A 2 day workshop "Blockchain and smart contracts" will take place at University of Tartu during the April 26th/27th of 2018.
Feel free to confirm your participation on the Facebook event!
Agenda:

List of speakers:
(1) Block(Supply)Chain applicability in an Enterprise Environment
Ivo Löhmus, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Guardtime is the worlds’s largest commercial blockchain technology provider (by headcount, revenue, production integrations) today. Guardtime’s KSI technology stack is used to solve cybersecurity, auditability and interoperability challenges for nearly 10 years by governments and large corporations. A few other notable defense and commercial implementations include Lockheed Martin, NATO, DARPA, Ericsson and EY.
The talk will focus on blockchain technology and its applicability for supply chain management.
Ivo is responsible for developing business cases of new blockchain-based solutions, including supply-chain management. He is also managing Guardtime's public sector relations – most notably Estonian Government Account (Estonia has Guardtime’s blockchain backed health records, land titles, business registry entries etc). His past work experience is mostly Telecom sector – providing location-based services (mobile and GPS positioning) to mobile operators globally.
(2) Legal risk management with blockchain technology applications
Anne Veerpalu, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Understanding the logic of new technology business models can be a daunting challenge for regulators and supervisors. On daily basis lawyers try to interpret how to apply the law made for the business models of the past to the business models of the present and the future. How to manage these legal risks in an effective way?
Anne is Attorney at law, Partner of NJORD in Tallinn. “We are a law firm with a Nordic profile and a global mindset. Our primary market covers the Nordic/Baltic region and Northern Europe, in particular Germany. NJORD has 200 employees at five offices – in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius.” https://www.njordlaw.com/
Anne Veerpalu has long-term experience in advising local and international clients on all aspects related to corporate law, private equity and M&A. She is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Tartu IT Law programme. She runs a Tech Startup Legal Clinic and is a respected advisor of high-growth companies. Anne is also a co-organizer of Estonian Legal Hackers Meetups and an avid blockchain technology enthusiast. She speaks and works in Estonian and English languages. Anne also serves as a member of the Legal Committee of Estonian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.
(3) SmartLog - Proof of concept project for IoT blockchain solution in logistics Industry
Illimar Paul, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Project SmartLog is about introducing a blockchain technology application into the logistics business operational data transfer traffic – not just as an commercial, proprietary application suite, but rather as an industry-wide open solution to which every interested and involved party can join and from which every involved party can directly benefit from. https://www.kinno.fi/en/smartlog

SmartLog Field Leader Illimar Paul is an Estonian enterpreneur and Managing Partner in Sensei LLC founded by him in 2003. Until then he was working as a Country Manager for Maersk Logistics, His main expertise area is Supply Chain Management. Since couple of years, he is looking for new technologies with high disruptive potential, with the blockchain being one of such. Illimar has MSc from Estonian Business School (EBS), and he has continued PhD studies with specialisation in Supply Chain Management.
(4) ICO and crypto - trading
Jan Budík, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Jan is a trader, researcher, and teacher with the technical and economic background and more than 10 years experience with financial markets and development of algorithmic trading strategies. New technologies are his passion so he creates „out of the box“ strategies based on alternative indicators as sentiment and order flow analysis with his team of traders who he shares his enthusiasm with. He works for Signals ICO and his mission is an application of knowledge from financial markets to new emerging market with cryptocurrencies. Jan is focused on the development of Signals Strategy Builder where developers can create, backtests and monetize their own trading strategies even if they don't have programming skills.
Jan holds a PhD in Economics and Management from Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic. From his academic education he comes from the engineering sciences and has a bachelor's and master's degree in this field. Since May 2017 he has been working as trading platform designer and cryptocurrency consultant for the start-up company Signals network. He is a specialist in the development of algorithms for trading strategies.
(5) Standard patterns of Blockchain processes
Rainer Lenz, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The presentation deals with standard patterns that underlie the use cases of block chain applications that were heard the day before. Which processes are basically suitable for block chain applications? How can you calculate the advantages of converting processes towards a blockchain application? What are the costs of the process migration? What are the essential elements that need to be changed in an organization to be successful? The presentation and the subsequent discussion should answer these fundamental questions.

Rainer teaches International Finance at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld/Germany. His field of research is the digital transformation of the financial sector and comprises FinTechs, crowdfunding and crypto currencies. He is chairman of the board of Finance Watch, an NGO in Brussels that advises the EU Parliament on financial regulation. He is also a member of the advisory board of the European Securities and Capital Markets Authority (ESMA) in Paris.
(6) Technology application and assessment
Ermo Täks, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Block-chain related technologies do hold a promise to become another big step in worldwide digital change, like the Internet initiated one. Seminar presentation focuses on block-chain technology main pillars and addresses related frameworks enabling of organisations to perform such digital change in order to achieve its potential value.
Ermo started his career as IT project manager in Ministry of Justice and developed Prison Department, Bailiff and Pro-bation Information Systems. Later he has been responsible for developing Estonian Government Cabinet Meeting Infor-mation System as CDO in State Chancellery. The role of transforming large governmental institutions gave him prac-tical experience and personal touch regarding challenges ICT is bringing to the organisations. Now he is exploiting his knowledge and skills achieving new targets in academic field of "AI and Law". Assoc. Prof. Ermo Täks works cur-rently in Tallinn University of Technology, hold lectures in the field of e-Governance, acts as independent expert for EC and is involved as a researcher in several EU and Estonia wide infrastructure projects.
