Name: ConsenSys & Blockchain EXE present: Smart homes & Smart contracts
Start: 2018-01-09T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2018-01-09T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Galvanize

Overview:

Join ConsenSys, Blockchain EXE (the largest blockchain tech community in Japan), uPort, KDDI, Hitachi, VirtuePoker and Couger as they discuss the present state and future possibilities of Smart homes, smart contracts and the blockchain.

Speakers:

// Yasunori Motani, Blockchain project lead at KDDI

Bio:
After engaging in management accounting and business management at Hitachi, he founded a startup for mobile service. He later joined LINE and launched "LINE Pay" as a Project Leader in charge of business strategy and service planning for launching He is currently promoting "IoT × AI × blockchain" related projects at KDDI.

// Ken Naganuma, Researcher at Hitachi

Bio:
At Hitachi, he has been engaged in development of mobile applications, GPS utilization, in-vehicle wireless security, medical data analysis, security technologies and encryption technology. From 2014 he has been engaged in R&D of encryption currency and blockchain.

// Atsushi Ishii, CEO of Couger

Bio:
After being involved in the development of various services at IBM, he 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. He is currently leading the development of "Connectome" using AI x Robotics x IoT x Blockchain.

// Rouven Heck, Co-founder and project lead, uPort

Bio:
Rouven Heck is Co-Founder and the Project Lead for the Digital Identity Platform (uPort) at ConsenSys and founding member of the Decentralized Identity Foundation. Rouven has a computer science background and over 15 years experience in banking IT, having worked for Deutsche Bank in various IT project, architecture and strategy roles in Germany, Hong Kong and New York before joining ConsenSys early 2016.

// Ryan Gittleson Co-Founder, Virtue Poker

Bio:
Co-Founder of ConsenSys-incubated Virtue Poker, a P2P decentralized poker platform built using Ethereum. He joined ConsenSys in October of 2015, and previously worked as the Head of Customer Acquisition for a Broadway ticketing app called TodayTix where he helped scale their user base from 100,000 to over 750,000. -

Schedule:

6pm // Doors Open

6:30pm // Opening Remarks/Welcome

6:40pm // Next Generation Alliance System based on Smart Contract

// Yasunori Motani, Project Lead at KDDI

6:55pm // Authentication Technology for Blockchain

// Ken Naganuma, Hitachi

7:20pm // Building the decentralized autonomous gateway, “Connectome”

// Atsushi Ishii, CEO, Couger

7:45pm // Self sovereign identity

// Rouven Heck, Founder, uPort

8:05pm // Ethereum Smart Contracts

// Ryan Gittleson, Founder, Virtue Poker

8:25pm // QnA panel with speakers

// Moderator: Lane Rettig, Founder, Crypto NYC

9:00pm // Networking

9:30pm // Doors Close

Supported By:
Crypto NYC is a community, co-working space and app studio based in downtown Brooklyn, dedicated fulltime to blockchain technologies including Bitcoin and Ethereum. Our focus is on people first and technology second. We are a hardworking group of engineers, designers, and schemers passionate about blockchain and excited about its potential.

Adam Wozney

Ethereum Developers NYC

#BUIDL Network 

 Proudly supporting Ethereum developers and advocates worldwide!

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