Blockchain@UBC is ecstatic to invite the following facilitators to lead Summer Institute 2019.
Read more in detail on individual facilitators below:
Chang Lu
Sessions: Blockchain in Healthcare with UBC Faculty
Chang Lu, PhD in Strategic Management and Organization, is a postdoctoral research fellow at Blockchain@UBC. He received his doctorate at the University of Alberta, where he developed rigorous training in management theory, strategic management and organization behavior, and developed a deep understanding of the mechanisms of organization, organizing and workplace dynamics. He is also an instructor for senior undergraduate business studies and a teaching assistant in MBA courses.
His research is currently in blockchain implementation in healthcare organizations.
Chen Feng
Sessions: Theoretical Foundation of Blockchain Technology
Chen Feng, PhD in Electrical and Chemical Engineering, is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia and the cluster leader (Okanagan Campus) of Blockchain@UBC.
His research interests include information & coding theory, wireless communications & networking, cloud computing & big data, and recently, blockchain technology. In particular, he is interested in adapting new ideas and tools from information theory, coding theory, stochastic processes, and optimization to design better networking systems. The primary goal of his research is to bridge the gap between theoretical advances and system implementations.
Chris Rowell
Sessions: Foundations of Blockchain, Pathways to Decentralization.
Chris Rowell, PhD, is a postdoctoral research and teaching fellow at the UBC Sauder School of Business. He received his doctorate in science in technology strategy and venturing from Aalto University in Helsinki. His research is in strategy and innovation, with a particular focus on blockchain and other new technologies that hold potential to fundamentally disrupt established ways of organizing our economy and society.
He is currently following the emergence of the blockchain field in British Columbia and more broadly, and studies how blockchain technologies can change the ways that we organize and interact, and the implications of this for companies and industries.
Curtis Miles
Sessions: Introduction to Hyperledger Fabric, Advanced Hyperledger Fabric
Curtis Miles is the founder of Digital Brilliance Inc. and the CTO of Ferrum. Curtis helps organizations and startups leverage the best of enterprise blockchain, offering CTO, architecture, and engineering leadership services.
Curtis was also the Blockchain Solution Architect at IBM, working on the Hyperledger projects.
Darra Hofman
Sessions: How Blockchain Changes Information Governance
Doctoral Candidate, UBC iSchool.
More information to be released soon.
David Wang
Sessions: Ethereum Layer 2 Development
David (Zehua) Wang, Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, is an adjunct lecturer at UBC’s Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty, and the Chief Micropayments Scientist of the RightMesh Project. He is focused in the protocol and mechanism design with optimization and game theories for efficiency and robustness improvements in communication networks, multi-hop P2P networks, distributed ledger, and social networks.
John Lyotier
Sessions: Trust Machine" Movie Screening and Discussion
John Lyotier is one of the co-founders of Left and the CEO of RightMesh AG. RightMesh is a mobile mesh networking platform and protocol based on blockchain technology, focused on bringing connectivity and financial inclusion to the next billion users.
He is an entrepreneur and a successful marketer, and has more than 20 years of experience in promoting, launching, designing, and jump starting new businesses and products through innovative marketing concepts.
Jon Festinger
Sessions: Legal and Regulatory Issues in Blockchain
Jon Festinger, Q.C. is a Vancouver, British Columbia based counsel and educator. He is a Professor of Professional Practice at Simon Fraser University and a faculty member of the Centre for Digital Media. He is also Honourary Industry Professor in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London.
Professor Festinger has taught a wide variety of law courses relating to intellectual property, communications, journalism, sports and business over more than 25 years at the law school at UBC, now known as the Allard School of Law, as well as teaching at various times at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, the Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law and the University of Victoria Faculty of Law. He is the author of the first edition of Video Game Law published by LexisNexis in 2005, and co-author of the second edition published in 2012. Professor Festinger is a graduate of McGill University's Faculty of Law. While at McGill, Professor Festinger received a Scarlet Key (awarded to outstanding students who have demonstrated distinction and leadership). He was also a Director of the McGill Legal Aid Clinic.
Professor Festinger’s current research interests relate to the relationship between concepts of justice and evolving technologies. In particular the impact of law and regulation on creative endeavours; intersections of copyright fair dealing with freedom of expression particularly regarding video game “mods”; the right to freedom of thought in virtually real environments; and digital ethics. He is also actively committed to open and distance education through the web.
Patrick Guay
Sessions: Introduction to Ethereum, Advanced Ethereum
Patrick Guay is a lecturer and curriculum develop for Lighthouse Lab’s Blockchain for Developers course. He was previously the lead software developer for Ethereparty and regional head for the Blockchain Education Network. He currently is focused on educating people on how blockchain works and building necessary solutions through the technology.
Taylor Singleton-Fookes
Sessions: Bitcoin Layer 2 Development
Taylor Singleton-Fookes is a developer and political thinker born and raised in Calgary. He received a B.S. in Financial Mathematics at the University of Victoria, and when he found out about Bitcoin in 2013, he grew intensely interested in it. After relocating to Vancouver, Taylor worked in the Distributed Ledger Technology industry, learning a significant amount of front end coding as he went. He is currently working as an independent contractor, and in his spare time is one of the main organizers at Dctrl Community Commons.
Victoria Lemieux
Sessions: Envisaging a Self-Sovereign Future
Victoria Lemieux, PhD in information management, is an associate professor of Archival Sciences at the iSchool and lead of the Blockchain research cluster, Blockchain@UBC at the University of British Columbia – Canada’s largest and most diverse research cluster devoted to blockchain technology.
Her current research is focused on risk to the availability of trustworthy records, in particular in blockchain record keeping systems, and how these risks impact upon transparency, financial stability, public accountability and human rights.
She hold a doctorate from University College London (Archival Studies, 2002), and have been a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) since 2005.
She has received many awards for her professional work and research, including the 2015 Emmett Leahy Award for outstanding contributions to the field of records management, a 2015 World Bank Big Data Innovation Award, and a 2016 Emerald Literati Award for my research on blockchain technology. She is also a faculty associate at multiple units within UBC, including the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, Sauder School of Business, and the Institute for Computers, Information and Cognitive Systems.
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