Fwd: Upcoming W3C Workshop: Blockchains and the Web, 29–30 June

Hi, folks–

The workshop has been announced! I'm very excited to be working with you 
all on this!

Please share this in your circles, and let's put together a great event.

Thank you!
Doug


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Subject: Upcoming W3C Workshop: Blockchains and the Web, 29–30 June
Resent-Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 20:52:31 +0000
Resent-From: public-new-work@w3.org
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 22:50:31 +0200
From: Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org>
Organization: W3C
To: public-new-work@w3.org


Hello,

W3C is pleased to call for participation in a workshop:
     Blockchains and the Web Workshop
     29–30 June 2016, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
     https://www.w3.org/2016/04/blockchain-workshop/

Thanks to MIT Media Lab for hosting the workshop and to Bloomberg for 
sponsorship.

Many projects and companies are looking at ways to use the Bitcoin 
blockchain or other public or private distributed ledgers, to record an 
immutable timestamped public record that can be independently verified 
by  any stakeholder.

What does this mean for Web technologies, beyond payments? What emerging 
  capabilities could blockchains enable for the Web, such as distributed 
  identity management? Conversely, should features be added to the Web 
Platform and to browsers to enable blockchain use cases, such as a 
JavaScript blockchain API to write to blockchain nodes? What will help 
Web  developers to take advantage of blockchains?

We invite participation from diverse players in the blockchain 
community:  Representatives from communities such as Bitcoin, 
Hyperledger, and  Ethereum; browser developers interested in adding 
support for blockchain  APIs, identity systems, and other functionality; 
digital currency  projects; financial institutions; developers of 
blockchain systems who  want to improve interoperability; 
privacy/security researchers; and more.

Expected topics of discussion include:

Technical enhancements to blockchains, such as:
* Smart contracts and conditional execution contexts
* Blockchain APIs, such as JavaScript or REST APIs
* Decentralization primitives, such as transaction initiation, key 
signing, wallet management
* Ledger interchange formats and protocols

Application areas, such as:
* Identity systems, including privacy, security, and confidentiality 
factors
* Rights expression and licensing
* Decentralized processing, computing, and storage infrastructure
* Voting systems

Other considerations, such as:
* Optimal use cases for blockchains
* Surveys of existing blockchain software systems
* Testing mechanisms to increase interoperability, robustness, 
stability,  and confidence in blockchain systems

For more on the workshop, including proposed session tracks to organize
the discussion, please see the workshop details and submission
instructions:
     https://www.w3.org/2016/04/blockchain-workshop/

The event is open to all; position statements will be required to 
participate, due by 27 May.

If you have any questions, please contact organizer Doug Schepers 
<schepers@w3.org> or Domain Lead Wendy Seltzer <wseltzer@w3.org>.

We look forward to seeing you there.

For Doug Schepers, W3C staff contact,
Wendy Seltzer, W3C Policy Counsel and Domain Lead;
Coralie Mercier, Head of W3C Marketing & Communications


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Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Marketing & Communications -  http://www.w3.org
mailto:coralie@w3.org +336 4322 0001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/

Received on Wednesday, 4 May 2016 21:19:40 UTC