Please join us at Hogan Lovells at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 7th, for a presentation and panel exploring one of the most exciting frontiers in legal technology: the blockchain.
The event will include:
- informal networking over drinks and food;
- a brief (10-15-minute) primer on blockchain technology (to level-set for a mixed audience of lawyers and technologists); and
- a panel (including audience Q&A) on the legal use cases of blockchain technology (e.g., smart contracts, property rights registration, identity).
Event timeline:
6:30 – Networking over drinks and food
7:15 – “Blockchain Basics” presentation, Thomas Rush, ConsenSys
7:30 – “Legal Use Cases of Blockchain Technology” panel
- Aaron Wright – Chair of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Legal Industry Working Group, Associate Clinical Professor and Co-Director of Cardozo Law School’s Blockchain Project and co-founder of the smart contract project OpenLaw
- Houman Shadab – Cofounder of Clause.io, Professor of Law at New York Law School, Co-director of Accord Project for smart legal contract standards
- (additional panelists to be announced)
8:30 – End of formal programming
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