Program
In contrast to the three successful Blockchain Summer Schools in 2016 to 2018, this year we will lift it to the next level by establishing three parallel tracks on Wednesday and Thursday:
- Basic: this track will be the continuation the successful format from previous years. In addition to this, students will work together with case organisations from industry and public sector on developing blockchain prototypes in a hackathon.
- Advanced: this track will offer the opportunity for students with prior experience around blockchain prototyping to work with organisations which have already prototypes developed. The intention in the included hackathon is to further improve demonstrators, or design them anew, to meet the more advanced requirements and level of know-how among participating students as well as organisations.
- Improving blockchain / DLT systems as a technology: this track is the protocol track where technical issues in existing blockchain / DLT systems are discussed and potential solutions are developed. This track will include a makerthon, where not necessarily code is written, but where potential solutions are developed conceptually.
All students will be encouraged to further improve their work in form of academic papers coached by the summer school organisers.
This is a draft program for the 2019 Blockchain Summer School. Further details on speakers, locations, etc. will be added as we go along.
| Day 1 | Monday, August 12th - Opening intro lectures | Ver. 2019-08-07 (final version) |
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| 08:00-09:00 | Registration and light breakfast | room (lokale) 23.0.50 Københavns Universitet Amager; Karen Blixens Vej 4; 2300 København S |
| 09:00-09:15 | Introduction to the summer school (ITU, CBS, KU) | |
| 09:15-10:15 | Presentation by Fritz Henglein (KU) and Peter Sestoft (ITU) about "the essence of blockchain" from a Computer Science perspective | |
| 10:15-10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30-11:30 | Presentation by Fritz Henglein (KU) and Peter Sestoft (ITU) about "the essence of blockchain" from a Computer Science perspective | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Nordea DLT team lead “Making sense of blockchain – a banker’s perspective" by Ville Sointu | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30-15:00 | Blockchain key technical development trends by Boris Düder or Omri Ross (KU) | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30-17:30 | Blockchain Smart Contracts: Opportunities & Challenges by Boris Düder or Omri Ross (KU) | |
| 18:00-21:00 | Maersk Social Event (Reception and Dinner) | ITU Cafeteria |
| 21:00 | End of Day 1 |
| Day 2 | Tuesday, August 13th - Joined lectures | |
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| 08:00-09:00 | Light breakfast | room (lokale) 23.0.50 Københavns Universitet Amager; Karen Blixens Vej 4; 2300 København S |
| 09:00-10:15 | Blockchain Economics and Market Engineering by Roman Beck (ITU) | |
| 10:15-10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30-12:30 | Track 1 use cases presentation and discussion by COWI, DiGiDI, WWF | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Regulating Blockchain: Challenges & Opportunities by Alexandra Andhov from Center for Enterprise Liability (CEVIA) |
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| 14:30-16:30 | Track 2 use cases presentation and discussion by Carlsberg, EU Commission, Max Planck Digital Library | |
| 16:30-17:00 | Coffee break | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Track 3 blockchain challenges presentation and discussion by W3F | |
| 17:30-18:00 | Group splits up into the three tracks. The mentors from the universities as well as the coaches from the participating organizations go into more details and discuss the tasks with the teams that are formed to work together. | |
| 18:00-19:00 | Copenhagen Fintech Get together (Sponsor Reception and Drinks) | Outside Room 23.0.05 |
| Day 3 | Wednesday, August 14th - Track hackatons | |
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| 08:00-09:00 | Light breakfast | Carlsberg Conference Centre, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15, DK - 1799 København V |
| 09:00-10:15 | Tracks 1 to 3 in parallel sessions | |
| 10:15-10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30-12:30 | Tracks 1 to 3 in parallel sessions | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30-23:00 | Tracks 1 to 3 in parallel sessions | |
| End at 23:00 | Food and drinks will be provided |
| Day 4 | Thursday, August 15th - Track hackatons | |
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| 08:00-09:00 | Light breakfast | Carlsberg Conference Centre, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15, DK - 1799 København V |
| 09:00-10:15 | Tracks 1 to 3 in parallel sessions | |
| 10:15-10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30-12:30 | Tracks 1 to 3 in parallel sessions | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30-17:00 | Tracks 1 to 3 in parallel sessions | |
| End at 23:00 | End of Day and time to socialize |
| Day 5 | Friday, August 16th - Hackaton presentations, awards and Nordic Blockchain Summit | |
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| 08:00-09:00 | Light breakfast | room (lokale) 23.0.49 Københavns Universitet Amager; Karen Blixens Vej 4; 2300 København S |
| 09:00 -09:30 | The teams complete their development and work on the demonstrator / presentation | |
| 09:30-11:30 | Presentation of the results to the industrial and academic coaches | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Lunch break and end of BSS2019 | |
| 13:00 -13:10 | 4th Nordic Blockchain Summit - Welcome and opening remarks | room (lokale) 23.0.50 Københavns Universitet Amager; Karen Blixens Vej 4; 2300 København S |
| 13:10-13:40 | Keynote: "The future of interoperability in the decentralized web" by Alfonso Cevallos from Web3 Foundation | |
| 13:40-14:10 | Keynote: “Blockchain Heretic: What got us here won’t get us there...” by Joseph Pindar from Thales | |
| 14:10-14:40 | Keynote: "Distributed Supply Networks: a Future Scenario for Supply Chains" by Simon Kiilerich Vedel from Mærsk | |
| 14:40-15:00 | Presentation of Blockchain Report Denmark funded by Industriens Fond by Roman Beck | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Panel debate: Value creation in decentralized system, status quo and future of “business on blocks”: - Simon Kiilerich Vedel (Maersk) - Joseph Pindar from (Thales) - Dr. Alexandra Andhov (Center for Enterprise Liability) - Eivind Kolding (Chairman and independent board member, NNIT) |
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| 16:00-16:50 | Presentation of best group results from the 4th Blockchain Summer School and audience voting | |
| 16:50-17:00 | Award ceremony for the best Blockchain Summer School ideas and winners and closing remarks by Roman Beck | |
| 17:00-19:00 | Thales Reception and Social Gathering | ITU Cafeteria |
Required reading
Please, take into consideration this list of required and optional reading.