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 expertise 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 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 huge occasion happening 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 functions, doubling the quantity from Devcon VI.
Some highlighted audio system embrace:
- 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 Undertaking): Sharing classes realized from the Tor group, privacy-by-design, and the cypherpunk ethos.
- Bruno Maçães (thinker, journalist, politician, and writer): Analyzing how expertise 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 venture buildings and group constructing.
- Gubsheep (Co-founder of 0xPARC): Exploring programmable cryptography and its affect on dApps and the creation of solely new digital worlds.
These mini-events inside Devcon foster interdisciplinary discussions on subjects 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 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 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 resembling zero-knowledge proofs, multi-party computation, and totally homomorphic encryption lay the muse 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.
Should you’re trying 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.
Group Hubs are areas, organized by the group, for deep dives into particular Ethereum-related subjects and to fulfill folks working in particular Ethereum-related fields. Listed below are the featured Group Hubs:
- Account Abstraction Hub: Centered on enhancing person onboarding whereas staying true to decentralization. Talk about 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 deal with enhancing UX and belief.
- Collective Intelligence Governance Hub: Consultants 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 world Ethereum initiatives, and discover methods for efficient group 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 deal with Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Have interaction in cross-cultural discussions on blockchain’s real-world affect.
- Grants & Impact Hub: A hub for grant packages, 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 tackle privateness, censorship, and human rights, with hands-on discussions and workshops.
- Home Operators Hub: A help area for dwelling node operators and validators and people who wish to grow 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 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 throughout 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 talk about variety and inclusion in Ethereum by means of workshops and hearth chats.
Hacker Cave
In search of a devoted area to check new tech and construct? The Hacker Cave is supplied with cozy seating, neon cyberpunk lighting, and luxurious hanging crops. This area can have you in the fitting mindset to hack on new concepts.
Music & Artwork House
Take pleasure in reside 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 reside escape recreation that mixes cryptography, exploration, and puzzle-solving. Work together with NPCs and unlock secret elements of the venue whereas progressing by means of more and more difficult chapters. Delivered to you by Daedalus Industries through 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, massive and small, to carry in-person conferences along with your often distant staff, have essential one-on-one conversations, or different personal discussions.
Devcon can even characteristic a decompression room, the right area to chill out, unwind, and let your thoughts roam. Outfitted with hammocks, beds, and therapeutic massage remedy, it’s designed that will help you recharge and keep refreshed all through the occasion.
Don’t fret, there will likely be fewer folks 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, teachers, SEA locals, and youth are at all times accessible. Apply for these discounted tickets here.
The entire programming schedule will likely be revealed quickly, and we already offered and distributed nearly 8,000 tickets. This will likely be a Devcon you don’t wish 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 events on the Road 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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Devcon staff
