SESSION 4

Unravelling the Blockchain

A knowledge sharing group dedicated to CIOs and IT leaders of prominent enterprises in the Philippines. The group meets every two months to discuss topical issues selected by the members.

Agenda:

8:00 – Welcome breakfast

8:30 – Participants’ introductions

8:45 – Discussion instigated by Lauro Matias and continued by the group

9:30 – “Hot seating” segment

The “hot seating” segment involves selecting a single member of the CIO group and giving all other members the opportunity to ask specific and pertinent questions related to his/her activities. For a summary of our latest hotseater, please click here.

Topic

Topic: Unravelling the Blockchain

Contrary to common belief, blockchain has varying potential applications far beyond bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Blockchain is quite simply a digital, decentralized ledger that keeps a record of all transactions that take place across a peer-to-peer network. It can be used in eliminating back-office jobs and costs by utilising data patterns that had already been fed into the system. But are companies making the most out of this breakthrough?

We will be discussing: