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 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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