Building the free web. Prague edition.

A technical exploration of a decentralised world.

The web as we know it has proven to be reminiscent of Pandora's Box. An unprecedented experiment of human faith with outcomes we had yet to discover. The discussions on privacy, security, trust, personal data and governance are becoming fiercer by the day. The loudest critics believe the foundations of the internet were flawed to begin with.

But things are changing.

Cryptographers, protocol designers and distributed systems engineers have been doing R&D for decades on how computer science could liberate our world, the web and financial systems. With the inception of Bitcoin and Ethereum a larger part of the world is witnessing the first steps into a decentralised world.

What are the next steps? Which teams are working on the cutting edge of cryptography and are solving unprecedented challenges in the field of cryptography, consensus mechanisms, protocol design, scalability, security and on-chain governance?

During this event we will witness technical showcases from CTO's or technical leads from ten different projects. After each showcase there is room for a Q&A. There will be enough time for socializing and one on ones with the projects. And yes, there is plenty of food available.

These ten projects will be attending:

NuCypher (https://www.nucypher.com)

The Graph (https://thegraph.com/)

Mainframe (https://mainframe.com)

Chromapolis (https://chromapolis.com), presented by Chromaway

Tomochain (https://tomochain.com)

Dfinity (https://www.dfinity.org)

Solana (https://solana.com)

Avalanche Labs (https://avalanchelabs.org), presented by Mr. Emin Gun Sirer

Elrond Network (https://elrond.network)

Quarkchain (https://www.quarkchain.io)

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Program:

1100 - 1200 Walk in, snacks and socializing

1200 - 1205 Opening of the event

1205 - 1230 Showcase #1: Mainframe with Paul le Cam and Shane Howley on “Buidl on Mainframe” presenting the Mainframe Terminal, the portal to interacting with dapps on the Mainframe platform

1230 - 1300 Showcase #2: Solana with Eric Williams on 'Solana: Using Verifiable Delay as a Blockchain Ledger Data Structure'

1300 - 1330 Showcase #3: Quarkchain with Qi Zhou on 'Quarkchain 2.0: From scalability to flexibility'

1330 - 1400 Showcase #4: NuCypher on 'Privacy-preserving data manipulation in decentralized systems'

1400 - 1415 Short break

1415 - 1445 Showcase #4: The Graph with Brandon Ramirez on 'Performant trustless verification of queries of public blockchain data'

1445 - 1515 Showcase #5: Dfinity with Mack McCauley on 'DFINITY: Building the Team and Defining the Launch Configuration'

1515 - 1545 Showcase #6: Tomochain with Tu Nguyen on 'innovative scalability solution built into our main product - TomoChain'

1545 - 1600 Short break

1600 - 1630 Showcase #7: Chromapolis with Riccardo Sibani and Amy Waliszewska on 'The relational blockchain for mainstream dapps'

1630 - 1700 Showcase #8: Elrond Network with Beniamin Mincu (CEO) & Adrian Dobrita (Head of Engineering) on Scaling trustless computation via Adaptive State Sharding and Secure Proof of Stake.

1700 - 1730 Showcase #9: Avalanche Labs with Emin Gun Sirer on 'how novel consensus protocols can help bridge the gap between the cryptocurrency dream and the sad reality of today's tech'

1730 - 1900 Socialising, food and drinks

The technical threshold to enjoy this event will be high. We encourage IT & blockchain developers, distributed systems engineers, cryptographers, security experts, protocol designers, peer to peer developers and tech savvy enthusiasts to join this event.

Until November 3rd in Prague,

The Innovation Department

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