Quorum technical overview & 7 Node examples! A hands-on technical workshop

Welcome to our 2nd Quorum developer workshop in London. You will need to register on Eventbrite to attend this event. 

Quorum is an enterprise grade, open-source blockchain platform developed by J.P. Morgan, which is designed to allow private transactions within a permissioned group of known participants.

More info on Quorum: https://www.goquorum.com/

Please join our Quorum London meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Quorum-Meetup-London/

Thanks to Quorum for sponsoring this event. Food and drinks will be provided during the workshop.

Audience:

Technical professionals

Technical and business managers interested in building on Quorum

Date: Thursday 19th of September

Time: 18:00 to 21:00

Location: Kings' College London, Bush House. 300, Strand, London WC2R 1AE

Room: (SE) 2.12

Capacity: 50

Schedule:

18:00 - 19:00: Registration & networking

19:00 - 20:30 Presentation / Hands-on workshop

20:30 - 21:00 Q & A

Overview:

We will start with an overview of the Quorum architecture, detailing the transaction manager and showing how private transactions work in Quorum.

We will then demonstrate how to run a node on Quorum, explaining the requirements, the configuration parameters and showing a private transaction being created.

If our delegates would like to follow along, you need to follow the instructions on https://blog.extropy.io/posts/quorum2.html if you are using Docker.

Or you can follow https://github.com/jpmorganchase/quorum-examples/tree/master/examples/7nodes if you want to use Vagrant.

Quorum Technology Overview:

-       Architecture

-       Workflow

-       Transactions Manager

-       How private transactions work

7 Node examples:

-       Requirements

-       Configuration parameters

-       Demonstration 

• Starting a node
• Creating a private transaction

Troubleshooting and Q&A

Presenter: Laurence Kirk

After a successful 15 year career writing low latency financial applications, Laurence moved to Oxford and set up Extropy.io, a consultancy working with start-ups in the UK and overseas, developing blockchain solutions. Laurence is also the co-founder of the popular workonblockchain.com blockchain developer bootcamp. Laurence graduated with a BSc in Physics from Durham University, and currently taking his MSc in Software Engineering at Oxford University. In addition to giving talks, mentoring at hackathons and running groups about blockchain technology and zero knowledge proof, Laurence also organises an Artificial Intelligence group in Oxford.

Organiser:

Work on Blockchain and Extropy are Quorum UK ambassadors to help foster learning and build the Quorum developer community.

Work on Blockchain is a global hiring platform and blockchain educational provider for technical professionals in the blockchain, DLT, cryptocurrency and zero knowledge proof space. More info here: https://workonblockchain.com/

Extropy.io is a decentralised system and cryptography development consultancy based in the UK. More info here: https://extropy.io/