The 4^th Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology

Welcome to the 4^th Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology (SDLT)

Distributed Ledger Technology is an emerging technology, which provides the way to store and manage information in a distributed fashion. It enables the creation of decentralized crypto-currencies, smart contracts, eGovernance, supply chain management, eVoting etc over a network of computer systems without any human intervention. Unprecedented reliability and security over other cryptographic schemes has expanded the application domains of blockchain including financial services, real estate, stock exchange, identity management, supply chain, and Internet of Things.

The goal of this symposium is to provide a forum for researchers, business leaders and policy makers in this area to carefully analyse current systems or propose new solutions creating a scientific background for a solid development of innovative Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) applications.

Program

Proceedings

Keynote Speakers

Katrina Donaghy, CEO and Co-Founder, Civic Ledger

How to build a government ecosystem using blockchain technology

Abstract: In this practical discussion, Katrina will step through five important considerations when working with government to solve problems where blockchain technology has advantages over legacy systems. These five points for discussion are based on her 3 plus years experience co-creating project and products with all levels of government in Australia.

Bio: Katrina Donaghy is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Civic Ledger, a multi-award winning Australian GovTech start-up helping governments to be more efficient, effective, accessible and transparent in an ever-increasing digital society. Prior to founding Civic Ledger, Katrina was a career bureaucrat spanning 20+ years in both state and local government in Australia working in the areas of strategy, program delivery and revenue optimisation to improve the customer experience with government.

Prof Jason Potts, Director, RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT University

Economic identity in a digital economy

Abstract: The quality of identity affects the ability of firms to product-quality discriminate through the coproduction of identity and data. Government supply of identity (and regulatory constraints on the private supply of identity) induces a low-quality identity equilibrium, harming consumer welfare and distorting industry competition (specifically, inducing horizontal mergers). We argue that blockchain technology using zero knowledge proofs can disrupt this bad equilibrium by facilitating privacy without secrecy.

Bio: Jason Potts is Professor of Economics in the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing at RMIT University, and Director of the Blockchain Innovation Hub, the first social science research institute on Blockchain in the world. Dr Potts is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia and one of Australia’s leading economists on economic growth, innovation and institutions, and on the economics of cities, culture and creative industries. He is editor of the Journal of Institutional Economics. His latest books are Innovation Commons (OUP) and Understanding the Blockchain Economy (Elgar).

Past Symposiums

The 1^st Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology was held on 13th June 2017 at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia

The 2^nd Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology was held on 5th July 2018 at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia

The 3^nd Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology was held on 12th November 2018 at Novotel Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Australia

Paper Submissions

Researchers and industry practitioners are invited to submit a two page extended abstract.

The abstracts may be submitted via the SDLT'19 portal, hosted on EasyChair.

Access submission portal

Authors may prepare their manuscripts in accordance to the IEEE conference format guideline available here.

Organising Committee

General Co-Chairs

Raja Jurdak, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia
Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy, Griffith University, Australia

Organization Co-Chairs

Ernest Foo, Griffith University, Australia
Kamanashis Biswas, Australian Catholic University, Australia
Guangdong Bai, University of Queensland, Australia

Local Co-Chairs

David Tuffley, Griffith University, Australia
Marius Portmann, University of Queensland, Australia
Wee Lum Tan, Griffith University, Australia

Industry Co-Chairs

Katrina Donaghy, Civic Ledger, Australia
Don Sands, Synengco, Australia

Publicity Chair

Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Zhe Hou, Griffith University, Australia

Web Chair

Hadrien Bride, Griffith University, Australia

Program Committee

Ermyas Abebe, IBM Research, Australia
Alistair Barros, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Volkan Dedeoglu, Data61, Australia
Md Sadek Ferdous, Imperial College London, UK
John Flood, Griffith University, Australia
Raj Gaire, Data61-CSIRO, Australia
Praveen Gauravaram, Tata Consultancy Services, Australia
Ragib Hasan, University of Alabama, USA
Fritz Henglein, University of Copenhagen and Deon Digital AG, Denmark
Malka Halgamuge, University of Melbourne, Australia
Ambrose Hill, UNSW/Data61, Australia
Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury, La Trobe University, Australia
Yaoqi Jia, Zilliqa, Singapore
Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dileban Karunamoorthy, IBM Research, Australia
Paddy Krishnan, Oracles Lab, Australia
Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia
Adrian McCullagh, ODMOB Lawyers, Australia
Zoran Milosevic, Deontik, Australia
Kamran Najeebullah, Data61, Australia
Valeri Natanelov, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Surya Nepal, Data61-CSIRO, Australia
Marimuthu Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia
Vishwas Patil, IIT-Bombay, India
Marius Portmann, University of Queensland, Australia
Sushmita Ruj, CSIRO, Data61, Australia
RK Shyamasundar, IIT-Bombay, India
Regis Riveret, Data61, Australia
Peter Robinson, Consensys, Australia
Paulo de Souza, Griffith University, Australia
Victor Wang , Griffith University, Australia
Ziyuan Wang , Swinburne University, Australia
John Williams, University of Queensland, Australia
Xin-Wen Wu, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA