First IOTA Meetup in Tokyo, held on Thursday, November 9. Join the community here: https://www.meetup.com/iota-tokyo/

2. Today’s Agenda
- Launching IOTA Meetups across Japan
- What is IOTA?
- IOTA Co-Founders Perspective
- Sample Use Case
- Discussion: Community Interest Groups

3. Japan IOTA Meetups
Tokyo (102/146)
- First Meetup – November 9
- nakamo.to – December 14
Osaka (18/19)
Fukuoka (15/16)
Sapporo (-/5)
Nagoya (-/7)
- Possible Meetup – November 13
Note: membership numbers as of October 31, and November 9

4. IOTA Tokyo Meetup Team
Norbert Gehrke
Senior Strategist, AIG Japan Holdings
 20 years in capital markets (GS, Barclays)
 8+ years in Japan (out of the last 20 years)
 Founder, Tokyo FinTech Meetup (670+ ppl)
 NYU Adjunct Lecturer
Karsten Klein
Founder & CEO, KLEIN K.K. Advisory Services
 University of Cambridge, Ph.D. Engineering
 Risk Management in Capital Markets &
Insurance (Lehman, UBS, Nomura, NN)
 Cyber Risk
 13+ years in Japan
Hiroyasu Nohata
Chief Information Officer, Kaula Inc.
 University of Tokyo, Engineering/Computing
 Career in Software, Sales & Marketing
 10 years with Sun Microsystems
 ~60 years in Japan ☺
Jules Dourlens
Co-Founder, kumabits.com
 EPITECH, MSc Computer Science
 Blockchain and Web Engineer
 2+ years in Japan

5. IOTA Regional Meetup Team
Katsuji Okamoto (Osaka)
Chief Executive Officer, Kaula Inc.
 Tokyo Denki University, Electric & Comms
 Carer in Software, Sales & Marketing
 Sun Microsystems, PeopleSoft,
Documentum, Cognos
Joel DeJesus (Sapporo)
Founder, E-Flamingo LLC
 University of Florida, Mathematics (B.S.) and
Finance (M.S.)
 Bitcoin hardware manufacturing
 Creator of a “BTM” (paper wallet)
 11+ years in Japan
Kenichi Kuromoto (Fukuoka)
Chief Executive Officer, Nayuta
 University of Kyoto, Mechanical Physics
 Career in hardware & software dev
 Sensor network application development
 Previously LSI Design at Sony

6. IOTA Co-Founders Perspective
- Basics
- IOTA’s Tangle is a significant leap forward from blockchain
- Blockchain itself is still very much experimental technology
- IOTA is beta software in continuous production
- Use common sense
- Maturity
- USD 10m dedicated to building the ecosystem
- Bug bounty
- Refer to the development roadmap
- Coordinator
- Required for 34% attack prevention
Source: https://blog.iota.org/the-transparency-compendium-26aa5bb8e260

7. Sample Use Case
Source: https://medium.com/@harmvandenbrink/how-elaadnl-built-a-poc-charge-station-running-fully-on-iota-and-iota-only-e16ed4c4d4d5

8. Discussion: Interest Groups
- Functional Working Group
- Problem statements
- Use case development
- Technical Working Group
- Teach people how to use IOTA
- Build prototypes
- Hackathon?
- Community Management Group
- Connectivity across Japan locations
- Grow the membership
- Event ideas, logistics management
- Sponsorship engagement
Source: https://blog.iota.org/the-transparency-compendium-26aa5bb8e260

9. IOTA,
Another blockchain?

10. Jules Dourlens
jules@kumabits.com

11. Decentralized
≠
Blockchain
Decentralized
applications
File storage
Ledgers
Databases

12. Ledgers
Ethereum
Ledgers
Bitcoin
Ripple
IOTA

13. Blockchains

14. Blockchain & IOT
Weight

15. Blockchain & IOT
Weight Cost

16. Blockchain & IOT
Weight Cost Time

17. IOTA and the Tangle
Directed Acyclic Graph

18. The Tangle

19. New transaction

20. Markov Chain
Monte Carlo
Algorithm

21. Proof of work

22. Transaction
confirmation

23. Scalability Transactions per minutes
Time
Tangle

24. Scalability Transactions per minutes
Time
blockchain
Tangle

25. Cost Transactions per minutes
Costpertransaction
blockchain

26. Cost Transactions per minutes
Costpertransaction
blockchain
Tangle

27. Future
Adoption
Security
New

28. Thanks
Everyone