Making blockchain real for business

This document provides an overview of blockchain technologies and how IBM can help businesses apply blockchain. It defines key blockchain concepts like shared ledgers, smart contracts, consensus, and privacy. It also discusses example use cases for blockchain like supply chain management, financial transactions, and regulatory compliance. The document outlines IBM's engagement model for helping customers explore blockchain, build proofs of concept, and scale blockchain applications. It positions IBM as supporting the open source Hyperledger project and providing tools and services to make blockchain adoption easier for businesses.

Blockchain is a leading technology that has brought in a wave of change. This distributed ledger technology forms the underlying technology for Bitcoin exchange, but over a period of time, Blockchain emerged as a mainstream technology, and now it finds a multitude of applications. Blockchain developers are in great demand across the different industrial segments; from food to finance, you can find a multitude of applications of Blockchain technology.

At the 2017 NC Digital Government Summit, I gave a presentation to demystify Blockchain. The presentation explained what is blockchain, compared primitive trade to Burning Man -- and, highlighted the record and public key; then ended with specific use cases.

In this keynote, delivered at the Blockchain Forum of BPM 2019, I summarized and reflected on research on BPM and blockchain over the last four years, including model-driven engineering, process execution, and analysis and process mining. I also covered selected use cases and applications, as well as recent insights on adoption. The keynote closed with a discussion of open research questions.

1. IBM Research is the world's largest IT research organization with over 3000 researchers across 12 labs. 2. The document discusses blockchain technology, providing an overview of key concepts such as consensus algorithms, benefits for various use cases, and the evolving ecosystem and industry. 3. It also provides a practical example using Watson IoT and blockchain to explore potential applications and recommendations.

(View in Full Screen to Avoid Compatibility Issues) With more and more blockchain projects accelerating into production, the benefits of the technology to business, industry and society are now being proven out every day. Did you know that blockchain is now providing financial inclusion to 35 million unbanked Filipinos? Or that blockchain is already being used to generate digital campaign engagement rates of 69%? And that some of the largest banks and trade finance institutions in the world are improving cash flows by up to 40%? These examples, and many more are real and in production today using Kaleido. This presentation helps you gain new insights from leaders in the blockchain space. [Intermediate level]

Blockchain is a tool. Samson Williams likens blockchain to a group text message, in which each participant receives a distributed, time-stamped, tamper-resistant (and encrypted) record of data transactions. Each group text has these characteristics. Everyone in the group “sees” the data, and none can change or gainsay any group message. Smart contracts are computer code put on the blockchain (how, exactly?) that establishes self-executing terms and conditions of a transaction. Are smart contracts smart? If certain data comes in and fulfills a pre-set term or condition, then rights and responsibilities are formed, terminated, modified, or shifted among the parties. Ah certainty and transparency, but also ah garbage in and garbage out. Are some contractual terms not amenable to smart contracting? And are smart contracts necessarily contracts? If not, can they still be useful? If a smart contract is a contract, what is the governing document? Is it the words business people and lawyers use, or is it the code that is supposed to reflect the words? To view the accompanying webinar, go to: https://www.financialpoise.com/financial-poise-webinars/blockchain-and-smart-contracts-2021/

This document summarizes an EY presentation on blockchain and identity and access management. It discusses how blockchain can transform IAM by facilitating a decentralized, trust-based model of identity verification and access management. Key benefits include improved user experience, regulatory compliance, risk reduction, and cost savings. The presentation provides examples of blockchain applications today and outlines how it could fit into the next generation of IAM architecture.

My keynote slides from the Second International Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Blockchain 2019 (FAB '19) and a talk I gave the day before at Google. In this talk, I'm giving an overview of our research in Software Architecture, Model-Driven Engineering, Dependability / Availability, and Business Process Execution in the context of Blockchain. It's a summary of our book: X. Xu, I. Weber, M. Staples, Architecture for Blockchain Applications, Springer 2019

Slides for a presentation given by Tony Lai to conclude the conference on Blockchain Law and Governance – Good for All: Towards a Paradigm Shift, at the Università degli Studi di Milano, on October 26th, 2019. https://apps.unimi.it/web/eventi/resources/external/uploaded/3853_555.pdf

This document discusses key concepts and components related to blockchain solutions, including actors such as users, developers, operators, and architects. It describes various components that make up blockchain solutions such as ledgers, smart contracts, consensus mechanisms, and how applications interact with blockchains. It also covers considerations for blockchain developers and operators, and challenges around integrating blockchains with existing systems and achieving determinism.

Blockchain or Cryptocurrency? This document provides an overview of blockchain and cryptocurrency concepts and technologies. It begins with distinguishing between cryptocurrencies and blockchains, noting that cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin use cryptography and combine the role of currency on blockchains. The document then discusses what enterprise blockchains are and some of their benefits compared to public blockchains like Bitcoin. It also summarizes some common blockchain frameworks used by enterprises and compares transaction speeds. The document concludes by discussing how organizations can gain competitive advantages by leveraging blockchain technologies.

Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. Hosted by The Linux Foundation, it's the fastest-growing project in LF history. Hyperledger is a global collaboration spanning finance, banking, IoT, supply chains, manufacturing and technology.

Blockchain provides new business models that can transform existing models. Some key models include: - Token economies where tokens power functionality and enable value exchange within an ecosystem. Utility tokens exemplify this. - Blockchain as a service allows businesses to outsource technical blockchain aspects while focusing on front-end development. - Blockchain development platforms empower developers to build decentralized applications that require tokens to access network resources and provide value to users.

A broad-ranging introduction into Blockchain, the Mental Models to use to think about its implications (Blockchain as a Database, as a City and as a Continent); and a technical introduction into the key ingredients to build a blockchain as well as dApps.

Presentation made at "Blockchain Dubai 2021" held on September 6-7, 2021 at J W Mariott Marquis Hotel, Dubai, UAE.

(View presentation in full-screen mode for compatibility) 2019 is shaping up to be the pivotal point of broad adoption of blockchain technologies, thanks to the large amount of projects in the enterprise space. Among the top concerns of blockchain projects in the private sector and government alike are privacy and scalability. This talk will cover various technologies such as identity masking, data isolation, zero-knowledge proof, homomorphic encryption that helps keep private data protected from unintended parties, and technologies for improving scalability such as state/payment channels, sharding, and novel consensus algorithms.

Blockchain is a shared, immutable ledger that can record transactions and track assets in business networks. It allows companies to share records and establish trust without the need for a central authority. IBM's blockchain platform uses Hyperledger Fabric to develop applications that provide benefits like reduced costs, improved traceability and data sharing between organizations. It can help industries like finance, supply chain and healthcare by creating transparency and efficiency in business processes.

Blockchain is a shared, replicated ledger technology that can open up business networks by reducing costs, improving efficiencies, and increasing accessibility. IBM supports an open standards, open source, open governance blockchain and is a member of the Linux Foundation Hyperledger project, which is developing open source shared ledger technology. IBM offers customers an engagement model to explore blockchain applications through conversation, demonstrations, proofs of technology, and first projects to help get customers started using blockchain now.

Blockchain is a shared, replicated ledger technology that can open up business networks by reducing costs, improving efficiencies, and increasing accessibility. IBM supports an open standards, open source, open governance blockchain through contributions to the Linux Foundation Hyperledger project, which is developing shared ledger technology. IBM offers customers an engagement model to explore blockchain concepts, show proof of technology applications, and integrate blockchain solutions into their enterprise systems.

This document provides an overview of blockchain technologies and how IBM can help businesses apply blockchain. It defines blockchain as a shared, replicated ledger that allows all network participants to see the system of record. The document outlines several potential benefits of blockchain, such as reducing costs and complexity while improving discoverability and trusted recordkeeping. It also presents several example use cases across different industries where blockchain could help address business challenges. Finally, the document describes IBM's engagement model for helping customers explore blockchain technology through demonstrations and developing blockchain applications.

Digital Transformation is all about looking at your business models and industries in fundamentally new ways of operating at higher levels of innovation in order to provide better business value for customers while lowering TCO. Whether you are born digital or analog, an effective DT strategy is essential to remain competitive in this new era of business, by using Multi-Speed IT architectures and the latest technologies enabling businesses to do more, thereby providing a better experience to partners and customers. Blockchain is such a revolutionary technology and in this webinar, we'll explore the fundamentals of Blockchain, how IBM Blockchain works on IBM's Digital Innovation Platform: Bluemix and how it has the potential to increase trust, transparency, and efficiency in your business or industry.

Provides initial reflections on the potential of blockchain to transform the end-to-end retail investments industry

The first slide deck from the IBM Blockchain Foundation for Developers course with an introduction to IBM Hyperledger architecture.