Blockchain and decentralized web infrastructure

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THE NUMBER OF PERSONS IS LIMITED TO 200. Please come early! For security reasons, we will not be able to accommodate more than 200 persons in the room. The networking event will be outside of the room.

The meetup will start at 630pm but we will start welcoming attendants at 6pm

The meetup will take place on November 14th, from 630pm to 930pm at Stanford Business School. The meetup will focus on the role of blockchian for decentralized web infrastructure.

The meetup is jointly hosted by the GSB Venture Capital club and Merkle Capital, a Stanford-based event-driven cryptocurrency hedge fund.

The purpose of the meetup is to is bring together blockchain entrepreneurs, investors, industry experts, and curious minds to discuss opportunities of blockchain for decentralized web infrastructure, with a focus on value creation and realisation.

The agenda of the meetup will be the following:

• Introduction by Bill Tai (10 min)

• Startup presentations (30 min)

• Panel: Enabling a decentralized web infrastructure. Moderator: Bill Tai(60 min)

• Networking event (60+ min)

Confirmed guests include Thomas France (Founder of Ledger), Karen Hsu (Head of growth at BlockCypher), Chris Waclawek (Golem Network), Kapil Chhabra (Senior Product Manager at AWS), John Woeltz (grAIvy, Truebit).

The event is sponsored by the GSB Venture Capital Club and Merkle Capital. We are very excited to have you!