The Department of Business and Management Science and the Centre for Shipping and Logistics invite you to a faculty seminar with Alan King, IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York.
The digital currency revolution "meme" has enthralled an entire generation of engineers and entrepreneurs. Pundits fret about financial crimes, monetary stability, hacks and frauds. But the attention of the industry is focused more on blockchain technology. For more than a decade, blockchains have securely recorded positions of enormous value on the open internet. This talk focuses on industry evolution: where blockchains add business value, what experiments are underway, and what are the requirements for secure and efficient adoption of these new technologies.
Dr. King is Manager of Financial Technology Research at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York. He leads research programs in the analysis of blockchain networks: privacy preserving data analytics, financial crime detection, automated market makers, and digital asset custody.