Stanford BASSLite + PIN AI @Devcon
The Stanford Blockchain community is teaming up with PIN AI & BBF for another Blockchain Applications Stanford Summit (BASS) event at Devcon!
Join us for our BASS Lite DEVCON event cohosted with PIN AI & BBF; bringing technical industry thought leaders and upcoming Stanford teams together to share their perspectives and latest innovation.
Huge thanks to our sponsors:
Starkware, NEAR Protocol, PIN AI, Blockchain Builders Fund
12:30 PM Check-in & Lunch
1:00 PM Welcome Remarks
1:05 PM Fireside Chat "AI & Ethereum" with Alexander Hicks, AI Researcher at Ethereum Foundation moderated by Jay Yu, Investor at Pantera & President of Stanford Blockchain Club
1:25 PM Keynote Speech: "Coordination Layer for Personal AI" Ben Wu, Cofounder at PIN AI & Regan Peng, Head of engineering at PIN AI
1:40 PM Keynote Speech: "Delivering the Promise of Blockchain for AI" by Illia Polosukhin, Cofounder at Near
2:00 PM Panel "Web3/AI Traction" with Trevor Koverko, CEO at Sapien; Jeremy Hazan, Business Operations at Hyperbolic; Jonathan Jaranilla, CIO at Exabits; Moderator: Gil Rosen, Managing Partner at Blockchain Builders Fund & President of Stanford Blockchain Accelerator (SBA)
2:30 PM Panel "Web3/AI Landscape" with Moderator: Guy Wuollet, Partner at a16z; Ben Fielding, Cofounder at Gensyn; Saneel Srini, Founding Member at Ritual; Regan Peng, Head of engineering at PIN AI
3:00 PM Panel "AI Agents Panel" with Z Feng, Cofounder at Nectar; Felix Meng, Cofounder at Xtrace; Ash Ahmed, CEO at Axal; Moderator: Steven Willinger, Partner at Blockchain Builders Fund
3:30 PM Break
3:35 PM Fireside chat "ZkGM" with Jens Groth, Chief Scientist at Nexus & Inventor of Groth16; Moderator: Sanat Kapur, Junior Partner at Dragonfly
3:55 PM Keynote speech "1GB Blocks and unstoppable applications" by Nick White, COO at Celestia
4:10 PM Keynote Speech: "CIRC: Coordinated Inter-Rollup Communication" by Ben Fisch, Cofounder at Espresso Systems
4:25 PM Keynote speech "Open Tech, Blockchain, and Settlement" by Robert Drost, Chairman at Eigen Foundation
4:40 PM Fireside Chat "Why the future of AI depends on blockchains" with Michael Heinrich, Cofounder and CEO Zero Gravity (0G); Moderator: Roy Lu, Head of Strategy Zero Gravity (0G)
4:55 PM Break
5:00 PM Fireside Chat "Scaling Ethereum with the Superchain" with Ben Jones, Cofounder at Optimism; Moderator: Xochitl Cazador, Chief of Staff at Optimism
5:20 PM Keynote speech "Building a future-proof L2" by Oren Katz, COO at StarkWare
5:40 PM Panel "Hot Takes & Execution Environments" with Jordi Baylina, Co-founder Polygon & Privado ID; Ben Livshits, CTO at Eclipse; Lily Liu, President at Solana Foundation; Moderator: Tom Schmidt, General Partner at Dragonfly
6:10 PM Closing Remarks
Hosted by the BASS Leadership team:
Gil Rosen - President Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, GP@BBF
Kun Peng - Founder Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, GP@BBF
Steven Willinger - Colead Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, GP@BBF
Jay Yu - President Stanford Blockchain Club
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Additional thanks to:
Radarblock for being a media-partner. Radarblock is a Web3 native growth agency.
Blockchain Builders Fund for event production.