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Dear IS Scholars,
This is the second call for abstract submissions for the pre-HICSS
workshop “Beyond Risks and Opportunities of Decentralized Ledgers
and Chains”. You can find more information on the HICSS website:
http://hicss.hawaii.edu/swt/
Please direct any questions to
matti.rossi@aalto.fi<mailto:matti.rossi@aalto.fi>
9:00 am – 12:00 am, January 8, 2019
New platforms and platform technologies, such as blockchain, offer
new opportunities for developing radically new transactional
digital services. According to HBR, “blockchain could dramatically
reduce the cost of transactions” by replacing private trust
services with an open mode. Some proponents claim that blockchains
are a novel economic institution dramatically disrupting whole
industries and institutions of society. Blockchain is a
transactional mechanism for “shared economy” as it naturally
solves trusted recording of large-scale peer-to-peer activities.
The importance of such a transactional mechanism increases with
the emerging Programmable World where an increasing number of
physical things become programmable and get connected (to the
Net).
The workshop is aimed to be a realistic discussion forum for
researchers interested in the Information Systems Science side of
these technologies. Many of the emerging applications in companies
are still proof-of-concepts, initial prototypes or at beta-level
testing. What kinds of technical, institutional and legal
novelties are on the way? What are the new challenges and the
characteristics of countermeasures? What happens to customers and
traditional incumbent and institutional players? What are the
successful use cases, services and sectors? Will there be a killer
application?
The workshop provides participants with a forum to discuss
research opportunities on novel possibilities of applying
distributed ledger technologies. One of the key ideas is to
present a multi-disciplinary view of challenges and opportunities
as there are technical, social, societal and legal hurdles to be
dealt with. Workshop leaders and invited key note speakers will
spark the discussion and lead the workshop.
Participants are invited to provide an extended abstract of
projects that will be discussed in lightning-round presentations.
Please submit the following as a 1-page PDF or MSWord file to
Matti Rossi
(
matti.rossi@aalto.fi<mailto:matti.rossi@aalto.fi>) by
November 23, 2018:
Name and institution of presenter(s)
Title of project/area of study
Brief synopsis of the study
The organizers will provide participants with an overview of the
current state of research on Decentralized Ledgers and Chains.
Confirmed speakers include:
Henry Tirri, Special Advisor for BBVA on new payment platforms,
https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrytirri/
Roman Beck, head of the European Blockchain Center,
http://ebccenter.eu
The symposium schedule will allow participants time for discussion
and networking, and facilitate brainstorming of future research
directions.
Best,
Matti Rossi
on behalf of Sirkka Jarvenpaa, Juho Lindman, and myself
Matti Rossi
Professor of Information Systems Science
Aalto University School of Business
Department of Information and Service Management
P.O. Box 21220 Chydenia (Runeberginkatu 22-24)
FI-00076 AALTO, Finland
email:
matti.rossi@aalto.fi<mailto:matti.rossi@aalto.fi>
Mobile: +358-50-3835503, Skype: motrossi
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