On November 26, join Gowling WLG's Blockchain & Smart Contracts Group for a seminar on Blockchain 2.0 Mandates: How to employ blockchain technology within your business or your industry to learn about key strategic, legal and accounting issues to consider, among other useful tips.
The seminar will begin by covering what business leaders should know about the nature of blockchain technology and key developments in the market. Experts in the blockchain space will then take a deeper dive into lessons learned when operationalizing applications of blockchain in enterprise, and what legal and accounting issues business leaders should be keeping top of mind.
Registration and breakfast will run from 7:30-8:30 a.m. Following the morning seminar, we invite you to join us from 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. for lunch and networking.
Speakers
Hilary Carter Managing Director, Blockchain Research Institute
Paritosh Gambhir, Partner, Financial Services and Head of Blockchain, KPMG
Karim Hamasni, Development Lead, Crypto Asset Innovation for RBC Global Asset Management
Mark Hines, Senior Counsel, RBC
Ryan Leopold, Parnter, National Banking & Capital Markets Assurance Leader, PwC
Mark Lijour, Solutions Delivery, Consen Sys
James Longwell, Partner, Gowling WLG
Mark Morency, Senior Vice President, Financial Institutions Practise Leader, Arthur J. Gallagher Canada
Ian Palm, Partner, Gowling WLG
Kathleen Ritchie, Partner, Gowling WLG
Patricia Romanovici, Assistant Vice President & Senior Counsel, Sun Life Financial
Parna Sabet-Stephenson, Partner, Gowling WLG
Agenda
| 7:30 a.m. |
Registration & Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Blockchain overview |
| 9:15 a.m. |
Identifying use cases |
| 10:15 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Legal Issues |
| 11:30 a.m. |
Accounting and other issues |
| 12:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m. |
Event concludes |
*This program will count for up to 3.5 hours of Substantive credits toward the mandatory annual CPD requirement of the Law Society of Ontario.