ASFA Unpacks: Blockchain for super

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PROGRAM
Melbourne: 28 March | Sydney: 29 March

Time Session Speakers

8.00 – 8.30am Registration
Tea, coffee and light breakfast served on arrival.

8.30 – 8.40am Welcome and opening address Noelle Kelleher, Chief

Operating Officer, Vision Super
(Melbourne)
Alison McLeod, Head of
Colonial First State Legal,
Commonwealth Bank of
Australia (Sydney)
8.40 – 9.00am Session 1 Laszlo Peter, Director
Blockchain 101 – setting the scene and explaining what Technology Advisory, Digital
it is Ledger Services Lead, KPMG
We will explore the challenges and risks associated with this Australia
new technology and provide a pragmatic explanation of what
blockchain is and what it could mean for you.
9.00 – 10.00am Session 2
Blockchain – the value chain

Part A
Blockchain has the potential to impact the whole of the Cliff Richards, General
financial sector value chain. We have seen one of the world’s Manager Equity Post Trade
leading financial market exchanges plan for the replacement Services, ASX Ltd
of their current administration system with that of distributed
ledger technology. What will the impact of blockchain on
capital markets be?

Part B
Custodians play an important role in the administration of
Australia’s super system. They are providing an increasingly David Braga, Head of Securities
diverse range of services for the industry. Being a group that Services, BNP Paribas Securities
provides asset custody and other ancillary services to funds, Services Australia & New
will custodians need to prepare for the use of block chain Zealand
technology in capital markets and what impact will this have
on the way they do business?

Part C
Smart contracts are a form of computer program code
that is capable of facilitating, executing and enforcing the
performance of an agreement using blockchain technology.
Blockchain allows for the removal of the middleman. Smart
Scott Farrell, Senior Partner
contracts enable two anonymous parties to trade and do
King & Wood Mallesons
business with each other, usually over the internet, without
the need for a middleman. Will the lawyers of the future be
replaced by canny code writers of today? Who do you go to
for advice on smart contracts and how accurate, transparent
and safe are they?
10.00 – 10.35am Session 3 Facilitator:
The panel – Is blockchain fact or fiction? Laszlo Peter, Director
A discussion facilitated by Laszlo Peter where the positions Technology Advisory, Digital
taken throughout the morning will be unpacked and Ledger Services Lead, KPMG
challenged. Australia

10.35 – 10.40am Closing remarks