Why we come collectively
Each two years, the Ethereum group 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, group leaders, and changemakers step out of their silos and collect in a single place to share data, align on Ethereum’s future path, 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 massive occasion happening in a single venue for 4 days in Bangkok, Thailand from November 12-15 2024. Devcon is totally 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 12 months, Devcon acquired practically 3,000 speaker functions, doubling the quantity from Devcon VI.
Some highlighted audio system embrace:
- Vitalik Buterin (Co-founder of Ethereum): Exploring probably the most related matters on the intersection of know-how and society.
- Aya Miyaguchi (Government 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 realized from the Tor group, privacy-by-design, and the cypherpunk ethos.
- Bruno Maçães (thinker, journalist, politician, and writer): Analyzing how know-how is reworking 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 constructions and group constructing.
- Gubsheep (Co-founder of 0xPARC): Exploring programmable cryptography and its impression on dApps and the creation of totally new digital worlds.
These mini-events inside Devcon foster interdisciplinary discussions on matters that matter each to Ethereum and society by bringing collectively specialists 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) vision and the way we should 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 serious about autonomous worlds, onchain video games, and different advanced Ethereum functions.
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Growing on Ethereum: BuidlGuidl will provide hands-on classes for each newbie and superior builders to construct decentralized functions 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 reminiscent of zero-knowledge proofs, multi-party computation, and absolutely 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 manage and lead discussions at Devcon, the Dialogue Corners are excellent for diving into matters round Ethereum. Reservations for time in Dialogue Corners will open to everybody shortly earlier than Devcon.
Group Hubs are areas, organized by the group, for deep dives into particular Ethereum-related matters and to fulfill individuals working in particular Ethereum-related fields. Listed here are the featured Group Hubs:
- Account Abstraction Hub: Targeted on enhancing consumer onboarding whereas staying true to decentralization. Focus on how one can 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 enhancing 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.
- Community Gardeners Hub: A gathering place for group builders to attach, share international Ethereum initiatives, and discover methods for efficient group 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 initiatives and fostering cross-collaboration.
- GM Hub: Highlights web3 improvements from underrepresented areas, with a give attention to Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Have interaction in cross-cultural discussions on blockchain’s real-world impression.
- Grants & Impact Hub: A hub for grant applications, researchers, and builders targeted 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.
- Home Operators Hub: A help area for house node operators and validators and people who need to grow to be one, providing one-on-one troubleshooting and workshops on working nodes with lower than 32 ETH and decentralizing Ethereum additional.
- Regen Hub: A hub targeted on regenerative initiatives and sustainability inside Ethereum, discussing native empowerment and international 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, study, and talk about range and inclusion in Ethereum by way of workshops and hearth chats.
Hacker Cave
On the lookout for a devoted area to check new tech and construct? The Hacker Cave is supplied with cozy seating, neon cyberpunk lighting, and plush hanging crops. This area can have you in the suitable mindset to hack on new concepts.
Music & Artwork Area
Take pleasure in dwell music, visuals, and workshops in an immersive artwork area. Take part in jam classes, 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 part of a dwell escape recreation that mixes cryptography, exploration, and puzzle-solving. Work together with NPCs and unlock secret elements of the venue whereas progressing by way of more and more difficult chapters. Delivered to you by Daedalus Industries through this DIP.
Coworking Space, Assembly Rooms & Decompression Room
For individuals who can be in search of a quiet spot for some deep work at Devcon, there can be a devoted space with Wi-Fi on website for quiet coworking.
You’ll additionally be capable of reserve assembly rooms, giant and small, to carry in-person conferences along with your often distant crew, have necessary one-on-one conversations, or different non-public discussions.
Devcon may even function a decompression room, the right area to loosen up, 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 can 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 at all times out there. Apply for these discounted tickets here.
The whole programming schedule can be printed quickly, and we already bought and distributed nearly 8,000 tickets. This can 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 maintain constructing.
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Devcon crew
