DISCON 1 Schedule

Boulder Theater - Friday, August 3rd


8:00 AM Registration & Refreshments
8:55 AM

Welcome to DISCON

9:00 AM

Keynote: Why Cryptocurrencies Matter

Charles Hoskinson

Cryptocurrency, Philosophy

10:00 AM

Break & Refreshments

10:15 AM

Self-Sovereign Identity & Connecting The Web Of Trust

Jonny Howle

More Info | Digital Identity, UPORT, Ethereum

11:00 AM

Break & Refreshments

11:15 AM

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blockchain

Anthony Meisner & Jim Merrion

More Info | Blockchain, Real Estate, Disruption

11:50 AM

Break

12:00 PM

How we Setup our Buisness to Accecpt Digital Currency Payments

Kevin Liebrock

More Info | Cryptocurrency, Business, Adoption

12:30 PM

Lunch break

1:30 PM

Crypto Tribalism: Divided We Fail

Kent Barton

More Info | Cryptocurrency, Futurism, Adoption

2:00 PM

Break

2:15 PM

Futarchy For Blockchain Governance: Solving Our Biggest Crisis

Alex Stokes

More Info | Decentralized, Blockchain, Governance

3:00 PM

break

3:15 PM

Using Blockchain to Build Better Film & Music Industries

G. Thomas Esmay

More Info | Blockchain, Music, Film

4:00 PM

break

4:15 PM

Panel: Cryptocurrency & UI/UX - The Road to Mass Adoption

Presenters: Brian Baker, Kate Johnson, Johny Howle & Sarah Morgan

Panel Abstract | Cryptcurrency, UI, UX

eTown Hall - Friday, August 3rd


9:00 AM

Keynote presentation at Boulder Theater

10:00 AM

I started Heating My House With Bitcoin in 2012. PoW & the Bitcoin SHA256 Stamp.

Jason Jarvis

More Info | Bitcoin, Mining

10:30 AM

Break & Refreshments

10:45 AM

Intro to Maker's Dai Stablecoin System

Jessica Salomon

More Info | Stable Coin, Ethereum, Intro

11:15 AM

Break

11:30 AM

Panel Discussion: Blockchain Disruption in The Music Industry

Presenters: UJO & Singular DTV

Panel Abstract | Blockchain, Music Industry

12:30 PM

Lunch break

1:30 PM

The Blockchain Universe in Asia & the coming 10 trillion dollar opportunity to disrupt

Karthik Iyer

More Info | Blockchain, Asia

2:15 PM

Break

2:30 PM

Delegated Proof of Stake, On-Chain Governance, and the Future of Tokenomics

Luke Stokes

More Info | DPOS, EOS, Tokens

3:15 PM

Break

3:30 PM

AI 3.0. The Convergence of Blockchain, AI, Cybersecurity at the edge of the Internet

David Allen Cohen

More Info | AI, Security, blockchain

4:00 PM

Break

4:15-5PM

Introducing Maker.js: a JavaScript SDK for Building on Maker

Ethan Bennett

More Info | Stable Coin, Ethereum

Boulder Theater - Saturday, August 4th


8:30-9:00 AM Refreshments
9:00 AM

Jared Polis Keynote Presentation

More Info | Blockchain, Technology, Government

9:30 AM

Keynote: The Future of Blockchain

Chelsea Rustrum

More Info | Blockchain, Futurism

9:45 AM

Break

10:00 AM

Mesh Networks of Human Beings

Kevin Owocki

More Info | Mesh, Networking

10:45 AM

Break

11:00 AM

Law Panel: Fear and Loving in U.S. Token Issuance

Larkin Renyolds, Yev Muchnik, Masha Prusakova, Paul Quigley

Case Notes | SEC, Tokens, ICO, Law

11:45 AM

break

12:00 PM

Crypto Hacks

Greg Foss

More Info | Cryptocurrency, Hacking, Security

12:30 PM

Lunch break

1:30 PM

Insane In The Blockchain

Tony Arceri

More Info | Blockchain, Hype

2:00 PM

break

2:15 PM

How Game Theory Shapes Blockchain Design

Jordan Earls

More Info | QTUM, Game Theory, Blockchain

3:00 PM

break

3:15 PM

Regulation of cryptocurrencies & ICOs in US and around the world

Masha Prusakova

More Info | Blockchain, global, regulation

3:45 PM

break

4:00 PM

Techniques for Scaling Blockchain: GPUs, Pipelining, Storage, and Synchronization

Greg Fitzgerald

More Info | Blockchain, Scaling

4:45 PM

WE MADE IT! DISCON 1 Closing Remarks

eTown Hall - Saturday, August 4th



9:00 AM

Keynote Presentation at Boulder Theater

10:00 AM

The future of Dapp's & How It Relates To Core Infrastructure & Interoperability

Justin Caswell

More Info | Dapps, Futurism

10:30 AM

Break & Refreshments

10:45 AM

Making Dollars out of Sense- a Guide to Crypto Taxation

Andrew Kernosky, EA

More Info | Cryptocurrency, US, Taxes

11:30 AM

Break

11:45 AM

Failure is not an Option

Keagan McClelland

More Info | Trustware, Rust, Development

12:30 PM

Lunch break

1:30 PM

Designing Work Around the Human Experience

Ben Stewart

More Info | Blockchain, AI, AR/VR, IOT

2:00 PM

Practical Blockchain Impacts

Krista Pontius

Talk Abstract | Blockchain, Social Impact

2:30 PM

Break

2:45 PM

Panel Discussion: Blockchain & Social Impact

Chelsea Rustrum, Daisy Ozim, Kylen McClintock, Michele Ostrander

Panel Abstract | Blockchain, Social Impact

DISCON Workshops, Breakouts, After Dark


8/3 & 8/4, 9-5PM

Alt Ethos creates Distributed Consensus

Where: Boulder Theater

8/3 & 8/4, 10-4PM

Ujo Music Creators Lounge

Where: eTown Recording Studios

8/3, 3-3:15PM

Derivatives, the Blockchain & MARKET Protocol Conversation & QA with Collins Brown & Robert Jordan

Where: Boulder Theater Lounge

8/3, 4:15PM

EOS Meetup

Where: Boulder Theater Lounge

8/4, 11:30AM, 12:30PM, 1:30PM, 3:30PM

Mike Clear's Hands on Mining Workshop

Lower level, eTown Hall

8/4, 9:30 PM

DISCON offical afterparty with Gora Gora

Post Brewing