Is the world becoming a smarter place? | Blockchain EXE in Singapore - Aug.21

For the second time, “EXE in Singapore” invited companies and startups with high level knowledge and academic achievement in terms of AI. Is our world getting more convenient and cleverer by technologies? We had a meet up and exchanged thoughts with front-line companies that take up challenges in various fields.
Opening by infinity Blockchain Ventures | Nicole Nguyen (Head of APAC)

Nicole Nguyen from infinity Blockchain Venture started this meet up by introducing her business mind. 3 deliverables that they wanted to bring was EVENT-NEWS-COMMUNITY.
They have diverse partnerships with global events and expand their ecosystem with companies such as “Chain of things”, “Coinfirm”, “Wowoo”, “Digax” and so on.
By working together with those partnerships, they hold many exciting events all around Asia.
Presentation on the future’s smart city by Connectome | Atsushi Ishii(CEO at Couger), Kazuaki Ishiguro(Lead Blockchain engineer at Couger)

Atsushi Ishii(CEO at Couger inc.) presented a description of his “Connectome” project and development of “Virtual Human Agent (VHA)”. Couger had been provided technical knowledge of AR service “Miku☆Sampo” by KDDI, one of the biggest communication companies.
“AI has been designed as a machine waiting for human’s instructions, but we would like to refresh this structure and have AI perform actions without human command. We set a goal of creating a coexisting world of AI and human by creating an interactive AI machine.” One of the examples is “VHA”, which can notice humans or specific objects in real time, and he showed a demonstration video of it.

Kazuaki Ishiguro(Leading Blockchain Engineer at Couger inc.) enthusiastically introduced about structure and problems on the topic of Deep Learning, Machine Learning. How to meet the problems of Scalable and Transaction Speed in Blockchain is the main difficulty when it comes to putting AI and Blockchain to practical use, so he shows his solutions by explaining prototypes of his products.
Rapid Digital Growth powered by predictive AI | Nicolas Ong (technical Account Manager at Tuple Technologies)

Old-fashioned, traditional marketing methods try to guess where customers usually are.
They believed that the fresh approach of AI Marketing is the best solution for analyzing the data of actual customers. Tuple created a 360 degree profile combining all business datasets, and predicting the future by using AI. The deep-learning system they created was called “Self-Correcting Predictive AI”, and the cycle of Predicting, Self-Correcting, Automating are done by itself. They also built a smart IT Infrastructure, which supports the digital transformation of Modern Enterprises. There are 4 layers such as Digital Marketing → Predictive Engine → Big Data Processing → Integration Layer.
By solving programmatic targeting, it will be easier to get a big real time database.
Open Innovation Protocols to Accelerate Frontier Technology | Anthony Doan (APAC Business Development Manager at Kambria )

Kambria is developed with major academic institutions such as Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Nanyang Technological University.
“Our future as a species depends on our ability to continue to innovate and create new technologies.”
However, they found that there is significant waste and inefficiency in today’s innovation model. Such as…
・University research project left wasted
・Startup innovations last forever
・Corporations thrive on patent secrets
・Individual contributions are fragmented
After all, “Open innovation platform” was their best solution for inefficient innovation models, for best technology is always open to humanity.
They made the platform by using Blockchain, Game Theory, and Tokenization. This is “Kambria”.
“Kambria” is a distributed open-platform contributing to the acceleration of robotics industries and engineering communities.
It has 4 key features:
1.Bootstraps Community Quickly
2.Cultivates Network Effect
3.Enables Primitive Contribution
4.Rewards Openess
All of the platform users can be developers, corporations, token holders.
They also build developer communities worldwide.
New Key-Management Technology for Blockchain and it’s Application | Ken Naganuma (Researcher at Hitachi)

HITACHI has been making developments in safety recognition systems through using everyday devices like smartphones.
“Fingerprint recognition” has been called out for easy falsification and security issues as being a big problem.
“PBI-BC (BlockChain) system” is clever in the point of when you scan your bio-info (in this case, your vessel) and generate a secret key to access the blockchain, the secret key and bio-info will be deleted immediately. The next time you use the blockchain, you need to scan your bio-info again and generate a different secret key to access the blockchain.
By using a vessel, you can maintain privacy because generating a secret key is needed for living human beings.
Informative meetup!
Though it was just a short time, everyone had so many things to ask for their skill up, and the event was very enthusiastic! We get the impression that so many companies and the government in Singapore are positively interested in adopting blockchain technologies for their business.
