Monday J
une 15 Blockchain (R)evolution 09:00 - 09:30 Breakfast
09:30 - 09:45 Welcoming Remarks From Organizers
Primavera De Filippi, Constance Choi, John H. Clippinger
From Bitcoin to Blockchains
09:45 - 10:15 Introduction: Demystifying the Blockchain
10:15 - 15:30 Break
10:15 - 11:15 Panel: State of the Art of Blockchain Technologies
Moderated by ???
Hard/Unresolved problems in blockchain technology:
Vlad Zamfir
(Proof of Stake)
Emergent Protocols and Platforms:
Peter Todd (Bitcoin),
Preston Byrne (Eris),
Jutta Steiner (Ethereum),
Andrew
Colosimo
(Namecoin)
11:15 - 11:30 Break
Smart Contracts for Financial Transactions 11:30 - 12:00 Keynote “Blockchain Banking” - Houman Shadab (New York Law School)
12:00 - 13:00 Panel How Smart Contracts Can Be Used To Support and Create New
Financial Applications
Pamela Morgan
(Empowered Law),
Houman Shadab
(New York Law
School),
Casey Kuhlman
(Eris),
Aaron Wright
(Cardozo Law School),
Ian Grigg
(Ricardian Contracts),
Matt Slater
(Hedgy),
Moderated by TBC
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Options, Swap, ISDA, Rolling closings, P2P OTC markets
Decrease in Commitment/Settlement Risk and Cost
Outperforming Existing Processes in Government and Financial
Institutions
Deploying Trustless Systems
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
From Financial Exclusion to Inclusion 14:00 - 14:30 Keynote: Yussar A.F. Abar (Former Governor of Central Bank of Somalia)
14:30 - 15:30 Panel Challenges to Achieving Global
Infrastructure for the 99%

Amina Ahmady
(Afghanistan Ministry of Finance), Daniel Hassan
(RobinHood
Coop),
Amor Sexton
(Adroit Lawyers),
Juan Llanos
(Bitreserve)
Moderated by Brett Scott (Author)
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Overcoming Incumbent and Legacy Barriers
End-to-End Challenges
Control Over Identities and Autonomous Provisioning
Support For Self-Sustaining Local Communities
Use Cases: Afghanistan, Somalia, Kenya, Argentina, etc.
15:30 - 16:00 Break
Transactional & Relational Economies 16:00 - 16:30 Keynote
Arun Sundararajan (NYU)
16:30 - 17:30 Panel The Rise of Alternative Economies and Evolution of Social Ordering
Adam Arvidsson (Milano University),
Primavera De Filippi
(Harvard/CNRS),
Maurizio Rossi (H-Farm),
David Thomson
(Artlery),
Simon Lelieveldt
(Banking consultant)
Moderated by Arun Sundararajan (NYU)
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Libertarian (Transactional) and Communitarian (Relational) Models
Viability of New Protocols, Incentives, and Currency Design
New Models of Governance and Oversight, Including Blockchain for
Decentralized,
Grassroot
Community
Governance,
and
Commons-Based Blockchain Applications
Data Commons, Overcoming The Surveillance State
17:30 - 18:00 Presentation
FABRIQ (Stanford/MIT Hackathon)
Ashley Taylor, Carolyn Reckhow
Tuesday June 16 09:00 - 09:30 Opening
Keynote

Alex Tapscott “Bitcoin Governance Network”
Economics & Crypto-Economics 09:40 - 10:40 Panel
How Cryptography, Behavioral Sciences and Complexity Are
Transforming Traditional Economic Practices and Policies
Paolo Tasca
(Deutsche Bundesbank),
Matthew Reed
(U.S. Treasury),
Garrick Hileman
(LSE), Tomaso Aste
(UCL), Robert Sams
(Clearmatics/Cryptonomics),
Vlad Zamfir
(Blockchain architect)
Moderated by Harald Stieber (EU Commission)
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Challenges to Central Banks’ Control Over Money Supply
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Challenges to State Ability and Authority to Drive Economic Policies
Free Market to Artisan Economies - Evolving Schools of Thought
New Metrics of Value and Output
10:40 - 11:00 Break
Legacy Institutions and the Blockchain 11:00 - 11:30 Keynote: Paul Brody (Technology Sector Strategy Leader, Ernst & Young)
11:30 - 12:45
Debate
How Legacy Institutions Can/Should Adapt to Blockchain
Applications?
Pinar Emirdag
(R3),
Richard Levin
(Bryan Cave),
Amy Kim
(BuckleySandler), A
ngus Champion de Crespigny
(E&Y),
Mehul Desai
(Trinity Innovation Ventures),
Sian Jones
(DCA)
Moderated by John H. Clippinger (MIT/ID3)
12:45 - 13:00
Presentation:
Robin Hood Coop - Blockchain and Legacy Institutions
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Oversight for Decentralization 14:00 - 14:30 Keynote: Preeta Bensal, MIT
15:00 - 16:00 Panel Decentralized Models for Sound Regulation, Innovation Policy, and
Enhanced Governance
Primavera De Filippi (Harvard/CNRS),
Amor Sexton (Adroit Lawyers),
Jean Louis Schiltz (Schiltz & Schiltz),
Aaron Wright (Cardozo Law
School),
Alex Tapscott
(Global Solutions Network)
Moderated by Constance Choi (Seven Advisory)
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Architecture as Policy: Power, Laws, P2P and Social Opportunity
Decentralized Authorities for KYC, AML and Identities
DAOs: How Autonomous Can Authorities Be?
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16:00 - 16:30 Break
Building, Digitizing and Testing Distributed Legal and Institutional
Frameworks
Internet of Things: Designing Architectures 16:30 - 17:00 Keynote: “Dynamic Regulation” - Bruce Mau (Massive Change Network)
17:00 - 17:30 Keynote: “Design for decentralized architectures” - Aral Balkan (Ind.ie)
17:30 - 18:00 Keynote: “Democracy of Devices” - Henning Diedrich (IBM ADEPT)
18:00 - 19:00 Panel Building Together a Smarter, Networked World
Aral Balkan
(ind.ie),
Bruce Mau
(Massive Change Network),
Pradeep
Sharma
(RISD)
, Jeremy Pitt
(Imperial College),
Mihaela Ulieru
(IMPACT Institute),
Henning Diedrich
(IBM)
Moderated by Primavera De Filippi
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Smart Cities & Smarter People
Identities & Autonomous Devices; UK GDS
DAOs for IoT: Democracy & Accountability of Devices
Designing Dynamic Regulation into Architecture
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