Blockchain Canada Summit 2018

Canada is home to some of the pioneers in blockchain and the technology is attracting major investments, spurring large research programs and exploratory discussions with the federal government.

For many people, blockchain is synonymous with Bitcoin, but as the headlines show, blockchain technology has the potential to change businesses across the economy. While financial services may be at the forefront of these changes, the opportunity will present itself with increased urgency across a wide range of sectors.

From government to advertising, from hospitality to health care, from energy, to food and agriculture—if there’s a business there’s a transaction, and wherever there’s a transaction there’s an opportunity for blockchain.

This event will bring together the key players working in diverse fields, creating an exciting cross-pollination of ideas and approaches that will yield new insights and uncover even more opportunities for growth, and most importantly, help in shaping future blockchain technology policy for Canadian organizations.

Many highly-respected business and technology firms argue that blockchain represents an opportunity where Canadian companies can play a large role on the world stage in terms of leading development and best practice adoption, even competing with Silicon Valley. While other events have been held about the subject, this unique summit will focus on strategy and policy insights.

This event will go beyond the hype to explore recent developments and potential impacts and opportunities for strategic policy.

Currently blockchain can seem like an obscure technology—more hype than substance. Yet banks, venture capitalists and even governments are investing hundreds of millions of dollars. For example:

1. The Government of Canada is currently running a competition to establish a super cluster. Toronto and Waterloo submitted a proposal that could see a large portion of $950 million invested in blockchain technologies.
2. Groupe Media TFO has Created a blockchain prototype to track copyright—demonstrating blockchain’s value well beyond financial services.
3. Canadian company Ethereum, viewed by some as the most important blockchain company in the world, recently surpassed $1-billion (U.S.) in value.

Hear from the experts and help build Canada’s blockchain leadership and strategy—three reasons this is a must attend event for you and your team.

Join us for this comprehensive exploration of all things blockchain. While gaining unique insight into the direction of blockchain in Canada, you will also participate in an event that:

1. Provides you with the most comprehensive exploration possible of blockchain’s applicability across the business and government landscape—the early adopters, the laggards and the unexpected areas for innovation—and the key impacts blockchain will have.
2. Identifies the most common or likely risks/impediments to success in applying blockchain to meet organizational/societal objectives, and a collaborative attempt to brainstorm potential solutions or an action plan to overcome those challenges.
3. Will facilitate the development of a cross-industry community of professionals who will support each other’s efforts in using blockchain—creating the national strategy Canada needs to “own” the blockchain innovation opportunity in 2018 and beyond.