Cryptoeconomics and Security Conference 2017 | Blockchain at Berkeley | 9 October 2017 | Berkeley, CA, 2475 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

What is Cryptoeconomics?
Cryptoeconomics is a formal discipline that focuses on the design and characterization of protocols that govern the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services in a decentralized digital economy.

We think the blockchain space needs more academic presence.

The Vision

Public, permissionless blockchains are dependent for their security and reliability on their economic incentives and mechanism design. Some private, permissioned ones may be as well.

This conference will explore the economic security aspects of blockchains protocols, including game theory, incentive design, mechanism design and market design along with other topics related to crypto-economics security, and to foster collaborations among researchers and practitioners working on these topics.

2017 SPEAKERS

Alessandro Chiesa
Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley

Andrew Miller
Advisor, Zcash - Associate Director, IC3 at Cornell University

Balaji Srinivasan
CEO, 21 Inc - Board Partner at a16z

Jae Kwon
Founder and CEO, Tendermint/Cosmos

Joseph Poon
Principle Author, OmiseGo

Vlad Zamfir
Research Lead, Ethereum

Shahan Khatchadourian
Blockchain Research and Development, Consensys

Silvio Micali
Professor, MIT

Shahan Khatchadourian
Blockchain Research and Development, Consensys

Silvio Micali
Professor, MIT

Jason Teutsch
Founder, TrueBit

Neil Gandal
Professor of Economics, Tel Aviv University

Jordan Earls
Co-Founder, Qtum

Dmitry Meshkov
Founder of ERGO Platform, researcher at IOHK

Patrick McCorry
Research Associate, University College London

Sinclair Davidson
Professor of Institutional Economics, RMIT University

Benedikt Bünz
PhD, Computer Security, Stanford

Ratul Saha
PhD Student, NUS Singapore

Ren Zhang
COSIC Research Group, KU Leuven, Belgium

Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias
PhD Research Scholar, EPFL

Philipp Jovanovic
Post-doctoral Researcher

Steven Goldfeder
PhD student, Princeton University

Tal Moran
Faculty Member, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya

Shin'ichiro Matsuo
Research Professor at Keio University

Georgios Piliouras
Assistant Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Angela Walch
Research Fellow, Centre for Blockchain Technologies at University College London

Dawn Song
EECS Professor, UC Berkeley

Joshua L. Boehm
Associate Attorney, Perkins Cole LLP

Vic Arulchandran
Operations and Legal, Nivaura

Ryan Zurrer
Venture Partner, Polychain Capital

Rosario Gennaro
Research Director at CCNY

Leemon Baird
CTO, Swirlds Inc.