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Advanced Hands-on Workshop on Blockchain: Technology, Applications, Challenges
A joint workshop organized by IIT Bombay and IDRBT Hyderabad
http://isrdc.iitb.ac.in/blockchain/
January 02-04, 2017 Hyderabad
Workshop Overview
Blockchain has emerged as a robust solution to achieve trustand transparency across the Internet. It is based on peer-to-peer architecture, which inherently guarantees that there is:1) no single point of failure/control, 2) high availability, and3) high resilience. To these architectural guarantees, SatoshiNakamoto devised & integrated cryptographic techniques, toemulate the real-world concept of getting paid for doing a job,so that new emergent properties like trust and transparencyare also guaranteed. In this workshop we are going to under-stand a crypto-currency called bitcoin, which is doled out asan incentive to do the hard work of block-generation. Inter-linked blocks form the blockchain. Blocks record transactionsperformed between peers in a publicly verifiable, immutableform. This invention provided a fresh way of re-looking atbusiness processes that desperately vied for trust and trans-parency. A running application will be presented to make youunderstand these properties. We will also introduce you toother variants of blockchain that followed Nakamoto’s pro-posal; including Ethereum and its smart contract utility.
The workshop will cover the concepts and theory in morn-ing sessions followed by hands-on sessions in the evening. Abasic understanding of concepts in security, privacy, and cryp-tographic functions is expected.
Organizing Committee
Patrons
AS Ramasastri IDRBTRK Shyamasundar IIT Bombay
Coordinators
NV Narendra Kumar IDRBTVishwas Patil IIT Bombay
Perceived impact of blockchain is so great that the WorldEconomic Forum has listed it as one of the Top 10 emergingtechnologies of 2016.
Important Dates
Application deadline December 15, 2016Notification December 20, 2016
Resource Persons
Aniket Kate Purdue, USAShweta Shinde NUS, SingaporePraveen Jayachandran IBM ResearchVishwas Patil IIT BombayNV Narendra Kumar IDRBTS Nagesh Bhattu IDRBT
Topics
fiat/digital currency blockchainbitcoin trust & verifiabilityethereum smart contractsblockchain variants security & privacychallenges panel discussion
Target Audience
This workshop is targeted towards students, researcher schol-ars, faculty members, fintech professionals, and consultants tofinancial industry. Due to the hands-on nature of this work-shop, participation is limited to 24 pax.
Registration Fees
Students 1,500 INRAcademia 3,000 INROthers 21,000 INR
Financial support towards travel, accommodation, and regis-tration is possible for deserving candidates. More informationis available on workshop’s website.
IDRBT Hyderabad
IDRBT (Institute for Development and Research in BankingTechnology) is a vibrant knowledge-based financial technol-ogy institute setup by Reserve Bank of India. The focus ofresearch and development activities of the Institute is primar-ily applied in nature. Its research mandate is to address theimmediate concerns of Indian banking sector. It also focuseson anticipating the future needs and requirements.
ISRDC, IIT Bombay
ISRDC is one of the four centers setup under ISEA (Informa-tion Security Education & Awareness) project by MeitY (Min-istry of Electronics & Information Technology), Governmentof India. It focuses on research in information security: op-erating systems, language-based security, cloud security, IoTsecurity, Android security, privacy, blockchains, etc.
Workshop Correspondence