Keynote: State of Blockchain - Christopher Ferris, Distinguished Engineer
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 2017-02-15

Keynote: State of Blockchain - Christopher Ferris, Distinguished Engineer & CTO of Open Technology, IBM

About Christopher Ferris
An IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO Open Technology in the IBM Cloud organization, Christopher has been involved in the architecture, design, and engineering of distributed systems for most of his 37+ year career in IT and has been actively engaged in open standards and open source development since 1999. He has technical responsibility for all of IBM's strategic open source and standards initiatives, including OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Hyperledger Project, Open Container Initiative, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Mesos, Node.js and Docker. He represents IBM on the Hyperledger Governance Board, is a Maintainer of the Hyperledger Fabric project and chairs of the Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee.