International Conference on Digital Trust, AI and the Future (Edinburgh)

​​9:45-10:00: TRUST4Futures and Scottish Centre of Excellence in Digital Trust and DLT, Bill Buchanan OBE.

​10:00- 10:30 Keynote: Colin Cook, Director of Economic Development in the Scottish Government. 

​10:30-11:15: Fireside chat: Federico Charosky (Quorum Cyber).

​11:15-11:30 Coffee Break

​11:30-12:15 Blockchain/DLT in Business and Society:

​Chair: Peter Ferry, CEO, TRUST Centre of Excellence

• ​Martin Doherty Hughes: Former MP, Chair of All Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain, Fellow of the British Blockchain Association.

• ​Martin Trotter: Regtech leader, BRS Grant Thornton

• ​Martin Halford, CTO SICCAR and Tech Steering Committee Accord Project

• ​Chris Tate, CEO Condatis

​12:15-13:00 Blockchain/DLT in Financial Services

​Chair: Nicola Anderson, CEO, Fintech Scotland

• ​Nishant Govil, MD, Innovation Adoption, BlackRock

• ​Kara Kennedy, Head of Digital Assets, JP Morgan

• ​Nick Jones, CEO Zumo

• ​Dia Banerji: Imagine Ventures

​13:00-14:00 Lunch

​14:00-14:30 Trusted Data Sharing Platforms, Amit Gupta, Acubed.IT.

​14:30-15:15 Quantum Computing, Madjid Tehrani, ENU.

​15:15-15:45: The Future of Cybersecurity, Derek A Whigham, Lloyds Bank.

​15:45-16:00 Coffee break

​16:00-16:30 Fireside chat: Bruce Schneier.