Blockchain is an emerging platform for developing decentralized applications and data storage, over and beyond its role as a platform for cryptocurrencies. Even though, blockchain technology has become popularly known because of its use in the implementation of Cryptocurrencies such as BitCoin, Ethereum, etc., the blockchain platform holds much more promise in various areas such as logging of important events in a system, recording transactions, e-governance etc. Hence, it is important to bring awareness among researchers & academicians and train manpower on Blockchain to do innovative research work, projects, and create knowledge base.