As part of the series of Road to GES events, in the run up to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, NITI Aayog along with Proffer, a block-chain startup founded by graduates of MIT and Harvard, are organizing a Blockchain summit and hackathon at IIT Delhi from Nov 10-13, 2017.
The objective of the event is to explore how blockchain architectures can enable a new digital infrastructure for India, improving efficiency, transparency, privacy, and cost across all sectors.
In the upcoming event 1,500+ students from different universities such as from IITs, MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, and top engineering institutions around the world will be participating in the event, with 500 attending in-person on IIT Delhi’s campus.
Also world’s biggest companies like Microsoft, IBM, Accel, Coinbase, and Amazon AWS are sponsoring $17,000+ in prizes to reward the top ‘5 blockchain-based application’s addressing problems in government/enterprise infrastructure, finance, energy markets, supply chain, decentralized Aadhar identities, information exchange, and more.
On the evening of Friday November 10, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant will deliver a keynote, sharing his perspective on how blockchain technology can transform the Indian economy and presenting his vision for IndiaChain – a blockchain-enabled infrastructure for Indian enterprise and government.
Along with the representative from ministries other companies representatives will also address the crowed on Friday evening and Saturday morning.
