How Blockchain Will Change the World with Splunk Executive Nate McKervey

Sep 18, 2019

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Blockchain will improve security, increase efficiency, and lead to new business models for enterprises. Nate McKervey believes that deeply. Nate is the head of blockchain and DLT at Splunk, and he spends his time helping enterprises gain insights and success when adopting this new technology. His work helps Splunk customers have even more trust in the data that they’re using.

But that’s just the beginning of the blockchain story. On this special episode of IT Visionaries hosted by Mission CEO Chad Grills, Nate explains how our lives will change thanks to blockchain and cryptocurrency. Whether it’s creating a ledger system that transforms a food recall process from one that takes days to one that takes seconds, or moving to the tokenization of objects, which could increase world GDP by huge orders of magnitude, there are exciting innovations happening, and Nate has the details on them all.

Key Takeaways:

Building trust in data
Where you can deploy blockchain
The future of blockchain and cryptocurrencies

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