The College of Business joined hands
with the School of Data Science to host
the online "2020 Virtual Crypto Forum:
The Role of Cryptocurrency – Blockchain
in the Post-Pandemic World" on 16
June 2020. The event was co-organised
by College of Business, School of Data
Science, GOSS Institute of Research
Limited, Crypto Review and B2 Fintech
School, and was supported by the
EMBA office of the College of Business.
Responding to the global discussion on
cryptocurrency and blockchain, the one-day
2020 Virtual Crypto Forum featured
15 presentations on the development
and application of currency and
blockchain integration, and their social
and economic significances in the post-pandemic
world.
In his welcome address, CityU President
Professor Way Kuo said, "This year
is a very exciting year with great
uncertainty. Technologies have been helping us a lot in our daily lives in an
economic world and also from a social
community aspect."
"CityU has one of the strongest
engineering technology programmes
and business programmes. We hope
to join the 300 participants from all
around the world in the conference
today, to make positive impacts on
the development and application of
blockchain and cryptocurrency for a fair,
secure and more efficient community."
The speakers were leading scholars or
senior industry experts from around
the globe including China, Hong Kong,
Macau, Taiwan, the US and France.
Topics covered included designing stable coins, the essence of blockchain
in machine trust, "softness" and
"hardness" of blockchain, user-centric
verifiable credential, payment tools,
cybersecurity and privacy in FinTech,
digital RMB and more.
The organising committee of the forum
comprised Professor Houmin Yan,
Acting Dean, College of Business;
Professor Joe Qin, Dean, School of
Data Science; Dr Michael Wong,
EMBA Programme Director and
Associate Professor of Finance; Dr
Zhong Zhang, Editor-in-Chief, Crypto
Review, Professor QJ Gao, President,
GOSS Institute of Research; and Mr
Dadu Lee, B2 Fintech School.
