June Virtual EEA Meetup

Another great line up for our June Virtual EEA Meetup, we can't wait to see you there!

Schedule

5pm - Intro and welcome from Conor Svensson

5.15pm - Julio Faura, Founder and CEO of Adhara, a VC backed company that builds CBDC, cross border payments, Fx and liquidity management platforms for financial institutions, central banks and corporates, leveraging smart contracts and enterprise-grade blockchain technology.

Title: "Wholesale CBDCs and commercial bank coins: how they will revolutionize payments”

The recent communication from the Bank of England announcing the creation of central bank omnibus accounts marks the official start of the wholesale CBDC era as this enables the issuance of central bank-backed tokenized money for real. CBDCs and other forms of tokenized money such as commercial bank coins will be instrumental to transform interbank payment infrastructures, particularly in the case of cross currency and cross border payments, allowing them to work in real time, with less operational errors, costs and need for reconciliations, while also reducing the associated liquidity needed and the resulting counterpart risk. Banking groups with international presence and cross border payments activity are among the first to benefit from these trends, both by using CBDC and commercial bank tokenized money layers for interbank settlement as well as leveraging the same tools and methodologies based on blockchain and tokenization to optimise their internal payments and liquidity management operations.

Speaker Bio

In 2007 Julio joined Santander, where he worked for 11 years playing many corporate leadership roles in Investment Banking, Consumer Finance, IT & Operations, and global M&A. During his last years at Santander, Julio headed R&D in Santander's Innovation Division, executing major innovation projects globally, leading new business incubation and venture creation efforts, and actively contributing to Santander's M&A and Venture Capital activity in Fintech. He led Santander's activities around crypto-currencies, blockchain and distributed ledgers for years, leading the creation of many relevant industry consortia including the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, for which he was the founding chairman, as well as the Utility Settlement Coin (USC, that later incorporated as Finality International).

5.45pm - Breakout Rooms - your chance to network!

6.15pm - Dr. Weijia Zhang, EEA Regional Head of China at Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Vice President of Engineering, Wanchain Foundation

Title: "Crosschain Interoperability"

Crosschain interoperability is defined as method, protocols, or mechanism that synchronically or synchronically convert or transfer assets, messages, data, and commands from a source blockchain to a target blockchain. With the development of both public and private blockchains, crosschain interoperability has become a top priority and must-have for blockchain infrastructure and token economy. In this seminar, we will present challenges, user cases, current solutions, architecture, decentralization, security considerations, and specifications effort for crosschain interoperability.

Speaker Bio

Dr. Weijia Zhang has extensive R&D knowledge and engineering experience in blockchain, cognitive sciences, mental modeling, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), software modeling, computer technologies, and industrial standards. Weijia has published over thirty research and technical papers and is named as an inventor for over twenty patents, granted and pending, in computer and digital technology. He also served as a technical committee voting member to publish the Solution Deployment Descriptor (SDD) by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).
Dr. Weijia Zhang is also teaching Smart Contract Development course at the University of Texas as an adjunct faculty.

6.45am - Q+A