Name and Title of the Programme : Webinar on “BlockChain – Technological Perspective"

Date                       : 18^th July, 2020

Organized by           : Jointly by:-

                                1. IEEE Delhi Section and

                                2. Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of Computer Applications and Management

                                 (BVICAM), New Delhi

In collaboration with  : 1. Computer Science (CS) Chapter of IEEE Delhi Section

                                   2. Consultants Network Affinity (CNA) Group of IEEE Delhi Section

                                   3. Inter Society Relations (ISR) Standing Committee of IEEE Delhi Section

                                   4. Industry Relations (IR) Ad-Hoc Committee of IEEE Delhi Section

                                   5. Life Member Affinity (LMA) Group of IEEE Delhi Section

                                   6. Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications (IETE), Delhi Centre

                                   7. Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Delhi Section

                                   8. Computer Society of India (CSI), Mumbai

                                  9. The Institution of Information Technology Professionals, Safa Society, New Delhi

                                  10. IIPC, AICTE, New Delhi

Report:

The Webinar was held on 18^th July, 2020 in the benign presence of Prof. Subrata Mukhopadhyay, Chairperson, CNA Group and Former Chairperson, IEEE Delhi Section, Prof. A. K. Saini, Vice President-cum-President Elect, CSI, Gen. (Dr.) Ajay Chandele, Past President, IETE, and Mr. Ajay Goel, Vice President, Altran. The webinar began with the welcome address by Prof. A. K. Saini, welcoming all the participants and outlining the importance of BlockChain technology, followed by the welcome address of Prof. Subrata Mukhopadhyay. Prof. M. N. Hoda, Director, Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM), New Delhi also acknowledged the session and discussed the background note of conducting Webinars through virtual platforms. He emphasized that these webinars act as networking tools to connect people across the world and help them to adapt to a New Normal life, a new ecosystem caused by COVID-19. He also discussed the five phases of COVID-19 i.e. Denial, Anger, Bargain, Depression and Acceptance and motivated the participants to directly move to Acceptance phase from Bargain phase without going into Depression phase, which is also the primary objective of this webinar.

The webinar was aimed to promote the awareness of BlockChain Technology with its evolution, key concepts and few use cases of this technology. Mr. Shakti Sinha, System Design Engineer, Hughes Systique Corporation, delivered the technical talk. He began his discussion with the evolution of BlockChain, types of BlockChain (Private/Public/Hybrid) and its key features such as distributed ledger, enhanced security, immutability etc. He also outlined the basic building blocks of BlockChain development along with different consensus algorithms such as PoW, PoS, PoET and PoC. Continued with this discussion, he also threw light on the evolution of Enterprise BlockChain and the future of this technology.

The session concluded with Question & Answer session moderated by Mr. Ajay Goel, where participants willingly asked their queries. Prof. M. N. Hoda gave his heartfelt appreciation to Mr. Shakti Sinha for his valuable and knowledgeable session. He also thanked all the participants and panellist for giving their precious time in attending this webinar and making all webinars hosted by BVICAM, a huge success. The webinar attracted a 1342 participants from across the world.