FinTech Week: Blockchain Workshop
FinTech Week: Blockchain Workshop
Presented by FinTech Week, Draper University, Day One Ventures & Unbank.Ventures
Why you should attend:
Want to learn about Blockchain? We have the workshop for you. This is a must attend event for anyone looking to enter the exciting world of Blockchain. This workshop will introduce and teach on the most relevant topics in Blockchain development. The program will start with the basic and conclude with entry level coding activities.
Who should attend:
Anyone looking to understand Blockchain Technology
Schedule
9am-10am Blockchain Platforms (60min)
10:00am-10:15am Break
10:15am - 11:45am Ethereum Stack (90min)
11:45 - 1pm Lunch and Learn (Legal)
1pm - 2pm Smart Contract Intro - Ameen
2pm- 3pm Smart Contract Lab - Ameen
3pm-3:30 Break
3:30-4pm Discussion
Program Overview:
Blockchain Platforms
The technology has been around for a long time but its only recently been applied in combination to provide more secure decentralized system of record that could be applied to revolutionize many different industries. We will be discussing the basics of blockchain and focus on some specific prominent organizations to highlight features, differences and important information of this relative new and exiting technology. We will also be discussing some communities, projects and highlighting some interesting use cases and how the technology can be applied in the industry.
Instructor: Mike Myburgh Principal Consultant at TIBCO
Mike Myburgh has been working in the Business Process, Case and Document Management industry for the majority of his life. He has called TIBCO Software home for over 17 years. In the last year he has been studying and using blockchain technology to enable processes that spans organizations. He gets great pleasure in seeing customers implement, use and improve the productivity by using BPM, Integration and Analytical solutions provided by TIBCO Software. BPM and SOA allows companies to get more out of their existing software investments. Blockchain will extend the reach of processes from single organizations to processes that spans multiple organizations like supply chains.
Ethereum Stack
Welcome to the workshop on Ethereum stack/ During the workshop, you will learn the fundamental principles and techniques that can be applied to design and develop decentralized applications. We will cover basics of Ethereum platform, components, and concepts of transactions, mining, gas and shared computations. The workshop will include hands-on exercises in a browser.
Instructor: Igor Barinov Co-Founder of Block Notary, Inc.
IIgor Barinov is a member of Oracles Network https://oracles.org, an open platform based on Ethereum protocol with Proof of Authority consensus by independent validators. Prior to Oracles Network, he started Block Notary, Inc. https://www.blocknotary.com, creators of blockchain enabled mobile products. He studied at BlockchainU in 2015. He is a winner of several blockchain hackathons (Texas Bitcoin Hackathon, Consensus 2016, Consensus 2017, BitHack, Distributed Trade Hackathon). He is a teacher at Innopolis University with a course "Decentralized applications on Ethereum platform"
Legal - Lunch and Learn
Navigating the unchartered arena of Blockchain can be difficult and potentially consequential for early Blockchain pioneers and entrepreneurs. In this non-technical section we will discuss legal issue facing Blockchain technologies and community.
Instructor - Ryan Straus Legal Counsel at Fenwick & West, LLP
Ryan Straus focuses his practice on providing strategic advice to companies on legal, policy and business issues relating to financial technology. Ryan has significant experience advising financial technology clients on a broad spectrum of regulatory issues and has long-standing relationships with state and federal financial regulators. As an attorney with a background in both technology and financial services, Ryan assists clients with payment and lending matters, including electronic payments, mobile payments, prepaid cards, virtual and digital currencies, consumer lending, and federal and state licensing. Ryan also assists banks with operational compliance issues, new product development, and regulatory matters. Ryan is a recognized expert on non-bank providers of financial products and services and frequently counsels participants from both the public and private sectors regarding innovations in consumer finance. In addition to his law practice, Ryan is Adjunct Professor at Seattle University School of Law and co-developed the Digital Commerce and Financial Technology curriculum for Seattle University’s new LLM in Innovation and Technology Law. Ryan is the author of Bloomberg BNA’s Emerging Payments portfolio, part of Bloomberg BNA’s Banking Practice Series, and co-author of the United States chapter of “The Law of Bitcoin.” Ryan is a frequent speaker on a wide range of consumer finance topics, including issues related to new product development, operational compliance, and Bitcoin and the Blockchain, and has been interviewed by, and written for, many national publications, including Forbes, Time, American Banker, Bloomberg Brief: Financial Regulation, Communications of the ACM, the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and The Hill.
Smart Contract Intro & Lab
Introduction:
20 mins - Overview of smart contract concepts (gas, transactions, functions, variables, data types)
40 mins - Hands-on tutorial to implement the DMV on a smart contract
Smart Contract Lab
20 mins - Advanced smart contract concepts (deployment, contract calls, modifiers, tokens)
40 mins - Hands-on tutorial to deploy and interact with a token contract
Instructor: Ameen Soleimani Founder of Moloch Ventures
Ameen Soleimani is the founder of Moloch Ventures, a blockchain venture production studio based in SF. Prior to starting Moloch Ventures, he worked at ConsenSys on P2P energy markets, state channels research, and adtech. He helped launch AdToken in June, which raised $10M in 23s.
Location
Dates
to 5th August 2017 - 04:00 PM