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SUMMARY:Overview of Blockchain Technology
DESCRIPTION:Omid Sadeghi\, serial entrepreneur and technology advisor\, will be presenting “Overview of Blockchain Technology”. \nDay & Time: Monday November 13th\, 2017\n4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Omid Sadeghi\nDirector of BlockchainHub at York University \nLocation: Room: ENG 288\, George Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering\n245 Church Street\nToronto\, Ontario M5B 2K3 \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour \nOrganizer: WIE IEEE Toronto\, Instrumentation-Measurement/Robotics-Automation\, Magnetics\, and Computer Science Department of Ryerson University. \nAbstract: Blockchain protocol and technology are said by many to be among the greatest accomplishments of human intellect since the Internet. Blockchain is the software technology underlying what is commonly known as Bitcoin\, however\, the technology is not exclusive to Bitcoin. Swarms of innovators are working feverishly to design and deploy new business platforms that incorporate blockchain technology. \nIn this session\, we learn about the concepts of cryptocurrency and blockchain\, what are the potential for this technology and when a blockchain solution would be applicable to an enterprise. \nBiography: Omid Sadeghi is a serial entrepreneur and technology advisor with domain expertise in commercialization and developing customer-centric products. Omid holds an undergraduate degree in Design Engineering and an MBA degree from Schulich School of business (Winner of more than $40\,000 student awards). \nHe is the director of BlockchainHub at York University to connect Research\, education\, and commercialization in Blockchain space. BlockchainHub currently run numerous educational programs and run various projects including setting up a state of the art Blockchain-based certification system for York University. \nOmid is active in building and supporting technology and engineering communities\, especially in Toronto. He is on the advisory board of different blockchain initiatives and a board member of Professional Engineers of Ontario-ETC.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/overview-of-blockchain-technology/
LOCATION:Room: ENG 288\, George Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics,Women in Engineering
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