Blockchain Today
BCS (Bedford)
| Date | Tuesday 21 May 2019 | ||||||||
| Time | 18:30 for 18:45 to 20:00 | ||||||||
| Location | Tavistock Suite Bedford Centre Hotel by AccorHotels, 2 St Mary's Street, Bedford MK42 0AR | ||||||||
| Speaker | Matt Lucas, Global Blockchain Engagement, IBM | ||||||||
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| Profile | Matt Lucas is a technologist with over 20 years of industry experience, currently working at IBM in the global blockchain team. He is an advisor for the British Blockchain Association and considered a world-wide expert on distributed ledger technologies for businesses, advised on blockchain solutions. He spends a lot of time teaching Blockchain good practices and industry/product trends and directions. His career has spanned most aspects of software engineering, from development and test, through team leadership, software design, architecture, consultancy and software product management. | ||||||||
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Blockchain is a
shared, replicated ledger that underpins technology such as Bitcoin.
Blockchain's reach is wider than cryptocurrency however, as it sets out to
provide the foundation for a new generation of transactional applications that
establish trust and transparency, while streamlining business processes. Are
you curious about Blockchain and what it can do? This session gives an overview
of Blockchain for business applications, why it is so important, where it is
being used and how IT professionals can get started and grow their blockchain
skills.