Wisdom and wealth, are bitcoin newcomers doomed? - Max Sherwood - https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-max-sherwood-1ba024120 After mining bitcoin in 2013 and witnessing the technology firsthand, Max began investing and proceeded to learn many lessons the hard way. Five years later, his failures led to eventual success, but he wondered what it would take for new crypto investors to avoid these painful experiences and make the right moves from Day 1. In 2019, Max launched an online course for beginner bitcoin investors, pointing to the lack of high-quality investment information as a major hurdle to bitcoin’s adoption. Full agenda and location will be confirmed ASAP - The event will be in Edinburgh.
Wisdom and wealth, are bitcoin newcomers doomed? - Max Sherwood - https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-max-sherwood-1ba024120
After mining bitcoin in 2013 and witnessing the technology firsthand, Max began investing and proceeded to learn many lessons the hard way. Five years later, his failures led to eventual success, but he wondered what it would take for new crypto investors to avoid these painful experiences and make the right moves from Day 1.
In 2019, Max launched an online course for beginner bitcoin investors, pointing to the lack of high-quality investment information as a major hurdle to bitcoin’s adoption.
Full agenda and location will be confirmed ASAP - The event will be in Edinburgh.
CodeYourFuture Scotland, Information for new Volunteers Meet-Up
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The Blockchain Scotland community are delighted to support CodeYourFuture community in Scotland. This event will provide information on how you could help as a volunteer.
They are a non-profit organisation supporting refugees and disadvantaged individuals with the dream of becoming developers.
In their journey of interrupted lives, unfinished studies and integration challenges, many of these individuals yearn to update their tech skills, but lack learning opportunities.
Please see details below, can you register here please -
A information and induction evening for people wanting to volunteer for us!
About this Event
Nice people of Scotland - we need you!
We welcome those who want to join the CodeYourFuture community in Scotland to attend our information and induction event for new volunteers. There will be a couple of short presentations designed to give you a better idea of what we do and how you can help out. There will be summaries of all the different tasks volunteers carry out - from teaching coding to important non-tech jobs like outreach and soft-skills coaching. Volunteers of all backgrounds are welcome!
If all spaces are gone, please email scotland@codeyourfuture.io to express your interest in volunteering and we will try to induct you in another way as soon as possible!
Blockchain adoption challenges in the enterprise environment - Evangelos Pappas - Ocyan Cloud & Michael Platt - Microsoft
Stewart Pavitt - Chief Product Officer at Wallet.Services will be doing a demo - Streamlined Digital Business with SICCAR
Evangelos is a technologists and tech entrepreneur. As a first successful startup, Evangelos founded, at the age of 21 and continued his journey in leading technical teams and projects. He was involved in delivering R&D and projects for corporations like Shell, Disney, Warner, GS1 and others in the finTech, AdTech and licencing space. Now he has founded Ocyan, a platform that enable enterprises to completely manage the end-to-end environment that's required for production-ready blockchains
Michael Platt - As a Senior Director in Microsoft Digital, Michael Platt architects, designs, develops and codes leading edge and innovative Blockchain systems which showcase Microsoft Platforms, Technologies and Services. He works with a number of forward-thinking consortiums, startups and technology providers to build production level solutions in areas such as automotive, finance, heath, government, utilities industry using Quorum, Hyperledger and Corda Blockchains
Michael has more than 40 years’ experience in the computer industry. His background includes experience in technical presales, consultancy, research and development, manufacturing, testing, and assurance in a wide variety of senior, leadership, and management roles in both the field and product development. A 25 year Microsoft veteran, Michael has worked in a broad range of technical positions in the U.S. and the U.K. Before Michael joined Microsoft he worked at IBM UK Laboratories Ltd for more than 20 years.
Michael is involved in a wide range of strategic projects with a number of consortiums, members and partners. He is interested in providing production level blockchain systems using Open Source Governance, Policy, Devops, service mesh, micro service, orchestration and containerization technologies.
6:00 PM – 6.30 PM: Networking
6.30PM – 7.00PM: Evangelos Pappas - Ocyan Cloud - https://www.linkedin.com/in/evalon
7.00PM – 7.10 PM: Q & A Session
7.10 PM - 7.40 PM – Michael Platt - IBM - Real World Experience of Blockchain into Production and Scale in the Enterprise”
7.40 PM – 7.50 PM: Q & A Session
7.50 - 8.10 - Stewart Pavitt - Demo - Streamlined Digital Business with SICCAR
8.10 PM - 9.00 PM: Networking and Drink
Blockchain adoption challenges in the enterprise environment - Evangelos Pappas - Ocyan Cloud & Michael Platt - Microsoft
Evangelos is a technologists and tech entrepreneur. As a first successful startup, Evangelos founded, at the age of 21 and continued his journey in leading technical teams and projects. He was involved in delivering R&D and projects for corporations like Shell, Disney, Warner, GS1 and others in the finTech, AdTech and licencing space. Now he has founded Ocyan, a platform that enable enterprises to completely manage the end-to-end environment that's required for production-ready blockchains
Michael Platt - As a Senior Director in Microsoft Digital, Michael Platt architects, designs, develops and codes leading edge and innovative Blockchain systems which showcase Microsoft Platforms, Technologies and Services. He works with a number of forward-thinking consortiums, startups and technology providers to build production level solutions in areas such as automotive, finance, heath, government, utilities industry using Quorum, Hyperledger and Corda Blockchains
Michael has more than 40 years’ experience in the computer industry. His background includes experience in technical presales, consultancy, research and development, manufacturing, testing, and assurance in a wide variety of senior, leadership, and management roles in both the field and product development. A 25 year Microsoft veteran, Michael has worked in a broad range of technical positions in the U.S. and the U.K. Before Michael joined Microsoft he worked at IBM UK Laboratories Ltd for more than 20 years.
Michael is involved in a wide range of strategic projects with a number of consortiums, members and partners. He is interested in providing production level blockchain systems using Open Source Governance, Policy, Devops, service mesh, micro service, orchestration and containerization technologies.
6:00 PM – 6.30 PM: Networking
6.30PM – 7.00PM: Evangelos Pappas - Ocyan Cloud - https://www.linkedin.com/in/evalon
7.00PM – 7.15 PM: Q & A Session
7.15 PM - 7.45 PM – Michael Platt - IBM - Real World Experience of Blockchain into Production and Scale in the Enterprise”
7.45 PM – 8.00 PM: Q & A Session
8.00 PM - 9.00 PM: Networking and Drink
Blockchain adoption challenges in the enterprise environment - Evangelos Pappas - Ocyan Cloud
Evangelos is a technologists and tech entrepreneur. As a first successful startup, Evangelos founded, at the age of 21 and continued his journey in leading technical teams and projects. He was involved in delivering R&D and projects for corporations like Shell, Disney, Warner, GS1 and others in the finTech, AdTech and licencing space. Now he has founded Ocyan, a platform that enable enterprises to completely manage the end-to-end environment that's required for production-ready blockchains
Can you please RSVP here & https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blockthisspace-a-space-sector-and-blockchain-mash-up-event-tickets-70748068377?ref=eios
Speakers / Panel
Richard Hilton - Director - Explore Markets at Satellite Applications Catapult - https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-hilton-uk
Richard will talk about block-chain use within the space sector, ranging from upstream manufacture to downstream applications.
Alan McLarney - Chief Innovation Officer at Envisage Space Ltd -
Liam Bell - https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamjohnbell
We also have a representative from SoXSA (TBC)
Duncan has a premium account - CEO & Co-founder at Blockchain Technology Partners - https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncanjohnstonwatt
Paul Forrest - Chairman, MBN Solutions - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pdf66
After a delightful summer break, Space Technology Scotland working in partnership with Scottish Blockchain Meetup (powered by MBN Solutions – based in Glasgow) is delighted to announce BlockthisSpace – A Space Sector and Blockchain mash-up event.
This cross-industry event will be a mash-up between the Scottish Space Sector and Scotland’s blockchain Industry. Our aim is to explore the huge potential for collaboration, skills and knowledge exchange, and the possible new business opportunities between space and blockchain developers.
The evening will be split into two parts.
For the first hour we will have speakers from both the space and blockchain sectors, followed by a panel discussion focused on the 'exploration of collaboration'
The second hour will provide a networking opportunity over beer and pizza, kindly provided by MBN
As with all events, if anyone is feeling brave there are a few open mic slots available to give a quick 60 second introduction about themselves, their work, any challenges they are facing or a pitch about their business.
Anyone wishing to get involved by speaking at a future event please come and see our team during the evening. We encourage a wide variety of disciplines to be involved, so if you are doing some amazing work and you want the community to know, please let us know and we will feature you in an upcoming event.
Please note that for this event you will need to RSVP, that way we can let site security know how many we are expecting.
As always, we are very much looking forward to meeting you all!
Can you please RSVP here & https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blockthisspace-a-space-sector-and-blockchain-mash-up-event-tickets-70748068377?ref=eios
Speakers / Panel
Richard Hilton - Director - Explore Markets at Satellite Applications Catapult - https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-hilton-uk
Richard will talk about block-chain use within the space sector, ranging from upstream manufacture to downstream applications.
Alan McLarney - Chief Innovation Officer at Envisage Space Ltd -
Liam Bell - https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamjohnbell
We also have a representative from SoXSA (TBC)
After a delightful summer break, Space Technology Scotland working in partnership with Scottish Blockchain Meetup (powered by MBN Solutions – based in Glasgow) is delighted to announce BlockthisSpace – A Space Sector and Blockchain mash-up event.
This cross-industry event will be a mash-up between the Scottish Space Sector and Scotland’s blockchain Industry. Our aim is to explore the huge potential for collaboration, skills and knowledge exchange, and the possible new business opportunities between space and blockchain developers.
The evening will be split into two parts.
For the first hour we will have speakers from both the space and blockchain sectors, followed by a panel discussion focused on the 'exploration of collaboration'
The second hour will provide a networking opportunity over beer and pizza, kindly provided by MBN
As with all events, if anyone is feeling brave there are a few open mic slots available to give a quick 60 second introduction about themselves, their work, any challenges they are facing or a pitch about their business.
Anyone wishing to get involved by speaking at a future event please come and see our team during the evening. We encourage a wide variety of disciplines to be involved, so if you are doing some amazing work and you want the community to know, please let us know and we will feature you in an upcoming event.
Please note that for this event you will need to RSVP, that way we can let site security know how many we are expecting.
As always, we are very much looking forward to meeting you all!
Can you please RSVP here & https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blockthisspace-a-space-sector-and-blockchain-mash-up-event-tickets-70748068377?ref=eios
Speakers / Panel
Richard Hilton - Director - Explore Markets at Satellite Applications Catapult - https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-hilton-uk
Richard will talk about block-chain use within the space sector, ranging from upstream manufacture to downstream applications.
Alan McLarney - Chief Innovation Officer at Envisage Space Ltd - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-mclarney-1b608b47
Liam Bell - https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamjohnbell
Dr Hannah Rudman - Strategic Transformation Director, Wallet.Services - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahrudman
We also have a representative from SoXSA (TBC)
After a delightful summer break, Space Technology Scotland working in partnership with Scottish Blockchain Meetup (powered by MBN Solutions – based in Glasgow) is delighted to announce BlockthisSpace – A Space Sector and Blockchain mash-up event.
This cross-industry event will be a mash-up between the Scottish Space Sector and Scotland’s blockchain Industry. Our aim is to explore the huge potential for collaboration, skills and knowledge exchange, and the possible new business opportunities between space and blockchain developers.
The evening will be split into two parts.
For the first hour we will have speakers from both the space and blockchain sectors, followed by a panel discussion focused on the 'exploration of collaboration'
The second hour will provide a networking opportunity over beer and pizza, kindly provided by MBN
As with all events, if anyone is feeling brave there are a few open mic slots available to give a quick 60 second introduction about themselves, their work, any challenges they are facing or a pitch about their business.
Anyone wishing to get involved by speaking at a future event please come and see our team during the evening. We encourage a wide variety of disciplines to be involved, so if you are doing some amazing work and you want the community to know, please let us know and we will feature you in an upcoming event.
Please note that for this event you will need to RSVP, that way we can let site security know how many we are expecting.
As always, we are very much looking forward to meeting you all!
Blockchain Adoption Challenges in the Enterprise Environment
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The event will be in Edinburgh (venue TBC)
Blockchain adoption challenges in the enterprise environment - Evangelos Pappas - Ocyan Cloud
Evangelos is a technologists and tech entrepreneur. As a first successful startup, Evangelos founded, at the age of 21 and continued his journey in leading technical teams and projects. He was involved in delivering R&D and projects for corporations like Shell, Disney, Warner, GS1 and others in the finTech, AdTech and licencing space. Now he has founded Ocyan, a platform that enable enterprises to completely manage the end-to-end environment that's required for production-ready blockchains
BlockthisSpace - A Space Sector and Blockchain mash-up
Description changed:
Can you please RSVP here & https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blockthisspace-a-space-sector-and-blockchain-mash-up-event-tickets-70748068377?ref=eios
After a delightful summer break, Space Technology Scotland working in partnership with Scottish Blockchain Meetup (powered by MBN Solutions – based in Glasgow) is delighted to announce BlockthisSpace – A Space Sector and Blockchain mash-up event.
This cross-industry event will be a mash-up between the Scottish Space Sector and Scotland’s blockchain Industry. Our aim is to explore the huge potential for collaboration, skills and knowledge exchange, and the possible new business opportunities between space and blockchain developers.
The evening will be split into two parts.
For the first hour we will have speakers from both the space and blockchain sectors, followed by a panel discussion focused on the 'exploration of collaboration'
The second hour will provide a networking opportunity over beer and pizza, kindly provided by MBN
As with all events, if anyone is feeling brave there are a few open mic slots available to give a quick 60 second introduction about themselves, their work, any challenges they are facing or a pitch about their business.
Anyone wishing to get involved by speaking at a future event please come and see our team during the evening. We encourage a wide variety of disciplines to be involved, so if you are doing some amazing work and you want the community to know, please let us know and we will feature you in an upcoming event.
Please note that for this event you will need to RSVP, that way we can let site security know how many we are expecting.
As always, we are very much looking forward to meeting you all!
GDPR defines an increased focused on encryption and pseudo-anonymization. But many recent data breaches have shown that organisations often have poor practice when it comes to the anonymisation of personally identifiable information. And so, in future systems, we need to focus on the anonymisation the lowest layers of our data gathering, and then identify methods of revealing the information. But how are we going to apply machine learning into infrastructure which use encrypted data? And how are we going to identify individuals within anonymised infrastructures? And how are we going to be able to regulate for consent, privacy and governance?
This Meetup includes presentations on:
Anonymised and Distributed Machine Learning, Adam Hall. 20 mins - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-james-hall-1b0229113
Digital Wallets, Will Abramson. 20 mins. https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-abramson-639975120/
The Future of Cryptography: Range Proofs, Mimblewimble, and other Crypto Magic, Prof Bill Buchanan. 30-40 mins. https://www.linkedin.com/in/billatnapier
This is a joint Scottish Blockchain and Scotland Data Science & Technology Meetup
Title: Towards Anonymization for Learning, Transactions and Credentials Within Distributed Trust Infrastructures
Speakers: Will Abramson, Liam Bell, Bill Buchanan, Adam Hall: Blockpass ID Lab.
Date: Tuesday 27th August 2019 @ 6pm
Outline:
GDPR defines an increased focused on encryption and pseudo-anonymization. But many recent data breaches have shown that organisations often have poor practice when it comes to the anonymisation of personally identifiable information. And so, in future systems, we need to focus on the anonymisation the lowest layers of our data gathering, and then identify methods of revealing the information. But how are we going to apply machine learning into infrastructure which use encrypted data? And how are we going to identify individuals within anonymised infrastructures? And how are we going to be able to regulate for consent, privacy and governance?
This Meetup will outline current research into areas such as machine learning on encrypted data, anonymised and trusted credentials, range proofs, and in the trusted deletion of data.
Speakers:
Anonymised and Distributed Machine Learning, Adam Hall. 20 min - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-james-hall-1b0229113
Trusted Deletion of Data, Liam Bell. 20 min - https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamjohnbell
Anonymised and Trusted Credentials, Will Abramson. 20 min.
Range Proofs, Mimblewimble, and other Crypto Magic, Prof Bill Buchanan. 20 min - https://www.linkedin.com/in/billatnapier
Building a decentralised wallet infrastructure at scale
Zumo (https://zumo.money/) is a new financial ecosystem that allows you to buy, send and store crypto simply and securely. Based on a fully decentralised multi-currency wallet infrastructure ZumoKit is our Wallet as a Service, Software Development Kit, giving developers the ability to setup and manage their own cryptocurrency payments and storage infrastructure. This talk will cover the product development challenges specific to building scalable platforms within the blockchain and crypto space.
Paul Roach is the co-founder and Product Owner at Zumo. Paul has been working in product development for the past 10 years and has built products and audiences for startups and global businesses - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulroach23
Agenda:
6:30 PM – 7:00 PM: Networking
7:00 PM – 8.00 PM: Talk / Q&A - Paul Roach - co-founder and Product Owner at Zumo - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulroach23
8.00 PM - 9.00 PM: Networking and Drink
Building a decentralised wallet infrastructure at scale
Description changed:
Building a decentralised wallet infrastructure at scale
Zumo (https://zumo.money/) is a new financial ecosystem that allows you to buy, send and store crypto simply and securely. Based on a fully decentralised multi-currency wallet infrastructure ZumoKit is our Wallet as a Service, Software Development Kit, giving developers the ability to setup and manage their own cryptocurrency payments and storage infrastructure. This talk will cover the product development challenges specific to building scalable platforms within the blockchain and crypto space.
Paul Roach is the co-founder and Product Owner at Zumo. Paul has been working in product development for the past 10 years and has built products and audiences for startups and global businesses - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulroach23
Agenda:
6:30 PM – 7:00 PM: Networking
7:00 PM – 8.00 PM: Talk / Q&A - Paul Roach - co-founder and Product Owner at Zumo - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulroach23
8.00 PM - 9.00 PM: Networking and Drink
Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a critically-acclaimed best-selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the world’s foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts. Andreas makes complex subjects accessible and easy to understand. He is known for delivering electric talks that combine economics, psychology, technology, and game theory with current events, personal anecdote, and historical precedent—effortlessly transliterating the complex issues of blockchain technology out of the abstract and into the real world.
In 2014, Antonopoulos authored the groundbreaking book Mastering Bitcoin (O’Reilly Media, 2014), widely considered to be the best technical guide ever written about the technology. His second book, The Internet of Money (Merkle Bloom LLC, 2016)—which explains the technology’s potential impacts on human civilization—is a bestseller on Amazon.
The much-anticipated second volume of The Internet of Money was released in the late fall of 2017 and sold thousands of copies in the first month alone. His fourth book, Mastering Ethereum (O’Reilly Media, 2018), was followed swiftly behind and was published in 2018.
Antonopoulos is: an expert who has been interviewed on the BBC, Bloomberg Business, CNN, The Economist, Forbes, and Motherboard/VICE; a widely published author of articles and blog posts on bitcoin; a permanent host on the popular Let’s Talk Bitcoin Podcast; a frequent speaker at technology and security conferences worldwide.
Andreas M. Antonopoulos was born in London, England, and raised in Athens, Greece. After earning degrees in Computer Science, Data Communications and Distributed Systems at University College London, he went on to co-found and manage a technology research company in New York City. In this capacity, Antonopoulos advised dozens of Fortune 500 company executives on networking, security, data centers, and cloud computing—more than 200 of his articles on security, cloud computing, and data centers have been published in print and syndicated worldwide.
In 1990, he began to move into the public eye as an educator and speaker. Antonopoulos honed his public speaking skills in front of audiences ranging from five executives in a corporate boardroom to thousands in conferences. With more than 1,000 speaking engagements under his belt, he has become one of the world’s most sought-after bitcoin speakers who can explain the far-reaching complexities of the technology in deeply human terms. In 2014, Antonopoulos was appointed a teaching fellow with the University of Nicosia, the first university in the world to offer a Masters Degree in Digital Currency.
He helped to develop the curriculum and continues to co-teach the Introduction to Digital Currencies course that is offered as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Antonopoulos is one of the rare bitcoin and open blockchain experts who approaches the subject from an educational, political, cultural, and human perspective—not merely discussing the technology in investment terms. He serves on the Oversight Committee for the Bitcoin Reference Rate at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and has appeared as an expert witness in various capacities, testifying in hearings of the Australian Senate Banking Committee and the Canadian Senate Commerce, Banking and Finance Committee—his testimony for the latter has been lauded as an historically-important presentation that has influenced public policy vis-a-vis bitcoin in Canada and globally.
Agenda
18:00 - 18:50 Networking (food / drink) - meet & greet Andreas
18:50 - 18:55 Dug Campbell - SAFE Network
18:55 - 19:00 Welcome - Paul Forrest - Chairman @ MBN Solutions
19:00 - 19:25 Andreas M. Antonopoulos - Thoughts on the Future of Programmable Money
19:25 - 19:45 Q&A
19:45 - 19:55 Bill Buchannan (Edinburgh Uni) 5 mins
19:55 - 20:00 Event close Paul Forrest
20:00 - 21:00 Networking - meet & greet Andreas
The Cyber Academy, Satisnet and MBN Solutions present Bruce Schneier. Bruce is a world-renowned Cybersecurity specialist. He is a fellow of the Harvard Law School and has written a number of critically acclaimed books on cybersecurity, privacy and cryptography. He will outline his vision for privacy, trust and the future of cybersecurity. This event will be held on the same day as Thoughts on the Future of Programmable Money with Andreas M. Antonopoulos but we hope that you can make both! **Please note, if you have registered on Eventbrite you don't have to register in the meetup.** This event is separate from the Andreas M. Antonopoulos meetup, registration for both is required. ** Hosted by Bill Buchanan
The event will be held at our Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh. The post code is EH14 1DJ.
If you are arriving by car, there is on-street parking around the campus. We have also reserved Car Park A for the event, and which has a capacity of 75. You will not be able to park anywhere else on the campus.
Please remember, too, if you are not attending the event, please make sure you cancel your ticket.
The programme for the event is:
09:00 – 09:20 – Attendee registration
09:20 – 09:35 – Opening/welcome (Satisnet and ENU)
09:35 – 10:00 – Shaping the Security Automaton debate (Jamie Douglas – Resilient)
10:00 – 10:45 – Trust, Privacy and the Future (Bruce Schneier)
10:45 – 11:00 – Summary and close (Satisnet and ENU)
The Cyber Academy, Satisnet and MBN Solutions present Bruce Schneier. Bruce is a world-renowned Cybersecurity specialist. He is a fellow of the Harvard Law School and has written a number of critically acclaimed books on cybersecurity, privacy and cryptography. He will outline his vision for privacy, trust and the future of cybersecurity. This event will be held on the same day as Thoughts on the Future of Programmable Money with Andreas M. Antonopoulos but we hope that you can make both! **Please note, if you have registered on Eventbrite you don't have to register in the meetup.** This event is separate from the Andreas M. Antonopoulos meetup, registration for both is required. ** Hosted by Bill Buchanan
The Cyber Academy, Satisnet and MBN Solutions present Bruce Schneier. Bruce is a world-renowned Cybersecurity specialist. He is a fellow of the Harvard Law School and has written a number of critically acclaimed books on cybersecurity, privacy and cryptography. He will outline his vision for privacy, trust and the future of cybersecurity. This event will be held on the same day as Thoughts on the Future of Programmable Money with Andreas M. Antonopoulos but we hope that you can make both! **Please note, if you have registered on Eventbrite you don't have to register in the meetup.** This event is separte from the Andreas M. Antonopoulos meetup so registration for both is requried. ** Hosted by Bill Buchanan and Michael Young.
This is a joint Scottish Blockchain and Scotland Data Science & Technology Meetup
Title: Towards Anonymization for Learning, Transactions and Credentials Within Distributed Trust Infrastructures
Speakers: Will Abramson, Liam Bell, Bill Buchanan, Adam Hall: Blockpass ID Lab.
Date: Tuesday 27th August 2019 @ 6pm
Outline:
GDPR defines an increased focused on encryption and pseudo-anonymization. But many recent data breaches have shown that organisations often have poor practice when it comes to the anonymisation of personally identifiable information. And so, in future systems, we need to focus on the anonymisation the lowest layers of our data gathering, and then identify methods of revealing the information. But how are we going to apply machine learning into infrastructure which use encrypted data? And how are we going to identify individuals within anonymised infrastructures? And how are we going to be able to regulate for consent, privacy and governance?
This Meetup will outline current research into areas such as machine learning on encrypted data, anonymised and trusted credentials, range proofs, and in the trusted deletion of data.
Speakers:
Anonymised and Distributed Machine Learning, Adam Hall. 20 min - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-james-hall-1b0229113
Trusted Deletion of Data, Liam Bell. 20 min - https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamjohnbell
Anonymised and Trusted Credentials, Will Abramson. 20 min.
Range Proofs, Mimblewimble, and other Crypto Magic, Prof Bill Buchanan. 20 min - https://www.linkedin.com/in/billatnapier
Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a critically-acclaimed best-selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the world’s foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts. Andreas makes complex subjects accessible and easy to understand. He is known for delivering electric talks that combine economics, psychology, technology, and game theory with current events, personal anecdote, and historical precedent—effortlessly transliterating the complex issues of blockchain technology out of the abstract and into the real world.
In 2014, Antonopoulos authored the groundbreaking book Mastering Bitcoin (O’Reilly Media, 2014), widely considered to be the best technical guide ever written about the technology. His second book, The Internet of Money (Merkle Bloom LLC, 2016)—which explains the technology’s potential impacts on human civilization—is a bestseller on Amazon.
The much-anticipated second volume of The Internet of Money was released in the late fall of 2017 and sold thousands of copies in the first month alone. His fourth book, Mastering Ethereum (O’Reilly Media, 2018), was followed swiftly behind and was published in 2018.
Antonopoulos is: an expert who has been interviewed on the BBC, Bloomberg Business, CNN, The Economist, Forbes, and Motherboard/VICE; a widely published author of articles and blog posts on bitcoin; a permanent host on the popular Let’s Talk Bitcoin Podcast; a frequent speaker at technology and security conferences worldwide.
Andreas M. Antonopoulos was born in London, England, and raised in Athens, Greece. After earning degrees in Computer Science, Data Communications and Distributed Systems at University College London, he went on to co-found and manage a technology research company in New York City. In this capacity, Antonopoulos advised dozens of Fortune 500 company executives on networking, security, data centers, and cloud computing—more than 200 of his articles on security, cloud computing, and data centers have been published in print and syndicated worldwide.
In 1990, he began to move into the public eye as an educator and speaker. Antonopoulos honed his public speaking skills in front of audiences ranging from five executives in a corporate boardroom to thousands in conferences. With more than 1,000 speaking engagements under his belt, he has become one of the world’s most sought-after bitcoin speakers who can explain the far-reaching complexities of the technology in deeply human terms. In 2014, Antonopoulos was appointed a teaching fellow with the University of Nicosia, the first university in the world to offer a Masters Degree in Digital Currency.
He helped to develop the curriculum and continues to co-teach the Introduction to Digital Currencies course that is offered as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Antonopoulos is one of the rare bitcoin and open blockchain experts who approaches the subject from an educational, political, cultural, and human perspective—not merely discussing the technology in investment terms. He serves on the Oversight Committee for the Bitcoin Reference Rate at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and has appeared as an expert witness in various capacities, testifying in hearings of the Australian Senate Banking Committee and the Canadian Senate Commerce, Banking and Finance Committee—his testimony for the latter has been lauded as an historically-important presentation that has influenced public policy vis-a-vis bitcoin in Canada and globally.
Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a critically-acclaimed best-selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the world’s foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts. Andreas makes complex subjects accessible and easy to understand. He is known for delivering electric talks that combine economics, psychology, technology, and game theory with current events, personal anecdote, and historical precedent—effortlessly transliterating the complex issues of blockchain technology out of the abstract and into the real world. In 2014, Antonopoulos authored the groundbreaking book Mastering Bitcoin (O’Reilly Media, 2014), widely considered to be the best technical guide ever written about the technology. His second book, The Internet of Money (Merkle Bloom LLC, 2016)—which explains the technology’s potential impacts on human civilization—is a bestseller on Amazon. The much-anticipated second volume of The Internet of Money was released in the late fall of 2017 and sold thousands of copies in the first month alone. His fourth book, Mastering Ethereum (O’Reilly Media, 2018), was followed swiftly behind and was published in 2018. Antonopoulos is: an expert who has been interviewed on the BBC, Bloomberg Business, CNN, The Economist, Forbes, and Motherboard/VICE; a widely published author of articles and blog posts on bitcoin; a permanent host on the popular Let’s Talk Bitcoin Podcast; a frequent speaker at technology and security conferences worldwide. Andreas M. Antonopoulos was born in London, England, and raised in Athens, Greece. After earning degrees in Computer Science, Data Communications and Distributed Systems at University College London, he went on to co-found and manage a technology research company in New York City. In this capacity, Antonopoulos advised dozens of Fortune 500 company executives on networking, security, data centers, and cloud computing—more than 200 of his articles on security, cloud computing, and data centers have been published in print and syndicated worldwide. In 1990, he began to move into the public eye as an educator and speaker. Antonopoulos honed his public speaking skills in front of audiences ranging from five executives in a corporate boardroom to thousands in conferences. With more than 1,000 speaking engagements under his belt, he has become one of the world’s most sought-after bitcoin speakers who can explain the far-reaching complexities of the technology in deeply human terms. In 2014, Antonopoulos was appointed a teaching fellow with the University of Nicosia, the first university in the world to offer a Masters Degree in Digital Currency. He helped to develop the curriculum and continues to co-teach the Introduction to Digital Currencies course that is offered as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Antonopoulos is one of the rare bitcoin and open blockchain experts who approaches the subject from an educational, political, cultural, and human perspective—not merely discussing the technology in investment terms. He serves on the Oversight Committee for the Bitcoin Reference Rate at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and has appeared as an expert witness in various capacities, testifying in hearings of the Australian Senate Banking Committee and the Canadian Senate Commerce, Banking and Finance Committee—his testimony for the latter has been lauded as an historically-important presentation that has influenced public policy vis-a-vis bitcoin in Canada and globally.
Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a critically-acclaimed best-selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the world’s foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts.
Andreas makes complex subjects accessible and easy to understand. He is known for delivering electric talks that combine economics, psychology, technology, and game theory with current events, personal anecdote, and historical precedent—effortlessly transliterating the complex issues of blockchain technology out of the abstract and into the real world.
In 2014, Antonopoulos authored the groundbreaking book Mastering Bitcoin (O’Reilly Media, 2014), widely considered to be the best technical guide ever written about the technology. His second book, The Internet of Money (Merkle Bloom LLC, 2016)—which explains the technology’s potential impacts on human civilization—is a bestseller on Amazon. The much-anticipated second volume of The Internet of Money was released in the late fall of 2017 and sold thousands of copies in the first month alone. His fourth book, Mastering Ethereum (O’Reilly Media, 2018), is following swiftly behind and will be published in the fall of 2018.
Antonopoulos is: an expert who has been interviewed on the BBC, Bloomberg Business, CNN, The Economist, Forbes, and Motherboard/VICE; a widely published author of articles and blog posts on bitcoin; a permanent host on the popular Let’s Talk Bitcoin Podcast; a frequent speaker at technology and security conferences worldwide.
Andreas M. Antonopoulos was born in London, England, and raised in Athens, Greece. After earning degrees in Computer Science, Data Communications and Distributed Systems at University College London, he went on to co-found and manage a technology research company in New York City. In this capacity, Antonopoulos advised dozens of Fortune 500 company executives on networking, security, data centers, and cloud computing—more than 200 of his articles on security, cloud computing, and data centers have been published in print and syndicated worldwide.
In 1990, he began to move into the public eye as an educator and speaker. Antonopoulos honed his public speaking skills in front of audiences ranging from five executives in a corporate boardroom to thousands in conferences. With more than 1,000 speaking engagements under his belt, he has become one of the world’s most sought-after bitcoin speakers who can explain the far-reaching complexities of the technology in deeply human terms. In 2014, Antonopoulos was appointed a teaching fellow with the University of Nicosia, the first university in the world to offer a Masters Degree in Digital Currency.
He helped to develop the curriculum and continues to co-teach the Introduction to Digital Currencies course that is offered as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Antonopoulos is one of the rare bitcoin and open blockchain experts who approaches the subject from an educational, political, cultural, and human perspective—not merely discussing the technology in investment terms.
He serves on the Oversight Committee for the Bitcoin Reference Rate at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and has appeared as an expert witness in various capacities, testifying in hearings of the Australian Senate Banking Committee and the Canadian Senate Commerce, Banking and Finance Committee—his testimony for the latter has been lauded as an historically-important presentation that has influenced public policy vis-a-vis bitcoin in Canada and globally.
Thoughts on the Future of Programmable Money - Andreas M. Antonopoulos
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Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a critically-acclaimed best-selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the world’s foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts. Andreas makes complex subjects accessible and easy to understand. He is known for delivering electric talks that combine economics, psychology, technology, and game theory with current events, personal anecdote, and historical precedent—effortlessly transliterating the complex issues of blockchain technology out of the abstract and into the real world. In 2014, Antonopoulos authored the groundbreaking book Mastering Bitcoin (O’Reilly Media, 2014), widely considered to be the best technical guide ever written about the technology. His second book, The Internet of Money (Merkle Bloom LLC, 2016)—which explains the technology’s potential impacts on human civilization—is a bestseller on Amazon. The much-anticipated second volume of The Internet of Money was released in the late fall of 2017 and sold thousands of copies in the first month alone. His fourth book, Mastering Ethereum (O’Reilly Media, 2018), is following swiftly behind and will be published in the fall of 2018. Antonopoulos is: an expert who has been interviewed on the BBC, Bloomberg Business, CNN, The Economist, Forbes, and Motherboard/VICE; a widely published author of articles and blog posts on bitcoin; a permanent host on the popular Let’s Talk Bitcoin Podcast; a frequent speaker at technology and security conferences worldwide. Andreas M. Antonopoulos was born in London, England, and raised in Athens, Greece. After earning degrees in Computer Science, Data Communications and Distributed Systems at University College London, he went on to co-found and manage a technology research company in New York City. In this capacity, Antonopoulos advised dozens of Fortune 500 company executives on networking, security, data centers, and cloud computing—more than 200 of his articles on security, cloud computing, and data centers have been published in print and syndicated worldwide. In 1990, he began to move into the public eye as an educator and speaker. Antonopoulos honed his public speaking skills in front of audiences ranging from five executives in a corporate boardroom to thousands in conferences. With more than 1,000 speaking engagements under his belt, he has become one of the world’s most sought-after bitcoin speakers who can explain the far-reaching complexities of the technology in deeply human terms. In 2014, Antonopoulos was appointed a teaching fellow with the University of Nicosia, the first university in the world to offer a Masters Degree in Digital Currency. He helped to develop the curriculum and continues to co-teach the Introduction to Digital Currencies course that is offered as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Antonopoulos is one of the rare bitcoin and open blockchain experts who approaches the subject from an educational, political, cultural, and human perspective—not merely discussing the technology in investment terms. He serves on the Oversight Committee for the Bitcoin Reference Rate at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and has appeared as an expert witness in various capacities, testifying in hearings of the Australian Senate Banking Committee and the Canadian Senate Commerce, Banking and Finance Committee—his testimony for the latter has been lauded as an historically-important presentation that has influenced public policy vis-a-vis bitcoin in Canada and globally.
Laurence Kirk will talk about one of the rare real applications of Blockchain technology. The talk will explain a pilot project undertaken with Porsche to create blockchain nodes within their vehicles in order to control access to their cars. Laurence Kirk will explain the technical challenges Extropy faced and how Extropy developed a new consensus mechanism for Ethereum to solve them.
Laurence Kirk is CEO and Senior Blockchain Engineer of Extropy a decentralised system and cryptography consultancy based in Oxford.
http://extropy.io/
The goal of the Blockchain & FinTech Society is to encourage people to inform themselves about Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies & FinTech because we are convinced, they will play a large role in the future.
If you are interested in the activities of the society follow us on facebook. https://www.facebook.com/ENUBFS/, write us an email to napierblockchain@gmail.com or visit our website
Laurence Kirk will talk about one of the rare real applications of Blockchain technology. The talk will explain a pilot project undertaken with Porsche to create blockchain nodes within their vehicles in order to control access to their cars. Laurence Kirk will explain the technical challenges Extropy faced and how Extropy developed a new consensus mechanism for Ethereum to solve them.
Laurence Kirk is CEO and Senior Blockchain Engineer of Extropy a decentralised system and cryptography consultancy based in Oxford.
http://extropy.io/
The goal of the Blockchain & FinTech Society is to encourage people to inform themselves about Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies & FinTech because we are convinced, they will play a large role in the future.
If you are interested in the activities of the society follow us on facebook. https://www.facebook.com/ENUBFS/, write us an email to napierblockchain@gmail.com or visit our website
Revolution, Evolution and Adoption of Blockchain Tech (Panel Discussion)
This event will be a panel discussion involving attendees. It will be an open forum for questions.
I am VERY conscious we don't have any female panelists (for now) - I've reached out to my network already. Please let me know if you know anyone who would be interested in participating - [masked]
Host - Paul Forrest - Chairman, MBN Solutions - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pdf66
Paul has some twenty-five years experience of helping businesses to solve complex business problems, deliver their transformation goals and to achieve tangible strategic outcomes.
Panelist 1 - Stuart Fraser - Managing Director at Wallet.Services - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartjfraser
Stuart’s role spans technology vision, product architecture, finance, and overall leadership. Stuart successfully founded and built the first Scottish domestic cyber security and cryptography company DNS before its ultimate sale to Dell Corp. He has a wide appreciation of the application of technology and the risk and issues of information security and continues his involvement with the cyber community. Stuart completed his MSc in High Performance Computing at EPCC and was founding CTO at online Identity provider MiiCard, specialising in advance Internet Identity technologies. Over the last few years Stuart has brought his skills to bear on the emerging blockchain technologies which culminated in the creation of Wallet.Services.
Panelist 2 - Duncan Johnston- Watt - Co-founder and CEO of Blockchain Technology Partners - https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncanjohnstonwatt
Duncan is a serial entrepreneur and pioneer with thirty years experience in the software industry. He is co-founder and CEO of Blockchain Technology Partners, whose mission is to radically simplify enterprise adoption of blockchain technologies.
He founded Cloudsoft Corporation, creator of the Apache Brooklyn open source project, serving as its CEO for nine years. Previously he was founder & CTO of Enigmatec Corporation which was sold to iWave and subsequently acquired by EMC.
Prior to this he had a number of fintech roles. At Instinet he led the delivery of their Fixed Income brokerage platform. In recognition of this work pioneering the use of Java enterprise technologies in Financial Services he was nominated for a Computerworld Smithsonian Award. Duncan holds an MSc in Computation from Oxford University where he was a graduate student at Balliol College.
Panelist 3 - Liam Bell - Research Lead of the Blockpass ID Lab - https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamjohnbell
Liam Bell the Research Lead of the Blockpass ID Lab will talk about why it is important to decentralize the concept of digital identity and how blockpass is working on achieving it by deploying blockchain technology. He will also talk about the pitfalls of designing identity systems which are challenges to overcome during his work.
Revolution, Evolution and Adoption of Blockchain Tech (Panel Discussion)
This event will be a panel discussion involving attendees. It will be an open forum for questions.
I am VERY conscious we don't have any female panelists (for now) - I've reached out to my network already. Please let me know if you know anyone who would be interested in participating - [masked]
Host - Paul Forrest - Chairman, MBN Solutions - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pdf66
Paul has some twenty-five years experience of helping businesses to solve complex business problems, deliver their transformation goals and to achieve tangible strategic outcomes.
Panelist 1 - Peter Ferry - Founder & Commercial Director at Wallet.Services - https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterkferry
Peter earned his spurs as a software developer spanning the adoption of the PC and the Internet. As a hotshot techie he co-founded Microsoft Scotland and spent much of the dot com boom in the large financial services institutions of Scotland, consulting on web, infrastructure and security projects. Peter's corporate career continued ultimately leading Microsoft's Cloud and Partner programs and building the Microsoft Technology Centre to demonstrate the business impact of disruptive tech.
Peter gets excited about leapfrog technology that can change the World. That’s why he founded Wallet.Services to simplify and realise the potential of BlockChain technologies.
Panelist 2 - Duncan Johnston- Watt - Co-founder and CEO of Blockchain Technology Partners - https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncanjohnstonwatt
Duncan is a serial entrepreneur and pioneer with thirty years experience in the software industry. He is co-founder and CEO of Blockchain Technology Partners, whose mission is to radically simplify enterprise adoption of blockchain technologies.
He founded Cloudsoft Corporation, creator of the Apache Brooklyn open source project, serving as its CEO for nine years. Previously he was founder & CTO of Enigmatec Corporation which was sold to iWave and subsequently acquired by EMC.
Prior to this he had a number of fintech roles. At Instinet he led the delivery of their Fixed Income brokerage platform. In recognition of this work pioneering the use of Java enterprise technologies in Financial Services he was nominated for a Computerworld Smithsonian Award. Duncan holds an MSc in Computation from Oxford University where he was a graduate student at Balliol College.
Panelist 3 - Liam Bell - Research Lead of the Blockpass ID Lab - https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamjohnbell
Liam Bell the Research Lead of the Blockpass ID Lab will talk about why it is important to decentralize the concept of digital identity and how blockpass is working on achieving it by deploying blockchain technology. He will also talk about the pitfalls of designing identity systems which are challenges to overcome during his work.
Revolution, Evolution and Adoption of Blockchain Tech (Panel Discussion)
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Revolution, Evolution and Adoption of Blockchain Tech (Panel Discussion)
This event will be a panel discussion involving attendees. It will be an open forum for questions.
I am VERY conscious we don't have any female panelists (for now) - I've reached out to my network already. Please let me know if you know anyone who would be interested in participating - [masked]
Host - Paul Forrest - Chairman, MBN Solutions - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pdf66
Paul has some twenty-five years experience of helping businesses to solve complex business problems, deliver their transformation goals and to achieve tangible strategic outcomes.
Panelist 1 - Peter Ferry - Founder & Commercial Director at Wallet.Services - https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterkferry
Peter earned his spurs as a software developer spanning the adoption of the PC and the Internet. As a hotshot techie he co-founded Microsoft Scotland and spent much of the dot com boom in the large financial services institutions of Scotland, consulting on web, infrastructure and security projects. Peter's corporate career continued ultimately leading Microsoft's Cloud and Partner programs and building the Microsoft Technology Centre to demonstrate the business impact of disruptive tech.
Peter gets excited about leapfrog technology that can change the World. That’s why he founded Wallet.Services to simplify and realise the potential of BlockChain technologies.
Panelist 2 - Duncan Johnston- Watt - Co-founder and CEO of Blockchain Technology Partners - https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncanjohnstonwatt
Duncan is a serial entrepreneur and pioneer with thirty years experience in the software industry. He is co-founder and CEO of Blockchain Technology Partners, whose mission is to radically simplify enterprise adoption of blockchain technologies.
He founded Cloudsoft Corporation, creator of the Apache Brooklyn open source project, serving as its CEO for nine years. Previously he was founder & CTO of Enigmatec Corporation which was sold to iWave and subsequently acquired by EMC.
Prior to this he had a number of fintech roles. At Instinet he led the delivery of their Fixed Income brokerage platform. In recognition of this work pioneering the use of Java enterprise technologies in Financial Services he was nominated for a Computerworld Smithsonian Award. Duncan holds an MSc in Computation from Oxford University where he was a graduate student at Balliol College.
The Scottish Blockchain Meetup in partnership with the Edinburgh Napier University Blockchain & FinTech Society host their next event “Separating Opportunity from Hype”
To secure your place please register on Eventbrite
Ben Whittle, Crypto Asset Analyst, Investor, and Writer, will discuss how we can separate quality blockchain projects from the hype, vaporware, and outright scams that unfortunately still dominate large parts of the industry.
Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are often presented as a panacea to all manner of existing problems. The reality is that this technology, when used properly, ensures that certain tradeoffs must be made. Businesses and organizations need to be sure that their market problem can actually be solved with a blockchain.
In his talk, Ben will outline some of the parameters, tests, and questions we can apply to make sure we are not misled. The crypto asset markets are growing at unbelievable speeds and keeping informed about new technologies, opportunities and projects can be problematic. By the end of this talk, you will have a clear and simple understanding of how to better identify quality blockchain projects and crypto assets.
The goal of the Blockchain & FinTech Society is to encourage people to inform themselves about Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies & FinTech because we are convinced, they will play a large role in the future.
If you are interested in the activities of the society follow us on facebook. https://www.facebook.com/ENUBFS/, write us an email to [masked] or visit our website https://www.napierfintech.com/.
The Scottish Blockchain Meetup in partnership with the Edinburgh Napier University Blockchain & FinTech Society host their next event “Separating Opportunity from Hype”
To secure your place please register on Eventbrite
Ben Whittle, Crypto Asset Analyst, Investor, and Writer, will discuss how we can separate quality blockchain projects from the hype, vaporware, and outright scams that unfortunately still dominate large parts of the industry.
Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are often presented as a panacea to all manner of existing problems. The reality is that this technology, when used properly, ensures that certain tradeoffs must be made. Businesses and organizations need to be sure that their market problem can actually be solved with a blockchain.
In his talk, Ben will outline some of the parameters, tests, and questions we can apply to make sure we are not misled. The crypto asset markets are growing at unbelievable speeds and keeping informed about new technologies, opportunities and projects can be problematic. By the end of this talk, you will have a clear and simple understanding of how to better identify quality blockchain projects and crypto assets.
The goal of the Blockchain & FinTech Society is to encourage people to inform themselves about Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies & FinTech because we are convinced, they will play a large role in the future.
If you are interested in the activities of the society follow us on facebook. https://www.facebook.com/ENUBFS/, write us an email to [masked] or visit our website https://www.napierfintech.com/.
Anonymised Machine Learning with Distributed -full title is in the event details
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This is a joint Scottish Blockchain and Scotland Data Science & Technology Meetup
Title: Towards Anonymization for Learning, Transactions and Credentials Within Distributed Trust Infrastructures
Speakers: Will Abramson, Liam Bell, Bill Buchanan, Adam Hall: Blockpass ID Lab.
Date: Tuesday 25th June 2019 @ 6pm
Outline:
GDPR defines an increased focused on encryption and pseudo-anonymization. But many recent data breaches have shown that organisations often have poor practice when it comes to the anonymisation of personally identifiable information. And so, in future systems, we need to focus on the anonymisation the lowest layers of our data gathering, and then identify methods of revealing the information. But how are we going to apply machine learning into infrastructure which use encrypted data? And how are we going to identify individuals within anonymised infrastructures? And how are we going to be able to regulate for consent, privacy and governance?
This Meetup will outline current research into areas such as machine learning on encrypted data, anonymised and trusted credentials, range proofs, and in the trusted deletion of data.
Speakers:
Anonymised and Distributed Machine Learning, Adam Hall. 20 min - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-james-hall-1b0229113
Trusted Deletion of Data, Liam Bell. 20 min - https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamjohnbell
Anonymised and Trusted Credentials, Will Abramson. 20 min.
Range Proofs, Mimblewimble, and other Crypto Magic, Prof Bill Buchanan. 20 min - https://www.linkedin.com/in/billatnapier
Decentralised Identity - The solution for the sovereign.....
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Scottish Blockchain Meetup in partnership with the Edinburgh FinTech and Blockchain Society host their next event “Decentralised Identity - the solution for the sovereign individual?”.
To secure your place please register on Eventbrite
Liam Bell the Research Lead of the Blockpass ID Lab will talk about why it is important to decentralize the concept of digital identity and how blockpass is working on achieving it by deploying blockchain technology. He will also talk about the pitfalls of designing identity systems which are challenges to overcome during his work.
What is Blockpass?
Blockpass offers shared regulatory compliance services for humans, companies, objects and devices. As an identity system that supports verification of humans (KYC), objects (KYO) and connected devices (KYD), Blockpass will enable the development of new applications that rely on a trusted connection between multiple entities.
The goal of the Blockchain & FinTech Society is to encourage people to inform themselves about Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies & FinTech because we are convinced, they will play a large role in the future.
If you are interested in the activities of the society follow us on facebook. https://www.facebook.com/ENUBFS/, write us an email to [masked] or visit our website https://www.napierfintech.com/.
In their last Edinburgh FinTech and Blockchain Society event they talked a lot about Bitcoin and the competition between Bitcoin and Altcoins.
For their next event Paul Otto, Managing Partner at F5 Crypto Capital GmbH, will talk about Cardano and the Basic Attention Token.
There is no standard approach to analyze and value cryptocurrencies.
Paul and his partners at F5 are developing approaches to evaluate the potential of cryptocurrencies. If you are interested in cryptocurrencies come to this event!!
Where: Napier University Edinburgh, Merchiston Campus, room E7
When:[masked], 6pm - 8pm
About Paul: He is an entrepreneur from Germany living in Edinburgh. After he has finished his degree in maths & programming, he followed Bitcoin for a few years and then founded the F5 Crypto Capital GmbH with four partners.
His company F5 offers services connected to cryptocurrencies.
The event is organized by the Scottisch Blockchain Meetup in partnership with the Blockchain & FinTech Society. The goal
of the Blockchain & FinTech Society is to encourage people to inform themselves about Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies & FinTech because we are convinced they will play a large role in the future.
If you are interested in the activities of the society follow us on facebook. https://www.facebook.com/ENUBFS/ or write us an email to [masked]
Scottish Blockchain Meetup in partnership with the Edinburgh FinTech and Blockchain Society...
Hosted by Daniel Schnurr
In their last Edinburgh FinTech and Blockchain Society event they talked a lot about Bitcoin and the competition between Bitcoin and Altcoins.
For their next event Paul Otto, Managing Partner at F5 Crypto Capital GmbH, will talk about Cardano and the Basic Attention Token.
There is no standard approach to analyze and value cryptocurrencies.
Paul and his partners at F5 are developing approaches to evaluate the potential of cryptocurrencies. If you are interested in cryptocurrencies come to this event!!
Where: Napier University Edinburgh, Merchiston Campus, room E7
When:[masked], 6pm - 8pm
About Paul: He is an entrepreneur from Germany living in Edinburgh. After he has finished his degree in maths & programming, he followed Bitcoin for a few years and then founded the F5 Crypto Capital GmbH with four partners.
His company F5 offers services connected to cryptocurrencies.
Primarily, together with The event is organized by the Blockchain & FinTech Society. Our goal is to encourage people to inform themselves about Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies & FinTech because we are convinced they will play a large role in the future.
If you are interested in the activities of the society follow us on facebook. https://www.facebook.com/ENUBFS/ or write us an email to [masked]
Gary is the co-founder and managing director of APPII, a blockchain start up revolutionising CV verification and employee background screening and checking. APPII was founded in early 2016 and is based in London. He has more than 20 years’ experience across many different industries including financial services, media, staffing and recruiting, and management consulting.
All of his roles have centred around using his technology experience and knowledge to transform businesses and disrupt business models. Born in Scotland, Gary studied Building Surveying at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, before moving to Australia for 18 years where he studied at the UNSW Business School and was awarded a Master of Business and Technology.
Agenda:
18:00 - 18:30 Welcome drinks and pizza
18:30 - 19:00 Gary McKay of APPII
19:00 - 19:15 Question and Answer session
19:15 - 20:00 Networking
Words such as conservative, risk averse and late adopters are often used to describe the Oil and Gas Industry’s appetite for emerging technology. Data Gumbo is witnessing an entirely different attitude. In fact, the Oil and Gas Industry excites us because there is so much opportunity to simplify an already heavily interconnected network.
Data Gumbo identified the challenges faced by upstream and midstream operators and their supply chains, but we didn’t stop our commercial internet vision there. We’ve designed a blockchain-based B2B platform with industry in mind. Industries where thought leaders are recognizing how the powerful combination of IoT, smart contracts and distributed ledgers can reshape how transactions are initiated, confirmed and settled. We share the achievable goal of removing field tickets, reconciliation and long payment cycles. Data Gumbo’s blockchain-as-a-service makes autonomous contract execution as easy as a handshake. The way agreements used to be made and still are with parties who trust one another.
In this Meetup, Lisa M. Smith, Data Gumbo’s Chief Development Officer will share what Data Gumbo has been up to since 2016.
Lisa M. Smith is Chief Corporate Development Officer for Data Gumbo. Lisa’s passion for digital strategy is represented in her 30 years of management consulting and program delivery successes. She has launched and operated several overseas technical delivery centres, managed marketing and proposal centres and served as a trusted advisor to global clients. Lisa is focused on building Data Gumbo’s brand, forming strategic partnerships and educating our clients on the power of blockchain-based solutions. Lisa holds an MBA from Emory University, a BS from the University of Iowa and has completed Executive Management programs at MIT and Dartmouth business schools.
18 00 Networking
18 15 Lisa M. Smith Chief Corporate Development Officer for Data Gumbo
18 40 Question and Answer session
19 00 Networking
Where: Napier University, Merchiston Campus, Lecture Theatre A17
The event is organized by the Blockchain & FinTech Society and free.
The probability that Bitcoin evolve as a Black Swan is non zero! This speakerevent will show you why.
Description of event:
What have the breakdown of the Sovietunion, the invention of penicillin and the spread of the internet in common? All of them are Black Swans, events which had a large impact but only a few have predicted them beforehand. This event aims to show that Bitcoin might also be a Black Swan.
The aim of this event is that people understand how Bitcoin fundamentally works and why it can be really successful. There will be a presentation about Bitcoin, afterwards you can ask all the questions which you ever had about Bitcoin in a Q&A session. After the Q&A session there will be some time for networking.
Bitcoin is a multidisciplinary invention, so the presentation will cover history of money, game theory, the core technologies of Bitcoin and monetary theory. Widespread myths about Bitcoin for example that Bitcoin mining is a waste of energy will be analyzed and unveiled. It will also be explained why Bitcoin probably will be more successful than all the altcoins.
If you are planning to come, please register on eventbrite.
Casey Kuhlman - Demonstration of the Monax Platform
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This event will be in Edinburgh - Dentsu Aegis Network, Capital House, Edinburgh Office Fourth Floor, 2 Festival Square, Edinburgh EH3 9SU
Demonstration of the Monax Platform
Casey, Monax's CEO, will discuss how they blend an emergent blockchain-network which sits at the intersection of public and permissioned blockchain technology with a software-as-a service platform. The Monax Platform includes some of the most advanced Solidity smart contracts in existence and yet is fully understandable to individuals with only a modest understanding of blockchains and smart contracts technology.
In this Meetup, Casey will provide an overview of how the Monax Platform works and how their customers are utilizing the platform to gain insights into their legal contracts which they've been unable to achieve with prior generations of technology.
Casey Kuhlman is the CEO of Monax a blockchain-based contract management system for small businesses. Prior to co-founding Monax, Casey was the head of legal information systems at the US Open Data Institute. A lawyer and international development practitioner for nearly a decade, Casey has worked extensively in the Horn of Africa, including co-founding the first law firm in Somaliland. Casey has also been a New York Times bestselling author, an infantry officer in the Marines, and is an avid participant in open source software development.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/compleatang/
6.00pm : Arrive, Networking, Beer & Pizza
6.30pm: Presentation / Q&A
7.30pm: Networking and Drinks
9.00pm: Finish
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