[Info] R3's tech conference, CordaCon
Hosted by LFDT London
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The R3 Engineering team are excited to announce our first Corda Conference.
September 12th in London R3 team is putting on a full day of the best technical sessions you can attend for the DLT space.
Join us to hear from R3’s engineers on how Corda is tackling the engineering problems of privacy, performance, consensus and other hot topics. Also hear from great external speakers such as Marley Gray from Microsoft, Mike Kennedy from Tibco and others to be announced shortly. You’ll leave an expert on the nitty gritty of distributed ledgers not just the marketing hype!
Location: CodeNode - Ctrl Room
Agenda:
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Registration & Breakfast
Keynote address - Secure computing with SGX
Simon Johnson, Intel
Distributed Ledgers - Where we've been and where we're going
Richard Gendal Brown (https://www.eventsforce.net/r3/frontend/reg/presenterDetails.csp?presenterID=3&eventID=13), R3
Corda 1.0 Preview
James Carlyle (https://www.eventsforce.net/r3/frontend/reg/presenterDetails.csp?presenterID=8&eventID=13) & Roger Willis (https://www.eventsforce.net/r3/frontend/reg/presenterDetails.csp?presenterID=7&eventID=13), R3
Corda in the Enterprise with Tibco
Mike Kennedy, Tibco
Corda's notary unpacked
Andrius Dagys, R3
Breaking into Corda's 'Vault'
Jose Coll (https://www.eventsforce.net/r3/frontend/reg/presenterDetails.csp?presenterID=16&eventID=13), R3
Class Carpentry and Serialisation in Corda
Katelyn Baker, R3
Enterprise grade DLT in the Cloud
Marley Gray, Microsoft
Decrypting the future of privacy with ZKP, SGX
Mike Hearn (https://www.eventsforce.net/r3/frontend/reg/presenterDetails.csp?presenterID=2&eventID=13) & Konstantinos Chalkias (https://www.eventsforce.net/r3/frontend/reg/presenterDetails.csp?presenterID=17&eventID=13), R3
Cash in the world of distributed ledgers
Dave Hudson (https://www.eventsforce.net/r3/frontend/reg/presenterDetails.csp?presenterID=18&eventID=13), R3
Networking Drinks hosted by R3 at The Duck & Waffle, London
The speakers:
Simon Johnson, Intel
Simon Johnson is a Principal Engineer in the Platform Security Division of Intel’s Software and Services Group where he is the SGX Program Architect. Simon has been in the Information Security space over 20 years, previously working for the UK Government as an information security specialist developing capabilities and advising a number of national projects (including the data security standards for Biometric Passports and the PKI to UK Passport Agency built to issue them) before joining Intel where he has been working on leading edge security technologies for over 10 years. Simon lead the development of the SGX Attestation and Provisioning architecture, and currently leads advanced SGX architecture development for server CPUs in his role as SGX Program Architect.
Marley Gray, Microsoft
Marley Gray currently serves as the Principal Architect for the Azure Blockchain Engineering team leading the design and development of Microsoft’s Blockchain Middleware platform code named – “Bletchley. His information technology career spans more than 25 years where he specialises in software development, architecture and platform strategy matched with 17 years immersed within financial services. Marley is the founding member of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and currently serves on the board of directors.
Mike Kennedy, Tibco
Mike leads several product groups for TIBCO, mainly focusing on specialized products for finance and healthcare. He has worked in enterprise integration and analytics for over 20 years. Mike loves solving tough mission critical problems through technology. He still writes code.
Mike Hearn, R3
Mike is lead engineer at R3. He has over five years of experience with bitcoin, Blockchain and distributed ledger systems, and has spent nearly eight years at Google, where he was a senior software engineer. One of the world’s first developers of software for the bitcoin platform, including its smart contract capabilities, he developed the world’s most popular bitcoin wallet software.
Richard Gendal Brown, R3
Richard is the CTO at R3 and one of the world’s leading authorities on distributed ledger systems and architectures. Previously, Richard was the Executive Architect for Banking and Financial Markets industry innovation at IBM UK where he worked for fifteen years in various roles. He is a Charted Engineer, holds an MBA from Warwich Business School and a first-class degree in Mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge.
Roger Willis, R3
Roger is the Lead Developer Relations at R3 and a true evangelist and advocate for Corda. Most of his time is spent teaching the key principles underpinning Corda as well as how to build apps using the platform. He works closely with the Corda platform development team, testing out new features and providing feedback which may also be captured from the wider community.
Learn more or register at the link below.