Event Time: 6:00-8:00 PM on Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Location: Assurity Life Company 
2000 Q Street, Lincoln, NE 

Speaker: David Pitt, Managing Partner, Keyhole Software

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People have shared information in the same ways for hundreds of years: paper was simply replaced by digital computers. In both cases, information is still copied.

Blockchain technology has the potential to fundamentally disrupt this through efficiency and cost savings. This event will walk through how blockchain technology works.

• Sharing Enterprise Data has not changed for 100's of years
• Origin
• Distributed Computing and Data Sharing Architecture
• Traditional Centralized Data Sharing
• Blockchain's Distributed Data
• Benefits
• Basic Network Elements
• Append Only Data Store
• Handling Transactions
• Hashing
• Basic Transaction Data Structure
• Basic Block Structures
• Merkle Tree
• Merkle Root
• SSL Mutual Authentication
• Smart Contracts
• Public Blockchains
• Permissioned Blockchains
• Blockchain Frameworks
• Helpful Linux Commands

So how does a blockchain keep transactions secure and the system in balance and healthy? The best way to discuss this question is to dig into the technical specifics of building an actual blockchain with code. 

For hands-on learning, we will reference the companion projects found on the official Keyhole Software GitHub via the following links:

• Java Blockchain Companion Project https://github.com/in-the-keyhole/khs-blockchain-java-example
• C# Blockchain Companion Project https://github.com/in-the-keyhole/khs-blockchain-csharp-example

Hyperledger Kansas City Meetup

Event Time: 5:30-7:30 PM on Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Location: Keyhole Software Training Room 
8900 State Line Road Suite 455 Leawood, KS 66206

Speaker: David Pitt, Managing Partner, Keyhole Software

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Join us for the first event to kick off the new Kansas City Hyperledger meetup group!

Attend for an in-depth introduction to blockchain with Hyperledger Fabric. This presentation will show key Hyperledger Fabric features and how they support the next generation of shared systems of record, like:

• Foundational Elements of a Permissioned Hyperledger Blockchain Network
  
• Distributed Topology, including Gossip Structure, Peer Nodes, and Ordered Nodes
  
• Blockchain Data Structure
  Channels for Sharing
• Confidential Information
  
• Anatomy of a Transaction
  
• Business Logic Applied Through Chaincode or Smart Contracts
  
• Blockchain Case Study - Live Implementation

5:30 - 6:00 PM - Doors open. Networking time with food provided by Keyhole Software.

6:00 PM - Welcome. Presentation by David Pitt begins.

7:00 PM - Wrap-up + Q&A

Who should attend:

• Individuals who are interested in or active in the space blockchain application use cases and tools.
• Architects and developers who want to know how to design and write their own blockchain networks or decentralized applications.
• Individual contributors, or leaders of teams who will actively be contributing to the Hyperledger project.

Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration hosted by The Linux Foundation including leaders in finance, banking, Internet of Things, supply chain, manufacturing, and technology. Hyperledger Fabric is a blockchain framework implementation and one of the current eight Hyperledger projects hosted by The Linux Foundation.

This monthly meetup group will discuss all topics related to Hyperledger blockchains and is held at sponsor Keyhole Software. Anyone wishing to present or propose topics, please contact us.

This event walks through how blockchain technology works with a live demonstration of an actual blockchain with a smart contract implemented in HyperLedger Fabric.

People have shared information in the same ways for hundreds of years: paper was simply replaced by digital computers. In both cases, information is still copied.

Blockchain technology has the potential to fundamentally disrupt this through efficiency and cost savings. This event will walk through how blockchain technology works.

• Why Blockchain?
• How It Works
• Distributed Computing and Data Sharing Architecture
• Append-Only Data Store
• Hashing
• Basic Transaction Data Structure
• Basic Block Structures
• Merkle Tree
• Merkle Root
• Smart Contracts
• Permissioned Blockchains
• Demonstration of a Blockchain implemented in HyperLedger
• Demonstration of enterprise web applications interacting with the Blockchain

So how does a blockchain keep transactions secure and the system in balance and healthy? The best way to discuss this question is to dig into the technical specifics of building an actual blockchain with code. 

For hands-on learning, we will reference the companion projects found on the official Keyhole Software GitHub via the following links:

• Java Blockchain Companion Project https://github.com/in-the-keyhole/khs-blockchain-java-example
• C# Blockchain Companion Project https://github.com/in-the-keyhole/khs-blockchain-csharp-example

This presentation demonstrates building a blockchain smart contract with HyperLedger.

Blockchain smart contracts ensure that agreements are verifiable, permanent, and coded to meet the terms of its parties - without the expense of a middleman. The smart contract executes the instructions consistently and without fail, perhaps enacted based upon a time-based or condition-based trigger.

Smart contract protocols potentially strengthen up the legal standing of contracts, which makes them extremely applicable to enterprise needs.

HyperLedger Fabric is an open source, permissioned blockchain foundation protocol for enterprise use. It is a distributed ledger solution, underpinned by a modular architecture designed to support pluggable implementations of different components, including configurable consensus and membership services.

Many technical presentations simply talk about the benefits of automation and DevOps through bullet point concepts, diagrams, and discussion.

In contrast, this presentation demonstrates the automation of a container-based application on a Kubernetes platform. We will discuss and demonstrate some of the key components and considerations of a DevOps enabled environment.

We walk through a tangible reference implementation to demonstrate the following:

• Ansible-based deployment automation
• Pipelining
• Automated Testing
• Quality Analysis
• Continuous Deployment
• Application Health
• Monitoring and Alerts

The reference application is microservice based (but most of the concepts apply to any application architecture), using Java and Spring Boot/Cloud, and will be deployed in an OpenShift cluster.

RedHat's OpenShift will be used as the Kubernetes distribution, however, that is not the main emphasis of the presentation. The principles discussed are applicable to cloud enablement on any platform.