockchain FinTech excitement among start-ups and venture capitalists remained strong for a technology promised to be “like a whole new internet for value exchange”. But where are the real world use cases today? What is it that makes a use case more likely to succeed? In this talk, we will share and discuss a number of Capgemini examples.
Evaluating the potential of blockchain technology to radically transform business
[Feel free to download the presentation if you'd like to view it offline]
Global trade of goods has been growing at double-digit rates since the early 2000s. Digitzation had its time; but still we have manual paper based work exsisitng in most of the Trade finance activities. Now is the time to see value addition from Blockchain based platforms and how they can make this process faster, reliable and paperless.
Investment Thesis on Distributed Ledger Technology in the Financial SystemEmre Tekisalp
An investment thesis from the point of view of venture capital funds, developed as part of Columbia Business School Venture Fellows Program. This presentation looks at what transaction related problems the financial system currently faces, how different startups working on distributed ledger technologies (such as Blockchain) are proposing to solve this problem, and how the author believes the future will unfold.
Presentation for Asian Financial Markets and Institutions, October 2016, HKU MBA Program. Covers basics of blockchain and distributed ledgers and discusses some current and potential applications.
Eris Industries - American Banker presentation deck. Preston Byrne
Eris Industries' deck (and a recording of the talk) describing our view of where the blockchain space is going in the next couple of years. Any questions, ping Preston directly.
Traceability of components of products - from food to fashion - is central to the promise of using blockchain to organize and operationalize data from the web of supply chains. How would traceability bring value? How do blockchain and smart contracts work? And how would these foster traceability? What has been done so far in this regard? What issues and tensions affect adoption of traceability, whether by blockchain or other means? This webinar examines blockchain and the role it plays in supply chain by providing traceability.
To view the accompanying webinar, go to: https://www.financialpoise.com/financial-poise-webinars/blockchain-and-supply-chain-2021/
Distributed Ledger Technology as Financial Market InfrastructureTim Swanson
Keynote first presented at "The Future of Financial Payment Services Driven by Technology Innovation" on November 22, 2016 from Korea Finance Telecommunications & Clearings Institute (KFTC) 30th Anniversary Seminar in Seoul, South Korea.
The Top 5 Mistakes in Blockchain Projects Implementation | Bockchain Adoption...Fluence.sh
The world continues to surprise the public with a constantly-growing number of different projects. One of these marvels is the blockchain, which hosts many successful ventures on the blockchain project ecosystem. But most of these business schemes become inactive because of the problems they were faced during blockchain implementation. The question is: how to start and not to fail in the deployment of decentralized technologies? Below are the issues covered in this presentation:
1. Wrong Statement of Project During ICO/Token Introduction.
2. Wrong Decision on Blockchain Type and Consensus.
3. Wrong Business Model.
4. Profitability versus Cryptocurrency Return.
5. Wrong Market Estimations.
¿En qué aspectos la Blockchain podría ser útil en los procesos, productos, información y flujo de efectivo de cadenas globales de suministro? El 90% de los productos en el comercio internacional se mueven por mar.
- Trazabilidad de los productos
- Resolución de controversias
- Integridad y seguridad de la mercancía
- Cumplimiento
Paper de Yanling Chang, Eleftherios Iakovou y Weidong Shi
Cryptocurrencies: The Mechanics Economic and FinanceErnie Teo
Presented at the INAUGURAL CAIA-SKBI CRYPTOCURRENCY CONFERENCE 2014 on 04 November 2014 held at the Singapore Management University
This talk gives a general overview of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
Overcoming the Barriers to Blockchain AdoptionMongoDB
Blockchain promises to drastically lower costs, increase data quality and vastly simplify business processes in a range of industries.
During this event speakers from MongoDB, BigchainDB, Ripple, and 11FSTeam answered question around how to operationalise blockchain into existing environments and rely on it as we do with existing systems.
This presentation was made at the March 3, 2016 "Disruptive Innovations in Financial Services" Conference sponsored by the Institute for Financial Services Analytics at the Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware.
Block chain 101 what it is, why it mattersPaul Brody
The Blockchain is an important new technology, but it is shrouded in mystery: what does it do? Why is it such a big deal? How is it related to bitcoin? In this short presentation (with attached video), I attempt to answer those questions.
There are new and emerging opportunities for organisations in all sectors to create and deliver compelling services for their customers using the power of disruptive innovation. As organisations formulate their plans for the coming months, this paper aims to help business and public sector leaders understand the cultural and organisational challenges that are inevitably brought by the use of blockchain technologies, and provides them with the insights they need to overcome them.
Blockchain - Use Cases. Typical existing Blockchain Domain projects by Industries Presentation by Andrew Darley, Industry Sales Leader Europe IBM Cloud. Held at Watson Sweden Summit 2017.
Blockchain for Financial Institutions (the beginning)Karnan Ariaratnam
Organizations ranging from small start-ups to major global banks and government agencies are already investing in Blockchain technology, is your organization thinking about it?
See our point of view on Blockchain, please reach out to me to discuss further (karnan.ariaratnam@ca.pwc.com)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mVcWps1VQ0
First presented at the Ethereum Palo Alto meetup on August 7, 2016: http://www.meetup.com/EthereumSiliconValley/events/233053122/
All citations and references can be found in the Notes section.
I would like to thank Ian Grigg for his constructive feedback on these slides.
Blockchain: the solution for transparency in product supply chainsJamie Sandhu
We live in the world we buy into. How brand and supply chain transparency will enable conscious consumerism ethical business practices to thrive and how blockchain technology can make it happen. A summary of the whitepaper by Provenance.org.
Nick Meyne Enterprise Architect - Capgemini
At Global Architecture Week 2015, we covered ‘Digital Currencies and Cash’ and their relevance to Tax and Welfare Authorities, concluding with the message: “It’s not about Bitcoin, it’s about the Blockchain”. Blockchain technology has the potential to enable a new mutually trusted, transparent way of sharing and transacting. In the UK Public Sector, Sir Mark Walport’s report Distributed Ledger Technology: beyond blockchain encouraged Government to assess its early use and potential. Meanwhile in the private sector, Blockchain FinTech excitement among start-ups and venture capitalists remained strong for a technology promised to be “like a whole new internet for value exchange”. But where are the real world use cases today? What is it that makes a use case more likely to succeed? In this talk, we will share and discuss a number of Capgemini examples.
Evaluating the potential of blockchain technology to radically transform business
[Feel free to download the presentation if you'd like to view it offline]
Global trade of goods has been growing at double-digit rates since the early 2000s. Digitzation had its time; but still we have manual paper based work exsisitng in most of the Trade finance activities. Now is the time to see value addition from Blockchain based platforms and how they can make this process faster, reliable and paperless.
Investment Thesis on Distributed Ledger Technology in the Financial SystemEmre Tekisalp
An investment thesis from the point of view of venture capital funds, developed as part of Columbia Business School Venture Fellows Program. This presentation looks at what transaction related problems the financial system currently faces, how different startups working on distributed ledger technologies (such as Blockchain) are proposing to solve this problem, and how the author believes the future will unfold.
Presentation for Asian Financial Markets and Institutions, October 2016, HKU MBA Program. Covers basics of blockchain and distributed ledgers and discusses some current and potential applications.
Eris Industries - American Banker presentation deck. Preston Byrne
Eris Industries' deck (and a recording of the talk) describing our view of where the blockchain space is going in the next couple of years. Any questions, ping Preston directly.
Traceability of components of products - from food to fashion - is central to the promise of using blockchain to organize and operationalize data from the web of supply chains. How would traceability bring value? How do blockchain and smart contracts work? And how would these foster traceability? What has been done so far in this regard? What issues and tensions affect adoption of traceability, whether by blockchain or other means? This webinar examines blockchain and the role it plays in supply chain by providing traceability.
To view the accompanying webinar, go to: https://www.financialpoise.com/financial-poise-webinars/blockchain-and-supply-chain-2021/
Distributed Ledger Technology as Financial Market InfrastructureTim Swanson
Keynote first presented at "The Future of Financial Payment Services Driven by Technology Innovation" on November 22, 2016 from Korea Finance Telecommunications & Clearings Institute (KFTC) 30th Anniversary Seminar in Seoul, South Korea.
The Top 5 Mistakes in Blockchain Projects Implementation | Bockchain Adoption...Fluence.sh
The world continues to surprise the public with a constantly-growing number of different projects. One of these marvels is the blockchain, which hosts many successful ventures on the blockchain project ecosystem. But most of these business schemes become inactive because of the problems they were faced during blockchain implementation. The question is: how to start and not to fail in the deployment of decentralized technologies? Below are the issues covered in this presentation:
1. Wrong Statement of Project During ICO/Token Introduction.
2. Wrong Decision on Blockchain Type and Consensus.
3. Wrong Business Model.
4. Profitability versus Cryptocurrency Return.
5. Wrong Market Estimations.
¿En qué aspectos la Blockchain podría ser útil en los procesos, productos, información y flujo de efectivo de cadenas globales de suministro? El 90% de los productos en el comercio internacional se mueven por mar.
- Trazabilidad de los productos
- Resolución de controversias
- Integridad y seguridad de la mercancía
- Cumplimiento
Paper de Yanling Chang, Eleftherios Iakovou y Weidong Shi
Cryptocurrencies: The Mechanics Economic and FinanceErnie Teo
Presented at the INAUGURAL CAIA-SKBI CRYPTOCURRENCY CONFERENCE 2014 on 04 November 2014 held at the Singapore Management University
This talk gives a general overview of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
Overcoming the Barriers to Blockchain AdoptionMongoDB
Blockchain promises to drastically lower costs, increase data quality and vastly simplify business processes in a range of industries.
During this event speakers from MongoDB, BigchainDB, Ripple, and 11FSTeam answered question around how to operationalise blockchain into existing environments and rely on it as we do with existing systems.
This presentation was made at the March 3, 2016 "Disruptive Innovations in Financial Services" Conference sponsored by the Institute for Financial Services Analytics at the Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware.
Block chain 101 what it is, why it mattersPaul Brody
The Blockchain is an important new technology, but it is shrouded in mystery: what does it do? Why is it such a big deal? How is it related to bitcoin? In this short presentation (with attached video), I attempt to answer those questions.
There are new and emerging opportunities for organisations in all sectors to create and deliver compelling services for their customers using the power of disruptive innovation. As organisations formulate their plans for the coming months, this paper aims to help business and public sector leaders understand the cultural and organisational challenges that are inevitably brought by the use of blockchain technologies, and provides them with the insights they need to overcome them.
Blockchain: The Information Technology of the FutureMelanie Swan
The blockchain concept may be one of the most transformative ideas to impact the world since the Internet. Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are merely one application of the blockchain concept. The blockchain is a public transaction ledger built in a decentralized network structure based on cryptographic principles so that any kind of trading, buying and selling of assets does not need to go through a centralized intermediary. Any kind of asset may be encoded into the blockchain and transacted, validated, or preserved in a much more efficient manner than at present including ideas, health data, financial assets, automobiles, and government documents. Venture Capitalists are calling the blockchain the next big investment wave.
Introduction to Blockchain and the Hyperledger ProjectManuel Garcia
Does The Hyperledger Project have the potential to become the engine behind most successful decentralized applications and organizations created in the next 25-50 years? Absolutely!
A much better question is how, and in what new ways, can we:
a) Build decentralized applications, organizations and APIs at 10x the speed at 1/10 the cost.
b) Build situational awareness in the local community.
I believe that the convergence of decentralized applications, decentralized organizations, artificial intelligence and IoT brings upon us the Great Displacement of the 21st century, where the majority of workforce will be left without “conventional” jobs, forced to learn new skills and professions. Why?
Founders of this group believe that the Hyperledger Foundation will be the engine behind decentralization of the world, a massive economic change of the next 25-50 years.
So.... why don't we standardize and democratize the field with and around Hyperledger?
What?
We are a local micro community of those interested in advancing their knowledge of Hyperledger, its use cases and applications.
How?
Join our group for a regular dose of human interaction, conversations, smiles, food and drinks on all things Hyperledger:
• Use Cases
• Competitive analysis of Hyperledger startups (Distributed Apps from disruptive companies in specific vertical markets)
• How-To’s
• Interviews with individuals working at the edge of the Hyperledger project
• Reviews of tools, services and APIs offered by the Hyperledger ecosystem
• Best Practices in Application Architecture
• Do’s and Don’ts
• Application Templates
• Hackathons
• Security in the decentralized world - on the edge, on the node, in the cloud and in transit
• How others solve some of the hard problems that exist in the world using Hyperledger.
https://www.hyperledger.org
https://github.com/hyperledger
Join the movement. Let’s change the world. Because with Hyperledger we can.
This slides belong to a presentation done by Manuel Garcia @ http://www.meetup.com/HyperLedger-and-Blockchain-Apps-Buenos-Aires
Blockchain in Supply Chain Management: Fad or Potential?Xeneta
Security, transparency of movement throughout the supply chain and electronically initiating and enforcing contracts, are vital for successful supply chains. Blockchain technology is is facilitating visibility and efficiency in transaction in various industries. In our latest survey, we asked if blockchain technology will help ease and make admininstration work in SCM more efficient.
IBM Blockchain PoV: Hyperledger genesis blockLuca Comparini
Luca Comparini PoV on Blockchain, showing the history of ledgers, transactional business machines and distributed shared ledger. IBM is committed to Hyperledger Project, a collaborative effort created to advance blockchain technology by identifying and addressing important features for a cross-industry open standard for distributed ledgers that can transform the way business transactions are conducted globally.
Blockchain is a technology for a new generation of transactional applications that establishes trust, accountability and transparency while streamlining business processes. A blockchain has two main concepts. A business network, where members exchange items of value through a ledger, which each member possesses and whose content is always in sync with the others.
Gluecon 2016 Keynote: Deploying and Managing Blockchain ApplicationsDuncan Johnston-Watt
Blockchain technology has exploded on the business scene in the last few months notably with the establishment of the Hyperledger Project hosted by the Linux Foundation. We look at the background to this project; some of the challenges to its mainstream adoption; then wrap up with a demo deploying and managing a Hyperledger Fabric cluster using Apache Brooklyn.
We build on past work proposing the use of Linked Pedigrees in a semantic technology framework to propose the use of blockchain technology to solve part of the trust issues in the agri-food supply chain.
Strategies for integrating semantic and blockchain technologiesHéctor Ugarte
Semantic Blockchain is the use of Semantic web standards on blockchain based systems. The standards promote common data formats and exchange protocols on the blockchain, making used of the Resource Description Framework (RDF).
Ontology BLONDiE for Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Research how to extract data from Ethereum.
Research how to store RDF data on Ethereum.
Prototype DeSCA: Ethereum application.
Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology Explained: Not just Cryptocurrencies, Econo...Melanie Swan
The blockchain concept may be one of the most transformative ideas to impact the world since the Internet. It represents a new organizing paradigm for all activity and integrates humans and technology. Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are merely one application of the blockchain concept. The blockchain is a public transaction ledger built in a network structure based on cryptographic principles so there does not need to be a centralized intermediary. Any kind of asset (art, car, home, financial contract) may be encoded into the blockchain and transacted, validated, or preserved in a much more efficient manner than at present including ideas, health data, financial assets, automobiles, and government documents. Blockchain technology applies well beyond cryptocurrencies, economics, and markets to all venues of human information processing, collaboration, and interaction including art, health, and literacy.
CBGTBT - Part 1 - Workshop introduction & primerBlockstrap.com
A Complete Beginners Guide to Blockchain Technology Part 1 of 6. Slides from the #StartingBlock2015 tour by @blockstrap
Part 1: http://www.slideshare.net/Blockstrap/cbgtbt-part-1-workshop-introduction-primer
Part 2: http://www.slideshare.net/Blockstrap/02-blockchains-101
Part 3: http://www.slideshare.net/Blockstrap/03-transactions-101
Part 4: http://www.slideshare.net/Blockstrap/cbgtbt-part-4-mining
Part 5: http://www.slideshare.net/Blockstrap/05-blockchains-102
Part 6: http://www.slideshare.net/Blockstrap/06-transactions-102
This presentation explains bitcoin within a larger movement of decentralization. Blockchain technologies are currently facilitating the emergence of a consensus-based, digitally integrated economy. Consensus Systems (ConsenSys) is a venture production studio that will build decentralized applications and tools for businesses using the blockchain.
Capco Blockchain, Distributed Ledger and Cryptocurrencies keynote to IIROC co...Craig Borysowich
blockchain overview with some use cases and automated compliance solution. Delivered to an audience of 400 compliance officers in the securities industry
Blockchain and its Applications in the Finance Industry milemadinah
Blockchain and its Applications in the Finance Industry | Nida Khan the head of research | Conexcap | MILE WEBINARS
The revolution against the banking industry is taking place at a breathtaking speed with the movement spearheaded by a new breed of technology entrepreneurs. The finance industry has long been marked by complex regulations, high barriers to entry and economies of scale and this is all set for disruption by the present fintech revolution. One of the most controversial and debated topics in the finance industry is blockchain. It is the buzzword in the finance world nowadays. The rise in Google searches for the term has risen to 1900% since 2013.
Traceability of components of products - from food to fashion - is central to the promise of using blockchain to organize and operationalize data from the web of supply chains. How would traceability bring value? How do blockchain and smart contracts work? And how would these foster traceability? What has been done so far in this regard? What issues and tensions affect adoption of traceability, whether by blockchain or other means? This webinar examines blockchain and the role it plays in supply chain by providing traceability.
Part of the webinar series: BLOCKCHAIN BASICS 2022
See more at https://www.financialpoise.com/webinars/
A blockchain is essentially a distributed database of records or public ledger of all transactions or digital events that have been executed and shared among participating parties. Each transaction in the public ledger is verified by consensus of a majority of the participants in the system. And, once entered, information can never be erased. The blockchain contains a certain and verifiable record of every single transaction ever made. To use a basic analogy, it is easy to steal a cookie from a cookie jar, kept in a secluded place than stealing the cookie from a cookie jar kept in a marketplace, being observed by thousands of people. In the report, it distinguishes between multiple types of blockchains and explains the two biggest platforms, namely Bitcoin and Ethereum. While introducing those two platforms we explain the most important technology and algorithms used such as proof of work concept. Some of the security issues and solutions are also covered. We conclude with some concrete Ethereum based applications that demonstrate the usage of blockchain technology beyond cryptocurrency and illustrate current developments in this field.
Blockchain Beyond the Hype. A Practical Framework for Business Leaders. This common sense and practical framework is designed
to assist executives in understanding whether blockchain
is an appropriate and helpful tool for their business needs.
It starts from the premise that blockchain is merely a
technology – much like many others that are already used
in society – and like other technologies it is as much about
change management and careful attention to the economics
and business models of industries and companies involved
as it is about technology evangelism. For any organization,
blockchain technology should not be a goal in itself but a
tool deployed to achieve specific purposes.
This thought leadership is a report detailing how Blockchain can be industrialized in ASEAN and how its potential can be unlocked across organizations.
The report also clearly illustrates the implications of Blockchain, its key developments, how it impacts countries across ASEAN and a five-point test for assessing the fit of Blockchain for specific processes, all serving to provide meaningful insights into the current state of the FinTech industry in the ASEAN region.
Blockchain the inception of a new database of everything by dinis guarda bloc...Dinis Guarda
Blockchain the inception of a new database of everything by Dinis Guarda blockchain age
Trends and questions?
1. Redefinition of banking and relation with Blockchain
Mobile App banking finance – mobile ledgers – blockchain identity
New products and the emergence of DAO products.
2. System Legacies in paralel with advanced tech - Ethereum.
3. Distribution Strategy in a new Digitalised World who own what.
4. Super computer Cloud base blochcain solutions / infrastructure.
5. Emergence of AI IOE in relation with blockchain all connected.
6. User Experience, UI, UE, Big data and the IOE blockchain touching.
7. Blockchain Cyber Security and Value Reinvention.
Blockchain can be used across the whole manufacturing industry to address all different types of projects and stakeholders. Its value to the manufacturing vertical is promising as Industry 4.0 continues to grow.
This thought leadership is a report detailing how Blockchain can be industrialized in ASEAN and how its potential can be unlocked across organizations.
The report also clearly illustrates the implications of Blockchain, its key developments, how it impacts countries across ASEAN and a five-point test for assessing the fit of Blockchain for specific processes, all serving to provide meaningful insights into the current state of the FinTech industry in the ASEAN region.
"This thought leadership is a report detailing how Blockchain can be industrialized in ASEAN and how its potential can be unlocked across organizations. The report also clearly illustrates the implications of Blockchain, its key developments, how it impacts countries across ASEAN and a five-point test for assessing the fit of Blockchain for specific processes, all serving to provide meaningful insights into the current state of the FinTech industry in the ASEAN region."
It explains the concept of Blockchain which is going revolutionize the world economy. Blockchain is going to change money, business and thus the world.
When consumer products get switched on, brands will be able to deploy new IoT-based applications and services throughout the full product lifecycle. But what role will blockchains play in this, and is the hype about its potential justified?
This white paper will show you which use cases are best suited to blockchains and how to assess whether a blockchain-based solution is really needed.
Blockchain applications in payments and fintechPenser
An overview of blockchain applications in the payments and fintech industry, with recent examples. For full article, see - https://www.penser.co.uk/blockchain-applications-payments-fintech/
This presentation takes the viewer through the basics of block chain concepts, its evolution and why it is a paradigm shift.
It also explores the ways in which the block chain concept can be put to use and how it has the potential to revolutionize the way businesses are conducted today.
Key takeaways
Idea of Blockchain.
The technology behind Blockchain.
Why it is a paradigm shift.
How it may be put to use in different industries.
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
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Unlock
Translate
Blockchain and
Distributed Ledger
Technology (DLT)
into plain English
Inform
Current status of
the sector
Illustrate
DLT use cases
Tools
A simple process
for you to
determine the
merits of DLT for
your industry and
company
In the next 30 minutes
5. 5
What people say
“Blockchain” – to describe a wide range
of innovations around blockchain,
distributed and shared ledgers
What it actually means
Distributed ledger technology (DLT)
• a consensus of replicated, shared,
and synchronized digital data
• across multiple sites, countries, or
institutions (nodes)
• public, private or hybrid
• no central administrator or
centralised data storage
BLOCK CHAIN
6. 6
1. “Transactions and assets recorded across multiple
databases…often with a lack of consistency and
confidence about the true position
2. Enormous resources are deployed to reconcile
data and records and ascertain the true position
…while the risks of errors and inconsistencies still
remain
3. Manual reconciliation processes and fact checking
are costly, timely and subject to many errors
between the corporations, counterparties”.
DLT applies best in the following circumstances:
The 21st Century’s
“paperwork crisis”
7. 7The benefits?
Each node validates new information
via cryptographic processes before it
is added to the ledger
Reliable
The same data is stored locally in
every node
Replicated
Distributed means no single point
of failure
Available
Visible to all participants
Transparent
“Source of truth” - impossible to make
changes without detection
Immutable
Any document or asset can be
expressed in code
Digital
Creates trust and reduces cost
10. 10
Traditional Clearing House Fully Decentralised
Reliance on central
intermediary or custodian
Public blockchain model
(e.g. Bitcoin)
Trusted shared ledger
for private consortiums
Hybrid Private Model
The Models
Significantly
compromises confidentiality
Costly and time consuming
13. 13Applications
Replacing its CHESS post-trade cash equities
system with a private, permissioned
distributed ledger system solving two big
problems fractured data and double
spending.
Australian Stock Exchange
Rich variety of trials and concepts underway
Australian banks
Automatic payment upon title transfer or
physical delivery of grain, removing the risk
to growers of buyers becoming insolvent or
having problems with payments.
Agribusiness
• Alternative payment platforms for retail
• Simplifying car buying & leasing enabling
automatic lease payments
• Loyalty programs simplifying settlement
Consumer & industrial
Creates trust and reduces cost
Estonian government using shared ledgers
to verify and manage digital identity
Public sector
Enabling low cost micropayments e.g.
newspaper website charging per article or per
page
Media
14. 14
Blockchain technology is a “solution looking for a problem” - a “completely
backwards” approach to innovation.
Nobody really knows how long it’s going to take to get to [mainstream adoption].
And I think that’s the key for distributed ledger technologies - if they only make it a
little bit better than what we have today, I don’t think any of us are going to be able
to justify the cost, the time, and the effort to bring it to market.
Don’t believe everything you hear about blockchain. It is ridiculously hyped.
If you can solve your problem without distributed ledger technology, continue to do
so. I’ve had people in large organisations say they need to put blockchain in the
business case because that’s how they’ll get the money. Not a good reason.
Cliff Richards
General Manager of Equity Post Trade Services, ASX
Mike Baldwin
Head of Innovation and Implementation, Westpac Institutional Bank
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A Decentralised Autonomous
Organisation (DAO) whose goal
is to codify the rules decision
making of an organisation:
• eliminating the need for
documents and people in
governance
• creating a structure with
decentralised control
Lessons learned:
• Technical problems in coding
errors plus complexity of
what they were trying to
achieve
• Poor governance
Lessons from DAO
Raised $150m in April 2016
An unknown attacker took $50m
due to coding errors in the
Smart Contract.
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Critical success factors
1
2
3
4
5
Setting the consortium strategy
Choosing the right shared ledger platform
Choosing the solution design
Planning to mitigate potential pitfalls
Establishing the consortium framework
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Trial re shipments of cotton abroad - a humidity
monitor inside a cotton container, linked to GPS
technology connected to the "internet of
things", can provide the insurer of the goods and
the buyers with real-time status of the physical
condition of the commodity. .
Linkage to other tech
Internet of Things (IoT) Smart Contracts
Hellosent monitors the condition of French wine
being exported to Singapore, allowing insurers
to receive automatic, real-time data feeds about
the temperature inside the container and
conditions at sea that might spoil the wine
Programmable contracts that automatically
execute on the shared ledger when pre-
defined conditions are met
Self executing and self enforcing
Contracts with standard commercials
models e.g. mortgages, insurance
Some challenges that are being resolved
include interoperability, scaleability and
governance frameworks
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Do you even need Blockchain?
Do you need a
database?
Does it require shared
write access?
Are writers known and
trusted?
Do you want / need to
use a trusted 3rd
party?
Do you need to
control functionality?
Do you want
transactions to be
private or public?
USE A PUBLIC BLOCKCHAIN USE A HYBRID BLOCKCHAIN USE A PRIVATE BLOCKCHAIN
DON’T USE BLOCKCHAIN
Are writers’
interests unified?
no
yes
no
yes
yes
no
intra firm
inter firm
Where is consensus
determined?
no
no
public
yes
yes
yes
no
private
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Where to from here?
Overcoming technical challenges –
scaleability and transaction
processing speed
Overcoming challenges
New age of consortium and
collaboration will likely solve the “the
paperwork crisis”
New age
Governance frameworks are developing - e.g.
The CODE (Centrally Organised Distributed
Entity) where a real world governance board
manages real world activities, in parallel with
automated processing (via smart contracts on
the public blockchain).
Governance frameworks
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References
SLIDE SLIDE TITLE SOURCE
6 21st Century’s “paperwork
crisis”
• Gilbert & Tobin, Private Shared Ledgers, The New Age of the Consortium,
9 November 2016
• “Paperwork Crisis” is sourced from Richard Gendal Brown, R3 Corda:
What makes it different” on Richard Gendal Brown, Thoughts on the
Future of Finance, 25 October 2016
8 Billions of Dollars of
Investment to date
World Economic Forum (WEF), The Future of Financial Infrastructure,
August 2016
10 The Models Gilbert & Tobin, Private Shared Ledgers, The New Age of the Consortium, 9
November 2016
11 Vast number of use-cases George Samman 2016
16 Critical Success Factors Gilbert & Tobin, Private Shared Ledgers, The New Age of the Consortium, 9
November 2016
17 Linkage to other tech AFR, “why trade finance is a good use case for blockchain”, James Eyers, July
25 2016, Cap Gemini, Smart Contracts in Financial Services, 2016
Editor's Notes
Gilbert & Tobin, Private Shared Ledgers, The New Age of the Consortium, 9 November 2016
“Paperwork Crisis” is sourced from Richard Gendal Brown, R3 Corda: What makes it different” on Richard Gendal Brown, Thoughts on the Future of Finance, 25 October 2016
Source: World Economic Forum (WEF), The Future of Financial Infrastructure, August 2016
Source ??
Source: Gilbert & Tobin, Private Shared Ledgers, The New Age of the Consortium, 9 November 2016
Source: George Samman 2016
Source: Gilbert & Tobin, Private Shared Ledgers, The New Age of the Consortium, 9 November 2016
Source: AFR, “why trade finance is a good use case for blockchain”, James Eyers, July 25 2016
Cap Gemini, Smart Contracts in Financial Services, 2016