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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Business Applications of Blockchain Technology @DAMAPDX</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2018-02-15T08:30:00" datetime="2018-02-15T08:30:00">Thursday, February 15, 2018 from 8:30</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2018-02-15T11:30:00" datetime="2018-02-15T11:30:00">11:30am</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202391337'><span class='fn org p-name'>Standard Insurance Center Auditorium</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">900 SW 5th Avenue</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">Oregon</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97204</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">United States</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=900%20SW%205th%20Avenue,%20Portland%20Oregon%2097204%20United%20States'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Join your fellow Portland Lovers of data for a morning of data education and networking at our usual 3rd Thursday (February 15th) chapter meeting at the Standard Insurance classrooms in downtown Portland. Mark Wheeler from PSU will talk about Business Applications of Blockchain Technology.</p> <p>Attendance is free for DAMA Members and Employees of <a href="https://damapdx.wordpress.com/about-damapdx/corporate-members/%22">Corporate Members</a>. <br> Students $5 with ID; $15 others. <br>You can walk in; we appreciate your <a href="https://damapdx.wordpress.com/2018/01/05/february-2018-business-applications-of-blockchain-technology/">registering</a> so we order enough refreshments.</p> <h3>Overview - Business Applications of Blockchain Technology </h3> <p>Presented by Mark Wheeler, Portland State University</p> <p>Blockchain technology is being talked about as one of the next big innovations to take hold across multiple industries. Businesses who focus on transactions, contracts, and assets management are just a few of the initial sectors of the economy which will be disrupted. As the underlying technology begins to take hold, time-consuming and labor-intensive functions will be replaced by automated and “always on” smart processes. Centralized models of trust and authenticity will be replaced by decentralized services and crowd-based consensus algorithms.</p> <p>There will not be one blockchain but millions, each built on an application-specific architectures. Any store of information that requires exchange or validation across indirectly related entities will reside on a blockchain. Blockchains are safe, secure, and immutable — but all blockchains are not created equal. We will explore the subject by examining several current generations of blockchain implementations.</p> <p>Topics during this session include:</p> <ul> <li> Architecture, Protocols, Algorithms </li> <li> Distributed Ledgers, Smart Contracts </li> <li> Trust / Consensus Systems </li> <li> Decentralization, Virtual Computing Environment </li> </ul> <h3>Speaker</h3> <p>Mark Wheeler is a Blockchain technology enthusiast attending Portland State University majoring in Supply Chain Management. He has extensive experience in IT Operations working on Security, Network, and Application Server environments. Mark has worked within the education, insurance, healthcare, software development, telecommunication, and aerospace sectors of the economy.</p> <p>His current interests are in the field of data analytics, cloud computing, and Supply Chain automation technologies. Mark has been a volunteer for the last two years with HackOregon working on visualizing public data. He is currently employed at Portland State University assisting in the implementations of their Community Engagement portal platform.</p> <h3>About DAMA Portland </h3> <p>The Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Management Association has been serving the Portland data community since 1984. We are a not-for-profit, vendor independent, professional association dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information and data resource management.</p> <p>Our primary purpose is to promote the understanding, development and practice of managing data, information and knowledge resources as key enterprise assets.</p> <p>The DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provoking data-centric presentations that will make you more successful in your job. Please join me, the rest of the DAMA board, and other fellow lovers of data at this regular chapter meeting in downtown Portland. For more information and to register go to: <a href="http://www.damapdx.org/">http://www.damapdx.org/</a></p> <p>Thanks for your support of local Data Education, we look forward to seeing you there!</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="https://damapdx.wordpress.com/2018/01/05/february-2018-business-applications-of-blockchain-technology/">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>