Blockchain: A Deeper dive into its Technology and Future
Time:
Sun, April 22, 2018 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Place:
Room 208 at William and June Warren Hall,
1125 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10025
(Columbia University)
Guest Speakers
Casey K. Caruso
Partner Technology Manager at Google
Presentation Topic: Blockchain Scalability
Casey Caruso holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Science with a focus in Machine Learning. Casey is a blockchain investor and engineer who originally got involved in crypto as a miner. After starting her career conducting AI research at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics lab, Casey went on to start Bakround, a SaaS company in the machine learning area.
Currently, Casey works as a Partner Technology Manager on Google Search and organizes the San Francisco BlockchainMeetup@Google.
Dr. Vugranam(VC) Sreedhar
Global Blockchain Leader for GTS/TSS at IBM
Presentation Topic: Blockchain and Hyperledger Fabric Hyperledger Fabric
Dr. Vugranam (VC) Sreedhar is Global Blockchain Leader for GTS/TSS focusing on business applications of blockchain for IBM Service business. Prior to moving to GTS/TSS business, Dr. Sreedhar ledseveral projects in areas of programming languages, concurrent systems, security and compliance, and services business. He is also a member of IBM Academy of Technology (AoT) and ACM Distinguished Scientist.
Andrew Zhang
Watson Cloud Architect and Evangelist at IBM
Presentation Topic: Introduction to dApp (Decentralized Application) Development
Andrew Zhang is Watson Cloud Architect and Evangelist at IBM. Andrew has many years of experience in big data analytics and machine learning with financial, healthcare, media and telecom industries. He currently is interested in open source, AI and blockchain cloud platforms for consumer and enterprise applications.
S. Matthew English
Protocol Engineer at Consensys
S. Matthew English is an engineer specializing in blockchain technologies as a member of the protocol engineering team at ConsenSys. Matthew holds a B.A. in Political Science from New York University (NYU), and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Hong Kong and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in Germany.