Dublin, May 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The “From Blockchain and NFTs to Smart Contracts: Understanding the Technology and the Law (Nov 5, 2026)” has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.
The world of blockchain extends far beyond its initial emergence as a trend-it is a pivotal technology transforming sectors from finance to healthcare. Offering secure, transparent, and decentralized record-keeping, blockchain is reshaping business operations and redefining digital trust.
Amidst these advancements lie regulatory challenges and complexities. Our course is crafted for professionals eager to harness blockchain’s potential while navigating the legal landscapes it intersects. Whether you aim to innovate business operations or comprehend emerging regulatory frameworks, this training offers the insights necessary for strategic blockchain engagement.
- Explore Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) foundations
- Understand blockchain mechanics and significance
- Assess business benefits and limitations of blockchain
- Examine trustless transactions and real-world impacts
- Grasp essential legal and regulatory considerations
- Discover the evolution of tokens: non-fungible, semi-fungible, and social
This intensive, interactive course allows ample time for discussion, enabling direct access to expert insights and real-world applications.
Who should attend?
This training course is relevant to everyone with an interest in new ways of doing business and/or new technologies, but has been specifically designed for:
- In-house lawyers
- Private practice lawyers
- Legal advisers
- Compliance officers
- Regulatory specialists
- CFOs and corporate finance managers
- Board members
- Business development managers
- Innovation and transformation managers
Key Topics Covered:
- Day 1
- 1. Blockchain and smart contracts – BASIC level
- 1.1 Blockchain myths
- 1.2 Understanding Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT)
- 1.3 An introduction to Blockchain – a transformative technology
- 1.4 Bitcoin Royalty
- 1.5 Where did Blockchain come from?
- 1.6 Four main characteristics of Blockchain
- 1.7 How does Blockchain work?
- 1.8 The benefits of Blockchain
- 1.9 Trustless transactions
- 1.10 Blockchain: use cases and applications
- 1.11 Blockchain: legal issues
- 1.12 Smart contracts
- 2. Blockchain and smart contracts – ADVANCED level
- 2.1 Moving on from the basics
- 2.2 Blockchain technology business value
- 2.3 Trust
- 2.4 Bitcoin and cryptocurrency: value
- 2.5 Beyond bitcoin
- 2.6 More on how blockchain works
- 2.7 Cryptography
- 2.8 Encryption
- 2.9 Miners and proof of work
- 2.10 Forking
- 2.11 Ethereum and forking
- 2.12 Acquiring and using crypto
- 2.13 Altcoins and cryptotokens
- 2.14 More advanced smart contracts
- 2.15 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
- 2.16 FTs and crypto
- 2.17 Ordinals and Satoshis
- 2.18 Semi-fungible tokens and social tokens
- 2.19 Finance: DeFi and CeFi
- 2.20 Distributed Autonomous Organisations (DAOs)
- 2.21 Use cases
- 2.22 Blockchain vulnerabilities
- 1. Blockchain and smart contracts – BASIC level
Speaker
Mark Weston has run his own law firm, Weston Legal, since 1 January 2024.He is alsoa consultant at Hill Dickinson LLP where he joined in February 2016 as a partner and Head of its Commercial, TMT & IP Practice. Before that, he was a partner and Head of the Commercial/IP/IT Team at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP and before that, he spent several years at Baker & McKenzie in London and Chicago and has also previously been seconded to Hewlett Packard and other technology businesses. He changed role to become a consultant in Hill Dickinson’s London office in January 2024.
Expertise: Mark’s practice covers both non-contentious and contentious matters in all areas of commercial law, intellectual property law, information technology law, Internet, electronic commerce and on-line services law. He specialises in commercial and Tech issues. Mark is used as a ‘trusted adviser’ by many clients in all sorts of businesses and often acts as ‘private practice in-house counsel’ for many clients. He specialises in tech and internet businesses.
Clients: Just some of Mark’s more well-known clients include Elstree Film Studios, RTL Group S.A., Sykes Cottages, Retailcorp Brands LLC, The Gulf Marketing Group, Moneynetint Limited and the BBC.
Some detail: Mark has extensive experience in advising clients on all manner of commercial matters (such as business planning and solutions, franchising, distribution, agency and marketing) through branding and intellectual property exploitation and licensing, to advice and documentation regarding hardware and software issues (such as development, licensing, maintenance and distribution, SaaS and cloud, Internet transactional solutioning, B2B, B2C and B2G electronic commerce, S-commerce and M-Commerce, social media, outsourcing, facilities management, procurement, IT policies, data protection (privacy), GDPR and freedom of information issues as well as artificial intelligence (AI)). He has a particular expertise in new digital business and revenue streams. He is also experienced in dealing with software disputes and IT litigation. The increasingly extensive media side of his practice relates primarily to publishing (both real world and digital content), to games and gaming platforms (and particularly transmedia technologies), advising companies about their advertising onscreen, online and in print and managing their public communications strategies generally (dealing with the CMA and ASA in the process) – and also a smattering of television, film and music exploitation. Recently he has been very active in AI advice.
More unusual:
Mark has previously spent several months on secondment to Hewlett Packard and he has also been secondedto assist in the legal problems arising in new technology companies such as Symbian. From 2000 to 2001, Mark was resident in the Chicago office of Baker & McKenzie advising US clients on European and UK aspects of IT and electronic commerce law and practice.
Mark is the author of the Legal Practice Companion, a parallel text book used at several law schools, the editor of the IP and Media Law Companion as well as the rest of the Companion series of books published by Bloomsbury Professional, Tottels, Cavendish Publishing and Oxford University Press. He has noted numerous reports for the IT Law Reports andis widely published in Computing, Computers & Law, Computer Law & Security Report, IT Law Today, Intellectual Property World, Solicitors Journal and many other journals both online and offline. Mark has also authored articles syndicated in the national and trade press and is regularly quoted in national newspapers and is heard on radio as an expert in his fields. Mark is the author of the Business Names on the Internet chapter in the PLC Ecommerce Manual as well as numerous other articles on various Commercial & IT law topics.
Mark lectures regularly on all Commercial, IP and IT law topics, including at the IBC IT ‘Summer School’ Programme in Cambridge, England; the Falconbury and MBL two-day and three-day Commercial Contracts seminars (run several times a year) and IT Contracts seminars (run three times a year) in London; and he has previously lectured at the Annual On-line & Internet Commerce Law Institute seminar in Chicago and tutored at University College London. He also runs a programme of bespoke training schemes on commercial law, IP law, IT law, AI law and data law as well as soft skills programmes such as negotiation skills and presentation skills.
Finally, you may have seen that Mark likes blogging and writing books, which are available at all good bookshops! He also appears regularly on BBC1 (usually providing advice on-screen to BBC Watchdog) and also on Sky News as a legal commentator, as well as trying to avoid the huge quantity of pink powder the TV make-up girls want to apply to his increasingly receding hairline.
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