Practical Blockchain & IoT Meetup in Boston (Data & IoT & Blockchain & Fintech)

It's a FREE event. We will also be FREE offering pizza, snacks, and drinks throughout the event. PLEASE bring your PHOTO ID for convenient check-in. Attendees will have a chance to win a FREE pair of Apple AirPods at the end of the meetup!!

The host Taraxa is HIRING for developers! Come and talk with the CEO of Taraxa for your career opportunities.

• Distributed Systems
• Applied Cryptography
• Languages & Compilers
• Concurrency

It started with Bitcoin, in which transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain. New technologies like IoT (Internet of Things) are creating more opportunities for the application of blockchain. At the same time, blockchain technology can help IoT ecosystems become more trusted, autonomous, and valuable.

Practical Blockchain & IoT Meetup in Boston will bring together leading entrepreneurs, researchers, and thought leaders in IoT and blockchain industries all around the world physically to meet, discuss, support each other, and create opportunities for collaboration and entrepreneurship in blockchain and IoT industry. Especially, our honorable speakers include Maurice Herlihy, Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. He is also the advisor for several well-known blockchain projects including Algorand, Ethos, and Taraxa.

The Meetup is scheduled for October 3rd, 2019, from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM, in Boston, which is hosted by Taraxa.

The Meetup is expected to come with over 100 industry blockchain and IoT investors and entrepreneurs, including the popular speakers, scholars, and blockchain practitioners and enthusiasts. It will be a great chance to discuss news blockchain and IoT investing opportunities, share knowledge and learn from each other.

Agenda:
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Registration & Refreshments
6:30 PM - 6:35 PM Opening Remark
Speaker: Steven Pu, CEO & Founder of Taraxa

6:35 PM - 7:00 PM Keynote Speech 1
Speaker: Steven Pu | CEO & Founder of Taraxa
Topic: Practical IoT/Blockchain Applications

7:00 PM – 7:20 PM Keynote Speech 2
Speaker: Maurice Herlihy | Advisor of Taraxa, An Wang Professor of Computer Science at Brown University
Topic: Concurrency in Blockchain

7:20 PM – 8:00 PM Panel Discussion

8:00 PM - 8:30 PM Social & Network

Honorable Guests & Speakers (Partial):
Maurice Herlihy | Advisor at Taraxa, An Wang Professor of Computer Science at Brown University
Maurice Herlihy has an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from M.I.T. He has served on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University, on the staff of DEC Cambridge Research Lab, and is currently a professor in the Computer Science Department at Brown University.

Steven Pu | Founder at Taraxa
Steven Pu is an IoT and healthcare entrepreneur, and also a strategy consultant. He has a B.S. and an M.S. in EE from Stanford University. He was co-founder & CEO of LinkSens Systems; co-founder & Head of Product of EviPath; and the Director in Monitor Deloitte.

Brian Olson | Principal Software Engineer at Algorand

(More guests are coming...)

About Taraxa:
Taraxa is a fast, scalable, and device-friendly public ledger designed to help IoT ecosystems become more trusted, autonomous, and valuable. Taraxa is founded by Stanford alumni with a focus on facilitating IoT data sharing and trading. The project’s tech Highlights include rapidly-finalized DAG, concurrency inspired by STM, fuzzy sharding, trustless light nodes, and adaptive protocol. Taraxa introduces significant new innovations such as concurrent smart contracts based on the principles of STM, practical trustless light nodes for IoT devices, and encrypted data markets. It is well-funded and has a slew of partnerships negotiated ready to deploy applications on our protocol once the main net launches.
For more info, please visit https://taraxa.io.