we will cover why we use blockchain technology, understand how cryptographic and technological components work and the features of major blockchain platforms. The session will cover best-fit applications from real world use cases like FinTech, and also the limitations including “dark side” of blockchain and the regulations applied to govern blockchain technology today.

As a highly-motivated and results orientated leader of Sales/Pre-Sales, Business development and Alliances in direct and indirect sales, I have a proven track record of providing exemplary levels of service to a broad range of customers and partners. I have Verifiable track record of maximizing revenue and expanding market share by effectively developing relationships at VP and CXO levels.

I have lead teams of pre-sales experts in RFP support, customer presentations and building champions of our technologies with partners.

I have experience in tier-1 product design, development and delivery, the complete process of bringing a new product to market.

As a Technical Leadership in a organization, I can bring immediate and strategic value and develop current skill set further.

I will speak on the different components of the EU’s Blockchain Strategy from the FinTech Action Plan to the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum, the European Blockchain Partnership and the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure that it is deploying, standards, legislative initiatives, skills and research.

Pēteris Zilgalvis is the Head of Unit for Digital Innovation and Blockchain in the Digital Single Market Directorate in DG CONNECT and is the Co-Chair of the European Commission FinTech Task Force. He was the Visiting EU Fellow at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford for 2013-14, where was an Associate of the Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme. From 1997 to 2005, he was Deputy Head of the Bioethics Department of the Council of Europe, in its Directorate General of Legal Affairs. In addition, he has held various positions in the Latvian civil service (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Environment). He was Senior Environmental Law Advisor to the World Bank/Russian Federation Environmental Management Project and was Regional Environmental Specialist for the Baltic Countries at the World Bank. He has been a member of the California State Bar since 1991, completed his J.D. at the University of Southern California, his B.A. in Political Science Cum Laude at UCLA, the High Potentials Leadership Program at Harvard Business School. A recent publication of his is “The Need for an Innovation Principle in Regulatory Impact Assessment: The Case of Finance and Innovation in Europe” in Policy & Internet. An upcoming publication is “The Law and Political Economy of Decentralised Digital Ecosystems”.

Leverage World Blockchain Conclave to highlight how Blockchain will evolve Supply Chains into Value Chains
Discuss how does Blockchain technology is becoming one of the critical factors to improve value chain across organizations today.
Discuss key trends in areas of supply chain management that will cause disruption in the business environment
Discuss what does digitization and transparency in supply chain mean for today’s workforce
Discuss integration of business strategy with the new operating model. Talk about future roadmaps to process reinvention through envisioning use cases that seem far fetched today.
Discuss differences between industry platforms and enterprise Blockchain solutions. Highlight collaboration areas between industries.
Discuss on alignment of metrics with target operating model and supply chain value levers driving business outcomes. Use of Blockchain in supply chain to bring in cost efficiency & new revenue models for enterprises

Do they solve real world use cases?

Does the transactional transparency and efficiency override the associated and perceived risks or the control needed?

The distributed ledger technology (DLT) is touted to be the new ‘internet’ – eliminates redundancy in data keeping, reduces cost of storing records, enhances data security that was never seen before and the new kid in the disruptions block of the world, not just the IT industry but across industries – from real estate to financial services to health care to retail industry.

Ram has over 4 decades of professional and industry experience. While holding senior/executive level positions in FIs his contribution ranged from policy formulation for the Basel guidelines to large value credit assessments and managing trade finance exposures. His industry knowledge ranges from retail to corporate, lending to payments/ancillary services. In one of his previous engagements, he headed the European operations out of London for a large IT services company. For another banking product company, he worked as a consultant and banking expert out of Singapore and covered the entire ASPAC region. He helped architect products for banking industry and implemented solutions for large banks and financial services companies across multiple geographies.

In his current role, where he focuses on ideation and innovation, he came up with new product ideas in cards, trade, AI driven channel solution and a many more. His idea of business process driven quality assurance is offered as a solution across financial institutions.

An introduction to Blockchain technology. An overview of how to implement Blockchain applications and deploy them to Azure.

Juarez Barbosa Junior has +20 years of experience in several IT-related roles throughout his career, currently working for Microsoft as the Azure Developer Relations Lead in Ireland.

Previously, he's worked for Oracle as a Principal Blockchain Developer Advocate and as Thought Leader and Technical Evangelist in IBM Mobile and IBM Watson.

He's passionate about engaging developers and communities to present and discuss the latest technologies related to Blockchain, IoT, Cloud Native, AI and other Emerging Technologies, with a particular focus and interest in Microsoft Azure

- Trials, POC’s and full-deployments of blockchain technology in real corporate business processes
- Examples outlining the benefits of implementing blockchain technology
- How start-ups, businesses, and individuals can apply these trends in their organization

Aly Madhavji is the Managing Partner at Blockchain Founders Fund which invests in and venture builds top-tier startups. He is a Limited Partner on Loyal VC and Draper Goren Holm. Aly consults organizations on emerging technologies such as INSEAD and the UN on solutions to help alleviate poverty. He is a Senior Blockchain Fellow at INSEAD and was recognized as a “Blockchain 100” Global Leader by Lattice80.

He is an internationally acclaimed author, publishing three books and a monthly columnist for the leading blockchain magazine. Aly serves as a board member of CryptoStar Corp. (TSXV: CSTR) and has served on various advisory boards including the University of Toronto’s Governing Council, which manages a $2.5B budget. He is a mentor with Chinaccelerator, an elite accelerator program operated by the venture fund SOSV with $700M+ AUM and the Mobile Only Accelerator (MOX).

Aly holds a Master of Global Affairs as a Schwarzman Scholar from Tsinghua University (清华大学), a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD (Singapore and France), and a Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Toronto.

Decentralized Identities (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs)

· Introduction to DID and VC
· Popular frameworks for DID
· Popular use cases leveraging DID/VCs
· Potential use cases which can leverage DID/VCs
· Microsoft Azure offerings in the space

Sunil is a Product leader with 14+ years of Industry experience spread across Product management and Engineering. He has been an intrapreneur, specializing in incubating and introducing new products to Market. with the likes of Lucent, Juniper and Cisco but moving on to incubating new products across mobile, e-commerce, AdTech and Cloud with Flipkart (e-commerce), Vizury (Ad-tech) and Microsoft (Cloud). He is an alumnus of UVCE, Bangalore and IIM Lucknow.

Currently, Sunil is a Senior Product Manager – Blockchain and FSI with Microsoft Azure

Share the experiences with production grade blockchain implementations in the areas of cross-border trade and finances. You may also refer to my publication in ADB journal. https://www.adb.org/publications/blockchain-technology-paperless-trade-facilitation-maldives.

Kartik has over 15 years of global experience in leading sales, design and delivery of innovative and greenfield technology solutions. He has successfully implemented ‘first of a kind’ (FOAK) solutions for commercial leasing, globally integrated supply chain networks, multi-country trade networks, digital payments and supply chain financing. Have successfully led country level strategy engagements to build, national payments infrastructure and international trade ecosystems.

Will combine this with the Live blockchain in supply chain demo with the do it yourself blockchain.

Rajan is an Innovator, Strategist, technology enthusiast who continues to re-invent and explore new areas of opportunities . Quickly adapt to the changes and ensure to be inline with the goals and timelines. Explore new niche and disruptive ideas and quickly execute to be a market leader.

• Founder of stezy - A do it yourself Proprietary Blokchain Platform.
• Founder of a technology company which is consolidating the niche, disruptive IoT domain and getting all the Analytics / Cloud / Big data / customized solution onto the platform
• Active PMI member with contributions and initiatives to drive best practices. Expertise on best practices of IT Infrastructure Library
• Managed the Remote infra management for one of the world's largest semiconductor company.
• Previously worked as Sr. Service Delivery Manager for HCL Technologies managing RIM for one of the worlds largest technology distribution company. Handled Nine towers in supporting IMS operations.
• Project delivery Manager for large team who works on cutting edge technologies and who supports Infrastructure / Data-center operations for Nearly a Lac Server / Network Devices for Microsoft Data-center
• Project Lead for a highly tech savvy team while working with Unisys Global services and managed 5 clients in Shared Desk.
• Enterprise Technical Engineer for one of the large Telecom Provider
• Worked As Technical Engineer with Hewlett Packard

Blockchain in healthcare has been an area of immense interest to me. I believe that a system of records available real-time would solve a lot of the issues that we see in healthcare today.
Lets explore the various parts of healthcare and how they can benefit from Blockchain

Dr Vikram Venkateswaran is the founder and editor of healthcare India, which has been rated as one of the top 100 sites globally on healthcare technology. He serves on various industry committees on healthcare.

This talk highlights various consortium models and the compelling needs of enterprises while running/participating in blockchain consortiums. It also captures the role of incentivization and de-centralized governance models as the key concepts for sustaining blockchain consortiums and driving adoption.

Krishnan Mohan, is the Head of Distributed Ledger Technology COE and the Chief Architect (Blockchain Practice) at Robert Bosch Engineering and Business solutions Pvt Ltd.

He is an open source contributor and a sectional voting member of ISO/TC 307 blockchain Reference Architecture working group.

At Robert Bosch India Blockchain Practice, he leads the technology strategy for blockchain, and has experience in architecture, design for various real-world use cases and solutions. His interests are in distributed consensus methods and crypto-economic models.

The delegates would have a hands-on experience using Design Thinking and Customer experience tools for understanding basic advantages of decentralization, immutability, security, and transparency.

I’ll talk about our(Bosch’s) experience in the space and the key learnings and outcomes of leveraging the technology to solve pertinent supply chain problems.

Chandan brings in extensive experience in business consulting and sales for Blockchain and other emerging technologies. In the past, he has worked with companies like PwC, TCS and Brillio Technologies in sales and consulting domain.
Chandan completed his MBA in Operations Management and is a certified Design Thinking practitioner, he also holds Six Sigma Greenbelt certification and has helped multiple clients with process improvement and reengineering initiatives in the past. He has conducted multiple design thinking workshops with the clients and helped them conceptualize use cases and solutions in Blockchain and other emerging tech domain. He has helped multiple clients to assess their existing digital maturity and leverage Blockchain as their growth engine.
Chandan has published a whitepaper in collaboration with NASSCOM titled- IoT-Beyond the Obvious- the whitepaper talks about leveraging a confluence of new-age and emerging technologies to create undeniable value-differentiation among all stakeholders.

Following is the synopsis of my speech:
- Challenges and Frauds in Digital Marketing
- How Blockchain can alleviate these issues
- Solution for these scenarios

Samit Das is a Practice Partner with the Global Enterprise Architecture Consulting practice in Wipro Digital. He works with CXO's in Fortune 500 companies as well as tech startups, and helps customers in creating solution blueprints for digital transformation journeys, shaping up the value proposition of the Digital ecosystem, and adopting emerging technology ecosystems and innovation.

Prior to his current role with Wipro, he was involved in building digital solutions and platforms for digital marketing, customer experience, Cloud Native solution ecosystem and crafting solution architecture for large transformation programs.

He is a public speaker and speaks at different forums and conferences on Technology, Digital Disruption, Leadership, Effective Communication, Humor, Storytelling. He has been conferred by Toastmaster International as “Distinguished Toastmaster”.

In this session we will discuss about how Blockchain plays a major role in mobility sector. We would also discuss about digital twins.

A Digital Twin is a collection of behavioral models that continuously increase insights into an individual physical asset to deliver specific business value. In this session we will learn about how digital twins are built in various industries and it's applications with the blockchain technology.

Hitesh Hinduja is a Data Scientist with 7 years of experience in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Post his graduation, he worked as a Graduate Research Associate at two of India’s finest management and research colleges - Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad (ISB). He has also worked in Accenture Research and Quantiphi, as Data Scientist and Blockchain developer. He is currently working at Ola, a ride-hailing unicorn, as Lead Data Scientist and has filed several patents and publications in the field of Artificial Intelligence..

It takes out all the complexity of blockchain development and yet its customization allows users to leverage the full power of blockchain.

I am currently working as a blockchain developer, consulting to multiple blockchain projects like Polkadot. Filecoin, Mina protocol and status network.

Github profile: https://github.com/arijitAD

With BOSCH's experience in Blockchain space with projects like the Economy of Things, Hyperledger labs Perun Network Project and the Bosch Provenance Platform, we have learned some valuable lessons in fostering Privacy in Enterprise Blockchain applications. This talk is a compendium of the popular Privacy techniques available in the industry and how we are implementing them. We discuss cutting edge technologies like Secure Multiparty computation, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, and State channels. We also discuss our experience and the fitness of existing privacy-preserving mechanisms in Blockchain Platforms like Quorum and Hyperledger Fabric while building production-grade Blockchain dApps. We conclude with the best-practices and what Bosch Provenance Platform implements to become production-ready when it comes to Privacy-focused Enterprise dApps.

Arnab Chatterjee is a Blockchain Technical Lead at the Blockchain Practice Team at Robert Bosch India and a committee member of ISO/TC 307 - Standards for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology. He leads the product development and technical strategy for solutions with Blockchain, IoT, and Artificial Intelligence.

Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) - an innovation based on the Blockchain technology is seeing a widespread interest from the governments across the world. Federal Institutions look to implement CBDC - either wholesale or retail to eliminate the intermediaries and bring in a frictionless movement of central bank issued digital currency between the financial institutions and between the retail investors and the financial institutions. This session would focus on the potential use cases derived out of CBDC and how the implementation is foreseen from a technological standpoint and the progress that has been made to till date across the globe.

Vidyashankar is a Domain Leader of the Blockchain Expert Community in Atos Syntel. He started exploring Blockchain from the year 2015, as a Capital Markets expert the interest was natural as some of the key use cases were from the Capital Markets and the Banking domain. He has written multiple articles on Blockchain and its potential use cases in the Finance Industry and also has been part of the technology research group in exploring the suitability of the technology to the right use case. He holds an MBA from Institute for Financial Management and Research

DEFI is becoming one of the fastest growing new Financial areas. At the same DEFI it is quite unknown to most people. This talk explains DEFI in simple terms, and provides a general understanding of the current situation and future developments in this Industry.

Gustavo is Swiss, trained Engineer, MBA, MSc. Over 30 year’s senior Banking/Finance management experience at Chairman, Board of Directors, and CEO level. Solid Corporate- Private Equity Management/ Finance experience, including Fintech - Blockchain, DEFI , Crypto currencies , M & A, IPO, ICO, STO. – Specialist in Company strategy , formation & business development – Inspirational leader with strong entrepreneurial spirit. – Fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

International ICT speaker. Seasoned CTO, with blockchain, AI, IoT, cyber security, managed services, cloud computing, big data, and ICT innovation professional focused on business value; brings experience, creativity, structure, motivation, & agility. Over 30 years of ICT experience, covering, innovation, architecture as well as risk management, compliance, auditing, certification, business continuity, & disaster recovery. Served sectors include Telecom, Oil & Gas, Financial , Government, Defense, HealthCare, & Education.

By providing trust through technology rather than through intermediaries, every industry across the globe is up for disruption, and finance is in the thick of it. Blockchain tech is attracting significant attention on its own as a viable stand-alone infrastructure for executing and recording transactions. In this session we can examine how the investment management industry could be transformed by the widespread adoption of smart contracts, digital identities and other innovative components. Today, the market for funds is very fragmented, In terms of creating and distributing funds, essentially a marketplace. Here for DLT to succeed, the transition phase must be carefully managed, migrating onto new technology can be highly complex and expensive for fund business, we will also discuss on challenges of possible integration and viable entry points.

Sambhav Gaur is one of the core members of the India Innovation team in Fidelity International, leading the blockchain practice @Fidelity. He has been analysing Blockchain technology and its use cases in the asset management industry for last 5 years. He helped in research, formulate, and drive technology enablement through mixing conventional and emerging technologies for varied business use cases. With over 14 years of experience on engineering and developing applications for enterprises, he helps the organisation always remain on cutting edge of technology.

- Blockchain technology backed system which invites collaboration and participation from all institutes part of consortium.
- Gives equal opportunities to students to acquire the best of knowledge from top institutes without any notion of entrance exam.
- Breaks the complete monopoly of coaching institutes and encourages merit based progression and opportunities.
- Enormous potential to bridge the skill gap across all sectors with the wider adoption of this model.
- Provides opportunities to colleges to build Centre of Excellence in a particular stream and provide job opportunities around it.
- Complete transparency and trust using Blockchain technology.
- Provides platform for digital storage of educational credentials with no manual intervention.

Anuj is a visionary IT leader and Blockchain evangelist working on leading technologies for last 20 years. He has vast experience in IT solutions, Designing & Development , Service Delivery, Process Re-engineering, Account Management, Transformation, client management etc.

He has worked in IBM since 2009 and have worked in various leadership positions and currently working as Innovation leader. Some of his achievements include Patent in server build, Blockchain data archival, Blockchain world state etc. He has got several prestigious awards like Leadership award for Strategy and Innovation, Technical Excellence award, service delivery quality award etc. He has led several key initiatives for Blockchain Implementation, Automation, Process Optimization, Delivery Models and relationship building.

In his past assignments, he has worked with Infosys, ST Microelectronics, Daewoo Telecom etc. He is PMP and ITIL certified with IBM certifications on Project Management, Bluemix and Blockchain.

Anuj has a keen interest in Blockchain technology and is an IBM Certified Blockchain consultant. He has successfully designed several Blockchain applications on Hyperledger and Ethereum platforms. He is also a Blockchain coach and has trained hundreds of technology professionals in this revolutionary technology. He is currently working on developing an end-to-end Blockchain-based technology solution in the education sector, farm landing sector and inventory management projects.

Role of distributed ledger technology in digitizing supply chain processes. Learnings from experience in deploying production grade applications.

Amey Rajput is General Manager for Blockchain Business Unit at Tech Mahindra and is responsible for Business Development – Consulting, Platforms & Solutions, Thought Leadership, and Strategic Alliances. He has been part of the blockchain competency since its origin in Tech Mahindra. He plays a key role in handholding clients into experimenting and implementing blockchain in supply chain, data privacy, and trade finance domains. Under his leadership a team of 20+ blockchain architects and developers have delivered 6 live implementation in verticals like Manufacturing, Telecom, Banking and Public Sector. Amey Rajput is part of the Mahindra Group’s prestigious ‘Shadow Board’ that works with the Board of Directors on strategizing and executing group wide programs.

Recently, Amey has joined as a Blockchain Fellow atWorld Economic Forum, Centre for 4th Industrial Revolution, to help define key policies with public and private organizations globally.

Scalability and security of public blockchain networks is normally associated with the consensus algorithms deployed. But the underlying peer-to-peer networks used by distributed ledgers play a major role in efficiently disseminating block and transaction messages and to keep the nodes in sync. This technical talk will cover recent advances in P2P networking technologies and how they improve the scalability and security of the newer-generation of blockchains.

Prabhu Eshwarla has been shipping high-quality, business-critical software to large enterprises and running IT operations for over 25 years. He is also a passionate teacher of complex technologies. Prabhu has previously worked with Hewlett Packard and has deep experience in software engineering, engineering management, and IT operations. Prabhu specializes in distributed systems, and is passionate about Rust and blockchain. He is the author of two books - Rust Servers, Services and Apps and Practical System programming for Rust developers.

Combination of The Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and blockchain is presenting an unprecedented opportunity for the organization to deliver very high Customer experience . Every Organization capable of exploiting these technologies will have a chance to radically streamline and enhance existing processes, create entirely new business models, and develop innovative products and services for a new generation of consumers.

Sathvik Vishwanath is a successful entrepreneur whose heart and soul is into innovative and disruptive technologies! His business journey started with VentureNext in 2008 writing customized scripts for businesses in a virtual world called SecondLife. In 2012, he was introduced to bitcoin which lead to his next venture Unocoin.com that specialized in providing bitcoin services for the Indian market. As CEO of Unocoin, he was instrumental in leading strategic partnerships and investor relations. He also played the role of CTO architecting and leading the tech team behind Unocoin and its exchange. He holds an MBA from Melbourne Business School.