DC Blockchain Summit Unites 500+ Global Blockchain Advocates
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dAO(demonopolied Autonomous Organization),
The Cooperativism of the Sharing Economy.
DAO(Decentralized Autonomous Organization) is ideal to let people exchange the value without intermediators. However, it is very difficult to realize DAO in real world due to the prematurity of blockchain technology. And the pain is not the centralized intermediator but the monopoly of the value and power by the intermediator in unfair way. So, dAO(demonopolied) Autonomous Organization might be a realistic way to solve the outstanding pains caused by the monopoly platform at current situation of blockchain technology.
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Mobile App banking finance – mobile ledgers – blockchain identity
New products and the emergence of DAO products.
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6. User Experience, UI, UE, Big data and the IOE blockchain touching.
7. Blockchain Cyber Security and Value Reinvention.
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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.
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Blockchain solutions forum and crypto-economy.
This partnership will build the leading global Blockchain solutions event.
BECON (Blockchain Ecosystem Network) is a global and cross-sector platform for collaboration, networking, explaining and advancing Blockchain methodologies and solutions, driving the application and implementation of blockchain in all private and public sectors.
Fira de Barcelona is one of the most important trade fair organisations in Europe and will schedule the Blockchain Solutions Forum alongside the 3rd IOT Solutions World Congress 2017 as an integrated event.
We would like to invite you to join us – building together the leading global event for the Blockchain industry this coming 3-5 October, 2017!
Blockchain Working Group
Annual Report
December 2021
Blockchain Working Group
Ruth Day*
Chair
Commissioner, Chief Information Officer
Commonwealth Office of Technology
Working Group Membership
Jim Barnhart*
Deputy Commissioner
Commonwealth Office of Technology
David Carter
Commonwealth Office of Technology
Karen Wilson*
Public Service Commission
Robert Thorne*
Energy and Environment Cabinet
Josh Keats*
Kentucky Office of Homeland Security
Wesley Hamilton
Recycladata
Grace Simrall
Louisville Metro Government
James Meece
Louisville Metro Government
Senator Brandon Smith
Kentucky Senate, District 30
Anthony Ellis
Cabinet for Economic Development
Dr. Brian Houillion*
University of the Cumberlands
Christopher Poynter*
Owensboro Municipal Utilities
Designee, Kentucky Municipal Utilities Association
Chris Hayes*
Kentucky Electric Cooperatives
Designee, Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperatives
Adam Koehler
Reversed Out
Clark Snowden*
Louisville Gas and Electric
John Woeltz
Bluegrass Blockchain
Administrative Support
Alice Lawson
Legislative Research Commission
Karen Chrisman
Commonwealth Office of Technology
* Members appointed or designated in compliance with KRS 42.747
Blockchain Working Group
Background
The Blockchain Working Group is a collaborative panel of subject matter experts defined in Senate Bill 55, and
subsequently codified in Kentucky Revised Statute Chapter 42.747, with the mission to evaluate the feasibility
and efficacy of using blockchain technology to enhance the security of and increase protection for the state's
critical infrastructure, including but not limited to the electric utility grid, natural gas pipelines, drinking water
supply and delivery, wastewater, telecommunications, and emergency services.
The membership of the working group is comprised of nine members defined in KRS 42.747 as well as an array
of representatives from state and local government, public utilities, and private sector business who were
chosen based on their knowledge and engagement with blockchain technology to ensure a broad depth of
knowledge and insight. Through spanning these various government and business sectors, the group can
explore and document those opportunities that place the Commonwealth in the forefront in the support and
usage of blockchain technology as a tool to empower business in the state.
The group convened for the first meeting on September 9, 2020 and has held regularly occurring meetings to
develop the contents within this report based on the mission as defined within the Senate Bill and resulting
Kentucky Revised Statutes. The primary goals of the initial report are to define blockchain in relation to mission
of the working group, provide short term tactical recommendations, and highlight those areas of opportunity
where a more strategic analysis by the wor.
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by the incredible support you have provided to the Chamber.
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for this exciting industry. If you’re not a member of the Chamber
already, we invite you to join. By doing so, you not only help develop
an important vehicle for blockchain policy but also benefit from
education, insight and unmatched networking opportunities.
Thank you,
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Chamber of Digital Commerce
3. A DIALOG AT THE INTERSECTION OF
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with policymakers, regulatory agencies & industry,
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WEDNESDAY - MARCH 15, 2017
DAY 2
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8:45 AM FIRESIDE CHAT: Congressional Blockchain Caucus
9:20 AM KEYNOTE: David Treat, Accenture
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2:30 PM Opening Remarks
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4:25 PM KEYNOTE: Alex Tapscott, Northwest Passage Ventures
4:45 PM SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: State of Illinois
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5. DAY 2 (continued)
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4:25 PM PANEL 6: Thought Leaders - The Economics of
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AVIK ROY / Editor, Forbes, President, Foundation for Research on
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“Father of the Internet”
Dr. Robert (Bob) E. Kahn is Chairman, CEO and President
of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI),
which he founded in 1986 after a thirteen-year term at
the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA). He is known as the “Father of the Internet,”
and in 1974 co-authored a paper titled, “A Protocol for
Packet Network Intercommunication,” which described the
working protocol for sharing resources and later became
the foundation for the World Wide Web, email, file sharing
and remote transfer. Dr. Kahn coined the term National
Information Infrastructure (NII) in the mid-1980s—also
known more popularly as the Information Super Highway.
In his most recent work, Dr. Kahn is developing the concept
of digital object architecture, a key component of the NII.
This notion is providing a framework for interoperability of
heterogeneous information systems and is being used in
many applications such as the Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
9. WEDNESDAY 4:25 PM
KEYNOTE: ALEX TAPSCOTT
RE-THINKING DEMOCRACY FOR THE BLOCKCHAIN ERA
ALEX TAPSCOTT /
Co-author of Blockchain Revolution
Founder & CEO of Northwest Passage Ventures
Join Alex Tapscott, co-author of Blockchain Revolution, as
he dissects what blockchain could mean for democracy and
the future of government. In a world of “Fake News” and
the fight for a free press, the public is faced with everyday
challenges on what is legitimate and what is not. According
to Alex, blockchain technology holds immense potential to
solve the crisis of legitimacy in our democratic institutions
— to tackle anything from online voting to real-time fact
checking. A blockchain-powered democracy could create a
new era of politics based on transparency, accountability
and a culture of public deliberation — where politicians are
beholden to their constituents rather than the big money
that funded their campaigns.
10. THURSDAY 8:45 AM
FIRESIDE CHAT
CONGRESSIONAL BLOCKCHAIN CAUCUS
The bipartisan Congressional Blockchain Caucus is dedicated to the advancement of
sound public policy toward blockchain-based technologies and digital currencies. The
co-chairs of the caucus share their entrepreneurial vision for breaking down barriers
to innovation and building new opportunities to help pave the way for the Internet of
Value. The caucus holds regular briefings and educational events on Capitol Hill and
serves as an educational resource for members of Congress and their staffs.
CO-CHAIRS OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BLOCKCHAIN CAUCUS
MODERATED BY
PERIANNE BORING / Founder & President,
Chamber of Digital Commerce
REP. JARED POLIS
(D-CA)
REP. DAVID SCHWEIKERT
(R-AZ)
11. THURSDAY 9:20 AM
KEYNOTE: DAVID TREAT
BLOCKCHAIN: MOVING FROM EXPERIMENT TO PRODUCTION
DAVID TREAT / Managing Director, Financial
Services, Blockchain Lead, Accenture
David Treat is a managing director and the global head
of Accenture’s Financial Services Blockchain practice. He
is also the co-lead of Accenture’s firm-wide Blockchain
Strategic Growth Initiative and manages Accenture’s
relationship with several large financial services clients.
With more than 20 years of experience, David has driven
the formation of Accenture’s blockchain practice, which
now spans the globe. He also engages clients across all
industries, ranging from pure R&D to full-scale client
business-transformation business entities. In addition to
managing several of Accenture’s strategic alliances in the
blockchain domain, David sits on the boards of the Linux
Hyperledger Project and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.
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13. THURSDAY 9:50 AM
PANEL 2: INSURANCE
INSURANCE REIMAGINED WITH BLOCKCHAIN
The insurance industry manages risk for a living. One of the key existential risks on
the horizon for insurers is how blockchain technology disrupts existing business
models and service offerings. Or, does blockchain actually represent a rare
opportunity to embrace and leverage a new technology frontier to reimagine the
way in which the insurance industry operates and evolves?
PANELISTS
JEFFREY BILLINGHAM / Vice President Financial Markets,
IHS Markit
ED DEUSER / Actuarial Solutions, RGA Reinsurance Company
RICHARD LEVIN / Shareholder, Polsinelli
JAGADEESHA RAO / Blockchain Workstream Lead,
Swiss Reinsurance
BO SHEVCHIK / Co-Chair Blockchain/DLT Working Group,
Association of Government Accountants (AGA); Alliance Director,
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
MODERATED BY
JASON BRETT / Director of Operations, Chamber of
Digital Commerce
14. THURSDAY 11:10 AM
PANEL 3: BLOCKCHAIN IP
TO PROTECT OR NOT TO PROTECT?
It has been estimated that 84 percent of the market value of the S&P 500 is based
on intangible assets, such as patents, and many of the key players in the distributed-
ledger technology (DLT) ecosystem are aggressively pursuing patents. While much
of DLT is embodied in open source software, international patent assets related to
DLT have increased at an accelerating rate since 2010. This panel will discuss the
dichotomy between protecting intellectual property assets and fostering innovation
in an open source and decentralized world.
PANELISTS
PAUL KELLER / Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
PATRICK MURCK / Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet &
Society at Harvard University, Special Counsel, Cooley
JAMES MURDOCK / Chief Business Officer & General Counsel,
Blockstream Corporation
MODERATED BY
MARC KAUFMAN / Partner, Rimon Law
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15. THURSDAY 11:45 AM
LEGAL BRIEF: DANA SYRACUSE,
SENIOR COUNSEL, PERKINS COIE
Dana Syracuse concentrates his practice in the blockchain, fintech, e-commerce and
financial services sectors, working with clients on regulatory, business and product
counseling, cyber and data security and enforcement concerns. Dana is the former
associate general counsel for the NYDFS and a leading figure in the development of
the country’s first comprehensive digital currency regulation. He works with a range
of fintech and digital business clients on federal and state regulatory, compliance and
enforcement matters, and complex bank regulatory issues. Dana frequently interacts
with lawmakers at the state and federal level on many of these issues, including
testifying before the United States House of Representatives. Dana is a frequent
media commentator, speaker and author on virtual and crypto currencies, money
laundering, financial services regulations, data security privacy and the balance
between innovation and regulation in the financial sector.
16. THURSDAY 1:00 PM
FIRESIDE CHAT
BLYTHE MASTERS
Blythe Masters is taking the financial world by storm. Her company, Digital Asset,
is building powerful new post-trade software utilizing blockchain technology for
systemically consequential financial institutions. Blythe Masters will discuss why this
technology is so revolutionary, the challenges it presents, and how new blockchain
solutions can be implemented to create a better financial system.
BLYTHE MASTERS / CEO, Digital Asset
MODERATED BY
PERIANNE BORING / Founder & President,
Chamber of Digital Commerce
17. THURSDAY 1:25 PM
PANEL 4: FINANCIAL SERVICES
ARE WE CLOSER TO REALITY? WHEN WILL WE SEE MASS
ADOPTION OF BLOCKCHAIN IN FINANCIAL SERVICES?
A year ago, financial institutions were forming alliances and experimenting with
blockchain technology. Some of these experiments have been successful—we are
likely to see at least one large-scale implementation this year. Our diverse group of
panelists will share success stories and lessons-learned, and then brainstorm on ways
to accelerate mass adoption.
PANELISTS
AMY DAVINE KIM / Counsel, Buckley Sandler
SADIA HALIM / Managing Director, BNP Paribas
JARED HARWAYNE-GIDANSKY / Deputy Global Head of Emerging
Business & Technology, BNY Mellon
DAVID MILLS / Deputy Associate Director, Federal Reserve
ROBERT PALATNICK / Managing Director & Chief
Technology Architect, DTCC
MODERATED BY
PRAKASH SANTHANA / Managing Director, Deloitte
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
18. THURSDAY 2:10 PM
SUMMIT EXCLUSIVE
ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW GLOBAL BLOCKCHAIN INITIATIVE
DON TAPSCOTT /
CEO of Tapscott Group, Co-Author of
Blockchain Revolution
Don is the author of 16 books and has introduced ground-
breaking concepts for more than three decades. He is also
a member of the Order of Canada and was named the
fourth-most influential management thinker in the world
by Thinkers50. So what could possibly be next? Join us
for an exclusive, first-hand look into his latest project.
19. THURSDAY 2:30 PM
PANEL 5: INTERNATIONAL
GLOBAL BLOCKCHAIN CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES
It’s not just the commercial applications of blockchain that are exciting the
community. Distributed ledger technology can significantly improve the way medical
supply chains, education, aid and other philanthropic initiatives are executed and
accounted for. This truly global panel will discuss ways in which this revolutionary
technology can play a major role for social good, contributing to societal advances
in both developing as well as emerging economies.
PANELISTS
ALAN COHN / Of Counsel, Steptoe & Johnson
MELTEM DEMIRORS / Director of Development, Digital
Currency Group
NEERAJ KULSHRESTHA / Chief Operations Office, Bombay
Stock Exchange
JOSHUA LELAND / Director, Blockchain for Development Solutions
Lab, Chemonics International
JUSTIN NEWTON / CEO and Co-Founder, Netki
MODERATED BY
LORETTA JOSEPH / Advisory Council Chair, Australian Digital
Currency & Commerce Association
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
20. THURSDAY 3:10 PM
ANJU MAREMPUDI:
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE, FINTECH
VALLEY VIZAG, GOVERNMENT OF
ANDHRA PRADESH
Driven by CM Nara Chandrababu Naidu’s vision to create 500,000 jobs in the
state of Andhra Pradesh, India by 2020 through technology-enabled services,
the recently-established Fintech Valley has become a playground for start-ups
and innovators looking to disrupt traditional business processes. The valley
focuses on converging finance and technology by enabling market access,
world-class infrastructure, funding, human capital and innovation to achieve
unmatched business goals and successes.
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSOR
21. THURSDAY 3:40 PM
FIRESIDE CHAT
DAVID RUTTER
David Rutter brings more than 30 years of experience leading some of Wall Street’s
top institutions. This long-time creative thought leader in financial markets and
innovation has played a significant role in the adoption of electronic trading in
the global OTC derivatives industry. David also served for ten years as the CEO of
Electronic Broking at ICAP Plc, the world’s largest interdealer broker, where he led
the BrokerTec fixed income and EBS foreign exchange platforms. Prior to ICAP,
David was co-owner and CEO (Americas) of Prebon Yamane.
DAVID RUTTER / Founder & Managing Partner, R3CEV
MODERATED BY
PERIANNE BORING / Founder & President,
Chamber of Digital Commerce
22. THURSDAY 4:00 PM
KEYNOTE: JONATHAN JOHNSON
JONATHAN JOHNSON /
Chairman of the Board, Overstock.com
Jonathan Johnson is president of Medici Ventures,
Overstock’s subsidiary that oversees a portfolio of
blockchain technology and fintech businesses, which
include t0, and investments in Bitt.com, PeerNova, ripio,
factom, Settlemint and IdentityMind. In this role, Johnson
is responsible for continuing Medici Ventures’ efforts to
pioneer growth and innovation in applying the blockchain
to financial systems and beyond.
Johnson has served as the chairman of Overstock’s board
of directors since April 2014, transitioning to the position
after five years as the company’s president, and later, as the
acting CEO and executive vice chairman of the board. Prior
to joining Overstock, Johnson was with TenFold Corporation
in various positions, including CFO and general counsel.
23. THURSDAY 4:25 PM
PANEL 6: THOUGHT LEADERS
THE ECONOMICS OF BLOCKCHAIN NETWORKS
Beyond the technology, once a blockchain network is deployed, how does the
flywheel start turning? Network effects matter and are approached very differently
amongst public, private and consortium blockchains. Furthermore, digital currencies
are creating an entirely-new asset class and developing a new discipline of study
called cryptoeconomics. This is all being exercised with the surge of initial coin
offerings (ICOs) — not only creating a significant amount of regulatory debate,
but also fundamentally changing the way in which open source projects are
financed and how incentives are created amongst network participants.
PANELISTS
BRIAN BEHLENDORF / Executive Director, Hyperledger
JERRY CUOMO / IBM Fellow and Vice President of Blockchain
Technologies, IBM
RUMI MORALES / Executive Director, CME Ventures, Board of
Advisors, Chamber of Digital Commerce
LATA VARGHESE / Blockchain Practice Leader, Cognizant
FREDRIK VOSS / Vice President, Blockchain Innovation, Nasdaq
MODERATED BY
MATTHEW ROSZAK / Co-Founder and Chairman, Bloq,
Chairman, Chamber of Digital Commerce
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSOR