Blockchain New Capabilities for Digital Transformation
Don Tapscott, best selling author, most recentlyBlockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is changing Business,Money the World
Blockchain will impact all industries, not just financial services. The technology likely to have the greatest impact on the enterprise and the global economy has arrived, and it’s not the social web, big data, the cloud or even artificial intelligence. It’sthe Blockchain. Thefirst generation of the digital revolution brought us the Internet of information. The second generation—powered by blockchain technology—is bringing us the Internet of value: a new, distributed platform that can help us reshape the world of business and transform the old order of human affairs for the better.
Don Tapscott argues that blockchain technology will transform financial services, but also thedeeparchitecture of the corporation, animate the internet of things, recastthe role of government, and our content industries, among others. New blockchain-based business models will transform most industries and disruptors like Uber may well be next in line for disruption. The second era of the internet has profound implications for technology strategy, architecture, and leadership.
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Speaker:
Don Tapscott, CEO,The Tapscott Group Inc.
Don Tapscott, CEO of The Tapscott Group, is one of the world’s leading authorities on the impact of technology on business and society.
He has authored over 15 books including Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything which has been translated into over 25 languages.
Don has been advancing ground-breaking concepts for over 3 decades. His 1992 bestsellerParadigm Shift helped coin the seminal
management concept, and in 1995 his book The Digital Economy changed business thinking about the transformational nature of the Internet. Two years later
he helped popularize the terms “Net Generation” and “the Digital Divide” in Growing Up Digital. His most recent book is the 20thAnniversary Edition of The Digital Economy.
Don’s most recent and most ambitious book was co-authored with his son, startup CEO and bitcoin governance expert Alex Tapscott. Blockchain Revolution: How the
Technology Underlying Bitcoin is Changing Business, Money and the World was published in May 2016 and is, according to Harvard Business School’s Clay
Christensen, “the book, literally, on how to survive and thrive in this next wave of technology-driven disruption” and, “likely to become one of the iconic books of our time.”
In 2015, Don became a member of the Order of Canada, and was ranked the 4thmost influential management thinker in the world by Thinkers50. He is an Adjunct
Professor at the Rotman School of Management, a Fellow of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, and Chancellor of Trent University in Ontario.
It is hard to imagine anyone who has been more prolific, profound, and influential in explaining today’s technological revolutions and their impact on the world.
Moderator:
Dr. Chakib Bouhdary, Digital Transformation Officer, SAP