The virtual conference on all things Polkadot is back for a second edition on May 20th, 2021. This year, in the spirit of decentralization, the conference features an open call for proposals and a community vote to help curate the final conference program.
May 19th
Day 1 features Polkadot founders Gavin Wood and Robert Habermeier, Web3 Foundation researchers, Parity developers and a selection of community-voted talks. Stay tuned to find out which community talks will happen on day 1.
16:00
Welcome Note
16:05
World Premiere - Polkadot Behind the Code, Episode 2: The Build
16:25
Capturing Behind the Code
16:45
Parachains – Disrupting the Layer One Landscape
17:15
Parsing Parachains - the Who, the What and the Why
17:45
Auctions, and Crowdloans, and Slots, Oh My!
18:30
Break
18:55
Community Talk TBA
19:20
Community Talk TBA
19:45
Community Talk TBA
20:10
Community Talk TBA
20:35
Community Talk TBA
21:00
Break
21:25
A barstool chat with Gavin Wood
22:25
Closing remarks
22:30
Networking Happy Hour
23:25
End
May 20th
Day 2 kicks off with a few talks for everyone before splitting into 3 tracks of community-voted talks and workshops—from techy deep-dives to high-level visionary talks and lightning pitches.
16:00
Welcome
Opening remarks
16:05
The Polkadot On-chain Treasuries – Decentralized Community Funding
16:30
Building a Decentralized Brand for Polkadot
16:55
Break
Stage 1
17:20
Common Good Parachains
Joe Petrowski
Web3 Foundation
17:45
OriginTrail: Making Supply Chains Work #Together
Žiga Drev
Trace Labs
18:00
Phala: XCMP Makes Confidential Computing Composable
Hang Yin
Phala Network
18:25
Break
18:45
Bridges
Darwinia Network - The Bridge Hub Between the Polkadot Ecosystem and External Networks
Bree Yin
Darwinia Network
19:10
Bridging Polkadot With Other Networks
Vitalii Parkhomenko
Everstake
19:25
NFTs With Polkadot
Alexander Mitrovich
Unique Network
19:50
Break
20:10
Polkadot's Impact on the IoT Industry
Eliott Teissonniere
Nodle
20:35
Polkadot for Smart Cities
Sergei Lonshakov
Robonomics
21:00
A Next-Generation Secure Digital Ecosystem at the Nexus of Climate and Energy
Soheil Saraji
University of Wyoming
21:25
Break
21:45
Community
Build a Chinese Blockchain Community From Scratch
Kiko Duan
PolkaWorld
22:10
Community
From Enthusiast to a Paid Position in Polkadot Ecosystem
Maarten Henskens
Plasm Network
22:35
Break
22:55
Bridging Substrate Based Chains to Polkadot
Tomasz Drwięga
Parity Technologies
Hernando Castano
Parity Technologies
23:45
End