During the premiere of our STA Speaker Series, Marie Wieck, former GM of IBM Blockchain, and NYU Stern Professor Haran Segram covered essential questions and topics in blockchain, including:

• Application across financial services, supply chain and healthcare with a few broader examples of enterprise use cases

• How business leaders should identify whether Blockchain is right for their company

• Lifecycle of an application or network: Integrity of operations, Technology support, Data Security, Onboarding, Scalability/growth

• Transformation of a permissioned system to consortium Blockchains - Economic value of blockchain to productivity and global GDP

• Social good: financial inequality, pollution and environmental concerns (e.g. Plastic Bank) and food safety 

Q&A was moderated by Jenna Link and Harvey Han.