DeveloperWeek New York 2019

Blockchain is one of the foundational digital transformation tools, especially when combined with the power of other emerging technologies including AI, ML and RPA. Such combinatorial power is transformational across all sectors, both commercial and public. - From a business perspective, Blockchain help create a frictionless (business) network of trust and transparency both internally and externally to the organization, which in return provides opportunities for real-time trusted data, streamlines efficiencies, open doors to costs cutting by removing various intermediaries, lessens the burden on users, and allows for innovations and re-engineering of antiquated business processes. Blockchain provides framework for creation of new business models. A blockchain project currently at HHS is already seeing an extraordinary impact with a total estimated ROI estimated over 800% over 5 years. - Applying it to any business begins with a full assessment to determine if the company, including the people, are ready and the appropriate blockchain use case is selected. Prioritization should be made to business value and ROI, mission, long-term impact and organizational need before implementing the technology for sake of technology. - Work and impact must be considered outside of single cryptocurrency case. We have seen industries leveraging blockchain for multiple uses cases from supply chain, identity, trade, to managing human resources including finance, transportations, energy, health, government. - Our work implementing the a blockchain project in the public sector was the first ever Federal blockchain project in any procurement function, either government or commercial, in the world. With initial built completed only 8 weeks, it resulted in a large reduction of business friction, including manual work, lowering costs, an improved vendor experience, and a shortened cycle time - from 110 to 9 days.

Enterprise IT is just reaching the beginning stages of blockchain adoption, with Walmart, Google, and IBM all investing time and money into the DLT space. But with enterprise legacy systems, an array of public and private blockchains, and a cluttered landscape of integration technology, how are developers building out blockchain applications that make sense at scale? Brian Platz, an enterprise SaaS vetern and blockchain expert will provide a live-code demonstration of how one would set up a customized blockchain for a fictional supply chain network in Fluree. Here is a brief agenda: State of enterprise blockchain architecture Fluree DL and FlureeDB Overview Jump right into the code required to build out a network supply chain leveraging blockchain to process and track downstream movement

Blockchain is an emerging technology with a huge potential for its innovative characteristics. As its gets adopted in the industry, it will become a new data repository for the most crucial business use-cases with data being shared between organizations. Performing analytics on this data would be a necessity. Currently the blockchain platform does not support analytics neither does the underlying database in blockchain. In this session developers will learn to implement a new solution to will support high performance analytics for Blockchain Applications.

Most speakers and tech-gurus always talk about the future but what they forget is that building use cases in near term determines if there is a future of certain ecosystem. 'Near Team of Blockchain' session will uncover companies that are using blockchain as a service, building on top of blockchain and growing their business because of it. Also encourage entrepreneurs and developers to consider using blockchain. Imran Sheikh, Director of Product & Design at ShareThis, founded Social Blockchain, permanent archive of social activity on the internet, created by collecting and analyzing sharing events from millions of websites around the world. (www.socialblockchain.co)

Decentralized applications are key to mainstream adoption for blockchain. However, private key management, wallet requirements, high latency, frequent micro payment of gas fees, etc. all combine to make today's DApps very difficult to use, thereby creating significant barriers to entry. To fully resolve what may appear, from the surface, to be UI/UX issues, we need to redesign the entire stack of blockchain services — from wallet to JavaScript UX to different gas mechanisms. In his talk, Dr. Yuan will provide retrospectives on several DApps that he and his team developed and marketed in the Ethereum ecosystem, as well as address:* DApp-specific optimizations for wallets such as web3 integration, payment prompt, DApp launch mechanisms, and DApp portals* Seamless and streamlined gas payments * How to handle pure view smart contract functions * Centralized vs. decentralized private key management * UX improvements for transaction waiting time * Third-party gas payments ("net neutrality") Dr. Yuan also will impart new approaches to design useable DApps and, as a community, propose dan discuss new EIPs that can improve DApp usabilities.