EDCON 2019

What Is EDCON 2019?

EDCON (Community Ethereum Development Conference ) is an annual global Ethereum conference series, aiming to boost the communication and interaction of Ethereum communities worldwide and to accelerate the sound development of Ethereum ecosystem.

The event has made huge influence in the previous years - EDCON2017 was held in ESCP Europe, Paris, France on February 17-18; EDCON2018 in Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada on May 3-5.

The event is expected to have a even larger scale this year, which is presented in the form of “EDCON Week”, covering:

(1) EDCON HACK (8-10, April): the hackathon will be a kick-off of EDCON Week, and the topic includes Sharding, PoS, Clients, Plasma, Channel, Snark, etc.: https://www.edcon.io/hackathon

(2) EDCON Conference (11-13, April): Core Ethereum development teams will be invited to talk about the latest updates on the Ethereum research and technology; other great minds will share their thoughts on the current trends, projects and applications, as well as their community building and development plans.

Community Activities

(1) Secret Dappy Hour @ Edcon Sydney 2019 - by MakerDAO

Date: 13th April 2019 (Saturday)

Time: 19:00-22:00

Venue: Secret location (An email will be sent to you with the exact address at least 24 hours before the event )

Check the details here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/secret-dappy-hour-edcon-sydney-2019-tickets-59569231174

(2) GazeCoin DreamFrames EdCon2019 Rooftop Party - by Gaze Coin & Dream Channel VR

Date: 11th April 2019 (Thursday)

Time: 18:00-23:00

Venue: Tyro Fintech Hub Rooftop / Level 12 155 Clarence St Sydney

Check the details here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/345649756082531

(3) Free Community Crypto Meetup-Sydney - by Fuelgames & Synthetix

Date: 12th April 2019 (Friday)

Time: 18:30-20:30

Venue: Frisco Hotel , 46 Dowling Street

Check the details here:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/edcon-unchained-the-after-party-registration-57676074692

(4) Axia Labs + Orchid’s Rooftop Cocktail Party

Date & Time: Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 8:30 PM – Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 1:00 AM PDT

Venue: The Rooftop Sydney, Shelbourne Hotel, 200 Sussex St, Sydney, NSW Australia

Check the details here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/axia-labs-orchids-rooftop-cocktail-party-at-edcon-tickets-60037477712?aff=

Password: axiaandorchidinsydney

Speakers

More speakers will be coming soon, please stay tuned.

How Do I Participate in EDCON 2019?

There are multiple ways to participate:

1. Apply to get involved as a sponsor, meida support, community support, or volunteer. We will get back to you ASAP once received your application.

2. Join EDCON HACK or register as a hackathon visitor - both are free of charge.

3. Get a ticket to be an audience for EDCON main conference. Early birds, developers and students will get their discounts respectively.

Please send an email to contact@edcon.io if you have any questions.

Agenda

The agenda is updating, please stay tuned.

April 8-10, EDCON HACK
April 11, Main & Sub Conference
April 12, Main & Sub Conference
April 13, Main & Sub Conference
Party & Community Event

Agenda
2019.4.8
9:00	Hackathon Registration
10:00	Opening speech, event introduction, pre-hackathon workshop
11:30	Team Formation
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Hacking
15:00	Ethereum Workshop - Ethereum 2.0, Serenity
18:00	Dinner
2019.4.9
8:00	Breakfast
10:00	Workshop #1-How to Build Applications on the OMG Network
11:00	Workshop #2-How to run a successful Dapp Business- from scratch to handle scale
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Workshop #3-Building on Plasma
14:00	Workshop #4-Building end-to-end encrypted applications for Ethereum
15:00	Workshop #5- A “layer2” for Token: make your token work across the ecosystem with TokenScript
17:00	Workshop #6- Building Scalable Dapps with the Ethereum Application-Specific Blockchain Framework
18:00	Dinner
2019.4.10
8:00	Breakfast
8:30	Submission
10:00	Judging
12:00	Closing

Main Conference
Date	Time	Speaker	Title	Topic
2019.4.11 Morning	7:30- 10:00	Registration
	10:00-10:20	Opening Show
	10:00-10:20	Pandia Jiang	Founder of LinkTime	Introduction to the Conference
	10:20-10:45	Vitalik Buterin	Founder of Ethereum	Updates of Ethereum (TBD)
	10:45-11:10	Danny Ryan	Ethereum Core Researcher	Eth2.0 Update - progress, roadmap, and happenings
	11:10-11:35	Hsiao-Wei Wang	Ethereum Core Researcher	Life of an Ethereum Beacon Chain Validator
	11:35-12:00	Justin Drake	Ethereum Core Researcher	Ethereum 2.0—custody game
2019.4.11	12:00-13:00	Lunch
2019.4.11 Afternoon	13:00-13:25	Virgil Griffith	Special Projects at Ethereum Foundation	Special Projects at Ethereum Foundation
	13:25-13:50	Aditya Asgaonkar	Researcher at Ethereum Foundation	Towards a Practical CBC Casper
	13:50-14:10	Karl Floersch	Ethereum Core Researcher	Scalability Improvement with Plasma (TBD)
	14:20-15:00	Panel: Decentralising economies and funding the commons. Vitalik Buterin (Founder of Ethereum), Michael Faye (Co-founder of Give Directly), Kelsie Nabben (MC, Project Manager at OmiseGO)
	15:00-15:30	Break
	15:30-15:50	Nick Johnson	Lead Developer at ENS	Solving Zooko's Triangle: ENS and Distributed Naming
	15:50-16:10	Liam Horne	Co-Founder of L4	Counterfactual: State Channels Made Simple
	16:10-16:30	Wei Tang	Core Developer at Parity Technologies	Debugging the Consensus
	16:30-16:50	Alex Gluchowski	Plasma researcher at Ethereum Foundation	Scaling with Zero Knowledge Proofs
	16:50-17:10	Hayden Adams	Founder of Uniswap	Introduction to Uniswap
	17:10-17:30	Shashank Tiwari	CEO Cryptin & Gluon-Plasma	Scalable Account Based Systems on Ethereum
	17:30-17:45	Cheng Wang	Founder of Alephium	Scalability; Sharding
	17:45-18:00	Terry Culver & Shane Jonas	CEO & Core Developer of ETC Labs	Build and Deliver: New Community Tools from ETC Labs

Sub-conference
Date	Time	Speaker	Title	Topic
2019.4.11 Sub-conference	13:30-14:30	Simon Tan	Developer at KyberNetwork	Kyber Network - Enabling Decentralized Finance
2019.4.11 Sub-conference	14:30-15:30	Chris Stott	CEO of CLand	How to commercialise blockchain, with an International perspective

Main Conference
Date	Time	Speaker	Title	Topic
2019.4.12 Morning	10:00-10:15	Ryuya Nakamura	Researcher at LayerX / The University of Tokyo	Formal Verification and CBC Casper
	10:15-10:30	Edward Evenson	Head of Growth at F2Pool	Ethereum Mining in 2019
	10:30-10:45	Deniz Omer	Tech Evangelist at Kyber Network	Ethereum Ecosystem Growth Trends from a Liquidity Protocol’s Perspective
	10:45-11:00	Pepesza Peregud	Software Developer at OmiseGO	Building the OMG Network: Plasma and Securing Exchanges on Plasma
	11:00-11:15	John Pacific	Cryptography Engineer at Nucypher	Fully Homomorphic Encryption: The Road to Secure Computation
	11:15-11:30	Michael Elliot	Blockchain Engineer at MakerDAO	Multicall: Blockchain State Management in the CDP Portal
	11:30-11:45	Paul Hauner & Adrian Manning	Co-founder& Director of Sigma Prime	Lighthouse: Towards Ethereum 2.0
	11:45-12:00	Peter He	Lead developer at ContractLand	Building Scalable Dapps with the Ethereum Application-Specific Blockchain Framework
2019.4.12	12:00-13:00	Lunch
2019.4.12 Afternoon	13:00-13:15	Simon Kertonegoro	VP of Marketing at Enjin Coin	Driving Mass Adoption of Ethereum
	13:15-13:30	Kain Warwick	Founder of Synthetix	A Mechanism for Synthetic Assets on Ethereum
	13:30-13:45	Thomas Bertani	Founder of Oraclize	The Provable oracle service: progressing from Oraclize
	13:45-14:00	Sunny Aggarwal	Research Scientist of Cosmos	Building a Plasma MVP Chain with Cosmos SDK
	14:00-14:15	Zak Cole	Founder and CEO of Whiteblock	ETH2.0 Networking
	14:20-15:00	Panel：Debates on the Controversial Issues from Ethereum Community Karl Floersch (Ethereum Core Researcher), Albert Ni (Ethereum Foundation), Michael Elliot (Blockchain Engineer at MakerDAO), Yusuke Obinata (Founder of NodeTokyo), Remington Ong (Partner, Fenbushi Capital), Anthony Sassano (Co-founder of ethhub.io), Vitalik Buterin (MC)
	15:00-15:30	Break
	15:30-15:45	Mo Dong	Co-Founder of Celer Network	Build and Operate Internet-Scale dApps on Celer Network
	15:45-16:00	Shawn Douglass	Co-founder & CEO of Amberdata	Unblocking Blockchain Data
	16:00-16:15	Weiwu Zhang	CTO and architect at AlphaWallet	Tokenscript: the "HTML+Javascript" for Tokens
	16:15-16:30	Tegan Kline	International Business Development Manager of Orchid	Internet as a Human Right
	16:30-16:45	Preston Van Loon	Co-founder & Tech lead at Prysmatic Labs	How to Build a Production-ready Ethereum 2.0 Client
	16:45-17:00	Scott Moore	Developer Relations Lead at Gitcoin	Radical Ideals: Experiments in Sustaining Open Source Infrastructure
	17:00-17:15	Lisa Chu	Product Manager of HTC Exodus	Rebuilding Trust and Security with Zion
	17:15-17:30	Dominik Harz	Developer XCLAIM at Imperial College London	XCLAIM: Trustless, Interoperable, Cryptocurrency-Backed Assets
	17:30-17:45	Steffen Kux	Head of Consulting at Slock.it	Incubed Client - The Smallest Minimal Verification Client
	17:45-18:00	Edmund Edgar	Founder of Realitio	Using Realitio, the Crowd-sourced Smart Contract Oracle

Sub-conference
Date	Time	Speaker	Title	Topic
2019.4.12 Morning	10:00-10:20	Adrian Eidelman	CTO of RSK	What is RSK (Rootstock) and How It's Contributing to The Ethereum Community
	10:20-10:40	Alexander Praetorius & Nina Breznik	Co-Project Leads of Play project	Introduction of play.ethereum.org (tooling for decentralized education)
	10:40-10:55	Benjamin Hauser	CEO of HyperLink Technology	Introducing Brownie
	10:55-11:10	Yaz Khoury	Director of Developer Relations, ETC Cooperative	ETC: Wanted, Dev or Alive
	11:10-11:25	Olivier Bégassat	Protocol Engineer at PegaSys R&D	Probabilistically Checkable Proofs (PCPs) : why reading proofs is unnecessary
	11:25-11:40	David Suárez	CEO of IDEN3	Scalable Distributed Identity Management Infrastructure with Privacy by Design
2019.4.12	12:00-13:00	Lunch
2019.4.12 Afternoon	13:00-13:15	Albert Ni	Ethereum Foundation	Building with Balance: The Ethereum Foundation's philosophy and strategy for community development
	13:15-13:30	Chih-Cheng Liang	Taipei Ethereum Community	Introduction to Taipei Ethereum Community
	13:30-13:45	Yusuke Obinata	Japan Community, Founder of NodeTokyo	Current State of Japanese Blockchain Ecosystem
	13:45-14:00	Jun Soo Kim	Thailand Community, Operations Manager of bitfish	Tales from bitfish's community building
	14:00-14:15	James Zaki	Australia Community，eth sydney	Nurturing and Growing Communities
	14:20-15:00	Panel: Growing Blockchain Communities in Sydney Alexander Ramsey (CEO and Co-Founder at Flex Dapps), Adriana Belotti (Marketing and Community Supernode at Prismatik), Daniel Bar (Chairman and Founder at bitfwd community), Rosalinda Prom (Junior Developer), James Zaki (MC, Australia Community, Co-organiser and Enthusiast)
	15:00-15:30	Break
	15:30-15:50	Wanseob Lim	Lead open source lab at nonce	Merklux: Implementation of Flux Pattern on Smart Contract for General State Plasma
	15:50-16:10	Eric Chung	Co-founder of Abridged	2019: The Year of Incremental Decentralization
	16:10-16:30	Kimmy Lin	Software Engineer at AMIS	Secure Crypto Wallet with Threshold ECDSA Signature
	16:30-16:50	Blazej Kolad & Nicolas Liochon	Applied Researcher at PegaSys	Practical Multi-Signature Aggregation for Large Byzantine Committees
	16:50-17:10	Matthew Slipper	CTO & Co-Founder of Kyokan	Building Production L2 Systems
	17:10-17:30	Chan Hyun Park	Researcher at Decipher	Development of a Modelling Language for Cryptoeconomic Incentive Systems
	17:30-17:50	Nathan Sala	Head of Engineering at Animoca Brands	Gaming on Ethereum
2019.4.12 Evening	18:00-22:00	Workshop (TBD)

Main Conference
Date	Time	Speaker	Title	Topic
2019.4.13 Morning	10:00-10:15	Guillaume Felley	COO of Liquidity Network	NOCUST: A Securely Scalable Commit-chain
	10:15-10:30	Vlad Trifa	Chief Product Officer of Ambrosus	Internet of Things (TBD)
	10:30-10:45	John Lilic	Global Business Technology Development, Strategy and Operations at ConsenSys	Why Asia First Should Be Your Ethereum Adoption Strategy
	10:45-11:00	Everett Hildenbrandt	Formal Modelling/Verification Engineer at Runtime Verification	A Brief Introduction to K, KEVM, and KWasm
	11:00-11:15	Matan Field	Architect at DAOstack	BUIDLing scalable DAOs
	11:15-11:30	Yuriko Nishijima	Plasma Researcher at Cryptoeconomics Lab	Introducing Plasma Chamber
	11:30-11:45	Lane Rettig	Core Developer at Ethereum	Ethereum 1.x Roadmap and Q&A
	11:45-12:00	Gregory Markou	Partner and VP Engineering at ChainSafe Systems	How Cross-chain Collaboration is Building ETH2.0
2019.4.13	12:00-13:00	Lunch
2019.4.13 Afternoon	13:00-13:15	Parinya Ekparinya	PhD student at The University of Sydney	The Attack of the Clones against Proof-of-Authority
	13:15-13:30	Eric Mastro	Embark Core Contributor at Status	Embark 4
	13:30-13:45	Zeming Yu	Actuarial Manager of Cover-More Travel Insurance	An Introduction to Security Token Offerings
	13:45-14:00	Daniel Bar	Chairman and Founder @ bitfwd community	User Journey and User Experience in the Cryptoeconomy
	14:00-14:20	Roberto Saltini	Lead Consensus Protocol Researcher at PegaSys	IBFT 2.0: a Robust PoA BFT Consensus Protocol for Ethereum
	14:20-15:00	Panel: Scalability Justin Drake (Ethereum Researcher), Liam Horne (Co-Founder of L4), Preston Van Loon (Co-founder & Tech lead of Prysmatic Labs), Mo Dong (Co-Founder of Celer Network), Dan Robinson (MC, Research Partner at Paradigm)
	15:00-15:30	Break
	15:30-15:45	Neville Grech	Security Researcher, University of Athens / Dedaub	Contract Library: Thorough Smart Contract Decompilation and Security Analyses
	15:45-16:00	Felix Leupold	Software Engineer at Gnosis	dƒusion — A Scalable, Fair Exchange
	16:00-16:15	Washington Sanchez	Core developer of OpenBazaar and Co-founder of OB1	Integrating Ethereum into OpenBazaar
	16:15-16:30	Daniel Kochis	Global Head of Business Development at Chainlink	Decentralized Oracles: Reliably Triggering Smart Contracts Using Decentralized Computation and Trusted Execution Environments
	16:30-16:45	Marek Kirejczyk	Lead engineer of Universal Login & CEO and Blockchain engineer at Ethworks	Universal Login
	16:45-17:00	Adrian Li	Senior Software Developer at Truffle / ConsenSys	Interacting with Smart Contracts in Streams
	17:00-17:15	HACKATHON TEAM 1
	17:15-17:30	HACKATHON TEAM 2
	17:30-17:45	HACKATHON TEAM 3

Sub-conference
Date	Time	Speaker	Title	Topic
2019.4.13 Morning	10:15-10:40	Brett Robertson	Ethereum Cat Herder	The Ethereum Cat Herders: Project Management in a Decentralised Ethereum
	10:40-11:00	Michael Yuan	CEO of Second State & Co-founder of CyberMiles Foundation ($CMT)	Creating a Rules Language for the Ethereum Virtual Machine
	11:00-11:20	Peter Pan	Core team at the MetaCartel	State of the dapp Ecosystem
	11:20-11:40	Bok Khoo	Consultant at Bok Consulting Pty Ltd	Dexz, a Fully Decentralised Permissionless ERC20 to ERC20 Token Exchange Smart Contract with an On-chain Sorted Orderbook
	11:40-12:00	Philipp Seifert	Director of Business Development at imToken	Introducing the new, front-running & trade collision-free imToken Tokenlon DEX
2019.4.13	12:00-13:00	Lunch
2019.4.13 Afternoon	13:00-13:20	Clément Lesaege	CTO of Kleros	Disputed: An overview of Dapps using Kleros to resolve their disputes
	13:20-13:40	Tomasz Kolinko	Founder of Eveem.org	All the Things We Can Do with Decompiled Smart Contracts
	13:40-14:00	Robbie Ferguson & Alex Connolly	COO & CTO of Fuel Games Pty Ltd	1 Million NFTs isn’t cool: scale your usage, not (just) the network
	14:00-14:20	James Waugh	Founder of Axia Labs	Token Restructuring - Liquid Token Design, Governance & Incentives vs Trade-offs
	14:20-14:40	Weilong Xu	Lead of BlockchainCamp, CSDN	Status-quo of Chinese Blockchain Developers
	14:40-15:00	Hannah Glass	Senior Associate at King & Wood Mallesons	Governance is not a Token - the Role of Non-technical Blockchain Architecture
	15:00-15:30	Break

(1) Secret Dappy Hour @ Edcon Sydney 2019 - by MakerDAO

Date: 13th April 2019 (Saturday)

Time: 19:00-22:00

Venue: Secret location (An email will be sent to you with the exact address at least 24 hours before the event )

Check the details here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/secret-dappy-hour-edcon-sydney-2019-tickets-59569231174

(2) GazeCoin DreamFrames EdCon2019 Rooftop Party - by Gaze Coin & Dream Channel VR

Date: 11th April 2019 (Thursday)

Time: 18:00-23:00

Venue: Tyro Fintech Hub Rooftop / Level 12 155 Clarence St Sydney

Check the details here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/345649756082531

(3) E DCON UNCHAINED-THE After Party - by Fuelgames & Synthetix

Date: 11h April 2019 (Thursday)

Time: 7:00pm-11:00pm AEST

Junk Lounge Circular Quay West The rocks, NSW 2000

Check the details here:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/edcon-unchained-the-after-party-registration-57676074692

(4) Axia Labs + Orchid’s Rooftop Cocktail Party

Date&Time: Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 8:30 PM – Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 1:00 AM PDT

Venue: The Rooftop Sydney, Shelbourne Hotel, 200 Sussex St, Sydney, NSW Australia

Check the details here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/axia-labs-orchids-rooftop-cocktail-party-at-edcon-tickets-60037477712?aff=

Password: axiaandorchidinsydney

（5）Web 3 Austrilia Launch Party

Date:12 April 2019(Friday)

Time:6:00pm-9:00pm AEST

Venue: Taste Baguette And Grill 11/1 Harbour St, Sydney NSW 2000 1Harbour Street Sydney, NSW 2000 Austrilia

Check the details here:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/web3-australia-launch-party-tickets-60182267783

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LinkTime is a startup that primarily develops applications on Ethereum and provides Ethereum-based blockchain and smart contract solutions. LinkTime works closely with core Ethereum developers and researchers, and it helps to advance the Ethereum ecosystem through technological development, training and promotions.

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Venue

ICC Sydney, 14 Darling Drive, Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia

International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC Sydney) stands on Tumbalong, the land of the Gadigal clan of the Eora Nation.

Featuring a striking contemporary design, leading technology and multipurpose spaces, ICC Sydney is a beacon of innovation, learning and entertainment, connecting and celebrating leaders of invention, business, governance and the arts. In the heart of Sydney, ICC Sydney is located in the active precinct of Darling Harbour on Cockle Bay and at the heart of its very own Syqdney harbour waterfront precinct, set amongst restaurants, retail and a vibrant public domain on Darling Harbour yet only a moment's walk to Australia's largest CBD and surrounding university and cultural quarters.

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