Elastos Ghent Meetup

Timetable

14:00 - 14:30 Guest arrival
14:30 - 14:35 Opening
14:35 - 15:30 Speaker: Mr Rong Chen, Founder of Elastos and Director of Tsinghua University iCentre: What is Elastos, and how does this blockchain powered smart web support large-scale Dapps
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:30 Speaker: Mr Kevin Zhang, Elastos Head of the Developers Community: Cyber Republic - Future of Elastos Community
16:30 - 17:00 Q&A
17:00 - 18:00 Networking
18:00 End of the Meetup

Why join the meetup?

If you are an Elastos fan or just a blockchain enthusiast, this is the perfect opportunity for you to meet the Elastos team in person, listen and ask them questions, deepen your knowdledge about the project and find out how you can contribute to the Elastos Ecosystem.

If you are a blockchain developer or even a non-blockchain developer, this is the perfect opportunity for you to learn about the Elastos ecosystem, how you can put your developping skills to use to improve and built on Elastos while getting rewarded for doing what you love. Speak with the team members, ask them any (technical) question and join the Cyber Republic!

About Elastos

Elastos is the world’s first Internet operating system focusing on re-decentralizing Internet with blockchain to secure identity. Utilizing the Internet as the base-layer infrastructure rather than as an application, the Elastos approach emphasizes that network communications should be separated from application computing, and prohibits apps from direct access to the network to prevent viruses and other malicious attacks such as DDoS.

In development for over 18 years, Elastos has engineered the world’s first secure and decentralized platform, backed by a revolutionary open source operating system written in C++. Elastos is capable of providing unparalleled security for self-driving cars, AR/VR platforms, Internet of things devices, smartphones, smart routers and more. Additionally, decentralized applications run in a sandbox environment called Elastos Runtime which can be run from any mobile device. Elastos creates a virtual ecosystem where decentralized applications are protected from direct access to the internet while allowing for the scalability to manage billions of potential users and interactions.

Speakers

Chen Rong
Founder of Elastos and Director of Tsinghua University iCentre

Rong is a professor for postgraduate modules in Cyber Intelligent Economy andBlockchain at Tsinghua University. He is also one of the most respected Tsinghua alumni. Rong worked at Microsoft from 1992 to 2000. During his time there, he led the teams of Microsoft Research OS, IE3 ActiveX, Ole Automation, .COM, and .NET. He proposed various new ideas on the technology of Operating Systems 30 years ago, but failed to see progress until the launch of Windows 10 and the development of blockchain. It was now possible to make an OS environment safer and more efficient. When he left Microsoft, Rong started working on the Elastos OS. Over the years, Elastos was financially supported by Foxconn, the Chinese Central Government, Tsinghua University, and most recently, a pre-ICO. Rong had been invited by the former Premiere of China to speak at the Great Hall of the People about his work on Operating Systems.

Kevin Zhang
Head of the Elastos Developers Community

Kevin Zhang graduated from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 1994, with a B.Eng degree. He has dedicated most of his life to software, besides being a full-stack developer, he is also a serial entrepreneur, has worked 5 years as a professional music producer and another 5 years as a consultant on Business Intelligence solutions, Big data and Telecommunication. His last job position before becoming part of the Elastos team was the CTO role for iHealth Labs in the US.