A NEW BLOCKCHAIN  AND DLT RESEARCH LAB

With the goal of defining, evaluating and reporting on the key technical, business and managerial questions posed by blockchain and distributed transaction ledger technologies, their commercial applications, and their potential for causing significant disruptions in industry and government.​

Evaluating Blockchain Opportunities and Risks

• By investigating blockchains (BC), distributed ledgers, transactions, smart contracts, secure record management and related applications

• ​By analyzing how BC affects data architectures and data governance policies, including the potential to replace shared DBs, Replication / Data Fabrics, ETL/Data Lineage Tools, Messaging, Workflow Engines, and other data tools

• ​By analyzing blockchain’s market evolution, driven by investment patterns in venture capital, corporate investment, ICO financing, evolving consortia and partnerships, and enterprise adoption

In Partnership with Industry and University Labs

Founding Industry Partners include AEEC, Collibra, Dell EMC, IBM and Intel 
University Partners include Columbia and MIT

Conducting Project Research, Conferences, Workshops and Education

Forthcoming Conferences, Workshops and Education: ​

• Inaugural BlockLAB Research Meeting, Sept 25-26 (sponsors and invited guests)

Presentations

• Data West, Dec 5-6 (open attendance)

• IBM University Education Program, Blockchain Technologies, March 2019 (by invitation only) 

People

​James Short 
Director, SDSC

​Laura Carrington
Technical Lead, SDSC

​Ilkay Altintas
​Technical Advisor, SDSC

​Tim Mackey
Healthcare, UCSD

Vishu Nandigam
Open Science Chain, SDSC

Chaitan Baru
HDSI, UCSD

​Gabe Silva
​Engineered Natural Intelligence,
​UCSD

Sid Dalal
​Artificial Intelligence, Columbia University

Naguib Attia
​Sponsor Liaison, IBM

Subhashini Sivagnanam
Open Science Chain, SDSC

Pieter De Leenheer
Sponsor Liaison, Collibra

Steve Orrin
Sponsor Liaison, Intel

​Raj Patil
Sponsor Liaison, AEEC

Michael Sossong
Sponsor Liaison, Decision Sciences

Steve Todd
Sponsor Liaison, Dell Technologies

For More Information

A detailed BlockLAB overview is here.
Sponsorship inquiries can be directed to the info.clds.sdsc email address below.