Hyperledger Sawtooth

We are delighted to have Duncan Johnston-Watt, a member of the Hyperledger speaker bureau and the CEO of Hyperledger member, Blockchain Technology Partners from the UK, to speak with us on Hyperledger Sawtooth.

Hyperledger Sawtooth is an enterprise blockchain platform for building distributed ledger applications and networks. The design philosophy targets keeping ledgers distributed and making smart contracts safe, particularly for enterprise use. Hyperledger Sawtooth was initially contributed by Intel and was the second Hyperledger project that reached 1.0 in January 2018.

Duncan will first provide an overview of Hyperledger Sawtooth and then drill down on deploying and managing Sawtooth and the importance of the role of Kubernetes underpining this. We will round this talk off with a demonstration of the rapid deployment of Hyperledger Sawtooth on AWS which be a neat complement to the recent presentation by Michael Edge at the Kubernetes Hong Kong meetup earlier this month. Attached the recording and slides for those who missed or want a refresh:
Slides: https://bit.ly/2KEdAVf
Recording: https://youtu.be/y6OX5Qz7bug

Special thanks again to AWS for hosting us. Light refreshments will be served prior to the talk.

Agenda
6:30 Registration
7:00 Talk by Duncan
8:00 Q&A

About the speaker - Duncan Johnston-Watt

Duncan is a member of the Hyperledger speaker bureau and long time open source advocate. Most recently he founded Cloudsoft Corporation, creator of the Apache Brooklyn open source project and an early member of the Hyperledger community, serving as its CEO for nine years. Previously he was founder & CTO of Enigmatec Corporation which was sold to iWave and subsequently acquired by EMC. Prior to this he was at Instinet where he led the delivery of their Fixed Income brokerage platform, pioneering the use of Java enterprise technologies in Financial Services for which he was nominated for a Computerworld Smithsonian Award. Duncan holds an MSc in Computation from Oxford University where he was a graduate student at Balliol College.

Duncan is also one of the organisers of the Hyperledger Scotland community in Edinburgh.