Business Blockchain
This week I attended the Business Blockchain panel breakfast, hosted by OMERS ventures and the OneEleven accelerator - this posting is about my impressions of the event and the few conversations I had with the participants. This breakfast with in lieu of the Business Blockchain conference by William Mougayar, that was cancelled and merged with the Consensus 2016 conference. First and foremost, there is genuine enthusiasm about the technology and its potential to change the business. The level of energy among the panelists was so much higher than, for example, the last "private equity portfolio management" seminar I attended, where the participants were just droning over slides. One of the most disputed topics was on the optimal path for the blockchain technology success - to disrupt or to collaborate? To disrupt means to develop a killer app that supplants the status quo in finance or in any other application area. To collaborate means to solve the specific industry prob...