Why we come collectively
Each two years, the Ethereum neighborhood comes collectively at Devcon to collaborate and construct towards a extra holistic, reliable, democratic, and decentralized future. Devcon isn’t about hype or hypothesis; it’s about making a extra free and open society the place expertise enhances human potential and aligns with our core values.
For 4 days, builders, neighborhood leaders, and changemakers step out of their silos and collect in a single place to share data, align on Ethereum’s future route, and study from one another. After Devcon, we scatter again into our decentralized lives, however the momentum we create energizes us to maintain constructing.
What to anticipate at Devcon
Devcon is one large occasion going down in a single venue for 4 days in Bangkok, Thailand from November 12-15 2024. Devcon is completely different from Devconnect, the second occasion we’re organizing.
The Devcon Week calendar options instructional occasions earlier than and after Devcon. We encourage organizers to plan round the primary Devcon schedule, as we won’t be itemizing occasions that happen throughout Devcon days to maintain Devcon the primary schelling level.
Audio system
This yr, Devcon acquired almost 3,000 speaker purposes, doubling the quantity from Devcon VI.
Some highlighted audio system embody:
- Vitalik Buterin (Co-founder of Ethereum): Exploring probably the most related subjects on the intersection of expertise and society.
- Aya Miyaguchi (Government Director of the Ethereum Basis): Sharing her imaginative and prescient for Ethereum’s ecosystem development and the Infinite Backyard.
- Roger Dingledine (Co-founder of The Tor Challenge): Sharing classes realized from the Tor neighborhood, privacy-by-design, and the cypherpunk ethos.
- Bruno Maçães (thinker, journalist, politician, and creator): Inspecting how expertise is remodeling geopolitics, the place states and nice powers compete to create and management new international programs.
- Hart Montgomery (CTO of the Linux Basis): Providing insights into open-source mission buildings and neighborhood constructing.
- Gubsheep (Co-founder of 0xPARC): Exploring programmable cryptography and its impression on dApps and the creation of totally new digital worlds.
Uncover extra audio system right here.
These mini-events inside Devcon foster interdisciplinary discussions on subjects that matter each to Ethereum and society by bringing collectively consultants from various fields. Some key classes are:
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d/acc Discovery Day: Led by Vitalik Buterin, Vincent Weisser and others, this session explores the d/acc (defensive accelerationism) imaginative and prescient and the way we must always deal with decentralization and defensive applied sciences to create a resilient future.
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MUD: Autonomous Worlds & Onchain Video games: Organized by 0xPARC, and Lattice, for these curious about autonomous worlds, onchain video games, and different complicated Ethereum purposes.
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Creating on Ethereum: BuidlGuidl will provide hands-on classes for each newbie and superior builders to construct decentralized purposes and write sensible contracts. You’ll develop sensible abilities, obtain mentorship, and community with different builders.
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Programmable Cryptography: 0xPARC and others will showcase how second-generation cryptographic primitives akin to zero-knowledge proofs, multi-party computation, and totally homomorphic encryption lay the inspiration for a extra good web.
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Formal Verification Hangout: Casual discussions on the safety and reliability of sensible contracts and software program programs, permitting researchers and builders to attach.
For those who’re trying to manage and lead discussions at Devcon, the Dialogue Corners are good for diving into subjects round Ethereum. Reservations for time in Dialogue Corners will open to everybody shortly earlier than Devcon.
Group Hubs are areas, organized by the neighborhood, for deep dives into particular Ethereum-related subjects and to satisfy folks working in particular Ethereum-related fields. Listed here are the featured Group Hubs:
- Account Abstraction Hub: Targeted on bettering consumer onboarding whereas staying true to decentralization. Focus on methods to advance the Account Abstraction ecosystem, from SDKs and wallets to protocol requirements like ERC-4337.
- Adoption Hub: An area for designers, researchers, and entrepreneurs to collaborate on web3 adoption methods, with a deal with bettering UX and belief.
- Collective Intelligence Governance Hub: Specialists from main DAOs talk about challenges and improvements in DAO governance design, delegation, accountability, and funding, utilizing collective intelligence to enhance DAO governance.
- Group Gardeners Hub: A gathering place for neighborhood builders to attach, share international Ethereum initiatives, and discover methods for efficient neighborhood development.
- Onchain Creators Hub: An area to discover onchain creativity, financial fashions, and instruments for accelerating Ethereum’s mainstream adoption.
- Ethereum SEA Hub: Celebrates Southeast Asia’s Ethereum communities, showcasing native initiatives and fostering cross-collaboration.
- GM Hub: Highlights web3 improvements from underrepresented areas, with a deal with Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Have interaction in cross-cultural discussions on blockchain’s real-world impression.
- Grants & Influence Hub: A hub for grant applications, researchers, and builders centered on sustainable Ethereum initiatives, providing workshops on optimizing grant proposals and measuring impression.
- Hacktivism Hub: Discover Ethereum’s cypherpunk values and the way blockchain can deal with privateness, censorship, and human rights, with hands-on discussions and workshops.
- House Operators Hub: A assist area for residence node operators and validators and people who need to turn out to be one, providing one-on-one troubleshooting and workshops on operating nodes with lower than 32 ETH and decentralizing Ethereum additional.
- Regen Hub: A hub centered on regenerative initiatives and sustainability inside Ethereum, discussing native empowerment and international initiatives.
- Sustaining Open-Supply Improvement Hub: An area to discover open-source enterprise fashions and uncover methods to maintain open-source public items inside the ecosystem.
- The World of DeSci Hub: Focuses on decentralized science and the way web3 applied sciences are reshaping the scientific panorama, turning science right into a public good.
- Girls in Web3 World (W3): An inclusive area for ladies and allies to community, study, and talk about variety and inclusion in Ethereum by workshops and fireplace chats.
Hacker Cave
In search of a devoted area to check new tech and construct? The Hacker Cave is provided with cozy seating, neon cyberpunk lighting, and luxurious hanging vegetation. This area may have you in the best mindset to hack on new concepts.
Music & Artwork Area
Get pleasure from reside music, visuals, and workshops in an immersive artwork area. Take part in jam classes, sound therapeutic, or just benefit from the environment. The Music area is an initiative by the Open-Supply Orchestra who wrote this DIP.
Are you an Ethereum musician your self? Be a part of the jam by filling out this open name.
Video games of Seize and Escape
Be a part of a reside escape sport that mixes cryptography, exploration, and puzzle-solving. Work together with NPCs and unlock secret components of the venue whereas progressing by more and more difficult chapters. Delivered to you by Daedalus Industries through this DIP.
Coworking Space, Assembly Rooms & Decompression Room
For individuals who will probably be in search of a quiet spot for some deep work at Devcon, there will probably be a devoted space with Wi-Fi on web site for quiet coworking.
You’ll additionally have the ability to reserve assembly rooms, massive and small, to carry in-person conferences along with your often distant group, have essential one-on-one conversations, or different personal discussions.
Devcon can even characteristic a decompression room, the proper area to chill out, unwind, and let your thoughts roam. Outfitted with hammocks, beds, and therapeutic massage remedy, it’s designed that can assist you recharge and keep refreshed all through the occasion.
Don’t be concerned, there will probably be fewer folks in fits 😄
Get your Devcon ticket
The subsequent ticket wave is OPEN NOW (Tuesday, 1st October) till it is offered out, and reductions for Ethereum and open-source builders, teachers, SEA locals, and youth are at all times obtainable. Apply for these discounted tickets right here.
The whole programming schedule will probably be revealed quickly, and we already offered and distributed virtually 8,000 tickets. This will probably be a Devcon you don’t need to miss, and we’re excited so that you can be part of it.
We would see a few of you even earlier – a few month earlier than Devcon at one of many pop-up cities in Chiang Mai or at different occasions on the Street to Devcon. Then we’ll all journey collectively to Bangkok for Devcon, November 12–15, at QSNCC.
Keep impressed, and hold constructing.
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