2 speakers: digital property registration; PLUMcoin

A representative of ascribe.io, BigchainDB and the IPDB Foundation will teleconference with us, to present what these groups are doing, including the Ocean Protocol, inter alia to register and transfer ownership of digital property. For background, see the ascribe.io web site and these related pages from its co-founder, successful AI/EDA serial entrepreneur Trent McConaghy:

https://www.bigchaindb.com/whitepaper/

https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/from-ai-to-blockchain-to-data-meet-ocean-f210ff460465

Chris Smolen of Upstate Networks Inc. (http://www.upstatenetworks.com/), developer of the first prototype vending machine that accepted BTC from a smartphone, will present UNI's new Payment Layer for Unattended Merchandising and its Ethereum-based PLUMcoin.

My firm CTI (http://www.critical.com/) will sponsor a face-to-face meetup site in Syracuse University's Center for Science and Technology building. We will stream the event (using Google Hangouts unless someone gives a compelling reason to use something else).