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Event Date | Thu May 3 EDT - Sat May 5 EDT (over 6 years ago) |
Location |
Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University
55 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5G 2C3, Canada |
Region | Americas |
The EDCON (Community Ethereum Development Conference) is the nonprofit global conference organized by LinkTime, a company that is part of the Ethereum community in China. The purpose of the conference is to improve communication and integration between the various global Ethereum communities. EDCON is organized as a conference series, and happens once a year in different countries. It is not associated with the Ethereum Foundation which is a Swiss nonprofit.
The conference will cover the latest in Ethereum Blockchain technology and research (PoS / Casper, scalability, cryptography / privacy, security, etc), current trends as well as Ethereum and blockchain based projects and applications and community building and development. There will also be a superdemo as part of the event.
2018 Speakers
Vitalik Buterin
Founder, Ethereum; Ethereum Core Researcher
Gavin Wood
Founder, Parity&Polkadot; Co-founder, Ethereum
Mihai Alisie
Founder, AKASHA; Co-founder, Ethereum
Joseph Lubin
Founder, ConsenSys; Co-Founder, Ethereum
Karl Floersch
Core Researcher, Ethereum
Jon Choi
Core Researcher, Ethereum
Joseph Poon
Founder, Lightning and Plasma
Jun Hasegawa
Founder, Omise
Loi Luu
Founder, SmartPool & KyberNetwork
William Mougayar
Investor, Board Member; Author of The Business Blockchain
Jehan Chu
Managing Partner, Kenetic Capital
Jae Kwon
Founder, Tendermint & Cosmos
Thomas Greco
Special Advisor, Omise
Matthew Spoke
CEO, Nuco; Founder, Aion Network
Kai Chen
Founder & CEO, Olympus Labs
Andy Milenius
CTO, MakerDAO
Griff Green
Founder, Giveth & WHG
Nick Dodson
Founder, GovernX; Senior Developer, ConsenSys
Angel Versetti
CEO, Ambrosus
Trevor Koverko
CEO & Co-founder, Polymath
Arthur Gervais
CEO, Liquidity.Network; Assistant Professor, Imperial College London
Stefan George
CTO, Gnosis
Han Verstraete
Founder, otonomos.com, Ethizen1, Ethscape.org
Gustav Friis
Project lead, trustlines.network
Bob Summerwill
Community Ambassador, Sweetbridge
Iuri Matias
Lead Developer, Embark Framework
Ron Bernstein
Founder & CEO, Paradex
Luis Cuende
Project Lead, Aragon
Lefteris Karapetsas
Core Developer, Raiden
Jon Maurelian
Contract Security Auditor, ConsenSys Diligence
2018 Sponsors
PARTNERS:
• Ryerson University
SPECIAL:
• Ethereum Foundation
• Ethereum Community Fund
SUPER:
• Aion
• OmiseGO
• Status Research & Development GmbH
SUPERDEMO:
• Blockgeeks
PARTY:
• Olympus Labs
GOLD:
• Kyber Network
• Changelly.com
• RCN Global Lending
SILVER:
• AKASHA International GmbH
• BookLocal
• Indorse Pte. Ltd.
• Ambrosus
• Aragon
COMMUNITY:
• F2Pool
COMMUNITY SUPPORTS:
• Ethfans.org
• Ethereum Hong Kong
• Taipei Ethereum Meetup
• Ethereum Singapore
• Seoul Ethereum Meetup
MEDIA SUPPORTS:
• Unitimes