The 6^th Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology

Welcome to the 6^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

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Shiping Chen , principal research scientist at CSIRO Data61

Blockchain in Action – Blockchain research and innovation

Abstract: Blockchain has attracted wide attention from both the industry and research community as a revolutionary technology for building the next generation of internet, i.e., Web3. In this talk, Prof. Shiping Chen will present their approach to blockchain R&D, including their blockchain research, innovations, and blockchain-related projects. In particular, he would like to share his view on the current blockchain research challenges and their ongoing research to tackle some of these challenges.

Bio: Prof. Shiping Chen is a senior principal research scientist at CSIRO Data61, where he is leading a research team dedicated to Blockchain R&D. He also holds a conjoint/adjunct professor with UNSW, UTS and Macquarie. He has been working on distributed systems for 20+ years with a focus on performance & security. He has published 280+ papers in these research areas and won 5+ Best Paper awards on top venues on software engineering and distributed systems (e.g., ICSE-2018 and CCGrid-2015). He is active in the cloud and service computing research community through journal editorships and conference services, such as PC Chair of ICBC-2018 and ICBC-2022, executive committee member (ECM) of IEEE TCBIS and ECM of IEEE TCSVC. He is a senior IEEE member and a fellow of the Institution of Engineering Technology (IET).

• Prof. Shiping Chen
• CSIRO Data61

• Shoufeng Cao
• University of Queensland

• Warwick Powell
• Chair of Smart Trade Networks

• Dr Peter Robinson
• Consensys

• Mrisha Upadhyay
• Southern Cross University

• Zoraiz Mahmood
• Immutable

• Muhammad Nauman Mustafa
• Griffith University

• Dr Naipeng Dong
• University of Queensland

• Dr Vishwas Patil
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

• Alexandra Smirnova
• Griffith University

• Franck Cassez
• Consensys

• Daniel Cumming
• University of Queensland

• Prof. Rudrapatna Shyamasundar
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

• Dr Babu Pillai
• Southern Cross University

• Katrina Donaghy
• Civic Ledger

• Dr Paul Ashley
• Anonyome Labs

• Gordon Christian
• Digital Playhouse Foundation

• Dr Tony Lenko
• Study Planet

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

The 4^th Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology was held on 10th December 2019 at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

The 5^th Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology was held on 23rd November 2021 at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Paper/Talk Submissions

Researchers and industry practitioners are invited to submit proposals via EasyChair. For the Academic Track submit a four-page paper using the IEEE Conference style: two columns, single spaces, 10p fonts. For the Industry Track submit a talk outline.

The submissions are via the SDLT'22 portal, hosted on EasyChair.

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, Brisbane, Australia
Earnest Foo, Griffith University, Australia
Darshana Sedera, Southern Cross University, Australia
Charles Lemckert, Southern Cross University, Australia

Program Co-Chairs

Kamanashis Biswas, Australian Catholic University, Australia
Peter Robinson, Consensys, Brisbane
Babu Pillai, Southern Cross University, Australia
Zahra Jadidi, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia

Organization Co-Chairs

Zhe Hou, Griffith University, Australia
Vinh Bui, Southern Cross University, Australia
Golam Sorwar, Southern Cross University, Australia

Industry Co-Chairs

Peter Robinson, Consensys, Brisbane
Katrina Donaghy, Civic Ledger, Australia

Industry Programme Committee

Warwick Powell, Queensland University of Technology
Raghavendra Ramesh, Supraoracles.com
Sandra Johnson, Consensys, Brisbane
Jack Deep , Mycelium Ventures
Lucas Cullen, DLTx
Anurag Soin, ANZ Bank, Melbourne

Web Chair

Bhuban Shrestha, Southern Cross University, Australia
Dorottya Zelenyanszki, Griffith University, Australia

Academic Co-Chairs

Kamanashis Biswas, Australian Catholic University, Australia
Guangdong Bai, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Babu Pillai, Southern Cross University, Australia.

Academic Programme Committee

RK Shyamasundar, IIT-Bombay, India
Naipeng Dong, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Guangdong Bai, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Rafael Belchior, INESC-ID \& Técnico Lisboa, Portugal
Peter McBurney, Kings College London, UK
Md Sadek Ferdous, Imperial College London, UK
Vishwas Patil, IIT-Bombay, India
Ermyas Abebe, Senior Researcher at ConsenSys
Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury, La Trobe University, Australia
Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia
Jubilant Kizhakkethottam, Saintgits Group of Institutions, Kerala, India
Warwick Powell, Queensland University of Technology
Gowri Ramachandran, Queensland University of Technology
Shantanu Pal, Deakin University, Australia
Peter Robinson, Consensys, Brisbane
Nabin Sharma, University of Technology, Sydney
Ranju Mandal, Central Queensland University, Brisbane
Chen Shiping, Data61-CSIRO, Australia
David Hyland-Wood, University of Quensland