Chain Reaction

Chain Reaction is the Unblocked blog page including opinion pieces, commentary and regular interviews with leaders in the field.

The entrepreneur fighting COVID19 with remote care

Deepti Atrish is the  CEO and Founder of Poonyah Care, a health tech startup. She is working on innovations that will lead to longer & healthier lives. Deepti is a serial technology entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience managing a digital agency and has founded two start-ups. She was the winner of Top 100 […]

Why should executives care about blockchain? Interview with Maria Vigliotti

Maria Grazia Vigliotti is the founder of Sandblocks Consulting, a boutique consultancy specialising in blockchain technology and  cybersecurity. She is CEO of Gradbase a company that secures academic and professional qualifications on blockchain.  Her career in computing spans more than twenty years, many as an academic at Imperial College London specialising in writing AI algorithms to […]
Kate Baucherel

Are you ready for the Blockchain Hurricane? Kate Baucherel Interview

Kate Baucherel is a business development and strategy consultant specialising in the application of emerging technology in enterprise. She has held senior technical and financial roles in businesses across multiple sectors. Kate’s first job was with an IBM business partner in Denver, back when the AS/400 was a really cool piece of hardware and the […]
GovChain Research

Will using public services ever become as easy as ordering a book from Amazon?

This might seem like an unfair question as, of course, delivering healthcare or welfare services, is in many ways, a lot harder and more complex than being an online retailer. And yet, while attending the launch of our GovChain Research project in the Isle of Man recently, we got into a very interesting discussion about […]

Why is blockchain like a hoover?

In Alice in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter famously asks “why is a raven like a writing desk?”. You may feel the same sense of confusion when you see our headline. Nowadays the word ‘blockchain’ has become a bit like ‘Hoover’ in the sense that it has become a generic term to describe a whole range of […]
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