Polkadot - Tokyo - Community Launch
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Web3 Foundation and Smart Contract Japan welcomes you to the launch of the ‘Polkadot - Tokyo’ community!
We are excited to be in Tokyo and are bringing some core members of the Polkadot team with us!
Agenda:
Ryan Zurrer - "The State of Web3"
Adrian Brink - "Parachains vs. Smart Contracts"
Dillon Chen - "Edgeware: A Testbed for Active Governance"
Robert Habermeier - "Polkadot for Developers: Status, Roadmap and Tools"
Gavin Wood - "Substrate & Polkadot"
Speaker Profiles
Gavin Wood, Co-Founder of Ethereum, Parity Technolgoies, & Polkadot
Gavin Wood was the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of the Ethereum Project. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol, author of its formal specification, and is the creator and author of the first functional Ethereum implementation. Dr Wood designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, and designed and implemented the Whisper protocol.
Robert Habermeier, Co-Founder @ Polkadot
Robert Habermeier is a Thiel Fellow and co-founder of Polkadot, a platform that connects public and private blockchains to power a web 3.0. He has a research and development background in blockchains, distributed systems, and cryptography. A longtime member of the Rust community, he has focused on leveraging the language’s features to build highly parallel and performant solutions.
Adrian Brink, Technologist @ Polkadot & W3F (Former Lead Developer at Cosmos)
Adrian Brink pushes the boundaries of interoperability and scalability for Proof of Stake blockchains. At W3F Adrian focuses on establishing a secure validator set and growing the developer ecosystem. He is the founder of Cryptium Labs, a validator for PoS networks, such as Polkadot, Tezos, and Cosmos. Previously he was a core developer at Cosmos.
Dillon Chen, Co-Founder @ Commonwealth Labs
Dillon is a Co-Founder of Commonwealth Labs, which is building Edgeware. Prior to Commonwealth, Dillon spent time investing at Turing Capital, at General Catalyst’s Rough Draft Ventures, and as a cofounder of Source Networks. He graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Ryan Zurrer, Council Member @ W3F (Former Polychain Capital Venture Partner)
Ryan is the former Principal and Venture Partner at Polychain Capital. He has been an active investor and miner in the blockchain ecosystem since 2012. For five years, Ryan was the CEO of a large Brazilian renewables firm (958MW portfolio). Prior to that, Ryan worked in investment banking focused on financial technology.
We’ll have time for questions, discussion, and networking. Drinks and snacks will be served.
This event is free but we can only accommodate a limited amount of guests. RSVP early!
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Join the discussion at the watercooler:
Riot: https://riot.im/app/#/room/#polkadot-watercooler:matrix.org
Further Reading:
Lightpaper:
https://polkadot.network/Polkadot-lightpaper.pdf
Whitepaper: