Accenture & Hyperledger Host ‘Blockchain for Good Hackathon’ in Dublin, Inviting Coders to Help Develop Solutions for Dig...
27 September 2017 - 12:00AM
Business Wire
Inaugural event takes place this weekend at The
Dock in Dublin
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Hyperledger, a collaborative
cross-industry effort hosted by The Linux Foundation to
advance blockchain technology, have teamed to host the
inaugural “Blockchain for Good Hackathon” taking place at The Dock,
Accenture’s multidisciplinary research and incubation hub, on
Saturday, Sept. 30 and Sunday, Oct. 1. The two organizations are
inviting developers across Ireland to help apply blockchain
technology to develop game changing ideas and solutions for
providing secure digital identities and sustainable, eco-friendly
supply chains.
The grand prize winning team will receive an 8,500 EUR cash
prize and a two-day all expenses paid trip to visit Accenture’s
Blockchain Center of Excellence in the South of France to develop
their hack into a proof of concept. Blockchain is a new type of
database system that enables multiple parties to share access to
the same data with an extremely high level of confidence and
security.
“Blockchain technology is on course to revolutionize how the
world exchanges value, information and material,” said David Treat,
event co-host and managing director in Accenture’s global
blockchain practice. “This hackathon is geared to channel these
innovations for humanitarian and environmental benefit, beginning
with the right to identity and the need for environmentally
sustainable supply chains. And we’re calling on the many talented
engineers in this region to help.”
“The Linux Foundation and Accenture both have long histories
looking for ways to apply technology to improve the way people live
and work,” said Hyperledger Executive Director Brian Behlendorf,
co-host of the Hackathon. “We see blockchain in particular as a
technology that has the ability to drive positive impact in areas
that may not have reaped the full benefit of the digital
revolution.”
Participants in the Blockchain for Good Hackathon will work
together with top coders, architects and leading thinkers to build
innovative solutions that can positively impact millions of lives
and the environment.
- To register for the event visit:
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/blockchain-for-good-hackathon/attend/register
- To review the agenda visit:
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/blockchain-for-good-hackathon/program/agenda.
Revolutionizing Identity Management and Supply Chains
At the event, developers will hear from Dakota Gruener, the
executive director of ID2020 and Accenture’s Treat, member of the
ID2020 advisory committee, about the challenges that 1.1 billion
people face living without an official identity, and why blockchain
may play a crucial role in the technical solution.
The event will also explore challenges in sustainable supply
chain and trade finance and describe how blockchain can establish
provenance and trackability to ensure that things like timber,
fish, coffee and palm oil have been ethically sourced and adhere to
sustainability protocols.
Julie Spillane, Director, The Dock, commented; “We are delighted
to host this blockchain hackathon at The Dock. Through our work
with ID2020, we have seen how blockchain can be used to help people
establish identity. It is a technology that can also enhance
eco-friendly supply chains, offering provenance and traceability,
as well as a multiple of broader applications. We look forward to
seeing the innovative solutions proposed by participants from all
over Ireland at this important event.”
Accenture is a founding member of the ID2020 Alliance, a
public-private partnership working to improve lives through digital
identity, in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals. Its mandate is to bring verifiable digital IDs to the 1.1
billion individuals, including 65.3 million refugees that currently
have no proof of their existence. In June, Accenture unveiled a
prototype of a blockchain-biometric identity solution jointly
developed for ID2020 with Microsoft that was incubated at The Dock
in Dublin.
Hyperledger, the Linux Foundation open source blockchain
initiative of which Accenture is a premiere member, includes the
open source self-sovereign identity project Hyperledger Indy and
also has a dedicated Identity working group focused on these
challenges.
About Hyperledger
Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to
advance blockchain technology by addressing important features for
a cross-industry open standard for distributed ledgers. It is a
global collaboration including leaders in finance, banking,
Internet of Things, supply chains, manufacturing and Technology.
The Linux Foundation hosts Hyperledger as a Collaborative Project
under the foundation. To learn more, visit:
https://www.hyperledger.org/.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company,
providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy,
consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched
experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries
and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest
delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business
and technology to help clients improve their performance and create
sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 411,000
people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives
innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us
at www.accenture.com.
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