As part of the series of Road to GES
events, in the run up to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, NITI Aayog along
with Proffer, a blockchain startup founded by graduates of MIT and Harvard, are
organising a Blockchain summit and hackathon at IIT Delhi from Nov 10-13, 2017.
The objective of
the event is to explore how blockchain architectures can enable a new digital
infrastructure for India, improving efficiency, transparency, privacy, and cost
across all sectors.
1,500+ students
from IITs, MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, and top engineering institutions around the
world will be participating in the event, with 500 attending in-person on IIT
Delhi’s campus.
Microsoft, IBM,
Accel, Coinbase, and Amazon AWS are sponsoring $17,000+ in prizes to reward the
top 5 blockchain-based applications addressing problems in
government/enterprise infrastructure, finance, energy markets, supply chain,
decentralized Aadhar identities, information exchange, and more.
On
the evening of Friday November 10 (6:20 – 6:30pm), NITI Aayog CEO Mr. Amitabh
Kant will deliver a keynote, sharing his perspective
on how blockchain technology can transform the Indian economy and presenting
his vision for IndiaChain – a blockchain-enabled infrastructure for Indian
enterprise and government.
Ms. Aruna
Sundararajan (Secretary, Telecom/IT), Dr. Sriram Raghavan (CTO and Director of
Research, IBM India), and Dr. Ajay Bhushan Pandey (CEO, Aadhar/UIDAI) will also
be addressing the crowd on Friday evening and Saturday morning.
Detailed schedule and registration link available at https://proffer.network/hackathon.
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