NEAR SF Builder Day ๐
โThe NEAR HACKS team is onboarding Rust and Javascript developers to the NEAR ecosystem at the NEAR SF Builder Day on December 10th from 10 am-7 pm! ๐
โAfter our stops in Miami, Austin, and New York City, we are stoked to meet more builders in San Francisco!
โNEAR's key ecosystem players will unpack the most cutting-edge innovations and opportunities across the NEAR ecosystem like decentralized and censorship-resistant frontends, Proximity Labs' $10M Orderbook DEX grant program, NEAR's Developer DAO, Aurora Plus, and more!
โJoin us at Digital Garage, a renowned startup incubator and innovation hub in Downtown SF for a full day of insightful talks and hands-on technical workshops that spotlights builders in the NEAR ecosystem. Hear from founders blazing uncharted trails in the realm of decentralized technology and learn from the developers at the forefront of the tech!
โWe encourage builders and enthusiasts with varying backgrounds & skill sets to register and attend.
โEvent capacity is extremely limited, register now!
โWhat to expect
โAn introductory talk covering the NEAR Protocol landscape, and a forward-looking keynote from Alex Skidanov, co-founder of NEAR Protocol.
โTalks from Web3 startup founders, seasoned investors, NEAR-native developers, and other top ecosystem players building the infrastructure and tooling to power the open web
โEducational and informative technical workshops from NEAR developers teaching the basics to start building your very own dApp on NEAR!
โEvent Agenda
โ10:00 AM - 10:45 AM: Venue Open w/ Snacks & Coffee
โ10:45 AM-11:00 AM: Event Introduction by Nneoma Kanu, Project Lead at NEAR HACKS
โ11:00 AM-11:45 AM: Introduction to NEAR Development in JavaScript by Zahid Islam, DevRel at NEAR SF
โ11:00 AM- 11:30 AM: NEAR in the Past, Present, Future by Cameron Dennis, CEO of Banyan Collective
โ11:45 PM-12:30 PM: Introduction to NEAR Development in Rust by Dorian Crutcher, DevRel at Pagoda
โ11:30 AM-12:00 PM: Introducing NEAR OS by Alex Chiochhi, PM at NEAR's Founders Office
โ12:00 PM-12:30 PM: The Developer Governance DAO by Maksym Zavershynskyi, Head of Engineering at Pagoda
โ12:30 PM-1:00 PM: Navigating NEAR Data Infra by Tiffany Yijia Gao, Product Manager at Pagoda
โ12:30 PM-1:00 PM: Building on Orderbook DEXs by Kendall Cole, GM at Proximity Labs
โ1:00 PM- 2:00 PM: ๐ฅ Lunch Break
โ2:00 PM-2:30 PM: Ensuring Scalability w/ Nightshade & Doomslug by Alex Skidnov, Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol
โ2:30 PM-3:00 PM: The NEAR Protocol Roadmap by Bowen Wang, Head of Protocol at Pagoda
โ3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Securing a Smart Contract Audit by Christian Cuffy, Head of Accounts at Ottersec
โ3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Decentralized Front-Ends on NEAR Social by Evgeny Kuzyakov, Founder of NEAR Social
โ3:30 PM-4:00 PM: What Makes Aurora Special? by Boris Polania, DevRel at Aurora Labs
โ4:00 PM-4:30 PM: โก๏ธ Break
โ4:30 PM-5:00 PM: Ref V2 & SDK by Lokp Ray, Researcher at Ref Finance
โ4:30 PM-5:00 PM: Fundraising in a Bear Market by Ishan Goyal, Partnerships & Dealflow at Orange DAO, and Linh Tan, Head of Operations at Open Web Collective. Moderated by Carol Xie, Blockchain at Berkeley
โ5:00 PM-5:30 PM: Decentralized Wireless Networks by Suruchi Gupta, Co-founder GIANT Protocol
โ5:30 PM-6:00 PM: DAO Action Recipes by Jordan Gray, AstroDAO
โ6:00 PM - 6:15 PM: Closing Remarks
โ6:00 PM-7:00 PM: ๐ธ Happy Hour
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