Events for November 1, 2024 - November 1, 2024

Join Morgan State University and Marc Morial, the President and CEO of the National Urban League on March 29, 2022 at 11:15 am. Topic: Entrepreneurship in the Black Community in the Age of George Floyd and COVID: Prospects for the Future. Join via Zoom- https://bit.ly/3K9lluF 

Build Your Own NFT with Hyperledger Fabric Time: Thursday, March 24 from 11 AM to 1 PM Eastern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyEegXLrNr4 Thursday, March 31 from 11 AM to 2 PM Eastern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGXOM3KxDyw For more information...  

Panel Recording Meet the Panel: Moderator - Nate Rose Nathaniel Rose is Senior Software Engineer at Ripple on the Data Platform Team, and co-lead of the Black at Ripple Employee Resource Group community. He is a former ex-Microsoft engineer and Neurotechnology Researcher who focused on gaze selection and brain-machine interfaces. Nathaniel advocates for education equity - having directed a National Society of Black Engineers Chapter for over 5 years and Co-Founding the Bay Area Chapter to aid students with STEM skills giving them the edge to pursue future life endeavors.   Panel: Arielle Williams: Arielle Williams is a University Recruiter, based [...]

The Path to the Metaverse (Visions, History, Orientation & Components) Register In Advance

The National FinTech Center at Morgan State University and The Hyperledger Foundation want to personally invite you, your faculty, students, and alumni to attend a three-part webinar series this Summer and Fall. The final webinar titled Metaverse Community and Social (Education, Games, Commerce, Legal, Simulation, Social Media) will be a virtual panel discussion on Thursday, October 27, 2022, from 1:00-2:00 pm ET. The panel will feature members of The Hyperledger Foundation Community. You don't want to miss this panel discussion and interactive Q&A session following the panel. ENTER THE METAVERSE! You will receive a unique link to join the event. There is no charge, but advance registration is required. REGISTER IN ADVANCE

*The HBCU Presidents’ Summit will be offered in the Spring of 2023. Please check back later for more details. Agenda The Annual National HBCU Blockchain and FinTech Conference is the FinTech Center’s premier event for connecting with university leaders, faculty, and students discussing today’s challenges and opportunities, and shaping the future of FinTech education and research. The Annual National HBCU Blockchain and FinTech  Conference, November 06-08, 2022 will provide a forum for the faculty, students, and administrators in the FinTech Center’s HBCU Consortium to hear and discuss the findings of sponsored research and outcomes of sponsored innovative blockchain projects at various [...]

Submission Deadline: April 3, 2023 | Announcement of Winners, April 19, 2023 Submit Your Original Artwork!   The National FinTech Center, in collaboration with the College of Liberal Arts and the School of Architecture, announce a unique digital art competition for students at Morgan State University. House of First has offered to create NFTs (non-fungible tokens) from the winning artwork (on a supported blockchain platform). Guidelines for Digital Art Design Competition: Must be a Morgan State University Student The subject of the competition is to depict a) an event, b) a person or c) an object (a physical item or place, a building, [...]

Introduction to Decentralized Identity | February 22, 2023 Watch the full session HERE. This session is meant to be a broad overview of Decentralized Identity. The one-hour discussion will help you understand the topic, why it is important and the new capabilities it gives enterprises and individuals. In addition, we will discuss how it works, and where this work is happening (Hyperledger, Decentralized Identity Foundation, W3C, Internet Identity Workshop, etc.). For additional information about this topic, check out the next session on Tuesday, Feb 28 at 12 Eastern that will go into more technical detail about decentralized identity. This event is being [...]

MEET THE SPEAKER Florence Hudson is Executive Director and Principal Investigator for the NSF and NIH funded Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at Columbia University, COVID Information Commons, Cybersecurity Risk Conference, and National Student Data Corps. She is also the Founder and CEO of FDHint, LLC, a global advanced technology and diversity & inclusion consulting firm. She serves on Boards including Blockchain in Healthcare Today, the Neuroscience Outreach Network, Stony Brook University Mechanical Engineering, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, UC San Diego Distributed Energy Resources DERConnect, and Princeton University Civil and Environmental Engineering. She is a former [...]

REGISTER IN ADVANCE HERE! Title: Building a Decentralized Application (dApp) When: 11amET, June 6, 2023 Presenters: Kyle Nielson @ The Blockchain Academy  Jim Sullivan @ The Blockchain Academy Seminar Goals: Demo a working dApp. Deconstruct the layers and discuss the architecture and run times. Review the building blocks on a generic developer desktop and a preview of building the same or similar dApps on Hyperledger Fabric (HF) using the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Questions and Answers Seminar Recording: TBD Seminar Deck: TBD Quick Links: Thanks to our Member, The Blockchain Academy for providing the speakers and material. http://theblockchainacademy.com Hyperledger Code of Conduct https://toc.hyperledger.org/governing-documents/code-of-conduct.html [...]