Introduction to the Blockchain phenomenon, for a non-technical audience

Prerequisites: None
Duration: 2h
Languages: en, fr, nl, de

Audience:

• Corporate teams, governmental agency teams, investors
• Entry-level, non-technical

Objective:

Understand the fundamental functional elements of Blockchain and recognize its transformative power for business and society

Content:

• The World without Blockchain
• Ownership
• Data integrity & trust
• Trust infrastructure
• Infrastructure characteristics
• The world with Blockchain
• What is Blockchain?
• New trust paradigm
• Functional design: nodes
• Functional design: miners
• Tamper-proof-ness
• Decentralized trust: characteristics
• The main implication
• Specific topics:
• Identification
• Ownership
• Digital tokens of ownership
• Blockchain genesis
• Applications: Overview
• Adoption

Workshop applying the content of Course 1.1

Prerequisites: Course 1.1 Blockchain Introduction
Duration: 1h
Languages: en, fr, nl, de

Audience:

• Corporate teams, governmental agency teams, investors
• Entry-level, non-technical

Objective:

Analyze in-house business processes and apply Blockchain solutions on them, extract conditions for application of Blockchain solutions

A Technical Analysis of Blockchain, for a beginning non-technical audience

Prerequisites: Course 1.1: Blockchain Intro
Duration: 2h
Languages: en, fr, nl, de

Audience:

• Corporate teams, governmental agency teams, investors
• Entry-level, non-technical but IT and programming sensibility required

Objective:

Understand the technical elements of Blockchain and recognize their interdependencies for the functioning of Blockchain

Content:

• Research context
• The unsolvable
• Byzantine General’s Problem
• Double spending
• Trusted central parties
• Solution tentatives & failure
• Breakthrough: Satoshi Nakamoto
• Traditional voting
• Blockchain inapplicability
• Blockchain work-around principles
• Consensus mechanism
• 1 CPU = 1 vote
• Proof of Work & initial use case
• POW: Blockchain application
• Longest chain rule & implicit voting
• Immutability
• Public Key Infrastructure
• PKI use cases
• PKI Blockchain application
• One way mathematics & Hash
• Hash-chains
• Blockchain transaction
• Transaction-chains
• Signing transactions
• Blockchain in Excel

Workshop applying the content of Course 1.2

Prerequisites: Course 1.2: Blockchain Technical Analysis
Duration: 1h
Languages: en, fr, nl, de

Audience:

• Corporate teams, governmental agency teams, investors
• Entry-level, non-technical but IT and programming sensibility required

Objective:

Implement a simplified model of Blockchain in Excel, practical exercises on Blockchain technical aspects

An Introduction to the concept of smart contracts, the possibilities they offer and the risks they pose

Prerequisites: Course 1.1: Blockchain Intro
Duration: 2h
Languages: en, fr, nl, de

Audience:

• Corporate teams, governmental agency teams, investors
• Entry-level, non-technical but IT and programming sensibility required

Objective:

Grasp the Blockchain features, its programmability and its impact on business. Understand how smart contracts function, how they are implemented, what the possibilities are and how it can transform the economical operational grid.

Content:

• Blockchain characteristics and features
• Transforming features into use cases
• Types of Blockchains and their implications
• Smart contracts fundamentals
• Smart contracts specific use case examples
• Decentralizing business with Blockchain applications and smart contracts
• Decentralized autonomous organizations
• Initial Coin Offerings: Protocol value and tokenization