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Fawaz Shakralla, Head of IT at Bahrain Institute of Political Development

Fawaz Shakralla


Head of IT
Bahrain Institute of Political Development

Head of IT at BIPD and Founder of Btech Blockchain Group with over seventeen years experience in IT, covering Saudi Arabia, and South Africa.  He has successfully completed projects for cloud services, telecom, banking, and the government sector. Fawaz started the blockchain journey in 2016 after reading Blockchain Revolutions by Alex Tapscott. Astonished by what blockchain has to offer, Btech Blockchain Group was founded with the main purpose to conduct awareness sessions and training in blockchain development    

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Conference Day Two: Wednesday, 20 February 2019

Wednesday, February 20th, 2019

10:00 AM TECH TALK: STANDARDISATION AND SECURITY: How to connect legacy systems with blocks

  • Lack of centralised standards combined with potential security vulnerabilities and concerns about data privacy are perceived as key challenges to the wider adoption of Blockchain
  • Why standards and interoperability matter for a secure infrastructure?
  • The possible vulnerabilities when connecting legacy systems with new blockchain projects and how to protect them
  • How different blockchain projects can cause vulnerability and the importance of connecting and interoperating between different blockchain projects

11:30 AM BIG PICTURE: Building a sustainable blockchain use-case