Here's where DAML comes in. Developed by Digital Asset, DAML is an open-source smart contract language specifcally designed to reflect business logic and work flows. It is platform-agnostic and is currently available on Hyperledger Fabric, Sawtooth, and Besu, Corda, VMWare blockchain platform, and SQL databases. Today, organizations leveraging DAML include the likes of accenture, the Australian Securities Exchange, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, and most recently, the Singapore Exchange.

Tim Kemp is the head of Emerging Ledgers at Digital Asset where he is responsible for delivering integrations of DAML on various platforms. In this episode, Tim talks about everything DAML, detailing the value of a smart contract language approach as a key component to improving accessibility and driving enterprise adoption. He highlights key take aways from DAML's earlier successful use cases, reflecting on what enterprises need to develop successful consortia. Finally, he touches on why partnerships are key and why he's excited about their recent partnership Chaisntack.

About Tim Kemp
Tim is the head of Emerging Ledgers at Digital Asset where he is responsible for delivering integrations of Digital Asset’s DAML programming language on Hyperledger Fabric, Sawtooth, and Besu, Corda, and SQL databases. Tim started in capital markets technology in 2000 as a programmer, and has built a career at the intersection of technology and business in financial services, holding various engineering, product management, and business development roles at a number of startups and established vendors. Tim has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Liverpool, England, and currently lives in Westchester County, New York with his wife and young family.

About [Digital Asset](www.digitalasset.com)
Digital Asset helps companies design, create, and run the next generation of business applications. We enable the world’s largest companies to harness the power of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to streamline operations and make value transfer efficient and secure. At the core of Digital Asset’s offering is DAML, an intuitive smart-contract programming language used to digitize multi-party agreements and automate transactions in a precise and secure manner. The result: technology that provides a platform for innovation today and well into the future.

Special Guest: Tim Kemp.

In this epsiode, Ashlie speaks to Michael Odom, sales engineer at TradeIX to learn more about how the Marco Polo Network is revolutionizing the trade finance space using DLT. We discuss some of the challenges being addressed by the Marco Polo Network, and how and why distributed platforms provide an unprecedented solution that existing trade digitization attempts fall short of. Learn more about their future plans, challenges, and more.

About the Marco Polo Network
The Marco Polo Network is the largest and fastest growing trade and working capital finance network in the world. It is a joint undertaking between technology firms TradeIX and R3, the world’s leading financial institutions, and their corporate clients.

About TradeIX
TradeIX is a multi-award-winning technology provider and network operator of the Marco Polo Network driving innovation and change in facilitating the flow of goods, money and credit in global trade. Some of the smartest financial institutions and companies in the world work with TradeIX, including Accenture, BNY Mellon, Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Commerzbank, ING, LBBW, Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Natixis, Bangkok Bank, SMBC, Danske Bank, NatWest, DNB, OP Financial Group, Alfa Bank, Bayern LB, Helaba, S-Servicepartner, Raiffeisen Bank International, Standard Bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, National Bank of Fujairah PJSC, National Australia Bank, Bradesco, AIG, DHL and many other Fortune 500 companies from various industries. TradeIX is headquartered in Dublin with offices in London, Kettering and Singapore and operations in Germany and the US.

Special Guest: Michael Odom.