Agenda

RACE by EBC Venue:

Congress Hall - Campus La Salle
(Carrer de Sant Joan de la Salle, 42, 08022 Barcelona)

3rd European Blockchain Convention

Date: January 20th, 2020

Venue: Auditorium - World Trade Center Barcelona

8:15

Registration

9:00

Welcome and Opening Remarks​

Victoria Gago

European Blockchain Convention

Daniel Salmerón

European Blockchain Convention

9:20

Digital Society & Identity: Blockchain for Public Sector

Dr. Stefan Junestrand

EU Blockchain Observatory Forum

Roberto Fernández Hergueta

everis

Belén Arribas

Colegio de la Abogacía de Barcelona (ICAB)

Oscar Burgos

European Commission

Pelle Braendgaard

uPort

10:00

Financial Markets Infrastructure & Services within the DLT era

Victoria Gago

European Blockchain Convention

Maria Concepcion de Monteverde

Banco Santander

Scott King

ING

Carlos Arena

R3

Ciarán McGonagle​​​

International Swaps and Derivatives Association

10:40

Central Bank Digital Currencies & Innovation in Payments

Gonzalo Pérez del Arco

American Express

Michael Kumhof

Bank of England

Martynas Pilkis

Bank of Lithuania

Dirk Bullmann

European Central Bank

11:20

Coffee Networking Break

11:50

Regulation in the evolving Payments Landscape in Europe

Tim Smith

Sifted

Peter Kerstens

European Commission

Carlos Carriedo

American Express

Judith Arnal

Secretaria General del Tesoro y Financiación Internacional

12:20

Blockchain in Supply Chain & Logistics

Laia Ruiz

RSM Spain

Pradipa Karbhari

Microsoft

Sunny Lu

VeChain

Jordi Torrent

Grupo Damm

Javier Gallardo

Puerto de Barcelona

1:00

Trends in the Global Legal Landscape of Distributed Ledger Technology

Isabella Galeano

Technolawgist

Joshua Klayman

Linklaters

Sue McLean

Baker Mckenzie

Nacho Alamillo

Astrea

Joey Garcia

Isolas LLC

1:40

EBC Networking Lunch

2:50

Security Tokens - Enabling new Business Models

Mai Santamaria

Department of Finance, Republic of Ireland

Thomas Borrel

Polymath

Cristina Carrascosa

EU Blockchain Observatory Forum

Robert Wiecko

Dash Core Group

Jorge Serna

Securitize

Amandine Doat

Ledger

3:40

Keynote Presentation

Sunny Lu

VeChain

4:00

Optimization of business processes with Blockchain in the Energy and Infrastructure sectors

Alex Armengol

DLT & Company

Jose Minguez

Endesa

Antonio Maroto

DXC

Jesús Ruiz

Alastria

Gilberto Florez

Ferrovial

4:40

Short Networking Break

5:00

Blockchain Technology for Healthcare Data

Ivan Basart

Validated ID

Henry Daunert

SafeXain

Anca Petre

23 Consulting

5:30

State of Technical Aspects of Blockchain Technology

Juan Caubet

Eurecat

María Salgado

Informática el Corte Inglés (IECISA)

Pavel Kravchenko

Distributed Labs

Henning Lexon

Lexon Foundation

Bruno Škvorc

Web3 Foundation

6:10

Misunderstanding of when to use Blockchain.

Henrik Hvid

Trustworks

Luis Meijueiro

CTIC

Arnaud Le Hors

IBM

Laura Spinaci

Blockchain & Innovation Mentoring Lab

6:40

Networking Cocktail

RACE by EBC

Date: January 21st, 2020

Venue: Congress Hall, Campus La Salle, Barcelona

8:15

Registration

8:40

Welcome and Opening Remarks​

Victoria Gago

European Blockchain Convention

Daniel Salmerón

European Blockchain Convention

8:45 - 10:45

Batch 1. Startup presentations

2gether

Arex

Blocktac

ChainGo

Domi

etoshi

Everprove

Fidoo

Finboot

Freeverse

Gataca

HolaTech

10:50 - 11:20

Keynote Presentation: Blockchain Strategy of Catalonia

Daniel Marco

Director General for Innovation and Digital Economy, Government of Catalonia

Carles Gómara

Deputy Director of Innovation at Acció

11:20 - 11:50

Coffee Break

11:50 - 12:00

Success Story: Cambridge Blockchain

Nadim Takchi

Cambridge Blockchain

12:00 - 1:45

Batch 2. Startup presentations

iCommunity

Pungo

Seven Row

Solarmente

Staxe

Trazable

Triple O Games

Valid Network

Watafan

1:50 - 2:00

Announcement of the winner of RACE by EBC 2020

2:00 - 2:30

Networking Drinks

2:30 - 4:00

Private Meetings (Startups + Executive Passes)

January 20th, 2020

European Blockchain Convention

World Trade Center Barcelona

8:15 - Registration

9:00 - Welcome and Opening Remarks​

9:20 - Digital Society: Blockchain for Government and Public Sector

10:00 - Financial Markets Infrastructure & Services within the DLT era

10:40 - Central Bank Digital Currencies & Innovation in Payments

11:20 - Coffee Networking Break

11:50 - Regulation in the evolving Payments Landscape in Europe

12:20 - Blockchain in Transport, Shipping & Logistics

1:00 - Trends in the Global Legal Landscape of DLT

1:40 - EBC Networking Lunch

2:50 - Security Tokens. Enabling new Business Models

3:40 - Keynote Presentation by Sunny Lu

4:00 - Optimization of business processes with Blockchain in the Energy and Infrastructure sectors

4:40 - Short Networking Break

5:00 - Blockchain Technology for Healthcare Data

5:30 - State of Technical Aspects of Blockchain Technology

6:10 - Misunderstanding of when to use Blockchain

6:40 - Networking Cocktail

January 21st, 2020

RACE by EBC

Congress Hall, Campus La Salle, Barcelona

8:15 - Registration

8:40 - Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:45 - Batch 1. Startup presentations

10:50 - Keynote Presentation: Blockchain Strategy of Catalonia

11:20 - Coffee Break

11:50 - Success Story

12:00 - Batch 2. Startup presentations

1:50 - Announcement of the RACE by EBC winner

2:00 - Networking

2:30 - Private Meetings (Startups + Executive Passes)