Improving Blockchain Developer Experience: Where UX meets Developer Tools

An exploration of Developer Experience (DevX).

##NOTE## You must register on Eventbrite for this event at https://improving-blockchain-devx.eventbrite.com

We know there are many challenges around User Experience (UX) for end-users who are trying to use decentralized applications but what about the developers who build those applications? Their experience is often under appreciated.

In this meetup, we'll dig deeper into what developer experience (DevX) really means, the state of it on today's platforms and how we can improve it in the future. We'll survey the landscape and tear down a couple of existing platforms.

Following the talk, we'll move to a panel discussion with developers of apps on multiple different platforms about the pros and cons of development on each platform.

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6:30 - 7:00pm: Arrival and snacks

7:00 - 7:30pm: Improving Blockchain DevX Talk

7:30pm - 8:15pm: Panel with DApp developers

Panelists include (more to come, stay tuned):

1. Viktor Radchenko, Founder of Trust Wallet (Acquired by Binance).

2. Amhed Herrera is a Software Engineer from the Dominican Republic, where he founded two startups before moving to the US. He's been working as a full-stack software engineer since 2010, and on smart contracts and dApps since 2018. Recently joined the Harbor.com team where they're working on tokenizing securities on the blockchain.

3. Jehan Tremback is CEO of Althea (althea.org), working on a system that makes it easy for communities to set up networks which are faster and cheaper than the existing ISP monopolies, by enabling routers to pay each other for bandwidth, using cryptocurrency. He has years of experience in the Ethereum ecosystem, and will be speaking about the ins and outs of building Dapps such as payment channels, voting systems, and DAOs.

4. Chris Li is founder of Forge Labs, a decentralized blockchain accelerator headquartered in San Francisco. He recently lead the team build a game Dapp on EOS and became No.8 in daily DAU. Before, he was director of engineering at Bodhi Prediction Market, in charge of smart contract and backend development. Prior to blockchain, he was a serial entrepreneur and senior engineer at Microsoft, where he worked on Exchange, a complex distributed system for 4 years.