Looking forward to seeing everyone this evening! Venue Information (there will be signs):

The Castle Teaching Room is on the 4th floor of the Judge Business School. From the entrance, turn right and take the elevator or stairwell (next to the elevator) to the 4th floor. Exit the elevator straight ahead and follow the diagonal path. Enter the doors, and the room will be the door on the right.

Distinguished Guests

Richard Gendal Brown is Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director at R3. Richard's team builds Corda, the world's most advanced enterprise blockchain platform. Prior to R3, Richard was Executive Architect in the Banking and Financial Markets unit at IBM. His personal blog is available at https://gendal.me/.

Ben Wyeth currently works as a Distinguished Engineer at Chorum Group (the architects of Cordite). Chorum explores the use of distributed ledgers and blockchains to disintermediate existing centralised business models through decentralised applications. Ben gained experiences with blockchain technology through his experience with the Emerging Technology team at RBS.

Brian Nolan is the founder of Finteum. Finteum aims to create a global financial market for intraday borrowing on distributed ledger technology. Brian gained experience in intraday liquidity and banking infrastructure as a Director at UBS and is currently part of R3’s Entrepreneurship in Residence program. Brian completed his MBA at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School in 2018

R3 is an enterprise blockchain software firm working with a broad ecosystem of more than 300 members and partners across multiple industries from both the private and public sectors to develop on Corda, our open-source blockchain platform, and Corda Enterprise, a commercial version for enterprise usage.

The Cambridge Blockchain Society is prodly hosting Richard Brown, CTO of R3, Ben Wyeth, Distinguished Engineer at Chorum Group, and Brian Nolan, founder of Finteum, on Tuesday 5th of February, 2019, to give an overview of the state of enterprise blockchain in the past, present and in the future. The event will start promptly at 6:30 pm and will conclude with networking over pizzas and drinks sponsored by our partner, the Cambridge Blockchain Hub. Join us for an evening of networking and talks by the one of the world's largest enterprise blockchain firm!

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About us

This event is co-hosted by the Cambridge Blockchain Society and The Bradfield Centre.

Cambridge Blockchain Society

Founded by students in 2018, our mission is fostering Cambridge's blockchain ecosystem by maintaining a distributed network for enthusiastic students, academics and industrial partners.

Cambridge Blockchain Hub, The Bradfield Centre

The Cambridge Blockchain Hub is part of the Bradfield Center, a stunning co-working space established by University of Cambridge Trinity College and located at the heart of the Cambridge Tech Cluster in the Cambridge Science Park.

The hub is a one-stop-shop platform and community for cross-disciplinary and collaborative projects and policy analysis, the testing of innovative applications of blockchain and distributed ledger technology, and the incubation of new blockchain based ventures that are impactful to industry, academia, and society.