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 path, 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 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 instructional 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 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 matters on the intersection of expertise 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 Challenge): Sharing classes discovered from the Tor group, privacy-by-design, and the cypherpunk ethos.
- Bruno Maçães (thinker, journalist, politician, and writer): Inspecting how expertise is remodeling 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 buildings and group constructing.
- Gubsheep (Co-founder of 0xPARC): Exploring programmable cryptography and its affect on dApps and the creation of completely 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 numerous fields. Some key classes are:
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 concentrate on decentralization and defensive applied sciences to create a resilient future.
MUD: Autonomous Worlds & Onchain Video games: Organized by 0xPARC, and Lattice, for these excited by autonomous worlds, onchain video games, and different advanced Ethereum purposes.
Creating on Ethereum: BuidlGuidl will supply hands-on classes for each newbie and superior builders to construct decentralized purposes and write good contracts. You’ll develop sensible abilities, obtain mentorship, and community with different builders.
Programmable Cryptography: 0xPARC and others will showcase how second-generation cryptographic primitives comparable to zero-knowledge proofs, multi-party computation, and totally homomorphic encryption lay the inspiration for a extra excellent web.
Formal Verification Hangout: Casual discussions on the safety and reliability of good contracts and software program programs, permitting researchers and builders to attach.
When you’re trying 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.
Neighborhood Hubs are areas, organized by the group, for deep dives into particular Ethereum-related matters and to satisfy individuals working in particular Ethereum-related fields. Listed below are the featured Neighborhood Hubs:
- Account Abstraction Hub: Targeted on bettering 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 concentrate on bettering UX and belief.
- Collective Intelligence Governance Hub: Specialists 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 group builders to attach, share world 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 tasks and fostering cross-collaboration.
- GM Hub: Highlights web3 improvements from underrepresented areas, with a concentrate on 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 deal with privateness, censorship, and human rights, with hands-on discussions and workshops.
- Home Operators Hub: A help house for residence 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 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 house for girls and allies to community, be taught, and focus on range and inclusion in Ethereum by way of workshops and fireplace chats.
Hacker Cave
In search of a devoted house to check new tech and construct? The Hacker Cave is provided with cozy seating, neon cyberpunk lighting, and plush hanging vegetation. This house can have you in the correct mindset to hack on new concepts.
Music & Artwork Area
Take pleasure in reside 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-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 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 might be searching for a quiet spot for some deep work at Devcon, there might be a devoted space with Wi-Fi on website for quiet coworking.
You’ll additionally be capable of reserve assembly rooms, massive and small, to carry in-person conferences along with your often distant staff, have necessary one-on-one conversations, or different personal discussions.
Devcon may also characteristic 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 fret, there might 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, teachers, SEA locals, and youth are all the time accessible. Apply for these discounted tickets here.
The entire programming schedule might be printed quickly, and we already bought and distributed nearly 8,000 tickets. This might be a Devcon you don’t need to miss, and we’re excited so that you can be part of it.
We would 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 staff
