Track: Blockchain Solutions World

The current healthcare system makes the interaction between your doctor, pharmacy, and health insurance companies highly inefficient. In addition, it costs more for every party, to carry out the procedures in a slow, inefficient, paper?based way. This session will explore Pharmeum, the world's first Blockchain and AI solution, enabling access to healthcare globally straight through your smartphone. Discover how blockchain and AI can bring patient-centricity to life by centering the system around the patient, who holds their private medical data and can instantly grant access to any healthcare entity. 

AI and Blockchain are having a profound impact on how organizations recalibrate their IT strategies in order to increase their product strategy and innovative edge, and Legal Aid Ontario has been at the forefront of this movement. In this session, Karl Martineau, the organization�s entrepreneurial CIO, will share the strategic digital transformation that he has led across the organization, detailing how skills and culture development have a profound impact on how organizations can accelerate their strategies for enhancing the customer experience, and developing industry partnerships. Discover how AI and blockchain have been strategic accelerators at Legal Aid Ontario, and how through research and development they have integrated institutional expertise, academia and private sector partnerships to accelerate their AI and blockchain adoption and modernize their IT Strategies. 

A digital transformation is often motivated by the promises of efficiency, performance, and quality gains thanks to the automation, integration, and streamlining of business and/or engineering processes. This reliance on digital data creates a new point of failure and a source of (digital) threats that need to be addressed. Failing to address these treats will not only prevent organizations from reaching the full potential of a digital transformation but can also result in catastrophic consequences. In this talk, we will discuss the digitization of manufacturing, the digital threat(s), and how organizations could leverage blockchain to reduce the digital threats.  

As advances in technology rapidly transform our world, the wine business, often perceived as an arcane mix of immutable tradition and arbitrary complexity, will not be exempt. This session explores the OpenVino Project, which seeks to revolutionize the way wine is thought about, sold, and consumed.  Come hear lessons learned along the way to creating the OpenVino project, a collection of open source software packages and business processes to create the first open-source winery that seeks to solve the main problems of the wine sector. Learn how you can reference and adapt this business model, and how they are using blockchain to ensure extreme transparency, complete traceability and the use of a new paradigm for price definition.

Despite touted benefits of blockchains in the value chain, there have been few pilots that have been successful. The presentation seeks to showcase the gaps in blockchain implementation and how some of the newer computer science techniques could potentially serve as an enabler towards further adoption.

Blockchain technology is a tremendous opportunity that can be used to solve the current Climate Crisis.  Climatetrade is a disruptive ecosystem (platform, crypto asset, and wallet) for the new carbon markets post- 2020, with the aim of promoting and drive funds towards projects and enterprises that are committed to climate change mitigation. This session will explore Climatetrade, a decentralized carbon offsetting marketplace that uses blockchain technology to allow corporations and individuals worldwide to offset their emissions by selecting over the different projects available. 

The ongoing digitalization enables industries to launch innovative products and services, but at the same time brings numerous challenges. One of these is time-to-market and the implementation of new offerings on existing systems. This session will explore how new, recurring business models in IoT are being implemented today to help companies achieve breakthroughs, including the development of 'as a Service'. Learn how Blockchain builds trust in a multi-sided business delivery model and how artificial intelligence is helping to gain consumer insights.

Renewables, like solar or wind, have empowered everyone to become an energy generator. Now it's time for Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) to change the way we distribute and consume energy. This technology will reduce the price you pay, reduce blackouts and increase the amount of green energy we use. While DLTs have the ability to disrupt many different parts of our lives,one of the most significant areas it will affect is how we produce and consume electricity. This session will explore the impact of DLTs on the ways we personally distribute and consume electricity. We will examine real world examples used in the energy industry and what the future of energy generation, distribution and consumption will look like.

The EU's GDPR puts the spotlight on the topic of personal data, and individuals are concerned about big tech companies monetizing their data and privacy. Businesses struggle with regulations like Know-Your-Customer requiring them to collect and verify tremendous amounts of personal user data while also trying to comply with GDPR's requirements. This panel explores how enterprises are trying to marry conflicting goals regarding data collection with individual desire for privacy and control. Panelists will discuss how blockchain helps businesses authenticate and verify individuals' identities in ways that traditional systems can't do. Explore how enterprises can benefit from privacy-enhanced identity data methods to improve business and also improve security efforts. See examples of how blockchain-based identity is used in financial services, supply chain/logistics, and IoT environments.

IoT solutions are generating more and more data. This data is being collected and stored in blockchain systems. These blockchain systems are now allowing individuals to have control over their data in a way that hasn't happened before. This panel of experts will explore how consumers can monetize their data without giving up their privacy.

Through the implementation of Blockchain technology AB InBev is able to have transparency of its entire supply chain, all the way to the farmer. These farmers are empowered as a result because they now have access to full accounting information, such as sales price, volume and payout via SMS - creating a verifiable economic identity and records - that they can take to a financial institution, allowing them access to credit and other financial service. Through the recent integration with the Mobile Network Operators, the farmer can be also have their funds disbursed in mobile, thereby reducing the cash risk and allowing for ease of remittances. This solution has the potential to transform and improve the lives of millions in the Agriculture sector in Africa, and across the world.

Carrefour was the first retailer in Europe to introduce Blockchain technology in food traceability. The retailer has been offering a new business usage of the blockchain to its customers since March 2018. Through a QRCode, the end-customer can retrieve all relevant information concerning Carrefour Quality Line chickens, eggs, oranges, milk, cheese, etc.  Accordingly, they may know the farmers that bred their specific chicken, the date of their eggs, the level of juice or sugar of their oranges, or see the cows or goats that produced milk.  This session will explore: why the project and why the use of blockchain? How the project was achieved and how it became an international program, and key lessons and next steps of the blockchain-based traceability journey.

The food supply chain provides some of the strongest blockchain examples in the market today. Global retailers and local farmers are using blockchain to track food of all kinds from the original farm to the end customer. This can include tracking fruits & vegetables for safety purposes – making it easier to isolate contaminated foods. It can also include tracking wine & spirits for authenticity, reducing counterfeit goods and ensuring customers get what they paid for. This panel will discuss: What are the use cases that are most evolved in the agricultural industry today? How is blockchain changing partnerships & supplier/customer relationships through consortia? Why is blockchain a better solution than other technologies? What issues do players in the agricultural industry need to overcome to participate effectively in blockchain-based solutions?

Trade finance is a tedious and expensive process that limited parties in the shipping industry have access to. The industry is plagued by a lack of visibility and cross border inefficiencies. This session provides a deep-dive into the future of transportation with a blockchain approach to shipping. Hear first-hand insights on how IoT and DLT are revolutionizing the supply finance industry, deeply rooted in old fashioned practices, from the point of view of a freight forwarder and a logtech/trade finance provider.

Will smart contracts solve every (contractual) legal problem? Probably, not. Real life contracts are not simply "programs" that easily run down from the start to the end automatically. Many times life produces small events that alter the realization of legal transactions. This session will explore: how to apply the Roman law principles "pacta sunt servanda" and "Clausula rebus sic stantibus" concerning smart contracts,
security issues, and DAO hacks. Automated contract realization is a complex solution where software developers and lawyers will need to resolve many open issues in the future. How do we accomplish this in practice? This session will get you thinking about the important elements you need to get started.

With the opening of the transportation market in Europe, Renfe has made a commitment to getting ahead of the curve. One area Renfe is keen to pursue is the Mobility as a Service (MaaS) market where mobility users gain seamless access to a host of public and private mobility services through a single application.  This session will highlight the rail company's strategic shift from being a rail company towards becoming a "mobility services company" using blockchain technology.

The attributes of blockchain technology are ideally suited to large networks of disparate partners. A distributed ledger technology, blockchain establishes a shared, immutable record of all the transactions that take place within a network and then enables permissioned parties' access to trusted data in real time. By applying the technology to digitize global trade processes, a new form of command and consent can be introduced into the flow of information, empowering multiple trading partners to collaborate and establishing a single shared view of a transaction without compromising details, privacy or confidentiality. This session explores TradeLens, an open global trade platform using blockchain technology aimed at improving the cost of transportation, lack of visibility and inefficiencies with paper-based processes. 

If a company provides data for 3D-printing, it is important that its IP is protected and the part is only printed as permitted. An airline must be sure that a spare part is original and not counterfeit and was manufactured with the right parameters. These challenges can be met by Blockchain technology and additive manufacturing. By combining both technologies it is possible to liscence printing processes and establish a secure chain of trust from the IP-Owner, integrating a print service provider and 3D-printer up to the end user. The presentation provides a live demonstration of these use cases, using blockchain.

In the world of business identity there are many efficiencies to be gained if you knew exactly who was giving you information on the other side of that internet connection.  Frameworks can be built to allow these communications to happen, but larger market agreements and protocols have to be put in place to establish that level of trust between parties.  Come and see how Microsoft is leveraging Blockchain technologies with their DID protocol to build a platform utilizing D&B as an Anchor of Trust to speed up a more trusted way of doing business.

The use case of trusted credentials is showing up across industries–education, energy & utilities, financial services, government. Blockchain-based systems can be used for verifying certificates, licenses, university degrees, & professional skills. For example, utility companies, in partnership with compliance organizations can implement a blockchain-based credentials system for technicians who go to people’s homes, where physical licenses are replaced by digital ones that can be activated and deactivated by those authorized, and seen, tracked and trusted by all ecosystem participants. In a similar fashion, educational institutions can digitize and secure degrees, qualifications & achievements using blockchain technology. This panel will discuss what has already been implemented, what projects are moving into production, as well as which organizations are driving this and why.

Blockchain is the modern and safest ledger across the digital era. Food supply chains must be understood in order to engage blockchain as the ultimate tool from farm to consumer not just for food safety but also to empower small farmers across the globe. In the process of highlighting many complex and dynamic components of the ag industry, I will spotlight many potential pitfalls for other industries to avoid based on our blockchain implementation efforts so far.