Founding President – BSV Blockchain Association
Abstract
Blockchain can power a new world of digital payments and distributed data infrastructure to bring more efficiency and honesty to consumer, enterprise and government applications. To achieve this vision, blockchains must scale – a challenge that most distributed ledger technologies have not been able to achieve. In this presentation, Jimmy Nguyen – one of the world’s leading blockchain advocates – will explain how the BSV blockchain is massively scaling Bitcoin’s original protocol and integrating with IPv6 to enable a future of micro (and nano-payments), connected devices and monetized data.
Biography:One of the world’s leading blockchain advocates, Jimmy Nguyen is Founding President of the Switzerland-based global industry organization that supports the BSV blockchain. The Association has over 1200 members and affiliates worldwide from across different sectors of the BSV ecosystem. Jimmy also leads BSV’s Blockchain for Government Initiative.
BSV is a massively scaled blockchain that efficiently handles high transaction volume and greater data capacity at fast speed for low transaction fees – capabilities needed to deliver distributed ledger applications at nationwide and multi-national levels. The BSV blockchain has scaled more and significantly bigger than any other public chain – now regularly producing blocks with up to 4 gigabyte (4000+ megabytes) worth of data regularly on its network. As a public ledger, BSV also enables transparency, auditability and more honesty for governments, citizens and enterprises.
Through the BSV Blockchain for Government Initiative, Jimmy leads efforts to provide education and drives global adoption of blockchain technology by government bodies, NGOs and public sector agencies in order to accelerate digital transformation and ignite economic growth. It seeks to advance large-scale implementation of blockchain technology for the benefit of citizens, including through delivery of e-government services, tools for greater financial inclusion and improved transparency, as well as applications that foster public good for municipalities and entire countries. Jimmy has led blockchain delegations and initiatives to educate government representatives in countries such as United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Sudan. With his legal background, Jimmy also regularly engages with global lawmakers and industry participants to build a regulation-friendly ecosystem that fosters lawful conduct while facilitating innovation using all aspects of blockchain technology.
Previously, Jimmy was CEO of nChain Group, the worldwide leader in advisory, research and development of blockchain technologies, and was Chair of its Strategic Advisory Board. nChain has one of the world’s largest patent portfolios of blockchain-related inventions.
Jimmy also formerly served on the Advisory Board of TAAL Distributed Information Technologies, a Canadian publicly-traded company that is one of the largest miners (transaction processors) on the BSV network.
In January 2020, Jimmy was recognized as one of the "Most Influential Individuals in Blockchain" by TurgenSec, an information security research company. SFOX has listed Jimmy as one of "The BSV People You Need to Know". He is consistently ranked in Visitory.com’s CryptoLeaders list of top 100 “Crypto & Bitcoin Influencers” in the world.
With 21 years’ experience as an intellectual property and digital technology lawyer, Jimmy is well-suited to support enterprise-level adoption of blockchain technology. Over the course of his private practice career, Jimmy was a partner at three major U.S. law firms – most recently Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, where he represented multinational corporations and emerging companies in a wide range of sectors –including Amazon, Microsoft, Uber, the Motion Picture Association of America, Sony Pictures Entertainment, the industry consortium for Blu-ray encryption technology, Major League Baseball Properties, Kia Motors America, and Hyundai Capital America.
In 2008, Lawdragon named Jimmy (at only age 36) one of the "500 Leading Lawyers in America” and described him as a "dynamo talent". A leader in the IP community, Jimmy was formerly Chair of the State Bar of California’s Intellectual Property Law section. He has been honored as the Century City Bar Association’s IP Lawyer of the Year (2011), and with the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel’s Industry Leader Award (2017).
Jimmy is also a strong diversity and equal rights advocate. He co-chaired the California Minority Counsel Program and was inducted into its "Diversity Leader Hall of Fame" (2015). Diversity MBA Magazine named him a “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leader” (2015).
Jimmy graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles at the age of 19 (B.A., Communication Studies, specialization in Mass Communication, magna cum laude, 1992) and graduated law school at the age of 22 from the University of Southern California Law Center (Juris Doctor, 1995).
IBM Consulting, Global Subject Matter Expert
Abstract
Transforming existing business and financial applications is very challenging, particularly at scale. The stakes are high. The data in them has been gathered and certified by auditors at great cost, and the systems developed and tuned typically over years if not decades. A wrong turn can threaten the market value and even the existence of the organization. True ledgers not only capture transactions, but also maintain balances or positions over time.
In order to transform the majority of the world’s business systems, most of which were automated before the Web was invented, we must understand:
- The function of data supply chains, which accumulate transactions to enterprise perspectives;
- The daily financial cycle, which keeps the organization’s life in order; and
- How trust is integral to efficiencies and business.
Kip Twitchell is a Certified Public Accountant (US CPA), consultant and system architect for over 30 years now with IBM Consulting, and the founder and managing director of Sharealedger.org, a non-profit dedicated to innovation in financial and business systems.
In his consulting career, he has consulted at 12 of the top 25 banks in the world and constructed major book-of-record systems for Fortune 500 companies and global banks. He has deep expertise in ERP, reporting, analytics, high-volume ledger systems, and regulatory projects.
Kip is an active speaker, blogger, vlogger, and author. As @finsysvlogger, his YouTube channel "Conversations with Kip,” has continuously released new videos since April 2016, now containing hundreds of videos with tens of thousands of views. More of his materials are located at Ledgerlearning.com, including free access to his two books "Balancing Act: A Practical Approach to Business Event Based Insights" (2010), and "Metric Engine: Reinventing the Data Supply Chains for Business" (2015) as well as white papers and guest-lecture presentations.
He founded Sharealedger to encourage understanding of existing financial systems and promote discussion about innovation. Our existing financial and business systems have been tuned for lower costs and higher security for decades, but the underlying architecture is decades old and based upon very limited computing capacities. Sharealedger explores how shared ledgers might provide costs savings in these very efficient systems, providing a self-funding source for conversion to new systems.
He is a member of the Technical Standards Committee of BSV Blockchain, and a panelist at their global convention. He is also active in the Linux Foundation’s Open Mainframe Project, as the founding chair of the GenevaERS project, which has been used to build very high volume, enterprise ledgers for national and international financial services companies, and the Open z/OS Enablement Work Group, promoting open source transformation of legacy systems, which are integral to much of our modern financial world. Combining the old and the new has the potential to change our measurement of the world through the power of Open Source.
Kip began his career with Price Waterhouse , which became PricewaterhouseCoopers and PwC consulting in 1998 which was acquired by IBM in 2002. He attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah majoring in accounting with a masters of accountancy emphasizing information systems--consulting. Having grown up in Utah, he now lives in Arizona with his wife Kari, and is a proud father and grandfather. His personal interests include thinking about the power of trust and other virtues, as shared at Virtuewheel.com
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Predict Ecology
Abstract
Many have extolled the virtues of the data age and encouraged the proliferation of data; from social media on mobile phones to direct sensor integration into distributed BLOB databases. Despite this ubiquity, ecologists typically collect data manually, with a note pad and pen, and this can lead to an array of practical complications; note pads get wet, lost, or damaged, writing is illegible, or spelling is incorrect. Should the notepad survive, the manual data must be transcribed, and is often then isolated in a project-specific dataset. Thanks to the open science movement, there is growing proliferation of environmental data, however project-level regional and sub-regional data remains fragmented, and is frequently un-verified, and asynchronous.
Modern digital collection techniques such as UAV, IoT sensors, remote cameras, eDNA, and acoustic sensors, are assisting in mitigating the real-time issue and limited spatial scope of ecological and environmental data collection deployment at scale. These digital techniques can record huge volumes of data in a distributed way and allow the collection of near-real time data across an entire region using various competitive agents. Despite these capacities however, this form of data is typically unstructured (collected by multiple parties, in multiple ways), isolated, and remains at the project level. For ecological and environmental data to be relevant and used to inform management decisions, it needs to have the following properties: validity, volume, velocity, variety, veracity, value, distribution, and be in near real-time.
Blockchain represents a valuable opportunity in this space. With collaborators, we are developing a consolidated, tamper proof, generator-owned, data repository, which uses micropayments as an incentive-based system for collection, verification, indexing, and dissemination. This system provides micropayment access to volumes (or snippets) of high-quality data, which is verified, indexed and instantly auditable. It is proposed that this self-serve model of a data service will allow local, regional, and continental based environmental and ecological modelling and monitoring to proliferate beyond previous limitations and effectively address pressing global issues such as language, cultural, and biodiversity loss.
Biography:Daniel Keane is a tropical ecologist, born and raised in the Wet Tropics region of Queensland, Australia. He is the co-founder and managing director of Predict Ecology, an environmental and ecological consulting firm with a focus on rigorous science, real-world data, and predictive modelling. During his career, Daniel has been involved with a variety of projects ranging from environmental surveys, mine closure and rehabilitation, tropical ecosystem restoration and conservation, and environmental modelling. Working in the resources, mining, and infrastructure sectors, he has unique insights into multi-discipline environmental management and sustainable development planning.
Living in the Wet Tropics Area, Daniel developed appreciation for the natural world. He completed a Bachelor of Science in Ecology at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia, before starting a career in metalliferous mining (lead and zinc). Between 2005 and 2007 he was involved with environmental aspects of resource sector operation. In 2007, he became a consultant working with linear infrastructure and returned to his roots of botany and ecology, adding spatial science to his repertoire. Daniel focused his skills on mine closure and rehabilitation from 2013 when he took a consulting position working in the Southeast Asia and Australia region. Throughout these roles, Daniel has recognised an importance of the collection and analysis of real-world data to make management decisions which effect long term outcomes. Daniel co-founded Predict Ecology in 2019 to combine his diverse skills and interests with emerging technology, such as blockchain. Since this time, he has been working with like-minded collaborators to develop novel technological solutions for data collection, utilisation, and storage.