The European Commission (EC) organized the first workshop on 04 July 2017 related to the project “#Blockchain4EU: Blockchain for Industrial Transformations”, launched last month.

Launched by the EC’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship & SMEs (DG GROW), Blockchain4EU will explore existing, emerging, and potential applications of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) in non-financial / industry sectors.

The workshop was the first of a series of participatory and stakeholder engagement activities that will take place until February 2018. It had 34 participants including technical experts, developers and scientists, social, economic and legal researchers, entrepreneurs and investors, business and labour representatives, and policy actors at local, national and EU levels.

The EC stated that workshop primarily focused on bringing together individual and collective stakeholders to explore how they would interact with each other. No presentations from specific organisations or use cases took place during the workshop.

“Throughout the day we fully documented the workshop by taking comprehensive notes and with consent of the participants, photographing all outputs and filming all presentations and major discussions,” the EC said. “We will now begin a process of harvesting and organizing information from these sources, with major focus on the built 2D and 3D outputs and their group and individual presentations. This will be combined with both our notes on each round and our observations of participant interactions during the workshop, namely on how they built, combined or confronted respective standpoints and agendas.”

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