Hands-On Blockchain with Hyperledger

Nitin Gaur, in his current role as Director of IBM's Blockchain Labs, is responsible for instituting a body of knowledge and organizational understanding around blockchain technology and industry specific applications. Tenacious and customer focused, Nitin is renown for his ability to analyze opportunities and create technologies that align with operational needs, catapult profitability, and dramatically improve the end-customer experience. Nitin is also an IBM Distinguished Engineer. Luc Desrosiers is an IBM Certified IT Architect with over 20 years of experience. Throughout his career, Luc has taken on different roles: developer, consultant, pre-sales architect. He recently moved his family from Canada to the UK to work in a great lab: IBM Hursley. This is where he had the opportunity to join the IBM Blockchain team. He is now working with clients across multiple industries to help them explore how Blockchain technologies can enable transformative use cases and solutions. Petr Novotny is a Research Scientist at IBM Research with more than 15 years of experience in engineering and research of software systems. He received the M.Sc. degree from University College London and the Ph.D. degree from Imperial College London, where he was also a post-doctoral Research Associate, as well as visiting scientist at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. At IBM, he works on innovations of Blockchain technologies and leads the development of Blockchain solutions and analytical tools. Venkatraman Ramakrishna is an IBM Researcher with 10 years of experience. Following a B. Tech. from IIT Kharagpur and a PhD from UCLA, he worked in the Bing Infrastructure team in Microsoft, building reliable application deployment software. At IBM Research, he worked in mobile computing and security before joining the Blockchain team. He has developed applications for trade and regulation, and is now working on improving the performance and privacy-preserving characteristics of the Hyperledger platform. Anthony O'Dowd is a technical leader in IBM's Blockchain team. Anthony is based in Europe as part of a worldwide team that help users build business solutions which benefit from Blockchain technology. Anthony has a background in middle and back office systems, and has led the development of key IBM middleware in enterprise messaging and integration. He likes to work with different industry users to understand how they can exploit middleware to build more efficient, integrated business systems. Salman A. Baset is currently working as CTO Security, IBM Blockchain Solutions. He oversees the security and compliance of blockchain solutions being built by IBM in collaboration with partners such as Walmart and Maersk, and interfaces with clients on blockchain solutions and their security. He drives the implementation of General Data Protection Regulation for blockchain-based solutions. Moreover, he has also built the identity management system which is being used by Fortune 500 companies involved in Global Trade Digitization and Food Trust blockchain solutions.