Hedera 18 Conference Livestream - Live Now.
The conference can be streamed live today Wednesday 17th October.
This is not meant to be in depth discussion on Hedera but a notification of the live conference.
What is Hedera?
Hedera is NOT a blockchain but rather something called a hashgraph. This isn’t even remotely similar to a blockchain as there are no blocks. Even IOTA, Nano and Byteball which use DAGs, directed acyclic graphs, use blocks. It actually uses a form of security/confirmation called asynchronous Byzantine fault tolerance the models of which were around 50 years ago. Blockchains use Byzantine fault tolerance but not asynchronous as all models until recently were painfully slow. Hedera and the hashgraph have turned that on its head by using a predictive model of confirmation - guessing with 100% accuracy (yes really) what a computer instance is saying. That has made it incredibly fast pushing TPS into the billions and it is envisioned that it is only limited by the computing power available.
So It’s not a blockchain but it is a DLP, a distributed ledger protocol.
Why is Hedera Important?
Whether you agree with the concept and want to get on board with it or not there are several things that should not be ignored. It has won the contract for supplying the private DLP for all the Credit Unions in the USA. Why is this significant? Because it beat Hyperledger the cooperative venture between Microsoft, IBM and other major tech companies. The other day it also got the contract for Certara’s clinical research, reg reporting, and supply chain. This is a teeny tiny company beating the big guys. They are going to get pretty pissed at this and if they continue along these lines they will almost be certainly the target of a buyout.
Schedule
Wednesday, October 17 (Central time)
7:00am to 12:00pm
Conference Registration
7:00am to 8:30am
Breakfast
7:15am to 8:15am
Women of the future: Networking Breakfast and Panel Discussion
8:30am to 9:10am
The Hedera Hashgraph Advantage: Smart Contracts, File Storage, and Cryptocurrency
Mance Harmon, Co-Founder and CEO
Hedera Hashgraph
9:10am to 9:40am
Hedera Cryptoeconomics with Dr. Leemon Baird
Dr. Leemon Baird, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
Hedera Hashgraph
9:40am to 10:10am
The future of Micropayments with Hedera Hashgraph
Patrick Harding, SVP of Product
& Jon West, VP of Blockchain Engineering
Hedera Hashgraph & Thomson Reuters
10:10am to 10:35am
Morning Break
10:35am to 11:20am
Hedera Hashgraph Decentralized Applications Panel
Moderator:
Leslie Ankney, Forbes Cryptomarkets
Speakers include:
Michael Feng, CoinAlpha, Inc.
Jordan Fried, Hedera Hashgraph
Nhat Thai Nguyen, Organify
Simon Olson, Magazine Luiza
Daniel Rice, Sagewise
John Best, Best Innovation Group
11:25am to 11:45am
Hedera API: Cryptocurrency 101
Craig Drabik, Technical Lead
Disruptive Technologies Group, TxMQ, Inc.
11:50am to 12:10pm
Managing Energy Microgrids using Decentralized Structured Databases
Jiro Occolt, Director
Guard Global Ltd
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm to 1:50pm
Carbon: Accessible, Stable Money
Sam Trautwein, CEO & Co-Founder
Carbon
1:55pm to 2:15pm
Hedera for Music Streaming Micropayments
Andrew Antar, Founder
Brian Antar, Co-Founder & CEO
Hearo.fm
2:20pm to 2:50pm
Deep Dive: Formal Methods
Dr. Leemon Baird, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist
Hedera Hashgraph
2:50pm to 3:10pm
Afternoon Break
3:15pm to 3:35pm
The Power of the Memo Field
Ken Anderson, Chief Developer Advocate
Hedera Hashgraph
3:40pm to 4:00pm
Tracking Drug Shortages with Open APIs and Hedera Hashgraph
Jim Nasr, VP of Technology and Innovation
Synchrogenix: A Certara Company
4:05pm to 4:25pm
Almond - The Reward Platform Changing the World One Scan at a Time
Oliver Bolton, Founder & CEO
Almond
4:30pm to 4:50pm
Demystifying Distributed Ledgers
Paul Madsen, Technical Lead
Hedera Hashgraph
4:55pm to 5:15pm
Smart Contracts: From Zero to Dapp Hero
John Gethoefer, Principal Software Engineer
Bumped, Inc.
5:20pm to 6:00pm
Closing Keynote, Hackathon Awards, and Hedera MVP Announcement
Mance Harmon, Co-Founder & CEO
Dr. Leemon Baird, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
Hedera Hashgraph
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