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 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 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 principle Devcon schedule, as we is not going to be itemizing occasions that happen throughout Devcon days to maintain Devcon the principle schelling level.
Audio system
This yr, Devcon obtained 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 Mission): Sharing classes realized from the Tor neighborhood, privacy-by-design, and the cypherpunk ethos.
- Bruno Maçães (thinker, journalist, politician, and writer): Analyzing how expertise is remodeling geopolitics, the place states and nice powers compete to create and management new international methods.
- Hart Montgomery (CTO of the Linux Basis): Providing insights into open-source challenge 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.
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 numerous 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 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 curious about autonomous worlds, onchain video games, and different complicated Ethereum purposes.
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Creating on Ethereum: BuidlGuidl will supply hands-on classes for each newbie and superior builders to construct decentralized purposes and write sensible contracts. You’ll develop sensible expertise, 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 good web.
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Formal Verification Hangout: Casual discussions on the safety and reliability of sensible contracts and software program methods, permitting researchers and builders to attach.
In the event you’re seeking to set up 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.
Neighborhood 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 Neighborhood Hubs:
- Account Abstraction Hub: Targeted on enhancing person 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.
- Neighborhood 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 tasks 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 affect.
- Grants & Impression Hub: A hub for grant applications, researchers, and builders centered 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 tackle privateness, censorship, and human rights, with hands-on discussions and workshops.
- House Operators Hub: A assist house for house node operators and validators and those that need to turn into one, providing one-on-one troubleshooting and workshops on working nodes with lower than 32 ETH and decentralizing Ethereum additional.
- Regen Hub: A hub centered on regenerative tasks and sustainability inside Ethereum, discussing native empowerment and international initiatives.
- Sustaining Open-Supply Growth 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.
- Ladies in Web3 World (W3): An inclusive house for ladies and allies to community, be taught, and talk about range and inclusion in Ethereum via workshops and fireplace chats.
Hacker Cave
In search of a devoted house to check new tech and construct? The Hacker Cave is supplied with cozy seating, neon cyberpunk lighting, and plush hanging crops. This house may have you in the proper mindset to hack on new concepts.
Music & Artwork Area
Get pleasure from stay music, visuals, and workshops in an immersive artwork house. Take part in jam classes, sound therapeutic, or just benefit from the environment. The Music house is an initiative by the Open-Supply Orchestra who wrote this DIP.
Are you an Ethereum musician your self? Be part of the jam by filling out this open name.
Video games of Seize and Escape
Be part of a stay escape recreation that mixes cryptography, exploration, and puzzle-solving. Work together with NPCs and unlock secret elements of the venue whereas progressing via 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 will likely be on the lookout for a quiet spot for some deep work at Devcon, there will likely be a devoted space with Wi-Fi on website for quiet coworking.
You’ll additionally be capable to reserve assembly rooms, giant and small, to carry in-person conferences together with your often distant crew, have essential one-on-one conversations, or different non-public discussions.
Devcon can even characteristic a decompression room, the proper house 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 will likely be fewer individuals 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, lecturers, SEA locals, and youth are at all times accessible. Apply for these discounted tickets right here.
The whole programming schedule will likely be revealed quickly, and we already offered and distributed virtually 8,000 tickets. This will likely 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 occasions on the Highway 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
