EEA face to face meeting warm up

To coincide with the EEA holding a face to face meeting in London, we're back with our first Meetup of 2020!

With lots of EEA members attending the F2F meets, we've been able to secure some special speakers who will be in town at the end of February.

The meetup will be held at ConsenSys at 2 Leonard Circus, 62 Paul St, Hackney, London EC2A 4DQ, close to Old Street Station.

Clearmatics (www.clearmatics.com) is kindly providing food and drinks.

SCHEDULE:

Running order has not yet been confirmed due to more speakers being added! The Meetup will consist of both longer talks and 10 minute lightning rounds.

Confirmed guest speakers -

Jim Zhang - Co-founder of Kaleido

Jim is an active member of the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance Technical Spec Workgroup and has contributed to the Quorum and Hyperledger Besu code bases. Jim was also a maintainer of the Hyperledger Fabric project. He held a Senior Technical Staff Member role as IBM’s blockchain platform lead architect. He has many years of experience in building diverse range of enterprise systems including SaaS, enterprise mobile, and core backend middleware.

Jim will be giving a talk on building applications using best practices that make blockchain work the way they are meant to be used. He will cover how to make both onchain and offchain components work together, using a sample application built to demonstrate the technique.
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Clearmatics Research Team

Clearmatics are a London-based blockchain company, designing and servicing protocols for decentralised Financial Market Infrastructure (dFMI).

Antoine Rondelet, Head of R&D at Clearmatics will be presenting ZETH (github.com/clearmatics/zeth) - an integration of Zerocash on Ethereum. He will provide an update of the progress made in the development of ZETH.
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Bob Summerwill -

Bob Summerwill is Executive Director of the Ethereum Classic Cooperative, a volunteer for the Ethereum Project and Community Ambassador for CryptoChicks. Bob has been programming since 1984 and a professional software engineer since 1996. He started his blockchain journey in 2014 and he has been building bridges to enterprise and towards mainstream adoption since 2016.

Bob will be giving a lightning talk lightning talk on how he sees Ethereum public specification and EEA specification fitting together, and discuss how "Ethereum protocol" is much broader than ETH.
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Conor Svensson - Founder and CEO Web3 Labs

Conor is the Technical Standards Working Group Chair at the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. He is the author of web3j, the Java library for working with the Ethereum blockchain and he’s the founder of Web3 Labs, who provide an enterprise blockchain platform based on Ethereum.

Conor will be giving a talk on the Epirus SDK.

More speakers are yet to be confirmed!