Hyperledger Global Forum 2022: Full Schedule

Dublin, Ireland | September 12-14, 2022
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11:15 IST

Solving the Internet of Things (IoT) Security Challenges with Self-sovereign Identity - Anatoli Pechkov, DSR Corporation

Confidentiality is essential. With the continued market growth, IoT faces a number of challenges around security and privacy of devices and services.

In this session, DSR combines its extensive experience in SSI with over a decade working in the IoT to present use cases of how SSI can be utilized to keep IoT systems secure, while preserving privacy.

Speakers

Anatoli Pechkov

Founder and CEO, DSR Corporation

Anatoli Pechkov is the founder and CEO of DSR. He holds a Master's degree in Theoretical Mechanics and has managed software development teams for over 20 years as Principal Architect, CTO, and CEO. DSR has been working in the blockchain and Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) space for... Read More →

DSR IoT SSI pdf

Monday September 12, 2022 11:15 - 11:55 IST
Wicklow Hall 1

Technical

Topic Identity, Interoperability, IOT, Privacy, Security
Project Aries, Indy
Audience Experience Level Beginner
Slides Attached Yes

12:05 IST

Demo: DIDIoT – A Decentralized Identity Framework for Internet of Things - Antonio Mateus, CPQD

The IoT has become a reality in our daily lives. Its applications range from simple temperature sensors to the communication of cars on a highway. Indeed, the devices now are in charge of collect and store sensible data from their owners, which makes them a target for hackers. However, securing the data in IoT environments is challenging due factors such as heterogeneity and device limitation. With this in mind, we from CPQD developed the DIDIoT, which consists in a decentralized identity framework for Internet of things. The DIDIoT applies the paradigm of decentralized identity and verifiable credentials to provide an additional security/privacy layer for the devices communication. The DIDIoT was implemented using the Hyperledger Aries framework. Our testbed tests shows that we can successfully enhance devices security by using the didcomm over the MQTT protocol to secure messages.

Speakers

Antonio Mateus

Technical Research Leader, CPQD

Mateus holds a master's degree in computer science and is currently a Phd student at Federal University of Bahia, Salvador - Brazil. He is also a technical research leader at CPQD, where he works on decentralized identity projects ranging from mobile wallets to identity application... Read More →

Monday September 12, 2022 12:05 - 12:20 IST
Wicklow Meeting Room 3

Demo Theater

Topic Identity, IOT, Security
Project Aries, Indy
Audience Experience Level Intermediate

12:05 IST

Fabric Private Chaincode - Enhancing Privacy in Hyperledger Fabric with Confidential Computing - Marcus Brandenburger, IBM Research - Zurich

Fabric Private Chaincode (FPC) is a security feature for Hyperledger Fabric that leverages modern Confidential Computing technology to protect the integrity and confidentiality of Smart Contracts and their data. In this presentation we will cover what Fabric Private Chaincode is and how it can be used to implement privacy-sensitive use cases for Hyperledger Fabric. The goal of this session is to educate developers with all necessary background to adopt FPC for their projects. In addition to existing C++ Chaincode support, we will highlight recent project updates, in particular, the new support for Go-Chaincode and the integration with the Fabric Smart Client. We begin with an introduction of FPC, explaining the basic FPC architecture, security properties, and hardware requirements. Moreover, we will cover the FPC Chaincode API, and the application integration using the FPC Client SDK. Additionally, we will demonstrate how the Fabric Smart Client framework can be used with FPC to develop and test complex privacy-sensitive applications. We conclude this session with a Q/A discussion.

Speakers

Marcus Brandenburger

Research Staff Memeber, IBM Research - Zurich

Marcus is a researcher at the IBM Research Lab in Zurich, Switzerland working in the area of Blockchain Security and Applications. His research is focused on secure distributed systems using Confidential Computing. Marcus holds a PhD in Computer Science from TU Braunschweig, Germany... Read More →

Monday September 12, 2022 12:05 - 12:45 IST
Wicklow Meeting Room 1

Technical

Topic Privacy, Security, Smart Contracts, Trusted Execution, Intel SGX, Confidential Computing
Project Fabric
Audience Experience Level Any

12:05 IST

Towards a Scalable, Privacy-Preserving, and Regulatable CBDC Framework - Mark Rakhmilevich, Oracle

Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) has gained momentum across the world. We’ll review some of the important work being done across banks in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the US and discuss the most critical questions being raised about public/private roles, scalability, privacy and regulatability. This session will discuss potential answers and models being proposed to create a balanced system that maximizes monetary stability, convenience, and scalability, while balancing privacy with the requirements for regulation and accountability.

Speakers

Mark Rakhmilevich

Senior Director, Blockchain Product Management, Oracle

Mark Rakhmilevich is Senior Director of Blockchain Product Management at Oracle and is responsible for Blockchain Technologies strategy and products. As part of Product Development organization he guides the evolution of Oracle Blockchain Platform and related web3 technologies in... Read More →

Oracle CBDC Presentation v6 pdf

Monday September 12, 2022 12:05 - 12:45 IST
Wicklow Hall 2B

Technical

Topic CBDC, Financial, Public Sector/Govt, Privacy, Security, Tokenization
Project Fabric
Audience Experience Level Intermediate

14:15 IST

Governance and Audit of Blockchain Networks - Scott Perry, Schellman

While blockchain technology creates strong cryptographic controls securing the integrity of data, successful, cooperative blockchain networks must establish trust between a variety of independent entities to create overall trust. In this presentation, Scott Perry will discuss how trust is created in at the blockchain layer of a Web 3.0 architecture stack that add trust within interoperable parties and reliance on external blockchains. As a Steering Committee member of the Trust Over IP Foundation, a Principal at Schellman leading a Crypto and Digital Trust practice and author of the first robust trust assurance model for blockchains, he will discuss how all blockchains networks can add accountability within stakeholder roles to ensure that blockchains are trustworthy above the embedded cryptographic trust assertions. The target of this presentation is leaders and participants in industry who are seeking greater acceptance and assurance in the trustworthiness of their network. Come learn which role systems auditors, cybersecurity professionals, and risk management experts will have to play to ensure trust must be built and maintained when adopting such cutting-edge technologies.

Speakers

Scott Perry

Principal, Crypto and Digital Trust Services, Schellman, Schellman

Scott Perry is a Principal at Schellman where he heads up its Crypto and Digital Trust Services practice. Prior to joining Schellman in 2022, Scott owned and operated his own firm specializing in cybersecurity consulting audits and governance, GRC implementation, digital identity... Read More →

Governance and Audit of Blockchain Networks Hyperledger Global Forum 2022 FINAL pdf

Monday September 12, 2022 14:15 - 14:55 IST
Wicklow Hall 2A

Business

Topic Interoperability, Security, Governance and Audit
Project Aries, Indy
Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Slides Attached Yes

14:15 IST

Securing Hyperledger Besu on Ethereum Mainnet - Jyoti Ponnapalli, DTCC

Jyoti will be presenting the key risk and security considerations for deploying Hyperledger Besu on Ethereum Mainnet. She will be presenting the research conducted on security assessment of the platform, configuration guidelines and findings that contribute towards secure deployment.

Speakers

Jyoti Ponnapalli

Director - Blockchain/DLT Advisor | Technology Strategy, DTCC

HGF 2022 Securing Hyperledger Besu on Ethereum Mainnet pdf

Monday September 12, 2022 14:15 - 14:55 IST
Wicklow Meeting Room 1

Business

Topic Security
Project Besu
Audience Experience Level Any

15:05 IST

Evaluating Hyperledger URSA for Production Deployments - Pierre Roberge, Digital Identity Laboratory of Canada & Hart Montgomery, The Linux Foundation

With decentralized identity and tools maturing, many organizations are moving their focus from proof-of-concept (PoC) to mission critical systems dependent upon decentralized identity technologies. Several leading Canadian public and private organizations, using a “trust but verify” philosophy, required an independent cybersecurity review of the URSA library. Hyperledger URSA is a shared cryptographic library used to avoid duplicating other cryptographic work and increases security. It is an opt-in repository for Hyperledger and non Hyperledger projects to place and use crypto. Project sponsors, several Canadian public sector entities and Interac, recognise that end users rely on strong security to deliver high levels of assurance required of important consumer transactions with their governments and their financial institutions. Many of the world’s leading advancements in decentralized identity, several originating in Canada, rely on the Hyperledger family of technologies. The URSA library is a key component, depended upon to provide the security overlay for decentralized identity. Come join Pierre Roberge and Hart Montgomery to hear about the URSA review and its outcomes!

Speakers

Pierre Roberge

Co-founder and General Manager, Digital Identity Laboratory of Canada

Pierre A. Roberge is co-founder and General Manager of the Digital Identity Laboratory of Canada. Pierre has over 25 years of expertise and experience in digital transformation in different fields such as digital identity, integrated privacy protection, electronic payment, banking... Read More →

Hart Montgomery

CTO, Hyperledger Foundation, Linux Foundation

Hart Montgomery serves as the CTO of Hyperledger Foundation and as a technical advisor to the Open Wallet Foundation. Hart has extensive experience in blockchain and cryptography, and previously worked in blockchain and cryptography research at Fujitsu Research where he helped lead... Read More →

Hyperledger conf URSA IDLab Code Review.pptx pdf

Monday September 12, 2022 15:05 - 15:45 IST
Wicklow Meeting Room 1

Technical

Topic Cryptography, Security
Project Ursa
Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Slides Attached Yes

17:20 IST

Bringing Trustworthiness in Industrial Device Lifecycle using Verifiable Credentials - Marquart Franz & Saad Bin Shams, Siemens AG

An industrial device goes through many phases in its lifecycle. Its life begins with the manufacturing phase, after which it is transported to the customer where it is onboarded and then the operational phase starts. It can then continue on functioning before it is sold to a new owner or offboarded and perhaps also replaced. The proliferation of industrial IoT devices brings in more challenges for the operational technology. Customer site should be able to go through industrial device lifecycles from multiple vendors with as much ease as possible. In this talk the presenters explain how verifiable credentials can potentially help us in achieving a trustworthy and automated approach in cycling thorough the different device phases. With the help of demo that showcases prototype industrial devices approach using verifiable credentials for German Railway operator (Deutsche Bahn), the presenters will discuss the current tools available and dive into some of their shortcomings in the context of devices. This presentation also aims to bring forward the pertinent discussion of the disconnect in the world of devices and the web technology.

Speakers

Marquart Franz

Senior Software Expert, Siemens AG

Marquart Franz is senior software expert at Siemens Technology. He is active in digitalization, IoT, blockchain, embedded systems and software architecture and has a long history as primary representative, officer and member in industry consortia and collaborations.

Saad Bin Shams

Cybersecurity Architect, Siemens AG

Saad Bin Shams is working at Siemens as a cyber security architect. He received his Masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Technical University of Munich. At Siemens his work focuses on the topics of blockchain, zero knowledge proofs, development, system architecture... Read More →

Trustworthiness in Industrial Device Lifecycle HGF 2022 final pdf

Monday September 12, 2022 17:20 - 18:00 IST
Wicklow Meeting Room 1

Technical

Topic Identity, IOT, Security, Industrial Device Lifecycles
Project Aries, Indy
Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Slides Attached Yes

12:05 IST

Findy Agency — Highway to Verified Data Networks - Laura Vuorenoja & Harri Lainio, OP Financial Group

The Findy Agency team from OP Lab will present an overview of the Findy Agency Open Source project. The project provides a Hyperledger Aries compatible identity agency, a web wallet for individuals, and a low-code SSI service framework for organizations. The target is to ease the development of use cases utilizing identity wallets and verified data. The pragmatic solution architecture is different from other Aries DID agents by protocol symmetry, performance, and bindings to existing identity technologies like FIDO2. The team will overview the solution architecture, give background for the project design decisions, and showcase a demo.

Speakers

Laura Vuorenoja

Senior Technology Strategist, OP Financial Group

Laura Vuorenoja is a full-stack developer and a hands-on architect with an extensive and versatile background in software development. She is currently researching self-sovereign identity and verified data in her team at OP Lab, the innovation unit of the largest bank in Finland (OP... Read More →

Harri Lainio

Senior Technology Strategist, OP Financial Group

Harri Lainio is a software architect who has designed and implemented distributed systems for over 30 years. He is passionate about solving theoretical computer science problems and likes to work near the hardware. Harri believes polyglot principle and thinks that every algorithm... Read More →

findy ssi agency pdf

Tuesday September 13, 2022 12:05 - 12:45 IST
EcoCem Room

Technical

Topic Development Best Practices, Identity, Interoperability, Privacy, Security, Web3, FIDO2
Project Indy, Aries
Audience Experience Level Beginner, Intermediate
Slides Attached Yes

14:15 IST

Defining a Metaverse that is Responsible by Design: Building Secure and Private Enterprise-Grade NFT - Bjorn Obermeier, Accenture

Today, many companies are hesitant to engage in the digital asset economy because of a wide range of risks. Building and scaling in the metaverse is dependent in part on the creation of enterprise-grade NFT systems that enable secure, confidential, and resilient transactions. This presentation will examine metaverse use cases, define what it means to build a responsible metaverse by design, and how enterprise-grade NFT platforms could drive mainstream adoption and drive value for businesses and consumers alike.

Speakers

Bjorn Obermeier

Global Blockchain Capability Lead, Accenture

Björn Obermeier is the Global Blockchain Capability Lead within Accenture's Metaverse Continuum Business Group and helps to empower and design for a secure and responsible Metaverse with Blockchain and distributed systems. He has 20+ years of IT industry experience and explores the... Read More →

HGF2022 ResponsibleMetaverse pdf

Tuesday September 13, 2022 14:15 - 14:55 IST
Wicklow Hall 2A

Business

Topic Healthcare, Identity, Interoperability, Public Sector/Govt, Social Impact, Web3, Community, Consortiums, Cryptography, NFTs, Privacy, Security, Tokenization
Project Fabric, Indy
Audience Experience Level Beginner, Any
Slides Attached Yes

14:15 IST

Insight Into a Production-Ready Hyperledger Fabric Certificate Authority - Noah Elia Schär & Aaron Beer, PostFinance Inc.

In a private, permissioned blockchain, all participants must be identified. Hyperledger Fabric uses a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to manage these identities. For testing purposes, the Cryptogen tool can be used to initially create the crypto material. However, for a production network, its use is strongly discouraged. One important reason is that the entire lifecycle of the crypto material cannot be managed. Due to the limited documentation, the barrier to entry is high to build a production-ready PKI in Hyperledger Fabric. We at PostFinance TechLab have taken the leap and replaced Cryptogen with Hyperledger Fabric CA. In our presentation, we will explain the biggest differences and most importantly the benefits of Fabric CA. In addition, we will explain many of the lessons we learned during the trial & error implementation process with concrete examples and a demo. We break down the problem of moving to Fabric CA into individual steps and show how we built a state-of-the-art PKI that interoperates with the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain. We plan to make our learnings available for the official Hyperledger Fabric documentation.

Speakers

Noah Elia Schär

Blockchain Software Developer, PostFinance Inc.

Noah Schaer is a full-stack software developer and has been working with Hyperledger Fabric at PostFinance Inc. for one year. He has experience in maintaining a Hyperledger Fabric network and implementing Hyperledger Fabric CA. Noah is part of the TechLab team at PostFinance that... Read More →

Aaron Beer

Blockchain Software Developer, PostFinance Inc.

Aaron Beer is a software developer and works at PostFinance Inc. in the TechLab team. He is developing several productive full-stack solutions for the Hyperledger Fabric platform and helps maintaining and improving Postfinance's Hyperledger Fabric network. During the last year, he... Read More →

Insight Into a Production Ready Hyperledger Fabric Certificate Authority pdf

Tuesday September 13, 2022 14:15 - 14:55 IST
Wicklow Hall 2B

Technical

Topic Cryptography, Identity, Production- Lessons Learned, Security, Labs, Certificate Authority
Project Fabric
Audience Experience Level Any
Slides Attached Yes

15:05 IST

Formalizing and Standardizing Blockchain Interoperability - Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy, IBM & Rafael Belchior, Blockdaemon & Técnico Lisboa

With more blockchain networks being developed for specific applications and across layers of the stack, interoperability has emerged as one of the crucial features of blockchain technology to expand the blockchain tenets across multiple independent blockchain networks. Still a maturing technology, blockchain interoperability is undergoing research and development of solutions with different properties and tradeoffs. The technology necessary for achieving it is fragmented and a formal approach to the problem of general-purpose blockchain interoperability is still lacking. In this talk, Dhinakaran and Rafael will analyze the problem of blockchain interoperability from theoretical and practical standpoints. They will start by defining it and present an ontology for interoperability solutions. They will then present their existing standardization efforts in the IETF DLT Gateway Interoperability group. After that, they will present their ongoing work at the Hyperledger Interoperability Task Force on providing a formal security definition of interoperability across distributed ledgers using the framework of universal composability that is vetted by the cryptography research community.

Speakers

Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy

Research Scientist, IBM

Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy is a Research Scientist at the IBM India Research Lab. His research interests are in cryptography, blockchain and quantum computing. He has research publications in reputed conferences on cryptographic primitives used for computing over encrypted data. At... Read More →

Rafael Belchior

R&D Engineer, Blockdaemon & Técnico Lisboa

Rafael Belchior is a researcher at INESC-ID (Distributed Systems Group) and Ph.D. student at Técnico Lisboa, where he lectures since 2018. Studying the intersection of blockchain interoperability and security, he participates in different open-source ecosystems, namely at the Internet... Read More →

Tuesday September 13, 2022 15:05 - 15:45 IST
Wicklow Hall 2B

Technical

Topic Academic Research, Cryptography, Interoperability, Security, Web3
Project Cactus, Firefly, Labs
Audience Experience Level Intermediate

17:20 IST

Elevating Trust with cert-manager in Hyperledger Fabric - Alexander Meijer, Corsha, Inc.

Trust is a key issue in any network, but is perhaps of paramount importance in blockchain networks. It is so crucial, in fact, that "Trust" and its derivatives are mentioned no less than 14 times in Satoshi's seminal Bitcoin whitepaper. Hyperledger Fabric networks are no exception; in Fabric, trust flows from the Certificate Authorities (CAs) to every participant on the network who utilize that trust to transact according to their role. Operating these CAs properly, then, is central to the trust and security model of Fabric. In this discussion, Alex will reinforce why using centralized PKI generators (such as cryptogen) presents a trust risk for production networks. Corsha's experiences with the Fabric CA will also be discussed, and why it was ultimately decided that the operational overhead of that system made ongoing maintenance challenging. Alex will introduce the cert-manager project and go over how Corsha integrated that with their Kubernetes-native Hyperledger Fabric networks. Finally, Alex will propose a Fabric network architecture that does not rely on a trusted setup and does not require any CA servers, with fully automated certificate management.

Speakers

Alex Meijer

Head of Infrastructure, Corsha, Inc.

Alex is Corsha's Head of Infrastructure, and is responsible for ensuring that Corsha's products are built and deployed using the latest possible Infrastructure as Code techniques. He has recently worked on managing the trust relationships of Corsha's various Kubernetes-based Hyperledger... Read More →

Elevating Trust With cert manager in HLF 1 pdf

Tuesday September 13, 2022 17:20 - 18:00 IST
Wicklow Meeting Room 1

Technical

Topic Consensus, Development Best Practices, Security
Project Fabric
Audience Experience Level Intermediate
Slides Attached Yes

14:30 IST

Workshop: Moving Central Bank Digital Currency from Conception to Reality with Hyperledger Technologies - Elli Androulaki, Angelo De Caro & Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy, IBM; Nicolas de Labarre, Banque De France; Joris Huynh & Mathilde Ffrench, IBM Consultin

Central Bank Digital Currency, as defined by the Bank of International Investments, is a new form of digital money with a central bank liability which serves both as a medium of exchange and store of value. The goal is to retain all the benefits of cash and pushing beyond this by improving on multiple dimensions: Robustness, Privacy, Compliance, Accessibility, and Programmability to name a few. This will be a workshop jointly held by domain experts (Banks), and technology providers (IBM), providing an overview of Central Bank Digital Currency use-cases, and how (Hyperledger) enterprise Blockchain technologies address many of these requirements in on-going or completed experimentations on that front. In particular, in this talk we will show how Central Bank Digital Currency systems can move from conception (use-case description & requirements overview) to reality with deep-dives and hands-on sessions on Hyperledger Labs Token SDK and Weaver Interoperability Framework combined.

Speakers

Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy

Research Scientist, IBM

Mathilde Ffrench

Angelo De Caro

Senior Research Scientist, IBM

Angelo De Caro is a Senior Research Scientist at IBM Research Lab in Zurich, Switzerland with technical leadership responsibilities on the Central Bank Digital Currency Research area. Angelo is a member of the Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee, one of the architects of Hyperledger... Read More →

Elli Androulaki

Distinguished Research Scientist, Decentralised Trust Research Strategy & Manager, IBM

Dr. Elli Androulaki is a Distinguished Research Scientist and Research Manager at the IBM Research Lab in Zurich, Switzerland with responsibilities on Global research strategy in the Decentralised Trust area. Elli completed her PhD in the area of applied cryptography aiming to address... Read More →

Nicolas de Labarre

Head of Service INSPIR - Innovation and Product Support for European Market Infrastructures, Banque De France

Joris Huynh

Senior Manager, Blockchain & Innovation, IBM Consulting

Joris Huynh is a Senior Manager at IBM France, in the consulting division. As part of his work at IBM, Joris has lead multiple blockchain engagements with various clients from all sectors - and more specifically over the last 3 years, Joris has led a team working on a CBDC platfo... Read More →

Wednesday September 14, 2022 14:30 - 16:00 IST
Gibson Hotel - Stratocaster A - 3rd Floor Point Square, North Dock, Dublin, D01 X2P2, Ireland

Workshop

Topic Academic Research, CBDC, Cross-Border Transactions, Cryptography, Financial, Interoperability, Labs, Privacy, Security, Tokenization, Web3
Project Fabric, Labs
Audience Experience Level Any

16:30 IST

(Continued) Workshop: Moving Central Bank Digital Currency from Conception to Reality with Hyperledger Technologies - Elli Androulaki, Angelo De Caro & Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy, IBM; Nicolas de Labarre, Banque De France; Joris Huynh & Mathilde Ffrench, I

Speakers

Workshop

Topic Academic Research, CBDC, Cross-Border Transactions, Cryptography, Financial, Interoperability, Labs, Privacy, Security, Tokenization, Web3
Project Fabric, Labs
Audience Experience Level Any