# 13 Oct 17 Law – Internet of Agreements > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [836]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (Web page), 2017-10-13 (from the career record), https://internetofagreements.com/law. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the law step (Mattereum, 2017), before the great powers step (Multipolar Realpolitik, 2024). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Event record for the contracting layer. - Career works it belongs to: - Internet of Agreements conferences (2017): Hosted four London conferences on blockchain agreements: law, trade, identity and space. - Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016): Essay drafted live in public: smart contracts as capitalism's calculus, with richer instruments than cash... (suggested by machine) - Internet of Agreements (2017): Paper at the World Government Summit in Dubai on producing legal agreements at industrial scale. (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - CheapID to Mattereum: One identity pattern, from a person's ID card in 2006 to warranties on physical goods in 2017. - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. (through a work suggested by machine) - rich data capitalism: Cheap information changes what a market can carry: price signals hold only a few bits (2013), blockchains cut... (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: gupta / vinay / blockchain (33%); Blockchain infrastructure & theory — databases, semantics, identity & trust (33%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Internet of Agreements (9 here; 28 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated); Adjoint (2 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); Mycelia (2 here; 4 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); Z/Yen (2 here; 4 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); Internet of Agreements conference (3 here; 11 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); Legalese (2 here; 5 sources in all, earliest dated 2015); Imogen Heap (2 here; 6 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); Wirearchy (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); formal verification (1 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); Digital Catapult (1 here; 4 sources in all, earliest dated 2017) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): trade finance; Z/Yen; formal verification; Adjoint - Importance: core-text score 0.10 (1.00 is the top), number 606 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [39] [Internet of Agreements (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md): same career work: Internet of Agreements conferences - [835] [10 Apr 18 Identity – Internet of Agreements (2018)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/835.md): same career work: Internet of Agreements conferences - On the same works, just before: [266] ["Blockchain: IoT's trust broker?" talk on the fly by... (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/266.md); [265] [European Parliament blockchain presentation May 2017 (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/265.md); [263] [Ethereal Summit (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/263.md) - On the same works, just after: [40] [First Internet of Agreements Conference Recap – Internet... (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/40.md); [659] Interview with Mihai Cimpoensu I Mattereum and legally... (2017); [660] How to make smart contracts legally binding? I Mihai... (2017) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: 13 Oct 17 Law – Internet of Agreements, document, 2017-10-13, https://internetofagreements.com/law; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [836], https://guptaoption.com/texts/836.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://internetofagreements.com/law) Internet of Agreements First Conference London 13th and 16th October 2017 The First Internet of Agreements Conference The first Internet of Agreements® conference took place between 13th and 16th October in London. Some of the brightest minds in finance, media, government, and technology came together to discuss the various implications blockchain technology will have for global supply chains and law. Throughout the 'unconference', two hack days, and the formal conference, attendees learned about the new possibilities that blockchain technology opens up in their respective fields. Below, you will find videos and transcripts of the talks and interview that took place at the conference. They will serve as refreshers for those who attended the conference and as a briefing for those who did not. The success of the IoA project requires engagement from experts in business, law, media, technology, and government to contribute; similarly, these posts will do their bit to help propagate the vision of the Internet of Agreements. Talks Vinay Gupta – Mattereum The host of the conference and CEO of Mattereum talks about how to deal consistently with property and transfer of rights in smart contracts and in [...]Do you like it? Read more24th December 2017 Legal Panel A panel on dispute resolution and various topics at the intersection of law and blockchain technology. The panel comprised some of the finest legal minds in [...]Do you like it? Read more23rd December 2017 Michael Mainelli – Z/Yen Michael is a co-founder of the Z/Yen, City of London’s leading commercial think-tank and venture firm. His talk was centred around 3 themes: the reason for his [...]Do you like it? Read more22nd December 2017 Trent McConaghy – Sunny Day Tech, Rainy Day Law The CTO of BigChainDB and Ocean Protocol Foundation gave a talk on how the everyday use of technology needs to be backed by a legal framework [...]Do you like it? Read more21st December 2017 Imogen Heap – Mycelia Imogen Heap gave a talk on her project called Mycelia and the impact blockchain technology can have on music. Imogen is an English singer and songwriter. [...]Do you like it? Read more20th December 2017 Jeremy Silver – Blockchain and entrepreneurship The CEO of the Digital Catapult and an entrepreneur specialising in digital media, big data, music and the creative industries talked about blockchain technology and enterpreneurship. [...]Do you like it? Read more19th December 2017 Scott Nelson – Supply Chain Finance Stephen Diehl – Smart Contracts for New Entrepreneurs The CTO Adjoint gave a technical talk about formal verification of smart contracts. Adjoint offers a smart contract platform and distributed ledger solutions designed to improve [...]Do you like it? Read more17th December 2017 Christopher Brewster – Smart Contracts and the need for Semantics (and reasoning) Christopher Brewster is the senior scientist in the Connected Business team of the TNO, Netherlands. His current research interest concern knowledge management; the role of structured [...]Do you like it? Read more16th December 2017 Meng Wong – Computable contracts Co-founder of Legalese and fellow at the [passage 2](https://internetofagreements.com/law) December 2017 Christopher Brewster – Smart Contracts and the need for Semantics (and reasoning) Christopher Brewster is the senior scientist in the Connected Business team of the TNO, Netherlands. His current research interest concern knowledge management; the role of structured [...]Do you like it? Read more16th December 2017 Meng Wong – Computable contracts Co-founder of Legalese and fellow at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society, gave a talk on the work he is doing with his project. [...]Do you like it? Read more15th December 2017 David Roon – OpenLaw David Roon from OpenLaw gave a talk about smart legally binding agreements. OpenLaw is a project which aims to all users to model legal agreements through [...]Do you like it? Read more14th December 2017 Sally Holdway & Hugo Pickford-Wardle Founders of Keyzee introduce their company and discuss the legal issues of transferring real property using blockchain. You can find transcript of their talk below: [...]Do you like it? Read more13th December 2017 Ian Grigg – Review of the conference The inventor of Ricardian contracts and the Chief Scientist of Mattereum gave a good summary of the conference and commented on most of the discussed topics. [...]Do you like it? Read more Interviews Jon Husband On the change technology and decentralization bring to society and the way we think – the wirearchy principle. Transcript: Jason: I’m here with Jon Husband who [...]Do you like it? Read more25th December 2017 Scott Nelson Ian Grigg On Ricardian contracts, smart contacts, identity solutions, the development of community around blockchain, permissioned versus unpermissioned blockchains, and more. Transcript: Jason: I am speaking to Ian [...]Do you like it? Read more25th December 2017 Nimayi Dixit On the impact of blockchain on fundraising and capital structures, trade finance and liquidity in supply chains, and the history and future of social, political and [...]Do you like it? Read more25th December 2017 Peter Feltham On cycles of computing revolution, the history of AI, how decentralisation transforms the management of assets and collaboration, universal basic income, how technology changes society, and [...]Do you like it? Read more25th December 2017 Brett Scott On money systems and their enforcement, taxation, the internet of things, the future of technology, and the balance between centralised and decentralised systems. Transcript: Jason: I [...]Do you like it? Read more25th December 2017 Quan Le & Man Rui Tang On trust in international supply chains, smart bartering, and the shift from competition to collaboration in the supply chain. Transcript: Jason: I am here at the [...]Do you like it? Read more25th December 2017 Stephen Diehl On formal methods for the analysis of contractual obligations and workflows in order to relate smart contract code to the legal terms agreed between parties. Transcript: [...]Do you like it? Read more We will be announcing the speakers, the schedule and opening of the registration process for the next Internet of Agreements conference soon. Join our mailing list to stay up to date with all communications about the Internet of Agreements. You may [passage 3](https://internetofagreements.com/law) to relate smart contract code to the legal terms agreed between parties. Transcript: [...]Do you like it? Read more We will be announcing the speakers, the schedule and opening of the registration process for the next Internet of Agreements conference soon. Join our mailing list to stay up to date with all communications about the Internet of Agreements. You may unsubscribe from marketing emails from Internet of Agreements at any time. --- End of [836] 13 Oct 17 Law – Internet of Agreements. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [40](https://guptaoption.com/texts/40.md) First Internet of Agreements Conference Recap – Internet... (2017); the most closely related, [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md) Internet of Agreements (2017); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.