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 route, 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 completely different from Devconnectthe 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 won’t be itemizing occasions that happen throughout Devcon days to maintain Devcon the principle schelling level.
Audio system
This yr, Devcon acquired almost 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 progress and the Infinite Backyard.
- Roger Dingledine (Co-founder of The Tor Venture): 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 reworking 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 undertaking buildings and neighborhood constructing.
- Gubsheep (Co-founder of 0xPARC): Exploring programmable cryptography and its impression on dApps and the creation of solely 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 Weiss 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 0xPARCand Latticefor these considering autonomous worlds, onchain video games, and different complicated Ethereum purposes.
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Creating on Ethereum: BuidlGuidl will provide 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 corresponding to zero-knowledge proofs, multi-party computation, and absolutely 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.
When you’re trying to arrange 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 below are the featured Neighborhood Hubs:
- Account Abstraction Hub: Targeted on bettering person onboarding whereas staying true to decentralization. Focus on find out 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 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.
- Neighborhood Gardeners Hub: A gathering place for neighborhood builders to attach, share international Ethereum initiatives, and discover methods for efficient neighborhood 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 deal with Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Have interaction in cross-cultural discussions on blockchain’s real-world impression.
- Grants & Influence Hub: A hub for grant packages, researchers, and builders centered 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 handle privateness, censorship, and human rights, with hands-on discussions and workshops.
- House Operators Hub: A help area for house node operators and validators and people who wish to change into one, providing one-on-one troubleshooting and workshops on operating nodes with lower than 32 ETH and decentralizing Ethereum additional.
- Rain 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 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 area for girls and allies to community, study, and focus on range and inclusion in Ethereum by workshops and hearth chats.
Hacker Cave
Searching for a devoted area to check new tech and construct? The Hacker Cave is supplied with cozy seating, neon cyberpunk lighting, and luxurious hanging vegetation. This area can have you in the suitable mindset to hack on new concepts.
Music & Artwork Area
Get pleasure from stay 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-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 stay escape sport that mixes cryptography, exploration, and puzzle-solving. Work together with NPCs and unlock secret elements of the venue whereas progressing by 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 searching for a quiet spot for some deep work at Devcon, there will likely be a devoted space with Wi-Fi on web site for quiet coworking.
You’ll additionally have the ability to reserve assembly rooms, massive and small, to carry in-person conferences along with your normally distant workforce, have vital one-on-one conversations, or different personal discussions.
Devcon can even characteristic 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 fret, there will likely be fewer individuals in fits 😄
Get your Devcon ticket
The following ticket wave is OPEN NOW (Tuesday, 1st October) till it is offered outand reductions for Ethereum and open-source builders, teachers, SEA locals, and youth are at all times obtainable. 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 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 couple of 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 preserve constructing.
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