Blockchain Ireland Week

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Enterprise Blockchain adoption is on the rise as more and more organizations move out of PoCs into production. Recent improvements around multi-party governance, cross-cloud interoperability and integration with back-end systems have shown that enterprise blockchain is ready for prime time and going mainstream. Forward-thinking organizations are adopting enterprise blockchain to reduce the cost of trust, increase efficiency and unlock new opportunities for value creation. For example, Union Bank is providing financial inclusion to 35 million unbanked Filipinos and some of the largest banks and trade finance institutions in the world are improving cash flows by up to 40% using blockchain. Come to this session to hear about the advances in enterprise blockchain that are driving adoption and spawning the creation of entirely new value networks, and learn what new capabilities will fuel tomorrow’s applications.

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ConsenSys Grants will fund projects that are building the foundational infrastructure, tools and components required to improve the developer and user experience of Ethereum.

Date: May 24th - 26th

Location: ConsenSys Ireland, 48 Ringsend Road, Dublin 4

What you can expect: Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be provided as well as prizes for the top three presented projects.

Participants Criteria:
Must have an interest and/or basic understanding of Ethereum, UX/UI, writing code or any skill that will help create the next great project on the Ethereum blockchain.

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Are you assessing your options for raising finance via the STO or IEO route? Or are you exploring the more traditional route of equity finance from VC funds, angel investors or crowdfunding? Andrew Tzialli is the head of leading law firm Philip Lee’s crypto and blockchain group and a partner in the corporate team. As part of Blockchain Week 2019, Andrew is hosting a walk-in clinic at the Dublin 2 offices of the firm on Monday 27th May. He is offering half hour consultations at no cost to discuss the options available to blockchain companies looking to raise finance and to answer other legal questions you may have in respect of your startup.

NB The half hour consultation is free of charge, but bookings must be made in advance through the event page. Walk-ins without bookings cannot be accommodated.

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Blockchain Ireland Week is a celebration of blockchain community around Ireland May 24th - 31st. Join us at the Portershed for a chat about opportunities for blockchain in Financial Services and connect with people building solutions to meet this demand.

Hosted by Dave Cunningham, guests announced shortly.

Dave Cunningham is a serial entrepreneur, startup mentor and co-founder of Galway City Innovation District. He has had both success and failure in multiple sectors as Founder and CEO including retail, healthcare, medical device, business conferences, financial technology and not for profits. Dave brought the Lean Startup Conference to Europe in 2016/7 and is a regular speaker at conferences around the world such as Paris Fintech Forum, Sibos and Innovate Finance Global Summit.

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In the beginning, there was only Bitcoin. Today, there are more than two thousand crypto assets, and growing. What is this new world of Blockchain and digital assets all about?

Blockchain is the technology that underpins digital assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin.  It is rapidly changing the way humans transmit and store value, and soon digital assets will replace traditional wealth creation assets, such as equities and other wealth creation vehicles.

The movement towards Asset Tokenisation is going to transform how future wealth is created. Isn’t it time you understand what this new digital economy has in store for humanity?

What you will learn:

• What is Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the broader digital asset ecosystem?
• Why is Bitcoin considered ‘Digital Gold’ and how can one Bitcoin be worth nearly €5,000?
• What social and business problems can the Blockchain ecosystem solve?
• What is Asset Tokenisation and what new opportunities should we be looking towards for future wealth creation?

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While the development of blockchain is ground-breaking and has many operational benefits, it also presents unprecedented challenges, for users and for policy-makers alike. Craig Dunn and Emilio Davila-Gonzalez discussed how standards are being developed, at international and European level respectively, to foster acceptance and application of these new technologies, and to develop appropriate policy responses.

About the Speakers:

Craig Dunn was appointed Chair of the International Standards Technical Committee for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (ISO/TC 307) in 2017. He also chairs the Australian Government’s Fintech Advisory Group.

Emilio Davila-Gonzalez has been Head of ICT standardisation at DG Connect at the European Commission since 2017, working on the coordination of Standardisation policy and liaising with European Standardisation Organisations.

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Use the Openstar platform to create decentralized workflow solutions with a DLT component.

This will be an explanation of Openstar features and a frank discussion of how it stacks up against other options …

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Blockchain – a driver of sustainability

Deloitte would like to invite you to our blockchain breakfast on the 30th May. This session will focus on how blockchain can support businesses trying to solve issues surrounding sustainability and our panel will share their stories about how blockchain is supporting their sustainability initiatives globally.

Join us to hear from a panel of industry experts who will highlight their experiences within critical areas for sustainability such as supply chain, climate change and poverty. Our panel includes:

Guido Van Staveren, CEO, Moyee Coffee

Ray Jordan, CEO, Self Help Africa

Niall Dennehy, COO, AidTech

Amy Pugh, Manager, Deloitte EMEA Blockchain Lab

Event Details:

Event registration begins at 8:30am, with the panel discussion itself opening at 9:00am. The event closes at 10:45am.

Venue:

Deloitte, The Garage, Whitaker Court, Dublin

We look forward to seeing you there.

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Exploring the role for blockchain and new technologies in creating an archive and attribution record for the professional dance community.

There have been a number of successful implementations of DLT technologies in tracking digital IP and creating proof-of-existence, copyright and ownership records. We lend our curiosity to the field of dance and examine the potential of DLT and other digital technologies to enhance attribution and authorship records.

We explore:

- how to protect the rights of choreographers to have their role acknowledged within a chain of attribution.

-how to create a proof-of-attribution for movements/segments/acts/entire works. This may include various forms of documentation - dance notation, digital imagery, and other media files.

-the potential for AI, computer vision and other autonomous technologies in determining, testing and oversight in a proposed new system.

Speakers include: Yvonne McNamara /Barrister at Law; Fiona Delaney /CEO, Origin Chain Networks; Saad Shahid, CeADAR Research Centre; Ríonach Ní Néill, Ciotóg; Ismael Arribas /Tech Entrepreneur, Spain introducing myceliaformusic.org.

Panel discussion and Q&A.

Held in association with Blockchain Week

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The Irish Institute of Digital Business and Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology are delighted to invite you to attend a 2-hour blockchain seminar discussing a number of implications of blockchain adoption, tokenisation and coin offerings.

Agenda:

• 11.00-11.20:

Speaker: Mr Eamon Walsh, Head of Department of Accounting and Information Systems at GMIT

Talk title: Digital Identity: Born on the Block

• 11.25-11.45:

Speaker: Dr Pierangelo Rosati, Assistant Professor of Business Analytics at DCU and Director of Industry Engagement at The Irish Institute of Digital Business

Talk title: Leveraging Security Token Offering to democratise access to “elite” products: the case of algorithmic trading

• 11.55-12.15:

Speaker: Dr Andrew Le Gear, CTO of Horizon Globex

Talk title: Blockchain Utopia Meets Regulated Reality: Why the SEC Ruined the Token Party

• 12.20-12.40:

Speaker: Dr Trevor Clohessy, Lecturer and Researcher of Transformative Technologies at GMIT

Talk title: Blockchain and Gamification: A Match Made in Heaven?

• 12.40-13.00:

Closing Questions and Answers:

• 13.00:

Lunch and Networking