Blockchain technology provides a distributed database that maintains a growing list of records called blocks. Each block contains a timestamp and link to the previous block. Blockchain solves the double spending problem for digital currencies like bitcoin without a central authority. Characteristics of blockchain include information stored across a shared distributed database rather than a single location, making records public and verifiable. Transactions are immutable and exist forever in a state of consensus. The network is powered by nodes that validate transactions and get copies of the blockchain. Nodes are incentivized through mining cryptocurrency or transaction fees. Beyond currency, Ethereum enables decentralized applications and smart contracts that run exactly as programmed without downtime or interference.
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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.
There's a lot of buzz around Blockchain, Is Blockchain the next” Big Thing" in the IT industry? It certainly looks to have a huge impact in finance, but it could also have far reaching effect in many other industries as well
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In this keynote, delivered at the Blockchain Forum of BPM 2019, I summarized and reflected on research on BPM and blockchain over the last four years, including model-driven engineering, process execution, and analysis and process mining. I also covered selected use cases and applications, as well as recent insights on adoption. The keynote closed with a discussion of open research questions.
This presentation shows the evolution of blockchain implementations from simple financial transactions to complex computer programs (i.e. Smart Contracts)
Ethereum at its simplest, is an open software platform based on blockchain technology
Ethereum allows developers to build and deploy decentralized applications.
It explains the concept of Blockchain which is going revolutionize the world economy. Blockchain is going to change money, business and thus the world.
Blockchain - Primer for City CIOs v05 01 22.pdfssusera441c2
Blockchain primary for city government chief information officers. Originally prepared for the Cities Leadership Forum hosted by Cities Institute, Philadelphia March 2022.
A guest lecture delivered by Dr Farrukh Habib at INCEIF, Kuala Lumpur, on 22nd March, 2018.
Dr Farrukh Habib is an expert in sharia and Islamic finance. He is a adviser, researcher and trainer. He is keen interest in FinTech.
Yao Yao, Jack Rasmus-Vorrath, Ivelin Angelov
https://github.com/yaowser/basic_blockchain
https://www.academia.edu/35646619/Blockchain_Security_and_Demonstration
https://www.slideshare.net/YaoYao44/blockchain-security-and-demonstration-86062973
Distributed ledger technology over a network of computers, which provides an alternative to the centralized system
Distributed Database
Peer-to-Peer Transmission
Transparency with Pseudonymity
Records are immutable
Computational Logic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ArZxRdhyPc
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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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.
This presentation shows the evolution of blockchain implementations from simple financial transactions to complex computer programs (i.e. Smart Contracts)
Ethereum at its simplest, is an open software platform based on blockchain technology
Ethereum allows developers to build and deploy decentralized applications.
It explains the concept of Blockchain which is going revolutionize the world economy. Blockchain is going to change money, business and thus the world.
Blockchain - Primer for City CIOs v05 01 22.pdfssusera441c2
Blockchain primary for city government chief information officers. Originally prepared for the Cities Leadership Forum hosted by Cities Institute, Philadelphia March 2022.
A guest lecture delivered by Dr Farrukh Habib at INCEIF, Kuala Lumpur, on 22nd March, 2018.
Dr Farrukh Habib is an expert in sharia and Islamic finance. He is a adviser, researcher and trainer. He is keen interest in FinTech.
Yao Yao, Jack Rasmus-Vorrath, Ivelin Angelov
https://github.com/yaowser/basic_blockchain
https://www.academia.edu/35646619/Blockchain_Security_and_Demonstration
https://www.slideshare.net/YaoYao44/blockchain-security-and-demonstration-86062973
Distributed ledger technology over a network of computers, which provides an alternative to the centralized system
Distributed Database
Peer-to-Peer Transmission
Transparency with Pseudonymity
Records are immutable
Computational Logic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ArZxRdhyPc
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...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.
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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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Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
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Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
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And...
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Charlie Greenberg, Host
7. • Wikipedia – “A distributed database that is used to maintain a continuously
growing list of records, called blocks. Each block contains a timestamp and a
link to a previous block”
8. Double spend conundrum
• Double-spending is the result of successfully spending digital money more than once
• Blockchain for bitcoin made it the first digital currency to solve the double spending
problem without requiring a trusted administrator
• Protects against double spending by verifying each transaction added and ensuring that
the inputs for the transaction had not previously already been spent
• Uses a decentralized system, where a consensus among nodes following the same protocol
is substituted for a central authority
9. Characteristics of blockchain
• Information held on a blockchain exists as a shared — and continually reconciled —
distributed database
• The blockchain database isn’t stored in any single location, meaning the records it
keeps are truly public and easily verifiable
• No centralized version of this information exists for a hacker to corrupt
• Hosted by millions of computers simultaneously, its data is accessible to anyone on
the internet
10. Characteristics of blockchain
• Decentralized nature prevents control by a single entity
• Transactions are immutable (unable to be changed) and exist forever
• The blockchain network lives in a state of consensus, one that automatically checks
in with itself every ten minutes (new block creation)
• Eliminate third party intermediaries/overhead costs to reduce transaction fees, in
addition to settling transactions 24/7
11.
12. How is the network powered? (Nodes)
• Node – A computer connected to the blockchain network using a client that
performs the task of validating and relaying transactions) gets a copy of the
blockchain, which gets downloaded automatically upon joining the
blockchain network
• Every node is an “administrator” of the blockchain, and joins the network
voluntarily (in this sense, the network is decentralized)
13. Why host a node?
• Incentive - the chance of winning cryptocurrency (proof of work)
• Nodes are said to be “mining” by solving computational puzzles and adding transaction
records to the blockchain (fees)
• Smart way to issue the currency (decentralized) and creates an incentive for more people to
mine
• Nodes use the blockchain to distinguish legitimate transactions from attempts to re-spend
coins that have already been spent elsewhere
14.
15. Bitcoin has been useful as a digital currency, but
merely stands as a one-trick pony. An idea was
envisioned for the blockchain to provide
functionality far beyond currency.
Enter Ethereum and Smart Contracts
17. Build unstoppable applications
• Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts:
applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility
of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.
• These apps run on a custom built blockchain, an enormously
powerful shared global infrastructure that can move value around
and represent the ownership of property.
• This enables developers to create markets, store registries of debts
or promises, move funds in accordance with instructions given long
in the past (like a will or a futures contract) and many things that
have not been invented yet, all without a middle man or
counterparty risk.
18.
19. What are smart contracts?
• Computer protocols that facilitate, verify, or enforce the negotiation or
performance of a contract, or that make a contractual clause unnecessary
• Help you exchange money, property, shares, or anything of value in a
transparent, conflict-free way, while avoiding the services of a middleman
• Define the rules and penalties around an agreement in the same way that a
traditional contract does, but also automatically enforce those obligations
(code is law)
20.
21. The disconnected nature of un-trusted systems
manifests itself in the time required to fully close
out transactions
21
22. With blockchains, the future of finance is
embedded in business process everywhere.
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Shipping
Trade Finance
Insurance
Customs
Distributor
Production
Purchase orders
proof of demand
that unlocks
trade finance.
Payment for
shipping and
insurance is
automated.
Tariff, tax & duty
calculations,
documents &
payments are built into
purchase agreements.
Payments are
automated into the
purchase contract and
triggered upon
delivery.
23. And in every smart thing and industrial asset.
23
Maintenance
• Automatically
detect and
purchase repair
services
Financing
• Access tied to identity
and payments
• Value of the verified
income stream
User Fees
• Billing & payments for
rides
Fractional Ownership
• Why own a whole car if
you only use part of it?
24. Now you have a platform with applications that run exactly as programmed
without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party
interference capable of executing smart contracts.
What do we do next?
Let’s check out some DAPPS.
30. IoT Markets
Machines can be customers in machine-to-machine markets. Utilities, data storage, data usage, XaaS services,
and APIs are all services that usually offer rate limits or subscription models because charging on a per-use basis is
infeasible.With µRaiden, per-use charging finally becomes possible.
Pay-per-Use
Micropayments are becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to intrusive advertisement
and subscription walls. µRaiden gives users the option to decide on a pay-per-use basis
whether they would rather endure ads or pay for a premium experience. Customers would not
need to engage in the commitment of a monthly subscription model.
31. Singapore Central Bank Reveals 3 New Blockchain Payments Prototypes
The White House and EquifaxAgree: Social Security Numbers Should Go
Ethereum’s Founder Struck a Deal with a Russian Bank to Create ‘Ethereum Russia’
United Nations Sends Aid to 10,000 Syrian Refugees Using Ethereum Blockchain
MicrosoftAdds JPMorgan’s 'Quorum' Blockchain to Azure Platform
Ethereum Enterprise Alliance Adds 86 New Including DTCC, State
Street And InfosysMembers
38. Why AEP?
• Green energy credits
• Electric charging stations
• Smart contract solutions to guarantee uptime
• Retail based solutions to reduce costs
39. AEP ECO-Advantage
• As an environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional electricity plans, we
offer ECO-Advantage℠, which matches 100% of your electricity usage with
national Green-e® Energy certified, wind Renewable Energy Certificates
(RECs)
• Match 100% of your usage with national Green-e Energy certified wind RECs
• Same electricity service, one monthly bill from your local utility, no
interruption of service or installation of additional equipment
41. Germany’s Energy Giant Launches
100s of Ethereum Based Electric Cars
Charging Stations
“Tomorrow 100s of EV Charging Assets all
over Germany Blockchainified. E2E Product
using asset-backed Crypto-EURO for
payments,” before adding “our EV
Charging assets will be on public ethereum
blockchain and further assets across EU
connected soon.”
“By using a computer chip in the charging station, a smartphone app
to communicate with the interface, and a blockchain to manage and
record all of the payment and charging data, a fully automated,
worldwide authentication, charging and billing solution with no
middleman is created.”
43. Smart contract based trading solutions
• Turbine is powered off atAEP plant,
causing an energy shortage
• Traders determine pricing for power
and shortage is covered
• Instead, use smart contracts to define
pricing before an outage event
When the outage event
occurs, the smart contract
executes with the agreed
upon terms
44. • In a deregulated market, electricity retailers buy electricity at wholesale price (in 1 MWh increments) and then
package and sell that electricity directly to consumers
• Retailers are not responsible for powering customers directly, but are responsible for metering and billing usage
• In addition to paying for generation, transmission, and distribution, end users also pay fees to their retailer
• These costs are largely comprised of marketing, administration, and managing risk/compliance for bad debts and
customer funds
• This can (and often does) add up to quite a large percentage, as shown by the average price of electricity in
various states in the following graph:
45.
46. • Grid+ is not interested in managing user funds or in settling bad debts
• Users prepay each month in dollars, which is tokenized on Ethereum as a dollar-backed
stable coin
• As a retailer, they have access to customers’ usage data, which gets updated every 15
minutes
• Every 15 minutes they query a customer’s agent (which can be any device capable of
making ECDSA signatures) for payment
• The agent signs a message sending a small amount of money over a state channel and
Grid+ takes a small fee from that transaction as a form of revenue
47. gridSMART and AEP Energy Credits
• Tokenize user funds as a dollar backed stable coin
• Customers pre-pay or link bank account to convert USD to AEP energy credits
• gridSMART reads customer data every 15 minutes, deducting energy credits from customer wallets
• Users are able to monitor their energy usage in 15 minute increments, allowing greater visibility of energy usage
• AEP is insulated from bad debts and high-risk users through pre-pay model
• App teams are able to share data with ease using the distributed database model
Credits
48. Blockchains aren’t for everyone and they aren’t
for every solution. Here is a five point test.
49. Traditionally, IT has been regarded as a cost center
Using blockchain, companies will be able to drive profits through technology