The IEEE Canada Blockchain Forum 2024 will gather BUIDLers, researchers, academics, and engineers building blockchain protocols, infrastructure, and decentralized software applications.
This will be the Forum’s second edition, held as part of Canada Crypto Week. The theme for this year is Securing Blockchain infrastructure for the Financial Services Industry.
Since the 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, Research Engineer at Zircuit and 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)