IEEE Global Blockchain Summit @ NIST

September 16-18, 2019 

Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Conference site: https://attend.ieee.org/blockchainsummit/

Registration link: https://attend.ieee.org/blockchainsummit/registration/

The flagship event promoted by the IEEE Blockchain Initiative together with NIST, the IEEE Global Blockchain Summit, hosted at the NIST Headquarter’s in Gaithersburg, Maryland, 16-18 September, is a 3-day intensive program covering visionary, hot topics, use cases, challenges and opportunities in blockchain technology. 

This year the Summit will have five panels addressing Government, Industry, Energy, Healthcare, and Advanced R&D in Blockchain, led by government and industry visionaries.  There will be two round tables discussing US Blockchain Policy and Regulation, led by US Congressman, and another one on Blockchain Supply Chain opportunities.  The speakers are leaders in their field and represent a good mix of the most important topics in blockchain today. 

Key topics to be presented include blockchain ID management, data privacy, architecture and interoperability models, scalability issues, governance models, layer’s perspective on smart contract coding, cybersecurity, trusted IoT blockchain environment, multi-cloud platform, enterprise applications, new start-up grants and programs, and blockchain standards and association programs.