Symposium on Applications Challenges and Opportunities in Blockchain Technology Event

Blockchain is gradually becoming a mainstream technology with a huge potential for growth, adoption, and impact. Blockchain is new paradigm with the ability to transform technology with several new and revolutionary applications across many areas. Blockchain technology can provide instant transactions as well as data transfer and access within a trusted, secure, transparent, tamper-proof, and decentralized manner with no third party servers or trusted gents. Since the technology has been adopted in several areas, new key challenges have arisen.

This track aims to bring together academia and industry for discussing the latest advances on the following themes:

• Design and engineering improvements to the protocols and architectures underpinning Blockchain;
• Convergence of Blockchain with other emerging technologies (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things);
• Insights of the technical, business, and societal implications of Blockchains based on deployed applications and case studies.