Interest has increased tremendously over the past few years: (venture) capital investment and the number of blockchain-related patent applications are rising and more and more businesses are moving from testing minimal viable products to considering larger scale live deployments or investing heavily in order to develop their own proprietary blockchain software.
The key features of blockchain technology which are relevant for public & private sectors include the ability to record and store information on distributed databases, immutability and
the ability to cut out intermediaries will amongst impact:
Both aspects are topics that come together with for instance smart cities. However, blockchain is still in its infancy. The business cases & financing of these applications are still being developed and require investors/lenders for further expansion.
As a result, it is important to understand the technical and legal issues, as well as the potential business cases that are being developed. This helps you to ask the right questions and make informed decisions, and to consider new business cases to fund the application of blockchain.
During this event we will touch upon the impact of blockchain and the developments that are currently taking place which will impact energy and Infra/mobility Projects as we know it.
Speakers and panellists with a wide range of experiences are gathered to tell you about the state of play of developments and potential application of blockchain.
13:30 | Doors open / Welcome & refreshments |
13:30 - 14:20 | Future Leaders Network - informal get to know each other: new members especially invited for an accessible introduction to several peers (to provide a warm intro/low threshold to FLN-members who never/not recently attended an IPFA event) |
14:20 | Opening remarks - Representative from IPFA followed by Marjolein Geus, Bird & Bird |
14:25 - 14:45 |
Introduction to blockchain & the Dutch Blockchain Coalition Peter Verkoulen - Dutch Blockchain Coalition |
14:45 – 15:30 |
Energy sector: projects/use cases, developments & potential for investors/lenders Arno Laeven - WBNoDE - Network of Decentralisation Experts / Dutch Including conversation with panel consisting of:
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15:30 – 16:00 |
Legal introduction to blockchain: contract law & legal structure, regulatory framework & data protection Marjolein Geus, Wilfred Steenbruggen and Berend van der Eijk -Bird & Bird |
16:00 – 16:45 |
Mobility sector: projects/use cases, developments & potential for investors/lenders Harmen van der Kooij - Dutch Blockchain Coalition (Blockchain & Mobility - DBC) Including conversation with panel consisting of:
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16:45 - 16:50 | Closing remarks |
16:50 – 19:00 |
Drinks & bites |
Address
New Babylon Conference Center