Sneak Peak Workshop: NEAR DevNet Test Drive

It's time! If you're a current blockchain developer or are migrating from an existing stack (eg the web) to see why life is more interesting on chain, this event is for you.

This evening, you'll get a chance to test-drive the new NEAR DevNet. NEAR is a scalable, developer-friendly blockchain put together to address the key concerns of existing blockchains -- usability, scalability and business models. You have the chance to be among the first to take it for a spin before it becomes publicly available.

In the event, which is sponsored by and hosted at the Insight Consensus 7-week blockchain program, the NEAR core team will be available to coach you through a workshop that will get your hands dirty building and deploying a DApp on the chain. We'll have food and drinks as well.

## Prerequisites

You'll be able to use our web-hosted IDE for this so you don't need to download anything but we'll make the self-hosted environment available at the event. Also:

• Read The Beginner's Guide to NEAR Protocol for a sense of what NEAR is building and why it's different: https://medium.com/nearprotocol/the-beginners-guide-to-the-near-blockchain-62f1c739e098

• Learn about Insight's 7-week Consensus program, which gives you a chance to fast-track your education about blockchains (including potentially NEAR) and has applications for batch I closing soon: http://www.insightconsensus.com

## Agenda

6:00 - 6:30pm: Arrive and eat tasty nom-noms
6:30 - 7:00pm: Kickoff and questions
7:00 - 8:30pm: Build! Debug! Launch!
8:30 - 9:00pm: Debrief and wind down