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Lunch and Learn: Block Chain Career and Opportunities

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Learn about Blockchain technology best practices, careers, barriers to adoption & future, and certifications. 

If you have been following banking, investing, or cryptocurrency over the last several years, then you have heard of “blockchain,” the record-keeping technology behind the Bitcoin network. 

Blockchain seems complicated, and it definitely can be, but its core concept is really quite simple. A blockchain is a type of database that stores information in “Blocks”, hence the name “Blockchain”. If you are interested in switching careers into a field that is expected to grow to by 300%, come join us.

- Why Blockchain?

Discuss real-time use cases and how to identify a need?

- What is Blockchain

Basics

Types of Blockchain

Smart contracts in blockchain

- How to Blockchain

End to end

How is Blockchain different from other projects?

- Where are Blockchain opportunities

Adaptation by industry

Discuss the pro's and cons of Blockchain

- Who is needed for Blockchain projects?

Roles in Blockchain

Most valuable technical role

Considering a career in Blockchain? - Certifications & Learning resources

- When to or NOT to Blockchain?

Barriers

- Q & A

- Guest Speaker background

Wazenn Nithesh

Emerging technologies lead involved in transition initiatives in the billing validation space. Led AI initiatives that addressed over 25% of the transaction fallouts by transitioning existing reactive research & report process to AI-based predictive process and Blockchain initiatives in dispute management space that reduced 600 K invalid claims per year corresponding to $380 M in impact to cash flow.