Blockchain: practices and perspectives

Programme

Fri, 17 May
9:00 to 9:30	Registration .
9:30 to 10:00	Opening Moez CHAKCHOUK, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, UNESCO Ghislaine AZEMARD, Director UNESCO Chair ITEN, Vice-President Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and Vice-President for Digital University Paris 8 Greg MEDCRAFT, Director, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs at OECD Dorothy GORDON, Chairperson, UNESCO’s Information for All Programme
10:00 to 10:30	Theme 1 - Introduction to the blockchain Scientific animation Matthieu QUINIOU, Lawyer and Researcher UNESCO Chair ITEN Bianca RUTHERFORD IGLESIAS, Researcher UNESCO Chair ITEN Keynote: Evolution of the blockchain ecosystem: from cypherpunks to startups and institutions Ken TIMSIT, Managing Director - ConsenSys Enterprise Solutions, ConsenSys France
10:30 to 11:15	Theme 2: The functioning of blockchain Keynote: Distributed ledger technology and blockchain Jean-Jacques QUISQUATER, Professor, Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain Moderator: UNESCO Panel: New technical developments? Practical advice on consensus systems, scalability, interoperability between blockchains and the emergence of quantum computers. Caroline MALCOLM, Head, Blockchain Policy Centre at OECD Nitin GAUR, IBM Blockchain Labs - Director, IBM WW Digital Asset Labs Robert POGGI, Territorial Director (Seine Saint-Denis and Val de Marne) at ENEDIS Rong CHEN, Chairman, ELASTOS
11:15 to 12:30	Theme 3: Characteristics and uses of blockchain Keynote: Practical presentation of smartcontracts and decentralized applications (Apps) Kadan STADELMANN, CTO, ethical hacker and blockchain engineer, KomodoPlatform Moderator: Christophe DE BONNEUIL, blockchain expert and trainer for OECD Panel: Impact of blockchain on society, economic and law? Blockchain as a new vector of disintermediation. Peijiang ZHU, General Secretary, Chinese Blockchain Association Marcus GODDARD, VP Intelligence, NETEXPLO Almudena DE LA MATA, co-founder, Innovation for Change, Blockchain Intelligence Law Institute, Impact Hub, Blockchain Espana Ismael ARRIBAS, Directeur de KUNFUD, président du comité de normalisation d'Alastria, représentant espagnol de l'UNE, President of Spain Chapter of Government Blockchain Association
12:30 to 14:00	Lunch break .
14:00 to 14:45	Use case n°1: Blockchain, education and open science Panel and use case presentation: Toward new pedagogical forms and open science carried by blockchain and learners' data management? Moderator: Zeynep VAROGLU, Programme Specialist Education and ICT, UNESCO Romain LECLERC, In the Pockette Sandra MARTIN, In the Pockette Claudio TESSONE, Assistant Professor of Network Science, University of Zurick Blockchain Center Sönke BARTLING, Founder, Think Tank Blockchain for Open Science Yiyu CAI, Professor Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Christoph STECK, Director Public Policy & Internet Telefonica
14:45 to 15:30	Use case n°2: Blockchain and artistic creation Panel and use case presentation: Blockchain as an efficient copyright management tool? Moderator: UNESCO Damien CALLEROT, Founder, SCENSO.TV Aleksandra SMILEK, Founder, EP7 Jérôme PONS, Founder, Music Won't Stop
15:30 to 16:15	Use case n°3: Blockchain and democracy Panel and use case presentation: Blockchain: a tool for direct democracy? Moderator: Guy Berger, Director of Division for Freedom of Expression and Media Development, UNESCO Virgile DEVILLE, DEMOCRACY.EARTH Jacques TRAORE, Orange Lab Jean-Christophe FINIDORI, blockstack evangelist, BLOCKSTACK Louis MARGOT-DUCLOS, CEO Kelsen, 97.NETWORK
16:15 to 16:45	Break .
16:45 to 17:15	Use case n°4: Blockchain, sustainable territories and creative cities Panel and use case presentation: Blockchain and territorial innovation Moderator: Patrick COQUET, CAPDigital Yonathan PARIENTI, Founder and CEO, Horyou David RICHARD, Lawyer Susanne TARKOWSKI TEMPELHOFF, founder of Bitnation
17:15 to 18:00	Use case n°5: Blockchain and social innovation financing Panel and use case presentation: Initial Coin Offering, tokennization, crypto-lending for social innovation social, responsible and sustainable innovation Moderator: Lucien Castex, General Secretary, Internet Society France Chapter Julien BERANGER, Abie Co-Founder, CMO at iExec Laurent LELOUP, CEO at Chaineum, Author of Blockchain, la révolution de la confiance Anna JUUSELA, Yanca Sacha IVASILEVITCH, CFA, President at Leconsultant SAS Kohei KURIHARA, President, Government Blockchain Association Japan Chapter
18:00 to 18:30	Conclusion Blockchain and prospectives Moez CHAKCHOUK, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, UNESCO
18:30	Cocktail / Networking .