In reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Blockchain Conference will focus in 2021 on producing online events for the foreseeable future.

In particular we expect to be contributing to education programs from the DecentraTech Collective, which is a sister activity, also led by Lighthouse Partners.

More information on the DecentraTech Collective is available here.

Since 2016, The Blockchain Conference has produced a number of world-class executive events, each of which highlighting the promise of blockchain, distributed ledger and smart contracts technologies as a platform for the future of business while also pointing to the realities and challenges of rolling out this transformational technology.

In collaboration with the Austin Blockchain Collective and Dell Medical School, The Blockchain Conference produced a highly successful event focussed on the application of blockchain and related technologies to the healthcare space.

Find out more and view the recap video here.

Once again, The Blockchain Conference worked with the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance to produce the event, which was focused on the realities of moving from proof-of-concepts to production pilots.

Nearly 300 financial markets and blockchain executives attended and learned from a 40-strong "Blockchain Brains Trust" drawn from the leading experts and thought leaders.

Click here for a glimpse into the day.

The debut Blockchain for Wall Street event in November 2016 was a collaboration with the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance, a non-profit trade association.

The day focused on the future potential for blockchain technologies when applied to financial markets applications and challenges associated with implementation.

For a retrospective of the day, click here.

The debut - eponymous - The Blockchain Conference took place in February 2016 and is widely regarded as the very first business-oriented and professional-standard blockchain conference ever produced.

Keynoting the day was John Wolpert, then IBM's first global blockchain offering manager. It was the first time that IBM commented in a public forum about its interest in blockchain technology.

Click here for a recap of the day.