1. The society of the future is Smart

2. Digitalization of a company
Source: Industrial Internet Consortium

3. Extended Manufacturing Process
Platform
Ecosystem Digitalization
“Digital Twins”
● Beyond data sharing
● Secure value exchange
● Avoiding central entities
(companies are peers)
● Avoid power imbalances

4. Private
consortiums
Transact among
anonymous parties
without a central entity
Public
anonymous
Different problems => Different solutions
Public
permissioned
Transact among weakly
known parties without a
central entity
Transact among very
well known parties
without a central entity
Requires interoperable
identities and an efficient
legal system
Typically in a regulated
and controlled
environment
No recourse to legal
system

5. 330 members and growing ...

6. The EU Blockchain Roundtable: "Bringing industries together for Europe to lead in
blockchain technologies" took place on 20 November in Brussels in presence of the
Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, Mariya Gabriel and the Director-General
for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, Roberto Viola. The Roundtable's
objective is to gather support among EU industry leaders and policy makers for a
comprehensive EU strategy to boost innovation and exploitation of blockchain technology.