Best Events of 2020 — iExec Year Review #1
As we near the end of the year, we’re taking time to look back on 2020. Despite the hindrances of this year, nothing has stopped iExec from building new tech features and spreading the word on decentralization — Crypto never sleeps! iExec is proud to have presented at over 30 events this year, let’s have a look back for the first in the iExec year review series.
January
Starting off year, little did we know that we would be enjoying the last of the freedom to fully travel and be physically present at blockchain events — nevertheless, January started off strong at the Paris P2P festival, CEO Gilles presented at the famous and Web3 oriented event Paris P 2P (peer-to-peer) conference.
We then moved off to Developer Week 2020 where JC evangelized iExec technology, in his keynote titled “The Convergence of Blockchain and Trusted Computing in the development of AI”.
February
In February, iExec had a big presence at an event that is a huge event among the Ethereum developer’s calendar: EthDenver hackathon and conference. iExec hosted having 5 bounties, had a mainstage keynote as well as participating in 2 other panel discussions.
During the same week in Denver, iExec also co-hosted the Distributed Network Summit with the IPFS team.
After Denver, it was off to the big apple — iExec was invited to talk at the NFT NYC conference, the biggest event focused on Non-Fungible Tokens. Research engineer Hadrien Croubois took to the stage to participate in a panel discussion on the varying uses of NFT, and teasing iExec’s plans to make cloud computing resources available as NFT assets, which were eventually implemented later in the year with iExec V5.
Another significant event in the month of February was the private face-to-face event of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance at the where iExec joined crypto members Consensys, Web3Labs and enterprise members including Microsoft, JP Morgan, Santander and others to discuss tech specifications and ETH mainnet. As the head of the trusted computing taskforce, iExec lead the discussions on this particular topic.
March
In March, we saw the return of one of the most important gatherings for the Ethereum community and certainly the biggest physical event in 2020, ETHCC. Arriving in Paris, iExec started off the week by participating in the AKTA Web3 summit. Gilles then presented a mainstage keynote, while iExec asset manager presented with partners Kaiko, on their new trusted decentralized oracle pricefeed (using iExec confidential computing). iExec has a booth during the conference — check out the report to learn more about what developers at the conference were most interested in.
The iExec x Kaiko Secure Price-feed released during ETHCC:
April
The month where everything changed. Lockdown had landed, but nothing was going to stop iExec’s activity over the summer months.
In April iExec team hosted the first Q&A session of the year, streaming remotely from home, team members answered questions about the future roadmap, iExec V5, the RLC token, consortiums, and discussing iExec’s general plans for the immediate future and years to come!
Later on in the month, iExec’s lead smart contract engineer Hadrien Crubois presented with The Alliance of Decentralized Oracles (the ADO), giving a public demo of EIP-2362: a proposed standard interface for price feeds.
May
In May, iExec was excited to present at the ‘Intel Partner Connect’ private event. This event held for partners of Intel was intended to be a physical event but was eventually held virtually. Exciting news from the ‘Intel Partner Connect’ private conference. The notable news during this event was that when tech-giants clients using SGX solutions were presented, iExec was classified as ‘In-Production Leaders’. More info on the event can be found here.
June
iExec started off the month of June at the official meetup event for ADAN, the ‘Association for the Development of Digital Assets’. iExec is a founding member of the association that has the goal is to represent the digital asset ecosystem in front of public authorities and wider society.
During the same month, iExec CEO Gilles Fedak also presented for the French banking group Caisse D’Epargne for a private webinar, sharing expertise relating to cryptocurrency, the role of DeFi, and it changes how we think about traditional financial markets.
July
iExec presents at the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance conference on the topic of iExec V5 and “Interoperability and Privacy Tools for DeFi” in the same program as Microsoft, Consensys, Santander and JP Morgan.
August
In August, we took a virtual visit over to the Asian pacific side of the world, where Gilles presented DeFi: Challenges, ‘Off-Chain Computing, and Privacy’ at EDCON 2020 in Kore — the biggest Ethereum conference in Asia!
September
In September, it was time to participate in Chainlink’s Smart Contract Summit. Gilles joined the live panel titled ‘How DeFi Is Building A New Tech Stack’, talking about how the iExec stack can contribute to the emerging DeFi industry.
During the same month, JC presented at Blockchain Stampede: using iExec as the primary example in his talk ‘Blockchain: The essential layer for building hybrid IT infrastructures and creating new business models’.
October
In october, iExec released a new video today, marking the milestone of the completion of the 2016 whitepaper. iExec covers recent business developments and outlines how iExec will be moving forward, with the future roadmap being adoption-driven. iExec also hosted a special Q&A session for the occasion, covering topics such as the iExec Vision: beyond the whitepaper, the RLC token, Tech developments, the new Adoption Roadmap and OntoChain (iExec and EU funding innovating projects).
October also saw the announcement of iExec as a key partner of the OntoChain initiative, the EU program offering grants to innovators for building with the iExec tech stack. iExec participating in numerous webinars that can be found on the OntoChain YouTube channel.
Jean-Charles also presented at AI Dev World virtual conference in October, more details about that talk here.
November
To celebrate the listing of the RLC token on the Crypto.com platform, iExec asset manager Victor was invited for an AMA session which live-streamed on YouTube.
Later that month, iExec presented at a CyptoLyon meetup event, discussing the latest news from iExec & the general blockchain ecosystem in France.
It may have been a frustrating year for a lot of us, but iExec has made the most of it and are ready for an even stronger presence and releases in 2021.
Other installments in the iExec year review series!
Best emerging tech of 2020 — iExec Year Review #2
Best Collaborations of 2020 — iExec Year Review #3:
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