UCL CBT Blockchain Research Showcase Presentations
The UCL CBT ran its first blockchain research showcase where awardees from the first Call for Proposals presented their findings. The event took place on Thursday 20th February at UCL in London, UK. Learn more about the research proposals and watch the presentations here.
News from CBT Associates
Abel Maciel is pleased to announce the Construction Blockchain Consortium is hosting its annual conference titled ‘Blockchain & The Digital Golden Thread’ at University College London between 20th and 22nd May 2020. It will build upon the CBC’s 2019 symposium (hosted by the CSTB in Paris) with involvement from leading names in the application of blockchain technology in the built environment. The conference will feature keynotes and workshops across three days, with keynote sessions on Computational Construction Law and Digital Construction Management. The CBC will be presenting its most recent white paper and invite discussion with experts from across industry and academia. The link to the conference can be found here.
Navroop Sahdev spoke at the special seminar on “Introduction to blockchain and Digital Economics” at Gujranwala Guru Nanak Institute of Management and Technology (GGNIMT) in India, organized by the Chamber of Small and Medium IT Industries (CSMITI), highlighting the importance of blockchain technologies. She elaborated upon transactional transparency and how blockchain had the potential to improve cyber security, digital identity and audit trails. See the news coverage in the national Indian daily, The Tribune.
Navroop was also recently interviewed by the Aryze team on what the post-pandemic world looks like and if technology can help us build human-centered antifragile systems. Read the interview “Converging Tech is Leading a Global Transformation” where Sahdev discusses divergent thinking, convergent tech and the resulting emergent economic transformation.
Andrea Bracciali from the University of Stirling co-chaired together with Massiliano Sala from the University of Trento the 4th edition of WTSC, the Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts (http://fc20.ifca.ai/wtsc/index.html), associated to Financial Cryptography (http://fc20.ifca.ai). WTSC was held together with the main conference in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, and featured a program of 15 contributed papers on the latest developments on smart contracts. WTSC series was started in 2017 in Malta and has ever since attracted strong contributions and featured a list of top invited speakers (Buterin, Breitman, Mishra, Artamanov and Grigg). Proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. Pre-proceedings of WTSC and FC are available on the web pages. Do get in touch if interested (abracciali@gmail.com).
Nikola Tchouparov CEO of Moneyfold (Doing Business As “Eidoo”) opened pre-orders for the Eidoo crypto debit card in the EEA. The programme connects the non-custodial Eidoo DeFi wallet to traditional finance. Some of the features include three programme tiers – Basic, VIP, Black – each unlocking a higher percentage of crypto cashback, up to 10% crypto cash back, the first metal crypto debit card in Europe, discounts on atomic swaps, referral bonuses and many other innovative features. The fiat payment leg of the crypto-conversion uses Moneyfold’s stablecoins to streamline compliance with regulations (AML/CFT monitoring and custody of client assets) – making it an industry first.
Rajan Kashyap gave a talk at MK Geek night on 12th March, where he talked about the subject “Blockchain – Beyond Cryptocurrencies”. This is a quarterly event held in Milton Keynes where various speaker are invite to speak on variety of topics.
Block-Sprint 2019: A Recap
Videos of the Block-Sprint winners’ pitches and highlights of the competition can be found here including a write-up on LinkedIn here. Watch out for the next one in 2020.
UCL CBT Releases Report on DLT in the Supply Chain
En[code] ThunderCore Blockchain Pre-Accelerator ‘Club’ – Encode Club are running an online pre-accelerator over the coming months. It will take the best early stage blockchain projects worldwide and help them take the leap to becoming a fully fledged startup, with the help of ThunderCore’s technology. Lasting 10 weeks, accepted projects will work with the En[code] team weekly to build out your project, supported by Grant funding, Workshops, Mentoring and Help preparing for investment. Applications close on 12th April and the Club starts in mid-late April. If you have any questions, email anthony@encode.club. Read more here. Apply here.
Future Learn have several courses that are directly releveant to the pandemic:
COVID-19: Tackling the Novel Coronavirus, with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Managing COVID-19 in General Practice, with St George’s, University of London
How to Teach Online: Providing Continuity for Students, our very first FutureLearn branded course
UCL CBT are creating an online blockchain course with Future Learn – look out for that in the summer!
Future Learn have several courses that are directly releveant to the pandemic:
COVID-19: Tackling the Novel Coronavirus, with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Managing COVID-19 in General Practice, with St George’s, University of London
How to Teach Online: Providing Continuity for Students, our very first FutureLearn branded course
UCL CBT are creating an online blockchain course with Future Learn – look out for that in the summer!
BeatCorona is creating a DLT based platform in order to combat COVID-19 in Africa. The aim of the platform is to share information, data and resrouces to fight the pandemic. Learn more here and contact the project directly at info@beatcorona.io