Int'l Blockchain Congress to begin tomorrow in city

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Press Trust of India Hyderabad
Last Updated : Aug 02 2018 | 3:20 PM IST

: A three-day International Blockchain Congress-2018 begins here tomorrow with focus on emerging technology for enterprise, next general financial services and developing applications for the government.

Thought-provoking conversations would be held on various aspects of blockchain during the meet, a senior official of the state government said.

Telangana minister for IT and Industries KT Ramarao, Goa IT minister Rohan Khunte, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant and Tech Mahindra CEO CP Gurnani are among the prominent speakers at the inaugural, the official said.

The first two days of the conference will be held here while the third day of the event will be held in Goa, Abhishek Pitti, CEO of Nucleus Vision, organiser of the event had said earlier.

The NITI Aayog, Telangana and Goa governments are collaborating for the event.

Telangana will enter into MoUs with a few players, experts in blockchain technology, to adopt it in some of the government applications, the official explained.

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First Published: Aug 02 2018 | 3:20 PM IST

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