Jamie Burke's keynote speech on the convergence of blockchain with IoT and AI at Wuzhen Blockchain Conference including announcements for their China expansion strategy. Download the presentation for the script he talked through during his presentation.

1. Convergence: The Next Internet

2. Trust machines, bridging sovereignties.

3. Expectations
Time
Innovation
Trigger
Peak of Inflated
Expectations
Bitcoin
2010
ICO Mania
2017
90% Correction
2019
2030
10 Year Cycle
Trough of
Disillusionment
Slope of Enlightenment

4. Beyond the cloud
Decentralized Era
(Digital Assets,
Serverless)
Hardware Era
(IBM)
Software Era
(Microsoft, SAP, Oracle)
Web Era
(Google, Facebook,
Amazon)
90-00s70-80s 10s-50-60s
Microprocessor
Transistor
Linux/HTTP
BlockchainsMore secure sovereignties, more energy efficient

5. Deployment Phase
Innovation Frenzy Synergy Consolidation
Installation (10 years) Deployment (10 years)
2009
Bitcoin
Whitepaper
2018/19
Correction
2015
Ethereum
Launch
2016-17
ICO Boom
We are 10 years into the installation phase of the technology and now after the market correction, we are moving into the deployment phase
Technology diffusion S-Curve
Stacks..

6. Impact
Time
DLT
AI
IoT
Big Data
Web 3
Agent Based Systems
Additive
Manufacturing
Dark Factories
Swarm Robotics
Spatial Web
5G
OSS
Quantum

7. ‘Data is the new oil’
Commodification: True Data Economy
Production, Distribution & Consumption

8. People
Bots Things
Tokens

9. Hardware Storage
(e.g. Trezor, KeepKey, Ledger)
Hardware Processing
(e.g. HSMs, Intel SGX, AMD-SP)
Hardware Networking
(e.g. Gateway, Switch, Bridge)
Ledgers
(Fetch,ai, Sovrin, IOTA, Cosmos)
Storage
(e.g. IPFS, Swarm, Sia)
Networking
(Rightmesh, Weaver Labs,
DataHop)
Bridges
(Cosmos)
Scaling
(e.g. Lightning, Plasma,
bloXroute)
Databases
(Haja Networks)
Authentication
(Sovrin)
Compute
(Agoric, Golem, Enigma)
Query
(Dia Data, FOAM, Chainlink,
Boson Protocol)
Middleware
(Ocean Protocol, Aragon)
UX
(Brave)
API
(Fission, Dia Data)
Applications
(Alkemi)
Marketplaces
(SEED)
Learning
(Fetch.ai)
Consumption
Distribution
Production Hardware
Distribution
Routing
Verification
Interfacing
Application
The Convergence Stack ™

10. Digital Belt: An Open Universal Economic System

11. Data
Knowledge
Bandwidth
Spectrum
Storage
Compute
Energy
Physical Space
Global Public Utilities

12. OutlierVentures.io/research

13. 20+ Protocols
50m lines of open source code
Alliance of 40 organisations
100 ambassadors / 15 Countries

14. Usable, Ubiquitous, Invisible Protocols
on boarding 99% of developers
#Diffusion2019

15. Commitment to China
• Opening a China office in 2020
• Engage Chinese provinces with a
Convergence Innovation Hubs
• 3 city tour: Shanghai, Beijing &
Hangzhou December 2019
(Launch at Proof of Value)
• Diffusion Dev Con in Shanghai
2020

16. Welcoming Sperax
● Hardware Based Consensus for
Enterprise Blockchain Solutions
● Proof of True Randomness (PoTR)
● Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
tamper-proof chip
● Coinvesting with FBG and CASH
Capital

17. @jamie247