November 25 – 27, 2019
IIT Bombay
Speakers | Registration | Program | Venue | Contact
IIT Bombay, along with it’s Australia-India Council Grant’s partners: Griffith University, Data61-CSIRO, University of New South Wales, is organizing a winter school for blockchain technology. A series of talks on various academically relevant topics focusing on blockchain technology and applications will be delivered.
We invite PhD and Masters students to participate in this school. We also invite the start-ups and industry to present their case-studies during the course of this school so that the researchers get a practitioner’s view of this emerging technology and vice versa.
We aim to cover the following broad topics during this 3-day school:
- Overview & context,
- platforms & consensus protocols,
- standardization & interoperability,
- smart contracts,
- scalability,
- confidentiality, privacy, and anonymity,
- governance, ecosystems, and applications
- cryptocurrency economics and trading
Speakers
- Richard Brown, R3
- Mark Staples, Data61 CSIRO
- Dilip Saha, BOSCH
- Annamalai Anbukkarasu, TCS
- Sarthak Gaurav, IIT Bombay
- NV Narendra Kumar, IDRBT
- Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy, Griffith University
- Raj Gaire, Data61 CSIRO
- S. Sudarshan, IIT Bombay
- Vishwas Patil, IIT Bombay
- Vinod Panicker, Wipro
- RK Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay
- Pandurang Kamat, Persistent
- Manoj Prabhakaran, IIT Bombay
- Vivek Srivastava, Digital Asset
- Vidya Nair, Ripple
- Swati Bhide, IBM
- Abhijit Keskar, Innoplexus
- Harshad Oak, icertis
Registration
The school is open for all students and academic staff of IIT Bombay and is free. However, online registration is a must for logistics. Others will be accommodated on an invitation basis only.
Click here for Day 1 and 2 (at IIT Bombay) registration.
Click here for Day 3 (at Pune) registration.
Venue
Day 1 & 2 are at IIT Bombay
109, New CSE Building (First floor)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400076, MH, India.
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Day 3 is at Persistent Systems, Pune
Rigveda-Yajurveda-Samaveda-Atharvaveda, 39, Hinjawadi Phase 1 Rd,
Hinjewadi Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park, Hinjawadi, Pune, Maharashtra 411057.
Contact
Should you have any queries, you can write an email to ivishwas@gmail.com
Accommodation
We are unable to entertain guest house accommodation requests. However, our outstation participants can try to liaise with the following option, which is in the vicinity of our campus.
Suncity Complex,
Near Gandhi Nagar Flyover, JVLR, Powai,
Mumbai 400076.
Poonam Potdar: 9321198901 / 9699560100 / 9819132201
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