London Reactor Meetup - Web3!

Doors Open: 6:00PM
Presentations: 6:30PM - 8:15PM
8:15PM - 9:00PM - Networking

Session 1: Introduction to blockchain & the world of Web3

Speaker Bio
Sandeep Krishnappa
Sandeep is a Cofounder and Chief Product Officer at KlimatelinK, a Web 3 global climate community. He has 15 years of cross-discipine background covering software development, digital transformation, advisory, consulting, fintech, risktech, regtech, consumer insights, global capability development - operations/communications/knowledge/community.

Session 2: The Future of AI is Decentralized
We are at the nexus of two major developments: AI and blockchain. Bitcoin is the most powerful compute network in the world, while algorithms like DALL-E 2 and GPT-3 have demonstrated the impressive capabilities of state-of-the-art AI. The AI industry, however, is flawed: each training run is incredibly power and cost-intensive, while development remains isolated within institutional labs. Beyond pure inefficiency, these issues perpetuate inequity and prevent collaboration.
So, what if we could take the power, scalability, and resource-management of blockchain and apply it to building the next generation of AI? In this talk, you will learn how Bittensor is doing exactly that.
Bittensor is a distributed neural network that leverages the power of incentivized computing to create an AI system at Bitcoin-scale. Within the - currently 125 billion parameter - network, AI models learn from each other by sending signals peer-to-peer, while being rewarded for the production of valuable knowledge. The result is a pure intelligence market that connects engineers and compute.
Ultimately, Bittensor aims to be the primary source of unsupervised knowledge for the next generation of machine learning companies, acting as a global protocol rather than a single, centralized, entity.

Speaker Bio:
Matt Hamilton is a developer and developer advocate that has been interested in the democratising effects of blockchains and AI for many years. Previously he has worked at IBM as a Developer Advocate working on IBM Cloud and AI products; and at Ripple where he was helping developers build on the XRP Ledger. Currently, he is the Director of Developer Relations at Bittensor.

Session 3: IPFS Everywhere
Talk description: Building the foundations of Web3 in an HTTP world is not easy, but great progress has been made. Learn where you can use IPFS today and where we're pushing to make it available for the Web3 developers of tomorrow.

Speaker Bio:
Dietrich Ayala is committed to making a web that puts users in control of their experience online. He leads ecosystem development for IPFS at Protocol Labs, growing adoption of the protocol through developer experience, browser integrations and strategic collaborations. Before Protocol Labs, he spent over a decade at Mozilla building browsers, shipping a smartphone OS and running programs to scale devrel globally.

Session 4: Introduction to IPFS and Filecoin & how they shape the future of web3
In this talk, Konstantin will introduce IPFS and Filecoin and how they accelerate the transition to Web3, a version of the web where ownership and control are more decentralized and distributed than they are today. Participants will get a high-level introduction to the technologies’ core concepts, discuss their potential in the context of web3 and learn about user-friendly tools and existing applications to kick-start their own development efforts.

Speaker Bio:
Konstantin Tkachuk
Konstantin is an artist, software developer and web3 enthusiast who is excited about the opportunities that decentralization brings to the daily life of our digital world. He is a civil engineer by training and has gone through various entrepreneurial experiences in the European landscape. Won the SpaceX Hyperloop competition and was awarded with Schwarzman Scholarship. At Protocol Labs, he focuses on NFT and DAO use-cases and their applications in different fields.

Session 5: Making NFTs! An introduction to coding NFT's
The talk will give an overview of NFTs and show you how to code and deploy NFT's on ethereum compatible blockchains.
We'll walk through an NFT Dapp that mints a personalised NFT from a react front-end, using NFT.Storage.

Ally is a Developer Advocate at the Filecoin Foundation. She is a coder, engineer and tech enthusiast who believes in the benefits technology can bring to everyday life. She has a passion for helping people by sharing knowledge and working closely with developers and open source communities around the world.