Kåre Kjelstrøm from Concordium shares his insights about the potential of blockchain

In this video, Dinis Guarda and Kåre Kjelstrøm discuss technology and blockchain. Kåre shares his insights about the potential of blockchain, how Concordium is leveraging it, and how it can be utilized to solve real-world problems.

Kåre Kjelstrøm is Concordium’s Group CTO and CPO. He is a senior engineering leader with extensive hands-on experience in companies like Uber or Silverbullet and in building systems at scale. He has a proven track record of designing and delivering large distributed systems and infrastructure components in heterogeneous environments across multi-cloud and on-prem. Acting in the roles of leader, software architect, engineer, manager, mentor, and teacher, he enjoys defining, implementing, and running large scale IT-systems.

Kåre Kjelstrøm Biography

Kåre Kjelstrøm is Concordium’s Group CTO and CPO. Kåre holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Aarhus and joined Concordium from a hyper growth American pre-ipo startup where he managed the Core Infrastructure group.

Before Concordium, Kåre was previously a manager at Uber running Core Storage building, a highly scalable distributed ledger and storage solutions. Kåre started initially from Denmark and later moved to Toronto, Canada, where he doubled the Site Lead bringing all of Uber’s Toronto operations under the same roof.

He is a senior engineering leader with extensive hands-on experience in building systems at scale. He has a proven track record of designing and delivering large distributed systems and infrastructure components in heterogeneous environments across multi-cloud and on-prem. Acting in the roles of leader, software architect, engineer, manager, mentor, and teacher, he enjoys defining, implementing, and running large scale IT-systems.

Earlier in his career, Kåre was a cofounder of the consulting company Silverbullet where he helped drive the digital transformation of the Danish Public Sector with a focus on PKI secured service to service communication.

About Concordium

Concordium is a public-layer 1, science-backed blockchain, designed to balance privacy with accountability through its ID layer. The protocol level ID, ensures that every wallet is associated with a real-world identity that has been verified through a third party ID provider, so that people and companies can trust one another, while remaining private, with zero-knowledge-proof. With safe transactions, Concordium can unlock a global, multi-trillion-dollar economy, so bankers to regulators actually want to use blockchain.

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The trust that blockchain brings is revolutionary and has the potential to revolutionize many industries

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invaluable and can help to secure the data of millions of users!

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It will help to foster a more secure and transparent economy!