Yale Blockchain Club Side Event

​We're thrilled to gather Yale community members, including relationship builders, founders, investors, and researchers! Join us for an engaging event where we'll dive into the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in the Web3 market and the convergence of blockchain and AI. Enjoy stimulating discussions, enlightening talks, gourmet food and drinks, and networking opportunities with fellow crypto enthusiasts!

​

​​Agenda:

​​1:00pm - 1:30pm: Register, drinks & networking

​​1:30pm - 2:00pm: Keynote speaker - Professor Fan Zhang, Yale University

​​2:00pm - 2:30pm: Keynote speaker - Anthony Chan, Velocity Capital

​​2:30pm - 3:00pm: Founders Panel

​​3:00pm - 3:30pm: VC Panel

​3:30pm - 6:00pm: Happy Hour and Networking

​

​​Speakers:

​Special Guest

​Professor Fan Zhang | Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Yale University

​------

​VC Panel

​Jonah Burian | Venture Investor and Researcher, Blockchain Capital

​Derek Walkush | Investment Partner, Variant

​Edison Leung | Investment Director, Web3.com Ventures

​Anthony Chan | General Partner, Velocity Capital

​------

​Founders Panel

​Edison Siu | Co-founder, Solo

​​Jingfei | Co-founder, Morphic

​​Ted | Co-founder, Dill

​Leanid Palkhouski | Head of Ecosystem, Network3

​Pak Ho Chau | Co-founder, Moti

​

​​About The Hosts:

Solo, founded by Edison Siu (Yale MBA, '24), is building the most powerful backend for Sybil resistance with continuous humanity verification. Utilizing cutting-edge fully decentralized zkHE biometric verification, Solo ensures every user interaction is performed by real and unique individuals. Empowered by Solo, dApps can incentivize and reward users from diverse backgrounds, ensuring broader and more accurate data collection. Join Solo in redefining trust in Web3 and safeguarding the future of humanity verification.

​​Morphic is an unparalleled secure AI inference layer for all DeAI infras. We exclusively propose the cutting-edge teeFHE tech stack, powering existing AI portals to deliver secure AI with unprecedented efficiency, verifiability and confidentiality. By seamlessly integrating with existing AI pipeline, Morphic enables secure AI applications for both Web2/Web3, facilitating secure AI solutions for both the present and the future.

​​Dill is the most scalable Data Availability network, fully compatible with the Danksharding roadmap.

​Network3 is a revolutionary technology that builds a dedicated AI Layer2. It designed to help AI developers worldwide, to inference, train and validate models in scale quickly, conveniently, and efficiently through AI model optimization and compression, federated learning, edge computing, and confidential computing.

​MOTI is revolutionizing digital identity by empowering users to own and monetize their digital footprints. With self-sovereign identities (DIDs) and verifiable credentials, MOTI transforms real-life activities into valuable data assets. By prioritizing user-owned social graphs and a tokenized economy, MOTI captures the $3.2 trillion data economy for individuals, not corporations. Businesses can seamlessly issue credentials for easy onboarding, while users benefit from decentralized professional networking and data access tools. Join MOTI in redefining digital identity ownership and creating a future where our digital lives generate real value.