This year’s symposium focused on “Reality & Beyond – Redefining the Business World and Into the Metaverse”.
TOKYO, JAPAN: November 18th, 2022. For the second year in a row, the Blockchain Provenance Symposium brought together the brightest minds in Blockchain on November 17 to discuss the theme of this year: Enterprise and the Metaverse. Academic and industry leaders in the technology and blockchain spheres were invited to share their insights to business leaders and students alike interested in broadening their knowledge on transformational technologies.
The event, hosted by Nagoya University of Commerce & Business (NUCB), was co-sponsored by Kenja K.K., the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), and BlockchainHub. Kenja’s CMO Máximo Arozarena moderated the event.
Starting the event as the first session speaker was Skale Labs Business Developer Dante Reminick who shared his innovative zero gas fees solutions for Enterprise. Next was The Glimpse Group CEO Lyron Bentovim followed by the first panel discussion by Jordan Gutt, Web3 Lead at The Glimpse Group, and Rob Madelmayer, co-Founder of W3AR, in which viewers were given a comprehensive overview on the Metaverse.
The third session featured Kenja Founder and CEO, Ted Katagi who shared about the ways Kenja uses blockchain with its CMS platform to create a more secure way of operating. Fourth was led by Senior Consultant Srikar Garimella and Client Partner & Head HLS Abhishek Panchbhaiya of Tech Mahindra who talked about the connection between Blockchain, Web 3 and Metaverse.
In the fifth session, EY Director of Blockchain Consulting Rick Ross gave a detailed explanation on Blockchain as a transformational technology. It was followed by Gunnar Collin, Head of Sales for Trade Marketing at Enigio, who discussed the aim to bring the full power of technology behind paper to paperless. Shortly after Genevieve Leveille, Principal Founder and CEO of AgriLedger, talked about empowering mango farmers in Haiti with technology that removed middlemen. The English session closed with YOLOgram Founder Aditya Mani who spoke about how far away the full implementation of Metaverse was.
Afterwards, the Symposium’s first hybrid event, held in Nihonbashi, Japan in partnership with BlockchainHub, gathered Japanese industry and academic leaders who enjoyed one keynote session and two panels followed by a networking event. Invited as speakers were Kenji Saito, Chief Science Officer of BlockchainHub; Kohei Kurihara, Representative Director at Design Lab; Chihiro Fujisaki, Head of Data Strategy Planning Office at Toppan Printing; Makoto Minowa, Attorney-at-Law at the GVA Law Office; Takaho Suzuki, CEO of MetaTokyo; and Atsushi Koshio, Advisor at Metaverse Japan.
The Blockchain Provenance Symposium is an event for everyone looking to get ahead of the curve; to enrich their business and classrooms; or to leverage technology to bring transparency, provenance and immutability to their processes, businesses and lives. Watch the event livestream back in full including the Japanese panel discussions click here.
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Kenja provides the Visual Trust Layer, a certification software with blockchain technology that supports full traceability of processes in a visual and intuitive manner. We currently engage with worldwide enterprise leading companies and governments all over the world in full provenance of different projects.
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