Djuri Baars

Djuri is leading the “Blockchain Acceleration Lab” at Rabobank, it was founded in 2016 and has been working on multiple blockchain initiatives in several domains. Trade Finance, Real Estate and digital identity are, amongst others, domains the team is active in. His team develops useful open-source components, such as the Universal Ledger Agent which is an abstraction layer for blockchain identity solutions. It supports the creation of platforms like the Sustainable Pay per use platform to encourage sustainable manufacturing of appliances, without having one party in between. Together with existing business lines and other partners, the team already succeeded in bringing two blockchain platforms, we.trade (Trade Finance) and KomGo.io (Trade Commodity Finance).