“HIVEHACK 2021” Blockchain Education Hackathon — NoCode! at Kindai University

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2 min readAug 12, 2021

Associate Professor. Masamitsu Moriyama, Faculty of Science and Engineering, at Kinki University and the IOST Foundation will hold a two-day hackathon from August 26 and 27 to experience product development using blockchain technology with NoCode. During the hackathon, speakers from industry-leading companies will talk about their applications of blockchain technology.

During these two days, students will work in groups to develop a product using IOST blockchain technology. They will be supported by IOST’s developers' community. On the last day, each student will present how much they have grown over the past two days, and a voting system using the IOST blockchain will be used to determine who has grown the most,
On the final day, each student will present how much they have grown over the past two days, and we will vote on who has grown the most through a blockchain voting system.

HIVEHACK 2021 Blockchain Education Hackathon No Code!

  • Experience product development using blockchain technology
  • Top industry-leading Japanese companies working on blockchain will participate as speakers.
  • By working as a project team that integrates the humanities and sciences, students from all walks of life will come together to learn and grow together.

Speakers from Industry-Leading Companies

On August 26

Title: The Latest Trends in Distributed Storage Business
Katsuya Konno — CEO, Fuel Hash

Title: Blockchain and Supply Chain Use Cases and Needs
Masato Ohashi — Head of Business Strategy, Oracle Japan
Takeshi Nakamura — Head of Cloud Engineering, Oracle Japan

On August 27

Title: The Future of NFT in the Game and Entertainment Fields
Fumitoshi Ogata — DeNA

Title: DAO — The Future of Community
Takashi Oka — Co-Founer, PHI

Since the beginning of its activities in Japan, the IOST Foundation has been focusing on understanding blockchain technology and the development of potential blockchain engineers. This activity evolved into the “Blockchain Free Education Program” in 2019, and about 300 students have participated in the program, which has been implemented at eight universities and technical colleges.

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