BYU Blockchain Summit

The second-annual BYU Blockchain Summit will take place on February 15, 2019, at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

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And that’s a wrap for this year’s Summit! Huge thanks to all who came out to present, learn, and network

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“We will stop trying to put everything on the blockchain; we will see high leverage of cryptographic commitments and zero-knowledge proofs.” —Jason Law

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Grateful to have Jason Law of @evernym here to present our final keynote.

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He predicts that we will all eventually have digital wallets that hold keys, credentials, cryptoassets and tokenized assets

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“Blockchain as a root of trust, rather than source of truth regarding information flow between people.” Nathan George of @SovrinID

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“Blockchain could cause the privacy apocalypse.

In response, we need to be able to preserve the agency of the actors participating in the chain.” Nathan George of @SovrinID

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“When we start thinking about the right to be forgotten, we have this balance that we have to come up with a solution for. A cryptographic key allows you to have a place to store secrets off chain. This allows some level of abstraction.” Nathan George of @SovrinID

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“How can you have blockchain use cases compliant with the GDPR when blockchains are designed to be these immutable ledgers? One way to avoid the problem is to not put personally identifiable information on the blockchain. Period.” —Kennedy Luvai

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“We have this data coming from different sources and in different formats, we are hoping blockchain can help build the necessary trust.

Care happens when you have the right data for the right patient in front of the right provider.” Professor C. Paul Morrey of @UVU

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“In healthcare if you have missing or incomplete information there is a lot of waste. There’s a level of trust that needs to be established between the records and provider.” Professor C. Paul Morrey of @UVU

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“There is an overlay between privacy and identity, because the more information you have about a person the easier it is to figure out their identity.” —Kennedy Luvai of Parsons Behle & Latimer

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The final speakers of the day are talking now on privacy and identity

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“Because this is a distributed ledger they can all contribute real time. Using a permission network allows who sees what information to still be controlled, so personally identifiable information can still be secure and only those who need that information can get it.”

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Grateful to have Jennifer Hanania of @PwC here to present her keynote titled, “Enterprise Blockchain Applications: Contractor Certifications and Beyond”

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“Contractors only have to register themselves once. For more complex credentials, a certifying body will load credentials. If a contractor causes chaos that can be uploaded to the blockchain.

All the utility companies can co-own this and contribute real time.”