EOS European Meetup #1

Welcome to the EOS European meetup, aimed at educating and promoting EOS to a broad user base in Central and Eastern Europe.

Hosted by:
Tokenika - The highest ranked Central European EOS Block Producer,

Attic Lab - The highest ranked Eastern European EOS Block Producer, currently in the prestigeous EOS top 21.

Cryptolions - The second highest ranked Eastern European EOS Block Producer.

Special guests:

EOS Dac - a revolutionary, community-owned, tokenized EOS Block Producer.

DutchEOS - a standby block producer contributing to Telos EOS fork.

We are going to talk about:

• The basics of EOS - the core architecture, speed, scalability and current roadmap for expansion.

• The current state of affairs in EOS. This includes the health of the chain, ongoing issues and politics of Delegated Proof of Stake. We will also touch upon EOS’s decentralisation mechanisms and their resilience to censorship as well as interesting facts about the inner workings on EOS, including governance.

• The state of software development, tools and distributed applications on EOS.

Tentative Agenda:

EOS European Meetup #1, agenda, November 3rd, Google Campus Warsaw 14:00-19:00 + afterparty.

14:15 - 14:35 Marcin Zietek - EOS Introduction - Why do we care? Facts about genesis, speed, scalability and debunking of several popular myths. What makes EOS special?

14:40 - 15:00 Sergey Vasilchuk, CEO Atticlab - EOS in Fintech. Opportunities and challenges for the fastest public blockchain in financial applications.

15:05 - 15:25 Bohdan Kossak, Cryptolions - Founder & CTO - A short history of EOS bugs, fixes, testing in the Jungle Testnet. Discussion regarding the stability of the EOS chain.

15:30 - 15:50 Michael Yeates - EOS DAC - the community owned Block Producer. Pioneering the concept of co-owned, democratically governed Block Production node.

15:55 - 16:15 Sergii Ropchan, Atticlab - The biggest technical challenges for a Block Producer. The intricacies of running a high performance Block Production node on EOS.

16:15 - 17:00 Pizza/Beer Break

17:00 - 17:20 Marcin Zietek, Tokenika - EOS Governance. How to govern a blockchain without killing it - moving from hippie pipe-dreams to workable smart contract governance.

17:25 - 17:45 Jan Smit, DutchEOS - Telos, the making of and the launch of the highly anticipated EOS fork. How we got here, and where are we going.”

17:50 - 18:10 Krzysztof Szumny - EOSFactory - Smart contract integration testing and deployment platform by Tokenika.

18:15 - 18:35 Jakub Zarembinski - Sygnet - bootstrapping of decentralized digital identity. Gaming the chicken and the egg problem in blockchain sovereign identity systems.

18:45 - 18:50 Special announcement

18:50 - 19:10 Q&A session - ask us anything,

19:15 - late After Party.

Please reserve your spot soon, as places are limited. Throughout the event, we will keep you fed and watered, and hopefully much better informed about EOS! Afterwards, there will be a small after party for networking and a chat over a pint of beer and snacks. Hope to see you there!