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 information, align on Ethereum’s future course, 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 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 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 obtained practically 3,000 speaker purposes, doubling the quantity from Devcon VI.
Some highlighted audio system embody:
- Vitalik Buterin (Co-founder of Ethereum): Exploring essentially the most related subjects on the intersection of expertise and society.
- Aya Miyaguchi (Govt 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 discovered from the Tor group, 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 methods.
- Hart Montgomery (CTO of the Linux Basis): Providing insights into open-source mission buildings and group 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 specialists 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 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 fascinated by autonomous worlds, onchain video games, and different advanced Ethereum purposes.
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Growing on Ethereum: BuidlGuidl will provide hands-on classes for each newbie and superior builders to construct decentralized purposes and write good 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 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 good contracts and software program methods, permitting researchers and builders to attach.
If you happen to’re trying 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 group, 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: Centered on bettering consumer onboarding whereas staying true to decentralization. Talk about the best way 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: Consultants from main DAOs focus on 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 group builders to attach, share international 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 initiatives and fostering cross-collaboration.
- GM Hub: Highlights web3 improvements from underrepresented areas, with a deal with Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Interact in cross-cultural discussions on blockchain’s real-world affect.
- Grants & Influence Hub: A hub for grant packages, researchers, and builders centered on sustainable Ethereum initiatives, 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.
- Dwelling Operators Hub: A help house for house node operators and validators and those that 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 centered on regenerative initiatives 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 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.
- Girls in Web3 World (W3): An inclusive house for ladies and allies to community, study, and focus on variety and inclusion in Ethereum by means of workshops and hearth 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 vegetation. This house could have you in the precise mindset to hack on new concepts.
Music & Artwork House
Get pleasure from dwell music, visuals, and workshops in an immersive artwork house. Take part in jam classes, sound therapeutic, or just benefit from the ambiance. The Music house 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 dwell escape sport 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. Dropped at you by Daedalus Industries through this DIP.
Coworking Space, Assembly Rooms & Decompression Room
For many who can be searching for a quiet spot for some deep work at Devcon, there can be a devoted space with Wi-Fi on web site for quiet coworking.
You’ll additionally be capable to reserve assembly rooms, giant and small, to carry in-person conferences along with your often distant crew, have essential one-on-one conversations, or different personal discussions.
Devcon may even function a decompression room, the right house 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 be concerned, there can be fewer individuals in fits 😄
Get your Devcon ticket
The following ticket wave is OPEN NOW (Tuesday, 1st October) till it is bought out, and reductions for Ethereum and open-source builders, teachers, SEA locals, and youth are all the time accessible. Apply for these discounted tickets right here.
The entire programming schedule can be printed quickly, and we already bought and distributed nearly 8,000 tickets. This can be a Devcon you don’t wish to miss, and we’re excited so that you can be part of it.
We’d 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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Devcon crew