HyperLedger (Brussels Chapter) Meetup

Agenda: Dive into HyperLedger. 

5:30 - Doors open. Networking.  

6:15 - Welcome. Members to vote on the topics of interests for the future meetings. 

6:45 - 7:25 Technical Introduction to HyperLedger, with David Smits from IBM

7:25 - 7:40 Q&A break.

7:40 - 8:40 Fireside chat: Requirements and Adoption Bottlenecks for Blockchain in Finance, with Yiseul Cho, Drik Hermans, Francis Chlarie, and Olivier Roucloux 

8:40 - 9:00 Q&A break and wrap-up. 

DETAILED AGENDA:

5:30 - Doors open. Networking.  

6:15 - Welcome. Members to vote on the topics of interests for the future meetings. 

6:45 - 7:25 Technical Introduction to HyperLedger

• What is Hyperledger? Why Hyperledger? What does Hyperledger bring to the table?  

• Use Cases for Hyperledger 

• DEMO of Hyperledger

• Maturity - are we ready for production?

• The new world ahead. Roadmap. 

• Anti-patterns - when NOT to use Hyperledger

• HyperLedger Community 

• HyperLedger Governance 

• How can you get involved 

• Summary and Next Steps

Speaker: 

David Smits, Account Architect at IBM Global Technology Services

7:40 - 8:40 Fireside chat: Requirements and adoption bottlenecks for blockchain in Finance

Moderator: Yiseul Cho, Blockchain developer

Yiseul is blockchain developer and entrepreneur. To experiment and explore the potential applications of blockchain and bring data analytics to blockchain, Yiseul set up a Blockchain R&D agency, Zen9. Currently building things around ethereum blockchain and trying to extract intelligence from blockchain data. 

Panellists: 

Dirk Hermans, FinTech/Blockchain advisor at KBC Bank & Verzekering

With a 10 year experience in IT and 10 year financial Business experience, Dirk enjoys surfing the current FinTech waves.  

Within an IT Background in the International Cash Management Business at ING, Dirk started at KBC within the Payments domain as a Performance Manager, followed by a COO function in Trade Finance. Attracted by the Financial Markets domain, he joined Internal Audit in which took several assignments in Financial Markets and Securities for the KBC Group Entities (Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Singapore, Hong Kong).  

Given the IT, Business, risk and leadership background and competences, Dirk grasped the potential of Blockchain quite well early 2015 and joined the Blockchain core team @ KBC; This team drives the Blockchain awareness creation, idea generation and technology adoption in KBC group.

Francis Chlarie, Transaction banking expert, Blockchain and distributed ledgers, Deposits and interest rate management at BelPay

Francis is blockchain expert at BelPay. BelPay offers comprehensive and cost-effective solutions for international trade, supply chain management, corporate treasury and various functions related to payment services in international transactions. 

At BelPay, Francis organises blockchain and distributed ledger bootcamps,  private hackathons on blockchains and smart contracts. He has expert business knowledge in virtual currencies, virtual accounts, collection factories, Cross-Border payments on behalf of international trading mid-corps and banks.

Olivier Roucloux, Vision & Product Strategy at finoryx

Olivier is FinTech and Innovation enthusiast with 20 years' experience in Financial Markets. He is the founder of finoryx, a solution company leveraging the blockchain concept to increase operational efficiency in the financial services industry. Before being an entrepreneur, Olivier held senior positions in innovation, business development, strategy or product management. He worked for Euronext, SWIFT, Euroclear and couple of service providers; with experience in diverse working locations including Brussels, Paris, Luxembourg and London. Now, he’s focusing on advising custodians on their blockchain strategy and manage the development of Cryptody, a custody solution for crypto-assets. 

Olivier is a strong believer that the current technological revolution will completely change the way Financial Institutions are doing business.

9:00 Wrap-up.  

Thank you EY for providing space, food, and drinks for the meeup!