Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia 2016 | 10 November 2016 | Moscow, Russia

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Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia 2016 | 10 November 2016 | Moscow


Event Website: http://bitcoinconf.moscow/en

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Blockchain in financial industry and business. Moscow to host the Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference:
http://bitcoingarden.tk/blockchain-financial-industry-business-moscow-host-blockchain-bitcoin-conference/

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Special speaker from the USA. Analyst from Wall Street Tone Vays to speak at Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference.

One of the key participants of Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia will be a speaker that is unique for Russia – financial analyst and former vice president of JPMorgan Chase Tone Vays. On November 10, he will present his vision on how blockchain will develop in Russia and globally.

Participant of the largest US conferences

Tone Vays is an expert in the sphere of finance and cryptocurrencies, author and creator of the LibertyLifeTrail website. Has been working on Wall Street for 10 years. Having a master’s degree in financial engineering (Florida State University), started as a risk analyst at Bear Stearns. After the 2008 financial crisis became a vice president at JPMorgan Chase. 

Being an expert in the sphere of economic trends, trading and risk analysis, started to deal with cryptocurrencies in 2013. Began to actively spread ideas related to digital money, and became an author of scientific papers on this topic. Was Head of Research at BraveNewCoin and wrote analytical materials for CoinTelegraph.

The latest researches from Tone Vays on bitcoin and blockchain are published on his personal website LibertyLifeTrail.com.
The speaker believes that blockchain is a technology that promotes economic freedom. He illustrates this thought with examples, being a constant participant of the largest conferences in the USA.

Communicate in person

On November 10, participants of Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia will have a golden opportunity to ask Tone Vays questions after his presentation or during the coffee break.

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Sberbank of Russia is one of the market leaders as for implementation of blockchain technologies, and Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia would be imperfect without its representative. On November 10, 2016 Managing Director for Technology Innovation center at Sberbank Ekaterina Frolovicheva will present the position of the leading company on the development of blockchain in banking system.

Sberbank hits the headlines related to blockchain regularly. The Bank has joined the international project HyperLedger and is getting ready for the launch of a blockchain-based platform for trade financing. Internal document flow and customer service should shift to blockchain. Bank managers associate the project with the creation of a completely new ecosystem of foreign trade.

Last week it has been revealed that Sberbank together with the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation prepared a pilot project on blockchain-based document flow. Its main innovation is the possibility to stop using communication provider services for document exchange, which will reduce the expenses of companies.

Learn more about Sberbank’s projects and their implementation from the report of Ekaterina Frolovicheva. The topic of her report – “The use of blockchain technology in Russian banking system: position of the market leader”.

Alongside with Ekaterina Frolovicheva the speakers of the event are financial analyst of Wall Street and founder of LibertyLifeTrail site Tone Vays, Microsoft technology evangelist Konstantin Goldstein, Director for crypto-technologies at QIWI Alexey Arkhipov and representatives of other companies, dealing with blockchain development.

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Microsoft’s view of blockchain technology: from words to code

Meet one of the key speakers of Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia - technology evangelist at Microsoft Konstantin Goldstein. On November 10, 2016 he will present corporation’s view of blockchain technology and scenarios of its application in business.

Topic of the report of Konstantin Goldstein is “Blockchain as a new stage of technological development. Moving from words to code”.

“Distributed ledger technology has the potential to become one of the catalysts for innovations. Blockchain is changing business models, excluding intermediaries, decreasing fraud level and increasing effectiveness”, the speaker is sure.

Within the report he will cover the following issues:

•   what is Blockchain 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 and how it works;
•   what is Microsoft Blockchain as a Service;
•   scenarios and examples of Blockchain application in business.

Konstantin Goldstein – technology expert, business coach and consultant with 15 years of experience in IT industry of Israel, the USA and Europe. He was developing and promoting products that are used by the companies from the Fortune 500 list.
In the last two years he represents Russian division of Microsoft, with a specialization in examination and expansion of business developing cloud-based solutions.

Mr. Goldstein is an author of a program on technological acceleration of startups and developers (ISV). He is engaged in the development of distributed ledger ecosystem in Russia under Microsoft Blockchain as a Service project.

Do not miss your chance to ask question to Konstantin Goldstein after his presentation or in personal conversation over coffee! Register for the conference and come to Digital October on the 10th of November.

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Moscow Hosts Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference, Largest Russian State Bank to Participate:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/moscow-hosts-blockchain-bitcoin-conference-largest-russian-state-bank-to-participate

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Coffee in Starbucks using bitcoin card: experience of Russian entrepreneur

Debit bitcoin cards can become a part of citizens’ daily life. It was Roman Potemkin, a founder of startup range, that brought Russian cryptocurrency users to this concept.     

Being a financial expert and serial entrepreneur in the mobile banking sector, Roman has become a leader of fintech developers. The result of their work is Wirex service, combining usability of digital currency and familiar payment infrastructure in one solution.       
   
Using Wirex debit bitcoin card, one can buy coffee in Starbucks and make other purchases. Roman Potemkin will tell how this concept operates and what barriers should be overcome in order to implement BTC cards into daily life at Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia on Thursday, 10 November 2016. It is the most large-scale blockchain conference in Eastern Europe that brings together entrepreneurs, developers and cryptocurrency users.       
 
Artem Tolkachev, director at Deloitte CIS consulting company, will speak within the same section with Roman Potemkin. Artem’s presentation will be dedicated to the aspects, allowing to use a bitcoin card in future. He will tell about the regulation of blockchain, digital currencies and smart contracts.     

Participants of the Moscow conference will include representatives of Microsoft, IBM, Sberbank of Russia, HSE, Moscow State University of Foreign Affairs and Skolkovo, as well as startup founders and industry equipment manufacturers. Besides two parallel sections of the conference, there will be a common demo zone.       

The conference will take place this Thursday, November 10, at Moscow Digital October center.

Detail and registration: https://goo.gl/BBm5VC

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IBM, Microsoft and Sberbank shared experience in blockchain developments in Moscow:
http://bitcoingarden.tk/ibm-microsoft-sberbank-shared-experience-blockchain-developments-moscow/