BUIDL Seoul 2018 is a technical, academic forum in which developers and academics exchange their ideas and present on working protocols, products, and academic research on blockchain technology. BUIDL Seoul 2018 is an initial effort in Korea to bring together diverse communities and projects that are actively building in the space.
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8:00 – | Registration Starts |
9:00 – 9:20 | Introductory Remarks from Erica Kang, Founder of KryptoSeoul, Organizer of BUIDL Seoul 2018 |
9:20 – 9:50 | Keynote Speech: Reimagining Next Gen IoT with Blockchains Gurvinder Ahluwalia, Founder & CEO at Digital Twin Labs, Co-founder & COO at Beyond Protocol |
9:50 – 10:20 | Keynote Speech: Inverting Bureaucracy with Blockchains Jameson Lopp, CTO of CASA |
10:20 – 10:50 | Coffee Break |
10:50 – 11:20 | Keynote Speech: Rearchitecting the Blockchain Ecosystem Jae Kwon, CEO & Co-founder of Tendermint, Co-BUIDLer of Cosmos |
11:20 – 12:10 | Panel: Blockchain Tech, Today vs Tomorrow Panelists: Moderator: |
12:10 – 13:10 | Lunch |
13:10 – 13:30 | From Bitcoin to the Internet of Value Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar, CEO & Co-founder of RSK |
13:30 – 13:50 | Building a Better Blockchain: The Future of Scalability and Smart Contract Languages Will Martino, Founder & CEO of Kadena |
13:50 – 14:10 | Implications of Interoperability Robert Habermeier, Co-founder of Polkadot |
14:10 – 14:30 | Secret Contracts: Privacy and Scalability for the Decentralized Web Guy Zyskind, Founder & CEO of Enigma |
14:30 – 14:50 | NuCypher: The Privacy Layer of the Decentralized Web MacLane Wilkison, CEO of NuCypher |
14:50 – 15:40 | Panel: Solving the Trilemma with Novel Ideas Panelists: Iddo Bentov (Chief Scientist, Spacemesh) Moderator: |
15:40 – 16:10 | Coffee Break |
16:10 – 17:00 | Panel: Preserving Security and Privacy Panelists: Guy Zyskind (Founder & CEO, Enigma) Moderator: |
17:00 – 17:20 | Interchain Service Infrastructure and Protocol for Building NextGen Application Blockchains Harriet Cao, Co-founder of IRIS Network |
17:20 – 17:40 | Variants of PoS Networks and the Importance of Building a Strong and Engaged Community Awa Sun Yin, Co-founder of Cryptium Labs |
17:40 – 18:30 | Fireside Chat: Enter the Crypto Idea Maze Jon Choi See Eun Ha (Co-founder, nonce) |
19:30 – 21:30 | Official Speaker Dinner (Speakers and Sponsors only) |
9:00 – | Registration Starts |
10:00 – 10:10 | Introductory Remarks from Erica Kang, Founder of KryptoSeoul, Organizer of BUIDL Seoul 2018 |
10:10 -10:30 | Keynote Speech: Best of Times, Worst of Times David Lee, Managing Partner at Refactor Capital |
10:30 -11:00 | Theoretical and Experimental Evaluation of Blockchains Yongdae Kim, Professor at KAIST |
11:00 – 11:30 | Machine Learning on Privacy-preserving Blockchain Using Homomorphic Encryption Jung Hee Cheon, Professor at SNU, Co-founder at RationalMind EJ Jung, Co-founder at RationalMind |
11:30 – 12:10 | Panel: The Road to Mass Adoption
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12:10 – 13:10 | Lunch |
13:10 – 13:30 | Blockchain-based Edge Computing for Deep Neural Network Application Jaeyun Kim, PhD Candidate at SNU, President at Decipher |
13:30 – 13:50 | REN VM: A Virtual Machine for Privacy Preserving Computations Loong Wang, CTO of Republic Protocol |
13:50 – 14:10 | Special Projects at Ethereum Foundation 2018 Virgil Griffth, Research Scientist at Ethereum Foundation |
14:10 – 14:30 | Reality_on_chain David Knott, Researcher at OmiseGo |
14:30 – 15:10 | Panel: Security Tokens from the Investor’s Perspective Panelists: David Lee (Managing Partner, Refactor Capital) Moderator: |
15:10 – 15:40 | Coffee Break |
15:40 – 16:10 | Aergo Enterprise Blockchains and How They are Being Developed Won Kim, Chief Science Officer at Aergo |
16:10 – 16:40 | Limitation of Scaling General Purpose Blockchains, the Case for Application-specific Scalability Solutions Loi Luu, Co-founder of Kyber Network |
16:40 – 17:30 | Panel: Decentralization of Existing Financial Services
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17:30 – 18:20 | Panel: Growing the Developer Community: Recruiting and Education Panelists: Josh Fraser (Co-founder, Origin Protocol) Moderator: |
18:20 – 18:30 | Ending Remarks from Erica Kang, Founder of KryptoSeoul, Organizer of BUIDL Seoul 2018 |