Blockchain technology provides a secure mechanism for business transactions in terms of integrity, availability and accountability. The “distributed ledger” concept can be adopted in diverse industries, including trade finance, supply chain management, healthcare and government, where transparency and validity of information are crucial. There is a huge demand for professionals in the market for designing, developing and maintaining blockchain systems.
In order to provide COMP students with more practical experience in blockchain application development, a Corda Training/Certification Programme has been launched recently in collaboration with the Hong Kong Blockchain Society. A series of workshops will be organised in March to April. At the end of the Programme, students who pass a test will be awarded a certificate issued by the Hong Kong Blockchain Society.
To start with, we invited Dr Lawrence Ma, the President of the Hong Kong Blockchain Society, to give an introduction of the open distributed ledger platform, Corda, and its use cases in the industry on 17 March. In the coming workshops, core concepts of Corda, including state, contract, transaction, flow and node will be introduced. To apply the concepts practically, students will solve programming problems, design blockchain applications and develop CorDapps (applications on Corda) from scratch.
On the same day, Ms Claudia Leung, Technical Account Manager, Enterprise Services Segment of Microsoft Hong Kong, who is also a COMP alumnus, delivered a training session on Microsoft Chatbot applications with laboratory exercises to help our students to learn about AI-related technology.
