UBRI CONNECT 2020

2:00 PM

Opening Credits & Welcome Coffee

Enjoy a fresh cup of coffee before the presentations. We’ll be handing out pamphlets that outline this evening’s details.

2:00 PM

Opening Credits & Welcome Coffee

Enjoy a fresh cup of coffee before the presentations. We’ll be handing out pamphlets that outline this evening’s details.

2:00 PM

Opening Credits & Welcome Coffee

Enjoy a fresh cup of coffee before the presentations. We’ll be handing out pamphlets that outline this evening’s details.

UBRI Connect

Virtual Event

October 12-13, 2020

ubri.ripple.com

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UBRI Connect brings together top scholars to showcase their blockchain initiatives and accelerate academia’s collaborative involvement in the ecosystem.

In its second year, UBRI Connect unites partner academics, PayID - the Open Payment Coalition, thought leaders and industry experts in one place for enriching content and networking.

Check out our amazing speakers on the agenda below.

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Agenda Day 1: October 11th

3:00 PM PST

Intro and Welcome

Lauren Weymouth, Ripple

3:10 PM PST

Technology :: Humanity

Navroop Sahdev, The Digital Economist

3:40 PM PST

PayPlace: Secure Operator-Mediated Payments in Blockchain Marketplaces at Scale

Madhumitha Harishankar, Carnegie Mellon University

4:00 PM PST

Web Monetization

Panel Discussion:

Briana Marbury, Executive Director at Interledger Foundation

Róbert Tarabčák, Founder and CEO, Cinnamon

Yuriy Dybskiy, Founder, Puma Browser

Adrian Hope-Bailie, Global Head of Interledger, Coil

Chris Lawrence, Senior Program Manager, Grant for the Web

Erika Drushka, Senior Program Manager, Grant for the Web

4:30 PM PST

THE BLOCK research

Michael Catt, The Block

4:40 PM PST

Hackathon Winners

Warren Paul-Anderson, RippleX

5:00 PM pST

Day 1 CLOSING REMARKS

Lauren Weymouth, Ripple

Agenda Day 2: October 12th

11:59 PM (10/11) -12:00 AM PST

Day 2: Intro and Welcome

Lauren Weymouth, Ripple

12:00 am PST

Complex Network Analysis of XRP Transactions

Yuichi Ikeda, Kyoto University

12:15 AM PST

Cryptocurrency Valuations

R.K. Shyamasundar, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Kenichi Ueda, University of Tokyo

12:35 AM PST

Blockchain for Crisis and Resilience

Panel Discussion:

Jane Thomason, University College London

Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zurich

Java Xiu, University College London

Horst Treiblmaier, Modul University Vienna

1:05 AM PST

Testing Frameworks for XRP Ledger and Beyond

Workshop:

Brett Mollin, Director of Integration Engineering, Ripple

Javier Romero, Partner Engineer, Ripple

Klitos Christodoulou, University of Nicosia

Mitchell Olsthoorn, TU Delft

1:35 AM PST

XRP Origination and On Demand Liquidity

Cassie Craddock, Director of Sales, Ripple

1:50 AM PST

The Adoption and Sustainability of Blockchain Based Digital Assets

Lai Yuen, National University of Singapore

Colin Chan Wei, Hua, National University of Singapore

Khoo Wu Zhe, Samuel, National University of Singapore

8:30 AM PST

Central Bank Digital Currencies and Financial Inclusion

Panel:

Michael Barr, University of Michigan

Adrienne Harris, University of Michigan

Lev Menand, Columbia Law

9:00 AM PST

Institutional Digital Asset Adoption

Zoe Cruz, Strategic Advisor, Ripple

Reena Aggarwal, Georgetown University

Jim Angel, Georgetown University

Silvia Bartolucci, University College London

9:30 AM PST

The XRP Ledger, PayID, and the IoV

Keynote:

David Schwartz, CTO, Ripple

10:00 AM PST

Global Payments on a Blockchain

Stephen Pair, CEO, BitPay

10:20 AM PST

Opportunities in DeFi & Payments

Joey Krug, Co-chief Investment Officer, Pantera Capital

10:40 AM PST

PayID Partner Demo: BitPay

Sean Rolland, Director of Product, BitPay

10:50 AM PST

PayID Partner Demo: Crypto.com & Bitrue

Christopher Choi, Product Manager, Crypto.com

Adam O’Neill, Chief Marketing Officer, Bitrue

11:00 am pst

PayID Partner Demo: Tangem & Payburner

Sergio Mello, CEO, Tangem

Craig DeWitt, Founder/CEO, Payburner

11:10 AM PST

PayID Partner Demo: PayMe+

Dmitri Litvinovich, PayMe+

Brent Hirose, SLO TV Host

11:20 AM PST

PayID Partner Demo: PayID Validator

Robert Swarthout, Creator, PayID Validator

11:25 AM PST

PayID: Developer Sandbox Demo

Tyler Storm, Senior Software Engineer, RippleX

11:30 AM PST

PayID: AWS Lambda Implementation Demo

Ian Simpson, Software Engineer, RippleX

11:35 AM PST

RippleX: Developer Community Programs - Grants Announcement

Jen You, VP of Growth and Operations, RippleX

3:00 pM PST

Fireside Chat: Stablecoins

Rich Lyons, UC Berkeley

Michael Zochowski, Ripple

3:30 PM PST

Blockchain Tokenization to Finance Smart Infrastructure Systems

Peter Adriaens, University of Michigan

3:45 PM PST

Bloggers and Bitcoin Prices: A Textual Machine Learning Analysis

Eric Ghysels, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

4:00 PM PST

Blockchain in Health Impact Labs - Research and Collaboration at Academic Medical Centers

Panel:

Dr. Verena Kallhoff, CoLab Dell Medical School at UT Austin

Kyungho Lee, Korea University

Hyunsik Yoon, Korea University

4:20 PM PST

Decomposing Bitcoin Volatility and its Origins

Gustavo Souza, Fundação Getúlio Vargas

4:30 PM PST

Optimizing All-to-All Data Transmission in WANs

Wojciech Golab, University of Waterloo

4:50 PM PST

Blockchain Rewriting Made Fine-grained and Accountable

Yingjiu Li, University of Oregon

5:00 PM PST

Day 2 Closing remarks

Lauren Weymouth, Ripple

Agenda Day 3: October 13th

11:59 PM PST (10/12) - 12:00 AM PST

Intro and Welcome

Lauren Weymouth, Ripple

12:00 aM PST

Mneme: A Mobile Distributed Ledger

Dr. Sujit Prakash Gujar, IIIT, Hyderabad

12:10 AM PST

Simulating Makers Black Thursday

Andrew Kirillov, University of California Berkeley

Sehyun Chung, University of California Berkeley

12:20 AM PST

Distinctness Instead of Shadow: How Strategic Routing Diminishes Lightning's Anonymity

Satwick Prabhu Kumble, TU Delft

12:30 AM PST

The XRP Ledger, PayID,and the IoV

David Schwartz, CTO, Ripple

1:00 AM pST

Securing Financial Networks: The Future of Finance, Compute, and Connectivity

Meltem Demirors, Chief Strategy Officer, CoinShares

1:20 AM PST

PayID Partner Demo: Crypto.com & Bitrue - APAC/EUROPE

Christopher Choi, Product Manager, Crypto.com

Adam O’Neill, Chief Marketing Officer, Bitrue

1:30 AM PST

PayID Partner Demo: BitPay - APAC/EUROPE

Sean Rolland, Director of Product, BitPay

1:40 aM pst

PayID Developer Sandbox - APAC/EUROPE

Tyler Storm, Senior Software Engineer, Ripple

1:45 aM PST

PayID: AWS Lambda Implementation Demo - APAC/EUROPE

Ian Simpson, Software Engineer, RippleX

1:50 AM Pst

RippleX: Developer Community Programs - Grants Announcement - APAC/EUROPE

Jen You, VP of Growth and Operations, RippleX

7:00 AM PSt

Open Banking, Data Sharing and Blockchain

Roberto Pfeiffer, University of São Paulo

7:15 AM pst

Crypto Assets for Development

Eduardo H. Diniz, Fundação Getúlio Vargas

7:30 am pst

Security and Privacy for PayID: How to Secure and Protect the Privacy to Payment Information

Fireside Chat:

Dr. Aanchal Malhotra, Senior Software Research Engineer, Ripple

Radu State, Professor, University of Luxembourg

Dr. Cristina Nita Rotaru, Professor, Northeastern University

7:50 aM pst

IOV: Payment Chanel Networks

Fireside Chat:

Warren Paul Anderson, RippleX

Mohammad Alizadeh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

8:10 aM PST

Charlotte: A Web of Composable Authenticated Distributed Data Structures

Kushal Babel, Cornell University

8:30 AM PST

Regulatory Deep Dive

Fireside Chat:

Kevin Werbach, University of Pennsylvania

Bill Foster, U.S. Representative for Illinois

Darren Soto, U.S. Representative for Florida

9:00 aM pst

Last-mile Crypto: An NGO Goes into Uncharted Territory

Scott Onder, Senior Managing Director, Mercy Corps Ventures

Alpen Sheth, Senior Technologist, Financial Innovation, Mercy Corps Ventures

Simon Chamorro, Co-founder, CEO, Valiu

9:30 aM PST

MediLinker: a Secure, Digital Patient Identity Management System Using Blockchain

Dr. Anjum Khurshid, University of Texas

Daniel Harrell, University of Texas

9:50 PM PSt

BoLT: A Solution to Lending Markets

Seth Goldstein, Carnegie Mellon University

10:15 AM PST

Amazon 4.0: Creating Value out of Rainforests Biodiversity with Blockchain

Marcos Simplicio, University of São Paulo

10:30 aM pst

Blockchain for the Public Good

Camille Crittenden, UC Berkeley

10:45 aM PST

PANEL: INNOVATE THIS: WHY FINTECH'S FAILURE TO DIVERSIFY COULD SLOW ADOPTION, LIMIT UTILITY AND CREATE A MUDDLED / RESTRICTIVE REGULATORY LANDSCAPE

Chris Brummer, Georgetown University

Dr. Ali Emdad, Morgan State University

Tiffany Bussey, Morehouse College

4:00 PM pst

Safer Smart Contract Languages for Blockchain Applications

Michael Coblenz, University of Maryland

Jack Kolb, UC Berkeley

4:20 PM PST

Distributed Business Logic as DLT-based Data Driven State Machines:

a demo of Mosaïque

Dave McKay, Ryerson University

4:40 PM PST

Brad Garlinghouse in Conversation With Michael Arrington

Brad Garlinghouse, CEO, Ripple

Michael Arrington, Partner, Arrington Capital

5:10 PM

Closing remarks

Lauren Weymouth, Ripple

Ken Weber, Ripple

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