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Special group booking discounts available. Contact us on [email protected] for best rates! BLOCKCHAIN MIDDLE EAST FOIRI V 25 - 26 September 20 I 7, The Address Dubai Mall, Dubai, UAE ACTIVATING THE BLOCKCHAIN: TRANSFORMING YOUR BUSINESS FORA BETTER FUTURE DO NOT MISS THE INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS! U., Partners Technology Partners ...'RghtMesh - crigit Q tokenbox Bronze Partner Networking Partner-. GCognizantcrypviser II ()Ancor Ein LATOIEN AID:Tech D Dmarket FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER TEL: +971 4 364 2975 I EMAIL: [email protected] I @IQPCMENA BLOCKCHAINME.IQPC.AE EFTA00315633  Talal Tabbaa, Ravi Kumar, Charles Nolan, Safdar Zaman, Co-Founder and Business Head of Strategy & Vice President —Strategy Head of IT Strategy and Development Lead. Innovation, Governance Innovation hfcrmation Governance, Jibrel Network Dubai Trade Technosogy. Qatar Airways Nakheel Waleed Aldhuhouri, Marloes Pomp, Meshal Abdulla BinHussain, Head of Corporate Applications. Program Officer, Blockchain Dutch Vice President — Information Security & IT Dubai Health Authority Government, Netherlands Operations, Dubai Holding Gordon Stewart, Ahmad Altarawne, Andrew Rippon, James Bernard, Director Chief Information Officer. Senior Specialist. Principal Consultant and Business Development, DMCC GEMS Education Roads & Transport Authority Blockchain Evangelist, NeXgen • Vignesh Namboor Alagin Raja Pethuraja, Blockchain Expert. Wipro • Ravi Khanna, Chief Operating Officer. Sharjah Islamic Bank • Walid Driss , CEO. Digitus • Yazad Khandhadia, Associate Vice President - Information Security. • Saju Abraham, Chief Product Officer. RightMesh Leading Financial Institute in the Middle East • Hussain AI Fardan, Head of Innovation Centre. Strategy & Corporate • Mike Nagavalli. I-lead of Channels & Innovation. First Abu Dhabi Bank Excellence. Dubai Customs • Anirudha Panse, Executive Director. Head of Trade Finance Products. • Reuben Godfrey, Director. Blockchain Association of Ireland National Bank of Abu Dhabi • Goncalo Salvador Fernandes. Vice President loT and M2M. du FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER TEL: +971 4 364 2975 I EMAIL [email protected] @IQPCMENA BLOCKCHAINME.IQPC.AE EFTA00315634 Dear colleague. MEET YOUR ADVISORY Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum. the Crown Prince BOARD: of Dubai, announced a strategic plan to improve efficiency by shifting 100 percent of government transactions to a blockchain network by 2020, encouraging paperless transactions in line with the Dubai future agenda. As a result of this, a number of Middle Eastern companies have made substantial progress on understanding the opportunities of application and are looking for effective strategies of implementing and integrating blockchain technology within their company. Whilst postponing investment in blockchain until initiatives in this area are well understood in the region, waiting for a stable state may risk your business missing out on vital opportunities and a competitive advantage. Andrew Rippon. With this in mind, we are pleased to announce that we are hosting the Principal Consultant and inaugural Blockchain Middle East Forum (25-26 September 2017, Dubai, Blockchain Evangelist. NeXgen UAE) which will bring together world-class experts, professionals and academics to explore the potential of blockchain technology and how it can be applied in the Middle East. What can you expect from the Blockchain Middle East Forum: • Blockchain revolution: Learn how blockchain is reshaping the Middle Eastern business market and how your business can stay ahead of the game • Building a blockchain culture: Recognise how to build ecosystems of open innovation within your organisation to reduce conflict and uncertainty • Learning from across the globe: Learn from international experts from the Netherlands and Ireland and discover how they are successfully adopting blockchain within their organisations Marloes Pomp. • The value of blockchain: Understand the importance of assessing the Program Officer. Blockchain Dutch economic viability of blockchain solutions alongside your current business Government. Netherlands process to increase overall ROI • Creating the right path for your business: Assess blockchain technologies and identify the least disruptive blockchain adoption path that will support business growth and expansion of your business network • Shaping tomorrow: Discuss how the Middle Eastern market will respond to the introduction of blockchain and learn what the future holds This event is a must if you want to learn how to create a better future for your organisation. I look forward to welcoming you in Dubai in September! Joanne Mount Conference Director IQPC Middle East Reuben Godfrey. Director. Blockchain Association of Ireland FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER TEL: +971 4 364 2975 I EMAIL: [email protected] I V @IQPCMENA BLOCKCHAINME.IQPC.AE EFTA00315635 EVENT OVERVIEW Vi i`• O. • • INTERACTIVE SESSIONS AT-A-GLANCE: £ LEARN REAL- NETWORKING USE CASE STUDIES: TAKE NOTES: ONE-TO-ONE INTERACTIVE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES: Listen to real-life Learn from expert CONSULTATIONS: TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS: Network with application examples speakers through a The Elockchain Middle WORKSHOPS: Listen to keynote forward-thinking and proof of concepts series of presentations, East Fonsn will feature These dedicated speakers and gain a professionals and major from those actively panels. roundtables and consultation sessions workshops will delve clear understanding of players in the industry deploying blockchain workshops to guide which will allow you into step-by-step the number of areas driving change to to understand how to you through the next to obtain one-to-one guide to implementing where blockchain can recognise the value of overcome challenges steps of blockchain advice from experts blockchain and how to be applied within your blockchain adoption for and barriers of application and create to ensure you are integrate blockchain business your business blockchain adoption a roadmap for your fully aware of how into current business business blockchain MI disrupt processes your buSness and how to effectively prepare for this change WHO SHOULD ATTEND? • CISOs. SISOs. ClOs. COOs. • Heads of IT & Information "The delegates attending were the right CEOs & CTOs Security ones and we are following up on commercial • Managing Directors • Heads of Governance, Risk & Compliance discussions - a valuable opportunity" Heads of Innovation Partner and Global Head of Operational Consulting. Analysys Mason Heads of Digital • Solution Architects Transformation Blockchain Specialists and Heads of Strategy Technology Providers "The whole event was very well attended and organised, ₹here was a right balance between presentations and interactive sessions." \ Director, Davis Langdon IQPC prov.des business executives around the ward with tailored practical conferences. large-scale events. topcal serninars and trairmg programmes. keeping them up-to-date with industry treed& technological developments and the regulatory landscape. IQPC conferences are market leading "must- iiliopc attend- eve-its for their respecbw ndustres IQPC produces more than 1.700 events annually around the ward. and continues to grow. Founded in 1973. IQPC now has offices in major cities across soc continents inclUding: Berlin. Dubai. Doha. London. New Tort Singapore. Swhey. and Tampa. IQPC leverages a global research base of best practices to produce an unrivalled portfolio of conferences. www.igpcae MEDIA PARTNERS: RESEARCHED AND DEVELOPED BY: Fintech or V errcaN BRAVE NEWCOIN. O DISTRIBUTED inance Connect Firiante 410 HOLLAND FINTECH Technology 0114lbSOICK FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER TEL: +971 4 364 29751EMAIL: [email protected] 1 @IQPCMENA BLOCKCHAINME.IQPC.AE EFTA00315636  BLOCKCHAIN <O , r MIDDLE ST FORUM Conference Day, Monday, September 25, 2017 III kuernationat Quaky & Producenvy Cann 08:00 Registration, welcome refreshments and networking 08.45 Opening remarks from IQPC 08.50 Opening remarks from the Chairman Andrew Rippon, Principal Consultant and Blockchain Evangelist, NXN A SMART FUTURE: BUILDING A CITY ON BLOCKCHAIN 09.00 PANEL DISCUSSION: Disrupting the Middle East: The GCC region and blockchain technology The new tech on the block: Your introduction to blockchain The Dubai strategy: Recognize how Dubai aims to reach its goal of being the first blockchain powered government in the world by 2O2O and how this aligns with their vision of being the city of the future Market overview: Regional insights of those adopting blockchain in the Middle East PANELLISTS: Waleed Aldhuhouri, Head of Corporate Applications, Dubai Health Authority Andrew Rippon, Principal Consultant and Blockchain Evangelist, NXN Safdar Zaman, Head of IT Strategy and Governance, Nakheel Jose Fernandez, Manager loT Services Enterprise & Commerce New Business and Innovation, DU 09.40 Welcome to the blockchain revolution: The invisible technology that is reshaping Middle Eastern business markets Franco Bosoni, Head of Innovation Hub, DMCC 10.10 Blockchain security: Mitigating vulnerabilities Yazad Khandhadia, Associate Vice President — Information Security, Leading Financial Institute in ME 10.40 PRODUCT DEMO: DigitUs Walid Driss, CEO, DigitUs 10.55 PRODUCT DEMO: Gold Mint Vladislav Martynov, Supervisory Board Member at Ethereum Foundation , Goldmint 11.10 Networking coffee break 11.40 Open innovation and ecosystems: How to build ecosystems of open innovation within your organization Hussain Al Fardan, Head of Innovation Centre, Strategy & Corporate Excellence, Dubai Customs 12.10 The Irish journey: Building local, national and international blockchain ecosystems Reuben Godfrey, Director, Blockchain Association of Ireland 12.40 Putting traditional assets on-chain Crypto-Economic Risk - Growing systemic risks in the cryptoeconomy a Smart Regulation - Implementing macroprudential safeguards to stabilize decentralized systems CryptoDepository Receipts - new breed of self regulating tokens. Talal Tabaa, Business Development Lead, Jibrel Network 13.10 PRODUCT DEMO: Crypviser EFTA00315637  BLOCKCHAIN < O, 4 MIDDLE ST FORUM III 10PC international Quaky & Productway Cents Sergey Sidorov, Legal Management, Crypviser 13.25 PRODUCT DEMO: LAToken Valentin Preobrazhenskiy, CEO of LAToken 13.40 Networking lunch break 14.30 PANEL DISCUSSION: Exploring the opportunities of blockchain in the Middle East 71 How does blockchain have the potential to deliver more seamless, secure, efficient, and reliable business friendly environment? 71 How can blockchain provide transparency and accountability to your organization as well as more resilience to cyber attacks? 71 Beyond the financial sector: Recognize the potential of blockchain beyond the financial sector and learn how it can be applied to both public and private sectors PANELLISTS: Manoj Menon, Head of Global Transaction Banking, National Bank of Abu Dhabi Mike, Nagavalli, Head of Channels & Innovation, First Abu Dhabi Bank Vignesh Namboor Alagiri Raja Pethuraja, Blockchain Expert, Wipro Walid Driss, CEO, Digitus Saju Abraham, Chief Product Officer, RightMesh 15.00 Demystify Blockchain: Get clear insights from 3200 industry leaders Fletcher McCraw, Partnership Lead & Consultant, Cognizant 15.30 Role of Blockchain for government services Presanna V Sundararajan, Practice Head - Blockchain, Wipro 16.00 Learning from across the globe: A Netherlands project case study insight Marloes Pomp, Program Officer, Blockchain Dutch Government, Netherlands 16.30 End of conference day one EFTA00315638  BLOCKCHAIN <O , r MIDDLE ST FORUM international Quakya Productway Cents Conference Day, Tuesday, September 26, 2017 08:00 Registration, welcome refreshments and networking 08.50 Opening remarks from the Chairman Andrew Rippon, Principal Consultant and Blockchain Evangelist, NXN 09.00 Blockchain and Real Estate Andrew Rippon, Principal Consultant and Blockchain Evangelist, NXN 09.30 The Future of Healthcare Ivan Devyatkov, Co-Founder, Robomed 10.00 PRODUCT DEMO: Token Fund Vladimir Smerkis, Co-founder and Managing Partner, The Token Fund Roger Hawa, Managing Director, Nomadic Capital 10.15 Networking coffee break 10:45 BLOCKCHAIN: Future of Everything Alexander Borodich, Founder, Universa Blockchain 11.15 BLOCK DISCUSSIONS: These interactive roundtable discussion sessions will allow delegates to split into groups and answer questions related to blockchain technology and its application. Attendees will have the chance to visit four tables within 60 minutes to gain an in-depth understanding of blockchain and how it can be applied to their organization BLOCK ONE: LEADER: Fawaz Hourani, Head of International Business Development, PROPS PROJECT BLOCK TWO: LEADER: Aldrin Product Manager, RightMesh BLOCK THREE: LEADER: Andrew Rippon, Principal Consultant and Blockchain Evangelist, NXN 12.15 Networking lunch break 13.15 Creating a blockchain roadmap: Step-by-step guide to implementing blockchain Despite companies' enthusiasm and its rapid evolution, the technology is still in its infancy and the challenges and risks need to be understood. This workshop is a unique step-by-step guide for businesses looking to identify, plan and implement blockchain efficiently within their organization. By attending the workshop you will: • Identify the four stages of blockchain implementation: a use case, proof of concept, prototype, field trial and roll out * Analyze the potential risks and exposures to blockchain implementations * Address the transformational challenges across the organization and ensure that the required skills, processes and technologies are in place ROUNDTABLE LEADER: Marloes Pomp, Program Officer, Blockchain Dutch Government, Netherlands 15.00 End of conference EFTA00315639 SPONSORSHIP AND EXHIBITION So • OPPORTUNITIES IQPC has been hosting events developed for senior executives for more than 40 years. We serve businesses representing over 15 sectors at more than 1.700 conferences around the globe. Our client list includes corporations such as Avalara Europe, Inplenion UK, PWC, Thompson Reuters just to name a select few. Senior executives travel from around the world to our events looking to garner best practices and concrete solutions to assist them in improving their organisations. IQPC provides many different platforms for you to increase your market share, stay ahead of your competition, increase awareness to your target audience and position yourself as a key supplier of blockchain solutions. ; .1 0t NETWORKING dici `,,,e BRAND THOUGHT OPPORTUNITIES \.) AWARENESS LEADERSHIP iII • Panellist • Reception • Focus Gioitp Lead • Lunch Sponsor • Welcome Banner / Premium Signage • Plenary Session/Client Testimon • Breakfast Sponsor • Show Bag • Client Session On Track • Pre-Conference Welcome Drinks • Business Center! 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