BASS ETHDenver

​BASS (Blockchain Application Stanford Summit) is the in-person focal point of Stanford’s Blockchain entrepreneurial ecosystem. It’s an event series gathering our global community of researchers, engineers, and thought leaders to connect and explore blockchain's latest topics in depth.

​BASS EthDenver will be hosted at a full day of speakers from 930am-530pm, serving lunch at noon, and followed by a happy hour until 830pm.

Please find the agenda below:

​Time

​Event

​9:00 AM: Check-in

​9:30 AM: Welcome Remarks

​9:40 AM: Juan Benet, Founder and CEO at Protocol Labs

​10:02 AM: Brian Retford, Co-Founder and CEO at RISC Zero

​10:25 AM: Daniel Marin, Founder and CEO at Nexus (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator startup) & Jens Groth, Chief Scientist at Nexus (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator startup)

​11:00 AM: Benedikt Bunz, CS Professor at NYU & Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Espresso Systems

​11:22 AM: Irene Wu, Head of Strategy at LayerZero

​11:45 AM: Nick White, COO at Celestia

​12:08 PM: Michael Heinrich, Co-Founder and CEO at Zero Gravity (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator startup)

​12:30 PM: Sandeep Nailwal, Co-Founder at Polygon

​12:50 PM: Lunch Break

​2:00 PM: Dan Albert, Executive Director at Solana Foundation

​2:22 PM: Ben Fielding, Co-Founder at Gensyn & Greg Osuri, Founder at Akash Network & Guy Wuollet, Deal Partner at a16z. Moderator: Steven Willinger, Partner at Blockchain Builders Fund

​2:50 PM: Hoansoo Lee, Co-Founder at Exabits (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator startup)

​3:12 PM: Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-Founder & CEO at StarkWare

​3:35 PM: Daniel Shorr, Co-Founder & CEO at Modulus (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator startup)

​4:10 PM: Zac Williamson, Co-Founder & CEO at Aztec

​4:33 PM: Derek Rein, CTO at WalletConnect & Charles Guillemet, CTO at Ledger. Moderator: Kelsey McGuire, CGO Shardeum & Frmr Head of Exp Marketing ConsenSys,

​5:00 PM: Krish Chelikavada, Co-Founder & CEO at 0xPass (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator startup)

​5:23 PM: Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder at Near

​5:45 PM: Joey Krug, Partner at Founders Fund & David Hoffman, Co-Owner at Bankless & Nikil Viswanathan, Co-Founder & CEO at Alchemy. Moderator: Gil Rosen, Managing Partner at Blockchain Builders Fund

​6:10 PM: Networking

​7:00 PM-Midnight: Happy Hour till late

​Special thanks to our sponsors - BBF, Polygon, Solana, Shardeum, CEiC, IOBC, Near, LayerZero, Gensyn, CoinTracker, StarkWare, EisnerAmper, QED, Dephy