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Blockchain Applications – regulation, policy and strategy: NATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENCE – How can Blockchain help in the time of Covid-19?

8th April 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 6:15 pm

The meeting is online via webinar: ACCESS HERE 

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain (APPG Blockchain) 

EVIDENCE SESSION: NATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENCE – How can Blockchain help in the time of Covid-19?

Description:

On behalf of the APPG Blockchain Chair Martin Docherty-Hughes MP, and the Secretariat at Big Innovation Centre, we would like to invite you to our Evidence Meeting on Blockchain Applications – regulation, policy and strategy:  NATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENCE – How can Blockchain help in the time of Covid-19?

National Security and Defence (45mins)

Questions to inspire:

  • Will digital identity create transparency that will minimise crime? What does it mean for anonymity and freedom?  Does blockchain aid cybersecurity?
  • How can Blockchain help in the time of Covid-19?

Evidence givers:

  • Taavi Rõivas, Estonian MP & Former Prime Minister, Estonian Parliament
  • Don Tapscott, Chairman and co-Founder, Blockchain Research Institute 
  • Angel Martín, Spanish representative in the Policy and Technical Groups, European Blockchain Partnership, Ministry of Economic Affairs & Digital Transformation
  • Andrew Tobin, Managing Director EMEA, Evernym Inc                                                 
  • Geoffrey Goodell, Senior Research Associate, UCL  Centre of Excellence on Blockchain Technologies
  • Marta Piekarska-Geater, Director of Ecosystem, Hyperledger                                 
  • Jonathan Levi, Founder, HACERA & Unbound Network (Mipasa) 

Format:

There will be 4 to 8 formal Evidence Givers
There will also be an opportunity to share your opinion and raise practical questions.
Press invited
This event will be filmed/recorded
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