That includes initiatives in hot
areas like blockchains, which many of IBM's biggest customers are dabbling in.
The Growing Innovation District in Halifax Volta welcomed four companies into the Residency Program, in high growth
areas like blockchain, IoT hardware, and Software as a Service (SaaS).
Not exact matches
This is a unique group of investors who are focused on building out bitcoin and
blockchain technology, assisting startups and companies with developing in specific
areas like compliance and regulation, payments, security, identity, smart contracts and more.
Although the Swell keynote delivered by Bernanke was filmed for private use only, some of his remarks regarding
blockchain and cryptocurrency applications for interbank transfers have been reported: «It's an obvious
area where new technologies
like blockchain or these electronic currencies can be used to improve the process.»
Kakao's potential ICO and
blockchain enterprise are anticipated to be price billions of -LCB- dollars -RCB- and the relocation of Kakao's
blockchain agency to
areas like Switzerland would negatively impression South Korea's native
blockchain sector.
These
areas include new technologies
like artificial intelligence, cloud computing and the internet based ledger technology called
blockchain.
This has led to progress in the
area of track and trace, with
blockchain companies
like Skuchain and Everledger developing solutions that can track commodities such as avocados and diamonds from source to point of sale.
Interesting
areas where lawyers need to begin to consider are things
like cryptocurrency,
blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, crowdfunding, digital rights etc, apart from arming themselves properly to deal with innovative issues that arise in this new day and age.
And there will be many more topics
like this that we will continue to see debated in 2018,
like the need to understand or even set up a new practice
area dealing with
blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
As lawyers become more aware of
blockchain, they'll begin to use it for things
like smart contracts or other transactions, and eventually gain a greater understanding of the implications of using
blockchain, and eventually a competence where
blockchain becomes a focus of certain
areas of the practice of law.
More nascent
areas of law will have emerged and matured into more specialized disciplines
like genetics, AI, virtual reality, autonomous technology, and
blockchain or smart contract law to name a few, including others we can not foresee right now.
The other thing I think about is an
area of technology, which I know actually a lot about, but would
like to really feel that I've got it and can explain it well to people and that's
Blockchain, which is one of the hot technologies out there.
Beyond investing, SBI has worked with other financial firms in Japan to test
blockchain applications in
areas like currency settlement and digital banking.
Between the two extremes of distributed ledger projects and public
blockchains like ethereum, there is a «fuzzy grey
area in the middle» that Baldet has termed «mutualized infrastructure.»
Insurance will emerge as a hot
area as claims processing and complex multi-party processes
like subrogation will show the business value of
blockchain - based automation.
The identity mess is a hard one to untangle, though, and while there are
blockchain startups focused on this
area, Vogelstellar believes something
like the ICO token standard could kick the industry into gear.
Several corporations have conducted tests and studies on potential
blockchain application in
areas like supply chain management, inventory control, registry management, etc..
«In our view, the development of
Blockchain technology, which sits behind so - called «cryptocurrencies»
like Bitcoin, is a far more interesting
area to watch.»
The COE focus is to enable client businesses to innovate and to stay in tune with the emerging technology trends in
blockchain by conducting proof of technology experiments around
areas like scalability, performance, and security of
blockchain platforms.