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 INQUIRIESSchedule 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