edcon-2018.md

EDCON: Community Ethereum Development Conference 2018

May 3

(protocol level)

• Special Speech dance time

• Welcome Speech by Steven Liss (Vice President of Research and Innovation at Ryerson)

• EDCON by Pandia Jiang (Founder of LinkTime)

• The Universe of Ethereum by Aya Miyaguchi (Ethereum Foundation)

• About ECF by Thomas Greco (Ethereum Community Fund)

• A Unified Real Estate Transaction Process Using Blockchain Technology by Dr. Atty Mashatan (Faculty at Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management, Ryerson University)

• Intro to Cryptoeconomics by Karl Floersch (Ethereum Core Researcher)

• AKASHA: From Collected Intelligence to Collective Intelligence by Mihai Alisie (Founder of AKASHA, Cofounder of Ethereum)

• Systemic Security and Mitigations for Mass Exits by Joseph Poon (Co-Author Lightning Network and Plasma)

• Growing Ethereum’s Real Economy by Jon Choi (Ethereum Core Researcher)

• Down with Rent-Seeking: Why Unnecessary Tokenization Slows Innovation by Jeff Coleman (Co-founder of L4, State Channels Researcher at Counterfactual)

• Our Commitment to Ethereum and a Decentralised Future by Jutta Steiner & Fredrik Harrysson (Parity Technologies)

• Casper by Vlad Zamfir (Ethereum Core Researcher)

• Ethereum Sharding Overview by Hsiao-Wei Wang (Ethereum Core Researcher)

• Ethereum Sharding by Justin Drake (Ethereum Researcher)

• Making Sense of Cryptoeconomics by Josh Stark (Co-founder of L4)

• Plasma by David Knott (OMG Plasma Reseacher)

• Turbo-Geth: Optimising Ethereum Client(s) by Alexey Akhunov (Ethereum Developer and Consultant)

• Cryptoeconomics and Verification: Stronger Together Verification, incentives, and how security by Philip Daian (Researcher and PhD Student, Cornell Tech / IC3)

• A-Z of Building, Debugging and Deploying Smart Contracts with Remix (talk + workshop) (cont) by Nina Breznik (Ethereum Remix Core Developer) & Alex Praetorius (Co-founder of WizardAmigos Coding School)

• Unifying Communication Semantics of Distributed Programs by Martin Becze (Distributed systems researcher at Dfinity)

• OMG World Exchange by Jun Hasegawa (Founder of Omise)

• Cosmos - Internet of Blockchains by Jae Kwon (Founder of Tendermint & Cosmos)

• (Panel) Scalability by Vitalik Buterin, Vlad Zamfir, Philip Daian, Joseph Poon, Karl Floersch, Hsiao-Wei Wang, Justin Drake (MC: Jon Choi)

May 4

(application and business side)

• Introduction to the Dutch Exchange by Stefan George (CTO of Gnosis)

• Ethereum Nature of the Firm, v2.0 by Joseph Lubin (Founder of Consensys, Cofounder of Ethereum)

• The State of Tokens by William Mougayar (Managing Partner, JM3 Capital & Author)

• A World Computer in Your Pocket and The Perfect Language by Andy Tudhope (Technical Evangelist at Status)

• The Embark Framework Reloaded by Iuri Matias (Lead Developer - Embark Framework)

• Introduction to the Dai Stablecoin by Andy Milenius (CTO of MakerDAO)

• Blockchain Applications that Facilitate Mass Adoption by Kevin Hobbs (CEO of Etherparty and Founder of The Genisys Project)

• The Future of Blockchain-Intersections with Other Exponential Technologies by Ananya Chadha

• A full node’s perspective of Ethereum by Eleazar Galano (Founder of Infura)

• Scaling Ethereum through Multi-chain Interoperability by Matthew Spoke (CEO of Nuco / Founder of Aion)

• Olympus Labs: Seamless Crypto Investment Portal by Kai Chen (Founder & CEO of Olympus Labs)

• Kyber Network and Our Vision beyond Decentralized Exchanges by Loi Luu (Founder of SmartPool & KyberNetwork)

• May the Disruptive Force for Good Be With You by Ross Zhang (General Manager Huobi Canada)

• About SENS by Aubrey de Grey (Chief Science Officer, SENS Research Foundation)

• Arbitrary Computations with SGX in Golem. Architectural Considerations, Security Risks, and Efficiency Tradeoffs by Piotr Janiuk (CTO at Golem.network)

• AtomicWallet.io - new Decentralized Exchange with Cross-Blockchain Atomic Swaps by Konstantin Gladych (CEO & Co-Founder of Changelly)

• Exploring the Decentralized Web - Mobile DApps Today by Sid Coelho-Prabhu (Product Lead at Coinbase)

• Alice: An Incentive Layer for Charity Transparency by Raphaël Mazet (CEO at Alice)

• What We Have Learned Monitoring Ethereum and Smart Contracts by Shawn Douglass (CEO & Co-Founder of Amberdata)

• Essentia: A Set of Protocols for Interoperations by Matteo Gianpietro Zago (Founder of Essentia One. Chairman of the Internet of Blockchains Foundation)

• Practical Proxy Re-encryption with NuCypher by John Pacific (Cryptographic Engineer at NuCypher)

• Substrate’s Democracy: Starting the Conversation for On-chain Governance Parity Polkadot: Platform for Connected Blockchains 3.0 by Gavin Wood (Founder of Parity & Polkadot, Cofounder of Ethereum)

• Decentralization in Bitcoin and Ethereum: Results from a Longitudinal Study by Emin Gun Sirer (Co-Director Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts／Associate Professor, Cornell University)

• Raiden, the Payment Channel Network for Ethereum by Lefteris Karapetsas (Raiden Core Developer)

• Liquidity.Network - Off-Chain Payments for Ethereum Mass Adoption by Arthur Gervais (CEO of Liquidity.Network, Assistant Professor at Imperial College London Liquidity.Network)

• Enabling Sensors to Talk to Blockchain to Assure Quality of Products by Dr Vlad Trifa (Chief Product Officer at Ambrosus)

• Mining and Proof of Stake by Chun Wang (Co-Founder of F2Pool)

• Attestation-backed Data Authenticity Proofs by Thomas Bertani (CEO at Oraclize)

• A Pragmatic Approach to Decentralized Exchange by Ron Bernstein (Founder & CEO of Paradex)

• (Panel) Investment and Governance by Joseph Lubin, Ross Mckee, Donnie Harinsut, Jason Fang, Kavita Gupta, Magic Panda (MC: William Mougayar)

Sub-Conference (more technical) videos are not available.

• Fun with Incentives by Philip Daian (Researcher and PhD Student, Cornell Tech / IC3)

• Brief History of Distributed State by Ethan Buchman (CTO and Founder of Tendermint)

• Vyper - Don't Worry It Doesn't Bite by David Knott (OMG Plasma Reseacher)

• Vyper in Action by David Knott (OMG Plasma Reseacher)

• Declarative Static Analysis of Smart Contracts by Quentin Hibon (Blockchain Security Engineer at ChainSecurity)

• Computer-aided Reasoning for Smart Contracts by Steven Steward (CTO of Quanstamp)

• How Formal Verification Fixed the Web and Can Fix Ethereum by Harry Halpin (Project Coordinator of NEXTLEAP at Inria And A Visiting Research Scientist at MIT)

• The Road to Web 3 by Peter Czaban (Executive director of Web 3)

• FFG Casper by Karl Floersch (Lead FFG Casper Researcher)

• CBC Casper by Vlad Zamfir (Lead CBC Casper Researcher)

• Introduction of Asia-Pacific Community by Haoyun Guo (Asia-Pacific Community)

• A Decentralized Community by Yungchen Hsieh (Taipei Commnuity)

• How EthFans Supports the Developers by Xin Xu (Chinese Community)

• Community in Japan - After the First Meetup Supported by the Ethereum Foundation by Yusuke Obinata (Japanese Community)

• Overview of Korean Ethereum community by Brian Cheong (Korean Community)

• Building a Blockchain online community. Lessons after 2y of ibc.technology by Roland Kofler (Germany Community)

• Ethereum Classic: Where are we now? by Anthony Lusardi (Director at Ethereum Classic Cooperative)

May 5

• Project Ethscape: Developing the smart contracts to start a new country on Ethereum by Han Verstraete (Founder of Otonomos.com & Ethizen1 & Ethscape.org)

• Blockchain: Making the beautiful dream a reality by Bob Summerwill (Co-Founder and CTO - Varro Technologies | Community - Sweetbridge, Ethereum, CryptoChicks)

• Blockchain Investment by Jehan Chu (Managing Partner at Kenetic Capital/Cofounder of HK Bitcoin Association)

• Breaking Down the EIP-999 Debate by Preethi Kasireddy (Founder & CEO of TruStory)

• Scalable Verification of Off Chain Computation with Livepeer and Truebit by Doug Petkanics (Founder of Livepeer)

• Ethereum Alarm Clock: Scheduling Transactions for the Future by Logan Saether (Smart Contract Engineer at ChronoLogic)

• The Original Ripple Idea Made Accessible With Ethereum by Gustav Friis (Project Lead at Trustlines.network)

• From 0 to A Community-driven DAO in 15 minutes by Luis Cuende (Project Lead at Aragon)

• Mythril: Symbolic Analysis of Contract Security Properties by Jon Maurelian (Contract Security Auditor, ConsenSys Diligence)

• Modular Security Tokens by Adam Dossa (Lead Solidity Developer at Polymath and Founder of Enclaves)

• Privacy Preserving Identity Systems for Ethereum dApps The Architecture of a Modern dApp by Michael Sena (Product Lead at Uport)

• Developer Education and Bounty Systems Blockchain Developer Education by Haseeb Rabbani (Lead Blockgeeks Teacher)

• So you want to be a Casper validator.... by Vitalik Buterin (Co-Founder of Ethereum)

• Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society by Glen Weyl (Yale University, Senior Research Scholar)

• Introduction of Superdemo by Ameer Rosic (Co-founder of Blockgeeks)

  • Team 1, Giveth: Building the Future of Giving by Griff Green
  • Team 2, Kauri: a decentralized technical knowledge and support network for the Ethereum ecosystem by Andreas Wallendahl: Decentralized technical knowledge network for the ethereum ecosystem built on ethereum and IPFS.
  • Team 3, DDEX: Mobile Native App Decentralized exchange on top of Ethereum by Scott Winges: DDEX is a hybrid decentralized exchange, utilizing 0x protocol and hydro protocol to facilitiate high end matching algorithims and liquidity sharing.
  • Team 4, Supermax by Kuan Huang: Supermax's mission is to help blockchain companies manage data. The first feature we're building is a smart contract manager that helps Ethereum blockchain companies better understand the data of the economics and governance of their networks.
  • Team 5, Sagrix: Improving Access To Healthcare Data by Empowering Patients by Tomisin Jenrola: We believe that everyone should have access to resources that would help them live and lead better lives; this is why we at Sagrix are building a decentralized platform to bring our beliefs to life.
  • Team 6, Badla.io - open source, rent free protocol for censorship resistant lending, borrowing, hedging and speculation in ERC20 tokens by Rajesh R Kallidumbil: Badla.io (the 'Badla Protocol') is a rent-free protocol for censorship resistant lending, borrowing, hedging and speculation in ERC20 token pairs.
  • Team 7, Virtual Human Agent born from connectome by Atsushi Ishii: The technoloy that makes your space smarter by utilizing AI *AR/VR*Blockchain.
  • Team 8, Mirian: Let users purchase tokenized equities from established brokerages by Murat Akdeniz: Mirian is a consumer gateway on Ethereum, letting millenials invest together with Smart Contracts.
  • Team 10, Chainshot: the de facto, end to end Ethereum dApp launching tutorial by Dan Nolan: ChainShot is an interactive web IDE tutorial for building decentralized applications.
  • Team 9, Festy: The Future of Payments for the Entertainment Industry by Graham De Barra
  • Votes, Comments and Awards (Sponsors and Judges)

• Closing Speech