Registration
Welcome Cocktail
Opening Remarks | Panorama Room
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome Address: Antonis Polemitis, CEO, University of Nicosia |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain: Past, Present, and Future | Garrick Hileman, Research Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, University of Cambridge |
Coffee Break
Panel Discussion I: The Rise of Digital Cash: Blockchain Regulation, Compliance and Law Enforcement
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Accelerating your Blockchain Projects with Microsoft and KPMG | Panorama Room
Panel Discussion II: Retail Payments or Settlement Systems: Blockchain in Financial Services | Panorama Room
Lunch Break
Assuring life-essential products via Blockchain | Panorama Room
Activities regarding blockchain in Japan | Panorama Room
Transparency Across the Seas: Blockchain in Shipping & Supply Chain Management Chair: Soulla Louca, Blockchain Initiative |
Horizontal and Vertical Decentralized Industry Solutions | Megaron B Room Chair: Yannis Karamitsos, Digital Transformation Technologist, Orange Business Services |
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| 15:30 – 15:50 | Blockchain as a game changer for SCM and transport logistics | Frank Bolten, Managing Partner - CHAINSTEP | Blockchain & Digital Health Assets (Online Participation) | John Bass, Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Hashed Health |
| 15:50 – 16:10 | Effective use of Blockchain Technology to Defeat Counterfeiters | Mark Toohey, Lawyer and Co-founder - TBSx3 | A toolset to implement Smart Processes on a Blockchain | Nikos Karapanagou, CTO - Motivian |
| 16:10 – 16:30 | Blokchain beyond Financial Services: supply chain, traceability, shipping, trade finance, etc. | Emmanuel Viale, Accenture Technology Labs | The Dubai Centre for Risk and Innovation: A focus in the UAE strategy for Blockchain | Maria Papadaki, Managing Director - Dubai Center for Risk and Innovation |
| Blockchains can potentially improve on bureaucratic, paper-heavy systems in the shipping industry, connecting commerce and supply chains in interlinked chains of provable trust and transparency. Blockchain technology can ensure reliable and updated data for bills of lading and supply chain management, as well as indicate cargo provenance and integrity. This combination of panelists from the shipping and blockchain industry will discuss solutions that may emerge in the coming years. | Blockchain is taking numerous industries by storm imposing changes that were previously unimaginable or infeasible. Disruption is at the doorstep and affected organizations will inevitably have to adjust or perish. Initiatives bound to realize the potential of blockchain will be presented. |
Coffee Break
16:55 - 17:35 |
16:55 - 17:55 |
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Blockchain.edu: Blockchain in Academia and Research Chair: Yiannis Levantis, Group CIO, BMI Group |
Will Robots Use Bitcoin? The Internet of Trust and Artificial Intelligence Chair: Maria Michailidis, Professor, University of Nicosia |
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| 16:55 – 17:15 | Is DLT the Cure for the Omni-Channel Blues? A Provocation | Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, Professor - Bangor University | Combining Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain: Innumerable Technological Innovations | Spyros Makridakis, Director - Institute for the Future, University of Nicosia |
| 17:15 – 17:35 | Credentials on the Blockchain | Kostas. A. Karasavvas, R&D Blockchain Initiative, University of Nicosia | |
| 17:35 – 17:55 | The RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub: a new approach to social science research on blockchain technology | Sinclair Davidson, Professor of Institutional Economic, RMIT University | Implementing a Church-Turing thesis machine on a Blockchain | Konstantinos Sgantzos, Researcher - University of Thessaly |
| Blockchains present a challenging and exciting area for academia, as they do not neatly fall within departmental lines. In this session, we look at the latest developments in blockchain topics in higher education, including new trends in academic instruction, research and use of blockchain-based technologies within the university (e.g. academic credentials on the blockchain). | As algorithms grow and evolve to perform more complex tasks in what we collectively call AI, they'll be called to interoperate with each other, create markets, source services from each other and share information and money much in the same way as humans do. Do we have the hardware and software in place for something like this? Are we ready as a civilization? Bringing several of the above topics together, what new things will we see at the convergence of blockchains, IoT, AI and other fledgling technologies in the near future? |
Open Governments: Blockchain-Enabled Governance | Panorama Room Chair: Yannis Karamitsos, Digital Transformation Technologist, Orange Business Services |
Your Autonomous Fridge: Blockchain and the Internet of Things | Megaron B Room Chair: Andreas Vlachos, Academic Coordinator Officer, University of Nicosia |
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| 17:55 – 18:15 | Redesigning Democracy on the Blockchain | Jamie Skella, Co-Founder - Horizon State | Industrial grade IoT-connections to blockchains | Skwarek Volker, Professor – Hamburg University of Applied Sciences |
| 18:15 – 18:35 | Blockchain in Poland | Krzysztof Piech, Professor - Lazarski University | Blockchain-based Secure Decentralization for the Internet-of-Things | Vasos Vassiliou, Assistant Professor, Networks Research Laboratory |
| 18:35 – 18:55 | The Governed Blockchain | Ian Grigg, EOS | A roadmap to Innovation of Things™ - The case of Digital land administration systems | Thanos Yamas, Managing Director - IoTask LLC |
| Blockchain-based governance has the potential to enable more transparent and efficient governance. We examine what today's leaders view as the key opportunities and challenges in implementing blockchain based solutions in government, either in traditional or non-traditional functions. | Some say, the "S" in "IoT" stands for security; We still have a lot of problems to solve in this rapidly growing industry, some of which include identification, authentication and management of devices which often still rely on centralized services. Will blockchain-based solutions provide a new interoperability layer between the billions of IoT devices and improve security and maintainability? |
Networking Cocktail
Gala Dinner
Keynote Talk | Panorama Room
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Europe and blockchains: Keep Trust in Disruptions | Chiara Mazzone, Innovation Policy Office, DG CONNECT- European Commission |
Horizontal and Vertical Decentralized Industry Solutions | Panorama Room
| 09:30 – 09:50 | Keeping it Real: Distributed Ledgers and Counterfeit Goods | Adam Hayes, Co-founder and CEO - ChainLink |
| 09:50 – 10:10 | Blockchain & Smart Contracts: Building blocks for Smart Cities | Yannis Karamitsos, Digital Transformation Technologist - Orange Business Services |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | Decentralized solutions for real-world problems | Alice Corsini, Chief Operations Officer, Oraclize/em> |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Decentralised energy trading – first results of the Enerchain project | Michael Merz, Founder, PONTON |
| Blockchain is taking numerous industries by storm imposing changes that were previously unimaginable or infeasible. Disruption is at the doorstep and affected organizations will inevitably have to adjust or perish. Initiatives bound to realize the potential of blockchain will be presented. |
Coffee Break
Portable Health: Blockchain in the Life and Health Sciences | Panorama Room
| 11:20 – 11:40 | From Hippocrates to Nakamoto | Bryant Joseph Gilot, Chief Medical Officer - Blockchain Health |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Blockchains in eHealth and Life Science – reality not fiction | Daniel Burgwinkel, Blockchain Projects Lead - Guardtime |
| 12:00 – 12:20 | Why the healthcare industry needs blockchain technology | Vidushi Savant, Clinical Faculty, Stanford Medical Center |
| Blockchain has the potential to enable secure lifetime medical record sharing by allowing various stakeholders (hospitals, patients, relatives, personal doctors etc.) to access medical data, while still ensuring data integrity as well as privacy protection. What are the implications of this for healthcare systems and how should healthcare providers and governments be responding? |
Cryptoassets as a New Asset Class: Challenges and Opportunities for Investors, Asset Managers and Regulators | Panorama Room
Lunch Break
Keynote Talk
Open Financial Systems on the Blockchain | Panorama Room
| 14:50 – 15:10 | ICOs and the the future of funding | George Papageorgiou, UNIC Fellow |
| 15:10 – 15:30 | Lykke global marketplace: architecture, metrics and roadmap | Sergey Ivliev, Co-founder and COO - Lykke |
| 15:30 – 15:50 | On the standardization of Initial Coin Offerings | Theodosis Mourouzis, Research Fellow - University College London |
| ICOs are a new and disruptive crowdfunding method, that's been slowly evolving over the last 3 years, to peak at more than 1.2$ billion raised just in 2017 so far. We're exploring what are the major drivers of this process, how it interfaces with conventional regulation and what the future could hold for investment mechanisms in the space. |
Coffee Break
Panel Discussion III: Limited Editions: Digital Blockchain and Digital Rights Management (DRM) | Panorama Room
The Great Divide: Public vs Private Blockchain | Panorama Room
| 17:00 – 17:20 | Public and private blockchains - same idea, inverted context | Gregor Borosa, UNIC Fellow |
| 17:20 – 17:40 | Andreas Antonopoulos, Author, Entrepreneur UNic Fellow (Recorded Message) |
Psychological Aspects of Crowdfunding in FinTech Projects | Panorama Room
The MAP of the Future is Decentralized | Panorama Room
Smart Contracts without a Virtual Machine | Panorama Room
Disrupting the Establishment
Closing Session | Panorama Room
Networking Cocktail