Genesis 2019
April 23-24, 2019Relive Rebuild 2019
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EVENT OVERVIEW
Join the 2019 Rebuild Conference at its first installment: Genesis, as we host presenters on both sides of one of the most important issues of our time – technology and its effects on society. You’ll hear from thought leaders, investors, journalist, authors and academia on a variety of topics centered around the internet, the problems it creates, and new advances in blockchain infrastructure aimed at solving them. We want to invite like-minded individuals to join in advancing dialogue on these important issues.
GUEST SPEAKERS
More guest speakers are being announced weekly
Robert W. McChesney
Author, Activist and Professor of Communication
Matt Spoke
Chief Executive Officer
Ryan Zurrer
Director
Ethan Buchman
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Ann Cavoukian
Three-term Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
Dr. Cathy Barrera
Partner, Founding Economist
Corey Segall
Co-founder & President
Alex Tapscott
Co-Founder
Kevin Owocki
Founder, Scientist, Chief Janitor
Lane Rettig
Core Developer
Peter Kieltyka
Chief Executive Officer
Nitin Gaur
Director of IBM Blockchain Labs
Russell Verbeeten
Managing Director
Conor Svensson
Founder
Dele Atanda
Founder & CEO
Brendan Lee
Chief Executive Officer
Gregory Markou
Partner & VP Engineering
Yao Sun
Director of Engineering
David Winterstein
Chief Executive Officer
Sergey Gorbunov
Chief Cryptographer and Head of Security Research
Ryan Selkis
Chief Executive Officer
Konstantin Richter
Chief Executive Officer
Patrick Mandic
CEO
Michael O'Rourke
Chief Executive Officer
Eden Dhaliwal
Partner
Chinmay Patel
Chief Executive Officer
Dave Balter
Chief Executive Officer
Jeff Disher
Engineer
John Fiorelli
Regional Partner
Sascha Darius Mojtahedi
CEO
Jack Zampolin
Product Manager
Alex McDougall
Chief Investor Officer
Ron Resnick
Executive Director
Michael Rose
Partner
Marcin Abram
Lead Research Scientist
Mathieu Glaude
President and CEO
Ali Shariff
Engineer
Shannon Grinnell
Producer + Host
Jay Kolbe
EVP
Sam Pajot-Phipps
Strategy
Tanner Mirrlees
Associate Professor
Angela Lee
Blockchain Engineer
Charlie Morris
Co-Founder
Mike Mason
VP, Ecosystem
Casey Caruso
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Karim Zaine
Business Operations Lead
Matthew Roszak
Chairman, Co-Founder
Carl Mercier
Principal
Ken Seto
CEO/Co-Founder
Lorien Gabel
Co-Founder
Samm Desmond
Desmond
Albert Lai
Co-Founder and CEO
Yorke Rhodes
Blockchain Engineering
Slava Balasanov
Founder
Dr. Zeynep Gurguc
Research Associate
Interested in Speaking? We'd love to hear from you.
SPEAKING INQUIRIES
Schedule Snapshot
Day 1
Day 2
Door Open / Registration
8:30 am
Welcome and Intro
MC
9:30 am
The Internet's Corporate Owners
Robert McChesney
9:45 am
Expo (Hacker Room)
Partners
9:45 am
What it Means to "REBUILD" the Internet
Matt Spoke
10:15 am
Let's Get Rid of Surveillance fueled by Centralization
Dr. Ann Cavoukian
10:45 am
Blockchain Revolution: Building the New Internet of Value
Alex Tapscott
11:15 am
Lunch
11:45 am
Token Engineering Meet Up (Hacker Room)
Dr. Zeynep Gurguc
1:00 pm
Guiding Philosophies of the Future of the Internet
Sascha Shufl
1:00 pm
State Machines and Stakeholders
Ethan Buchman
1:30 pm
Token Engineering Meet Up (Hacker Room)
Marcin Abram
1:40 pm
State of Web3
Ryan Zurer
2:00 pm
Token Engineering Meet Up (Hacker Room)
Slava Balasanov
2:20 pm
How Enterprise is Approaching Blockchain in 2019
Panelists
2:30 pm
The Gig Economy: Dangerous Monopolies Decoupled by Decentralization
Kevin Owocki
3:45 pm
The Role of Tokens and Crypto Economics in web3 (Hacker Room)
Eden Dhaliwal
3:45 pm
Blockers towards progress (Scale, Throughput, Usability, Volatility)
Panelists
4:15 pm
Lessons Learned on a Journey towards Next-Gen Consensus
Yao Sun
4:15 pm
Gaming: How this $50B industry is being changed by Web3
Peter Kieltyka
4:45 pm
Measuring impact, the FCAS Model for ranking cryptocurrencies (Hacker Room)
David Balter
4:45 pm
Blockchain Communities and Their Emergent Governance
Panelists
5:05 pm
Door Open / Registration
8:30 am
Welcome and Intro
MC
9:00 am
The Digital Revolution and its Discontents: Social Power, Inequality and Resistance in the Digital Age
Tanner Mirrlees
9:15 am
Fireside: How Apple and Google have Monopolized Mobile App Distribution
Mike Mason, Albert Lai, Carl Mercier, Ken Seto
9:45 am
Ring 1: Governance (Hacker Room)
Greg Markou
10:00 am
How Do We Fund Web3 for Sustainability in the Long Term
Panelists
10:15 am
The Blockchain Hype Cycle, Where Are We Now?
Kesem Frank
10:45 am
Ring 2: Barriers to Adoption (Hacker Room)
Sam Pajot-Phipps
10:45 am
Blockchain Governance: Challenges & Opportunity
Dr. Cathy Barrera
11:15 am
Lunch
11:45 am
Web3 Plumbing, the Economics of Decentralized Nodes
Panelists
1:00 pm
Barriers to Developer Adoption (Hacker Room)
Corey Segall
1:00 pm
Cryptocurrency Transparency Reporting
Ryan Selkis
1:30 pm
Scaling Blockchains with Efficient Cryptography (Hacker Room)
Sergey Gorbunov
1:30 pm
Business Models and Governance for Dapps
Panelists
2:00 pm
Virtual Machine Design, tradeoffs and design thinking (Hacker Room)
Jeff Disher, Lane Rettig
2:00 pm
How Cross-Chain Collaboration will Scale Open Source
Greg Markou
2:30 pm
Building Developer Tools & Ecosystem for Web 3.0 (Hacker Room)
Chinmay Patel
2:30 pm
Blockchains of the future, Where the Tech is Taking Us
Ali Sharif
3:00 pm
Workshop: Deep dive into Nodesmith Architecture (Hacker Room)
Sam Desmond
3:00 pm
Mobility of the Future
David Winterstein
3:30 pm
Workshop: Building a dApp with the Cosmos SDK (Hacker Room)
Jack Zampolin
3:30 pm
Workshop: Introduction to Aion Web3 using Java (Hacker Room)
Angela Lee
4:00 pm
Closing Keynote
TBD
4:00 pm