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. 

Learn what blockchain is and how it may impact your industry.

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