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IEEE Canada Blockchain Forum 2024 (2nd edition)
Monday, August 12, 2024 @ 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The IEEE Blockchain Forum is returning as part of (https://www.canadacryptoweek.com/) for a second edition. The goal of this forum is to congregate BUIDLers, researchers, academics, and engineers building blockchain protocols, infrastructure, and decentralized software applications. Our theme for this year is Securing Blockchain infrastructure for the Financial Services Industry. Since our last gathering, two ETF launches brought the crypto industry a mile or two closer to mass adoption. The ranks of institutional players such as JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Société Générale (socgen), and others keep growing. Beyond the realm of finance, enterprise blockchain has found its way to the technology stack of industry leaders as diverse as Toyota, L’Oréal, Visa, and Samsung to name few. Still, this technology is fairly new. For example, the Ethereum network (the world computer doted with a Turing-complete programming language) went live only 9 years ago, on July 30th, 2015. A lot more work is required for the technology to mature, particularly on the cybersecurity front. Although the public chains have proven reliable in securing assets, bridges and other smart contracts have proven to be less worthy of trust. As blockchain technology becomes one of the key issues shaping the public discourse during the US presidential election, industry leaders will soon be faced by questions regarding quality of service, ethical use, and its level of security. This forum invites researchers and engineers to share their research and best practices to secure blockchain infrastructure for the core services our industry and our society rely upon, starting with the financial services. Speakers include – David Barreto, Developer Advocate at Starknet Foundation – Baltazar Rodriguez, Acting Head at the BIS Toronto Innovation Hub – Dr. Soosan Naderi, Blockchain Director at Cyber Security Global Alliance (CSGA) – Zhiyang Chen, PhD student at University of Toronto – Adit Patel, Co-founder of Blockscope – Irene Katzela, CTO at Dandelion – Marc Lijour, Financial Services Innovation at Exaion and Adjunct Faculty at International Business University – Christian St. Louis, Data & Research at Ethereal Ventures – Andres Assmus, CEO at CityZeen – Sam Drissi, CEO at Artizyou – Opinder Preet Singh, Founder & CEO at PropTy – Ehsan Shariati, COO and Co-founder at Functionland – Géraldine Jippé, COO and co-founder of AssetsWaves – Dr. Keerthi Nelaturu, Technical Advisor at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Co-sponsored by: Ontario Centre of Innovation, Exaion, Starknet, InCyber Forum North America Speaker(s): Baltazar Rodriguez, David Barreto, Soosan Naderi, Zhiyang Chen, Marc Lijour, Irene Katzela Agenda: Agenda 1pm – 1:15 pm Welcome and introductions – Marc Lijour and Irene Katzela, co-chairs of the Toronto IEEE Blockchain local group 1:15 pm – 1:30 pm Welcome from our sponsor and host: Ontario Centre of Innovation (OCI) 1:30pm – 2pm Talk #1: Evolving Financial Landscapes: A Pragmatic Approach to Blockchain Integration By Baltazar Rodriguez, Acting Head, BIS Innovation Hub Toronto 1:30pm – 2pm Talk #2: Cairo, a general purpose CPU for creating verifiable programs By David Barreto, Developer Advocate at Starknet Foundation 2pm – 2:30 pm Panel discussion – Securing public blockchains Moderator: Marc Lijour Panelists: David Barreto, Adit Patel, Soosan Naderi, Zhiyang Chen, Christian St. Louis, Ehsan Shariati 2:30pm – 3pm Talk #3: Data propagation, security and consensus in Ethereum network By Soosan Naderi, PhD, Blockchain Director at Cyber Security Global Alliance (CSGA) 3 pm – 3:30 pm Talk #4: Demystifying Invariant Effectiveness for Securing Smart Contracts By Zhiyang Chen, PhD student at the University of Toronto and Research Engineer at Zircuit 3:30pm – 4 pm Panel discussion – RWA Tokenization Moderator: Marc Lijour Panelists: Opinder Preet Singh, Sam Drissi, Andres Assmus, Dr. Irene Katzela, Géraldine Jippé 4 pm – 5 pm Networking Room: Suite 300, 325 Front Street West, 3rd floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5V 2Y1