Name: Hacking on the first Blockchain Technology Workshop
Start: 2018-03-03T10:00:00Z
End: 2018-03-03T12:00:00Z
Location: Sala A2 - Departamento de Informática

We're very excited to announce our first full-day Blockchain technology workshop!

Date: Saturday 3rd of March on the A2 Auditorium of the University of Minho at Gualtar Campus.

Morning Talks

10:00 - 11:00 Blockchains, the reason behind things

Speaker: Ali Shoker from HASLab, INESC TEC & University of Minho

Abstract: Many people think that Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are just an alternative to digital Fiat money, and a bubble released by Satoshi Nakamoto. In this talk, we emphasize on the importance of blockchains as the backbone of cryptocurrencies in two ways. The first is being a nontrivial solution to an open research question: how to achieve a globally scalable total order? The second is that blockchains are the infrastructure for many use-cases, beyond cryptocurrencies. The talk explains the reason behind things and touches upon how things are done in blockchains. The difficulty will be incremental, but suitable for a general audience with fair technical (but not necessarily programming) knowledge.

Website: http://www.alishoker.com | Twitter: @ ashokerCS

11:00 - 11:20 - Coffee Break and Networking

11:20 - 12:20 Programming Smart Contracts with Solidity on Ethereum

Speaker: Emanuel Mota from Yari Labs

Abstract: We will start to describe what are smart contracts and how can we program and deploy a smart contract. We'll get a basic understanding of how the Ethereum virtual machine executes contracts and we'll cover the basics of Solidity Programming language with examples. The goal of this talk is to give enough context and preparation for the practical workshop in the afternoon. The difficulty will be incremental, but suitable for a general audience having programming knowledge will help but is not required.

Website: http://www.yarilabs.com - Twitter: @emota7 || @yarilabs

12h30 - 14h00 Lunch Break

14h - 17h - Practical Workshop (with a coffee break in between)

You need to bring your laptop or come with someone that has a laptop, although participants will be organized into groups preferably having someone with programming experience in each group.

- First, we'll code some initial exercises to play with solidity.
- Then we'll proceed to implement a project that uses a smart contract and stores content on the blockchain.
- The groups will present their work.

We'll have coaches to assist the groups.

The talks in the morning will be held in English, in the afternoon during the hack session there will be a mix of Portuguese and English :)
Don't miss this great opportunity to get your hands dirty with blockchain programming!

IMPORTANT:
There will be a registration desk where will give participants a sticker with their name. For security reasons the University services need to know the number of participants until next Tuesday (27 of February) so the RSVP's will be closed after that day.

Please use this Type Form to confirm your presence your name and if you want to join us at the restaurant. https://emanuelmota.typeform.com/to/ZFxHoc

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