BTS'22 provides a forum for the blockchain community to present their work to a diverse audience with broad background and interests in blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, including government, financial institutions and payment systems, industries, and health and energy sectors, academia, research organizations, and small businesses. Talks from all relevant disciplines are welcome. The presentations however are expected to be at a level that is accessible to a large portion of attendees.

BTS does not have published proceedings. We invite talks on the latest research and development in relevant areas, including exploratory talks that shed light on less understood aspects of blockchain, or provide insight on challenges of blockchain technologies. Talks may be based on recently published work at conferences or journals, or projects that are in-progress, as well as industry talks that discuss new applications and raise questions.

We encourage connection to the Canadian context when possible.

Topics

We welcome submissions in any area of research related to blockchains and DLTs and from any disciplinary perspective. We particularly welcome talks on real-life implementations and developments. Some examples of topics that would be of particular interest include:

Digital Trust

Enterprise/Infrastructure Blockchain

Tokenization of Value (Cryptocurrencies and NFTs)

Core Technologies

Long-term Security

Long term preservation of assets

Social Impacts, History, and Political Influences

Law, Government, and Regulation

Auditing and Accounting

Privacy

Governance/Blockchain Ecosystems

Cryptographic foundations and primitives for DLT

Applications (e.g. identity, supply chain, health)

What to submit

• A 1 page summary covering the following:
  • Title of talk
  • Speaker's name, affiliation, and collaborators
  • Abstract of the talk that includes the main points
• Together with:
  • Supplementary materials that would include, paper, slide deck, and software (in the form of link to an accessible repository) to support the abstract

The submission should be in PDF format. The submission server is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bts22

Important Dates

Talk Submission Deadline: April 7, 2022 April 10, 2022 April 18, 2022 (Deadline extended) [Submit via EasyChair]

Author Notification: May 7, 2022 May 19, 2022 (Extended)

We will not provide detailed feedback and peer-review of your submission. The submission will be reviewed by program committee members with relevant background, and the decision will be conveyed with a short comment and a decision as to of whether we will include your talk or not.

Program Committee

Alfred Lehar, University of Calgary

Amr Yousef, Concordia University

Andreas Veneris, University of Toronto

Atefeh (Atty) Mashatan, Toronto Metropolitan University (Formerly Ryerson University)

Chen Feng, UBC (Okanagan Campus)

Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora, University of Manitoba

Erica Pimentel, Queen's University

Florian Martin-Bariteau, University of Ottawa

Greg Hagen, University of Calgary

Guang Gong, University of Waterloo

Harish Krishnan, University of British Columbia

Henry Kim, York University

Ivan Baschastinikh, University of British Columbia

Jan Bena, University of British Columbia

Joel Reardon, University of Calgary and AppCensus, Inc.

Kaiwen Zhang, École de technologie supérieure

Majid Khabbazian, University of Alberta

Mohammad Jalazai, University of British Columbia

Ralph Deters, University of Saskatchewan

Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick

Ryan Henry, University of Calgary

Sara Rouhani, University of Manitoba

Victoria Lemieux, University of British Columbia

Zehua Wang, University of British Columbia