Berlin Blockchain Week 2019 is set to be another great year of events! Aside from the main events (Web3, DappCon, EthBerlin Hackathon), there are many great side events taking place. I’ve summarized my recommendations below!
A few things to note:
- I indicate the key interests each event may cater to
- Look out for “💥W” for events with women speakers!
- 🎉 for my top 5
- Some of the events claim to be sold out — but I encourage you to reach out to the organizers if you are *really* interested! With so many great events there are sure to be many no-shows as well…
- I separate the information-focused “key events” from the “fun events” 😜
MONDAY, 19 August
KEY EVENTS:
🎉👉18:00–21:00 Interoperability Summit: Fabric Ventures & Keep 💥W
“Bridging the decentralized ecosystem”
➣ Interests: Cross-blockchain communication & fiat on-ramps
➣ Projects: Keep Network, Cosmos, Polkadot, Ramp Network, MakerDAO, Messari
👉18:00–21:00 Enabling Next-Generation Finance w/ Blockchain
“A primer on open finance applications for real-world usage”
➣ Interests: How to finance digital assets
➣ Projects: Aave, MakerDAO, Bitwala
👉19:00–21:30 Rust for Decentralized Technology
“Meet the people behind the frameworks and ask questions”
➣ Interests: Rust!
➣ Projects: Parity, Fluence, Nervos
DRINKS!:
👉21:00–2:30 Orchid’s Bandwidth Without Borders Event 💥W
Tuesday, 20 August
KEY EVENTS:
👉18:30–21:00 The Blockchain Developers Summit
“Gathering of blockchain developers to talk about tools and concepts”
➣ Interests: Developer tools
➣ Projects: Zeppelin, Etherlime, Pillar
👉14:00–18:00 Daofest 💥W
“Learn about Decentralized Autonomous Organizations”
➣ Interests: How to launch, interact with, and understand DAOs
➣ Projects: DAOstack, Blockscience, dOrg, Consensys, Gnosis, 3Box
🎉👉18:00–20:30 Web3 Usability: How it will be Better than Web2 💥W
“Web3 tools for better user and developer experiences”
➣ Interests: General overview of Web3 & its value proposition
➣ Projects: 3Box, OScoin, Enigma, WalletConnect, Parity
👉18:30–23:00 Evolution of DeFi from International Perspectives
“DeFi Business models and infrastructure”
➣ Interests: How blockchain will change business models in the finance industry
➣ VC Panel: Pantera, Fabric Ventures, Multicoin, Kintaro
FUN!:
👉7:00–8:30 Morning Yoga + Coffee with Celo / Jivamukti Yoga Kreuzberg
WEDNESDAY, 21 August
KEY EVENTS:
👉18:00–21:00 CodeDao: The Future of OS in the Blockchain Era 💥W
“What does the future of decentralized OSS development look like?”
➣ Interests: Open Source Software
➣ Projects: Gitcoin, Ditcraft, codeDAO, Samsung Next, innogy
👉18:00–21:00 Exploring blockchain to fund scientific research
“Funding research and science: How might blockchain technology and the token economy create better incentives?”
➣ Interests: Blockchain use cases — funding scientific research
➣ Projects: Molecule, Humboldt University “Blockchain for Science”
👉18:00–22:00 The Governance Games 💥W
“The challenges of decentralized governance and how it can be gamed”
➣ Interests: Governance!
➣ Projects: Aragon, Summa, Ethfinex, DAOstack, Autark, ZKPodcast
👉19:00–21:30 Bridging decentralized & centralized ecosystems 💥W
“Bridging decentralized and centralized ecosystems”
➣ Interests: How decentralized technology interacts with existing financial solutions
➣ Projects: Centrifuge, Solaris Bank, r3, INATBA
👉19:00–21:30 WASM on the blockchain
“Explore Wasm technology implementations”
➣ Interests: WebAssembly!
➣ Projects: Oasis, Parity, Fluence
FUN!
👉15:30–17:45 Boat ride to centre: Web3 Collab
👉19:30–01:30 EthBerlin Opening Party
👉20:00–22:00 DAI Dappy Hour — BEERlin Edition
THURSDAY, 22 August
KEY EVENTS:
👉12:30–16:30 Building the New Data Economy / Ocean Protocol
“Creating a world in which stakeholders have ownership and control over their own data.”
➣ Interests: Data ownership
➣ Projects: Ocean Protocol
🎉👉17:00–21:00 The Misfit Economy: Conversations on Defi 💥W
“What types of financial innovation are needed to address concrete, real-world problems?”
➣ Interests: How can Decentralized Finance solve real problems today?
➣ Projects: Centrifuge, MakerDAO, Aave, Agrikaab, Open Money Initiative, Molecule
👉18:00–22:00 #blockchainhackers vol.3 💥W
“Gathering the world’s best blockchain security experts to share knowledge”
➣ Interests: Blockchain security
➣Projects: Hacken, ChainSecurity, SmartDec, Consensys, LeastAuthority
FUN!:
👉19:00–21:00 Panvala Launch Party
Friday 23 August
KEY EVENTS:
👉9:00–18:00 Decentralized Storage Summit
*30 speakers, 2 women..💥W?
“Presentations and panels on topics such as file storage, databases, adoption and more”
➣ Interests: Data storage
➣ Projects: Sia, Swarm, The Graph, BigchainDB, Bison Trails, Piñata, ENS
🎉👉9:00–18:00 Token Engineering Global Gathering 2019 💥W
“The latest research, application, and initiatives in token engineering”
➣ Interests: Cryptoeconomic Systems
➣ Projects: Centrifuge, BlockScience, WU Vienna, Brave, Ocean, Commons Stack, Consensys
🎉👉18:00–20:30 Mediations on Free and Open Source Sustainability 💥W
“Discussion on the complex relationship between FOSS and money, differing definitions of sustainability, and the future of FOSS in web3”
➣ Interests: Open Source Software Sustainability
➣ Projects: OScoin, Gitcoin, SourceCred
FUN!:
👉7:00–8:30 Morning Yoga with Celo / Jivamukti Yoga Berlin-Kreuzberg
