Internet of Agreements Conference, London, October 13-16

I'm helping facilitate part of this conference in London in a few weeks time. It's part of the work of hexayurt capital, the venture firm set up by Vinay Gupta - Hive account@hexayurt - to bring some humanity to investing in technology and getting work on done on the heavier lifting associated with building the kind of complex infrastructure we're going to need in the future.

Naturally this involves a lot of blockchain and smart contracts. How do you actually use smart contracts for making legal agreements that might help automate an exisiting supply chain?

The core question comes down to:

Is a smart contract a legal contract in the eyes of the law? If not, can it be made so with careful work?

We're going to start some of that careful work over that weekend. I'm facilitating a day of unconference on the Friday; the Saturday and Sunday are hackdays for creative collaboration on aspects of the idea - seeing what needs to be made; Monday is the "proper" conference with people speaking and stuff.

There's more to dig into about this, but for now, this is just an invitation to look at the eventbrite page and consider coming along for all or part of it.