Spotkanie styczniowe - blockchain i Rust

Together with GlobalLogic (https://www.globallogic.com/pl/), our sponsor for this month, we'd like to invite you to the first meeting of 2018. This time, we'll have two different presentations, two speakers, and two languages :)

Abdallah Alaili - Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies making Startup funding obsolete

[Presentation in English]

We will explore the blockchain technology and applications, while emphasizing on the most successful cases;

Then we will look into the byproduct of this technology, which are Cryptocurrencies. We will talk about how startups are turning to ICOs instead of investors and we will go through the steps we followed for SpartaICO @www.spartaico.com

We will talk about current status, technical challenges, legal challenges and potential.

Abdallah Alaili is a tech entrepreneur, launched his first startup 13 years ago, and it has been a roller coaster ever since ... He has been involved in few projects, you can find some of them @www.Alaili.com. Since few years Abdallah have been struggling to create a startup ecosystem in zielona gora, to do so he launched Startupz @www.startupz.org and later launched Sparta Startups @www.spartastartups.com .

Nataniel Stefaniak - Wprowadzenie do języka programowania Rust

[Presentation in Polish]

Omówienie takich konceptów jak: ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, traits, algebraic data types, pattern matching.

Approximate agenda:

18:30 - 19:00 Discussions, snacks and drinks

19:00 - 19:10 Welcome and a short sponsor's presentation

19:10 - 19:55 Blockchain and cryptocurrencies

19:55 - 20:10 Break - discussions, snacks and drinks

20:10 - 20:55 Rust

20:55 - ? Discussions, snacks and drinks