This introductory course is carefully curated for both nontechnical and technical audiences. It examines blockchains beyond bitcoin for the enterprise and several pertinent use cases. How Blockchain platforms such as Hyperledger are incubating and promoting enterprise grade, open source business blockchain software, on top of which anyone can set up apps to meet cross-industry needs.

“Gartner forecasts that blockchain will generate an annual business value of more than US $3 trillion by 2030”

PWC - “10% to 20% of global economic infrastructure could be running on blockchain-based systems by 2030”

Who should attend?

• Business Applications Software Developers, Architects, System Integrators

• Techno-Functional Analysts working on ERP, CRM, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Finance and Accounting Systems

• Entrepreneurs, Managers and Executives looking to understand practical usage and implementation of Blockchain based business applications

• Employees working on Blockchain based projects in their company

• Product managers contemplating if they must adopt Blockchain technologies

• Risk and Compliance Managers

Content:

1. Overview of Blockchain

• Why Blockchain is crucial?

• Key vocabulary while discussing Blockchain

• Distinction between databases and blockchain

• Explaining Distributed Ledger

• Blockchain ecosystem

• Blockchain platforms ( Ethereum, Hyperledger, Chain.com, R3 etc. )

• Smart Contracts and dApps

• Blockchain structure

• Working principles of blockchain technology

• Permissioned and permissionless blockchain

2. Prospects of Blockchain

• Blockchain prospering our world

• Blockchain transforming business and professionalism

• Discussing practical use-cases of blockchain

• Real case scenarios of Blockchain

• Blockchain in Banking system

• Blockchain in Land Registry

• Blockchain in Capital Market

• Blockchain to remove corruption

3. Use Case Demo of a Blockchain Network for Business on a Hyperledger Platform

A live demonstration of supply chain trade finance and related business processes on a Hyperledger based blockchain network. Limit the time and costs associated with intermediary processing, eliminate cumbersome offline reconciliation and reduce fraud risks. Banks, buyers, sellers, carriers, insurance providers and govt. agencies can process Trade Finance requests, issue and operate financial instruments, endorse transactions and documentary evidences, track shipments, trigger payment transfers, etc. on a permitted Hyperledger fabric.

4. What can you do next?

• Overview of weekend courses available for developers, architects and business professionals

• Schedules and duration

Presenters

Arun Kanchi - https://www.linkedin.com/in/arun-kanchi-775aa23/

Arun Kanchi is the CEO of Exafort. He is an entrepreneur, visionary, and investor in cloud, mobile and blockchain technologies. Prior to Exafort, Arun worked as Chief Information Officer for Force10 Networks and Arista Networks. He has over 25 years of experience managing global IT operations, software development, and professional services with extensive technical and business expertise in hi-tech manufacturing, finance, and insurance industries.

Arun is currently building blockchain accelerators for enterprises and enabling rapid integration and deployment of purpose-built blockchain solutions for business use cases to perform multi-party transactions, process automation, and utilize tamper-proof sharing of data between business partners. He has presented on Blockchain for Business at Oracle, Tibco, ODTUG KSCOPE-2018, Global Blockchain Forum during the California Blockchain Week in San Francisco and several other conferences in the past.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arun-kanchi-775aa23/detail/recent-activity/shares/

https://kscope18.odtug.com/page/presentations?name=real-world-blockchain-demos

Sunil Sabat - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunilsabat/

Sunil Sabat, Director of Product Management at Protegrity Inc. manages Big Data and Cloud products geared toward sensitive data protection for security and compliance. Under his leadership, Protegrity big data products now run on AWS , Azure and Google Cloud. Before Protegrity, he worked at Informatica as Principal Product Manager and Technical Alliance Manager. Prior to that he worked at several startups and large enterprises Intel, IBM and Cadence in senior and leadership roles. He has MS (Comp Eng), MS (Comp Sc.) and MBA. He is certified in AWS, IBM and Microsoft. He has taught at Santa Clara University as an adjunct faculty. He has presented on Blockchain and related technologies at Intel, IBM, Global Big Data, Silicon Vally Code Camp and many other conferences in the past.

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Ravi Ilango - https://www.linkedin.com/in/raviilango/

Ravi Ilango is passionate about open source technologies used in Machine Learning/Deep Learning, Blockchain, and Big Data and has been teaching open source technologies for the last 4 years in various meet-ups and bootcamps in the bay area. Ravi has completed MBA from Santa Clara University, Masters Program from IIT Chennai, and Graduate Certificate in Machine Learning/Data Mining from Stanford University. Ravi currently works as a Sr. Data Scientist at a Silicon Valley startup and previously worked in Apple Supply Chain and Data Science Teams for 10+ years.