Ocean Protocol - Product Milestone Announcement: Trilobite Release

Join members of Ocean Protocol’s Founding Team as they reveal exciting new features of Ocean Protocol Testnet v2 (Trilobite ) important for the global AI and data science community. These includes

• capabilities for registering and exchanging digital assets
• connecting a data marketplace to the network
• tech demo of how data marketplaces could potentially be like on Ocean.

Interesting announcements about our collaborations too!

As always, drinks & nibbles are on us. Doors open at 5:30pm, start at 6:00pm sharp.

5.30pm - Registration

6.00pm - Welcome to Digital Catapult

Anat Elhalal, Head of Technology, Lead Technologist AI/ML

6.10pm - Product Update

Founding Team Member and Director of Partnerships and Business Development, Irene Lopez de Vallejo will share what’s new at Ocean Protocol including the new product release and the updated roadmap to network release. We can now look forward to many exciting hands-on activities in the pipeline for developers and data scientists.

Irene has over 20 years of experience in multidisciplinary applied technology research and international policy development across the fields of robotics, high-value manufacturing, the Internet of Things, and more recently AI and blockchain. With a background in Social Science, Economics, and Architecture, Irene has a long-standing passion to understand the complex relationships underlying societies and technologies.

Irene worked in the Digital Catapult and is a co-founder of GivingStreets, an organization that enables spontaneous cashless donations. She is an advocate for Tech For good and Financial Inclusion, a mentor for Startupbootcamp IoT and IoT Tribe, a jury for IET Awards, and an advisor for Creative Friction.

6.25pm - Marketplace Tech Demo

Mike Anderson, Ocean Protocol Founding Team member and CTO of DEX, will unpack Ocean Protocol’s Trilobite release, explain how you can connect a data marketplace to the network, and demonstrate how data exchange can occur on Ocean Protocol, with a tech demo applied to a healthcare usecase for Parkinson's Disease.

Before taking the entrepreneurial path, Mike was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was recognized as a global thought leader in software development and in the specific domain of healthcare IT. His projects included advising governments on health data governance, transforming software development processes at major banks, and supporting one of the world’s largest telco outsourcing deals.

6.50pm - Community update

Sheridan Johns will give an update on Ocean’s various community programs and other exciting opportunities to actively contribute to the ongoing development of Ocean Protocol and unlocking data for AI and the new data economy.

Sheridan is Community Manager at BigchainDB and Ocean Protocol Founding Team member, and has extensive experience building vibrant community partnerships around the world. Prior to joining the team, Sheridan launched a ride-sharing mobility marketplace and was one of the founding members of the Berlin School of Creative Leadership, an international business school for creative entrepreneurs.

7.00pm - Q&A

7.30 pm - Special Collaboration Announcements: Outlier Ventures and DutchChain

Theo Turner, Tech Analyst from Outlier Ventures will announce the work they have been doing on top of Ocean Protocol, developing a proof-of-concept application for seeding the network with processed datasets for training ML. H2O performs basic machine learning on OrbitDB (IPFS) data, publishing the result to Ocean Protocol via Squid-Py.

Rutger van Zuidam, CEO and Founder of DutchChain, will announce the collaboration of Ocean and DutchChain at the 2019 DutchChain Hackathon - April 11-15, 2019. It will be the third installment of the biggest blockchain hackathon in the world, where 100 teams will work on 20 different challenges for 200.000 euro in cash stimulus.

8.00pm - Networking, drinks and food

9.00pm - End of event