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Topic

How blockchain will disrupt the enterprise

Abstract

You all have heard a lot of buzz around blockchain and cryptocurrencies primarily due to the price dynamics. On the other extreme, from technology perspective, some people say that blockchain is a solution looking for a problem. Similar statements were made for disruptions previous to blockchain like big data and AI and going even further back even the internet. In this talk we are going to cover largely overlooked aspect of blockchain i.e.  disruption it is going to cause in the enterprise domain and how it will solve yet unsolved problems. Here are few topics (not limited to) we are going to cover
The elephant in the room
What blockchain brings to the table
Different blockchain paradigms
Challenges enterprises face in the adoption
Few use-cases

Profile

Rishi has co-founded a stealth mode startup which is backed by some of the leading VCs in the silicon valley. Prior to that, Rishi co-founded InfoObjects which specialized in data science and data engineering services. Prior to that Rishi worked as a software engineer at Netflix as part of their Algorithms and Analytics division. He has written two books on Apache Spark. Rishi graduated from IIT Delhi in 1998.