DeFi Toronto – February Meetup (ONLINE)

Agenda:

1. DeFi news recap
2. Chainlink and Tokenization of Real World Assets, Jimmy Haight, Product Marketing Lead of Chainlink Labs
3. The Oracle: a fireside chat with Ari Juels about his crypto thriller novel.
4. Community announcements

Speaker Bio:

Jimmy Haight is the product marketing lead for Chainlink’s data solutions and asset tokenization efforts. Prior, he built supply-chain automation solutions at Intel and was CEO of Megaton Coffee.

Ari Juels is the Weill Family Foundation and Joan and Sanford I. Weill Professor in the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and the Technion and a Computer Science faculty member at Cornell University. He is a Co-Director of the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3). He is also the Chief Scientist at Chainlink Labs. He is the author of the crypto thriller novel The Oracle (Talos Press). He was the Chief Scientist of RSA, Director of RSA Laboratories, and a Distinguished Engineer at EMC (now Dell EMC), where he worked until 2013. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from U.C. Berkeley. His recent areas of interest include blockchains, cryptocurrency, and smart contracts, as well as applied cryptography, user authentication, and privacy.

Ari's research paper on criminal smart contracts: "The Ring of Gyges: Investigating the Future of Criminal Smart Contracts."