iExec was at Marketforce’s 3rd Biannual Conference in London on the 31st of October represented by Jean-Charles Cabelguen. The goal of the event was to stay up-to-date with blockchain’s most recent trends in finance.

The Blockchain Summit, Marketforce’s 3rd Biannual Conference

At the opening, Noelle Acheson, Editorial Producer at Coindesk, recalls that last year’s talks about blockchain were limited to presenting the potential of the technology. Today, the debate on blockchain moved to practical solutions and deployment strategies. iExec is well aware of this shift, and the roadmap of the project is attuned to this need.

Afterwards, Vinay Gupta, Founder at hexayurt.capital, delivered the first talk with a sound-titled presentation: “Let’s Save the World and Make a Lot of Money”. He underlined the impact of combining legal work and blockchain to power innovation and deep change.

David Harris, from the London Stock exchange, echoed the opening of the summit. From his point of view, blockchain is moving fast from experimentation to enterprise-grade projects.

Evgeny Xata, CEO of Cybertrust, focused his talk on blockchain being the 6th wave of the economic development, right after microchips. From his projection, the expected value created from blockchain and artificial intelligence could be worth four times the value created by the microchip revolution.

During the conference, three main topics were discussed. For each one of them, six speakers shared either novel concepts or case studies.

Digital Identity

Transfer and Trading

Smart Contracts

The last panel discussion and questions of the summit were managed by Nikola Tchouparov — CEO & Co-Founder at Moneyfold Ltd, Arnaud Le Hors — Technical Lead at Hyperledger, Mark Simpson — Innovation Engineering at Royal Bank of Scotland and Anthony Macey — ead of Blockchain R&D at Barclays.

In short, they all predicted that standardisation will come from projects backed by great vision, but also from regulatory initiatives originating from centralized structures. iExec is also following this path by being at the forefront of the ICO movement in France, all while meeting with regulators and media to develop best practices for crypto funding.

The rest of the day was perfect to spend time with crypto fans and large corporate companies involved in international development, industrial projects, standardization, and international marketing. A perfect timing for iExec to network and initiate future partnerships off-conference!