This entertaining and informative webinar takes a non-technical look at Blockchain and its use in the financial sector as well as in wider industries. It begins by defining Blockchain and looks at some commercial applications, then looks at digital crypto currencies and goes on to see a practical demonstration of Blockchain.

Speakers include:

Liveryman Tom Ilube CBE is CEO of Crossword Cybersecurity PLC and a Non Executive Director of the BBC. Previously, Tom was a Managing Director at Callcredit Information Group (now Transunion UK). Prior to Callcredit, Tom founded and was CEO of Garlik, a VC backed ID protection company, sold to Experian in 2011. Earlier, in his career Tom served as Chief Information Officer of Egg Banking plc and worked at Goldman Sachs, PwC and the London Stock Exchange. Tom was founding Chair of Hammersmith Academy and is currently founding Chair of the African Science Academy, the continent's first all girls STEM school.

Court Assistant Gus Machado is the WCIT’s representative on the FSG. He has run IT services businesses for over 30 years and is involved with AI, Machine learning and Big Data projects.

Haydn Jones is the Founder and Managing Director of Blockchain Hub. He has over twenty years’ commercial, operational and transformation experience working for retail and investment banks, a central bank, a regulator, a global management consultancy firm and a Japanese technology company. He has run cash management and funding units, as well as foreign exchange and equities settlement teams, alongside leading projects to re-engineer the underlying platforms. He has worked in architecturally complex, data rich environments, grappling with the challenge of reconciling legacy and leading edge technologies across client-sensitive platforms demanding high levels of availability.

Anthony G. Parker, Senior Global Blockchain Strategist, TCS Blockchain Services (@antgparker) . Anthony has spent over 20 years leading teams of CX and Design Thinking experts in the Digital Transformation industry - building teams and consulting on some of the latest technologies for companies such as Microsoft, BT and KPMG in the areas of Cloud, Mobile and Apps. Having received an MBA from Henley Business School in 2017, Anthony's attention was diverted to Collaboration, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies as part of our digital future - setting up Cuberoot64 Ltd as a Strategic Consultancy and educator around these new technologies. Today, trying to stick with the ethos of making difficult concepts as easy to understand as 2+2, Cuberoot64 continues to concentrate on collaboration, education and crypto assets with an expert team of advisors and partners. For the past 2 years, Anthony has been working with Tata Consultancy Services as their Global Blockchain Consultant Lead, managing a team of Blockchain Consultants, Go To Market specialists and 200 developers. https://www.linkedin.com/in/antgparker/

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