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CordaCon showcases blockchain in production

cordacon Mike Hearn
This week’s R3 CordaCon in London had an enthusiastic tone, bordering on the evangelical. What was notable at the event was that a significant amount of the hype was coming from customers. Particularly those that have Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) projects in production such as GuildOne in the energy sector. Someone told R3’s CEO David Rutter that it was an ‘awesome movement’. He said: “That got me really jazzed up. I’m not sure what that means, but as long as I can commercialize a movement, I’m one happy man.” The event had 1151 attendees from 458 businesses. But Rutter himself wasn’t short on enthusiasm: “Pretend for a moment that you have this crazy idea that you want to deploy new technology that could change everything about business, everything about the business processes… That thought is completely crazy, and who would attempt that? But we kind of have.”

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