Second International Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Blockchain 2019

EEB 132, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Southern California,

Los Angeles, California

April 5, 2019

Symposium Schedule

Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB), Room No: 132, University of Southern California.

The conference proceedings is available online.

Friday, April 5th

7:30 AM

Registration

8:00 AM
8:15 AM

  • Introductions

    Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California), Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (University of Southern California)

8:15 AM
10:05 AM

Technical Session 1

Chair: Tijs Slaats (University of Copenhagen)

  • Keynote 1: Demystifying Blockchains: Foundations, Challenges and Opportunities

    Amr El Abbadi (UC Santa Barbara)
    Duration: 40 mins

  • BDML: Blockchain-based Distributed Machine Learning for Model Training and Evolution (Best Paper)

    Qigang Wang (AI Lab, Lenovo), Mei Li (AI Lab, Lenovo), Wanlu Zhang (AI Lab, Lenovo), Peng Wang (AI Lab, Lenovo), Zhongchao Shi (AI Lab, Lenovo), Feiyu Xu (AI Lab, Lenovo)
    Duration: 30 mins

  • Keynote 2: Blocks of Trust – using the Blockchain to build trust in IoT

    Erez Waisbard (Nokia Bell Labs)
    Duration: 40 mins

10:05 AM
10:20 AM

Coffee Break

10:20 AM
12:00 PM

Technical Session 2

Chair: Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien)

  • Keynote 3: Enterprise Blockchain is Transforming The Global Supply Chain Today !!

    Gil Perez (SAP)
    Duration: 30 mins

  • Blockchain Based Solution to Improve Supply Chain Collaboration

    Feifei Chen (Lenovo Research), Ajay Dholakia (Lenovo Data Center Group), Guiping Zhang (Lenovo BT/IT), Qingxiao Guo (Lenovo Research), Yi Zheng (Lenovo Data Center Group), Jingsheng Li (Lenovo BT/IT), Xiaobing Guo (Lenovo Research), Jierong Dong (Lenovo Data Center Group), Yunhao Wang (Lenovo Research)
    Duration: 30 mins

  • Keynote 4: Economics and Blockchain: Beyond Token

    Stephanie Hurder (Prysm Group)
    Duration: 40 mins

12:00 PM
1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM
1:45 PM

Panel: Future of Blockchain

Chair: Raghu Nambiar (AMD)

1:45 PM
2:00 PM

Coffee Break

2:00 PM
3:40 PM

Technical Session 3

Chair: Gowri Sankar Ramachandran (University of Southern California)

  • Elastic Smart Contracts in Blockchains (Vision Paper)

    Schahram Dustdar (Distributed Systems Group, TU Wien), Pablo Fernandez (Applied Software Engineering Group, Universidad de Sevilla), José María García (Applied Software Engineering Group, Universidad de Sevilla), Antonio Ruiz-Cortés (Applied Software Engineering Group, Universidad de Sevilla)
    Duration: 30 mins

  • Keynote 5: On the need for formal and effective internal governance mechanisms in permissionless blockchains

    David Galindo (Fetch.AI)
    Duration: 30 mins

  • Keynote 6: Software Architecture and Engineering for Blockchain Applications

    Ingo Weber (CSIRO)
    Duration: 40 mins

3:40 PM
3:50 PM

Coffee Break

3:50 PM
4:55 PM

Technical Session 4

Chair: Ingo Weber (CSIRO)

  • Smart Contracts and Demurrage in Ocean Transportation

    Haiying Jia (MIT), Roar Adland (MIT)
    Duration: 30 mins

  • Keynote 7: Bringing Enterprise to Blockchain—Moving from Science Experiment to Business Mainstream

    Sarabjeet (Jay) Singh (Oracle)
    Duration: 35 mins

4:55 PM
5:00 PM

Wrap