Exploring enterprise blockchain applications and real-world use cases, James Beck moderates the expert panel with York Rhodes, Souleima Baddi, and Sophia Lopez at #Ethereal Davos 2019. Sophia Lopez, Co-Founder and COO of Kaleido explains her previous experience with IBM and how legacy enterprise systems function today and the inability to transform decades-old infrastructure. She expands on the three levels of challenges that enterprises face with technology – 1) Proof of concept technology, 2) shared IT infrastructure, and 3) marrying blockchains with existing enterprise systems and data. Yorke Rhodes, Co-Founder of Blockchain at Microsoft explains how Microsoft’s Azure cloud services intersect with blockchain technology and the difficulties enterprises need to overcome to cross the chasm to use open source technology. As a trade financing private blockchain, Souleima, CEO of Komgo, walks through the governance of multiple parties including banks, user communities, and shareholders. She also discusses The panel expands on distributed public key management and differences between the current siloed key management. Finally, the panel opens the floor for questions from the audience. Blockchain at Microsoft: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/blockchain/ Komgo: https://komgo.io/ Tradeshift Frontiers: https://tradeshift.com/frontiers Kaleido: https://kaleido.io/ ConsenSys: https://consensys.net/