Main theme of 2nd National Blockchain Workshop (BILGEM BW 2019) is “Digital Identity on Blockchain”, and it focuses on the question of “how blockchain will affect citizens’ daily lives?”. Is it possible to make the processes that citizens/legal entities encounter while using public or municipal services faster or more secure with the help of blockchain technology? How to increase participation of citizens in management while protecting their privacy in the digital world? These issues and beyond will be discussed in this workshop. Another important goal of this workshop is to cover topics like stable coins, security and privacy, more technical concepts like consensus mechanisms, cryptographic algorithms  and real-world use cases with experts of the blockchain domain

The workshop, which will include both domestic and foreign speakers, panels, success stories and training sessions, is expected to be attended by a large number of national and international participants from academia and industry.

Submission Guidelines

All submissions must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. 

Submissions (Tr or En) should include both an extented abstract and presentation and they will be reviewed in a single blind manner. Extended abstracts should follow the IEEE conference guidelines for formatting. Extended abstract should not exceed 4 pages excluding references. Corresponding presentations can be prepared in form of Latex, Microsoft Powerpoint or Mac Os Keynote, but should be submitted in PDF format.

Submissions will be judged on novelty, relevance, clarity of presentation, and correctness. Authors of accepted submissions are required to present their work. Accepted abstracts will be made available in the conference website at least one week before the workshop, so that the participants can come prepared having read the papers. Accepted submissions will be published and shared with the workshop participents.

Important dates:

• Submission Deadline: August 16 September 1, 2019
• Author Notification: September 13, 2019
• Camera-ready Deadline: September 20, 2019
• Workshop date: September 25-26, 2019 

List of Topics

• Digital Identity
• Corporate Identity
• Identity for IoT Applications (IDoT)
• Government Use Cases of Digital ID
• Stable Coins
• Consensus Mechanisms
• Privacy in Blockchain
• Blockchain Security
• Cryptography for Blockchain
• Verifiable Claim/Credential

Committees

Program Committee

• Ali Aydın Selçuk (TOBB ETU)
• Erdinç Öztürk (SU)
• Fatih Birinci (TUBITAK BILGEM)
• İsa Sertkaya (TUBITAK BILGEM)
• Mehmet Sabır Kiraz (DMU)
• Murat Cenk (METU)
• Oktay Adalıer (TUBITAK BILGEM)
• Özer Koray Akdemir (ABU)
• Öznur Kalkar (TUBITAK BILGEM)
• Pelin Angın (METU)
• Taner Dursun (TUBITAK BILGEM)
• Muhammed Ali Bingöl (TUBITAK BILGEM)
• Necati Ersen Şişeci (TUBITAK BILGEM)
• Ercan Ölçer (TUBITAK BILGEM)
• Neyyire Deniz Sarier (TUBITAK BILGEM)

Organizing committee

• Orhan Muratoğlu
• Alper Ay
• Enes Aydın
• Fatih Birinci
• Gökhan Abbasoğlu
• İsa Sertkaya
• Taner Dursun

• Program committee chair

  İsa Sertkaya (TUBITAK BILGEM)

• General chair

  Orhan Muratoğlu (TUBITAK BILGEM)

Venue

The conference will be held in Lutfi Kirdar International Convention & Exhibition Center, Istanbul, Turkey.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to blokzincir.bilgem@tubitak.gov.tr .