#HyperledgerForum Archives – Hyperledger Foundation

Sep 09

Want to influence the metaverse? See you at Hyperledger Global Forum

By David Treat, Senior Managing Director - Global Metaverse Continuum Business Group & Blockchain Lead, Accenture and Hyperledger Foundation Governing Board Chair Blog, Hyperledger Global Forum

I first entered the metaverse in 1992 when I was young.

My cousin had lent me his copy of Snow Crash, where Neal Stephenson coined the term that now permeates our headlines. In the book, he describes a profoundly mature metaverse, filled with elaborate systems and cultures.

That vision stuck with me like a Kourier harpoon to a Deliverator door. Thirty years later, we are finally bringing the metaverse to life. Today, however, I see things differently, especially as I look ahead to Hyperledger Global Forum next week.

My vision for the metaverse is one of responsibility. Because we are not only the ones exploring the metaverse—we are helping to build it. The Metaverse is the Next Evolution of the Internet. At Accenture, we think of the metaverse as a continuum: a spectrum of digitally enhanced worlds, experiences and business models poised to transform the next 10 years. It’s set to change every aspect of business, from payments and customer experience to manufacturing and supply chains.

But all this relies on one thing: trust. Adoption and acceptance hinge on our ability to get it right. That means we need to design the metaverse with responsibility at the core. Trust is contingent on safety, privacy, security, sustainability, equity, inclusion, accessibility, well being and more.

I am excited that our Hyperledger community will be at the forefront of shaping the metaverse as the next evolution of the Internet. Hyperledger Global Forum creates a unique opportunity for us to come together and explore the opportunities ahead of us. And as the global chair of the foundation, my goal is to collaborate with all of your to design a responsible metaverse.

Whether you specialize in blockchain or not, I firmly believe this is a must-attend event for anyone who wants to carve out their place in the creation of the metaverse. We welcome you to stop by the Accenture booth in the Expo area, where our Metaverse Continuum team and Hyperledger project maintainers will be showcasing some of our solutions and eager to explore what this new future means for you and your business.

The work begins now

When a friend asks Hiro, the main character of Snow Crash, whether he won a swordfight in the metaverse, he responds:

“Of course. […] I’m the greatest sword fighter in the world.”

“And you wrote the software,” the friend chides.

“Yeah. That, too,” he concedes.

Aug 17

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Hyperledger Global Forum 2022 Set to Tackle Blockchain Interoperability, CBDCs, Climate Change, Digital Identity, Tokenomics and More

By Hyperledger Announcements, Hyperledger Global Forum

More than 100 Speakers will Take the Stage in Packed Three-Day Dublin Event

SAN FRANCISCO and DUBLIN, (August 17, 2022) – Today, Hyperledger Foundation, the open, global ecosystem for enterprise blockchain technologies, announced agenda details for Hyperledger Global Forum 2022 (#HyperledgerForum, HGF), which will take place from September 12-14 at the Convention Centre Dublin in Ireland. The packed agenda will tackle key business and technical topics, including blockchain interoperability, CBDCs, climate change, digital identity and tokenomics.

More than 100 speakers will take the stage for talks, panels, demos and hands-on workshops.

Highlights include these keynotes:

The Evolution of Ireland’s Blockchain Ecosystem – Lory Kehoe, Coinbase and Blockchain Ireland
ESG with a little Help from Indy – Dr. Andreas Kind, Vice President Cybersecurity & Trust, Siemens AG
The Metaverse Continuum Creates a Defining Moment for Blockchain Leaders – Melanie Cutlan, Managing Director, Metaverse Technology Capabilities Lead, Accenture

Additional speakers will include:

Bob Crozier, Chief Architect, Head of Enterprise Architecture, Head of Global Blockchain, Allianz Technology
David Treat Senior Managing Director, Global Metaverse Continuum Business Group & Blockchain Lead, Accenture & Hyperledger Governing Board Chair
Eli Androulaki, Distinguished Research Scientist, Decentralised Trust Research Strategy & Manager, IBM
Heather Leigh Flannery, Founder & CEO, Equideum Health
Juan Jiménez Zaballos, Chief Executive Officer, Alastria
Rob Palatnick, Managing Director/Global Head of Technology Research and Innovation, DTCC
Shashank Rai, Chief Technology Officer, United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC)
Yifan He, CEO, Red Date Technology

“There has been an impressive amount of market evolution, technology development and innovation in the two plus years since we last held an in-person Hyperledger Global Forum,” said Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director, Hyperledger Foundation, and General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “Our community has been a driving force in advancing blockchain for business and building the open source foundation for an increasingly decentralized world. This year’s event will be more than just an opportunity to reconnect, share successes, bring new ideas to the table and plan next steps. It will also be a celebration of the power of community to build better together.”

Inclusive agenda, inclusive community

HGF is the largest annual gathering of the Hyperledger community. It draws attendees from academia, governments, nonprofits and start-ups as well as major technology and end user companies from around the world. Hyperledger Foundation aims to create an event that is both valuable and welcoming to all. Some of the key ways the Hyperledger team and community have worked together to give HGF broad appeal and access, in keeping with an “All are Welcome” ethos, include:

Community-led Program Committee – To ensure a compelling content agenda that aligns with top-of-mind issues for the community, Hyperledger Foundation turned the selection process over to a community-led Program Committee.

Community Fair – A new addition to the “hallway track” of the conference, the Community Fair will be a dedicated space for connecting with leaders from across the Hyperledger Special Interest Groups, Working Groups and Regional Chapters. The goal is to make it easier for community members to make valuable connections and find people and resources that align with their interests and needs, regardless of where they are in their enterprise blockchain journey.

Diversity scholarships – With the assistance of DTTC, Hyperledger Foundation is also providing scholarships to 25 students, researchers, independent contributors and government or non-profit employees from as far as Bolivia, El Salvador, India and Sénégal to ensure they can attend HGF.

Free child care – To make HGF more accessible to parents of young children, Hyperledger Foundation will provide free child care during all three days of the conference sessions.

Commitment to health and safety – To enter HGF, attendees must show proof of being fully vaccinated or of a negative COVID test taken within 24 hours of presenting the results at the event. In addition, masks will be required inside the conference center.

Focus on community connections – Hyperledger Foundation is hosting this as an in-person event to facilitate critical community connections. There will be an emphasis on providing attendees non-stop opportunities for knowledge sharing, collaboration and networking, including a night of celebration at the historic Guinness Storehouse.

View the full schedule, sponsors and activities at: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/hyperledger-global-forum/program/schedule/

About Hyperledger Global Forum (#HyperledgerForum)

Hyperledger Global Forum is the biggest annual gathering of the global Hyperledger community. It is a unique opportunity for contributors, members, service providers and enterprise end users from around the world to meet, align, plan and hack together in person. The event is open to everyone involved or interested in using, developing or learning more about Hyperledger’s open source enterprise blockchain technologies. Attendees will hear directly from those who are actively developing and deploying Hyperledger technologies as well as technology and business leaders who are shaping the future of enterprise blockchain. They will also have the chance to talk directly with Hyperledger project maintainers and the Technical Steering Committee, collaborate with other organizations on ideas that will directly impact the future of Hyperledger Foundation, and promote their work among the communities.

Event sponsors and partners include Accenture (Diamond and Keynote Translation), Siemens (Platinum), Digital Asset (Gold and Developer Lounge), Zeeve (Gold), AWS (Silver), BONbLOC (Silver), Corsha (Silver), Espeo Blockchain (Bronze), Huawei (Bronze), Kaleido (Bronze), DTTC (Diversity Scholarship), IBM (Birds of a Feather), Black Women Blockchain Council (Community Partner), Blockchain Ireland (Community Partner), Blockchain Research Institute (Community Partner), Digital Euro Association (Community Partner), Diversity in Blockchain (Community Partner), Global Blockchain Business Council (Community Partner), Trust over IP Foundation (Community Partner), Wall Street Blockchain Alliance (Community Partner), Blocknews (Media Partner), BeinCrypto (Media Partner), Cointelegraph (Media Partner), CoinSpeaker (Media Partner), Ledger Insights (Media Partner) and Merge by Fintech Nexus(Media Partner).

About Hyperledger Foundation

Hyperledger Foundation was founded in 2015 to bring transparency and efficiency to the enterprise market by fostering a thriving ecosystem around open source blockchain software technologies. As a project of the Linux Foundation, Hyperledger Foundation coordinates a community of member and non member organizations, individual contributors and software developers building enterprise-grade platforms, libraries, tools and solutions for multi-party systems using blockchain, distributed ledger, and related technologies. Organizations join Hyperledger Foundation to demonstrate technical leadership, collaborate and network with others, and raise awareness around their efforts in the enterprise blockchain community. Members include industry-leading organizations in finance, banking, healthcare, supply chains, manufacturing, technology and beyond. All Hyperledger code is built publicly and available under the Apache license. To learn more, visit: https://www.hyperledger.org/.

About the Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation and its projects are supported by more than 2,950 members. The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation’s projects, including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, Hyperledger Foundation, RISC-V, and more, are critical to the world’s infrastructure. The Linux Foundation’s methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

Aug 09

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The Hyperledger Global Forum Community Fair: Where to connect with people who share your interests

By David Boswell, Senior Director, Community Architect, Hyperledger Foundation Blog, Hyperledger Global Forum, Regional Chapter, Special Interest Group, Working Group

It has been over two years since we had a chance to get together in person and connect with Hyperledger community members from all over the world. Since Hyperledger Global Forum 2020, there have been hundreds of opportunities to meet online in calls and during virtual events, but those virtual interactions are just not the same as connecting with someone in real life.

The “hallway track” of a conference – the time in between sessions and other parts of the formal schedule where you walk around and meet new people and reconnect with friends and colleagues – is often people’s favorite part of an event. This informal opportunity to engage is what has been so hard to reproduce virtually (the Zoom breakout rooms, 2D and 3D online spaces and other attempts were worth trying but just aren’t as effective) so we are really looking forward to this part of Hyperledger Global Forum (HGF) this year.

To help people connect at HGF (#HyperledgerForum), we’re trying something that has been used in community events that Mozilla has run in the past. These community events were helpful in bringing people with similar interests together. For instance, you may be really interested in what is happening with blockchain in the telecom industry or you may want to speak in Spanish to someone about what is going on with deployments in Latin America, but you don’t know who to speak with as you’re walking around the event.

In order to help you find the right people to connect with, we’ll be setting up a Community Fair in the Expo Hall. The Fair will have a series of table tops manned by people from different parts of the community who are interested in meeting and talking with you. This will include people from our Special Interest Groups who are implementing Hyperledger projects in a range of different industries, people from our Regional Communities who are traveling in from all over the world, and people from our Working Groups who are exploring technical questions about distributed ledgers.

The goal of HGF is to create an event where community members from around the world can meet, align, plan and hack together in person. The sessions, workshops and other parts of the formal agenda will be very useful to help you do just that. We hope that the Community Fair will be another great addition to the formal part of the agenda.

Groups planning to participate in the Community Fair:

Regional Chapters

Brazil Chapter
India Chapter
Latinoamerica Chapter
Japan Chapter

Special Interest Groups

Climate Action and Accounting SIG
Telecom SIG
Financial Markets SIG
Media and Entertainment SIG

Working Groups

Learning Materials Development WG
Performance and Scale WG
Identity WG

Community Events

Hyperledger Challenge winner

Registration details for HGF are here. We hope you’ll join us and make the most of the Community Fair. Its goal is to make it easier for our community members to make valuable connections and find people and resources that align with their interests and needs, regardless of where they are in their enterprise blockchain journey.

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