BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240819T170124Z UID:74747328-6691-4D27-841E-AE265199A639 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240812T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240812T170000 DESCRIPTION:The IEEE Blockchain Forum is returning as part of [Canada Crypt o Week](https://www.canadacryptoweek.com/) for a second edition. The goal of this forum is to congregate BUIDLers\, researchers\, academics\, and en gineers building blockchain protocols\, infrastructure\, and decentralized software applications.\n\nOur theme for this year is Securing Blockchain infrastructure for the Financial Services Industry. Since our last gatheri ng\, two ETF launches brought the crypto industry a mile or two closer to mass adoption. The ranks of institutional players such as JP Morgan\, Gold man Sachs\, Société Générale (socgen)\, and others keep growing. Beyon d the realm of finance\, enterprise blockchain has found its way to the te chnology stack of industry leaders as diverse as Toyota\, L'Oréal\, Visa\ , and Samsung to name few. Still\, this technology is fairly new. For exam ple\, the Ethereum network (the world computer doted with a Turing-complet e programming language) went live only 9 years ago\, on July 30th\, 2015. A lot more work is required for the technology to mature\, particularly on the cybersecurity front. Although the public chains have proven reliable in securing assets\, bridges and other smart contracts have proven to be l ess worthy of trust.\n\nAs blockchain technology becomes one of the key is sues shaping the public discourse during the US presidential election\, in dustry leaders will soon be faced by questions regarding quality of servic e\, ethical use\, and its level of security. This forum invites researcher s and engineers to share their research and best practices to secure block chain infrastructure for the core services our industry and our society re ly upon\, starting with the financial services.\n\nSpeakers include\n\n- D avid Barreto\, Developer Advocate at Starknet Foundation\n- Baltazar Rodri guez\, Acting Head at the BIS Toronto Innovation Hub\n- Dr. Soosan Naderi\ , Blockchain Director at Cyber Security Global Alliance (CSGA)\n- Zhiyang Chen\, Research Engineer at Zircuit and PhD student at University of Toron to\n- Adit Patel\, Co-founder of Blockscope\n- Irene Katzela\, CTO at Dand elion\n- Marc Lijour\, Financial Services Innovation at Exaion and Adjunct Faculty at International Business University\n- Christian St. Louis\, Dat a & Research at Ethereal Ventures\n- Andres Assmus\, CEO at CityZeen\n- Sa m Drissi\, CEO at Artizyou\n- Opinder Preet Singh\, Founder & CEO at PropT y\n- Ehsan Shariati\, COO and Co-founder at Functionland\n- Géraldine Jip pé\, COO and co-founder of AssetsWaves\n- Dr. Keerthi Nelaturu\, Technica l Advisor at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)\n\nCo-sponsored by: Ontario Centre of Innovation\, Exaion\, Starknet\, InCyber Forum North America\n\nSpeaker(s): Baltazar Rodriguez\, David Barreto\, Soosan Naderi \, Zhiyang Chen\, Marc Lijour\, Irene Katzela\n\nAgenda: \nAgenda\n\n1pm - 1:15 pm Welcome and introductions - Marc Lijour and Irene Katzela\, co-ch airs of the Toronto IEEE Blockchain local group\n1:15 pm - 1:30 pm Welcome from our sponsor and host: Ontario Centre of Innovation (OCI)\n\n1:30pm - 2pm\n\nTalk #1: Evolving Financial Landscapes: A Pragmatic Approach to Bl ockchain Integration\n\nBy Baltazar Rodriguez\, Acting Head\, BIS Innovati on Hub Toronto\n\n1:30pm - 2pm\n\nTalk #2: Cairo\, a general purpose CPU f or creating verifiable programs\n\nBy David Barreto\, Developer Advocate a t Starknet Foundation\n\n2pm - 2:30 pm\n\nPanel discussion - Securing publ ic blockchains\n\nModerator: Marc Lijour\nPanelists: David Barreto\, Adit Patel\, Soosan Naderi\, Zhiyang Chen\, Christian St. Louis\, Ehsan Shariat i\n\n2:30pm - 3pm\nTalk #3: Data propagation\, security and consensus in E thereum network\nBy Soosan Naderi\, PhD\, Blockchain Director at Cyber Sec urity Global Alliance (CSGA)\n\n3 pm - 3:30 pm\nTalk #4: Demystifying Inva riant Effectiveness for Securing Smart Contracts\nBy Zhiyang Chen\, PhD st udent at the University of Toronto and Research Engineer at Zircuit\n\n3:3 0pm - 4 pm\n\nPanel discussion - RWA Tokenization\n\nModerator: Marc Lijou r\n\nPanelists: Opinder Preet Singh\, Sam Drissi\, Andres Assmus\, Dr. Ire ne Katzela\, Géraldine Jippé\n\n4 pm - 5 pm\n\nNetworking\n\nRoom: Suite 300\, 325 Front Street West\, 3rd floor\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada\, M5 V 2Y1 LOCATION:Room: Suite 300\, 325 Front Street West\, 3rd floor\, Toronto\, On tario\, Canada\, M5V 2Y1 ORGANIZER:marclijour@ieee.org SEQUENCE:97 SUMMARY:IEEE Canada Blockchain Forum 2024 (2nd edition) URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/429181 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>The IEEE Blockchain Forum is returning as part of <a href="https://www.canadacryptoweek.com/">Canada Crypto Week</a> for a second edition. The goal of this forum is to congregate BUIDLers\, researchers\, academics\, and engineers building blockchain protocols\, in frastructure\, and decentralized software applications.</p>\n<p>Our theme for this year is <strong id="docs-internal-guid-9934fcca-7fff-16e2-72f3-56 26cbeaac18">Securing Blockchain infrastructure for the Financial Services Industry.</strong> Since our last gathering\, two ETF launches brought the crypto industry a mile or two closer to mass adoption. The ranks of insti tutional players such as JP Morgan\, Goldman Sachs\, Soci&eacute\;t&eacute \; G&eacute\;n&eacute\;rale (socgen)\, and others keep growing. Beyond the realm of finance\, enterprise blockchain has found its way to the technol ogy stack of industry leaders as diverse as Toyota\, L'Or&eacute\;al\, Vis a\, and Samsung to name few. Still\, this technology is fairly new. For ex ample\, the Ethereum network (the world computer doted with a Turing-compl ete programming language) went live only 9 years ago\, on July 30th\, 2015 . A lot more work is required for the technology to mature\, particularly on the cybersecurity front. Although the public chains have proven reliabl e in securing assets\, bridges and other smart contracts have proven to be less worthy of trust.</p>\n<p>As blockchain technology becomes one of the key issues shaping the public discourse during the US presidential electi on\, industry leaders will soon be faced by questions regarding quality of service\, ethical use\, and its level of security. This forum invites res earchers and engineers to share their research and best practices to secur e blockchain infrastructure for the core services our industry and our soc iety rely upon\, starting with the financial services.</p>\n<p>Speakers in clude</p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Barreto\, Developer Advocate at Starknet Founda tion</li>\n<li>Baltazar Rodriguez\, Acting Head at the BIS Toronto Innovat ion Hub</li>\n<li>Dr. Soosan Naderi\, Blockchain Director at Cyber Securit y Global Alliance (CSGA)</li>\n<li>Zhiyang Chen\, Research Engineer at Zir cuit and PhD student at University of Toronto</li>\n<li>Adit Patel\, Co-fo under of Blockscope</li>\n<li>Irene Katzela\, CTO at Dandelion</li>\n<li>M arc Lijour\, Financial Services Innovation at Exaion and Adjunct Faculty a t International Business University</li>\n<li>Christian St. Louis\, Data & amp\; Research at Ethereal Ventures</li>\n<li>Andres Assmus\, CEO at CityZ een</li>\n<li>Sam Drissi\, CEO at Artizyou</li>\n<li>Opinder Preet Singh\, Founder &amp\; CEO at PropTy</li>\n<li>Ehsan Shariati\, COO and Co-founde r at Functionland</li>\n<li>G&eacute\;raldine Jipp&eacute\;\, COO and co-f ounder of AssetsWaves</li>\n<li>Dr. Keerthi Nelaturu\, Technical Advisor a t the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)</li>\n</ul><br /><br />Agen da: <br /><p><strong>Agenda</strong></p>\n<table style="border-collapse: c ollapse\; width: 99.9806%\; height: 630.2px\; border-width: 1px\; border-s tyle: none\;" border="1"><colgroup><col style="width: 15.9252%\;"><col sty le="width: 84.0566%\;"></colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr style="height: 32.4px\;"> \n<td style="height: 32.4px\; vertical-align: top\;">1pm - 1:15 pm</td>\n< td style="height: 32.4px\; vertical-align: top\;"><strong>Welcome and intr oductions</strong> - Marc Lijour and <span data-rich-links="{&quot\;per_n& quot\;:&quot\;Irene Katzela&quot\;\,&quot\;per_e&quot\;:&quot\;irene.katze la@ieee.org&quot\;\,&quot\;type&quot\;:&quot\;person&quot\;}">Irene Katzel a</span>\, co-chairs of the Toronto IEEE Blockchain local group</td>\n</tr >\n<tr style="height: 33.4px\;">\n<td style="height: 33.4px\; vertical-ali gn: top\;">1:15 pm - 1:30 pm</td>\n<td style="height: 33.4px\; vertical-al ign: top\;"><strong>Welcome from our sponsor and host</strong>: Ontario Ce ntre of Innovation (OCI)</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 92.8px\;">\n<td s tyle="height: 92.8px\; vertical-align: top\;">\n<p>1:30pm - 2pm</p>\n</td> \n<td style="height: 92.8px\; vertical-align: top\;">\n<p dir="ltr"><stron g>Talk #1: Evolving Financial Landscapes: A Pragmatic Approach to Blockcha in&nbsp\;Integration</strong></p>\n<p dir="ltr">By Baltazar Rodriguez\, Ac ting Head\, BIS Innovation Hub Toronto</p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="heigh t: 92.8px\;">\n<td style="height: 92.8px\; vertical-align: top\;">\n<p>1:3 0pm - 2pm</p>\n</td>\n<td style="height: 92.8px\; vertical-align: top\;">\ n<p dir="ltr"><strong>Talk #2: Cairo\, a general purpose CPU for creating verifiable programs</strong></p>\n<p dir="ltr">By David Barreto\, Develope r Advocate at Starknet Foundation</p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 11 5.2px\;">\n<td style="height: 115.2px\; vertical-align: top\;">\n<p>2pm - 2:30 pm</p>\n</td>\n<td style="height: 115.2px\; vertical-align: top\;">\n <p dir="ltr"><strong>Panel discussion - Securing public blockchains</stron g></p>\n<p dir="ltr">Moderator: Marc Lijour<br>Panelists: David Barreto\, Adit Patel\, Soosan Naderi\, Zhiyang Chen\, Christian St. Louis\, Ehsan Sh ariati</p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 44.8px\;">\n<td style="height : 44.8px\; vertical-align: top\;">\n<p>2:30pm - 3pm</p>\n</td>\n<td style= "height: 44.8px\; vertical-align: top\;"><strong>Talk #3: Data propagation \, security and consensus in Ethereum network</strong><br>By Soosan Naderi \, PhD\, Blockchain Director at Cyber Security Global Alliance (CSGA)</td> \n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 44.8px\;">\n<td style="height: 44.8px\; vertic al-align: top\;">\n<p>3 pm - 3:30 pm</p>\n</td>\n<td style="height: 44.8px \; vertical-align: top\;"><strong>Talk #4: Demystifying Invariant Effectiv eness for Securing Smart Contracts</strong><br>By Zhiyang Chen\, PhD stude nt at the University of Toronto and Research Engineer at Zircuit</td>\n</t r>\n<tr style="height: 131.2px\;">\n<td style="height: 131.2px\; vertical- align: top\;">\n<p>3:30pm - 4 pm</p>\n</td>\n<td style="height: 131.2px\; vertical-align: top\;">\n<p dir="ltr"><strong>Panel discussion - RWA Token ization</strong></p>\n<p dir="ltr">Moderator: Marc Lijour</p>\n<p dir="ltr ">Panelists: Opinder Preet Singh\, Sam Drissi\, Andres Assmus\, Dr. Irene Katzela\, G&eacute\;raldine Jipp&eacute\;</p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="he ight: 42.8px\;">\n<td style="height: 42.8px\; vertical-align: top\;">\n<p> 4 pm - 5 pm&nbsp\;</p>\n</td>\n<td style="height: 42.8px\; vertical-align: top\;">\n<p><strong id="docs-internal-guid-04dd05e6-7fff-8281-0ac0-461f27 47fd28">Networking</strong></p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<p dir= "ltr">&nbsp\;</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR