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 know-how 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 information, align on Ethereum’s future course, and be taught 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 massive 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 academic occasions earlier than and after Devcon. We encourage organizers to plan round the primary Devcon schedule, as we is not going to be itemizing occasions that happen throughout Devcon days to maintain Devcon the primary schelling level.
Audio system
This 12 months, Devcon obtained practically 3,000 speaker purposes, doubling the quantity from Devcon VI.
Some highlighted audio system embrace:
- Vitalik Buterin (Co-founder of Ethereum): Exploring essentially the most related subjects on the intersection of know-how and society.
- Aya Miyaguchi (Govt Director of the Ethereum Basis): Sharing her imaginative and prescient for Ethereum’s ecosystem progress and the Infinite Backyard.
- Roger Dingledine (Co-founder of The Tor Mission): Sharing classes discovered from the Tor neighborhood, privacy-by-design, and the cypherpunk ethos.
- Bruno Maçães (thinker, journalist, politician, and creator): Inspecting how know-how is reworking geopolitics, the place states and nice powers compete to create and management new world programs.
- Hart Montgomery (CTO of the Linux Basis): Providing insights into open-source undertaking constructions and neighborhood constructing.
- Gubsheep (Co-founder of 0xPARC): Exploring programmable cryptography and its affect on dApps and the creation of fully new digital worlds.
These mini-events inside Devcon foster interdisciplinary discussions on subjects that matter each to Ethereum and society by bringing collectively consultants from numerous fields. Some key periods 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) vision and the way we must always give attention to 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 occupied with autonomous worlds, onchain video games, and different complicated Ethereum purposes.
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Growing on Ethereum: BuidlGuidl will supply hands-on periods 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 similar to zero-knowledge proofs, multi-party computation, and totally homomorphic encryption lay the inspiration for a extra excellent 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.
Should you’re seeking to arrange and lead discussions at Devcon, the Dialogue Corners are excellent 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 fulfill individuals working in particular Ethereum-related fields. Listed here are the featured Group Hubs:
- Account Abstraction Hub: Targeted on bettering person onboarding whereas staying true to decentralization. Focus on tips on how 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 give attention to bettering UX and belief.
- Collective Intelligence Governance Hub: Consultants from main DAOs focus on challenges and improvements in DAO governance design, delegation, accountability, and funding, utilizing collective intelligence to enhance DAO governance.
- Community Gardeners Hub: A gathering place for neighborhood builders to attach, share world Ethereum initiatives, and discover methods for efficient neighborhood progress.
- 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 tasks and fostering cross-collaboration.
- GM Hub: Highlights web3 improvements from underrepresented areas, with a give attention to Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Interact in cross-cultural discussions on blockchain’s real-world affect.
- Grants & Impact Hub: A hub for grant applications, researchers, and builders targeted on sustainable Ethereum tasks, providing workshops on optimizing grant proposals and measuring affect.
- Hacktivism Hub: Discover Ethereum’s cypherpunk values and the way blockchain can handle privateness, censorship, and human rights, with hands-on discussions and workshops.
- Home Operators Hub: A assist area for residence node operators and validators and people who need to develop into one, providing one-on-one troubleshooting and workshops on operating nodes with lower than 32 ETH and decentralizing Ethereum additional.
- Regen Hub: A hub targeted on regenerative tasks and sustainability inside Ethereum, discussing native empowerment and world initiatives.
- Sustaining Open-Source Development 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.
- Women in Web3 World (W3): An inclusive area for ladies and allies to community, be taught, and focus on range and inclusion in Ethereum by means of workshops and fireplace chats.
Hacker Cave
Searching for 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 can have you in the proper mindset to hack on new concepts.
Music & Artwork Area
Take pleasure in reside music, visuals, and workshops in an immersive artwork area. Take part in jam periods, sound therapeutic, or just benefit from the ambiance. The Music area is an initiative by the Open-Source Orchestra who wrote this DIP.
Are you an Ethereum musician your self? Join the jam by filling out this open call.
Video games of Seize and Escape
Be a part of a reside escape recreation that mixes cryptography, exploration, and puzzle-solving. Work together with NPCs and unlock secret components of the venue whereas progressing by means of more and more difficult chapters. Delivered to you by Daedalus Industries by way of this DIP.
Coworking Space, Assembly Rooms & Decompression Room
For individuals who shall be searching for a quiet spot for some deep work at Devcon, there shall be a devoted space with Wi-Fi on web site for quiet coworking.
You’ll additionally be capable of reserve assembly rooms, giant and small, to carry in-person conferences together with your normally distant workforce, have essential one-on-one conversations, or different non-public discussions.
Devcon may even function a decompression room, the proper area to calm down, 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 shall be fewer individuals in fits 😄
Get your Devcon ticket
The next ticket wave is OPEN NOW (Tuesday, 1st October) until it’s sold out, and reductions for Ethereum and open-source builders, lecturers, SEA locals, and youth are all the time out there. Apply for these discounted tickets here.
The entire programming schedule shall be printed quickly, and we already bought and distributed nearly 8,000 tickets. This shall be a Devcon you don’t need to miss, and we’re excited so that you can be part of it.
We’d see a few of you even earlier – a couple of month earlier than Devcon at one of many pop-up cities in Chiang Mai or at different events on the Road to Devcon. Then we’ll all journey collectively to Bangkok for Devcon, November 12–15, at QSNCC.
Keep impressed, and preserve constructing.
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Devcon workforce
