OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Time: Friday, March 16, 2018, 1:30–2:30pm
Location: UVic Engineering Computer Science Building ECS660
Talk Title: Blockchain 3.0: the rising of decentralized apps platform
Guest Speaker: Mr. Robert Mao, Founder & CEO of ArcBlock.io
Abstract: What’s Blockchain 3.0? What’s decentralized applications
platform? And why does it matter? This talk will present a brief
history of how blockchain technology evolved through generations in
the last decade and describe a promising future of the decentralized
apps platform that could potentially change the world as the Internet.
Biography: Robert Mao is the founder and CEO of ArcBlock, Inc.
ArcBlock is the world’s first blockchain ecosystem for building and
deploying decentralized applications, and aiming to elevate and excel
today’s blockchain applications and enable and accelerate tomorrow’s.
A serial entrepreneur and a former Microsoft research engineer, Mr.
Mao is passionate in social computing, artificial intelligence and
blockchain technology. He was the co-founder and the chairman of
Seattle Entrepreneurship Club.