Brian Sweeney – IBM Consultant
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
There is a lot of hype surrounding blockchain technology, and according to IBM consultant Brian Sweeney, you should believe the hype. The impact of blockchain technology is “immutable,” Sweeney recently told Future Tech podcast, and “is happening whether you like it or not.” As a senior blockchain consultant with IBM, Sweeney provides education, consultation, implementation and maintenance of blockchain technology to businesses eager to be more
efficient.
According to Sweeney, any business that is involved in any supply chain can benefit from blockchain due to increased traceability. Traditionally, businesses put trust in other businesses based on relationships that may take years to develop. With blockchain technology, however, businesses put trust in the network which greatly reduces risk because data is recorded through a decentralized system with complete transparency.
Today, blockchain technology is like Facebook in 1997, according to Sweeney, and is approaching the “tipping point” of becoming part of everyone’s everyday life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Almost Here, around the corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies, which is to transform our lives for better or, are the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.5 | Almost here, means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:18.0 | We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to Artificial Intelligence, |
| 0:21.9 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:27.0 | Coming to Dallas, Texas, September 14th, 15th and 16, 2018, the blockchain and |
| 0:39.2 | future check expo. This is going to be a gigantic conference of over 5,000 people. |
| 0:45.0 | We're going to be talking about blockchain and its applications. |
| 0:48.0 | We're going to be talking about quantum computing, |
| 0:50.0 | cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and several other future technologies that are poised |
| 0:55.8 | to and actually changing our lives as we speak. |
| 0:59.6 | Here's why you should attend. |
| 1:01.2 | As you may know, early adopters are the ones that investigated |
| 1:04.6 | and profited from things like the Gold Rush in the 1800s, from the dot-com boom in the 1990s, |
| 1:10.3 | from the internet boom in 2005, from the smartphone explosion in 2007, from the real |
| 1:16.8 | estate boom that ended in 2008, and of course from the Bitcoin boom that started in 2012. Early adopters act now. They don't wait till |
| 1:25.1 | later. They go out west first and they're covered wagons. They find the biggest |
| 1:29.6 | gold nuggets. If you consider yourself an early adopter and you want to find the biggest nuggets, then you owe it to yourself to attend this upcoming conference. |
| 1:38.0 | Blockchain is going to affect how we control and store our medical data, how we send money around the world, how we bank and |
| 1:45.2 | more. |
| 1:46.2 | But artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and cybersecurity will play a pivotal role |
| 1:51.0 | in our lives as well. And that's why our next event, September 14th to |
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