Conference Day One - Tuesday 24 October 2017
08:15 | Registration and welcome coffee
08:50 | Opening remarks from the Chair
Nick Giurietto
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Digital Commerce Association
UNDERSTANDING BLOCKCHAIN AND ITS POTENTIAL IN HEALTHCARE
09:00 | OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS: How blockchain can revolutionize settlements and transactions
- Increasing security through the use of cryptography
- Reducing costs by eliminating manual processes and cutting out middlemen
- Increasing speed of settlements and transactions through immediate distribution
- Reducing risks of single points of failure in centralized systems
John Bass
Chief Executive Officer
Hashed Health (USA)
09:30 | Leveraging blockchain technology for the healthcare and pharmaceuticals industry
- Understanding how the technology can be applied to various sectors within pharma and healthcare
- How the technology can transform the future of prescription medicine and health data
- Looking forward, towards a patient-centred healthcare system
Tal Rapke
CEO & Founder
ScalaMed
10:00 | How AI and blockchain can combine to impact healthcare & meet SingluartyNET’s “Sophia”
Ben Goertzel
Chief Executive Officer
SinularityNET
Leigh Travers
Chief Executive Officer
DigitalX
10:30 | Morning tea
11:00 | Blockchains and Security Engineering for Healthcare Systems
- Understanding design trade-offs with blockchain technologies
- Exploring security protection mechanisms for blockchain-based systems – and how they can apply to healthcare
- What are security properties, and the search for policy models for healthcare systems
Mark Staples
Group Leader
Data61
REVOLUTIONISING AND TRANSFORMING THE TRADITIONAL SUPPLY CHAIN
11:30 | An overview of supply chain management in the pharmaceuticals industry
- Considering the counterfeit drugs trafficking industry globally and in Australia
- Looking at incidents where counterfeit drugs have infiltrated the supply chain
- The struggles with policing this – international, many layers, many players, corruption of other governments
- Assessing Australia’s exposure to counterfeit drugs infiltrating the supply chain
Ken Gamble
Founder
IFW Global
12:00 | Applying blockchain technology to supply chain management
- Explaining how blockchain can be leveraged in supply chain management
- Explaining how this can benefit the healthcare and pharma industry
Nigel Edwards
PhD student
Deakin University and Director of Doctom Logistics
12:30 | Networking lunch
13:30 | Implementation blockchain's full potential through new data ownership and control concepts
- Blockchain implementation based on social impact considerations
- A blueprint for blockchain implementation policies that protect privacy, confidentiality, and trade sensitive data
- Will the next generation of tech companies truly implement the full power of blockchain design and surrender the current commercial concept that they have an absolute right to total data control and ownership?
Mark Toohey,
Founder and Chief Executive Officer,
TBSx3
14:00 | PANEL DISCUSSION: Understanding how blockchain can improve supply chain management efficiency
- What would be the key challenges to implement blockchain in supply chain management?
- How could the technology add to the current healthcare system?
- What would be the best use of this technology in counterfeit drugs penetrating the supply chain?
Panel moderator:
Nick Giurietto
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Digital Commerce Association
Panellists:
Ken Gamble
Founder
IFW Global
Nigel Edwards
PhD student
Deakin University and Director of Doctom Logistics
Mark Toohey
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
TBSx3
14:45 | Afternoon tea
DESIGNING APPROPRIATE LEGISLATION AND BUILDING AN EFFECTIVE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
15:15 | ONLINE PRESENTATION: Assessing how blockchain is disrupting regulation of payments and smart contracts
- Identifying the primary challenges in regulating blockchain technology
- What regulatory framework is needed to support blockchain technology in organisations?
- Looking at the law as it pertains to payments, smart contracts and supply chain management
Alexandra Sims
Associate Professor and Head of Department of Commercial Law
University of Auckland
15:45 | ONLINE PRESENTATION: INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDY: Learning from Estonia – an analysis of their healthcare records management system
- Examining the Estonian approach to managing healthcare data using blockchain technology
- Assessing healthcare and health management implementation, use and current results of Estonian nation-wide system
- Evaluating lessons learnt
Peeter Ross
Professor and Head of Healthcare Technology Master’s Program
Tallinn University of Technology and Expert, Estonian eHealth Foundation
16:15 | Closing remarks from the Chair
16:25 | End of Day One and networking drinks