HyperLedger vs Ethereum - A Battle for Blockchain, or a Match Made in Heaven?

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Agenda:

6:30 - Doors open. Networking.

6:50 - Welcome. Members to vote on the topics of interests for the future meetings.

7:00 - 7:30 Fireside chat: Hyperledger vs Ethereum - A War in the Making, or a Match Made in Heaven?"

7:30 - 8:00 Hyperledger: Project update. Next steps.

8:00 - 8:30 Fireside chat: Requirements and adoption bottlenecks for blockchain in financial services

8:30 - 8:50 Deep Dive into HyperLedger.

8:50 - Wrap-up.

DETAILED AGENDA:

7:00 - 7:30 Fireside chat: Hyperledger vs Ethereum - A War in the Making, or a Match Made in Heaven?"

Panelists:

-Bhavin P. Kapadia is an 8 years Independent Consultant for Investment Banks in OTC Calypso Derivatives Implementation Trading Systems

-Tom Menner is a NYC-based Senior Solution Architect at IBM covering solutions in e-Commerce, Payments, B2B Integration, Digital Marketing, and Customer Analytics. In prior roles he was a Worldwide Architect for the IBM WebSphere brand, as well as a consultant supporting distributed and transactional computing systems.

• Dan O'Prey is the CMO @ Digital Asset Holdings

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7:30 - 8:00 What is a Hyperledger Core?

• What is a Hyperledger Core? Where does it end?

• HyperLedger Governance

• Review of projects in incubator

• Likely scenarios for evolution of Hyperledger

• How you can get involved - opportunities for contribution

• Updates on the project from IBM perspective

Speaker: Tom Menner is a NYC-based Senior Solution Architect at IBM

8:00 - 8:30 Fireside chat: Requirements and adoption bottlenecks for blockchain in financial services

Panelists:

• Sophie Gilder, Blockchain Innovation Manager at Commonwealth Bank

• Scott Manuel, Vice President, Head of Product Management at Thomson Reuters

• Stephen Lane-Smith, Senior Business Security Architect at Rogers Communications

8:30 - 8:50 Deep Dive into HyperLedger.

• What is Hyperledger? Why Hyperledger? What does HyperLedger bring to the table?
• HyperLedger vs Ethereum vs Bitcoin Blockchain
• Use Cases for HyperLedger
• DEMO of HyperLedger

• Hands-on Tutorial - deployment of your first permissioned distributed ledger with 4 peers, using Hyperledger, Docker and 1 (one) laptop.

• Maturity - are we ready for production?

• The new world ahead. Roadmap.
• Anti-patterns - when NOT to use HyperLedger

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Speakers:

Renat Khasanshyn, CEO @ Altoros

Renat is CEO of Altoros Systems and Venture Partner at Runa Capital.

Helping Fortune 100 digitize revenue streams with Cloud Foundry, blockchain and deep learning

Sergey Balashevich, Project Manager @ Altoros

Sergey is a Project Manager at Altoros. With 10+ years in the software development industry, he has extensive experience in managing projects related to porting existing software solutions to work with cloud infrastructures, including Cloud Foundry-based environments.

8:50 Wrap-up.

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