Blockchain and DLT Fundamentals with Rahul Kothari

It is a privilege to welcome our next speaker Rahul Kothari presenting a topic on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies Fundamentals

This talk is about a deep dive into the technical aspects of Distributed Ledger Technologies like Blockchain, exploring the different types, its use-cases, and understanding the scope of challenges faced by the blockchain community.

Rahul is an Implementation consultant at Tune.fm (a music streaming service based on micropayments), where he has created one of the most widely used application on the Hashgraph network - a network that can process payments faster than Visa. Before this, Rahul had worked on creating digital identity solutions for an NGO in Myanmar to solve the Rohingya crisis. He also helped Cognipet to leverage blockchain to tackle the black market in the pet industry. Aside from this, Rahul is a computer science student here, in Liverpool and has given talks at the Leicester Space Center and Warwick University.

We will also be showing blockchain services with Microsoft Azure and providing you the knowledge of how Microsoft has developed these services to help its user's development blockchain solutions

With the support of our sponsors, we have arranged food and drinks for the evening so feel free to come down, socialise and take away the great knowledge our speaker will be sharing with us.

Location:
This meeting is on floor 13, 20 Chapel Street Unity Building, Liverpool L3 9AG

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Schedule:
Doors open from 18:00

Intro and welcome 18:40

Speakers from 18:50 (with a pizza break at some point )

Close ~21:00 (Don't feel bad if you have to leave early for a train/bus/lift home - no one will be offended)

Travel:

Train - We are located just a couple of minutes walk from the Moorfields train station

Driving - There is a multi-story paid car park next door to the building we recommend - https://www.ncp.co.uk/find-a-car-park/car-parks/liverpool-moorfields/