Emurgo organizes sessions on “Basics of BlockChain”
30-Oct-2019
A 2-day session on “Basics of BlockChain” was organized under the banner of the Institute Innovation Council (IIC).
The resource persons from “Team Emurgo” consisting of Mr. Bharath Mallapur, Vice President-Technology, Emurgo India; Mr. Vijay Balaji, Vice President, Emurgo India, and Mr. Rahul Oberoi, Manager- Strategic Alliances, Emurgo India; facilitated the two-day sessions.
Emurgo Academy is a Global Blockchain Learning Solutions entity that focuses on incubation, training and evangelizing.
The main purpose of the workshop was to evangelize the college students on Blockchain Technology and give them a brief of what EMURGO Academy has to offer to students with this perspective.
The following key points were covered during the sessions:
• What is Blockchain
• Technologies involved in Blockchain i.e Ethereum, Hyperledger and Cardano.
• Applications of Blockchain
• Industry implications
• Real-time used cases
• EMURGO Academy offerings to students
Various features of BlockChain Technology and its impact on the emerging economy were presented. The academic involvement in developing the BlockChain skills in the minds of students was highlighted
2nd & 3rd Year Engineering students from Electronics & Communication, Computer Science and Information Science branches and MBA students benefitted a lot from this workshop.
