This event walks through how blockchain technology works with a live demonstration of an actual blockchain with a smart contract implemented in Hyperledger Fabric.

People have shared information in the same ways for hundreds of years: paper was simply replaced by digital computers. In both cases, information is still copied.

Blockchain technology has the potential to fundamentally disrupt this through efficiency and cost savings.

Topics covered during this event include:

• Why Blockchain?

• How It Works

• Distributed Computing and Data Sharing Architecture

• Append-Only Data Store

• Hashing

• Basic Transaction Data Structure

• Basic Block Structures

• Merkle Tree

• Merkle Root

• Smart Contracts

• Permissioned Blockchains

• Demonstration of a Blockchain implemented in HyperLedger

• Demonstration of enterprise web applications interacting with the Blockchain
  
  

Who Should Attend

Developers, Architects, Managers, and Operations Personnel who are interested in blockchain technology.

Presenter Bio

David Pitt is a Sr. Solutions Architect and a Managing Partner of Keyhole Software. With more than 25 years of IT experience, David has spent the last 15 years leading and mentoring development teams utilizing Java and .NET technologies.

He is an author of numerous technical articles and a co-author of a popular IBM book that documents some of his architecture design patterns. Recent projects involve speaking, writing, and training developers in enterprise development best practices & Blockchain technology.