Register for Syracuse Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Workshop

July 27, 2021, 9:28 a.m.

WiTec Blockchain Crypto Research Workshop Poster

Join leading Syracuse University technologists and futurists for the First Syracuse Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Research Workshop August 16 – 18.  There is no cost to register for this event which features leading researchers, industry experts and many top blockchain and cryptocurrency companies from across the country.  Check the event website for the full agenda with all  speakers and panelists.

Host/Organizing committee: Syracuse University Professors Lee W McKnight, iSchool (School of Information Studies) & Institute for Security Policy and Law (ISPL), College of Law & Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs; Danielle Smith, Renee Crown Honors Program, Department of African American Studies, The College of Arts & Sciences; Cristiano Belavitis, Whitman School of Management, Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises; Austin Zwick, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Policy Studies Program; Prasanta Ghosh, Engineering and Computer Science, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science; Yusuf Abdul-Qadir, School of Information Studies and Facebook; and Sarah Weber, Syracuse University School of Information Studies, Director of Corporate Relation

ProgramcCommittee: Host Cte + Betania Allo, Esq., United Nations; Jenny Cao, WiTec; Prof. Deidra Hodges, Florida International University; Rand Kato & Vincent Plaza, Syracuse University iSchool WiTec & Doctor of Professional Studies program students; Prof. Steven Lupien, Professor, Center for Blockchain Excellence, University of Wyoming; Dr. Naseem Naqvi, British Blockchain Association; Erick Pinos, Blockchain Education Network; Prof. Pardis Pishdad-Borozgi, Georgia Tech; Profs. Donna Redel & Mike Maloney, Fordham University; Prof. Thibault Schrepel, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Stanford University

Student organizing committee co-chairs: Catherine Forrest and Zachary Goldstein, Abdullah Naimzadeh, CryptoCuse & WiTec, Syracuse University iSchool   Members: Bennett Mitchell, Northeastern University & Blockchain Education Network; Jeff Oldsworth, Fordham University; Davante Sherman, UTEP; Jong Han Yoon, Georgia Tech

Program highlights (check event website for most updated and complete version of the agenda and all speakers and panelists):

Schedule at a glance: 8.16.21  

Schedule at a glance: 8.17.21 

8am-8:30am: Registration, 111 Hinds Hall, Syracuse University &

Schedule at a glance: 8.18.21  

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