Local Web Summit speaker Conor latest addition to The Mill Refresh Boyne series
TERMONFECKIN native and Web Summit speaker Conor Nolan will be keynote guest in the latest event in the Mill Enterprise Hub, Greenhills, Drogheda.
Conor is a 24 year-old psychology graduate from Termonfeckin, Co.Louth, with a background in start-ups, and on June 27th, he will simplify Blockchain and how it could revolutionise multiple industries, and startup activity.
The event is part of the joint Refresh Boyne/ M1 Payments Corridor programme, and in his talk Conor is going to discuss how using blockchain technologies helps in building trust between strangers and enabling increased provenance, transparency and privacy, and will highlight other opportunities of blockchain for various industries.
Conor is a Web Summit Speaker, a Sunday Independent’s Top 30 Under 30, a Business Development Manager of Kontainers, and a Partnerships Manager in Blocknubie, an emerging, open-source platform that acts as a bridge between off-chain organizations, start-ups and the blockchain ecosystem.
Blockchain is one of the biggest buzzwords in technology right now.
The first major application of blockchain technology was bitcoin which was released in 2009. It can be simply called “A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”.
Rather than relying on a government, bank, or middleman, anyone can use Bitcoin to execute transparent transactions and this makes bitcoin transactions secure and safer than current systems.
Conor will be revealing how Kontainers and Blocknube have benefited from using Blockchain and how startups in various industries can apply the same principles to their businesses.
He is Business Development Manager of Kontainers, an enterprise software company building bespoke platforms for the biggest brands in shipping and launching a new product soon that will democratize the software for every freight forwarder in the world.
By providing rates, schedules and booking in a one-stop online package, Kontainers is trying to do to shipping what Expedia and Skyscanner have done to flying and travel: cut out the existing middlemen and install its website in their place
Refresh Boyne is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of the New Media industry in the Boyne region.
Refresh Boyne hold events that promote design, technology, usability and standards and is part of, and inspired, by the Refreshing Cities movement.
Visit http://themilldrogheda.ie/events to book your ticket. Entry is free, and refreshments will be provided to all, kindly sponsored by Amphenol TCS.