Watch / Devcon4 Track Overviews
Duration: 00:32:05
Speaker: Jonathan Mann, Hsiao-Wei Wang, Hudson Jameson, Bryant Eisenbach, Piper Merriam, Sarah Mills, Rhys Lindmark, Josef Jelacic
Type: Talk
Expertise: Beginner
Event: Devcon 4
Date: Oct 2018
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Bryant Eisenbach
Lead Technical Editor
Bryant is currently working on building his local developer community through @DappDevs, creating smart contract development guidelines through @SecurEth, and is a core contributor to the Vyper smart contract language and Python-Ethereum toolset. Prior to Ethereum, he spent 6+ years as a flight software engineer. @fubuloubu on Twitter and GitHub.
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Hsiao-Wei Wang
researcher
Hsiao-Wei Wang is a researcher and developer at Ethereum Foundation research team, where she works on the Ethereum sharding research and implementation. She has been involved in the blockchain technology space since 2016. Her research interests include blockchain scaling protocol, peer-to-peer network, and state execution engine.
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Hudson Jameson
Hudson Jameson is an Ethereum enthusiast and smart contract developer. He co-founded the blockchain IoT start-up Oaken Innovations and works at the Ethereum Foundation. Currently he spends his time managing the Ethererum community, organizing the Ethereum core developer meetings, and editing the Ethereum Improvement Proposals repository.
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Piper Merriam
Snake Charmer
(talking about myself in the third person is fun)Piper Merriam has been part of the Ethereum community since the launch of the Frontier network. He is a buidler who loves Python and open source. Most recently Piper works for the Ethereum Foundation running the Python team which maintains and develops tools with a focus on facilitating and support research efforts as well as building core infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem.Other projects of his include the Ethereum Alarm Clock, EthPM (Ethereum package management), The Trinity Ethereum client, The Populus development framework, the function signature database.
Welcome & Introduction Panel
Ethereum Foundation Executive Director, Ming Chan, makes opening remarks and introduces the R&D leads.
Ming Chan, Martin Becze, Péter Szilágyi, Dr. Christian Reitwiessner, Alex Van de Sande, Viktor Trón, Vitalik Buterin
Welcome & Team Introduction
Ethereum Foundation ED, Ming Chan introduces Ethereum team leads, who give a brief summary of the projects and efforts they work on.
Ming Chan, Vitalik Buterin, Dr. Christian Reitwiessner, Peter Szilagyi, Fabian Vogelsteller, Viktor Tron
B-U-I-D-L Song
Jonathan Mann's famous B-U-I-D-L song!
Jonathan Mann
Closing and Tweet Song
Jonathan Mann's closing of Devcon 4 and the Tweet song!
Jonathan Mann
Ethereum Foundation Values
Aya Miyaguchi, Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation, discusses the values, philosophy, structure & purpose of the EF, as well as her history & thoughts on decentralization, and urges us to remember why we continue to build Ethereum.
Aya Miyaguchi
Latest on Ethereum
Vitalik gives an update on Ethereum's progress and roadmap.
Vitalik Buterin
Water We Doing: The Changing Tides of the Ethereum Foundation Grants Program
Kenneth Ng from the ESP team discusses the role & goals of the EF's Ecosystem Support Pipeline.
Kenneth Ng
Welcome and Song
Jonathan Mann's opening song & welcome to Devcon 4.
Jonathan Mann
Welcome Ceremony
The opening ceremony to Devcon 5.
Various