1 Day Blockchain Innovation For Business Executives
This is a 1-day intensive blockchain course for mid to senior enterprise business executives to understand more about blockchain technologies and the potential for innovation. Participants will be exposed to the underlying blockchain technologies including distributed ledgers, digital wallets, consensus algorithms, smart contracts and private/ public blockchains. The course will have some interesting hands-on exercises so that participants have a practical knowledge of how blockchain works and end with case studies of various new innovative blockchain use cases.
The goal of the course is to help executives to have a good grounding on blockchain technologies which will help them to evaluate and devise blockchain strategies for their organizations moving ahead.
Topics Covered:
Day 1
- Overview of Blockchain Ecosystem and Technology
- History and evolution of blockchain
- Blockchain Ecosystem Map
- Key Players in Blockchain Ecosystem
- Cryptographic hashing
- Blockchain structure
- Distributed Ledger
- Digital signature
- Wallets, Addresses and Security
- Public and Private Keys
- Hardware, Software and Paper Wallets
- Online and Offline Wallet Security
- Consensus Algorithms and Mining
- Different Types of Consensus Algorithms including Proof of Work, Proof Stake, Proof of Authority
- Role of Miners in the Ecosystem
- Mining and Mining pools
- Smart Contracts & Decentralized Applications
- Blockchain and smart contracts
- Potential of smart contracts and use cases
- What are Decentralized Applications
- Private and Public Blockchain
- What is public blockchain
- What is private blockchain
- Advantages and disadvantages of public and private blockchain
- Hybrid blockchain
- Initial Coin Offerings and Token Economics
- What is Initial Coin Offering
- Differences between coins and tokens
- Token Economics
- Token Generation Event
- Business Benefits of Blockchain Projects
- Business Benefits of Blockchain
- Considerations in deploying blockchain
- Strategic approach and pilot blockchain projects
- Blockchain Innovation Case Studies and Evaluation (eg. Fintech, Supply Chain, Retail, Healthcare)
- Participants will be grouped into small teams and do an analysis of a few blockchain case studies in class.
- The case studies will be picked from various sectors (eg. Fintech, Supply Chain, Retail, Healthcare and also recent Initial Coin Offering Projects)
- Analysis and evaluation topics will include
- how they changed their current business structures or processes to blockchain.
- How blockchain brings benefits
- Risks of switching to blockchain
- Token economics analysis including generation, allocation and usage of tokens