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GBA Public Webinar "Credentialing Without Compromise" 12 noon EDT Wednesday, July 23rd as part of GBA's Healthcare & Life Sciences Monthly Webinar Series Government Blockchain Association's Healthcare & Life Science Month Public Webinar on "GBA Healthcare Life Science Webinar: Credentialing Without Compromise: How Blockchain Secures and Streamlines Healthcare Identity" July 23rd, Wednesday 12 noon to 1 pm

Join us for the Government Blockchain Association's (GBA) Healthcare & Life Sciences (HLS) Monthly Webinar Series, taking place the 4th Wednesday of every month from 12-1 pm EDT.

Each month delivers a deep-dive into a specific topic or theme being taken up by the HLS Working Group.

Join the GBA HLS Webinar at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r8DP_2fMSqeFd2kg0MUksA#/registration Webinar ID 846 9107 1362 Passcode 563973

GBA Healthcare Life Science Webinar: Credentialing Without Compromise: How Blockchain Secures and Streamlines Healthcare Identity.

Explore how blockchain transforms healthcare credentialing from a fragmented, manual burden into a fast, verifiable, and sovereign system.

Understand how decentralized identity frameworks enhance compliance, reduce fraud, and empower professionals to own and manage their credentials across institutions. Learn how Vannadium's data infrastructure supports real-time credential validation without replacing existing EHRs or core systems.

Vannadium executives provide practical insights from on sovereign data strategies for healthcare: Walt Rampata, Vannadium Co-Founder &Exec VP Laura Fredericks, Vannadium Chief Marketing Officer

Walt Rampata, EVP & Co-Founder·Vannadium Walt Rampata focuses on driving company growth. With over two decades of professional experience, his career is marked by a consistent record of developing successful brands, building effective teams, and increasing revenue. A seasoned entrepreneur and marketing expert, Rampata has a history of successful ventures, including serving as CEO & Co-Founder of WeGro and President and Co-Founder of Mindbuzz. His pragmatic approach is centered on achieving measurable bottom-line results.In his current role at Vannadium, Rampata leverages his extensive experience to advance the understanding and adoption of Blockchain, Web 3.0, and Distributed Ledger Technologies. He is focused on educating both consumers and industries on how these technologies can solve critical challenges.

Laura Fredericks, Vannadium Chief Marketing Officer Laura Fredericks is a marketing executive and serial entrepreneur specializing in the technology sector. In her capacity as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Vannadium, she directs the company's growth and marketing strategies. Fredericks has founded four separate companies, providing her with a comprehensive understanding of the entire business lifecycle, from conception to scaling. Her experience is not limited to an advisory role; she has been directly involved in the operational and strategic challenges of building businesses. Her tenure as the head of Consumer Product Marketing at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange demonstrates her capability within the financial technology and cryptocurrency markets. At Kraken, she led initiatives that were directly responsible for increasing transactional uplift by over $60 million. This was achieved through targeted consumer marketing campaigns and product marketing strategies. Her skill set includes market expansion, brand development, and strategic growth planning for technology-focused organizations.

Hosted by Heather Leigh Flannery Chair, GBA HLS Working Group Heather Leigh Flannery is an applied futurist, technologist, policy and patient advocate, and complex systems theorist. She co-founded AI MINDSystems Foundation in March 2024 with Chief Scientific Officer, Sean Manion, PhD, and other leaders with a timely vision for structural interventions for humanity's health, safety, prosperity, and privacy, and serves as CEO. Heather also Chairs the Healthcare & Life Sciences Working Group at the Government Blockchain Association (GBA) and the Washington, DC Chapter of AI 2030, and develops standards at IEEE.

About GBA The Government Blockchain Association (GBA) is a nonprofit (501c6) organization committed to advancing blockchain technology standards, facilitating industry education, and ensuring a trusted, secure ecosystem for blockchain solutions. For more information, visit https://gbaglobal.org/.

Join the GBA HLS Webinar at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r8DP_2fMSqeFd2kg0MUksA#/registration Webinar ID 846 9107 1362 Passcode 563973

For more information contact Bob Miko, [email protected] 203 378 2803 Bob Miko GBA Director of Public Relations Editor in Chief/Producer Pacific Dialogue 203 378 2803 [email protected]

GBA Public Webinar "Credentialing Without Compromise" 12 noon EDT Wednesday, June 25th as part of GBA's Healthcare & Life Sciences Monthly Webinar Series Government Blockchain Association's Healthcare & Life Science Month Public Webinar on "GBA Healthcare Life Science Webinar: Credentialing Without Compromise: How Blockchain Secures and Streamlines Healthcare Identity" June 25th, Wednesday 12 noon to 1pm Join us for the Government Blockchain Association's (GBA) Healthcare & Life Sciences (HLS) Monthly Webinar Series, taking place the 4th Wednesday of every month from 12-1 pm EDT. Each month delivers a deep-dive into a specific topic or theme being taken up by the HLS Working Group.

Join the GBA HLS Webinar at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r8DP_2fMSqeFd2kg0MUksA#/registration

GBA Healthcare Life Science Webinar: Credentialing Without Compromise: How Blockchain Secures and Streamlines Healthcare Identity. Explore how blockchain transforms healthcare credentialing from a fragmented, manual burden into a fast, verifiable, and sovereign system. Understand how decentralized identity frameworks enhance compliance, reduce fraud, and empower professionals to own and manage their credentials across institutions. Learn how Vannadium's data infrastructure supports real-time credential validation without replacing existing EHRs or core systems. Vannadium executives provide practical insights from on sovereign data strategies for healthcare: Walt Rampata, Vannadium Co-Founder &Exec VP Laura Fredericks, Vannadium Chief Marketing Officer

Walt Rampata, EVP & Co-Founder·Vannadium Walt Rampata focuses on driving company growth. With over two decades of professional experience, his career is marked by a consistent record of developing successful brands, building effective teams, and increasing revenue. A seasoned entrepreneur and marketing expert, Rampata has a history of successful ventures, including serving as CEO & Co-Founder of WeGro and President and Co-Founder of Mindbuzz. His pragmatic approach is centered on achieving measurable bottom-line results.In his current role at Vannadium, Rampata leverages his extensive experience to advance the understanding and adoption of Blockchain, Web 3.0, and Distributed Ledger Technologies. He is focused on educating both consumers and industries on how these technologies can solve critical challenges.

Laura Fredericks, Vannadium Chief Marketing Officer Laura Fredericks is a marketing executive and serial entrepreneur specializing in the technology sector. In her capacity as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Vannadium, she directs the company's growth and marketing strategies. Fredericks has founded four separate companies, providing her with a comprehensive understanding of the entire business lifecycle, from conception to scaling. Her experience is not limited to an advisory role; she has been directly involved in the operational and strategic challenges of building businesses. Her tenure as the head of Consumer Product Marketing at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange demonstrates her capability within the financial technology and cryptocurrency markets. At Kraken, she led initiatives that were directly responsible for increasing transactional uplift by over $60 million. This was achieved through targeted consumer marketing campaigns and product marketing strategies. Her skill set includes market expansion, brand development, and strategic growth planning for technology-focused organizations.

Hosted by Heather Leigh Flannery Chair, GBA HLS Working Group Heather Leigh Flannery is an applied futurist, technologist, policy and patient advocate, and complex systems theorist. She co-founded AI MINDSystems Foundation in March 2024 with Chief Scientific Officer, Sean Manion, PhD, and other leaders with a timely vision for structural interventions for humanity's health, safety, prosperity, and privacy, and serves as CEO. Heather also Chairs the Healthcare & Life Sciences Working Group at the Government Blockchain Association (GBA) and the Washington, DC Chapter of AI 2030, and develops standards at IEEE.

About GBA The Government Blockchain Association (GBA) is a nonprofit (501c6) organization committed to advancing blockchain technology standards, facilitating industry education, and ensuring a trusted, secure ecosystem for blockchain solutions. For more information, visit https://gbaglobal.org/.

Join the GBA HLS Webinar at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r8DP_2fMSqeFd2kg0MUksA#/registration

For more information contact Bob Miko, [email protected] 203 378 2803

Bob Miko GBA Director of Public Relations Editor in Chief/Producer Pacific Dialogue 203 378 2803 [email protected]

Join us at Akamai’s office for refreshments for a few presentations about the Iceberg Lakehouse from 6-9pm. Presentation include:

———— Architecting an Iceberg Lakehouse From Alex Merced, Head of DevRel, Dremio

Building a production-grade Iceberg lakehouse takes more than just a table format—it requires a full architectural blueprint. This talk takes a layered view of the modern lakehouse stack, walking through the essential components: cloud object storage, data ingestion pipelines, catalog and governance layers, federation and integration points, and query and consumption engines. We'll explore how Iceberg fits into each layer, how to make key design decisions, and what best practices have emerged for assembling a scalable, open data platform. Whether you're building from scratch or maturing an existing stack, this session is your architectural guide to making Iceberg work in the real world.

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Building Egnatia: How We’re Powering Next-Gen Data at Akamai with Apache Iceberg From Endi Caushi, Senior Software Engineer, Akamai

At Akamai, we’ve embarked on a journey to modernize our data infrastructure with Apache Iceberg at its core. In this session, we’ll share how we’re building Egnatia, our internal data platform designed to be scalable, efficient, and cloud-native—empowering teams across the company to work more effectively with data.

We’ll talk about why we chose Iceberg to underpin our lakehouse architecture, and how it’s helping us solve critical challenges like data consistency, delayed processing, and rigid schemas. From replacing legacy Perl-based pipelines to enabling real-time backfilling, Egnatia is transforming how we ingest, manage, and analyze data.

We’ll also highlight the technologies surrounding Iceberg in our ecosystem—including DuckDB for preprocessing, Argo Workflows for orchestration, Volcano as a batch scheduler, Hive Metastore as a data catalog and Trino for interactive queries—as well as how we’re running this stack on Kubernetes and S3-compatible object storage.

We’ll close with a behind-the-scenes look at our roadmap—how we’re evolving the Egnatia platform to scale further, improve reliability and observability, and accelerate data delivery across the organization with greater accuracy and efficiency.

------- Amazon S3 Sean Sullivan staff engineer, Grubhub

Modern systems need to manage an increasing amount of data. Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) is an important building block for large data applications. In this talk, we will share our experiences and lessons learned from using S3 in Java based systems. We'll cover technical challenges that Java developers face when writing S3 code with the AWS SDK. We will discuss design decisions, application dependencies, and error handling. We'll share mistakes that we made and bugs that we encountered.

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GBA Public Webinar "Blockchain Injects Trust & Assurance into Health Data, Analytics & Clinical AI" 12 noon EDT Wednesday, April 23rd as part of GBA's Healthcare & Life Sciences Monthly Webinar Series

Government Blockchain Association's Healthcare & Life Science Month Public Webinar on "How Blockchain is Injecting Trust & Assurance into Health Data, Analytics & Clinical AI" April 23, Wednesday 12 noon to 1pm

Join us for the Government Blockchain Association's (GBA) Healthcare & Life Sciences (HLS) Monthly Webinar Series, taking place the 4th Wednesday of every month from 12-1pm EST. Each month will deliver a deep-dive into a specific topic or theme being taken up by the HLS Working Group.

Join the Webinar at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r8DP_2fMSqeFd2kg0MUksA or https://rb.gy/26ocq9.

Clinical Squared Chief Executive Officer Marquis Allen will discuss Blockchain utility for Healthcare enterprise & government, blockchain identity opportunities and where AI projects that benefit from a blockchain layer.

Heather Leigh Flannery Chair\, GBA HLS Working Group \| Host\, Monthly HLS Livestream Series· Government Blockchain Association Heather Leigh Flannery is an applied futurist, technologist, policy and patient advocate, and complex systems theorist. She co-founded AI MINDSystems Foundation in March 2024 with Chief Scientific Officer, Sean Manion, PhD, and other leaders with a timely vision for structural interventions for humanity's health, safety, prosperity, and privacy, and serves as CEO. Heather also Chairs the Healthcare & Life Sciences Working Group at the Government Blockchain Association (GBA) and the Washington, DC Chapter of AI 2030, and develops standards at IEEE.

Marquis Allen Chief Executive Officer Clinical Squared As an IT professional for the past 20+ years, Marquis has had the great opportunity to work with many innovative organizations. When he transitioned into the clinical IT space, his fascination for the possibilities of what technology could do was piqued by learning about the complex problems that clinical practices face in leveraging technology to care for patients in the 21st century. Blockchain and AI took center stage, and form the foundations of differentiating value Clinical Squared is bringing the US Federal and state government and commercial clients.

About GBA

The Government Blockchain Association (GBA) is a nonprofit (501c6) organization committed to advancing blockchain technology standards, facilitating industry education, and ensuring a trusted, secure ecosystem for blockchain solutions. For more information, visit https://gbaglobal.org/.

For more information contact Bob Miko, [email protected] 203 378 2803

-- Bob Miko GBA Director of Public Relations Editor in Chief/Producer Pacific Dialogue 203 378 2803 [email protected]

IMPORTANT: You can only register for this event on Eventbrite, here: https://April2025ETM.eventbrite.co.uk/?aff=EHSC

With 83% of developers using or planning to use AI to enhance their workflows (Venafi, Septeber 2024), DevOps teams are facing an unprecedented challenge—how do they manage more code, more data, and more complexity without spiraling costs (again)? We’re teaming up with the London Observability Engineering MeetUp during KubeCon London week for an evening of insights, real-world strategies, and discussions with industry experts as we tackle the next big shift in Observability and DevOps - speakers include:

• Christine Yen (CEO of Honeycomb)
• Fintan Ryan (Director of Market Insights at GitHub)
• Guy Fighel (Former SVP & GM of Data Platform Engineering & AI at New Relic)
• Further panel speakers to be announced

The discussion will be moderated by Sean Madigan (CEO of Kerno and Co-Founder of the London Observability Engineering Meetup), who will also provide a positioning talk to shape the panel discussion. There will be flash talk presentations from three innovative companies:

• Kerno is a simple way for developers and on-call teams to cut through production noise, quickly identify business-critical application issues and resolve them independently with minimal effort. Without any code changes, Kerno seamlessly integrates kernel telemetry, app logic, and business context into one lightweight yet powerful experience – Karim Traiaia (Co-Founder) and Sandra Tirado (Founding Head of UX).
• Velocity is an AI-First Runtime Observability Platform that provides faster incident resolution with actionable, accurate insights. Velocity enriches other core systems, such as PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Slack, etc., without adding another dashboard to manage. On-callers can confidently jump into incidents with clear paths for investigation and fully digested context at hand - Tal Kain (CEO & Founder).
• Smithy is a framework/SDK and an optional execution engine that allows practitioners to orchestrate any security tool and translate its information to the popular security results standard OCSF. Translating outputs to OCSF format is not an easy process as the standard can be loose in some parts - Diana Licheva (Founding Software Engineer)

Sincere thanks to London Stock Exchange Group for hosting the Enterprise Tech Monthly and to all our annual sponsors for 2025.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

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2. Registration will close 48 hours before the event (on the night of Sunday 30th March).
3. Please bring Government Issued photo ID, as it will be required for venue entry.

GBA Public Webinar on Transforming Healthcare & Life Sciences with Blockchain: DeSci

Wed, Feb 26, 2025, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (your local time) (New York/GT-05)

Call Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89389491610?pwd=QZ3ZUzspYzOyIMpcXANpp85cbzHlQr.1

Wednesday, Feb 26th for a livestream discussion on Decentralized Science! Experts Rama Rao of Bloqcube Inc and Heather Leigh Flannery and Sean Manion of AI MINDSystems Foundation will take us through the ongoing transformation blockchain is bringing the Life Science and Healthcare industry.

The future of decentralized science (DeSci) featuring three pioneering leaders in the field:

🎙️Heather Leigh Flannery, Co-Founder and CEO of AI MINDSystems Foundation 🎙️Rama Rao, CEO of Bloqcube Inc 🎙️Dr. Sean Manion, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of AI MINDSystems Foundation

This dynamic panel will explore how DeSci is revolutionizing research, data sharing, and collaboration in healthcare and life sciences. Our speakers will discuss:

📝 The potential of DeSci to accelerate scientific discovery and improve patient outcomes 📝 How blockchain and Web3 technologies are enabling new models of data ownership and monetization 📝 The role of privacy-preserving technologies in ethical AI and data governance

About the speakers:

❇️Heather Leigh Flannery is the Co-Founder and CEO of AI MINDSystems Foundation, a nonprofit launched in 2024 to advance health, safety, prosperity, and privacy through ethical AI and systemic interventions. A recognized leader in blockchain and healthcare innovation, she previously founded Equideum Health (formerly ConsenSys Health) and Obesity Prevention, Policy, and Management, Inc., driving transformative change in digital health and decentralized clinical trials.

❇️Rama Rao is the CEO and founder of Bloqcube, a company dedicated to enhancing clinical trials and research data management through blockchain technology. With over 27 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, he has held leadership positions at major firms like Eli Lilly and Novartis, where he developed a passion for addressing inefficiencies in the pharmaceutical value chain.

❇️Sean Manion, PhD, is the Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder of AI MINDSystems Foundation, leading research and development at the intersection of AI and healthcare. He previously served as Chief Scientific Officer at Equideum Health and ConsenSys Health, where he applied blockchain to improve healthcare outcomes.

Wednesday Feb 26th Noon EST Event Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89389491610?pwd=QZ3ZUzspYzOyIMpcXANpp85cbzHlQr.1

This event is part of a series -- Register here to stay up to date! https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r8DP_2fMSqeFd2kg0MUksA Contact Bob Miko, GBA Director of Public Relations, [email protected] 203 378 2803

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To access this webinar, please register here: https://hubs.li/Q021Rn6z0

Topic: “Unlocking the Power of Knowledge Graphs for Generative AI in Enterprise Environments”

Speaker: Sean Martin, CTO & Co–Founder of Cambridge Semantics Sean's experience covers multiple aspects of starting and growing a software company, including holding various titles from President through to co-lead dish washer. He continues in a leadership role as CTO and serves on the board.

Abstract: Join us for an insightful exploration of how Knowledge Graphs are revolutionizing the way enterprises harness the capabilities of Generative AI.

Webinar Highlights: - Understand the rapid rise and significance of Generative AI in the data sphere. - Discover the challenges and risks associated with implementing Generative AI in enterprise settings. - Learn how Knowledge Graphs serve as a foundational technology to address these challenges. - Explore how Knowledge Graphs enable accurate responses to natural language queries and ensure data provenance. - Dive into legal considerations\, access controls\, and data privacy in the context of Generative AI. - Get practical insights on implementing Knowledge Graphs for Generative AI with real-world case studies. - Engage in a Q&A session with experts in the field.

Why Attend? In less than a year, Generative AI has transformed from a niche technology to a sought-after capability across industries. However, unlocking its potential in enterprise environments requires addressing critical concerns related to accuracy, privacy, and legality. This webinar will equip you with the knowledge and strategies to make Generative AI a success within your organization.

Who Should Attend: - Data Scientists - AI Enthusiasts - Business Leaders - IT Professionals - Decision-makers

ODSC Links: • Get free access to more talks/trainings like this at Ai+ Training platform: https://hubs.li/H0Zycsf0 • ODSC blog: https://opendatascience.com/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPENDATASCI • Twitter: https://twitter.com/_ODSC & @odsc • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/open-data-science • Slack Channel: https://hubs.li/Q01_Yrgb0 • Code of conduct: https://odsc.com/code-of-conduct/

To access this webinar, please register here: https://hubs.li/Q021Rn6z0

Topic: “Unlocking the Power of Knowledge Graphs for Generative AI in Enterprise Environments”

Speaker: Sean Martin, CTO & Co–Founder of Cambridge Semantics Sean's experience covers multiple aspects of starting and growing a software company, including holding various titles from President through to co-lead dish washer. He continues in a leadership role as CTO and serves on the board.

Abstract: Join us for an insightful exploration of how Knowledge Graphs are revolutionizing the way enterprises harness the capabilities of Generative AI.

Webinar Highlights: - Understand the rapid rise and significance of Generative AI in the data sphere. - Discover the challenges and risks associated with implementing Generative AI in enterprise settings. - Learn how Knowledge Graphs serve as a foundational technology to address these challenges. - Explore how Knowledge Graphs enable accurate responses to natural language queries and ensure data provenance. - Dive into legal considerations\, access controls\, and data privacy in the context of Generative AI. - Get practical insights on implementing Knowledge Graphs for Generative AI with real-world case studies. - Engage in a Q&A session with experts in the field.

Why Attend? In less than a year, Generative AI has transformed from a niche technology to a sought-after capability across industries. However, unlocking its potential in enterprise environments requires addressing critical concerns related to accuracy, privacy, and legality. This webinar will equip you with the knowledge and strategies to make Generative AI a success within your organization.

Who Should Attend: - Data Scientists - AI Enthusiasts - Business Leaders - IT Professionals - Decision-makers

ODSC Links: • Get free access to more talks/trainings like this at Ai+ Training platform: https://hubs.li/H0Zycsf0 • ODSC blog: https://opendatascience.com/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPENDATASCI • Twitter: https://twitter.com/_ODSC & @odsc • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/open-data-science • Slack Channel: https://hubs.li/Q01_Yrgb0 • Code of conduct: https://odsc.com/code-of-conduct/

To access this webinar, please register here: https://hubs.li/Q021Rn6z0

Topic: “Unlocking the Power of Knowledge Graphs for Generative AI in Enterprise Environments”

Speaker: Sean Martin, CTO & Co–Founder of Cambridge Semantics Sean's experience covers multiple aspects of starting and growing a software company, including holding various titles from President through to co-lead dish washer. He continues in a leadership role as CTO and serves on the board.

Abstract: Join us for an insightful exploration of how Knowledge Graphs are revolutionizing the way enterprises harness the capabilities of Generative AI.

Webinar Highlights: - Understand the rapid rise and significance of Generative AI in the data sphere. - Discover the challenges and risks associated with implementing Generative AI in enterprise settings. - Learn how Knowledge Graphs serve as a foundational technology to address these challenges. - Explore how Knowledge Graphs enable accurate responses to natural language queries and ensure data provenance. - Dive into legal considerations\, access controls\, and data privacy in the context of Generative AI. - Get practical insights on implementing Knowledge Graphs for Generative AI with real-world case studies. - Engage in a Q&A session with experts in the field.

Why Attend? In less than a year, Generative AI has transformed from a niche technology to a sought-after capability across industries. However, unlocking its potential in enterprise environments requires addressing critical concerns related to accuracy, privacy, and legality. This webinar will equip you with the knowledge and strategies to make Generative AI a success within your organization.

Who Should Attend: - Data Scientists - AI Enthusiasts - Business Leaders - IT Professionals - Decision-makers

ODSC Links: • Get free access to more talks/trainings like this at Ai+ Training platform: https://hubs.li/H0Zycsf0 • ODSC blog: https://opendatascience.com/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPENDATASCI • Twitter: https://twitter.com/_ODSC & @odsc • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/open-data-science • Slack Channel: https://hubs.li/Q01_Yrgb0 • Code of conduct: https://odsc.com/code-of-conduct/