Digital Economy Applications of Distributed Ledger Technologies Workshop Delegate Information Thursday 02 June 2016 AMBA Hotel Marble Arch London Agenda 10:00 Registration. Tea and coffee available. 10:30 RCUK Introduction (Tracy Keys and Jerome Ma) 10:40 Introduction to Distributed Ledger Technology and Functionality (Phil Godsiff) 10:50 Legoblock exercise (Chris Speed) 11:50 Limitations of Distributed Ledger Technology (Cathy Mulligan) 12:00 Lunch 12:45 Provocative Precedents (Leanne Kemp) 13:00 Facilitated Sessions, (Roger Maull and Phil Godsiff) 14.00 Refreshment break 15:15 The UK Government View (Martin Glasspool) 15:30 RCUK Q&A (Tracy Keys and Jerome Ma) 15:45 Event close; event available for further networking. Refreshments available List of Attendees Tomaso Aste UCL Sarah Atkinson King's College London John Baird EPSRC Jeremy Barnett Resilience Partners Limited Tom Bartindale Newcastle University Paul Brown HP Enterprise Mike Bryant King's College London Aeron Buchanan Ethcore Ltd Emily Clayton Bank of England James Davenport University of Bath Sam Davies Digital Catapult Silas Davis Eris Industries Borja de Balle Pigem Lancaster University Paul Durrant UK Games Talent and Finance CIC David Firth CESG Martin Glasspool Government Office for Science Philip Godsiff University of Surrey Ross Hancock Deloitte Garrick Hileman University of Cambridge Derwen Hinds CESG Jon Johnson Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UCL Paul Kearney BT Leanne Kemp Everledger Tracy Keys EPSRC Robert Learney Imperial College London Feng Li Cass Business School, City University London Jonathan Libenau London School of Economics Giacomo Livan University College London Panos Louvieris Brunel University London Jerome Ma EPSRC Xiao Ma University of Warwick Toktam Mahmoodi King's College London Roger Maull University of Surrey Alistair Milne Loughborough University Hélène Muddiman ProTechU, Hollywood Elite Music Catherine Mulligan Imperial College London Tope Omitola University of Southampton Julian Padget University of Bath Toby Proctor Innovate UK Nicholas Robinson Royal Holloway, University of London Vedad Sabljic American Express/University of Sussex Steve Schneider University of Surrey Duncan Sheehan University of Leeds Chris Sier FiNexus Andi Smart University of Exeter Ruth Slade EPSRC Chris Speed University of Edinburgh Claire Tansley EPSRC Philip Treleaven UCL Chander Velu University of Cambridge Rhia Visavadia EPSRC Adam Webb Digital Catapult Tom Wilkinson Home Office Zena Wood University of Greenwich Delegate Information Richard Adams Senior Research Fellow, University of Surrey Expertise: Innovation, sustainability, business models, DE research What use cases would you like to see Distributed Ledgers explored for and why? The Blockchain enables, for the first time, secure transfer of digitised assets without the need for trusted 3rd party intermediaries. To date, applications are mostly associated with cybercrime, illicit trade and financial services. We are not indifferent to the range of possible ends Blockchain technology can serve, and this project is focused on the emergence of Blockchain applications developed in the service of socially beneficial outcomes: Blockchain for Good (B4G). The realization of B4G raises questions about types of problem amenable to Blockchain solutions. Of particular interest is use of Distributed Ledger Technologies to address the 17 Sustainable Development Goals articulated by the United Nations: an ongoing project to address SDG 16.9 to “provide legal identity to all, including birth registration, by 2030” provides a springboard for this wider agenda. What research challenges would you foresee when exploring these use cases? Mapping the the different instantiations of the SDG challenges, both between and within individual SDG categories. - 2) Developing a coherent, generalisable analytic framework - 3) Synthesis of individual use cases for cumulative knowledge/theory building - 4) Access to and coordination of research in different scenarios What types of companies/researchers are you interested in working with to address the above challenges? Developers and entrepreneurs building DLT solutions to environmental and social challenges. Diverse academic researchers active in the space, from anthropologists to computer scientists. Tomaso Aste Professor, UCL Expertise: Computer science-complexity science What use cases would you like to see Distributed Ledgers explored for and why? • Personal data sharing • New financial services • Reputation generation and management • Digital identity management What research challenges would you foresee when exploring these use cases? • Tendency toward centralization of digital services (how to avoid it) • Economics of personal information • Trust and reputation • Systemic risks in digital economy caused by sentiment volatility Sarah Atkinson Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, King’s College London Expertise: Digital Audience Cultures (new modes of audience access and engagement); Transmedia Studies; Industrial Digital Film Production; Live Cinema, Digital Archives, Creative Digital Cultures. What use cases would you like to see Distributed Ledgers explored for and why? • Tracking and maintaining data, metadata, and links to assets created through a collaborative creative production process such as filmmaking, games design, or transmedia experience design, so that they are preserved and accessible (and monetized) for future audiences. • The cross-linking and relationships between digital film archival assets across collections (asset and data management, meta-data creation and linking). • Digital Rights Management and protection, sharing, access, use and reuse of Intellectual Property (IP) within and across the domains of Film, Broadcast and Games, in convergent & transmedial industries. What research challenges would you foresee when exploring these use cases? • How can distributed ledgers be developed that effectively map to, integrate with and build on existing industry workflow processes, softwares and distribution chains in the creative domains? What new commercial opportunities & business models could emerge enabling access to the assets generated by these processes? • How can diverse and disparate digital archival methodologies and frameworks in existence across the world, be mapped and reconciled through distributed ledgers to enable global archival access, searches and monetization across archival collections? • How can distributed ledgers be developed that are responsive and adaptive to a global digital economy which encompasses a diverse and shifting range of state- and country-specific legislative frameworks? What types of companies/researchers are you interested in working with to address the above challenges? Film Production Companies, Broadcast companies, Games Designers and Games Studios, Transmedia Production Companies, Film Archival Institutions, Intellectual Property Law specialists. Researchers of: Mathematics; Computer Science; Information and Communications Technology; Economics, Management and Business Studies, Socio Legal studies, Intellectual Property Law. Jeremy Barnett Director, Resilience Partners Limited Expertise: Barrister and ex Visiting Professor of law Informatics What use cases would you like to see Distributed Ledgers explored for and why? Algorithmic regulation, automated dispute resolution and other 'regtech' solutions. What research challenges would you foresee when exploring these use cases? Engaging the market. What types of companies/researchers are you interested in working with to address the above challenges? Working with UCL centre for Blockchain technology and the Financial Computing Centre. Tom Bartindale Senior Research Associate, Newcastle University Expertise: HCI What use cases would you like to see Distributed Ledgers explored for and why? As part of our ongoing research into participatory media technologies and new forms of content commissioning, we are interested in exploring the role of distributed ledgers for two key areas: maintaining provenance of meta-data associated with community created media, and allowing the production of meta-data to become decentralized to support freedom of contributors to annotate media. What research challenges would you foresee when exploring these use cases? We see trust as a key issue in the development of distributed ledgers for media creation applications. Trust is key between consumers and contributors, as well as in trusting meta-data produced by third-parties. Part of this issue involves a discussion around how to link content in a distributed ledger to external content in a way that prevents abuse, (e.g. by subsequently changing the related content). What types of companies/researchers are you interested in working with to address the above challenges? Our research currently focuses around professional photographers and news organisations as the source of content, with the community providing additional meta-data. We would like to work with a wider range of content producers and communities who can envision uses for such a content provenance and meta-data ecosystem, particularly initiated by community members rather than professionals. Sharon Baurey Head of Program – Design Products, PI FmS RdM, Royal College of Art Expertise: Design, materials’ engineering, communication, electronics and computer science. What use cases would you like to see Distributed Ledgers explored for and why? Based on our work as an ESPRC RdM (Redistributed Manufacturing) network, we would like to