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RE: Blockchain Global Expo 2018 @ London Olympia
This is a very good summary. Really interesting to see BP there, but I suspect they mainly see blockchains as alternatives to present databases. They would use them internally. And primarily to replace their aging software process flow products. For example to sign internal documents. Or track local operations. (Much of what players in this sector use now ceased to be supported over a decade ago and is just plain outdated.)
This is what I expected from the presentation at first but I was pleasantly surprised (and I can't say the same of most other talks). The guy who spoke seemed to have a good grasp of what a blockchain system could bring to corporate in terms of "tripartite trust and consensus building" / auditing etc.
At the other end was a speech from the second day, from the Swedish land registry where basically the take away was "If you don't need blockchain because you already have institutional, fiat trust, then you can indeed replace an RDBMS with an otherwise inferior data storage technology that people have taken to calling blockchain"