OECD/IEA Forum on Blockchain

ISGAN Chair Karin Widegren will speak at the OECD/IEA Forum on Blockchain in Paris (4-5 September 2018). The OECD Blockchain Policy Forum will explore the impact blockchain is set to have across a wide range of sectors and key policy areas. The discussions will focus on blockchain's potential in addressing current and future policy challenges, its limitations, as well as risks that could arise and ways to mitigate them.

Blockchain has the potential to transform the functioning of a wide range of industries. Its features can increase transparency and traceability, facilitate market access and improve the efficiency of transactions. Fulfilling blockchain’s potential, however, depends on the integrity of the processes and requires adequate policies and measures to unleash this potential while addressing the risks of misuse. Governments and the international community will play a significant role in shaping policy and regulatory frameworks that are aligned with the emerging challenges and foster transparent, fair and stable markets as a basis for the use of blockchain.

The OECD Blockchain Policy Forum is the first major international conference to take stock of blockchain’s impacts across the full range of government activities and public priorities. The Forum will address the benefits and risks of blockchain for our economies and societies, begin to identify good policy and regulatory approaches, and investigate uses in specific policy areas. The OECD will welcome over 400 senior decision-makers from the public and private sectors, experts, academics and other stakeholders for these landmark discussions. Participants will focus on:

Blockchain’s potential global economic impact

Implications on privacy and cybersecurity

Using blockchain to enhance inclusiveness

Using blockchain to promote green growth and sustainability

Using blockchain to strengthen governance and enforcement practices

For more information: http://www.oecd.org/

update:

(ISGAN Chair Karin Widegren and Claire Henly, Managing Director from the Energy Web Foundation and moderator of the energy session)

The Forum gathered more than 1000 senior decision makers from the privat and public sector, experts academics and other stakeholders persons and an interesting fact presented was that outside the financial sector energy has been the second largest investment sector for blockchain applications with distributed production and peer to peer trading.

(Presentation of Karin Widegren: “Blockchain in the Energy Domain – Regulatory Perspectives”)