Track Overview
Enterprise Blockchain
Blockchain technology is being integrated into multiple areas like financial services, smart contracts, supply chain, gaming, and more. And the promise for decentralization, trust, and traceability has motivated a lot of organizations to pursue projects in this field.But with this new approach come a lot of adoption challenges like:
- How do you deal with privacy and regulations?
- How do you cope with slow transaction speeds?
- How do you scale blockchain-based systems?
- How do you integrate blockchain-based systems into existing architectures?
Join us in this track to hear from practitioners in the field talk about their adoption stories and how large organizations are moving towards blockchain technologies.
From this track
Enhancing DeFi Security and Compliance Through Transaction Decoding
Wednesday Apr 6 / 10:35AM BST
Scams and hacks have become high-profile in the nascent but fast-growing DeFi market, introducing the risk that investor funds can be lost. Either the code behind a smart contract could be compromised or there might be suspicious activity behind the counterparties’ trading addresses....
Alex Batlin
Founder & CEO @TrustologyIO
Enterprise Blockchain and the Metaverse
Wednesday Apr 6 / 11:50AM BST
The enterprise blockchain space has seen over 3.5x growth over the past 12 months with over US$6 billion in investments. The recent developments in blockchain applications across FT tokenisation and NFTs, DeFi and decentralised digital identity has the potential to provide key enablers in the...
David Palmer
Business Lead @VodafoneGroup
Don't Fall Into the Platform Trap - How to Think About Web3 Architecture
Wednesday Apr 6 / 01:40PM BST
Web3 represents a shift in information flow, putting the user in control, and is a threat to the existing Web2 platform model.Understanding this is key to building successful Web3 services, and this talk walks you through the key differences between a Web2 and Web3 architecture model.
Christian Felde
Head of Services @Web3Labs
A Guide to 81M+ Users: Building Scalable Blockchain Applications
Wednesday Apr 6 / 02:55PM BST
Enterprise blockchain projects more than doubled from 2019 to 2020, and industry analysts expect use cases to keep growing at the same pace year after year. Despite blockchain technology moving beyond hype, the technology still has a ways to go before mass adoption and building these products is...
Lewis Tuff
VP of Engineering @Blockchain.com
Is Enterprise Blockchain Dead?
Wednesday Apr 6 / 04:10PM BST
IBM scaled back its blockchain efforts this year after repeatedly failing to hit its revenue targets. Most of the press talks about Ethereum & DeFi, we don’t hear much coming from the enterprise side of the industry so we have to ask, is enterprise blockchain dead?
Mo Elshami
CTO @web3labs
David Palmer
Business Lead @VodafoneGroup
Paul Yardly
Head of Custody Engineering @TrustologyIO
Speakers from this track
Alex Batlin
Founder & CEO @TrustologyIO
Alex Batlin, Founder & CEO, Trustology is an entrepreneur with extensive banking and blockchain experience. Previously, at BNY Mellon, Alex was Blockchain Lead and Founding Head of the Emerging Business & Technology team. At UBS, Alex was Founding Head of a...
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Business Lead @VodafoneGroup
David Palmer is a digital visionary and global platform innovator. He is the Vodafone Business lead for Blockchain technology, and he has been key to exploring the application of blockchain to telecoms and wider business.David is an expert on the convergence of digital technologies and new...
Read moreChristian Felde
Head of Services @Web3Labs
Open Source, blockchain, and DeFi contributorExperience in applying technology to finance for world’s largest banksMSc in Quantitative Finance (Bayes Business School)BSc in Computer Science & Industrial Automation (University of South-Eastern Norway)
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VP of Engineering @Blockchain.com
Lewis is the Vice President of Engineering at Blockchain.com where he is responsible for the technology underpinning Blockchain.com’s services. As the 2nd engineering hire at Revolut, he scaled the team to 50+ and spearheaded the initiative to bring cryptocurrencies to...
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Mo Elshami
CTO @web3labs
Mohamed is a Chief Technology Officer at Web3 Labs, a leading blockchain startup that works with large organizations and enterprises to help them with their blockchain adoption journey. Over 15 years in software development, he has led the delivery of several projects in finance and investment...
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Head of Custody Engineering @TrustologyIO
Paul is a software engineer and team leader with many years of experience working for top tier banks. Prior to joining Trustology as Head ofEngineering, Paul worked as a lead engineer in BY Mellon's Blockchain team. Before BNY Mellon, Paul worked as a senior engineer in UBS's Level 39...
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Bruno Couriol
InfoQ Editor Web Development, Technical Product Management/Product
Still writing software 30 years after writing his first program.Helps businesses and non-profits make software that find their users.
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