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Blockchain technology is taking the world by storm, and literally hundreds of banks, financial institutions, governments, corporates and startups worldwide are actively developing applications in the space or participating in Blockchain consortiums like Hyperledger, R3, and Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. Currently, Blockchain developer talent is extremely scarce, and tomorrow's success will trigger a hiring rush for experienced developers.

Please join Dr. Sebastian Brugel from Validity Labs, a Switzerland-based Blockchain Training Company for an accelerated course in Blockchain Product Development, including *building your first Blockchain product in 4 hours.*

Sign up: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coding-blockchain-applications-a-crash-course-for-developers-tickets-33315264854

This course will guide software developers through the jungle of smart contract development on Ethereum-style blockchains. We will introduce the smart contract programming language Solidity and then build a fully functional decentralized crowd-funding platform. The final product will comprise a smart contract and a web interface for a normal web-browser. Finally we will walk through best practices and show case a $50M hack - and how to avoid them.

Requirements: This course aims at software developers who have some knowledge of blockchains in general and can write scripts in Python, Javascript or other high level languages. We do not require any experience in Solidity or Ethereum specifically. Participants are required to bring a laptop and charger.

Sessions (total 4h)

1. Hands-on smart contracts

2. Ethereum Studio IDE

3. Interfacing the smart contract from a web application

4. Exploits and best practices

*please note that this is a special discounted session (the usual cost is HK$4,000)

About Validity Labs: Validity Labs is a Blockchain Training company started in 2016. They offer courses ranging from Blockchain developer training, to smart legal agreements classes taught by lawyers for lawyers, and also executive training. Their academic partners include ETH Zurich (top-ranked Engineering University), and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and Zuhlke Engineering as a Technology Partner.

About co-Founder Andre Wolke: André holds a degree in Electronic Engineering with extensive experience in process automation. He has worked the past 20 years as a consultant for various fortune 500 companies in the fields of process-automation, software development and data-analysis. He is the founder of the BIOTS program (Blockchain Internet of Things Summerschool.

About co-Founder Dr. Sebastian Burgel: Sebastian received his PhD degree (Dr. sc. ETH Zurich) for his work on microdevices for electrical analysis of single cells and tissues from ETH Zurich. He holds a degree in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (BSc ETH ETIT) as well as Biomedical Engineering (MSc ETH MBE) and is generally interested in new technology paradigms in both hard- and software. He likes working hands-on in the areas of software and blockchain development, micro-fabrication and in his garden.

About co-Founder Meher Roy: Meher is a tech-enthusiast who enjoys thinking & speaking about business opportunities / societies enabled by smart contract technology. He is a show host at Epicenter Bitcoin, the leading technical podcast for blockchainers, cryptography-nerds and cypherpunks.

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