All About Blockchain

Imagine we could more seamlessly verify and authenticate our existence to access services across various platforms. Digital Identity enables trusted communication in the increasingly digital world while preventing fraud and theft.
A conversation with the President of GCIT, Royal University of Bhutan. Audrey Low will educate listeners on the use case of Bhutan's NDI and share how she helped roll digital identity out at a national level in Bhutan.

How can we individually improve our energy consumption? We might think about reducing our carbon footprint, but to improve our behavior, we need to effectively measure our individual usage.
Architect Dorit Aviv is doing just that with a distributed energy monitoring and environmental sensing network using blockchain technology, which she is leading together with Professor William Braham at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. Specializing in energy and ecology, they are experimenting in this project with an opt-in data system for performance tracking and reward system.
She shares how this not only creates conscious energy usage but incentivizes good performance. We are getting a peak at the beginning stages of a sustainability resource that can quickly scale. Further info is described on Dorit Aviv's Thermal Architecture Lab website.

How do we increase availability of capitol to small and traditionally disadvantaged borrowers? How can we invest in businesses we care about while purchasing products/services we want, especially during pandemic closures?

Carnegie Mellon Professor Goldstein has been investigating the interaction of technology, work and money with his computer science students to overcome several long-standing problems of established lending markets.
By utilizing a public blockchain-style ledger they have created an equal access funding mechanism, BoLT: Building On Local Trust, that can reduce poverty and inequality.
Learn about the interesting deep technical problems they faced to bring solutions to people today.

We are seeing more and more applications being built on blockchain. And there are thousands of blockchains for developers to choose from. What do you look for in a blockchain to support your application development?
Chief Scientist Dr. Radu State and his team from University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust are busy building Dapps on the XRP Ledger. We learn about the key features and advantages that make this blockchain favorable for growing developers.

A deep look into how researchers in Brazil can create value out of biodiversity by connecting it to advanced technological innovation.

Engineering Professor Marcos Antônio Simplício Júnior, from the Polytechnic School of University of São Paulo, talks us through the concepts with a high level technical perspective of the applied research architecture. At the heart of this project, listeners learn about our opportunity to develop a green economy; how using this modern, smart blockchain technology leads to sustainable economic and social developments.