Blockchain as an emerging technology trend has everyone from retail investors, to central banks flocking to gather data on how this can disrupt economies and decentralize currencies, but with all of the crazy behind this new world of digital currency, the wide application of the distributed ledger for use cases in the enterprise are staggering. Join us today with Kevin Leffew, a public sector blockchain SME at Microsoft, to dive into the details about how this technology is being used in businesses today, and what business leaders from operations to finance should be thinking about as they develop their digital strategy and continue to evolve organizations into data driven businesses.

Key talking points:

-Blockchain technology in the enterprise: the value of a secure, shared, and distributable ledger

-Financial services use cases, the smart contract, tokenization of security, and distributed ownership of assets

-Content permanence, authoritative proofs, and the integration of AI

-Decentralized identity, and how this impacts the relevance of recent Facebook privacy issues

-The future of the industry - digital scarcity

Kevin recently contributed to a recent book written by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Ethereum-Building-Smart-Contracts/dp/1491971940

Here is how you can reach Kevin:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kleffew94

GitHub: https://github.com/keleffew

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinleffew/

Email: [email protected]

Please feel free to follow me on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Medium, or at my website: www.derekwesleyrussell.com

Thank you so much for listening!

Shout outs:

*Podcast Photo by Markus Spiske freeforcommercialuse.net from Pexels

*Intro music (beginning only): Orion, by Pedro Santiago

*License