Blockchain for Beginners

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Omkar Naik is the Solution Sales for Microsoft Azure. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago-Booth School of Business. Omkar is passionate about enabling industry transformation with technology and leads Microsoft’s enterprise Blockchain and Data Platform for North Central region. He works with Microsoft’s biggest enterprise customers on strategy, adoption and execution of Blockchain and Data Platform. He was recognized as a global top 10 internal influencers of Blockchain and has been featured in blockchain podcasts and various industry panels.
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing through a global network of Microsoft managed data centers. Azure supports a range of operating systems, programming languages, frameworks, databases and devices. Omkar will speak more about Azure and its ability to continuously innovate and deliver high-quality apps, provide cross-device experiences with support for all major platforms, and run any stack, Linux-based or Windows based, and use advanced capabilities such as Kubernetes cluster in Azure Container Service.
 George Chikovani, is the Chief Executive Officer in North America at the <A HREF="https://www.idf.solutions/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">“Innovation and Development Foundation” (IDF)</A> and also the founder of Nx. The mission of IDF is to support and participate in development of the innovative potential, sustainable growth for communities of young democracies and developing countries, for further integration into a global “society of knowledge”. Nx is a platform for ideas. The organization gives an opportunity to innovative thinking minds to speak up. George will talk about the truth of decentralization and distribution.
They will address the following topics:
- What is a blockchain? - Why does blockchain technology matter? - What is a smart contract and how do you make one?
 
When: April, 26, Thursday 
Where:10 West 35th Street,Chicago, IL 60616
Time: 12:45-1:45 pm
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