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This 101 Blockchains Virtual Conference gathers some of the best international experts to share opinions, current practices and challenges, offering advanced use cases on Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Assets with a focus on payments and trade finance.

The use of blockchain is gaining traction and new applications are emerging. Our 2021 virtual conference brings you innovative cases in global payments and trade financing.

Join us to hear how specialised technology providers are leveraging DLT across payments and trade finance and in support of incumbent financial institutions, their counterparties and clients.

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In a supply chain the flow of goods move downstream (i.e., from the supplier to the buyer), while the flow of money goes upstream, from the buyer paying the supplier. Both flows are connected through the “glue” provided by the flow of information to activate the operations between all supply chain participants.

The certainty of the origin of data and the confidence of its quality represent the prerequisites for a full and profitable supply chain collaboration between trading partners. The current centralized server-client enterprise systems create data silos that remain confined and difficult to share, least by building expensive and hard to maintain point-to-point and host-to-host connections.

This 101 Blockchains Virtual Conference provides the most updated use cases of how companies, banks, logistics providers, certification agencies, customs offices, are shifting their attention to consider blockchain-based solutions not only to improve current processes but- most importantly- to transform and revolutionize them.

The virtual conference sessions focus on:
-Blockchain for the physical and information supply chain
-Blockchain for the financial supply chain

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“Blockchains are not only for cryptocurrencies”. This is a many times heard mantra that every experienced practitioner will subscribe to. This is not to say that cryptocurrencies must be outcast from the blockchain community, but only to reiterate that the world of blockchain protocols—especially the enterprise world—demands solutions that surpass the pure exchange of currency values running on cryptographic algorithms.

Disaffection and suspicion against cryptocurrencies has exacerbated with the demise of the numerous initial coin offerings (ICOs) that sprouted in an almost uncontrolled manner in the past few years. The vast majority revealed to be pure scams, or—in the most benevolent way—unconsidered risky adventures with no real business substance nor background.

Each ICO launched a blockchain-based project and created a cryptocurrency that investors would have used to monetize the results of the projects’ so much touted propositions and promises. Most of these projects miserably failed, leaving unscrupulous ICO founders with the rich spoils and the careless investors with bad taste and empty (digital) pockets.

These facts must not- however- tarnish the extraordinary capabilities of decentralized distributed ledger technologies to exchange digital assets representing title of ownership.

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This virtual conference lines up the best minds that will explain how they are using these innovative technologies and how one in particular- blockchain- is enabling them to implement processes, activities, and business practices that not only correspond to the principles of sustainability and consequent social impact but, most importantly, is enabling them to put into practice their visions that would have otherwise remained confined in dreamland.

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Blockchain is an innovative framework that companies will more and more utilize to run enterprise business processes in a collaborative and trusted way, especially in the effort to face and overcome the current critical economic situation. To do so, business decision makers must understand the foundation of the technology. This is not for them to become technology “geeks”, but to appreciate the possible solutions that can be implemented thanks to the features of decentralized distributed ledgers.

Many- rightfully- object that to use emails you don’t need to know all the intricacies of the background technology protocols like POP3, IMAP, SMTP and similar.

While the statement is true, it denotes, however, a lack understanding of blockchain’s real nature and reach. Blockchain is not a technology feature that accomplishes a particular mission-critical objective like an email that implements the task of sending a digital message between two or more parties. Blockchain, as already defined, is a business framework- supported by innovative technology functionalities- that enables business partners to collaborate and trust each other on a peer-to-peer basis.

This virtual conference introduces the basic foundational elements that put enterprise decision makers in the condition to best identify use case applications for their own business and for their business partners’.

It is not a matter of learning how to develop software, but to understand from those who do it- the conference speakers and panelists- the level of sophisticated solutions made possible by current blockchain-based platforms and applications.

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How many times you attended a conference on blockchain just to listen to one or two presentations that were important to you, and then spend the rest of the time working remotely on your smartphone?

How much did it cost in travel, hotel, local transportation to be there? Was it really worthwhile?
Well, yes, if that was the only opportunity to get to listen senior enterprise executives.

But were you able to listen to executives of the top enterprises like FedEx, WTO, Honeywell, FCI, Daimler, IBM that have directly experienced an enterprise blockchain digital transformation? Not really, right?

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