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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 5 - Opening Ceremonies

LIVESTREAMED TO ALL ROOMS IN THE VENUE. Devcon Opening Ceremonies featuring Aya Miyaguchi, Danny Ryan, Tim Beiko, Trent Van Epps, Jonathan Mann, & Skylar Weaver.

Aya originally became fascinated in the blockchain space for its potential to impact financial inclusion in emerging economies. In early 2013, she joined Kraken and educated the public, regulators, and media on cryptocurrencies and blockchain innovation globally as Managing Director of Japan. Her passion for creating lasting sustainable impact led her to join the Ethereum Foundation as Executive Director. There, she leads the Foundation’s work to support the Ethereum ecosystem through core resea

Aya Miyaguchi

Danny Ryan is a Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, focused on a series of core protocol upgrades aimed to make Ethereum more secure, sustainable, and scalable while retaining decentralization. He is involved with research, spec writing, client development, and general coordination around the project.

Danny Ryan

Skylar works with the Ethereum Foundation leading the Devcon team, with a strong focus on community education around Ethereum. Having started developing applications around Bitcoin back in 2013, Skylar is now most passionate about Ethereum, its community, and the positive impact it can bring to the world. And yeah also its memes.

Skylar Weaver

Tim Beiko runs the AllCoreDevs calls for Ethereum.

Tim Beiko

- ethereum ecosystem work & All Core Devs call
- creating with @StatefulWorks
- one of many building the @ProtocolGuild

Trent Van Epps

Vitalik Buterin

Opening Ceremonies

Venkatesh Rao is a writer and consultant. He writes the Ribbonfarm blog, and is the author of Tempo, a book on decision-making. He holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering (2003) from the University of Michigan. He is currently based in Los Angeles

Venkatesh Rao

There Are Many Alternatives: Unlocking Civilizational Hypercomplexity with Ethereum

Josh Stark works for Ethereum at the Ethereum Foundation.

Josh Stark

Making Sense of the Ethereum Foundation

Ethereum's core protocol is highly security critical and thus needs to be tested thoroughly. This talk will discuss the testing methods we use to make sure that all execution layer clients implement the same protocol:
- Regression testing on hive
- EVM-fuzzing
- Devnets
- Shadow forks
We will discuss a bunch of interesting issues that we found with that

Marius joined the Ethereum Foundation in 2020 to work on go-ethereum. He's interested in fuzzing, testing and shipping The Merge. He wrote his master thesis on differential fuzzing of EVMs where he found 3 critical consensus issues.

Marius van der Wijden

Killing ETH - Finding Consensus Issues on Layer 1

In this talk, I will discuss updates on PBS and economic models for validators, builders, searchers and users.

Barnabé is a team lead and researcher at the Robust Incentives Group, Ethereum Foundation. He focuses on economic modelling of the Ethereum protocol, using simulations, empirical data and formal analysis.

Barnabé Monnot

Updates on Proposer-Builder Separation

A retrospective on #TestingTheMerge and all the various testing avenues we explored. I'd also give  a brief summary of what went right and wrong in our approach.

I am an Ethereum enthusiast with a deep love for all things servers. I incorporated Ethereum into my Master’s thesis and loved the experience so much as to make it my full time job. I currently work in the DevOps team of the Ethereum Foundation and I mainly focus on the Ethereum Merge.

I’m also an avid photographer with a specific interest in Landscape and Travel photography. I’m a casual game

Parithosh Jayanthi

Quest for the Best Tests, a Retrospective on #TestingTheMerge

Zero Knowledge, aka ZK, has become a catch-all term to represent much of "modern" or "advanced" cryptography -- especially cryptography that's relevant to the future of blockchains. 

In this panel, we will share our perspectives on ZK -- how to think about it, what to look out for, and what to focus in on. We'll also discuss how ZK may alter and complement Ethereum's own future.

Albert Ni

Barry Whitehat

gubsheep is the creator of Dark Forest and runs applied ZK research and development at 0xPARC.

gubsheep

What to know about Zero Knowledge

We'll present an overview of learnings from 3 years of building and running Dark Forest, the first fully decentralized MMORTS, including: why ZK is important for games, what a crypto-native game is and why we should care, designing for emergent player behavior, pushing the limits of Ethereum devex, and social consensus and legitimacy - why is Dark Forest more like chess than League of Legends? We'll also hint at 0xPARC's next crypto-gaming experiments.

Dark Forest: Lessons from 3 Years of On-Chain Gaming

In this talk, designers reflect on the common threads that run through a constellation of tools and applications built with ZKPs. We share mental models being explored and strategies for fluidly navigating an evolving space. By offering real examples from our design workshops and dApps, we will explore the question – How might we materialize abstract concepts to enable internal and external teams to build with ZKPs?

Design strategy for Privacy & Scaling Explorations

Rachel

Designing Public Goods Using ZKPs

Decentralization is touted to be at the core of the Ethereum ecosystem and community. Yet we continue to operate in a world of end users trained and programmed not to think about any of the infrastructure services they use, how they run, how secure they are, and how they are managed. The community continues to operate with the mantra of Web 2.0 where someone else can handle it. It is up to us to help shift user behaviors and mental models around what it takes to truly participate in the network.

Aqeel Mohammad is a Product Strategist, and Design specialist focused on leading market adoption and consistent user experiences across Web 3. He has extensive experience leading human centered design organizations with a focus on strategy, product definition, and business transformation. Notable projects include leading design and product efforts for the Lighthouse and Nimbus consensus clients along with community development efforts including Devcon, Devconnect, and Web3 UX Unconference.

Aqeel Mohammad

Can’t Someone Else Do It!? Shifting Behaviors in Ethereum Network Participation

Since the inception of Quadratic Funding, the mechanism has mainly been used to fund open source software and public goods in a Web3-centric context. Recently, Gitcoin and others have experimented with QF in new ways to empower specific ecosystems, fund localized communities, and tackle real-world issues (climate change, health, policy). As adoption grows so do barriers and scalability challenges, but many promising advancements could be the key to breaking out of the blockchain bubble.

Connor's background is in economics and computer science. He began working at ConsenSys in 2015 followed by Gitcoin in 2019. He initially focused on growing the Gitcoin developer community via virtual hackathons and more recently, following the launch of GitcoinDAO, has transitioned to work full-time managing Grants Ecosystem rounds with the PGF workstream. Today he's excited about growing adoption of the quadratic funding mechanism and experimenting with it in new and unique ways.