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Keynote: Expanding the Open Source Engine Powering Enterprise Blockchain Solutions - Kareem Yusuf, IBM General Manager, AI Applications and Blockchain, IBM

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When it comes to scalable blockchain adoption, you need a foundation that's dependable and flexible. Join Dr. Kareem Yusuf as he walks through the steps to strengthen Hyperledger and continue to meet enterprise needs. Additionally, discover how Red Hat is also helping customers bolster the open innovation across multiple organizations and industries. In this keynote session, Dr. Yusuf highlights key use cases driving innovation in supply chains and business collaborations, and shares how IBM's strategy will boost value for our customers. Join to learn more.

To learn more about Hyperledger, the open source community focused on developing a suite of stable frameworks, tools and libraries for enterprise-grade blockchain deployments. Which serves as a neutral home for various distributed ledger frameworks including Hyperledger Fabric, Sawtooth, Indy, as well as tools like Hyperledger Caliper and libraries like Hyperledger Ursa click here: https://www.hyperledger.org/

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Hyperledger – Open Source Blockchain Technologies

Hyperledger is an open source community focused on developing a suite of stable frameworks, tools and libraries for enterprise-grade blockchain deployments.
It serves as a neutral home for various distributed ledger frameworks including Hyperledger Besu, Fabric, Sawtooth, Indy, as well as tools like Hyperledger Avalon, Cactus and libraries like Hyperledger Aries, Ursa. Learn more about Hyperledger projects: https://www.hyperledger.org/use

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A

Thank you ever so much brian. I appreciate the welcome and really pleased to be here with everyone.

A

um As brian said, I lead the ai applications in blockchain business and there we're really focused on how we enable our clients to automate mission-critical workflows, leveraging both ai and blockchain to transform how they do work and when you really think of how people do work and the actual business processes that are being executed, we live in an exciting time where blockchain is powering, so many core processes that are taking place and being transformed in the enterprise.

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Consider if you will, and uh I'm just gonna try and get my chart changed again one second there.

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Yes, thank you consider if you will what's just happened with new york state and the excelsior project, and what we've been doing leveraging blockchain to essentially provide a digital health cost to successfully track and allow people to demonstrate whether they've been vaccinated or not.

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Think about what way. What's going on in norway, we have a customer. We work with.

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There called a quarre I needed to get the pronunciation right, um working with a business partner called ikea, where we've been focusing on how we leverage blockchain technologies to support the tracking tracing and provenance of norwegian salmon and indeed broader seafood, because in that context, it's extremely critical to their business processes that the providence be proven and the value be maintained or consider what's going on at home depot, where leveraging blockchain technologies, there's a core focus on invoice reconciliation, and when you think about that process of invoice, reconciliation which you may be forgiven for thinking is like that's got to be, maybe one of the least interesting things anybody does but think about it.

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This is about bringing people together, agreeing on what needs to be paid and received, and it can always be a very contentious process by leveraging key technologies like blockchain and really helping to automate, streamline and smooth those interactions. You don't only drive business benefits but, quite frankly, improve the relationship with key suppliers.

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We're also seeing advances in the world of intellectual property, uh ipvs working leveraging, blockchain technologies to fundamentally tokenize patterns and make it easier for customers to begin to manage their patent portfolio trading and managing accordingly as they progress with their business interest.

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Each of these examples, to my mind, speak to this very notion of addressing core business processes and what I'm really fixated on and what I'm looking forward to is essentially the scaling and adoption of blockchain technology within the enterprise supporting key business processes, transforming them and the way in which people work, and that can only be achieved if we have a vibrant and active hyperledger community.

A

Today, I'm really excited to make a couple of announcements.

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First and foremost, we will be introducing available in 3q this year before the end of september, support for hyperledger fabric deployments. This means that customers looking to go live with enterprise projects based upon hyper ledger fabric will be able to get a simple support offering from ibm to support their commercial deployment.

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This will be in the context of certified images running on red hat openshift and we'll make it available to our red hat marketplace. But fundamentally this just says you can now go forward with into production feeling extremely secure and supported around your open source based project deployment. We're also announcing the contribution of key uh code contributions, and, in particular I want to focus in on the fabric operations console in our whatever what you would call it commercial ibm, blockchain platform.

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We built a management console to make it very easy to essentially create and instantiate and manage instances of a blockchain link nodes together, all that good fun stuff. We are taking that entire capability, which has been proven in production over the last couple of years and contributing that into hyperledger labs.

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This should fundamentally make it easier for everyone, everyone to be able to manage and deploy blockchains based upon hyperledger fabric, and so that ensures that we are enabling this notion of what I've called skill and adoption in the enterprise, as we all fixate, on getting people to do real work.

A

We're also contributing some of the work that has been going on around uh fabrica tokens. uh The tokenizations we've been doing with some of the centralized banks in europe, contributing that to continue to help drive that conversation forward and I'm particularly interested in the work we can do around interoperability.

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We've made some contributions under project weaver and in talking with others of you active in the community.

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Looking at how we work together between weaver and cactus, to ensure that we have a strong interoperability story because the more we drive this out into the enterprise, we need to be able to ensure that blockchains can effectively communicate with others right. Commission blockchain can link with others and we're seeing this even in work that we're doing today around food supply in our food trust, offering, as people create micro networks that need to be linked with other networks.

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We want to a better word to describe it, and so this very notion of contributing code driving vibrant activity and ensuring that we are providing as an option a safe pair of hands to support deployment is essential to our ethos of how we move forward in supporting the community.

A

So I am hopeful and expectant that you all will get involved and jump in and start to progress this forward, because that's the only way in which we're going to actually make a real impact in business.

A

I am very fond of saying- and I say this all the time that technology is but a means to an end- and I say this as a deep technologist who has spent his entire career in and around software. That end is about driving value. It's about transforming what people get to do every single day and to achieve that end. It's important that we all come together as a vibrant community, with an eye towards use cases that are driving our innovation by deploying against real work, real work, real business processes.

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Being automated, as already said, is, to my mind, the true arbiter of the value that we bring as technologists to the enterprise.

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Transforming those processes speaks to everything that we get done with that in mind, when you think about that very notion of how we can collaborate, I like to think about it as a multi-stack diagram that you can come in at any level that makes sense to you be a developer, an isp, a business partner of whatever it might be, a global systems integrator various levels in which we can come together to play.

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Obviously, a lot of what we do is based upon red hat, open shift and, by extension, red hat linux. Right we've been very focused on that that, in its own right is an open source based foundation built on top of that fabric.

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Just recently what we can do around fabric, how we can bring in innovation projects via the hyperledger labs and continue to evolve that level we within ibm are then doing work on critical use cases that we want to spend our time on. I am particularly active in the realm of supply chain in my business, where we've been really focused most recently on the problems around food traceability.

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These translate very well into other what I would call responsible sourcing endeavors, whether you think about it around minerals, right so think about mining, or you think about it around things like spare parts and their provenance. There's a lot that's going on, as we think about core commodities that move within a supply chain and being able to effectively track them, trace them and prove their problems.

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That's also building forward into a lot of conversations we're having around sustainability, think about e-waste disposal as an example or think about being able to effectively track carbon footprints and emission impacts of elements as they move through the supply chain. So lots of exciting work going on in there and once again welcome engagement as we look at how we advance this particular domain.

A

Credentials are critical right, we've been doing work around the vaccination passports. I know many others are doing the same. That represents a key area of focus. I think we will see a lot more beginning to evolve there, I'm particularly intrigued by things around learning and employment records and when you think about this you're really talking about how people are able to truly substantiate and prove their qualifications and make it very easy for employers to know what they are getting now anything around credentials has to be appropriately.

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I would call it you know: encapsulated in key discussions around privacy, opt-in, opt-out policies and those remain central and core, but you can also see how fixated on these kind of problem sets allows us to really streamline activities, as people need to engage in you know showing their credentials as we've seen in just the experiments, I would say prototypes being done in new york, state, around vaccines and, of course, a lot of work going on on digital assets, which we can all player in a lot going on in financial, and indeed I would put ip here.

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So there are various use cases, and this is not an exhaustive list, but I like to think about engaging and partnering in the context of use cases, because that really allows us all to fixate on the end goal that we are looking to drive last. But by no means the least, there's always the opportunity to build services around all this kind of work and support customers in their deployments and operations.

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So I think it's extremely critical, as we think about this, and as we lay out the stack, this stack will guide our engagement as ibm over the coming months and years as we continue to look at how we first of all drive innovation and vibrancy into the underlying fabric, community and hyperledger community as a whole, because there are also key innovations to be done.

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There build on that to address targeted, use cases that we think are critical and enjoy and encourage interoperability, participation and engagement there in the context of serving our customers and ensure to bring this back to what I started with ensure that we are therefore successfully enabling our customers to automate mission-critical workflows, leveraging ai and blockchain to transform how they do work that digital transformation of how they do work that enabling of new business processes are more efficient.

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Business processes is key and central to my mind, to the end goal that guides all that we do, and I really just look forward to your ongoing engagement and partnership in this regards as we take this forward. So let me fundamentally end here with a little call to action.

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We will be having a webinar on june 30th to kind of deep that dive deeper into some of these key code contributions and provide more information around our key support offering, and so we obviously welcome and invite you to join us there, but really at the end of the day. This from me is all about engagement and I'm really looking forward to engaging with you further as we go on this journey together to fundamentally enterprise in every which way we can. Thank you.

B

Thank you kareem. uh uh If you uh hang out for just a bit, I I this is. uh It was really great to hear about these announcements. We've seen so much come in from ibm into uh hyperledger labs. Recently, this doesn't fit the the narrative we hear out in the here out there in the uh in the press. You know that enterprise blockchain is a contradiction in terms or is dead or anything like that. I mean the pundits love to get kind of click bait around that kind of stuff. This is a very different story.

B

I I it sounds like things have grown quite a bit at ibm in terms of the business around this and the commitment, uh uh so so just uh any any other final thoughts on kind of uh uh how important this is to to you all and and to the growth of the uh the ecosystem.

A

Yeah look, I I think you hit the nail on the head. I think, when you think about pundits and clickbaits, uh they tend to fixate on technology. I tend to fixate on its application when you think about what's going on in ibm and really when you think about what I've tried to emphasize here. This is all about use cases. You know fancy technology that is not being used.

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It's just fancy technology sat on the shelf and I I think it's a disservice to the innovation, the contribution, the participation in the community that's taking place here in hyperledger to succeed simply on you know the the the the element itself without thinking about how is it being used and, most importantly, how does that usage drive innovation and evolution right? That to me, is what is key and central. I see the same conversation taking place in ai I'll. Give you a quick example of something to think about.

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We all talk about machine learning models, nobody talks about what does it take to maintain and operate machine learning models in an enterprise context when you've deployed that model? Now you want to extend its features, you need to version that model. You need to correct that model. You've got software running in production. How are you updating that model? These are the things that we need to be thinking about and working on, not just oh, how much cleverer is the next model right, and this is what drives my passion.

A

This is what I think drives our passion when I think about blockchain. I get fired up when I think about using it, and it is a key technology for enabling these use cases. When you speak to customers. As I said, I spend a lot of my personal time in supply chain. When you look at the problems they need to solve around commodities. When you hear about the challenges in food safety recall, I have had more conversations on leafy greens and yellow peppers than you might actually think can I should be occurring.

A

I don't even know all the stuff. I now know about these degrees when you engage in those conversations and fundamentally recognize the problem set and realize that we can leverage blockchain to enable and address. You cannot but understand that the state of the union as it were, is good. So, yes, I am excited.

A

Yes, I look forward to our further engagement and uh hopefully doing something like this again in person, as things begin to open up and making a fundamental fundamental impact on how we engage and live as businesses leveraging these technologies.

B

Thank you. Well, there's, there's a ton of questions that came in during your talk. I'm not going to ask them all. There was one that came in about um the fabric operations console. This is a big contribution. This is the key part, one of the key parts of ibm, blockchain platform that now you're releasing as open source, and I think it speaks uh directly to that. Many of these questions you've asked about how do we make this manageable?

B

How do we make it make sense to enterprises, uh and so really we wanted to thank you for that. In fact, there's a panel coming up in an hour uh with a deeper dive into the different contributions that ibm has made into labs, to talk more about this and others um with some heavy hitters on that panel. So I I'll save, save some time refer to that. Thank you again, so much kareem uh and uh looking forward to continued collaboration uh between ibm and the community.

B

Thank you. Thanks for having.