Blockchain Application Stanford Summit @ SBC 2024 is the in-person focal point of Stanford’s Blockchain entrepreneurial ecosystem; gathering our global community of researchers, engineers, and thought leaders to connect and explore blockchain’s latest topics in depth.
BASS is brought to you by the Stanford Blockchain Club, Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, Crypto & Blockchain Alumni of Stanford, with special thanks to Stanford’s Center for Blockchain Research and Professor Dan Boneh for their support.
Please find the agenda below:
9:00 AM Check-in
9:30 AM Welcome Remarks
Kun Peng, Founder at Stanford Blockchain Accelerator (SBA) & Founder at Blockchain Application Stanford Summit (BASS)
Dan Boneh, Professor of Applied Cryptography at Stanford University, Co-Director at Stanford Center for Blockchain Research, Senior Research Advisor at a16z
9:40 AM John Wu, President at Ava Labs & Stephen Buttolph, Chief Protocol Architect at Ava Labs
10:00 AM Ed Felten, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Arbitrum
10:20 AM Daniel Lubarov, Co-Founder at Polygon Zero & Inventor of Plonky2 and Plonky3
10:40 AM Dan Boneh, Professor of Applied Cryptography at Stanford University, Co-Director at Stanford Center for Blockchain Research, Senior Research Advisor at a16z
11:00 AM Rachin Kalakheti, Founder and CEO at Metalayer (SBA Startup)
11:10 AM Daniel Marin, CEO & Founder at Nexus & Don Beaver, VP of Cryptography at Nexus & ex-Chief Cryptographer at Jump Crypto (SBA Startup)
11:30 AM Break
11:40 AM Ben Fisch, CS Professor at Yale University & Co-Founder and CEO at Espresso Systems
12:00 PM Georgi Koreli, Co-Founder & CEO at Hinkal; Nika Koreli, Co-Founder & CTO at Hinkal (SBA Startup)
12:10 PM Ari Juels, CS Professor at Cornell Tech, Co-Director of the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3), Chief Scientist at Chainlink
12:30 PM Sam Trautwein, Founder and CEO at Mach Exchange (SBA Startup)
12:40 PM Lunch Break
1:30 PM Crypto & AI Panel: Himanshu Tyagi, Co-Founder at Sentient; Naveen Durvasula, Founding Member and Researcher at Ritual; Moderator: Gil Rosen, Managing Partner at Blockchain Builders Fund
2:00 PM Bill Sun, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at PIN AI (SBA Startup)
2:10 PM Bowen Wang, Head of Protocol at NEAR
2:30 PM Georgios Konstantopoulos, CTO and General Partner at Paradigm
2:50 PM Shresth Agrawal, Co-Founder at CEO at POD (SBA Startup)
3:05 PM Keone Hon, Co-Founder and CEO at Monad
3:25 PM Aaron Greenblatt, Founder and CEO at Turbo Protocol (SBA Startup)
3:35 PM Break
3:45 PM Elizabeth Stark, Founder and CEO at Lightning Labs
4:05 PM Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-Founder and CEO at Starkware
4:25 PM Carter Feldman, Co-Founder and CEO at QeD Protocol
4:35 PM Break
4:45 PM Gordon Liao, Chief Economist at Circle
5:05 PM Chopping Blocks BASS Edition: Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly; Tarun Chitra, Founder and CEO at Gauntlet; Robert Leschner, CEO at SuperState and ex-CEO and Founder at Compound; Avichal Garg, Managing Partner at Electric Capital
5:35 PM Onchain Assets Panel: Nathan Allman, Founder & CEO at Ondo Finance; Robert Leschner – CEO at SuperState and ex-CEO and Founder at Compound; Moderator: Xochitl Cazador, Chief Ecosystem Growth Officer at Celo
6:05 PM Closing Remarks
We’re grateful for sponsorship from QeD Protocol (qedprotocol.com), Story Protocol (storyprotocol.xyz), Polygon (polygon.technology), Starkware (starkware.co), Near (near.org), Blockchain Builders Fund, Cooley (cooley.com), Nexus Labs (nexus.xyz), Mach (mach.exchange), Hinkal (hinkal.pro), PIN AI, Metalayer (x.com/metalayerlabs), Turbo Protocol (turboprotocol.xyz).
This is a side event for The Science of Blockchain Conference 2024