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Devcon is an intensive introduction for new Ethereum explorers, a global family reunion for those already a part of our ecosystem, and a source of energy and creativity for all.

Ethereum developer conference

Devcon Bogotá, Oct 11 → 14

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Talk 1

Ethereum has had amongst its stated objectives to support enterprise adoption from its inception. Over the years, there have been a number of challenges to this becoming a reality. Now the necessary components are all there to fully support a number of compelling use cases, most of which use Ethereum Mainnet as the final settlement layer. Drawing from research across 120 companies, learn how companies are succeeding today and what infrastructure they are using to get to production.

Advisor at Ethereum Foundation for Enterprise Community. Dan is an engineer who likes to work with people. An open source veteran, Dan helped bring Node.js to the Enterprise and has worked with the Node.js Foundation, LF, CNCF, OSI, and now the EEA. Dan has founded 3 tech companies: Cor.dev, NodeSource, and The Node Firm.

Dan Shaw

Dr. Burnett has over two decades of experience in the authoring, editing, and chairing of over a dozen web and Internet standards, including WebRTC, Verifiable Credentials, and Decentralized Identifiers.  In his current role as the Executive Director of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, Dan works to increase adoption of Ethereum by the broader non-technical business community for the betterment of all.

Daniel Burnett

Ethereum Business Readiness in 2022

Smart contract wallets (SCW) have a potential to streaml UX and increase compatibility of asset and dapp contracts. 

Well positioned SCW can overcome needs for devs to integrate increasing number of standards. Instead SCWs can improve composability between dapps and decrease the amount of TXs needed, enabling dev to focus on core features rather than handling custom or niche cases of asset contracts. 

PWN Safe is an example of such wallet enabling selfcustody of lending collateral.

Josef is an active member of [Parallel Polis](https://paralelnipolis.cz/en), the base of the Prague cypherpunk community and the HQ of the Institute of Cryptoanarchy. At the IoC he is occasionally organinzing Ethereum meetups (since 2016). He is also the founder and maintainer of the local nonconformist hackerspace [Bordel](https://bordel.space).

Josef J

Naim

Asset Rights Abstractions - a Case for Smart Contract Wallets

Deputy Head Of The Virtual Assets Project Office Ministry Of The Digital Transformation Of Ukraine, Board Member Trusted Seed Association.
Max shares the ideas of Decentralization, Lean/Agile, Teal Culture, DAO, Lean Startup and Community Leadership. More at https://maxsemenchuk.com/

Max Semenchuk

Web3 in the Ukraine government: integration & impact

Many stakers set up their validators nearly two years ago, and will soon need to revisit them to obtain the rewards they have earned since.

This panel provides a refresher for what stakers did, and why they did it.  It discusses protecting mnemonics and keys, and what can be done if they are misplaced or compromised.

Bringing together experts on validating key creation, protection and use, this is a wide-ranging discussion that will be useful for all stakers and potential stakers.

Adrian is an escapee from the world of centralised finance but is now making amends by contributing to the Ethereum core protocol as a Lead Blockchain Protocol Engineer at ConsenSys.  He is a core dev on both the consensus and execution layers, leading development of ConsenSys Teku and contributing to Hyperledger Besu. When he's not coding he can be found discussing Ethereum and answering questions on pretty much all the Discord servers, and Telegram chat rooms and…

Adrian Sutton

Co-founder of Obol Labs and building Distributed Validator Technology for Ethereum.

Oisín Kyne

Co-founder of Sigma Prime and Lighthouse. Proud contributor to Ethereum Proof-of-Stake.

Paul Hauner

Vasiliy Shapovalov

"It's 10pm, do you know where your mnemonic is?"

The talk would essentially be a distilled version of this piece I wrote around biomimicry and DAOs/coordination/governance https://pop.mirror.xyz/NbNlmtjw3hTzVHiCU9dBjcgFDxpD91UY8DOtl5Ht_x0

My general view I would like to impart with the audience is that what we collectively work towards should be rooted in balance, non extremist behaviour and mindfulness - with concrete examples of the work I have already done in practice across Gitcoin DAO, ENS and soon Element.

founder in the web3 space (Bounties Network), governance meta steward (Gitcoin, ENS, Element DAO), governance engagement strategy and tooling (Gitcoin DAO), community strategy (Status), advisory (part of many projects’ in the ecosystem’s journey including 3Box, EPNS, DoinGud and more), mentorship (Kernel), Event creator and content curator (Schelling Point, Liscon, EthDenver)

simona pop

DAOs and Biomimicry

70% of UX design on Ethereum is defined within the Smart Contracts. So why are so few UX experts involved in Smart Contract design? It’s time for a shift towards better crypto UX.

The future of a better web3 UX will rely heavily on a paradigm shift. The necessity of change in the way we work and the way we look at how products are designed and planned is more and more needed. 

So are you ready to embrace the change?

"My job is to translate extremely complex products into palatable bits and to be the users' voice when dApps are built"

In a constant search for improvement in design processes, products, and the blockchain space, Sasha Tanase has been working in Ethereum since 2018.

Past Head of Design at Alethio/ConsenSys, Head of Design Research at Keep Network, currently she is leading Design Research and Product Design at tBTC/Threshold Network and is one of the co-founders of Web3UX research panel.

Sasha Tanase

The Future of Web3UX - a Paradigm Shift for a Better Collaboration between Design and Development

Smart Transactions act as if they know how they are being situated and whether they are being treated fairly. 

With context dependent semantics, uncanny awareness of the future, and mid-execution access to actual and virtual services, smart transactions challenge us to elaborate on Ethereum’s transactional semantics.

Vlad Zamfir is a proof-of-stake and consensus protocol designer, also known in Ethereum and cryptocurrency expert communities for pioneering research on cryptoeconomics, blockchain governance and crypto law.

Low-key, Vlad’s contributed to the DAO hard fork, to the latest message fork driven choice rule, and to many arguments against on-chain governance and blockchain immutability.

Vlad Zamfir

Smart Transactions

Mayors or Innovation Ministers/Secretaries to discuss and share their blockchain projects and impact in citizens.

Secretario de Desarrollo Económico de Bogotá

Alfredo Bateman

Secretario de Innovación y Transformación Digital de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Diego Fernandez

Diputada del H. Congreso del Estado de Nuevo León, Monterrey

Irais Reyes

Jaime Pumarejo

Co-Founder at Tropykus.com, CEO at TRU. Co-director of the InTIColombia research group at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Leader of the Colombia node for the Iberoamerican Blockchain Alliance. Electronic Engineer from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Master's Degree in Creation of Innovative and Tech Based Companies from the Universidad de Barcelona

Mauricio Tovar

How Latam cities are thinking about blockchain solutions.

A humorous, yet informative, whistle-stop tour of our conference, with focus on the changing demographics and social themes of our favourite week of the year!

Entering Fintech middle age. Freelance, and doing lots at @mattereum this year. Most of my career has been spent building mid-tier software for early growth start-ups. Very interested in using web3 for real-world useful things, talk to me about carbon credits and W3C Verifiable Credentials. Never got into the speculation, so having fun staying poor :)

Devcon attendee since No. 1 in London!

Thomas Barker

Five Devcons in Five Minutes

This session will showcase how UNICEF’s Office of Innovation is exploring the use of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, and how these might have an impact on the work that UNICEF does. It will also present the trajectory and results to date of the UNICEF CryptoFund, the first vehicle in the United Nations ecosystem to receive, hold, and disburse crypto, which makes equity-free investments into technology startups within developing countries that are working to improve lives of children.

At UNICEF's Office of Innovation, I focus on partnerships and donor relations to advance the impact and advocacy efforts #ForEveryChild.

Evelyn Casanova

Sanna Bedi

UNICEF CryptoFund: Exploring Blockchain and How it Could Change Futures for the Most Vulnerable

The EEA Community Projects, formerly known as the Ethereum OASIS Open Project, is a hub for open source-based standards development in the Ethereum industry. We provide support for open source development of code, APIs, standards, and reference implementations.  Our goal is to improve the quality of standards in the Ethereum ecosystem and provide a path to formal standards developed within the framework of OASIS, an internationally recognized technical standards body.

Tas works on enterprise ecosystem development and ecosystem support at EF.  He is co-chair of the EEA Community Projects Project Governing Board.

Tas Dienes

EEA Community Projects: a Home for Open Standards Development Projects, Managed by OASIS

The talk will give an exhaustive overview of the different AMM algorithms currently deployed on major distributed ledgers, as well as the underlying intuition behind their design. Building up from the basic principles of AMM design, the talk will then cover the algorithmic mechanisms used in the various different algorithms including Constant Sum, Constant Product (Uniswap V2), Uniswap V3, KyberSwap, StableSwap (Curve), CryptoSwap (Curve V2), Solidly Stable pairs, Clipper, Dodo, and RFQ systems.

Coming from a background in artificial intelligence and reinforcement learning, Matt now leads development of the order routing algorithm and smart contracts for odos.xyz

Matt Deible

An Overview of AMM Mechanisms

ZKPs allow transactions to prove their state transition was valid, without revealing anything about what it was.  But this isn't enough, because useful applications require shared state, which ZKPs can't provide.  In this talk, we'll describe how to break this barrier by combining ZKPs with flow encryption, a new threshold crypto primitive, to allow private interaction with public shared state, and how Penumbra uses this technique to build a private DEX.

Henry de Valence is the founder of Penumbra, a fully shielded cross-chain DEX and proof-of-stake network.  Previously, he worked at the Zcash Foundation building Zebra, a modular Zcash fullnode implementation, and at Chain, Inc, building ZK proof infrastructure: Bulletproofs, the Ristretto group, Merlin transcripts, and curve25519-dalek.

Henry de Valence

Penumbra: Building a Private DEX with ZKPs and Threshold Cryptography

In this talk we'll go over how to build privacy-protecting infrastructure. What is it, why do we need it and how can we build it?

We'll look at Waku, the communication layer for Web3. We'll see how it uses ZKPs to incentivize and protect the Waku network. We'll also look at Zerokit, a library that makes it easier to use ZKPs in different environments.

After this talk, I hope you'll better understand the importance of privacy-protecting infrastructure and how we can build it.

Oskar Thorén is the Director of Research at Vac, an R&D org building public good protocols for the decentralized web, with a focus on privacy and communication. Before that he was Head of Engineering at Status, a mobile Ethereum client. He also organizes the Papers We Love meetup in Taipei.

Website: oskarth.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/oskarth
Vac website: https://vac.dev

Oskar Thorén

Building Privacy-Protecting Infrastructure

We tell the story of deploying a real-world solution using SNARKs as a core primitive; highlighting many cutting edge SNARKs and their limitations in the hope to identify opportunities for the community to make Ethereum more SNARK friendly, creating a diverse ecosystem where SNARKs built upon a variety of unique primitives can thrive.

I studied mathematics and computer science at the University of California Santa Barbara. From then until now I have worked on applied cryptography in the blockchain context. I lead applied cryptography at Edge & Node and the SnarkForce, where we apply bleeding edge cryptography including SNARKs to The Graph Network.

Jackson Blazensky

I'm a Senior Cryptographer at Semiotic Labs. I am currently developing cryptography solutions for The Graph protocol as a core dev. Before that I was a Senior Principal Anti-Tamper Security Engineer at Northrop Grumman and before that I was doing cyber security R&D at Sandia National Labs. I have an MSEE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I studied cryptography.

Severiano Sisneros

A SNARKs Tale: A Story of Building SNARK Solutions on Mainnet

Introducing the OP Stack — a standardized tech stack for L2 chains.

Introducing the Superchain vision — the inevitable unification of the distinct L2 chains into a single, horizontally scalable, super-sequenced, Superchain!

The OP Stack is how we realize the Superchain vision.

Ethereum optimist. Worked at the Ethereum Foundation on PoS & Eth2, then co-founded Plasma Group & Optimism to build Ethereum L2 technology which funds public goods. Currently optimistically scaling Ethereum and making impact=profit.

Karl Floersch

Optimism’s OP Stack

We've got 25 minutes to go as deep as we can possibly go into the architecture of modern (modular) rollups. We'll be looking at the theory behind the components of these rollups and we'll be grounding this theory in the concrete components of the OP Stack.

Cmon, where do you think we are, 2019? It's 2022 y'all, and rollups are getting really, really cool.

This talk will cover a lot of technical detail in a short amount of time, so come prepared and chug a lot of coffee beforehand.

Kelvin Fichter

Modular Rollup Theory Through the Lens of the OP Stack

Facilitated and moderated by UNICEF, this panel discussion will bring together a group of blockchain start ups, part of the UNICEF Venture Fund portfolio, to touch on the importance of open source and digital public goods as part of a (profitable) business model. Through 3 rounds of questions, the start ups will share their experiences with UNICEF and opinions on the topics

Shane O’Connor is an Innovation Manager at UNICEF’s Office of Innovation, exploring how technologies, like blockchain, drones, virtual and augmented reality, AI and data science can intersect with the needs of a billion people to accelerate UNICEF’s impact for children.  
Previously, Shane led Technology for Development (T4D) and Innovation efforts for UNICEF in Sierra Leone. 
Before joining UNICEF, Shane was CTO, Deputy MD, and Co-Founder of a mobile financial services platform.

Shane O'Connor

The Role UNICEF Plays in Encouraging the “Impact Trinity” – Real world Use-cases, Open-source Software and For-Profit Business models

With the wider adoption, the use of open blockchains and dapps built on top of it is becoming progressively regulated by governments all over the world (especially in the EU and the U.S.). Understanding and adjusting to these regulations is becoming a reality for many projects in the ecosystem, especially the ones facing the users and the community. What will be the impact of regulation on the Ethereum ecosystem and how it might change the existing use cases, designs and utilities?

Trained as a lawyer and software developer with many years of experience working full-time in the blockchain space, Florian is aware of the key issues at the intersection of crypto assets and regulation.

Florian Glatz has co-founded and led the German Blockchain Association (Bundesblock) as President for its first four years. He advises political decision-makers at the German and European level on blockchain regulation.

Florian Glatz

Marina is the co-founder of EUCI, which aims to propel EU regulation to become Defi-friendly. Since 2017 Marina has been advising crypto projects on governance and legal matters with a focus on decentralization, DeFi and NFTs. She previously led the advisory team of blockchain accelerator cofound.it and co-founded a crowdinvesting platform.

Marina Markezic

Educating on crypto and public blockchains since 2015

Simon Polrot

The Influence of Crypto Regulation on Open Blockchains: Opportunities and Challenges

2021 was the breakout year for web3. Yet despite the millions of new users, a Morning Consult survey found that while 83% of consumers are aware of crypto, only 26% have a positive opinion. How do we as a community shift the narrative? I will share four ways to communicate web3’s benefits, relying on insight from our survey of 20k people in 15 countries around the world, updates on MetaMask Learn, and the inspiring stories of creativity and entrepreneurship enabled through web3.

James Beck is the Director of Content and Communications at ConsenSys, where he has spent the last 5 years telling the story of Ethereum to journalists and individuals around the world. Prior to ConsenSys, James worked in public affairs and led US politicians and journalists on delegations to China to improve understanding between the two countries. James is an enthusiastic member of the queer underground NYC dance scene, and also is a volunteer street tree steward in NYC.

James Beck

Ethereum Won’t Be The Money Layer of the Internet if People Think It’s an Earth-Destroying Scam: Four Ways to Change the Narrative

We propose to present a panel with representatives of at least five Ethereum communities in Latam in order to review what has been achieved so far, the main challenges they face and the vision they have regarding the future.
From this discussion, the audience will be able to draw conclusions regarding the degree of progress of the different communities, understand the particular difficulties of each country and identify if there is a common vision for Latam.

Ana Belén is Mexican and is currently leading the Ethereum Mexico community, she is Governor at H.E.R. DAO LATAM and SMM for Espacio Cripto.
Contributor at BanklessDAO.
She loves marketing and community building and the impact of technology on people's lives.
Goals: Get more builders and founders from Latin America into Web3.

Ana Belén || AnaTech

- Smart Contracts at Cryptex Finance 👾
- Devcon V Scholar ⛓️
- Founder at Ethereum Honduras 🇭🇳
- Collector of illiquid jpgs 🎨
- Generative artist wanna be 👨‍🎨

Crisgarner

Leader of EthColombia and Community Supporter at Devcon.

Juan David Reyes

Romina Ayelén Sejas

Blockchain developer focused on Ethereum and smart contracts. MSc in digital currencies. She has been working with technology for over 20 years. Speaker in world conferences since 2018, also she won awards at Ethereum hackathons. She was listed in Cointelegraph Brazil top 50.

Solange Gueiros

ETHLima Community Leader.
Blockchain enthusiast.
Financial Executive with more than 20 years of experience in telcos.
Systems Engineering and Finance studies.

Toño Romero

How to Build Bigger and Stronger ETH Communities in Latam - EN ESPAÑOL

A research study was conducted to understand the experiences of users in the metaverse. The deep conversations with participants in that study inspired the researchers to explore how web3 interactive platforms could act as a tool for qualitative ethnographic research in their own right, using 'netnography' to uncover behaviors and cultural learnings. In this talk, Georgia will share what can be gained by 'going on safari' and observing users in this new social ecosystem.

Georgia is a seasoned user researcher, and has specialised in the web3 and crypto space for the last 5 years. She works for tooling, wallets, DeFi, NFTs, DAOs and gaming clients to help them understand their users and build better products, and established The User Research DAO; a collective of UX research experts dedicated to elevating the quality and quantity of user research being conducted in the web3 space.

Georgia Rakusen

Going on Safari: Researching Users in the Metaverse

Effective communication is a strategic advantage that DAOs are failing to leverage due to a fragmented and inefficiently designed tool landscape. Let's explore how social web3 primitives may unlock collaborative network effects. Imagine knowing if you can trust someone at a glance, without knowing anything else about them. We'll tie social theory of Bourdieu together with User Experience Design into a neat little package and see how it can herald a new era in working together.

Dominic Emanuel Horn is the Lead Product Designer (UX/UI) of Common Ground, a web3-native communication platform. Freelancing as a UX and product designer for clients such as Siemens, Mercedes, and more, he cares deeply about designing products with emotion, that look & feel great and push the boundaries of user experience forward.

Dominic Emanuel Horn

Social Composability Design: How DAOs Can Leverage It for the Future of Work

Andrew Milich

Skiff

On 2021 the Proof of Humanity protocol was released alongside the UBI token reaching almost 20k humans receiving Universal Basic Income. This talk will offer direct testimonials from users on how UBI has impacted their lives. We will demo how Proof of Humanity v2 will support the use of Soul Bound Tokens and reduce costs using Layer 2. Also we will explain how UBI v2 extends its streaming features allowing real time money and how we can create regenerative economics for it as a community.

Founder of Democracy Earth Foundation, a non-profit organization backed by Y Combinator that has built Universal Basic Income on Ethereum and launched the Proof of Humanity protocol. In the past he started the Partido de la Red, the first political party born out of the Internet that ran for elections in Argentina. Author of "Hacktivismo", published in 2015 by Random House.

Santiago Siri

Universal Basic Income for Humanity

The term 'public good', which has been adopted by many in the Ethereum community, should apply to the whole public, including those without access to traditional systems. This panel is about how blockchains actually make it to the un/under-banked -- the pragmatic considerations, and the inspirational possibilities.

Panelists include Abhishek Bhattacharya, Benson Njuguna, Gabriela Guerra, and Marcus Alburez Myers with Karam Alhamad as moderator.

Abhishek is a Co-founder at Whrrl - India's only blockchain native fintech platform. He's a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree and a 3-times Entrepreneur, Author, and a regular Speaker of Blockchain Tech. At Whrrl, he's bringing Blockchain to farmers to save their income, covering 1,400 warehouses & 18,000+ farmers and US $300 Million in committed TVL and now connecting them to global DeFi lenders, supported by United Nations Development Programme, IIM Ahmedabad and MassC

Abhishek Bhattacharya

Benson is an Ethereum Foundation fellow, working with ACRE Africa and Etherisc to deliver insurance to smallholder farmers in Africa. He is on a mission to elevate his local community financially, through technological innovation. He is currently working on real life application of Ethereum network to solve transparency and efficiency problems in traditional insurance. So far the project has reached over 50,000 smallholder farmers in Africa ,de-risking them from adverse weather events.

Benson Njuguna

Fellows are leaders committed to projects that help Ethereum become a tool of and for the next billion. Some projects might be part of a lifelong quest of the Fellow; others are brand new ideas that are just getting started. Fellows and their projects focus on public goods that enable the flourishing of communities or individuals under-represented in the Ethereum ecosystem today.

Ethereum Foundation Fellows

Founder of Bloinx, a blockchain app that manages saving circles. She has experience managing international projects and is convinced that blockchain can benefit the unbanked population.

Gabriela Guerra

Marcus is exploring how DeFi can be used to reduce barriers to enhanced livelihoods in disenfranchised communities in Guatemala. His research focuses on how we can leverage web3 as a tool to unlock value for communities that are systematically marginalized throughout Guatemala. Marcus is conducting with a variety of stakeholders ranging from rural communities through to leading DeFi protocols and dApps in order to uncover the missing infrastructure to enable more equitable futures for all.

Marcus AM

Ethereum for the next billion: DeFi for the unbanked/underbanked

Ethereum needs to overcome many gaps in representation across cultures, languages, ages, and more. This panel explores the question: "Who are the people that you consider to be the 'next billion' Ethereum users, and how will Ethereum make an impact on their lives?”

Panelists include Geoffrey See, Mary Davies, and Mihajlo Atanackovic with Chuy Cepeda as moderator.

Chuy, PhD, Monterrey, uses blockchain technology to digitize government services and give citizens their digital identity.

Chuy Cepeda

Geoffrey is an Ethereum Foundation Fellow and the Co-Founder of Poko, a Y Combinator backed startup. He has extensive experience working on the public policy and regulatory side of the blockchain, as well as founding an entrepreneurial education initiative for policymakers and entrepreneurs. For his fellowship, Geoffrey will be exploring the interface between the web3 sector and policymakers, specifically how policymakers can better understand and experiment with  decentralized technology.

Geoffrey See

Mary P. Davies is the founder of the Perpetuity Foundation.  She is a legal technologist and researcher based in the Cayman Islands.   Her research focus is perpetuity, in the context of what makes projects and ecosystems last.  Mary’s  Ethereum Fellowship research project, the Digital Asset Perpetuity Project,  is focused on harmonizing Ethereum with the law, specifically the requirements of property law, and will answer the question “What happens to your Eth when you die?”

Mary P. Davies

Mihajlo is leading the digital transformation journey of one of the world's biggest non-formal educational youth movements - the World Organization of the Scout Movement, with 57+ million members from around the globe. 

To get the Scout Movement ready for W3, he is embarking on an ambitious project involving digitalising badges, exploring DAOs for different levels of the Movement and more.

Mihajlo Atanackovic

Ethereum for the Next Billion: Who Are Your Next Billion?

I want to give a talk on the ins and outs of building a thriving web3 developer community. I help lead DevX at https://superfluid.finance and I've learned the hard way what it takes to get hundreds of projects built on your protocol. 

I'll give an overview of what both engineers and marketing/growth people get wrong about building a developer ecosystem, how we run hackathons, and how we've productized our docs and developer tooling.

Sam is a self taught developer who works on Developer Experience at Superfluid.

Sam Flamini

Building a Thriving Developer Community

Learn about the creation of the Nomic Foundation and what's coming next from the creators of Hardhat.

Franco Zeoli

Hardhat & Nomic Foundation: the creation of an Ethereum non-profit

Ethereum is one of the most important tools enabling us to build free parallel structures. Parallel Polis is a humanitarian concept popularized by Czechoslovak dissidents and carried on by cryptoanarchists and cypherpunks in recent years. From their experience of living solely in cryptoeconomy for past 8 years, we learn how Ethereum is an irreplaceable tool for crypto native life, business and social structures.

Protocol supporter and researcher working within Ethereum Foundation, co-founder of Bordel Hackerspace. Mario have been building and educating local communities in Bratislava, Prague and Barcelona, inspired many people to live crypto native and contribute to FOSS ecosystems.

Mario Havel

Building Parallel Economy Using Ethereum

Governments have failed and evolved over thousands of years. But some web3 projects were built as though they’d get it right on the first try. That’s not realistic. And it’s not working. People don’t vote, the rules are complex, and protocols aren’t inclusive.

No one solution fixes all our problems but what we can do is build more adaptable governance systems. With a flexible, upgradeable, and modular foundation, governance systems can increase innovation & participation and decrease turmoil.

Charles St. Louis is the COO and Head of Governance at Element Finance. Previously, he was the Decentralized Governance Architect at the Maker Foundation and one of the first mandated members of MakerDAO elected by MKR Holders. 

He's been an active contributor to Ethereum and the Ethereum Cat Herders, helping with improving the EIP process, coordination of hardforks, advising Ethereum.org, and working on Ethereum developer growth strategy.

Charles St. Louis

Why Crypto Protocols Are Failing at Governance, and How to Fix It

$10.5 Trillion were spent, not invested, SPENT in 2021 in the US alone, and this is a global sector.
This sector has a for-loss model... the capital providers, despite creating an abundance of value that is in high demand, are losing money had over fist, and web3 has the solution.

You missed Bitcoin, you missed Ethereum, don't sleep on this.

Cofounder of Giveth, Commons Stack, & dappnode. Community manager for TheDAO, led the crisis response effort for TheDAO Hack and first Parity Multisig Hack from every angle, co-founder of the White Hat Group and led the creation of Token Engineering Commons. Advisor for PolygonID, PolygonHermez, brightID, Doingud, and steward for Gitcoin, ENS & Optimism.

I also lead 2 crypto focused burning man camps ;-)

Griff Green

The Biggest Web3 Opportunity No One is Talking About!

GM, fren, anon, ape in, DeFi, DApps, protocol, WAGMI. 

Words have immense power, and yet we are doing ourselves a disservice when it comes to everything crypto by not embracing soft skillers. The way in which we continue to name, explain and communicate our creations will have profound impact on adoption. And right now, we suck at it. Hard.

Vince Major is an actor, marketer and storyteller. Currently working as the head of marketing at MyEtherWallet, Vince has been working in the arts for over a decade.

Vince Major

My Mother Hates Your Project (And Mine)! Why We Need More Soft Skills In Crypto

2.9 billion people are still offline and 96% of these people live in developing countries. During the session, public and private sector leaders from Giga countries like Rwanda or South Africa will speak about 1) how they are using blockchain to connect schools, 2) the opportunities of this technology in emerging markets. In particular, they’ll talk about blockchain as tool to automate payments, staking to finance school connectivity, NFTs to fundraise or a marketplace to incentivize providers.

Naroa Zurutuza leads the Mapping and Tech work for Giga, UNICEF. Prior to joining UNICEF, she lived and worked in various companies in Kenya; from a startup that is trying to change the way the world understands agriculture to a non-profit empowering local entrepreneurs through access to finance. Naroa holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a MS in Telecommunications Engineering from EHU-UPV.

Naroa

Gerben has focussed on building digital products that solve global problems for over a decade. From designing games that reward players for saving energy to building web applications that support entrepreneurs with their administration, he currently serves as the blockchain lead for Giga at UNICEF.

Gerben Kijne

Anda Ngcaba serves as the Chief of Operations (COO) at the University of Cape Town Financial Innovation Hub. At the financial innovation hub, Anda oversees day to day operations, partnerships and business development. Through his work at the Financial Innovation Hub Anda also serves as COO of Axone, a platform for content creators to collaborate in a unique way.

Anda Ngcaba

Giga: How Can Blockchain Help Connect the Next Billion

Join to immerse yourself in the current realities and trajectories of Africa and Web3. Let’s talk about Africa from the perspective of Africans, the opportunities Africans see for our continent, and what the state of adoption is. Discussion themes include education and talent, DeFi, regulation landscape, culture and art, and the funding landscape for Web3 startups.

Tony Olendo is a Developer Education Evangelist at Polygon. He has a passion for Ethereum Developer Education and specifically helping developers in their Solidity journey. He is also a core team member of Afrofuture DAO, Africa's largest community of NFT artists and also a co-founder of Web3Afrika, Africa's largest community of Web3 builders.

Tony Olendo

Yoseph is an entrepreneur building at the intersection of Web3 and Africa, and focused on growing the borderless economy on the continent.

He co-founded and was CEO of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship (ehf.org), a community of 500+ top tier entrepreneurs and investors from 68 countries. He built a new immigration program with the New Zealand government, and ran it as a public-private partnership. Yoseph is from Ethiopia, and grew up in East Africa.

Yoseph Ayele

Web3 Adoption in Africa

We build tools to make it easy for projects to align the incentives of all stakeholders (community, VC's, team members, users etc etc). The direction of the talk will be to talk through the lessons we learnt, how other DAO's and teams can take the success stories to their own projects and give an overview of the aspects of what we did that worked. This talk will also go through the experience that have not worked and a critical view of why they did not.

Growth Strategy at Astaria. Chandler focuses on building the future of web3 by solving the problems that matter to the people that work in the space every day.

Chandler De Kock

The Future of Social Coordination of DAO's

Over 6 billion people in the world do not speak English at all.
By localizing and providing Ethereum content (user interfaces, documentation, educational content, etc.) in different languages, we can dramatically increase our target audience and onboard more people to Ethereum, as well as make Ethereum education more accessible.

I work on the Translation Program at ethereum.org and ecosystem development at the Ethereum Foundation.