Blockchain, a change as disruptive as smartphones or the internet



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## Blockchain, a change as disruptive as smartphones or the internet The rector Eva Alcón and the regional minister of Finance and Economic Model of the Generalitat Valenciana, Vicent Soler, have presented the course together with the mayoress of Benicàssim, Susana Marqués; the director of the Chair, Xavier Molina, and the lecturer Lluís Martínez.

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The Universitat Jaume I has opened today Thursday 24 June at the Hotel Termas Marinas El Palasiet the second course of its Summer University 2021, with the title "Rethinking the future. Keys for an inclusive, interconnected and sustainable economic model", organised by the Chair for the Transformation of the Economic Model of the UJI, and which will end tomorrow, Friday 25. The rector Eva Alcón and the regional minister for Finance and Economic Model of the Generalitat Valenciana, Vicent Soler, presented the course together with the mayoress of Benicàssim, Susana Marqués; the director of the Chair, Xavier Molina, and the lecturer Lluís Martínez.

Alcón pointed out that the pandemic "presents us with challenges that will lead us to understand society and the economy in a different way" and called for the universities to be involved in the reflection on the future economic model, "to draw up this road map". For his part, Minister Soler explained that before the impact of COVID-19 "we already had the need to think about a transformation strategy that would allow us to reposition ourselves in a world with an economic geography that had been changing for some time". He also stressed the need for the University to provide "reflection and analysis" and congratulated himself on the fact that the Europe of today "is not the Europe of 2012, and has moved closer to the idea of transforming the economic model". The mayoress of Benicàssim, Susana Marqués, stated that "change is not an option, but a commitment to the future for which we all have a responsibility" and thanked the UJI for choosing Benicàssim to host the Summer University.

Next, lecturer Víctor del Corte introduced Montse Guàrdia, telecommunications engineer and CEO of Alastria Blockchain System, who gave a talk entitled "New models of digital economy". Guàrdia referred firstly to the need to "listen to the market to offer innovative solutions" and explained the possibilities of blockchain, comparing the "disruptive change" introduced by this technology with the beginning of the use of smartphones or the Internet: "It is a tool based on information technologies that can make our business more abundant and, above all, more sustainable". According to the head of Alastria, "blockchain means that if until now the digital architecture worked from our terminals to a central computer, now we are moving to a mesh, the entire network is interconnected, and information is transmitted between all and for all".

The challenge posed by this change "is to make economy from this new architecture, and that is why we must all understand its impact: if as an SME I can digitise and control my procedures at the same level as a large company, we are paving the way and changing the model of economic exchange". According to Guàrdia, "digitising does not mean losing our vocation - selling shoes or ceramics, for example - but doing it in a better, more scaled and sustainable way". On this point, she explained that in 2015 "conditional clauses were introduced that allow us to automate procedures and sales, putting intelligence into very simple, basic exchanges... and that is the goal of blockchain: automating procedures". The expert also stressed that "if we integrate financial instruments, intellectual property and legal security, we will no longer need the digital label, but we will simply be talking about the economy. And that is the reflection we need to do now, and we need to do it together, because to make change possible, we need to do it on a large scale, combining the vision of the administration, business and the university".

Samuele Furfari, a former European Commission official in the field of energy, with a degree in Chemical Engineering and a PhD from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), then spoke about the challenges for Europe's energy transformation. The day's programme was closed with a round table discussion on initiatives to transform the energy model in the Valencian Community, with the participation of Eliseo Monfort, co-director of the BP Chair in Industrial Environment; Andrés López Amores, from Elektrosol, and Eugenio Domínguez Amarillo, from Hybrid Energy Storage Solutions (a company that belongs to the Valencian Battery Alliance). This debate was moderated by lecturer Héctor Beltrán.

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