Compact view of the results of Blockchains and the Web Workshop Expression of Interest
This form was for expressing interest in participating in the W3C Blockchains and the Web workshop. This will be a collaborative event, not focused on presentations.
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Compiled results
Your interests
What topics are you most interested in? Please rank the topics below for relevance and importance.
Summary
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| Don’t mind | Don’t want | Ranked 1 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 6 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 10 | |
| Blockchain APIs, such as JavaScript or REST APIs | 13 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Blockchain primitives such as transaction initiation, key signing, and wallet management | 11 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | |
| Ledger interchange formats and protocols | 11 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Smart contracts and conditional execution contexts | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | |
| Identity systems, including privacy, security, and confidentiality factors | 4 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | |
| Rights expression and licensing | 9 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 4 |
| Decentralized processing, computing, and storage infrastructure | 11 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| Optimal use cases for blockchains | 7 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Surveys of existing blockchain software systems | 9 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Testing mechanisms to increase interoperability, robustness, stability, and confidence in blockchain systems | 13 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Totals | 93 | 9 | 63 | 43 | 51 | 46 | 48 | 26 | 35 | 32 | 27 | 37 |
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| Munoz Mendieta | Alex | Bloomberg | https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexmunozmendieta | ||||||||||||||
| Dudley | Rick | Eris | Ranked 3 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 3 | Don’t mind | Ranked 1 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 1 | |||||
| Allen | Christopher | Christopher Allen a pioneer in interncet cryptography and a veteran of the Crypto Wars. He has a wealth of knowledge about the history of internet cryptography, including both successes and paths not taken. He co-authored the IETF TLS 1.0 standard and produced the first commercial SSL and TLS toolkits. After Consensus merged with elliptic-curve pioneer Certicom, Christopher worked on early smart contract technology as the company’s CTO. Recently, Christopher was VP of Developer Relations for the secure smartphone company Silent Circle. He has also taught technology leadership at Pinchot University, lectured at Blockchain U, advised multiple organizations on privacy, identity, human rights, and security, and produces semi-annual design workshop on the Web of Trust. Now at Blockstream, he is Principal Architect, working especially on blockchain standards, decentralized identity and new engines of trust. Twitter: @ChristopherA, Blog: http://www.LifeWithAlacrity.com CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophera | Participate in discussions about how the W3C might serve a role in moving forward the commons in the blockchain field, and protect against some possible misuses, in particular around identity. | Smaller, well focused interoperability discussions. Some common APIs and data structure. One interesting possibility is smart signatures. | Ranked 7 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 4 | I'm very concerned that we find and deliver on opportunities that will not take years to standardize. The blockchain community will not wait that long. | ||
| Lee | Mountie | PayGate | strong knowledge and experience for cryptography, security and payment industry. started W3C activity at 2012 for PKI and Web Cryptography | meeting active participants and getting consensus for blockchain CG. finding possibilities what I did not thought. | - web as PSV node of bockchain. - improve presentation level or wallet - improve server level communications between nodes. | Ranked 1 | Don’t mind | Ranked 1 | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Ranked 1 | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | how to solve Web SOP and blockchain as distributed ledger. | |
| Samyde | David | Verifone | My connection to the BCTechnologies is through my university advisor Pr Quisquater who is one of the few people initially mentioned on the first paper about BitCoin. Having studied cryptography with Pr Quisquater at Universite Catholique de Louvain, I have an interest in cryptology and applications. My interest is about cryptoability and the possibility to adapt to post quantum algorithms later. The NSA deprecated ECC in August 2015 and NIST will announce new Post Quantum families of algorithms, I am particularly interested in the cryptographic ability that will be required when the algorithms in use in BCTechnolgies will be at risk and require replacement. Regarding my personal or professional resources present on the web, I am the author with Pr Quisquater of some early papers on side channel and fault induction, mainly ElectroMagnetic Analysis and EM fault induction. I have worked as a security engineer or security architect for few Fortune 500 through the world. | I have the goal to discover for the first time a workshop of the W3C. Network with leaders and representatives of the future of the BCTechnology and provide an different set of question that the usual short term architectural view through a very long term and time tolerant approach. | - 'Hurding the cats' around BCTechnologies on the web - Protocols and 'standards' to increase inter-operability between BCTechnologies - BCTechnologies architecture - Roadmap for the community and W3C to guide and follow BCTechnologies in an industrial/practical approach - Optimized API and primitives definition - 'Transaction' oriented execution - Stability in time and robustness | Ranked 5 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 6 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 1 | You guys did not address in the questionnaire the time resistance and stability in terms of cryptographic agility. The day RSA and ECC are at risk because Google , IBM or another giant will demonstrate a quantum computer with a viable number of qbits, how does BCTechnologies survive and adapt to the new threat ... | Blockchain is a possible future, but the practical management of chain that will grow forever and evolution of miners will require some clear thinking to be widely adopted at the next giant level. A standardization body is required to 'give wing' to this technology and reduce the number of iterations before the 'bird leaves the nest'. |
| Hope-Bailie | Adrian | Ripple | Standards Officer at Ripple (a blockchain company) Chair of the W3C Interledger Payments Community Group Co-chair of the W3C Web Payments Working Group | Work toward an interoperability standard for blockchains | - Establish if blockchain technology could be used to replace/compliment any existing component of the Web platform. - Lay the groundwork for interoperability protocols for ledgers and registries that use blockchains | Ranked 1 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 5 | ||
| Bulovic | Juri | Fidelity Investments | I work within Fidelity Labs as part of the Blockchain incubator. I am part of the research group focusing on blockchain technologies and part of my job is to manage Fidelity's R&D partnerships with other institutions in the space (e.g., MIT DCI). Prior to that I was management consultant. | My goal is to be involved with the "Blockchain community" and stay up to speed with the latest developments. I want to further expand my blockchain knowledge (especially learn about the interesction with the web - discussion topic i haven't heard before). Attending a workshop like this could inform new partnerships opportunities for Fidelity | Identify key areas for further exploration and research - Why something is important and matters and how best we can work together to tackle it. | Don’t mind | Ranked 1 | Don’t mind | Ranked 5 | Ranked 4 | Don’t mind | Ranked 5 | Ranked 2 | Don’t mind | Ranked 3 | ||
| Waters | Alex | I've worked in the Bitcoin community since 2010. Everything from mining, working with core dev, lobbying in DC, building startups like bitinstant and coin.co, and incubators like coin apex. I've done consulting for some of the largest Bitcoin companies and worked with many large banks, consultancies, law firms, and regulatory groups. I'm a developer, entrepreneur, and software architect. I write on my personal blog at http://waters.nyc and use twitter: https://twitter.com/watersnyc | Contribute any of my perspective or experience if it is useful to the discussion. There have been a lot of highs and lows in the past few years, and I hope my experience can be utilized. | I think the bitcoin community could benefit greatly from a standards body. Everything from defining terminology to use-case message-system variable names. While working on Bankchain, there was a high level of interest in cooperation between the various competitors to implement standards and meet regularly so that there could be future compatibility between systems. There are also a lot of security and project-specific technical pitfalls common to finance that should be well defined so that new developers can avoid introducing known exploits to their architecture. | Don’t mind | Ranked 5 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 7 | Regulatory compliance is an interesting topic,. But I hope to listen, learn, and be a resource rather than push any topics that I find interesting. | I plan to avoid advocating for any single entity. I have been working on a new project totally unrelated to the industry since February and hope that I can be totally objective and not be captured by ideas due to who's backing them. | |
| Cohen | Eric E. | The world is looking to the Blockchain and related electronic distributed ledgers as a solution for a wide variety of challenges, calling it the “Global Ledger” and an immutable and secure audit trail. There are few others who have been as directly involved with global standards, academic, business, audit professional and government communities in discussing the need and attributes of an open, transparent, authentic, secure and semantically-rich distributed ledger and audit trail, especially as applied to corporate reporting, as I have. As a co-founder of the XBRL consortium, focusing on revolutionizing the data, rules and processes of the corporate value "information bus" and the audit information supply chain, and as the Father of XBRL’s own "Global Ledger", an XML-based specification for expressing a broad variety of transactional interactions in a standardized, holistic and generic fashion, I have been promoting a cryptographically-supported, semantically-rich, Web-available audit trail for over fifteen years, and have worked with virtually every community seeking to develop ledger interchange formats and protocols and related audit data standards internationally. This includes prior work with the OECD and present work with the ISO, and with the United Nations' CEFACT effort as a domain coordinator over accounting and auditing standardization. These efforts focus both on data standardization and considerations of business rules, agreements, assertions, formulas and access rights throughout an audit trail or open business process. Along with semantic standards focusing on XML, I have been involved previously in the W3C’s security standards efforts with such an open, public and cryptographically supported anonymous audit trail in mind, contributing in particular to the initial development of XML Encryption and later providing use cases for continued considerations of XML Security, especially related to identity and digital signature issues. I have also been involved in a wide variety of signature and identity efforts with other standards and professional groups, in particular working through authorization, workflow and privacy issues of parties throughout the audit information supply chain. I have also heavily supported the academic community in its exploration of semantic and security standards for moving from document-centric to information-centric environments for continuous monitoring, reporting and auditing, and the practical use of the transparent and trustworthy audit trail as it is established. On Twitter, I am @Cybercpa, focusing on Blockchain and bluegrass, audit data standardization and humor. I am also an author and speaker on accounting technology topics; I wrote the first book about the Internet's relevance to accountants and the first article for the US accounting profession on the topic. I created one of the earliest web sites for accounting technology, which circumstances have not permitted me to maintain - http://www.computercpa.com. My firm's blockchain presence starts at http://www.pwc.com/us/en/financial-services/fintech/blockchain.html ; my opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer. A web site focusing on issues related to continuous monitoring and audit is http://raw.rutgers.edu A picture of a Blockchain-like open, public, transparent transactional black box for operations, audit or other uses can be found in Figure 6 of this document of mine from more than a decade ago https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/16709/Tax%20XML%20AuditTrail_60215 showing a cryptographically secure, inalterable, web-based transactional audit trail repository More on XBRL's Global Ledger at http://specifications.xbrl.org/transactional.html More on the United Nations CEFACT at http://www.unece.org/tradewelcome/un-centre-for-trade-facilitation-and-e-business-uncefact/about-us/programme-development-areas-pdas/regulatory.html More on identity issues related to electronic reporting at http://jebcl.com/symposium/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Communication-and-Integrity-of-Audit-Reports.pdf | Broadly, I would like to contribute my somewhat unique background in audit, technology and data and security standardization to this vital effort. As noted above, I have been active in W3C, OASIS and numerous standards organizations to help make the vision of what might be accomplished by the Blockchain into reality. More specifically, although it is not my only interest, the audit information supply chain is a primary focus for me. Therefore, supporting the discussion of topics on simplifying access to information in the Blockchain and making appropriate content available to end users, while protecting the privacy of parties as appropriate throughout is a topic of particular interest. In the case of the corporate audit trail, the process begins with transactions for an organization being logged or captured in a blockchain, where those entries are controlled, authorized, complete and discoverable where appropriate. Auditors’ identities, and authorization to act as auditors with appropriate attributes, might be captured in a blockchain (identity management). Different audit regulators (by region or by purpose) might maintain different blockchains, and some means of getting information across them may be necessary. Auditors would use the blockchain as a primary source of evidence. They would deliver their opinion on financial statements or other management assertions, where that association may be captured in a blockchain, capturing hashes of the financial statement and the auditor’s report (or the content itself) for stakeholders to be able to confirm the authorization of the auditor and the association with the report. Regulators would have an important role in this scenario, but let’s move to the investors; stakeholders would have access to the information in appropriate detail. Making that access "actionable", the stakeholder may be able to receive a “token” as part of a smart contract for reviewing the materials for an appropriate period of time, and reliance on the auditor’s opinion may be anonymously captured; however, the stakeholder can prove that reliance at a later time if needed, for example, in court. Although the transactions would likely flow automatically, the other steps may benefit from personal interaction in a browser to find appropriate ledger entries, check identities, sign interactions, and assess and agree to or otherwise monitor the current status of smart contracts, amongst other tasks. | I think the goals stated at https://www.w3.org/2016/04/blockchain-workshop/ are quite valid. Should Blockchain and electronic distributed ledgers live up to a fraction of their potential, standardizing the web-based interface may require ongoing consideration, starting soon, so that the "right steps are taken at the right time". Related discussions are taking place in many other standards communities. The ISO is considering whether it should have a role in related standards - https://www.ansi.org/news_publications/news_story.aspx?menuid=7&articleid=c91c48a9-7c64-4a36-a76b-81eaa8c0923e and ISO/TC 68, the OMG Finance Domain and other communities are also exploring their role. | Don’t mind | Ranked 4 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 5 | Don’t mind | Don’t want | Don’t want | Ranked 6 | I feel I need to clarify my answer to "Testing mechanisms", above. Confidence in blockchain systems - especially confidence in whether smart contracts will objectively and accurately perform their tasks - is an area of special interest to me, especially if third parties (e.g., auditors) might play a rule in the provision and communication and if Web design will help in that communication. | Not wanting to be redundant, the features that Blockchain 1.0, smart contracts 1.0 and related agreements promise undergird the potential "business Web" that I have been promoting for over 15 years. Whether it is they they will succeed or some eventual successors, efforts around XML and Web security, URIs and other W3C recommendations seem highly relevant to the success of Blockchain implementation and considering their evolution in light of the many potential uses a valuable use of time and effort. | |
| Sender | Boaz | Invited Experts without Member Access | I work on open technologies at Bocoup. I'm interested in distributed identity and trust models. http://boazsender.com | My goal is to explore opportunities for creating and standardizing the language and concepts for distributed, custodial and fiduciary trust on the web. | * Evolve our language for distributed network trust in the browser. * Establish use distributed identity use cases that create consumer and institutional value. I'm less interested in sketching browser APIs here, but I would be happy to contribute in that way, too. | Ranked 10 | Ranked 6 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 3 | ||
| Lee | Youngwhan | Serving as the chair of Blockchain Community Group in W3C, I am interested in following and hopefully helping the standardization of DLP connecting with various technologies and standards. Currently I teach at Konkuk University in Korea. | To explain what we have done in W3C Blockchain Community Group and to let people know what we have been doing. | It would be good if the DLP community work together to make a Recommendation for DLP Standards in W3C Blockchain Community. | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Ranked 10 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 7 | Don’t want | Ranked 5 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 10 | |||
| Narsipur | Sanjeev Vittal | Accenture | Sanjeev Narsipur, Managing Director- Business Technology Group 18+ years of Strategic Advisory experience in the area of Corporate Strategy & Technology Strategy Consulting Practice Building and management - Incubating and running global consulting/delivery practices in Technology Strategy Advisory (Digital/Connected Strategy & Transformation, IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture & Application Strategy, Information & Data Strategy), Mobility, Competitive Benchmarking, Business Integration (EAI & BPM). Innovation Management- Excellent exposure in implementing Innovation frameworks and Business Model Innovation for emerging technologies. | Exploring Use Cases for application of Blockchain technology in various industry vertical. Focus on Business Model Innovation around emerging technologies like Blockchain | Fundamental Building Blocks for creating robust Blockchain governing process. | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Ranked 3 | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Ranked 1 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 4 | Business Use Case for application of Blockchain is my area of interest | One session on what all effort going on in bringing corporates, academia and government on the same platform from Blockchain perspective will be useful. |
| Newton | Justin | Netki, Inc. | I am currently co-founder, CEO/CTO of Netki, a blockchain services company. I have been an active participant in the bitcoin and now blockchain ecosystem for two years, and am lead author of BIP 75, a bitcoin standards document. I am an active participant in the efforts around scaling bitcoin, as well as in architecting solutions for public and private blockchains. In my roles at Netki I interact broadly across the blockchain ecosystem, including participating in industry standards groups on both the technical and policy side. In the past, I was a member of IETF, a participant and speaker at NANOG(core Internet backbone engineers), and on the Advisory Council for ARIN, the North American IP registry. I have extensive experience with Internet standards bodies and processes and believe that I can act as a strong bridge between the communities. I believe that my experience in working on standards in both the blockchain and web ecosystems is nearly unique and can provide strong benefit in the discussions as someone who understands the requirements and thought processes of both ecosystems. | I would like to contribute to the standards process at the Intersection of blockchain and the web. I am a strong believer that making the right choices from the beginning allows us to create the future that we want to live in. The areas that I am most interested in are around identity broadly and self soveriegn identity in particular. I have a lot of expertise in operations and scaling, and would hope to contribute there as well. | Where does it make sense for open standards blockchain solutions to be used in web applications, and for those use cases how do we define the structures and interfaces that need to be standardized to allow broad adoption and diverse use cases. | Ranked 5 | Ranked 6 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 4 | I'd prefer we focus on the items likely to reach real usage in the near term first, and those issues that are more science projecty be handled later. | |
| Wunsche | Alan | Leading Knowledge Ltd. | I lead a development / consulting firm focused on blockchain solutions and have been advising CPA (Chartered Professional Accountants) Canada on blockchain's impacts to the future of the finance profession. I recently co-founded "Blockchain Canada" at BlockchainCanada.org Blockchain Canada's vision is to become the leading connector and source of knowledge of all aspects of the Canadian blockchain technology ecosystem. | To contribute to the development of standards for the future of blockchain technologies; to contribute to the future of the web; to bring back the latest thinking to CPA Canada; to connect with leading minds in the blockchain space and thus stimulate my own thinking. | I would suggest deep dives on important topics in the blockchain space such as scalability; privacy; Interoperability. | Don’t mind | Ranked 4 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 6 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 5 | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | ||
| Goings | Tyson | Discover Financial Services | I have been responsible for tracking Bitcoin/Blockchain/Distributed Ledger technology for Discover Network since 2013. | Understand where the industry is with Blockchain standardization including offering feedback from the DFS position | Helping people come to a common understanding of the current blockchain/distributed ledger landscape and attempting to arrive at a consensus around how to approach standardization would be helpful. The technology is so new with different 'flavors' offering different solutions, I'm not convinced that we are ready to start standardizing just yet and believe there is much to be discussed. | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Ranked 3 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 3 | Don’t mind | Ranked 2 | Ranked 5 | Don’t mind | ||
| Mantha | Vinay | Accenture | I am going to be a leading a massive effort from Accenture to help visualize, plan and implement block chain solutions for our clients across multiple industry verticals | 1) Learn what the industry has been up to in this space particularly over the last year 2) Learn, what works, what does not - best practices from a practical perspective 3) Get ideas on ideas for proof of concept projects | There should be no marketing-spin of any sort in the workshop. Active collaboration between participants from the industry in discussing the best practices in the block chain industry will be very helpful for everyone. Also looking for MIT's expert guidance on approach/tactics/platforms and architectures. | Ranked 2 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 6 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 1 | ||
| Tomescu | Alin | MIT | Graduate student in CSAIL. Background in applied cryptography acquired from college, security startup on cloud computing, and graduate school. alinush.github.io people.csail.mit.edu/alinush | I am curious to find more ways of using proof-of-work / proof-of-[anything] consensus to solve hard problems. I am curious to see people's attitudes towards public-key directories bootstrapped using Bitcoin. | A focus on how the Bitcoin blockchain, specifically, can be used to bootstrap trustworthy systems. In particular, I am very interested in public-key directories built on top of Bitcoin, but in directories that are more efficient to query than Namecoin or OneName (or Blockstack. more recently). Downloading the blockchain should not be necessary. | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Ranked 5 | Ranked 1 | Don’t want | Ranked 4 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 3 | Don’t mind | ||
| Cohen | Geoff | Stroz Friedberg | I'm a VP at Stroz Friedberg, a digital forensics and investigations company. We're interested in how to collect, preserve, and analyze evidence from computers and networks. I'm also a member of the USACM Public Policy Council, the advisory committee to the ACM on matters of technology policy. I have an undergrad in Public Policy from Princeton, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke. | I'd like to understand the set of use cases for blockchains on client computers, especially user-facing ones, and come up with a framework for both real-time and after-the-fact detection of attempted or successful fraud or malicious modification - for example, attempting to perform a timing attack with a race condition of block consensus to fool a user into thinking something had been authenticated. (I realize this is hugely hand-wavy vaporware: I don't have a specific threat model yet, that's precisely what I'd like to figure out.) | It's very early in the discussion: even producing a solid, well-specified set of questions or a research agenda would be progress. Identifying concrete use cases would be helpful for a variety of analysis. | Ranked 7 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 6 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 10 | ||
| Nazarov | Denis | Mediachain Labs | Denis Nazarov (twitter.com/Iiterature) is a Project Lead at Mediachain, a universal media library. Mediachain connects users directly to creators through content, gives creators a permanent voice wherever their images, songs, videos, films, and writings are shared, and allows us to discover everything about what we’re watching, reading, looking at, or listening to, no matter where we find it. Imagine being able to connect with the artist of a viral GIF you see in your feed, learn the history or origin of any image, or automatically reward a musician whenever you press play. Mediachain realizes this by providing a protocol stack for collaborating on information about creative works. Mediachain offers: - a decentralized, blockchain based datastore built on IPFS - a collaborative data structure - a content identification technology for canonical ID resolution and perceptual metadata retrieval The project is completely open source. http://mediachain.io http://twitter.com/mediachain_ http://github.com/mediachain http://blog.mediachain.io http://slack.mediachain.io | To raise awareness about Mediachain's role as a solution for media attribution and identity in the decentralized ecosystem. To learn how projects and participants can share open source infrastructure and collaborate towards similar goals. To discuss a native media attribution resolution integration in browsers via a W3C spec. Imagine your browser automatically retrieving and connecting you to the creator behind every image you view. | Agreeing upon prototypes and MVPs as deliverables that participants can collaborate on, with the goal of telling the world compelling stories about how decentralized technologies solve real problems today that existing centralized solutions are unable to. | Ranked 8 | Ranked 1 | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Ranked 10 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 10 | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Curious about identity systems in relation to creative works online. The goal of Mediachain is to be able to resolve media to who made it automatically. An amazing feature would be if this was natively integrated in all browsers. This would let users automatically find the author of a viral image, see more of their works, send them a payment, etc. | |
| Muddiman | Hélène | Self | Hélène is a multi-award-winning film composer and hit songwriter. http://www.helenemuddiman.com IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1055902/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 She founded the charity to 'Protect Intellectual Property" called Hollywood Elite Music & Media. "Giving Creators Their Due". http://www.hollywoodelite.org Hélène also founded the ProTechU collaboration of professors, lawyers, creators, politicians and many more who are passionate about IP to work on "The Digital DNA Genome Project". http://protechu.org Her research into Blockchain has taken her to 2014 The World IP Summit in Washington in November 2014. 2015 an EPSRC TIPS grant applications to research into Blockchain DLT with ProTechU collaborators (listed in the gallery http://www.hollywoodelite.org/ProTechUGallery.html ) 2015 Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/13/musicians-back-pay-as-you-play-coding-solution-to-win-fair-deal-artists-streaming 2015 Mycelia Event 2016 Mycelia Blockchain Hack Weekend 2016 Blockchain LAB in Berlin part of Music Tech Fest.http://musictechfest.net/mtflabs-blockchain/ 2016 EPSRC DLT grant application into Blockchain DLT with ProTechU collaborators. | To wanting to contribute to international open source initiatives. To create a standardised system of metadata, so that creators of that data can be found, credited and then a transparent distribution and accounting mechanism developed so that creators and consumers can exist in a sustainable digital economy trading all forms of data in a frictionless, secure, private and fair trade environment. | To concentrate on what the world and the Internet will be capable of in 5 years time. The enormous amount of content that will be available if we put into place the ability to output accurate metadata, in a format that can become pervasive, then platforms and tools can be built on top when the technology is powerful enough to accurately search and account to those billions and billions of digital files and transactions. | Ranked 3 | Ranked 3 | Don’t mind | Ranked 5 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 3 | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | I believe we have to find a way to: 1) ID , i.e. recognise those who create and how to get hold of them (ID is scary for some people so I use the term recognise) 2) build an archive / registry of all IP (database is a word synonymous with the failure of the GDR, Global Repertoire Database, so I am using the term Registry or Archive instead.) The archive could be a multilayered blockchain or specialist block chains one for music, one for film, art, an academic thesis etc.etc but that are all searchable with one search engine, but stored separately. The block chain could contain only a sign post where to point to the displayed IP containing the actual file. Like youTube is a massive archive of IP, 300,000 uploads per minute!!!!! We need a way of making a NEW youTube (NewTube, this name is taken but for this demonstration I will use it) where the date/time stamp on the upload to official NewTube could be set in stone and not be untampered with/hacked, so the block chain could link to the url on NewTube. It could also point to the place where the full list of credits is stored in an IMDB type database, which is again verified by mechanisms of ID and trust mechanisms. 3) Authenticate works as original by comparing with what is already in 'NewTube' much like youTube Content ID does today. 4) DO NOT LET GOOGLE control 'NewTube'! It must be for the people by the people! Like Wipo or the Library of congress on steroids! 5) Search engines can build on top to create smart contracts for automated sale and licensing. Giving a commission on sales to fund the Registry/archive. 6) payment mechanism one click licensing offering various methods of payment. 'units' on your phone bill or ISP bill or direct micro money payments via Pay Pal, Apple Pay, Google Pay , Mobile pay or even credit cards if it can be made more easy and secure using a system of password and pass code which you enter 4 different digits out of 8 to make fraud more tricky etc etc NewTube will need bootstrapping, so needs startup finance and also needs to sustain itself. But a conventional tax on royalties is typically regressive so would need careful design to limit defection by high and low earners. There are people who could help design such a system. I also fundamentally believe that we will reach the singularity within 20 years and that this is an important time of transition into AI dominance and that how we programme the AI is very important. So by creating a system that respects humans teaches us and the AI to have a moral and humane conscience that I hope will be our salvation. | |
| Bennett | Tamara | American Express | Background as a payments professional. I've participated in a basic level of training on blockchain and gotten into some depth in the legal aspects of blockchain, including participating in the Digital Currency and Blockchain Tech Nat'l Institute CLE in April, 2016. | Understand the possibilities of integrating blockchain in the digital payments ecosystem. | Specific use cases of blockchain integration in financial systems and the pros/cons of this integration. | Ranked 3 | Ranked 2 | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Ranked 4 | Don’t mind | Ranked 5 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 6 | Don’t mind | ||
| Harvey-Buschel | Jonathan | MIT | I am a rising junior at MIT majoring in Computer Science. I was the President of the Bitcoin Club for over a year and now work in the Media Lab in Viral Communications as a research assistant focused on improvements to the Bitcoin network and/or protocol. Topics I focus on include different Proofs-of-Work, non-Internet infrastructure for the Bitcoin network, and on-chain permissions management. I'm currently revising a paper started last year that proposes and proves the viability of a novel method for lowering electricity costs for small-scale cryptocurrency miners. Link to the paper follows: http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05240 My handle on Twitter is @jonhbit . | My goals are to serve as a source of information regarding properties of Bitcoin, blockchains, and consensus mechanisms as well as to better understand both what existing features of the Web could be improved with a Bitcoin-inspired solution and what new capabilities would make sense to implement with a Bitcoin-inspired solution. | One goal is to have attendees leave the workshop well-informed on the properties of both the Web and blockchains. Specifically, the attendees from the various blockchain communities should gain an understanding of the areas in Web development where a blockchain would be useful, and the attendees from the Web improvement community should understand basic properties of blockchains and what problems they are most relevant to. Another goal is to connect people from these communities with each other such that discussions started at that workshops and plans initiated can continue into the future. For any Bitcoin-like implementation of a feature for the Web, attendees to the workshop should be the first ones contacted for feedback and review. | Don’t mind | Ranked 3 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 4 | Don’t mind | Ranked 8 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 6 | The blockchain as a data structure is an extremely inefficient use of computational resources when run in a P2P network like Bitcoin. Efficiency here is sacrificed for other properties like censorship resistance. If your system need not be trustless or hard to censor, using a blockchain is very likely not the optimal structure for a solution. | |
| Pitt | Seana | American Express | Over 20 years of payments expertise including functional systems delivery, policy, driving initial PCI standards as a founding member of PCI and integrating technology into new merchant acquisition strategies. I am relatively new to blockchain but have a high level understanding of the technology. | Understand the extent to which blockchain may become a pivotal technology in the payments space, particularly possible integration in peer to peer payments systems and mid-tier B2B. | Clarity of the most appropriate relevant uses for Blockchain, demonstration of how blockchain drives value beyond the bitcoin model | Ranked 4 | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Ranked 3 | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Ranked 1 | Ranked 2 | Don’t mind | ||
| Kumar | Shilpi | Filament | I started learning about bitcoin and blockchain technologies from an investor angle and started diligences startups that were coming into this space in 2013-2014. With Filament, I've been working with the development of blockchain protocols, specifically for identity and contract management for semi-offline industrial devices in IoT deployments. Because of our work in this space over the last 14 months, I have kept up with a lot of the developments in the cryptocurrency ecosystem and working with many groups that are prototyping the next generation of applied blockchain solutions for security and embedded systems. You can find out more about my background here: www.linkedin.com/in/shilpikumar. | We are navigating many concepts around identity and micro-transactions that should be consistence with the solutions and ideologies that are evolving in the cryptocurrency leadership circle. As we come to the helm of deploying large volumes of devices that are secured with blockchain-secured contracts, we can essentially become the "off-chain" oracle for physical transactions that will reconcile with the blockchain and standard mechanisms. My goal is that we can be present in the conversation, observe any current consensus or divisions, and represent the "IoT" and industrial perspective of our customer and partners. | I suggest we work towards a dynamic model for "standardizing" the process of change and adoption of new technologies in this space. Achieving an outcome of total agreement on best solutions or ideologies may not be as fruitful in the long term because so much is changing and being introduced at a rapid pace. | Ranked 2 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 6 | We recently authored a piece on the SPACE framework and what needs to be considered to fully unlock the economic value in the physical-digital network bridge: http://filament.com/assets/downloads/Filament%20Foundations.pdf | |
| Bhuiyan | Tarique | Hashkloud Pty Ltd. | I am Tarique A Bhuiyan (pls call me TaB) and I am the Founder, Chairman and CTO of a Blockchain focussed technology start up called Hashkloud PTy Ltd based in Sydney, Australia. I am extremely pasionate about Blockchain technology and very strongly believe the technology will disrupt many industries especially services industries. My passion for Blockchain technology has led me to enroll myself on a Research Dotorate of Business Administration at an Australian university in part time under Australian Research Training Scheme. My current career goal is to become not only become an academically expert in Blockchain, but also professionally - a combination that is very much a sought after credential required to promote Blockchain as a technology. At Hashkloud, we have already developed a product (currently at Beta stage) which is a digital platform for customer KYC and Verification of their Identities powered by Blockchain. The idea behind is that we would like to create an internet of services where all service data and documents that relates to an individual will link back to that individual's identity and all verifiable via Blockchain while keeping the integrity and irrefutability of the identity and all other requests or instructions of the individual while applying for that service. Pls look at my Blockchain news and views aggregation services portal cum my Blogchain at www.hashledger.com. | At Hashkloud, we are trying to come up with technologies powered by Blockchain to revolutionize services, any service. We are working on the concept of 'Internet of Services', more precisely 'Internet of Service Data and document objects'. We believe that if we could create an ecosystem of documents and / or data objects required by various services, it is possible to create and ecosystem of inter-connected services thus making services delivery easier by the services organizations while at the same time creating fantastic service experiences for the service seekers. At the core of this ecosystem is the service data objects of service seekers' identifications. Unless we have a framework of such ID data objects of the service seekers while still keeping the integrity, privacy, etc. of such data, it will be very difficult to attain such 'Internet of Services' ecosystem. My goal to attend this workshop is to highlight this and get some standardized framework of service data object especially with regards to ID data objects of service seeking individuals or corporates powered by Blockchain technology. | The outcome that I believe the workshop should focus on is to cme up with a framework of Identity systems powered by Blockchain technology while still keeping data privacy and integrity factors. | Ranked 7 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 9 | Pls do refer to a few of my recent past blogs here: http://www.hashledger.com/blogs/ Thanks. | |
| Variar | Ravi | Accenture | My current role is to lead the Blockchain practice at Accenture India Delivery centers. I have been working with the technology in Financial services for the past few months including platforms like Ripple and Ethereum. I have 26 years of experience in Software Industry over large scale platforms and Financial services clients. | I would like to learn from and contribute to distributed ledger technologies from a Data, Messaging, Security and Performance perspective. I also have some experience with regulations which will be very important to make this successful. | (1) The top two aspects would be security and regulatory themes. (2) Consensus and Trust building will have to support the above two seamlessly (3) Finally the usage will be successful with ease of deployment and management. | Ranked 2 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 1 | All of these are very important topics. | There is a great opportunity to introduce standardization of various protocols emerging in this space. It will be important to utilize and create such working groups to ensure that both Regulators and User communities have a proper buy in. We have seen the volatility in Bitcoin themes like this can create concerns for regulators which need to be overcome. |
| Hirsch | Frederick | W3C Invited Experts | I have extensive experience with security and privacy including having chaired W3C XML Security WG, PING and W3C privacy workshops. Have interest in identity management, experience with SAML/Liberty Alliance. Interest in disruptive innovation theory and practice. see fjhirsch.com; go by Frederick | Increase my understanding of the state of blockchain, encourage anticipating privacy implications and relation to identity management deployments and futures. Get a handle on disruptive aspects and realities. | Have a useful outcome in understanding the privacy risks/concerns/implications of use of blockchain technology, review interaction with identity systems, decentralized or not, identify key concerns and developments. | Ranked 6 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 8 | ||
| Le Hors | Arnaud | IBM Corporation | IBM AC Representative + Contributor to the Hyperledger Project | Warning against launching a premature standardization effort. | Figuring out where the W3C might possibly play a role down the line. | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | ||
| DING | Haiyang | Huawei | I work for Huawei Technology. My research group is particularly interested in using blockchain in Intellectual Property protection (performance, system design, impact to the current industry, business model, etc.). And I have to be aware of other applications as well. Anyone could call Haiyang for short, and I do not have a personal link yet. | 0. Learn State-of-art of blockchain 1. Know about how the industry is going adopt blockchain 2. Know about the key concerns from the startups/pioneers 3. Know about if there any ideas that match our business scenario (Huawei) 4. Get to know some top experts in the field. Communicate and learn | Personally speaking, I think the best way to be productive is to be focused on specific scenarios, in which security, performance, system and process design could be included. | Ranked 4 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 1 | All topics are interesting for me. If there is anything particularly related to Intellectual Property, I will be the first to hear that. (The listed topic "Rights expression and licensing" seems very relevant). The inter-operation between distributed ledgers is a very sound topic too. | It would be nice if there could be any discussion on [Hyperledger] (https://github.com/hyperledger/hyperledger). |
| Gravier | Gilles | Wipro | Gilles is Director in the Open Source Consulting Practice at Wipro. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, he provides open source and blockchain strategy consulting and advisory services to Wipro's key customers worldwide. Prior to that, Gilles was Director of Product Management for the Quantum-Safe Network Encryption Solutions (including Quantum Key Distribution Servers) product lines, as well as for the Quantum Random Number Generators, at ID Quantique, a company that is the leader in high-performance multi-protocol network encryption, based on conventional and quantum technologies, and aiming at providing future-proof encryption for data requiring long term protection. During his career, Gilles has always been involved in both security and open source. In particular in roles such as Chief Technology Strategist for Security and Open source at Sun Microsystems, advising the largest accounts globally on their IT security strategy as well as their open source activities. He moved on to develop global market and business development strategies for open source and security in the public sector still at Sun and then Oracle. He has been active as a technology evangelist, in particular for these companies, around cryptography, DRM, open source and open standards. He has worked extensively with venture capitalists as a strategic adviser for their due diligence process on IT start-ups, and is member of the boards (advisory or directors) of several startups. He is CISSP #91529. He posts on his blog : Thinking Open Source and has a LinkedIn profile where you can find more about his activities. Gilles is a passionate photographer and travels either with his Canon EOS 6D or his PowerShot G12. He also shares his interest in astronomy with the neighboring elementary school children. Combining his passion for photography and music, he is president and co-founder of La Compagnie Divague, a non for profit organization that aims a promoting lyrical arts to all audiences, all ages, all social groups. | Get a better understanding of how the blockchain ecosystem can / should interact to address business problems. | Identify structures for developers and integrators to set up and operate to enable seamless customer deployments into production. | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Ranked 4 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 6 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 7 | For me the key is identifying the best way to use blockchain in the industry to resolve problems and issues that customers have. | Usability above all. |
| Khan | Shammari | Labyrinthus LLC | Attorney and Bitcoin Policy Reseaecher. Co-founder of Virtual Currency Space. Www.virtualcurrencyspace.com | Helping understand the ways to financially include the unbanked. | Mass adoption of Bitcoin Technology. | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Ranked 1 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 3 | Don’t mind | Ranked 4 | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Www.virtualcurrencyspace.com | |
| Ohtamaa | Mikko | Wattcoin | I am an enterpreneur and open source software developer. Currently I work for Wattcoin Technologies, a US based startup bringing decentralized solar power and payments to Africa. I am a former founder and CTO of LocalBitcoins, the largest person-to-person Bitcoin exchange in the world, topping 3M+ USD daily. Before involved in blockchain I was running my own web consultancy shop for five years and thus have background both in web and fintech. I am actively involved in open source projects, being member of Pylons and Plone projects, founder of Pycon Finland conference and Python Helsinki meetup organizer. https://twitter.com/moo9000 http://opensourcehacker.com/ https://github.com/miohtama/ http://linkedin.com/in/ohtis http://stackoverflow.com/users/315168/mikko-ohtamaa | I want to help bringing smooth user interaction for payments and smart contracts without need for additional software installation. | Web browser and blockchain interactions | Ranked 10 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 10 | Don’t want | Ranked 3 | Ranked 3 | Don’t want | Don’t want | ||
| Joseph | Poon | Lightning | An author for The Lightning Network, a decentralized scalable payment mechanism capable of millions to billions of transactions per second across the network. Capable of decentralized atomic crossing of different blockchain asset classes (exchanging between blockchains with different consensus rules without a centralized clearing depository). Millions-to-billions of tx/sec allows for use cases such as pay-per-article micropayments. Working on a software implementation and library to be hooked in by wallets, browsers, etc. http://lightning.network http://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd @jcp | Meet people! Develop the base for future work on specifications/software. Alignment of stakeholder needs. | 1. Meeting the various stakeholders. 2. Understand needs, use cases, etc. 3. Understand limitations in the problem space 4. How to adjust our protocol/code/specs. 5. Understand the scope of the browser within this problem set. | Ranked 2 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 6 | Ranked 7 | I want to come to the workshop! :D | |
| Geater | Jon | Thales e-Security | While the organizers are understandably keen to avoid too much discussion of payment technologies at the workshop, my experience with building and deploying web payments systems is highly relevant to the task at hand. I was lead architect and software developer of the nCipher payShield HSM which was built specifically to service the emerging 3DSecure/SecureCode market, a standard aimed at bringing physical cards onto the web. In designing and building this product I discovered serious flaws in the card schemes’ original cryptographic protocol designs which were fine in the context of the EMV walled garden but unsuited and potentially vulnerable in the web context. Later in my career as Chief Technology Officer at Trustonic I brought security to large-scale natively online applications in a variety of use cases including sensitive online identities, multi-party trust, bitcoin wallets and blockchain platform companies. Practical issues in the areas of standardization, deployment and usability are legion and in order to get something to market compromises have to be made at almost all levels of the stack. Now in my current role I am actively handling many projects and products in a wide range of industries at all stages of ‘digital transformation’ as they transition security-sensitive operations to the cloud, to web, and more. Blockchain is high on the agenda for many of these conversations, and the requirements vis-à-vis permissioning, form factors, confidentiality and legals are highly varied. Appreciation of cryptography ‘in context’ is going to be essential in making web-accessible general blockchain standards practical. I intend to bring this experience to the workshop. | To share my knowledge and experience and to learn from others. I think Blockchain has tremendous potential to underpin secure shared storage of data all kinds of data driven systems and I am actively looking at using the technology to overhaul legacy commercial systems. | Don't get distracted by bitcoin: W3C and Blockchain should be generic. Focus on interoperability specifications, not implementations. | Ranked 3 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 8 | Too early for robustness testing or surveying existing "early adopter" systems that may have made mistakes or been too focuses on the bitcoin gold rush. We need to re-imagine the stable V2.0 technology that is good for many more use cases. | I think I'm already invited as I submitted a joint position paper with Marta Piekarska summarizing our joint WG output at the ID2020 workshop. But I thought I'd come through the 'front door' too. |
| Salvitti | Peter | Currently the CTO of Boston College and a 30+ year IT veteran. By background is fairly diverse but concentrated in financial services and highly-distributed systems and architecture. I am the former Director of the National Architecture Practice of a leading Boston-area consultancy and a career software developer. I've been researching blockchain technologies as a means to further integrate universities and students alike and lessen the current friction around records, identities, verification and validation, etc. | I have a couple of goals in mind: 1. Explore opportunities for easing the (data/person) integration challenges that most modern Universities face wrt/ incoming and outgoing students and their achievements; 2. Explore opportunities for new designs in the academic certificate space such that current challenges and limitations are eased (e.g., ask me about my non-digitized transcript and the failed background check sometime) | 1. Explore ways to help institutions (like Universities) #LoseTheSSN and provide a trust factor valued by all ... currently the SSN is the one identifier that causes the most angst: warehousing it, protecting it, sharing it, etc. 2. Explore ways in which integration (connectivity + interoperability), privacy, and security can be achieved in a resource-efficient manner;l | Ranked 4 | Don’t mind | Ranked 2 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 3 | Don’t mind | Ranked 10 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 6 | |||
| Kwon | Jae | Inventor and Cofounder of Tendermint. Consensus researcher, software architect. | Educate peers on Tendermint and GnuClear, and receive feedback. https://github.com/gnuclear/gnuclear-whitepaper | Map out the various technologies roughly as layers or components, and compare them. For example, Tendermint vs Hyperledger/OBC, IPFS vs Storj, Ethereum vs ... etc. | Ranked 4 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 4 | Don’t want | Ranked 10 | Ranked 6 | Ranked 10 | Don’t mind | A comparison of consensus systems. A comparison of scaling solutions for blockchains. | It's important to note that different blockchain applications may require different architectures. For example, the GnuClear hub is optimized for a scalable token system. But different applications live in various layers, whether they be lightning networks, virtual-machines, exchanges, etc. Thus the importance of mapping things out. | |
| Smith | Julian | Blockfreight™ [BFT:XCP] | Technical co-founder and CEO of Blockfreight™ [BFT:XCP] the blockchain of global freight. Founding member and board member of Melbourne Bitcoin Technology Center (MBTC). Technical background 10+ year web developer. | Exchange industry insight on the technology underpiing projects in the space. | Ranked 8 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 6 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 2 | As USA travel and visa requirements at short notice are not assured - remote attendance (fallback) may be helpful. | ||
| Van de Sande | Alex | Ethereum Foundation | Lead designer of the Ethereum foundation and responsible for the project Mist Browser, a navigator built from the ground up to a new decentralized web. | Exchanging ideas about how blockchains and smart contracts can shape the future of the browser | How to get all the current projects aiming to decentralize the web under the same roof | Ranked 10 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 5 | ||
| Stephanie | Potter | I am a research coordinator at State Street Bank. Currently, my team and I are creating a machine learning based platform for organizing and suggesting sell side research to institutional investors. Our team falls under a larger group called innovation ventures which houses blockchain consortium efforts, social media sentiment analysis for stock performance, new efforts within big data management as well as investing or acquiring financial technology startups. Within the past year I have gone to a handful of conferences, primarily in San Francisco and Cambridge on new technologies within finance. All of the conferences have had panels on leveraging blockchain to house digitally native asset classes and loan agreements. Although I have researched blockchain technologies in finance for over a year, I have recently become more interested in the idea of a blockchain based identity management system. After listening to a presentation on Ethereum at a financial conference I began to do research on how Ethereum could change identities are used online. My personal research has lead me to believe that creating an identity system could be a major step towards more efficient international research endeavors especially in medicine, genetically modified organisms, nanotechnology and robots/drones. To enable this I believe large corporations, such as my own, have a role to promote interoperability through supporting and assisting to create identity management systems. Legal disclaimer: This is my personal opinion and not the official position of my company. | My primary goal for the workshop is to identify how large institutions (especially banks, such as the one that I work for) can support interoperability and blockchain based identity management systems. In the short term I would like to create a narrative on the role of large corporations in supporting a blockchain based identity management to galvanize efforts on defining the changing role of fiduciary relationships. My secondary goal is to contribute to and gain deeper thought on the ethical basis needed for identity management systems to contribute to an enlightened democratic society. Questions that surround this should define where we, as a society, draw the line on the information large companies or governments need from it’s clients or citizens to facilitate innovation and healthy societies. If we create an identity system that gives the users autonomy over their information, but society does not have a strong opinion on the dangers of oligarchies in the digital age, both in government and businesses, democracy and free thought will still be at risk. For example- if in the future an identity management system was adopted, and large insurance corporations could not unknowingly collect information on its clients, but instead had to gain permission from the clients to access deeper personal information by offering incentives to the client - the risk of oligarchy would still be present. The insurance company in this example could make it too financially burdensome for the client to withhold their private information. Legal disclaimer: This is my personal opinion and not the official position of my company. | create a narrative on what is going on in blockchian and how it relates to the future of information and relationships that is marketable. The narrative should include a philosophy component, possibly Locke and/or Madison; be defined by the major discourses within technological abilities and challenges - not generally agreed upon ideas about blockchain; who specifically is needed to advance efforts in interoperability and identity management for next steps to unfold eg. Government officials, businesses, universities; and how members of the W3C event can group together to be influential thought leaders. Legal disclaimer: This is my personal opinion and not the official position of my company. | Ranked 4 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 6 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 2 | Don’t mind | Ranked 5 | Ranked 7 | |||
| Ilola | Lauri | Nokia Corporation | I'm a full-stack web developer at Nokia Technologies familiar with most of the modern web technologies. For some time now I've been involved with blockchain and distributed ledger technologies and researched what they could enable on the web. I'm a strong web advocate and believe that DLT can have significant impact on a number of application areas. | Share my personal experiences with blockchain technologies and network with people sharing similar beliefs about DLTs. Learn more about the bottlenecks and potential application areas. | Primarily sharing experiences to advance DLT ecosystem. Identifying and sharing bottlenecks and problems with current DLT implementations to decide if standardization could help solve some of these issues. | Ranked 3 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 6 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 8 | ||
| Kim | Won-Beom | Blocko Inc | Lead developer and CEO of Blocko.inc, a startup focusing on providing a blockchain development platform in Korea. | Discussing possible pathway for adopting standards in blockchain space. | Coordinated efforts on building standards on blockchain should be commenced. | Ranked 5 | Ranked 8 | Don’t mind | Ranked 7 | Ranked 7 | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | ||
| Halpin | Harry | W3C/MIT | Harry Halpin is Team member at the W3C, where he started the Web Cryptography Working Group, the Social Web Working Group, and the Web Authentication Working Group. He has a Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh and leads research projects on mix-networking and end-to-end encrypted messages, which employ blockchain technologies as audit logs. http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin | I'd like to see a successful workshop that introduces the advantages and disadvantages of open standards, as learned from the W3C and IETF, to the Bitcoin and wider blockchain communities. If there is a useful intersection of blockchain technologies and the Web, I think the W3C would be good place to create a standardized Web API. | I think the following goals make sense (from easiest to hardest): - Explaining the W3C Patent Policy, W3C Process, as well as other standards processing such as the IETF and "Note Well". - Determine if Bitcoin wallets have interoperability with Web Payments and if new work is needed. - secp256k1 Curve support and schnorr signature in Web Crypto - Intersection of Web Authentication and Blockchain - Generalized blockchain API for auditing | Ranked 1 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 6 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 4 | I'd be happy to present on lessons we've learned in standardizing cryptography and authentication systems at W3C, and future of the Web. | |
| Sporny | Manu | Digital Bazaar | Bio: http://manu.sporny.org/about/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny * Principal Investigator of Department of Homeland Security "Credentials on Public/Private Linked Ledgers (aka Blockchains)" project * Lead editor/author of Flex Ledger (Generalized Blockchain for the Web): http://digitalbazaar.github.io/flex-ledger/ * W3C WG Chair Alumni, W3C CG Chair for Web Payments and Credentials, Task Force Leader - Verifiable Claims | Explore what W3C could do in the space by networking with others with interest in W3C and Blockchain. Participate in discussions around generalized ledgers that use W3C technology namely around "Identity"/Verifiable Claims | Focus on components and protocols that need standardization, then determine if W3C is the right place to have that discussion. | Don’t want | Ranked 7 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 4 | ||
| Piekarska | Marta | Blockstream | I am a Bachelor of Electrical and Computer Engineering from Warsaw University of Technology and a double Master from Computer Science and Informatics at Technical University of Berlin and Warsaw University of Technology. I did my thesis on Voice Encryption on Android Platform and GPU-aided Payload Delivery on Linux Kernel. Currently finishing my PhD thesis on User-Centric Privacy on Mobile Devices, while working for one of the hottest Silicon Valley startups, Blockstream as their Security Architect. Previously, I was the Lead Architect at Deutsche Telekom on the Future of Mobile Privacy, a collaboration with Mozilla and Deutsche Telekom improving Firefox OS. | 1. Discussion on identity on the blockchain. What identity is? What are the aspects of identity we can smoothly build on the blockchain given its persistence? 2. Sensitive data on public blockchain - it will stay forever. 3. What makes absolutely no sense for blockchain magic? 4. Proof of ownership through the blockchain on the web - tracking the data changes and | 1. Definitions - so we know what we are talking about. A dictionary of agreed upon phrases and terms 2. Agreed upon directions - this is the time to start the standardization process. It is early enough to agree on common criteria and how to do things right before we start messing it up. But we need to agree what are the dos and don'ts 3. An established working group that collaborates towards creating standards in Blockchain on the Web | Ranked 1 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 8 | Don’t mind | Ranked 10 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 7 | Submitted the position paper. | |
| Quenin | Eileen | Walt Disney Company | UX Product Manager, Business Analyst, Information Architect, User Experience Engineer Eighteen years of increased responsibilities in product development, payments, fraud risk management, customer experience and information architecture Co-inventor on Patent for Amazon Currency Converter SolutionsIQ Certified Scrum Product Owner Entrepreneur Start Up Led and coordinated blockchain and distributed ledger-related activities within DTSS. Aligned product development to overall business strategy. Defined product roadmap, developed a strategy and vision for multiple business applications. Built strategic relationships with internal and external teams. Oversaw both selection and execution of internal and external use cases to test and deploy distributed ledger technology. Worked closely with development teams using agile methodologies to implement new products. | To understand the upcoming challenges and opportunities provided by blockchain technologies, and their impact on the fintech, legal, IoT and current social frameworks | Ranked 9 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 6 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 3 | |||
| Warner | Mike | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | 20 years in application development starting at Sun Microsystems through a venture funded start-up providing visual interfaces to models of complex system holographic ontologies (12 years). Currently at FRS | The Fed is looking at Bitcoin and other ledgers from multiple perspectives. My aim is twofold: 1) Learn and share in our organization 2) identify points for design considerations in our own work related to this topic. | The concept of an interledger API standard is brilliant. Hypothetically, if there is one day a 'fedcoin' it needs to work seamlessly with a hypothetical 'worldcoin'. The work you are doing can potentially smooth the way through the inflection point we are approaching. Done wrong can have a downstream impact on social stability. Done right you can help society increase the velocity of money which is the foundation for the pursuit of happiness and a strong GDP. | Ranked 2 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 5 | Don’t mind | Ranked 4 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 9 | Great list with a lot of thought. Helpful in framing topics for us. | I met Jeff briefly in Boston a few weeks ago. I appreciate the chance to get my team exposed to your workgroup. We can be listeners or active participants as the progress unfolds and the needs arise. |
| Lemieux | Victoria | University of British Columbia | I recently received a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to explore blockchain technology for record keeping: http://slais.ubc.ca/ubc-ischool-faculty-awarded-knowledge-synthesis-grant/. I am also a co-principal investigator on an international research partnership investigated trust in record in digital environments: https://interparestrust.org. | To advance my own, and contribute, to understanding the opportunities and challenges of using web-based applications with blockchain technology for record keeping applications. | *core technologies required and any gaps for different use cases *applicable standards or new standards that may be required, as well as whether standards will help or hinder innovation at this stage *governance and development issues in the blockchain that may need to be resolved to support development of effective web-based technologies | Ranked 10 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 6 | Ranked 4 | As mentioned I am particularly interested in blockchain for record keeping and how blockchain usage might be integrated with requirement for records management digital preservation. | I've recently written this paper on the question of blockchain for record keeping, which represents some early thinking on the topic: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/RMJ-12-2015-0042. As I delve more deeply into the technical details of the technology I am looking for ways to develop architectures and design applications to address record keeping challenges. |
| Duane | Darrell | Xcelerate Solutions | I learned about Bitcoin in 2010 after having known of the concept from the Cypherpunks email list in the late 90s. I have been a bitcoin/blockchain consultant since 2011 in the DC area, supporting business to accept bitcoin, teaching introduction to bitcoin classes, and developing a website (Bitcoin Bonus) for distributing Bitcoin in exchange for use of affiliate links. I've also done consulting around use of cryptocurrencies for remittances, among other markets. I began my work with Blockchain Identity as a part of Fractal.global, a startup in Reston, VA and now with Xcelerate Solutions in support of the Department of Homeland Security's SBIR for Blockchain Identity. | I am wanting to support the vision for using the blockchain to support Identity management, attribute assignment, and sybil detection. I hope to contribute via sharing about the many consensus algorithms, smart contract platforms, and Blockchain identity projects that are in the present ecosystem as well as with insights of my own. | The workshop should work towards finding points of standardization whereby many parties can share in schemas, processing protocols, Decentralized Identifiers, and other alignments that allow for collaboration among large, small and individual entities. Further, the workshop should examine the possibilities for creating greater trust frameworks and consider how to allow for reputation and sybil management to occur. | Ranked 4 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 6 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 10 | ||
| Buchman | Ethan | Tendermint | I studied biophysics and self-organization, trying to understand the origin of life, when in 2013 I realized Bitcoin was a manifestation of the same sorts of principals in digital media as I was investigating in biochemical media. Since then I have operated Bitcoin ATM machines, contributed research and code to the Ethereum team, served as lead blockchain developer at Eris Industries, been an instructor at Blockchain University, and am currently CTO at Tendermint. My primary interests are in formalizing the shape and scope of consensus/blockchain protocols, and in the implications of the technology for local governance. @buchmanster | - discuss latest research in consensus and scalability - promote a general purpose interface for building blockchain applications - learn about some of the recent work in identity management | the establishment of simple standards for interoperability across platforms | Ranked 3 | Ranked 6 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 9 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 9 | I think the major standardization opportunities are in cryptographic verification (ie. smart signatures) and in the interface between consensus protocols and their applications (ie. like Tendermint's TMSP: https://github.com/tendermint/tmsp) | |
| Third | Allan | The Open University | I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) at the Open University (OU) in the UK. My background is in semantics, involving Web technologies and Web services for use cases in learning and teaching and healthcare. I am a member of a very active blockchain group in KMi, looking into the application of Semantic Web technologies to blockchains, developing blockchain-based use-cases in distance education and collaborating with the OU Law School on, for example, financial trusts using blockchains. Demonstrations of our experiments are available at http://blockchain.open.ac.uk. The OU is the UK’s largest university, with 180 000 students per year comprising 22% of all part-time higher education students in the UK. http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/member/allan-third | To discuss and explore the use of Semantic Web standards with blockchains for the purposes of interoperability, extensibility and standardisation, and education use cases of blockchains based on Web certification initiatives such as badging. | A clear, use-case-driven map of where the most useful overlaps and interactions between blockchains and the Web are to be found, and how existing or new Web standards might help. | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Ranked 1 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 3 | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | Ranked 2 | Don’t mind | Don’t mind | https://www.w3.org/2016/04/blockchain-workshop/interest/third.html | |
| Kurze | Martin | Deutsche Telekom, T-Labs | About the author: Martin Kurze, Director Research & Innovation at T-Labs (Deutsche Telekom), is working on innovative and disruptive topics of the web-ecosystem since about 20 years, starting with web3D (VRML97) and advanced user centric ID-management approaches to web-based mobile operating systems (mainly Firefox OS). The current focus of his work is on privacy and security technologies in mobile and web context. Inside T-Labs he is leading a number of Privacy (and security) based innovation projects, some of them as consortial projects. His approach is to use technology to make the (open, web based) world a better place, leveraging the latest technology in a constructive pro-active manner (in contrast to traditional privacy approaches). | 1. Gaining insights and collecting ideas for a fruitful use of blockchain technology and standardized versions of it in the telco industry 2. proding experience and engagements to the w3c and the Blockchain community stating that standardization will foster the distribution of blockcahin technology. | 1. Real world use cases/applications, may be even business models, 2. Proposed next steps for w3c and the community in standardization activities: new committee? collaboration/extension of an existing group? etc. | Ranked 3 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 6 | Ranked 6 | My Position (not necessarily DT's position): While the World-Wide-Web is a service running on the internet with (basically) no central administration and no built-in privacy (or accountability), the telco industry is built on top of very powerful accounting capabilities: Telcos usually know (or at least can know) their users and the respective usage contexts. They use this knowledge to do "AAA" (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting) which is the telco business' core competence. This results in many business opportunities and use cases where similar properties are required. In the Blockchain context, I want to highlight two of those properties with an (assumed) synergy potential: Reputation and Provable ledger transaction history Both are currently implemented (or inherently included) in telco business models and technical product portfolios. Both can be disruptively replaced or positively enhanced by Blockchain technology. To further strengthen telco companies (at least the modern and agile ones) and to make Blockchain based models a success story for the end user, a strong and independant standardization force is needed. W3C and the web community can drive this standardization of Blockchain technology, infrastructure and means of operation. Web and telco capabilities perfectly complement each other. In some cases the approaches of the "open web" and the "anonymous internet user" seem to contradict the very much regulated and controlled word of the telco industry and also with the need for trust, be it immaterial (= reputation) or material (e.g. financial). End users as well as industries and businesses rely on these types of trust (and try to build both of them). End users tend to request contradictory features, or they have different goals in different situations/times. E.g. a user might want to pay for a service anonymously but he wants to prove certain claims in different situations. And sometimes he might want to act anonymously and later on decide that disclosing and proving his identity might be desired. Businesses (including personal businesses) request a transaction safe system that allows fast and reliable transactions that can be audited and proven if necessary. Blockchains may help to combine all the different requirements and approaches. I suggest to address two of those in parallel and thus cover two "opposite ends" of the spectrum of blockchain uses cases: Provide provable reputation (and reputation history) in three flavours based the same blockchain: anonymous, pseudonymous and personalized (optionally also applicable for small and medium enterprises). Provide provable transaction history with no dedicated and permanently accessible "trust center/certification authority", but based on a "company-issued" blockchain where the company could be a trusted high-reputation telco. The web and the W3C would play an essential role in both use cases, providing the open and standardized infrastructure and building on top of the numerous previous experiences with open, user-oriented yet industry friendly standards and practices. This workshop should give all of us (telcos, W3C, end users) a clearer view on the opportunities and probabilities of success for collaborative approaches like this. | |
| Suichies | Bart | Philips | Technology Lead of the Philips Blockchain Lab, exploring application of blockchain in healthcare. Specific focus on data handling & privacy https://www.linkedin.com/in/bartsuichies Https://www.twitter.com/bsuichies | - explore relation between digital identity / blockchain / web / healthcare - explore the role large commercial institutions have to play - explore standardization opportunities that can help solve interoperability issues in connected healthcare (possibly around identity) | - deep dives on important topics in the blockchain space such as privacy & interoperability. | Ranked 6 | Ranked 5 | Ranked 2 | Ranked 4 | Ranked 1 | Ranked 10 | Ranked 3 | Ranked 8 | Ranked 7 | Ranked 9 | ||