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Published inNov 2020
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Nitin Gaur
Nitin Gaur
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Nitin Gaur

Nitin Gaur, is the director of IBM's Blockchain Labs, and an IBM Distinguished Engineer.
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Anthony O'Dowd
Anthony O'Dowd
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Anthony O'Dowd

Anthony O'Dowd is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM, focusing on Blockchain. He led IBM's contribution to the design and development of the new smart contract and application SDKs found in Hyperledger Fabric v2. Anthony has also made significant contributions to Hyperledger Fabric documentation and samples.
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Petr Novotny
Petr Novotny
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Petr Novotny

Petr Novotny is a research scientist at IBM Research, with an MSc from University College London and PhD from Imperial College London, where he was also a post-doctoral research associate.
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Luc Desrosiers
Luc Desrosiers
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Luc Desrosiers

Luc Desrosiers is an IBM-certified IT architect with 20+ years of experience.
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Venkatraman Ramakrishna
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Venkatraman Ramakrishna

Venkatraman Ramakrishna is an IBM researcher, with a BTech from IIT Kharagpur and PhD from UCLA.
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Salman A. Baset
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Salman A. Baset

Dr. Salman A. Baset is the CTO of security in IBM Blockchain Solutions.
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Why a language for business networks?

Thinking about a business network allows us to look at a set of activities and describe them using a straightforward vocabulary. And, because we're trying to formulate the world in a language that makes sense to a blockchain, which is a simple technology, we expect that language to be brief and to the point. We'll see that it is!

Why do we want to create a language that a blockchain can understand? Well, if we can, then we can bring all the benefits of the blockchain to a solution that uses that language. Rather than every blockchain solution being different, they all become the same. And the major way in which all blockchain solutions compare is that they all benefit from one thing—increased trust.

Increased trust means that the student can show their high school certificates to their college, who can be confident about the veracity of the qualifications. It means that the bank can provide a loan to its customer...

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Nitin Gaur

Nitin Gaur, is the director of IBM's Blockchain Labs, and an IBM Distinguished Engineer.
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Anthony O'Dowd

Anthony O'Dowd is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM, focusing on Blockchain. He led IBM's contribution to the design and development of the new smart contract and application SDKs found in Hyperledger Fabric v2. Anthony has also made significant contributions to Hyperledger Fabric documentation and samples.
Read more about Anthony O'Dowd

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Petr Novotny

Petr Novotny is a research scientist at IBM Research, with an MSc from University College London and PhD from Imperial College London, where he was also a post-doctoral research associate.
Read more about Petr Novotny

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Luc Desrosiers

Luc Desrosiers is an IBM-certified IT architect with 20+ years of experience.
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Venkatraman Ramakrishna

Venkatraman Ramakrishna is an IBM researcher, with a BTech from IIT Kharagpur and PhD from UCLA.
Read more about Venkatraman Ramakrishna

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Salman A. Baset

Dr. Salman A. Baset is the CTO of security in IBM Blockchain Solutions.
Read more about Salman A. Baset