9.00 -9.05 am: Opening Remarks by PC-Chairs

9.05-10.05 am: Invited Talk I

Session Chair: Satya Lokam

Speaker : Juan Garay, Yahoo! Research

Title: "Basic Properties of Blockchain Protocols" [Slides]

10.05-10.30 am: Coffee

10.30 am-12.00 pm: Technical Session I : Constructions of Blockchains

Session Chair: Marko Vukolic

Authors: Wenting Li, Alessandro Sforzin, Sergey Fedorov and Ghassan Karame (NEC Laboratories Europe)

Title: "Towards Scalable and Private Industrial Blockchains"

Authors: Lei Xu, Nolan Shah, Lin Chen, Nour Diallo, Zhimin Gao, Yang Lu and Weidong Shi (University of Houston, USA)

Title: "Enabling the Sharing Economy: Privacy Respecting Contract based on Public Blockchain"

Authors: Mustafa Al-Bassam (University College London, UK)

Title: "SCPKI: A Smart Contract-based PKI and Identity System" (Work-in-progress)

12.00-1.30 pm -Lunch

1.30-2.30 pm - Invited Talk II

Session Chair: Kouichi Sakurai.

Speaker: Marko Vukolic, IBM Research, Zurich.

Title: "Rethinking Permissioned Blockchains: Experiences with Hyperledger Fabric". [Slides]

2.30-3.30 pm Technical Session II Blockchains: Analysis and Attacks

Session Chair: Ghassan Karame

Authors: Lin Chen,Lei Xu, Nolan Shah, Zhimin Gao,Nour Diallo, Yang Lu and Weidong Shi (University of Houston, USA)

Title: "Unraveling Blockchain based Crypto-currency System Supporting Oblivious Transactions: a Formalized Approach" (Short Paper)

Authors: Hidde Lycklama, Joris Oudejans and Zekeriya Erkin (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)

Title: "A Framework for Preventing Double-Financing using Blockchain Technology"(Short Paper)

3.30-4.00 pm- Coffee

4.00pm-5.30 pm Discussions on Research Directions on Blockchain