Lightning Talks: New Discoveries Session 6
August 2nd, 2:00pm-3:15pm
Decentralized Web Summit 2018
Hyper Room
Wonder what's bubbling up in Tokyo or Helsinki? What the Budapest bootstrapper has been working on under the radar? The latest decentralized concept with only a white paper...so far? Then this track is for you. We'll turn the stage over to those with up-and-coming ideas to demo their code and DWeb concepts for you in 4 minute bursts.
MODERATORS:
John Light, Aragon, Community Lead
Line Up:
Eva is fascinated with human behavior and how it impacts economic activity and incentive systems. She supports strategy development and research at OmiseGO, to build accessible financial infrastructure based on the Ethereum blockchain, while ensuring that all necessary components exist to on-ramp diverse, global users into web3.
Videos from the summit:
Chris Gebhardt is a software researcher with diverse tech background and specialization in distributed systems and databases. In the last couple years, he's been working on formalizing a comprehensive architecture for decentralized information systems and dynamic software environments to make best use of them. He is especially passionate about how decentralized technologies can make the internet more civil, collaborative, and community-oriented.
Videos from the summit:
Gordon is a veteran developer of internet and peer-to-peer
systems, the originator of the 'magnet' link, and was the founding
technical lead for open-source work at the Internet Archive that's used
by libraries worldwide to archive the web. He'd like technology to make
deception and distraction costly, rather than profitable.
Videos from the summit:
Charles builds and maintains applications on Secure Scuttlebutt, with a focus on integrating external systems and protocols into the platform; current projects include git-ssb, ssb-npm-registry, and patchfoo.