Val Bercovici on why Lawyers and Insurance Companies drive to good IT Practices
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Val Bercovici on why Lawyers and Insurance Companies drive to good IT Practices

Joining us this week is Val Bercovici, Founder & CEO of PencilDATA at KeyBank Emerging Tech Summit. About PencilDATA PencilDATA is a software-as-a-service startup embracing data governance allowing users to see and manipulate data easily. It achieves this with a blockchain ledger that accounts for all data activity, Highlights  0 min 48 sec: Introduction from Val Bercovici o Post – Blockchain in the Cloud by Rob Hirschfeld o Robotic Process Automation (RPA)  4 min 47 sec: What do you use Blockchain for? o Core to the value but is just an enabler  5 min 52 sec: Don't confused Blockchain with ICO/Crypto-currency o Blockchain rollouts in 2018 have paused ~ Gartner quote o HOMEWORK – Podcast with BlockChain Technology Partners o PencilDATA has built the S3 of Blockchains  10 min 08 sec: Blockchain Service or Acting on BC with distributed service? o Useful Zero Trust Solution o Autonomous Vehicle Taxi Service Use Case o Same workflow and processes needed for medical equipment  15 min 59 sec: Why Distributed Ledgers for these Use Cases? o Centralized authorities can be a single point of failure  19 min 51 sec: Data security issues around Veracity & Authentication o Data poison can train AI poorly o Explainable AI ~ Data Reproduce-ability; prove data is valid  25 min 54 sec: SalesForce Use Cases o Live on the SalesForce App Exchange o Launching at DreamForce 2018 with Customer References  27 min 18 sec: How PencilDATA provide value to SalesForce Customers? o SaaS Turnkey Solution that hides the behind the scenes work o Costs for Etherium usage  37 min 14 sec: Industrial IoT Use Case  37 min 31 sec: Wrap-Up

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