IBC Istanbul

Name: IBC Istanbul
Start: 2023-11-14T11:00:00.000+03:00
End: 2023-11-14T18:00:00.000+03:00
Location: Grand Pera Emek Sahnesi

Hosted by Polymer Labs & IBC Summit

Grand Pera Emek Sahnesi

Beyoğlu, İstanbul

Registration

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About Event

While the rollup-centric roadmap continues to successfully scale Ethereum, other infrastructure considerations remain - interoperability chief among them. IBC Istanbul is an educational event featuring technical workshops, talks, and panels to empower Ethereum developers to achieve a greater degree of secure connectivity between Ethereum, its rollups, and other chains than previously possible.

📣 Agenda

The full IBC Istanbul agenda will be released soon! In the meantime, know that you can count on participation from leading engineers from Polymer Labs, the Interchain Foundation, and other teams working at the intersection of Ethereum, IBC, and adjacent technologies.

📍 Location

The Emek Stage at Grand Pera, a historical theater located in the heart of Istanbul’s historic Beyoğlu neighborhood, has highlighted the best of cinema and performing arts since 1924 and now hosts more than 1000 special events per year.

👉 Address

Hüseyinağa, İstiklal Cd. No:56, 34435 Beyoğlu
İstanbul, Türkiye

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Agenda

11:00 am - Doors Open
11:00 am - 12:00 pm - Food and Mingling
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm - Welcome
- Speaker: Peter Kim, Polymer Labs
12:05 pm - 12:40 pm - Investor Panel
- Moderator: Peter Kim, Polymer Labs
- Panelists:
  - Mathijs van Esch, Maven 11
  - Yuan Han Li, Blockchain Capital
  - Roy Lu, Longhash Ventures
  - Clayton Menzel, Figment Capital

12:40 pm - 1:05 pm - IBC Light Clients: The Lightsaber for the IBC Jedi
- Speaker: Aditya Sripal, Interchain Foundation
1:05 pm - 1:30 pm - You Could’ve Invented Eigenlayer - How Does Eigenlayer Actually Work?
- Speaker: Kydo, Eigenlayer

1:30 pm - 1:55 pm - Ethereum’s Interoperability Hub
- Speaker: Bo Du, Polymer Labs
1:55 pm - 2:00 pm - Break
2:00 pm - 2:25 pm - Integration Paths for IBC on Rollups
- Speaker: Serdar Turkmenafsar, Interchain Foundation

2:25 pm - 2:50 pm - IBC is Cool and All, But What Can You Do With It?
- Speaker: Susannah Evans, Interchain Foundation
2:50 pm - 2:55 pm - Break
2:55 pm - 3:30 pm - IBC to Ethereum Panel
- Moderator: Sebastien Couture, Interop Ventures
- Panelists:
  - Bo Du, Polymer Labs
  - Karel Kaiser, Union
3:30 pm - 3:55 pm - Interoperability Between Proof and Committee Based Systems
- Speaker: Callum Waters, Celestia
3:55 pm - 4:30 pm - Modular Infrastructure Panel
- Moderator: Mads Mathiesen, Maven 11
- Panelists:
  - Josh Bowen, Astria Labs
  - Cem Ozer, Sovereign Labs
  - Vaibhav Chellani, Socket
4:30 pm - 4:35 pm - Closing
- Speaker: Peter Kim, Polymer Labs

🗓️ Workshop Room Agenda

1:00 pm - 1:55 pm - Deploy a ZK Tendermint Light Client on Ethereum in 15 Minutes
- Presenter: Uma Roy, Succinct Labs

About Polymer

Polymer is revolutionizing interoperability by providing the most secure, neutral, and open protocol for deploying cross-chain applications. With our robust mesh network, developers can seamlessly integrate decentralized apps across chains.

Interested in crosschain development? Sign up to get early access to our testnet at http://www.polymerlabs.org.

About Interchain Foundation

The Interchain Foundation (ICF) is pushing the frontiers of blockchain-related infrastructure. As stewards of the interchain, we fund and advance the creation of an interoperable, sustainable, and community-owned decentralized ecosystem.

Among others, we help maintain the CometBFT, Cosmos SDK, CosmWasm, CosmJS, Cosmos Hub and the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) Protocol.

Interested in developing with the Interchain Stack? Join our Developer academy (https://academy.interchain.io/) or get support to launch your project (https://join.builders/).

Learn more about the ICF at https://www.interchain.io.

About OpenIBC

OpenIBC is an initiative focused on the growth, evolution, and development of the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol across all blockchain ecosystems.

To learn more about IBC, check out https://openibc.com/.