Scaling Enterprise Blockchain: From Pilots to Production‑Grade Infrastructure

Cody Burns is the Americas Technical Lead for Digital Asset & Blockchain Services at Accenture, one of the world’s largest technology consulting firms. He leads the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of enterprise blockchain solutions for Fortune 500 clients across financial services, healthcare, supply chain, and the public sector. With a pragmatic engineering mindset, Cody demystifies decentralized technology and helps the world’s most complex organizations navigate the path from experimentation to full‑scale, production‑grade implementation.

With over 15 years of experience in distributed systems, cloud architecture, and emerging technology, Cody has delivered transformational programs for global banks, insurers, and government agencies. At Accenture, he oversees the technical design of tokenized asset platforms, decentralized identity frameworks, and cross‑border payment networks — ensuring they meet enterprise requirements for security, scalability, interoperability, and regulatory compliance. He is a vocal advocate for open standards and has contributed to the development of industry frameworks within the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and Hyperledger Foundation. Cody believes that blockchain’s true power lies in its ability to serve as a shared source of truth between competitors who need to cooperate, and his work focuses on building the trust fabric that enables entire industries to move on‑chain. At UN Blockchain Week he shares the hard‑earned lessons from taking enterprise blockchain from concept to reality and what it will take to reach the next billion dollars in institutional value on decentralized rails.