 | B2C' 2024: 3rd Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference Hard Rock Hotel Tenerife Adeje, Tenerife (Canary Islands), Spain, October 16-18, 2024 |
| Conference website | https://b2c-conference.com/ |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=b2c2024 |
| Abstract registration deadline | August 30, 2024 |
| Submission deadline | September 20, 2024 |
About the Event
Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are now topics of substantial impact that society needs to contemplate, exploit and adopt.
The Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference (B2C' 2024) aims to provide a forum for researchers, scientists, engineers, and students from both the industry and the academia to present their latest research findings, advances and innovations on blockchain technologies as well as to helps decision-makers, technologists, and developers understand the value of blockchain to their businesses regardless of industry.
It will feature keynotes, tutorials, peer-reviewed technical paper presentations, posters, demos and exhibitions from world-leading companies, startups, solution vendors, research institutes, open-source projects, and academia. The congress will be also the forum for exchange of the latest innovation results, regulations, policies, standards, and applications in this exciting and challenging area.
Unlike existing, narrowly focused technical conferences and commercial trade events, the congress will cover all technical and social aspects of blockchain and cryptocurrency. In addition, startups, working in this area will be able to present their pitch decks to investors during the event.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Regular papers
- Posters
- Special sessions' papers
- Keynote presentations
- Invited talks
- Industrial presentations
Papers must be prepared according to the conference proceedings template
Posters size: A0 (21 x 29.7 cm), vertical orientation
List of Topics
- Blockchain theories, applications and their evolution
- Blockchain based protocols and algorithms
- Smart contracts and distributed ledgers
- Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms
- Performance optimization of blockchain and decentralized schemes
- Integration of blockchain with other emerging technologies
- Peer-to-peer networks
- Cryptography techniques
- Security and privacy surrounding blockchain technology
- Cryptocurrency
- Cryptocurrency protocols and adoption
- Digital currencies
- Exchanges, trading and mining
- Financial analysis and risk management with cryptocurrencies
- FinTech and DeFi
- NFT
- Web 3.0
- Metaverses
- Fraud detection and financial crime prevention
- Legal, ethical and societal aspects of blockchain and cryptocurrencies
- Regulation and law enforcement of blockchain technology
- New business model
- Case studies (e.g., of adoption, attacks, forks, scams, regulations, policies, standards …)
Special Sessions:
Authors are welcome to organize and manage special sessions during the conference. Each session should contains 4-6 papers in a related field as specified above or proposed by a session organizer.
Session organizers will get:
- Certificate of Appreciation
- Free Registration for the Event
Committees
Chairman:
Dr. Sergey Y. Yurish, IFSA President, Co-founder and CEO of Eco IFSA, Barcelona, Spain
Advisory Chairman:
Prof. Vijyakumar Varadarajan, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Conference and Publication Manager:
Mrs. Tetyana Zakharchenko, Director of IFSA Publishing, S. L., Barcelona, Spain
Business Committee:
Cañete Javier, Phare Investments Hub, Spain
Fonts Ignacio, Inveready, Spain
Gross Francis, European Central Bank, Germany
Jadav Divyesh, IBM Research, USA
McCullagh Adrian, ODMOB Lawyers, Australia
Pioli Moro Evandro, British Telecommunication PLC (BT), UK
Saraswat Vishal, Bosch Global Software Technologies, India
Sghaier Omar Ahmad, Blockchain Foundry, Inc., Canada
User Erol, User Corporation and Blockchainarmy, Turkey
Steering Committee:
Bautista Gomez Leonardo, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
De Salve Andrea, National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Ducrée Jens, Dublin City University, Ireland
Dursun Taner, TÜBİTAK BILGEM Blockchain Research Lab, Turkey
Harfoush Khaled, North Carolina State University, USA
Hjálmtýsson Gísli, Reykjavík University, Iceland
Izadi Javad, University of West London, UK
Jürjens Jan, Fraunhofer ISST & University of Koblenz, Germany
Latypov Rustam, Kazan Federal University, Russia
Lechner Ulrike, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
Manabe Yoshifumi, Kogakuin University, Japan
Manevich Yacov, IBM Research, Israel
McGroarty Frank, Centre for Digital Finance, University of Southampton, UK
Mesnager Sihem, University of Paris VIII, LAGA, Telecom Paris, France
Min Youn A., Hanyang Cyber University, South Korea
Mohanty Saraju, University of North Texas, USA
Nawari Nawari O., University of Florida, USA
Ouf Shimaa, Helwan University, Egypt
Palos-Sanchez Pedro R., University of Sevilla, Spain
Powell Warwick, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Prinz Wolfgang, Fraunhofer FIT / RWTH Aachen, Germany
Puschmann Thomas, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Ramezan Gholamreza, Blocklychain Labs, Vancouver, Canada
Saura Jose Ramon, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
Shi Jing, University of Cincinnati, USA
Takaoglu Mustafa, İstanbul Aydın University, Blockchain Research Center, Turkey
Wang Gang, University of Connecticut, USA
Wolfe Simon, Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, UK
Zhang Yunpeng, University of Houston, USA
Zhou Wei-Xing, East China University of Science and Technology, China
Publication
One event - three different publications !
1) All registered abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings with the ISBN and DOI, distributed during the conference and submitted for indexing to the Web of Science.
2) Authors will be invited to submit full-page extended papers to the open access journal Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ISSN: 2938-2602).
3) The limited number of full-page papers published in the journals will be selected by the Editorial Board to extend to book chapters for the open access Book Series on 'Advances in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency', Vol. 1, which will be published in 2024.
Venue
The B2C' 2024 Conference will take place in the Hard Rock Hotel Tenerife (Canary Islands), Adeje, Spain
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to b2c@sensorsportal.com