BUIDL Seoul 2018 is a technical, academic forum in which developers and academics exchange their ideas and present on working protocols, products, and academic research in blockchain technology. It is the first real effort in Korea to bring together diverse individuals and projects that are actively building in the space.
Presentations by scholars on research on topics related to blockchain and cryptocurrency
Issues on scalability, side chains, off-chain governance, interoperability
Technical demos by projects that have a working product
Diverse issues related to crypto funds, community builders, exchanges, media
| TIME | November 29th |
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| 8:00 – | Registration Starts |
| 9:00 – 9:20 | Introductory Remarks from Erica Kang, Founder of KryptoSeoul, Organizer of BUIDL Seoul 2018 |
| 9:20 – 9:50 | Keynote Speech: Reimagining Next Gen IoT with Blockchains
Gurvinder Ahluwalia, Founder & CEO at Digital Twin Labs, Co-founder & COO at Beyond Protocol |
| 9:50 – 10:20 | Keynote Speech: Inverting Bureaucracy with Blockchains
Jameson Lopp, CTO of CASA |
| 10:20 – 10:50 | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 – 11:20 | Keynote Speech: Rearchitecting the Blockchain Ecosystem
Jae Kwon, CEO & Co-founder of Tendermint, Co-BUIDLer of Cosmos |
| 11:20 – 12:10 | Panel: Blockchain Tech, Today vs Tomorrow
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| 12:10 – 13:10 | Lunch |
| 13:10 – 13:30 | From Bitcoin to the Internet of Value
Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar, CEO & Co-founder of RSK |
| 13:30 – 13:50 | Building a Better Blockchain: The Future of Scalability and Smart Contract Languages
Will Martino, Founder & CEO of Kadena |
| 13:50 – 14:10 | Implications of Interoperability
Robert Habermeier, Co-founder of Polkadot |
| 14:10 – 14:30 | Secret Contracts: Privacy and Scalability for the Decentralized Web
Guy Zyskind, Founder & CEO of Enigma |
| 14:30 – 14:50 | NuCypher: The Privacy Layer of the Decentralized Web
MacLane Wilkison, CEO of NuCypher |
| 14:50 – 15:40 | Panel: Solving the Trilemma with Novel Ideas
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| 15:40 – 16:10 | Coffee Break |
| 16:10 – 17:00 | Panel: Preserving Security and Privacy
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| 17:00 – 17:20 | Interchain Service Infrastructure and Protocol for Building NextGen Application Blockchains
Harriet Cao, Co-founder of IRIS Network |
| 17:20 – 17:40 | Variants of PoS Networks and the Importance of Building a Strong and Engaged Community
Awa Sun Yin, Co-founder of Cryptium Labs |
| 17:40 – 18:30 | Fireside Chat: Enter the Crypto Idea Maze
Jon Choi |
| 19:30 – 21:30 | Official Speaker Dinner (Speakers and Sponsors only) |
| TIME | November 30th |
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| 9:00 – | Registration Starts |
| 10:00 – 10:10 | Introductory Remarks from Erica Kang, Founder of KryptoSeoul, Organizer of BUIDL Seoul 2018 |
| 10:10 -10:30 | Keynote Speech: Best of Times, Worst of Times
David Lee, Managing Partner at Refactor Capital |
| 10:30 -11:00 | Theoretical and Experimental Evaluation of Blockchains
Yongdae Kim, Professor at KAIST |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Machine Learning on Privacy-preserving Blockchain Using Homomorphic Encryption
Jung Hee Cheon, Professor at SNU, Co-founder at RationalMind |
| 11:30 – 12:10 | Panel: The Road to Mass Adoption
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| 12:10 – 13:10 | Lunch |
| 13:10 – 13:30 | Blockchain-based Edge Computing for Deep Neural Network Application
Jaeyun Kim, PhD Candidate at SNU, President at Decipher |
| 13:30 – 13:50 | REN VM: A Virtual Machine for Privacy Preserving Computations
Loong Wang, CTO of Republic Protocol |
| 13:50 – 14:10 | Special Projects at Ethereum Foundation 2018
Virgil Griffth, Research Scientist at Ethereum Foundation |
| 14:10 – 14:30 | Reality_on_chain
David Knott, Researcher at OmiseGo |
| 14:30 – 15:10 | Panel: Security Tokens from the Investor’s Perspective
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| 15:10 – 15:40 | Coffee Break |
| 15:40 – 16:10 | Aergo Enterprise Blockchains and How They are Being Developed
Won Kim, Chief Science Officer at Aergo |
| 16:10 – 16:40 | Limitation of Scaling General Purpose Blockchains, the Case for Application-specific Scalability Solutions
Loi Luu, Co-founder of Kyber Network |
| 16:40 – 17:30 | Panel: Decentralization of Existing Financial Services
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| 17:30 – 18:20 | Panel: Growing the Developer Community: Recruiting and Education
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| 18:20 – 18:30 | Ending Remarks from Erica Kang, Founder of KryptoSeoul, Organizer of BUIDL Seoul 2018 |
| TIME | November 29th | November 30th |
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| 10:10 – 10:50 | Upgradable Smart Contract Framework & Developer Tools
Jongho Kim (CEO, Haechi Labs) |
 CryptoKitties AKA Dapper Labs
Benny Giang (Co-founder, Cryptokitties) |
| 10:50 – 11:30 | Consensus Systems and Finality Gadgets
Alistair Stewart (Research Lead, Polkadot) |
Buidling End-to-End Encrypted Applications Using the NuCypher Testnet
MacLane Wilkison (CEO, NuCypher) |
| 11:30 – 12:10 | Smart Contract Security Audit Workshop
Yohei Oka (Forward Deployed Engineer, Quantstamp) |
Spacemesh: Consensus via Mesh and Proof-of-Spacetime
Iddo Bentov (Chief Scientist, Spacemesh) |
| 12:10 – 13:10 | Lunch | Lunch |
| 13:10 – 13:50 | The Next Generation of Multisigs: Building with Gnosis Safe
Frederico Sabino (Software Engineer, Gnosis) |
Hack the Blockchain: Attacks & Security
Carl Lin (Senior Engineer, Solana) |
| 13:50 – 14:30 | Writing Safer Smart Contracts in Pact (Korean)
Hee Kyun Yun (Developer, Kadena) |
Exploiting Parallelism with Lightweight Threads in Klaytn
Sangmin Seo (Software Engineer, Klaytn) |
| 14:30 – 15:10 | A Media Specific Blockchain and Why that Matters
Brooklyn Earick (Chief Marketing Officer & Head of Partnerships, ARA Block) |
Smart Contracts on Bitcoin to Unlock Financial Inclusion
Alejandro Banzas (Global Community Coordinator, RSK Labs) |
| 15:10 – 15:50 | Blockchain Revisited: IoT Perspective
Yoonil Choi (System Architect, Security Expert, Principal Engineer, Samsung Electronics) |
A Data Scientist’s Insights in Blockchain / Cryptocurrency Industry and Upcoming Plans (Korean)
Seung-Taek (Esti) Park (CTO, Actwo Technologies) |
| 15:50 – 16:30 | CodeChain’s Pluggable, Programmable and Scalable Architecture (Korean)
Seung Woo Kim (Software Engineer, Kodebox) |
Spanking the Banks
Ameen Soleimani (CEO, Spankchain) |
| 16:30 – 17:10 | Buidling the Future of Open Source Work
Scott Moore (Tech Growth Lead, Gitcoin) |
Celer Network: Technology and Crypto Economics Architecture for Layer-2 Scalability
Qingkai Liang (Co-founder, Celer Network) |
| 17:10 – 17:50 | Decentralized Marketplaces for the Masses
Josh Fraser (Co-founder, Origin Protocol) |
Price Stability Mechanism without Stablecoins
Eddy Song (Partner, Decon) |
| 17:50 – 18:30 | Decentralized Platform for Personal Health Record Application
Seunghwan Kim (Senior Engineer, Medibloc) |
Social Crypto Ecosystem via Proof of Holding
Ki Young Ju (CEO, Team Blackbird) |
| Date | Events |
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| 2018. 11. 27 | Cosmos Meetup: Ready Validator One (for Game of Stakes) Time: 6:00 – 9:00pm / Location: SparkPlus SeolleungLink: https://www.meetup.com/ko-KR/bitfish-Korea-Blockchain-Meetups/events/256537551/ |
| 2018. 11. 28 | Pre-Party (Invite-only) |
| 2018. 11. 29 | Official Speaker Dinner (Invite-only) Time: 7:30 – 9:30pm / Location: Le Meridien Seoul |
| 2018. 11. 29 | Seoul Ethereum Meetup: Ethereum Layer-2 Scaling Solutions
Link: https://www.meetup.com/ko-KR/Seoul-Ethereum-Meetup/events/256646377/ |
| 2018. 11. 30 | Privacy & Security: The Decentralized Tech Stack |
| 2018. 11. 30 | The BUIDL AFTER PARTY by Kadena |
| 2018. 12. 01 | Discussion on Legal and Regulatory Framework for Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezPib6VFkw8X7SSbA7gy4ffYt0F14hErlJJ7hS50E6-dK2Ig/viewform |
| 2018. 12. 01 | Brunch over Blockchain @ Klaytn Time: 11:00am – 1:00pm / Location: Parnas Tower 27FLink:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brunch-over-blockchain-klaytn-registration-52661263256 |
| 2018. 12. 01 | KryptoSeoul x Polkadot (Polkadot Community Launch – Seoul) Time: 3:00 – 5:00pm / Location: SparkPlus SeolleungLink: http://meetu.ps/e/G1T3J/BsWPm/d |
| 2018. 11. 30 – 12. 02 | Startup weekend Seoul: Blockchain
Link: http://communities.techstars.com/south-korea/seoul/startup-weekend/13770 |
| 2018. 12. 04 | Origin & Carry Protocol Meetup in Seoul Time: 7:00 – 10:00pm / Location: Sparkplus SamsungLink: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/origin-carry-protocol-meetup-in-seoul-tickets-52496525521 |
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