Workshop Summary: 2019 IEEE / ACM Second International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Engineering for Blockchain (WETSEB 2019)

The second Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Engineering for Blockchain (WETSEB 2019) intends to pursue the experience of WETSEB 2018 which inherited from the past eight editions of WETSoM (Workshop on Emerging Trends on Software Metrics) the challenges of gathering together researchers interested in emerging topics and trends in software engineering. WETSEB 2018 marked a transition in the workshop interest from the software metrics to the newly emerging fields of research in a software technology whose powerful wide-spreading is disruptively invading academy, industry, finance and media: the Blockchain software technology. Motivations for this workshop are augmented since last edition given the clear outstanding interest in software communities, in the academy, in the industry, in the finance and in the media on the new emerging software technology of the Blockchain witnessed by the larger and larger amount of publications, of start-ups and companies which last year exploited this new technology. We first outline the aims of the workshop, followed by a discussion of its keynote speech and technical program.