First Annual DeFi Security Summit 2022 | Defi Security | 27 August 2022 | Paul & Mildred Berg Hall Conference Center, 291 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

DeFi is an emerging suite of applications for decentralized asset management over blockchain technology. DeFi is becoming a major economic vehicle in modern society. The Ethereum blockchain alone already manages more than 235 billion USD worth of assets. One of the basic principles behind DeFis is that the code is law and computer programs called smart contracts that run on the blockchain dictate the conditions and the effects for asset transactions. This groundbreaking idea has many desirable benefits that originate from trust-minimizing and immutable aspects of decentralized public blockchains. However, vulnerabilities in smart contracts and in their applications may be exploited to steal or deny access to assets managed by them. Mitigation and prevention of such damages are challenging and require new software development and security design methodologies. Hundreds of millions in USD value have already been lost due to vulnerabilities in smart contracts. Therefore, smart contract security is a significant concern for DeFi applications.

2022 Speakers

Mitchell Amador
CEO, Immunefi

Kurt Barry
Smart Contracts Expert, MakerDao

Emiliano Bonassi
Co-founder, DeFi Italy

Boring Crypto

Julien Bouteloup
Founder of Rekt, Blackpool & Stake DAO. Curve Team Member

Tarun Chitra
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Gauntlet

Nurit Dor,
Vice President Product, Certora

Jared Flatow
Vice President of Engineering, Compound Labs

Emilio Frangella
Head of Smart Contracts, Aave

Dan Guido
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Trail of Bits

Mudit Gupta
Security Researcher, Delta Blockchain Fund

Hugh Karp
Founder of Nexus Mutual

Dmitry Khovratovich
Researcher at Ethereum Foundation Principal Cryptographer, Dusk Network Founder of ABDK Consulting

Michael Lewellen
Security Project Manager, OpenZeppelin

Richard Ma
Chief Executive Officer, Quantstamp, Inc.

John Mardlin
Security Engineer, Optimism

Sam S
Research Partner, Paradigm and white-hat hacker

Goncalo Sa
CoFounder and Security Researcher Consensys Diligence

Mehdi Zerouali
Co-founder and Director of Sigma Prime

Ryan Zarick, Co-Founder and CTO of LayerZero

Nicolás Venturo
Head of Smart Contracts at Balancer Labs

Tina Qian,
Blockchain Security Engineer, Coinbase

Richard Chen
General Partner at 1confirmation

Jonathan Alexande
CTr,O, Openzeppelin

Michael George,
Director of Product, Certora

Joran Honi
Security Researcher & Product Lead, ConsenSys Diligence

Georgios Konstantopoulous
CTO, Paradigm

Everett Hildenbrandt,
CTO, Runtime Verification

Kostas Ferles
Principal Scientist, Veridise

Arjun Bhuptani
Founder, Connext

Nick Selby
VP, Software Assurance Practice, Trail of Bits

Filipe Casal,
Cryptography Analyst, Trail of Bits

Neville Grech
Security Engineer and Founder, Dedaub

Jesse Tasman
Head of product, Redefine

2022 Sponsors

• Certora
• Trail of Bits
• Electric Capital
• Immunefi
• Jump
• OpenZeppelin
• Lemniscap
• Sherlock