The participants in the Blockchain National Forum represented a variety of libraries, information organizations, and related corporations. They brought expertise and understanding of the ways that blockchain technology could or should not be used by the information professions.
Each of the participants provided an Executive Summary that captures their ideas for the application of blockchain technology. They discussed their views at the National Forum that was held in San Jose, CA on Monday, August 6, 2018.
Viewers of the LiveStream event were able to participate by sending in questions and comments to the online site.
- Nader Afzalan – Urban Footprint
- Dan Blackaby – Cornell University
- John Bracken – DPLA
- Todd Carpenter – NISO
- Frank Cervone – University of Illinois at Chicago
- May Chang – University of Cincinnati
- Caroline Coward – NASA
- Eli Edwards – Santa Clara University
- Miguel Figueroa – ALA Center for the Future of Libraries
- Toby Greenwalt – Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
- Jason Griffey – Evenly Distributed and Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
- M. Ryan Hess – Palo Alto City Library
- Darra Hofman – University of British Columbia
- Amy Jiang – University of Laverne
- Bohyun Kim – ALA LITA President
- Alexandra Lederman – The New School
- Chris Martin – King County Library System
- Annie Norman – Delaware State Library
- MacKenzie Smith – UC Davis
- Link Swanson – University of Minnesota
- Tim Thompson – Yale University
- Christinger Tomer – University of Pittsburgh
- Alex Voto – ConsenSys
- Yao Zhang – Kent State University