Smart Cities and Blockchain hosted by Blockchain EXE and ConsenSys

In the near future, unspecified number of IoT devices will automatically connect. Communication between these devices will be real-time and the amount of data will become huge. On the Internet, real-time communication between these machines becomes mainstream and high reliability is required. When this happens, we need an interface to handle complicated conditions and work with humans.

Speakers:
Kazuaki Ishiguro
Chief Blockchain Architect, Couger
His project at Couger was selected as a world’s top 10 team for superdemo at EdCon in 2018. He bridges the project between Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, IoT, AR, Blockchain and applies to their own project called “Connectome”. He is also responsible for regional head of Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, established it’s world’s first regional office in Japan. His passion for development also goes to contributing to blockchain open source projects such as Vyper and BigchainDB, organizing the Tokyo region of the token engineering community.

Atsushi Ishii
Founder, Couger
After being involved in the development of various services at IBM, Atshushi Ishii developed multiple large-scale search engines at Rakuten and Infoseek. He founded Couger and led the teams in Japan, US, and South Korea for developing multiple top-selling online games. He has also provided technical cooperation to one of the top teams for Amazon Robotics Challenge, provided AI learning simulator to Honda, and led the development of Cloud Robotics for a Japanese government-backed AI research project.Atsushi is currently leading the development of “Connectome” using AI, AR and Blockchain. Also had given a speech at Ethereum’s global conference “EDCON” and one of biggest technology conference “Tech Open Air” in Berlin. In June 2018 he joined the University of Electro-Communication as a Visiting Research Fellow.

Carol Xu
Researcher, ConsenSys
Carol has worn a few hats: academic researcher, consultant, startup co-founder, podcast host and producer. Her purpose has always remained the same: To help unleash human potential through a deeper understanding of people, work, and technology. After getting her PhD from Stanford University, she found the tremendous innovation happening in blockchain technology and alternative, decentralized ways of organizing an irresistible subject. Carol explores new ways of organizing people and resources in blockchain-powered systems. Such systems range from teams and organizations to cities and nation states. Carol explores questions like “How do we use blockchain technology to build thriving human-centered ecosystems?”

Brett Li
Product Marketing & Market Strategy Lead, ConsenSys
After 9+ years of experience in enterprise & B2B software companies in solution architecture, product management, and product marketing, Brett joined ConsenSys to help developers, business leaders, and enterprises understand and realize the value of blockchain. He is focused on growing ConsenSys' presence in China with the goal of guiding the blockchain community towards delivering real use cases with tangible benefits for society. Prior to ConsenSys, Brett has worked at HP, Perfecto Mobile, Capriza, and Periscope Data. He holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at UC-Berkeley, and is currently pursuing an MBA at the Haas School of Business.

Moderator: Alex Voto,
West Coast Regional Director, Consensys
Alessandro connects organizations and social entrepreneurs with the blockchain community to build decentralized applications and services. He is an industry working group organizer for the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, and forms strategic technology partnerships with ConsenSys' enterprise Solutions team. His focus lies at the intersection of economic design, peer-to-peer technology, and social change.