Blockchain Essentials

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Blockchain Essentials
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Cognitive Class
Overview

Understand blockchain technology and how it can solve business problems

Duration	3 hours
Mode of learning	Online
Schedule type	Self paced
Credential	Certificate

Blockchain Essentials

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Blockchain is an emerging technology that can radically improve banking, supply chain, and other transaction networks and can create new opportunities for innovation
Businesses contain many examples of networks of individuals and organizations that collaborate to create value and wealth
These networks work together in markets that exchange assets in the form of goods and services between the participants
Blockchain technology provides the basis for a dynamic shared ledger that can be applied to save time when recording transactions between parties, remove costs associated with intermediaries, and reduce risks of fraud and tampering

Blockchain Essentials
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Cognitive Class
Curriculum

Module 1 - Discover Blockchain

What is blockchain

The business backdrop

The problem area

Relation to bitcoin

Requirements for blockchain in a business environment

Requirements deep dive

Module 2 - Leverage blockchain benefits

Why blockchain is relevant for business

Consensus: shared reference data example

Provenance: supply chain example

Immutability: audit and compliance example

Finality: letter of credit example

Industry use cases

Customer adoption

Module 3 - Transform your business with blockchain

IBM and Hyperledger relationship: Blockchain for business

Hyperledger Composer

Public references

IBM engagement model

Demo - Blockchain asset transfer

Transfer assets in blockchain

Blockchain asset transfer demo

Lab - Transfer assets

Set up the Hyperledger Composer Playground

Transfer assets in a blockchain network

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Blockchain Essentials
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Faculty details

Ant Cole

Ant Cole has been with IBM since 2010. His most recent role is World Wide Blockchain Enablement, creating education material, courses, and finding the best way to spread that knowledge about the possible business applications and technical capabilities of a blockchain for business both internally and externally.

Dave Gorman

Dave Gorman works in World Wide Blockchain Enablement for IBM and engages clients about blockchain as applied to business networks.