Presented by Feng Hou • Chief Digital Transformation Evangelist; Maryville University
Blockchain technology is currently being adopted at all levels of the business environment including utilities, healthcare, payments, supply-chain, government, agriculture, and more. A recent survey conducted by PwC shows that a fully 84% of the responding companies have actively used blockchain. And according to Reuters, venture capital investment in blockchain startups will likely set a new all-time high in 2019. Blockchain is also gaining momentum this year due to the increasing interests of some of the largest technology companies such as Facebook, Apple, Twitter, and IBM, etc.
Drawn from his successful experience in implementing several blockchain solution, the keynote speaker will present how to use blockchain to boost your business top-line and cut your business bottomline. Specifically, he will show how record-keeping, smart contract and tokenization can help improve your business efficiency and add new sources of revenue.
Presented by: Feng Hou / Chief Digital Transformation Evangelist; Maryville University
Currently serving as the Chief Digital Transformation Evangelist at Maryville University in St. Louis, Feng Hou is a Harvard educated senior executive with more than 20 years leadership and digital transformation experience. Hou leads digital transformation with strategic development to improve customer digital experience, enhance operational efficiency and cut operational spending.
As an award winning CIO, Hou has led the blockchain initiative to successfully implement a student owned digital certificate and degree diploma solution at Central New Mexico Community College (CNM), which made CNM the first higher education institution in the nation to use blockchain technology to provide its students with digital credentials. Building upon the successful experience, Hou has been working on several blockchain use cases from creating a universal student ID, using smart contract to create a blockchain ERP solution, as well as building a stackable micro-credentialing solution to certify student soft skills.
Hou is a nationally sought-after keynote speaker. In the past 6 months, Hou has keynoted at Blockchain in Education Conference in Washington DC about how to use blockchain technology to reform higher education; he gave another keynote speech at INTERFACE-New Mexico 2018 in Albuquerque, NM to discuss about using blockchain technology to enhance cybersecurity. He also gave a speech to the Board and senior staff at New Mexico Mutual about how blockchain can transform insurance business. Recently, Hou has collaborated with IBM to build the global blockchain education platform.
As the leading blockchain expert in US, Hou frequently speaks about the major impact of blockchain technology on education reform, cybersecurity enhancement as well as industry transformation. He has recently been invited to the White House to attend the STEM Summit; he also hosted a roundtable discussion with the university and college presidents at the Higher Education Congress Annual Meeting in Washington DC. Hou has developed the widely adopted 7 criteria for selecting the right blockchain solutions that has recently been published in Business Officer Magazine; Hou also has 2 US Patents pending.
Hou is the Co-founder of Albuquerque Blockchain Alliance (ABA), he currently serves on the National Reviewing Board for the Blockchain Certificate Exam and was a member of the National Government Blockchain Chamber Albuquerque Chapter. Hou also served on the Board of Directors for The New Mexico Council for Higher Education Computing/Communication Services (CHECS) and Board of Directors for New Mexico Technology Council. He was twice elected as the President of Florida Association of Educational Data Systems (FAEDS).
