Fireside Chat with Hakka Finance Ping Chen, Vac Waku v2 Messaging Oskar Thorén

Taipei Ethereum Meetup is excited to host another exciting event "Fireside Chat with Hakka Finance Ping Chen, Vac P2P Messaging Oskar Thorén" on Thursday night November 5 at Taipei Hackerspace in Taipei City, Taiwan.

Event space: Taipei Hackerspace
Address: 4F, No. 26, Lane 133, Taiyuan Rd.
Taipei City, Taiwan. 台北市太原路133巷26號4樓. Metro station: Zhongshan 捷運中山站 Exit No 6.

Agenda
7:00 pm Introduction by Yahsin Huang
7:10 pm Presentation by Ping Chen (Q&A included)
7:40 pm Presentation by Oskar Thoren (Q&A included)
8:30 pm Networking

Speaker Introduction
Ping Chen
Ping is the founder of Pelith; founder of Hakka Finance. A believer of Ethereum, Ping has been building DAPPs since 2016. Pelith: https://pelith.com/ Hakka Finance: https://hakka.finance/ Ping's Twitter: https://twitter.com/PingChenTW

Oskar Thoren
Oskar Thoren is the protocol research lead at Vac, a secure p2p messaging stack. Before that he was Head of Engineering at Status, a mobile Ethereum client. He also organizes the Papers We Love meetup in Taipei. Website: oskarth.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/oskarth Vac website: https://vac.dev/

Talk title: Vac, Waku v2 and Ethereum Messaging
Abstract:
In this talk, we'll introduce Waku v2, a privacy-preserving p2p messaging protocol for resource restricted devices. We'll also talk about the original Ethereum M2M Messaging vision, some problems that it can help solve, challenges and how we can get there.

Moderator Introduction
Yahsin Huang
Yahsin is a community builder in the blockchain space. Her focus has been exploring how the democratization of digital tools empowers individuals. She is the marketing manager at Diode. She founded the RadicalxChange Taipei chapter, co-organized the Taipei Ethereum Meetup events, and contributed to several technology media outlets. Yahsin has participated in major Ethereum conference events since 2016, including DevCon in Prague, Czech Republic; EDCON in Sydney, Australia, and, more recently, EthCC in Paris, France; EthDenver in Colorado, USA. She covered Taiwan’s Maker Movement in 2014 and hundreds of open-source developer activities in 2013 as a magazine journalist. She has a bachelor’s degree in English literature from National Dong Hwa University. Website: https://yahsin.me/ Yahsin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/YahsinHuang