Azure Blockchain

Speakers

Mahdi Alirezaie – Blockchain Americas GBB

Diptendu Samajpati – Blockhain partner manager

• Workbench Product Page:
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• Documentation:
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/blockchain-workbench/
• Github Samples:
https://github.com/Azure-Samples/blockchain/
Blockchain establishes a secure, shared
source of truth
Data is stored in a ledger—
a record of every transaction

Everyone in the network has an

individual, identical copy

The ledger can only be updated by

network consensus, and
information can’t be altered or
deleted without the knowledge of
the whole network
Cryptographic Public and Transaction Smart
hashes private keys chains contracts
 Problem
Business How to trust that the right thing will happen in the future?
processes do
not complete
Solution
instantaneously Host immutable, deterministic code on chain
Smart Contracts
There are significant benefits to this approach

Reduce cost Mitigate risk Reimagine processes

Remove friction and Reduce security threats from Digitize processes beyond the four
enable direct interaction fraud, hacking, and data walls of your own business to
between parties manipulation reshape market dynamics
Where is Blockchain valuable?
Blockchain technology supports two main goals

EFFICIENCY TRANSFORMATION
 Business benefits provided by blockchain networks
and smart contracts
Blockchain can bring greater transparency, security, and efficiency in our current business processes eliminating
inefficiencies. It can enable new business models based on distributed marketplaces and technology

Eliminates Intermediaries
1 Allows industries to redefine or create new business models.

Reduces Fraud Related to Data Integrity

2 Highly secure and transparent, making it nearly impossible to
change historical records.

Increases Efficiency and Speed

3 For transactions involving multiple parties in a trustless environment it
enables fast settlement time.

Reduce Counterparty Risk

4 Smart contracts enable “trustless” transactions between multiple
parties

Increases Revenue and Savings

5 Potential savings and new revenue opportunities through more
efficient processes and reduced costs.
There are commonalities across use cases

Asset transfer and Cross-organizational Multiparty

provenance workflow auditing
 The types of assets vary across industries
• Ensuring supply chain
integrity e.g. sensitive
pharmaceuticals
• Managing movement
across a complex supply
chain
• Preventing tampering
and counterfeit
$200B market
Asset transfer and
provenance
• A lack of connectivity, • Marine Insurance is • Creating a system to
transparency, and incredibly complex track reward points
traceability in the food
• Premiums change based • Enabling system to span
supply chain causes food
on location, cargo, crew, multiple partner
waste and inefficiencies.
and economical issues organizations
• Vision - create a shared
• Real-time accurate, • Reducing the risk of
food-safety utility for
dynamic and fair discrepancy
the agricultural industry
underwriting and pricing
that could guarantee
based on increased $40B Fraud Market
crop safety from farm to
visibility
fork.
• Accurate audit trail
Cross-organizational Multiparty
workflow auditing
We’ve seen this pattern in scenarios across industries
Banking and
Manufacturing Retail Insurance Capital Markets Government Health

Asset tracking Loyalty tracking Claims management Audit compliance Licensing and ID Personalized
medicine
Real-time auction for Product provenance Securitized Bond issuance Land registry
supplier contracts debt/Property Records sharing
Logistics Trade finance Benefits distribution
payments
Supply chain management Compliance
Loan syndication Aid tracking
transparency Digital rewards Fraud detection Pharmaceutical
Post trade settlement Military security
Dynamic Automated provenance
P2P selling
commodities pricing underwriting Global payments Voting
Ticket purchases Derivatives trading Copyrights
KYC/AML Justice system
administration

Asset transfer and Cross-organizational Multiparty

provenance workflow auditing
Identifying use cases
Don’t overlook the transformative aspect

EFFICIENCY TRANSFORMATION
 Characteristic Example

A shared repository of information is Ledger that stores financial assets in which an owner and owned assets are tracked and
Shared repository
used by multiple parties shared with other internal/external parties (e.g. regulators and other geographical units)

More than one entity generates

Payments system collectively managed and maintained by a small group of banks, but
Multiple writers transactions that require modifications each bank has millions of end users transacting with their bank
to the shared repository

Multiple parties within a trade finance arrangement (e.g. importer, exporter, issuing bank,
A level of mistrust exists between entities
Minimal trust receiving bank, correspondent banks and customs) that do not “trust” each other and,
that generate transactions therefore, institute layer of verification and impose collateral requirements.

One (or multiple) intermediary or a

Removing and/or reducing the importance of a central intermediary whose primary role
Intermediaries central gatekeeper is present to enforce is to provide “trust” to the post-trade ecosystem.
trust

Interaction or dependency between A situation in which Alice needs to send funds to Bob, then Bob needs to send funds to
Transaction dependencies transactions is created by different Charlie. Bob’s transaction is dependent on Alice’s transaction, and one cannot verify Bob’s
entities. transaction without checking Alice’s first.
 Good Intentions for Enterprise Blockchain

1. There MUST be more than a few legally separated parties that intend to
collaborate for reasons that will persist beyond the “honeymoon” stage

2. Parties must intend to control their own part of the infrastructure and
prevent any other party having administrative control over the system or
business rules

3. Parties must intend to achieve true tamper resistance of the data which
means they can assure no one colluded to tamper with ledger or business
rules

4. In permissioned sense - parties must intend to keep transactions and

business rules private to involved parties, which means members should
NOT be able to always see what everyone else is doing
 Types of blockchain networks

Public Private Consortium

Person a Location 1 Woodgrove

Financial

Consortium Woodgrove
6 Financial
Department
Investment
Location 2 Contoso
B consortium
Bank
c

Bank A
Public
blockchain Blockchain
Consortium
Bank 1 Person B

Northwind
Department Insurance c
A
Location 3 Traders

Northwind
Bank 6
Traders
Bank b
Location 4

• Many, unknown participants • Known participants from one + orgs • Known participants from multiple orgs
• Writes by all participants • Write permissions centralized • Writes require consensus of n participants
• Reads by all participants • Reads may be public or restricted • Reads may be public or restricted
• Consensus by Proof of Work • Multiple algorithms for consensus • Multiple algorithms for consensus
Blockchain is only a part of the whole system
Example: Blockchain in Supply chain
Why isn’t everyone using Blockchain right now?
Blockchain ledgers by themselves are incomplete
network applications
Blockchain with Microsoft
Blockchain with Microsoft Azure
Choose the ledger technology that meets your
needs
Deploy in the topology of your choice

1 Dev/Test: Enable developers to get started

Single node (virtual machine)

Single Member: Simulate production for

2
multiple divisions within a single organization
Multi-node across single region

3 Multi-member: Collaborate between

multiple divisions and organizations
Multi-node across multiple regions, Azure
subscriptions, and/or organizations
An enterprise-friendly platform
Banking, Discrete Retail & CPG Healthcare Government
Capital Manufacturing
Markets
Industry Solutions

Professional Services & Support Connect to existing

Developer Services (Tools, Team, CI/CD)

App Builder
Horizontal SaaS & Adapters
1st Party
apps and workflows
3rd
Workflow Design &
Orchestration Party
…….

Coordinate with
Middleware

Identity Data Secure Off-

Monitoring & 3rd Party
& Key Platform Chain
Security Services
Management (ML/BI) Execution
relevant tools

Fully-Managed Distributed Ledger Hosted Compute (VMs)

Fully managed
Ledger Core

Partner Partner Partner Partner

Partner
Distributed Distributed Distributed Distributed

enterprise ledgers
Distributed
Ledger A Ledger B Ledger C Ledger D
Ledger E

Azure & Azure Stack – Blockchain resource provider

Accelerate dev test build out in the cloud using Azure

Synechron Mojix IoT Blockchain

LTI Trade Finance

BlockApps ERC-20 Token Service

Visually design
workflows in the cloud
Express logic through
powerful control flow
Connect disparate
functions and APIs
Serverless
Integrate with CI/CD
Over 180 Connectors
Not just technology – consortia considerations
What is Workbench?
 Link to Integrate with Configure
federated existing consortium
identity business apps network
systems

Ingest Manually Synchronize

deploy Write business Extend
messages and data with off- capabilities
ledger logic
events chain DB

Orchestrate Customize Store smart

API Manage keys Build web
signing, hashing integrations contract
management client
and routing reference data
 Organization 1 Organization n

Existing SaaS tools Client apps & devices

?
Enterprise ledgers
 1 2 3

Populated Integrated Built a

preconfigured relevant cloud simple
networks services interface
 Workflow execution
Horizontal SaaS & adapters Client apps & devices

Identity & key management

Azure Blockchain Workbench Ledger-neutral approach

Identity Data
& Key
Enterprise
Integration
Platform
Off-Chain
Storage
Monitoring
& Security
3rd Party
Services
Auto-generate starter apps
Management (ML/BI)

Integration APIs & events

Enterprise ledger

Workflow/user admin

Azure data integration

 Power BI
Data Sources
DLT Services Blockchain Ledger
(API, Hashing, Signing)
APIs Consuming
Apps,
Service
Apps
API Bus
Off-Chain DB Services &
Logic Apps
Systems

Off-Chain Storage Event Grid

Sensor Data Azure Functions Reference Data

Azure AD Azure Key Vault Application Insights Virtual Networking

 Link to Integrate with Configure
federated existing consortium
identity business apps network
systems

Ingest Manually Synchronize

deploy Write business Extend
messages and data with off- capabilities
ledger logic
events chain DB

Orchestrate Customize Store smart

API Manage keys Build web
signing, hashing integrations contract
management client
and routing reference data
Deployment Options
Ability to deploy in both single member and multi member systems
Westlake – A fully-managed ledger PaaS Service
PRIVATE PREVIEW – DISCLOSED UNDER NDA
Customer Scenarios
• Trade Finance Azure Portal CLI Powershell JSON RPC REST API
• Supply Chain
• Loyalty Programs
• Others
Simple Deployment, Resource Governance,
Investments Managed and Ready to Use On-demand scaling, HA/DR, Access Security,
Service Patching and Upgrades
• Node management
Parity, Quorum, R3 Corda, Hyperledger Consortium Management, Policy Governance,
• Cross Organizational Transactions
Hybrid
• Simple consortium creation & scaling
• Smart contract-based governance Westlake Managed Developer Ecosystem Multi-ledger, Support for OSS tools,
controls Service Platform Templatized Smart Contracts

• Identity management Workbench, Identity and Key Management,

Extensibility
RDBMS integration
• Integration with Azure Blockchain
Workbench
• Migration of existing blockchain
networks into Westlake Azure Infrastructure Azure Compute Azure Storage Azure AD Azure Monitoring Azure VNet
• SaaS Integration
Global Azure with 50+ Regions
Use Cases
3M | Validate your product’s authenticity

Challenge Strategy Results

• 3M sought a solution to reduce tampering
and prevent the introduction of
counterfeit drugs into the pharmaceutical
supply chain – which is a $200 billion
criminal industry
• Counterfeit drugs negatively impact brand
reputation and overall revenue but,
ultimately, they hurt unsuspecting
customers
• 3M and Microsoft leveraged
Azure Blockchain to build an
innovative service to track
specially labeled packages
through any supply chain
• Multilayer QR code labels
were used to expose
tampering and facilitate
easy tracking
• Blockchain technology improved visibility and
security at each transfer to ensure products are
authentic and free of tampering
• Real-time registry, validation, and custodial
recordings combated counterfeits and
eliminated the risk of fraudulent double selling
through secure, attestable data

“We combined 3M DoubleTrust tamper-evident labels with Azure Blockchain to create a label-as-a-service
supply chain solution that can help identify counterfeits, protect business performance, and save lives.”
— Oscar Naim, PhD, Lead Software Architecture Specialist, 3M
 Motivation
10%-30% of drugs sold in developing countries are counterfeits.
80% of the counterfeit drugs consumed in the US come from
overseas.
Prescription drug market is estimated at $900 billion worldwide.
The global market for counterfeit drugs is $200 billion dollars.
The global market for counterfeit products is $460 billion dollars.
Eli Lilly invested $110 million into stamping unique codes on every
drug package.
More than 30% of counterfeit drugs do not contain any active
ingredients.

© 2017 3M CONFIDENTIAL
Blockchain in Action | Pharmaceutical authenticity
Manufacturer Carrier 1
Prescription processor
The drugs originate from the The product is securely
The drugs packaged according to the
pharmaceutical manufacturer shipped with QR codes
appropriate dosage and sealed with 3M
verifying transfers at each
DoubelTrust, multilayer QR code labels
step

Warehouse
The product is again verified and stored in
the appropriate, secure environment
Carrier 2
Carrier 2 scan confirms receipt of
Retail store
1000 authentic bottles with
100 bottles are rejected before shelving
verified QR codes
due to incorrect QR codes

The integrity of the product have been violated.

Carrier 2 is liable for penalty as the amount of Drug A when it
reached the retail store was less than the Smart Contract was
tracking
SHARED LEDGER
Smart Contract created Carrier 1 Warehouse Carrier 2 Retail store
1000 units of Drug A 1000 units of 1000 units of 1000 units of 900 units
Drug A Drug A Drug A of Drug A
At various points in the journey, the IoT/Mobile device scans the QR codes and records the unique serial numbers which are updated on the blockchain
Bühler | Ensuring food safety

Challenge Strategy Results

• A lack of connectivity, transparency, and
traceability in the food supply chain causes food
waste and inefficiencies.
• 25% of all harvested grain is contaminated with
mycotoxins and nearly half a billion people are
at risk of consuming aflatoxin contaminated
crops.
• Augmented physical machines
with an AI-enabled insights
platform to ensure all grains
processed are toxin-free.
• Buhler and Microsoft developed
a blockchain strategy to track
grain and ensure it’s handled
according to regulations.
• Digitally verify that all grains are handled compliantly
as they move through the supply chain, providing
transparency to each counterparty through a shared
ledger.
• Assess any contamination and alert all parties in real-
time to avoid a public safety issue.
• Create a shared food-safety utility for the agricultural
industry that could guarantee crop safety from farm
to fork.

We’re not only going to get economic results, but hopefully we can transform and save lives at the same time.
It’s the most exciting and valuable project I’ve worked on in my 40 years with the company. It’s a really big thing.
— Ben Deefholts: Senior Research Engineer
 Blockchain in action | Real-time grain tracking
Harvest
The grains are harvested and
assessed for contaminants. The
remaining grains are then
packaged for shipment.
Granary
Carrier 1
25% of grains are found The grains are stored per
The product is securely shipped and
to have toxins and are manufacturer’s regulations
handled per manufacturer’s
rejected. and compliance standards
regulations and compliance standards

Miller
Food processors The grains are milled and must be handled
Transform the grains into per manufacturer’s regulations and
packaged goods for compliance standards
A
consumption per
manufacturer’s Retail store
regulations and Rejects the pasta products sent by food processor
compliance standards A due to poor handling procedures
B

Food processor A has breached the contract and is

C
liable for penalty

SHARED LEDGER
Smart contract Harvest Granary Miller Food processors Retail store
Carriers
created • 25% of grains
• Grains
• Grains • Grains A: Pasta products A: Rejected – non-
Grain needs to be have toxins stored milled B: Bread products compliant handling
delivered
harvested and shipped. • 75% of grains • Compliant • Compliant C: Rice products B: Accepted
• Compliant
are shipped handling handling C: Accepted
handling
XBOX | Blockchain for royalty payments

Challenge Strategy Results

• Microsoft used a complicated, manual method
to calculate royalties for XBOX publishers.
• Microsoft’s royalty process took 45 days, which
delayed payments to publishers.
• Microsoft developed a
blockchain-based solution that
offers XBOX royalty information in
near real time.
• Blockchain technology improved trust by making the
royalty payment calculation process more
transparent for publishers.
• Publishers gained actionable business insights,
enabling them to proactively respond to customer
demand.
• Blockchain technology reduced XBOX process efforts
by two thirds and saved publishers time by
eliminating the need for manual audits.

“We are developing an ecosystem within the gaming industry that connects developers and publishers to game
performance. Providing near real-time access to data greatly improves the process’ effectiveness and insights that lead to
a more enriching experience for the partners.”
— Tim Stuart, Chief Financial Officer of Xbox
Blockchain in action | Manage royalty payments
SHARED LEDGER DATA
Content
Developer
CONTRACT CREATED
Media Sale: July 13th • Game Purchased • Customer Age
• Publisher ID • Customer Gender
Media Licensing
Video game $59.99
Purchase • Price • Location
$
Movie $12.99 Quantity
$ CONTRACT VISIBILITY
Song $3.99 Quantity

XBOX Platform
• Top Grossing Content • Publisher Demand
XBOX PAYS • Publisher Royalty • Net Revenue
ROYALTIES Content Publishers $ Marketing
Gain visibility into sales data
and royalty revenue,
CONTENT PUBLISHER A VISIBILITY
XBOX Platform enabling them to make
Consumers purchase digital content near real time decisions. Publisher C
• Customer ID
through the XBOX platform. The data $ Publisher B
then is written to the shared ledger. • Content•Dev ID
Customer ID
$ Publisher A
This automatically makes royalty data • Licensing• IDContent Dev ID
• Customer ID
visible to the XBOX publishers. Distribution • Marketing ID
• Licensing• ID
Content Dev ID
• Distributor ID
• Marketing ID
• Licensing ID
• Content•Provider ID
Distributor ID
• Marketing ID
• Content•Provider ID ID
Distributor
Content
Provider • Content Provider ID
Moog | Improve provenance tracking for critical items
Challenge
• Moog needed a secure system to transfer
component plans to customers for 3D printing
in the field
• Customers must be able to confirm the
provenance and telemetry of mission-critical
parts
• Each piece is precision crafted under
extremely small tolerances, so quality and
integrity are of the utmost importance
Strategy
• Moog and Microsoft designed
a blockchain-enabled platform
to tokenize physical assets for
a digital supply chain
• The technology enabled parts
and their associated design
plans to be tamperproof and
resistant to hacking
— James Regenor, Transformative Technologies Director of Moog
Results
• Blockchain technology enabled tracking of digital
and physical assets along the supply chain to
provide provenance and authenticity on a per part
basis
• The solution promoted trust in product quality and
performance while preventing tampering, reducing
waste, and saving time
“Blockchain is an enabler for us”
 Blockchain in Action | Access with confidence
OEM Schematic
Precision parts manufacturer Digital equipment design published to the
designs proprietary equipment blockchain and tied to the physical part

Physical part
Each part is equipped with a unique
Schematic update Notification QR code enabling customer access to
Manufacturer updates design Digital twin informs customer that physical the digital schematic
to improve performance 010011 part is nearing its operational limit

Digital twin
In the cloud, the digital twin runs real-time
analytics to monitor the physical part’s status
Customer query Installation
Customer queries the most updated Customer uses the schematics to confidently 3D
schematics in the secure, blockchain print the perfect part form anywhere in the world
ledger using the QR code

SHARED LEDGER
Digital schematic Unique QR code Manufacturer updates Critical replacement
• Part #1560-01-505-8009 • Part #1560-01-505-8009 • Part #1560-01-505-8010 • Part #1560-01-505-8010
• Material: Titanium • Product ID #12.645.23 010011 • Material: Titanium • Product ID #12.645.24
• 3.12mm x 4.33mm • Digital Twin ID #12.645.23 • 3.13mm x 4.34mm • Material: Titanium
• Unique QR code link • 3.13mm x 4.34mm
Singapore Airlines | Expand customer loyalty

Challenge Strategy Results

• Singapore Airlines wanted to build up their
customer participation and loyalty by making
it easier for customers to redeem their
frequent-flyer rewards points with a first-of-
its-kind blockchain initiative
• They also needed a way to manage their
ever-expanding network of partners
• Singapore Airlines partnered
with KPMG Digital Village and
Microsoft to create a rewards
program that linked
customers’ digital wallets to
their KrisFlyer reward miles
using blockchain
• Customers can use their digital KrisFlyer miles for
point-of-sale transactions throughout an expanded
retail partner network
• Increased mileage program participation and
loyalty to the Singapore Airlines brand

“This groundbreaking development in which we will be using blockchain technology to ‘digitalise’ KrisFlyer miles is a
demonstration of the investment we are making to significantly enhance the digital side of our business for the benefit
of our customers”
— Goh Choon Phong, Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Airlines
Blockchain in Action | Partner network management

Mobile app Awarded miles Digital wallet

Customers purchase their Each flight is worth miles that are Reward points are stored in
ticket on their mobile device converted to rewards points the customer’s digital wallet

Partner retail location

Customers are able to redeem loyalty
points for goods and services from any
retail location in the partner network

Contract Contract Contract

created updated updated

SHARED LEDGER Contract

updated
Update: SFO → HKG: 7,000 miles • 7,000 miles = 700 points • 2,200 points redeemed for:
• Dec 2016 LAX → ICN: 6,000 miles • 6,000 miles = 600 points o Free stay at hotel A
• Jan 2015 IAH → DME: 5,000 miles • 5,000 miles = 500 points o Admittance to airport lounge B
• Jun 2015 JFK → FRA: 4,000 miles • 4,000 miles = 400 points o Spa treatment at resort C
Interswitch | Seamless supply chain financing

Challenge Strategy Results

• To bridge the gap between the existing
corporate-based financing infrastructure in
Nigeria and a growing number of small to
mid-size enterprises in need of capital.
• Supply chain financing involves multiple
counter-parties who lack end-to-end
visibility, exposing lenders to risk, delaying
financing, and jeopardizing projects.
• Interswitch partnered with
Microsoft to develop a
blockchain-based supply
chain financing service that
brings together major
financial institutions from
different countries to
seamlessly manage trade
finance.
• Banks reduce their exposure to loss or fraud and
streamline financing decisions, giving more
people access to more funding, while lenders
can deliver more value.
• Borrowers now secure financing in three weeks
or less, so they can take on more work in less
time.
• Project contractors and suppliers can better
predict requirements, accelerate turnaround,
and increase sales cycles and volumes.

Armed with a single version of the truth across the supply chain, Nigerian lenders and suppliers can
identify and build relationships with high performing entrepreneurs. That will help empower people to
create more jobs, more wealth, and a more prosperous Africa.
— Eghosa Ojo: Designer Thinker and Head of Innovation at Interswitch
 Problem
Inefficiencies in the processing of financial instruments required to fulfill a supply
chain transaction results delays in completing a sales cycle
Bank Guarantee Financial
Legal Prose Agreements
Opportunity
Co-create with actors in a supply chain financing process and bring them onto
an optimized workflow platform that provides visibility and real-time status to
everyone in the ecosystem to drive performance and increase response time.

Corporate Corporate
Customer Solution
(Jimmy Create a blockchain-based product hosted on Azure that will process various
& Sons)
Bank Guarantee supply chain financial instruments for customers. This will be done by digitizing
Smart Contract and optimizing the process from request, approval and re-payment using a azure
workbench resulting in end-to-end transparency.

Approach
Build a distributed ledger solution for the industry to which the Corporates will
Shared Ledger get their vendors to participate, the vendors/corporates will get their banks to
participate.

Timing
Q3 2018 for asset creation from corporate data load, PR target October 2018
go live
Interswitch | Seamless supply chain financing
Corp. Sales Officer
Verifies the customer
with the bank

Bank Admin Bank Manager

Creates sales Issues the bank
contract guarantee

Entrepreneur Supplier Supplier Entrepreneur

Submits a Requires a bank Bank Admin Corp. Sales Director Receives the Receives
purchase order guarantee for the Releases ATC to Approves bank guarantee and supplies
to the supplier purchase customer guarantee terms fulfills the order

Bank Manager
Option to contend
the guarantee terms

SHARED LEDGER

Smart contract created Contract updated Contract updated Contract updated Contract updated
• Entrepreneur submits a • Supplier requests • Bank and the • The supplier receives • Entrepreneur
purchase order to a a bank guarantee supplier agree on the guarantee and receives the
supplier guarantee terms fulfills the purchase supplies
Organization Details
Global Partner Development Blockchain
Global OCP Tech , GBBS
Key people :
Key people : Diptendu Samajpati - Global Partner Lead
Venu Vedam - Global Lead Architect venuved@microsoft.com disamajp@microsoft.com
Usha Krishnan - Partner Sales (Americas) Ushapriya.Krishnan@microsoft.com
Mahdi Alirezaie - Global Black Belt (Americas) maalirez@microsoft.com Drive the blockchain business globally across the
Khaled Elbedri - Partner Sales (EMEA) Khaled.Elbedri@microsoft.com partner ecosystem, orchestrating across global and
Abdul Haseeb - Global Black Belt (EMEA) Abdul.Haseeb@microsoft.com local pods to bring in the right people to help in
Deepthi Prasad - Global Black Belt (APAC) Deepthi.Prasad@microsoft.com recruit, build , go –to market and manage Blockchain
global ROB & Sales
Helps in pre-sales engagements for Partner opportunities, provide technical thought leadership –
Architectural design , remove technical road block, speak about Microsoft’s Blockchain platform

Driving Engagement
Rhythm/ Awareness

Industry Global
Engagement Pre sales Technical Funding Partner
Industry events Monthly
Tracking support Support Support Drive
Expertise Webinars Sync

Diptendu Samajpati Venu Vedam Diptendu Samajpati Diptendu Samajpati

Venu Vedam disamajp@microsoft.com disamajp@microsoft.com
venuved@microsoft.com disamajp@microsoft.com venuved@microsoft.com

Other OCP TECH members Other OCP TECH members

in respective regions in respective regions
Extending Blockchain
IPFS – InterPlanetary File System
 Global Nodes Content Based

• Allows us to connect all computing devices in the

same network with the same system of files
Hashed based
Immutable
• Instead of looking for a centrally-controlled fingerprint

location, what if we instead asked a distributed

network of computers not for the name of a file,
but for the content that is supposed to be in the
file?
Global Nodes Content Based

Hashed based
fingerprint Immutable
DiD – Decentralized iD
After graduating from John Hopkins University, Marie received a non-transferable token representing her medical
degree.
The token contains references to a series of off-chain claims that allowed Marie to prove additional characteristics
about her degree (GPA, honors, etc.) to her future employer.
This token is unique to Marie and is not something she could never give away or stake as collateral. Through a
series of skill-based interviews she started her residency at Swedish Medical Center (SMC) which granted her an
SMC non-transferable skill token as well as a starting balance of 800 ⓜ (medcoin).
The SMC skill token has a built-in expiry, requiring its owner to renew it every five years.
This ensured Marie’s medical skill was always up to the hospital’s standards. The ⓜ balance was applied every
day as collateral and was directly affected by the reviews from her patients and co-workers.
By applying her skill with effort, she was able to earn an additional 100 ⓜ over the course of the year.
This additional ⓜ provided peace of mind for Marie since the access control gate at the entrance of the hospital
required each staff member to have an active SMC skill token and a ⓜbalance of at least 700 prior to entry. In
addition, the hospital relies upon both types of tokens to determine promotions. Each new promotion required a
new type of skills test as well as an increase in total ⓜ balance.
Mahdi Alirezaie - maalirez@microsoft.com