International Blockchain Forum: Social Impacts and Applications

Round Table with the Embassies

• Her Majesty’s Ambassador Jane Owen (British Embassy)
• Pamela Hay, Counsellor (Comercial) (Embassy of Canada) 
• Ambassador Edward T. McMullen Jr. (U.S. Embassy)
• Prof. Dr. René Hüsler (Lucerne School of Information Technology)

Academic track – Academic presentations to inspiring research activities about social impacts of Blockchain

• Building A Citizen-Focused Health Care Infrastructure
  Prof. Bill Buchanan (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland)
• Blockchain for Improving Supply Chain Resiliency
  Prof. Dr. Rohini K. Srihari (University at Buffalo, USA) 
• Towards Data Self-Sovereignty One Blockathon at a Time
  Prof. Dr. Victoria Lemieux (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Coffee Break

BarCamp – Discuss 8 out of 12 suggested topics

Lunch Break

Start-up track – Start-ups pitch their solution 

• Decentralized for the greater good
  Gabriele Cacciola (Ocyan, England) & Andreas Papazidis (Co-Founder GraceAid, England)
• Eliminating barriers for Capital in Emerging Economies 
  Ralf Kubli (Member Sela Labs, USA & Director CV VC, Switzerland) 
• Ignis Blockchain: a sustainable infrastructure to easily launch your own community crypto currency
  Francisco Sarrias (Senior Sales Engineer Jelurida, Switzerland)

Company track – Social applications of Blockchain from established companies

• Let’s talk communication
  Samuel Dionne (Founder Gremis, Switzerland, Canada)
• Digital identity as key enabler of e-Government
  Jonas Lötscher (CPO Procivis, Switzerland)
• Self Sovereign Identity – power to the people and what it means for your business
  Martin Fabini (CTO ti&m, Switzerland)
• Authentication of vital documents
  Arno Pernthaler (Head of Academy Swisscom Blockchain AG, Switzerland)
• Video presentation (Vanessa Grellet, ConsenSys, USA)

Break

Video presentation - Vanessa Grellet (Executive director ConsenSys, USA)

Use Cases – Existing use cases with Q&A 

• Educating Women and Youth Around the Globe 
  Elena Sinelnikova & Nataliya Hearn (CryptoChicks, Canada)
• Towards Blockchain-based eVoting 
  Vasiliy Suvorov (CTO Luxoft, Switzerland)

Apéro

Ian Simpson (Chair Communications, Crypto Valley Association)

The entire event will be in English.

The event is aimed to:

• Researchers with interest in Blockchain (University / ETH) 
• Industry representatives, who want to know what is being researched in this area and what ideas exists in start-ups or already in the market
• Government authorities, who want to estimate the impact of this technology to society
• People, wishing to get in touch with the British, American and Canadian representatives