Rethink Trust -- Amsterdam, June 29

Rethink Trust is the first engineering conference built from the ground-up to understand the business use cases for blockchain. It is not another blockchain expo, convention, or coiner meetup. The key question that animates our meeting is this:

What are the traditional mechanisms of trust underpinning the enterprise of today, that can be replaced by computational systems tomorrow?

Effectively, we want to reengineer trust itself, using distributed consensus and trustless approaches.

Some of the trust structures in use today were built over hundreds of years, such as shipping insurance created in Amsterdam and Venice to distribute the risk of uncertain and long overseas voyages in spice trade. Some of the problems are relatively new, verifying that the mileage on a car was not tinkered with. Some are the old trust structures serving the new devices, such as a chain of trust ensuring a shipping container left its port of origin, cleared customs, arrived at the destination, and all the SKUs inside were delivered to the customers.

(Continue reading at chiefscientist.org.)