A webinar discussing the creation of the first blockchain through the explosion of different platforms and the emergence of new classes of crypto asset.
11:30 - 12:30
Date: 2 April 2025
Kate will take you on a journey from the creation of the first blockchain through the explosion of different platforms and the emergence of new classes of crypto asset.
She will explain how blockchain achieves its key properties of trust, transparency and immutability and why both blockchain and crypto assets are significant for businesses, finance, accounting and reporting.
Case studies will demonstrate how organisations from manufacturing to banking, food production and luxury goods have already embraced specific functionality to speed up payments, manage traceability, improve sustainability, and give confidence to regulators.
Key Takeaways:
Kate Baucherel BA(Hons) FCMA CGMA is an author, speaker and consultant specialising in emerging technologies, with a focus on blockchain and cryptocurrency.
In a career spanning more than 35 years, Kate has held senior financial, technical and advisory roles in businesses across multiple sectors including utilities, construction, manufacturing, leisure and software. She consults with clients from start-up and scaleup businesses to blue chip multinationals and is an associate of the Fintech and Payments Advisory network. Kate teaches at Teesside University in both the International Business School and the School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies. Her subjects include digital transformation, emerging technologies in enterprise and accounting, fintech, blockchain and cryptocurrency, cybersecurity and financial crime.
Kate’s recent publications include “Getting Started with Cryptocurrency: An introduction to digital assets and blockchain” (BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, 2024), “Blockchain Hurricane: Origins, Applications and Future of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency” (BEP/Harvard 2020), “What’s Hot in Blockchain and Crypto” (2020, 2021) and, in the world of fiction, a popular series of technothrillers. She has spoken at events across the world and online as keynote, panellist, mentor and chair, and regularly appears on BBC radio and TV as an emerging tech and cryptocurrency expert.