Gartner Symposium to Discuss Smart Contracts and Programmable Economy
Smart contracts are one of the biggest applications being explored for blockchain, as this could revolutionize how data is stored among institutions and how asset transfers are managed. The Gartner Symposium aims to discuss the "programmable economy" - a term it has coined in 2014 - to understand how new technologies such as the distributed public ledger could aid the emergence of autonomous business. Gartner, Inc. is is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company. It delivers the technology-related insight necessary for its clients, from CIOs and IT leaders,....
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The Smart Contract Alliance, an initiative ran by the Chamber of Digital Commerce to promote real-world application of smart contracts, has announced the launch of the Smart Contract Symposium, a conference to take place in New York City on December 5th, 2016. Of particular note is that renowned cryptographer Nick Szabo, who coined the term “smart contracts,” will give the event’s keynote address. Szabo to Keynote New York Symposium. The Chamber expects to host over 250 executives from financial institutions and firms exploring this technology at Microsoft’s Time’s Square Headquarters.....
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