The BIG ERA Chair came to a successful finale, with its Closing Ceremony taking place last week, on October 27. In the IA room of Instituto Superior Técnico, more than 50 participants, from students to industry leaders, gathered to watch the project’s main achievements over the years and reflected how digital ledger technology can drive trust, transparency and social good

The conference featured keynote speakers, Diogo Mónica and Manuel Costa, who went over Tokenization and Confidential Computing respectively. In addition to the keynotes, there was a presentation of the BIG Lab’s research highlights, an Industry and Society Panel and several interventions by INESC-ID researchers, including Luís Caires, Miguel Pupo Correia, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Paolo Romano, Miguel Matos, Miguel Pardal, David R. Matos, Nuno Lopes and Christof Torres. Overall, the ceremony served as a platform for all stakeholders in Blockchain and related areas to present and discuss studies and challenges.

“The BIG Closing Conference really was a unique moment to witness the impact of BIG as an extremely successful multi-institutional and interdisciplinary initiative, leveraging the quite unique characteristics of the ERA program.” – Stated Luís Caires, Chair Holder for the BIG ERA Chair and researcher of the INESC-ID Information and Decision Support Systems Scientific Area. “And this is just the start of a new phase of the BIG Lab community, looking forward to the future challenges of decentralized, participatory, and trustworthy computing for all.”

The BIG ERA Chair Closing Conference was organised in the scope of the BIG ERA Chair Project (GA 952226), a project funded by the European Commission involving INESC-ID, IST and ITI-LARSyS.

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