FinanceMalta educational seminar on Blockchain

As part of its commitment to inform and educate the financial services sector about industry developments, FinanceMalta is organising the first in a series of educational clinics on Tuesday, 29th August between 12 and 3pm at Le Meridien & Spa, St Julian’s. The seminar is aimed at providing a deeper insight on the impact of Blockchain and how this disruptive technology will impact the financial services industry and other business sectors in the not-so-distant future.

Commenting about this educational seminar, FinanceMalta Chairman Kenneth Farrugia said: “We are organising this seminar in an effort to highlight the importance of the challenges which Blockchain may address in today’s ever-changing financial services industry. Blockchain is the technological innovation on which the Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies have been created; therefore the deployment of this technology will have a great impact on this sector. “

The seminar will be introduced by Blockchain consultant Steve Tendon followed by a presentation by James Catania entitled ‘How does it work’. Loui Mercieca, Chief Software Architect at Agilis will follow with a presentation entitled ‘What is a Smart Contract’. He will be followed by Ian Gauci, Founding Partner, GTG Advocates with another presentation on the Legal and Regulatory Issues on Blockchain, Max Ganado, Senior Partner at GANADO Advocates who will be talking about, Intellectual Property and the Blockchain, Jonathan Galea president of Bitmalta, Malta's first association to advocate cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain technology,and Dario Azzopardi who will talk about mining hardware. The seminar will be come to an end with a question and answer session.