Tokenisation for the Construction Sector

Jeremy Barnett

Discussion around opportunities for tokenisation within the global construction sector. It promises to be a wide ranging disucssion about the opportunites for the sector. Speakers already confirmed are:
Henry Fenby Taylor 
Henry is a speaker, author, landscape architect and head of BIM. His leading role in dotBUILTenvironment has given him a breadth of experience across the built environment that underpins his approach to digital implementation.
Henry has been undertaking policy research into tokenisation of the built environment and infrastructure. Henry will be examining specific use cases surrounding intellectual property, contracts and many of the other sticking points around a fragmented supply chain that affects the built environment.
 
Will Squires      
Will is a Senior Consultant at Atkins, heading up the Building Design division’s digital team.  An unusual combination of data scientist, engineer, planner and strategist, Will works internally and externally with Atkins' key clients to help future-proof and innovate within the construction industry.
An expert on smart cities, data, digital engineering and the impact of emerging technology on construction and the built environment, Will’s research focuses around real-time city data, the challenges of long-term urban development and understanding spatial and temporal effects of design.  
 
Alpesh Doshi 
Founder and CEO of Fintricity specialising in blockchain for asset management.
Alpesh is a globally renowned thought leader in how organisations can transform and future-proof their business using emerging technologies, particularly around digital, big data & analytics and blockchain. He is focused on innovative thinking and practical strategies to add value for his clients fast and often, introducing the agile approach of working to digital transformation.
Tim Rook 
Tim works for IBM as a blockchain specialist in the industrial, construction and engineering sector. He has extensive construction sector experience in Design, renewables and working closely with regulators.  Recent innovation experience includes building the UK’s largest combined solar thermal & heat pump plant and developing a blockchain based permit system for safe systems of work.
He will be looking beyond: process efficiency driven by “standard blockchain”, to what must incumbents do to thrive in this new era of tokenisation
Huw Thomas
 Huw is an Architect, former partner of Fosters and Partners, now With a W Ltd, and a member of the CBC steering group. 
Huw will talk about trust in the construction sector, and how blockchain and how a token can be used to help build that trust, using BIM, Smart Contracts and automated contracting.
Sarah Louise Johnson 
Sarah is the community manager at Etch.work which is one of the first blockchain companies to focus on human resources and payments through the construction sector. Etch uses smart contracts to reduce administrative burdens and also allows employees to be paid in tokens or cash as soon as their shift concludes.
 
 
 
Please note that the date has been changed to Wednesday 9th May 2018.

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