Smart Contracts, oracles and insurances @ Social Impact Factory Utrecht

SIF Utrecht (https://sifutrecht.nl/), the incubator and coworking space for social enterprises will host our insurance-themed meetup. They are located next to Utrecht Central Station: walk out the station city center side, then to the left.

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Walk-in: 18h30, Start presentations 19h sharp. There won't be any food at the meetup, make sure you have enough in your stomach to survive the evening :-). If you want to eat something with other attendants before, post in the comments where and when you plan to grab a bite, so other people can join. There will be drinks, bring cash if you can.

Speakers:

1. Stephan Karpischek (https://at.linkedin.com/in/karpischek), Etherisc

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2. Thomas Bertani (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/thomasbertani), Oraclize (http://www.oraclize.it/)

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3. Joris Bontje (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorisbontje/), OneUp (https://www.oneup.company/)

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About this meetup's topic

Etherisc pioneered the concept of smart contract-based insurances with a Flight Delay Insurance: https://fdd.etherisc.com/ . A smart contract holds the premium paid and automatically assigns the claim when an event happens. This reduces the overhead of traditional insurances, and makes a lot of new business models possible. Stephan Karpischek will tell more about the current state of Etherisc and the roadmap towards an open protocol for decentralized insurance.

A consumer-facing application for FlightDelay (a chatbot!) was developed by Joris Bontje and his team, and won prizes at two recent hackathons (Token (https://blog.tokenbrowser.com/announcing-the-token-hackathon-winners-93223a062113) and Status (https://blog.status.im/announcing-winners-of-the-status-global-hackathon-a44fb54e98f7)).

In insurance (as in many other types of smart contracts!), information on real-world events needs to be fed into the blockchain so the smart contract can process it. An "oracle" is the generic name for a party that brings in external information. Thomas Bertani will present Oraclize.it, a service that makes it easy for developers to build smart contracts that depend on real-world data feeds, in a verifiable and auditable way.

Show and tell

Like every time, we'll also have a number of mini-talks: 5-minute demos, or even just pitches for a project you’re working on, or planning to work on. No slides required.
Preferably let us know in advance, so we can make sure you have your time slot reserved (use the organizer contact button).

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New to development on Ethereum?

We welcome new people to the meetup, we do ask however that you do some effort beforehand to familiarise yourself with (development on) Ethereum. These old Devcon videos are a good start (or the Reddit Stickie (https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/61y5ix/welcome_to_rethereum_the_reddit_front_page_of_the/) if you prefer reading):

Gavin Wood, Ethereum for dummies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=U_LK0t_qaPo

Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum in 25 minutes, the 2016 version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66SaEDzlmP4&feature=youtu.be

Building a distributed application (dapp) for web developers: backend contract code

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seU7DykOxfc&feature=youtu.be

User interaction in a Dapp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPpi9BPkRbo&feature=youtu.be

Javascript frontend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij5tGo8cp80&feature=youtu.be