Agenda

Nov 6th: 9am-5pm

Nov 7th: 9am-1pm

Location: Hotel ICON

Registration required. Next to PolyU. 17 Science Museum Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, HK

Nov 6. Stage A

08:30 | 30m | Door Opens

GM coffee

09:00 | 10m | Opening

GM, Hong Kong!

MC of the day:

• Ivan V. Ivanov, Global CEO, WOW Summit

• Vincent Chan, Growth, Astar

• Hanis Harmiles, Founder, Reinvent DAO

09:10 | 20m | Fireside

HK Web3: How Stable is the Level of Friendliness?

• Mod: Ivan V. Ivanov, Global CEO, WOW Summit; Founding Partner, UVECON.VC

• Rachel Lee, Senior Manager, FinTech, Cyberport

09:30 | 10m | Opening

Polkadot

Polkadot HK Day: Runway to Polkadot Blockchain Academy

• Vincent Chan, Growth, Astar

09:40 | 20m | Present

Polkadot

The Polkadot Game: Building the Future of Web3

• Elaine Zhu, General Manager, Asia, Parity Technologies (Polkadot)

10:00 | 20m | Present

InvestHK: A Future Unlimited

• Jayne Chan, Head of StartmeupHK, InvestHK

10:20 | 20m | Present

Polkadot

Web3, What is It Really?

• Filippo Franchini, Technical Educator, Web3 Foundation

10:40 | 20m | Present

Polkadot

Parachain Auction & Crowdloan Mechanism

• Mario Altenburger, Managing Partner & CFO, Harbour Industrial Capital

11:00 | 40m | Panel

Polkadot

New Crypto Regime, Tailwind for Family Offices & VCs

• Mod: Max Rebol, Managing Partner & CEO, Harbour Industrial Capital

• Jademont Zheng, Founding Partner, Waterdrip Capital

• Hampton Tao, Investment Manager, New Heritage

• Theo Rame, Managing Partner, Caravage; CEO, Eldora

• Shiau Sin Yen

11:40 | 40m | Panel

Polkadot

Navigating the Web3 Venture Landscape

• Mod: Mario Altenburger, Managing Partner & CFO, Harbour Industrial Capital

• Rae Deng, Head of Engagement, Parity Technologies (Polkadot)

• Betty Wang, Marketing Manager, Jsquare; DFG

• Ray Xiao, Senior Director, IOSG Ventures

• Mark Cachia, Founder, Scytale Ventures

• Lawrence Chu

12:20 | 30m | Break

Break

5-star hotel light lunch

12:50 | 20m | Present

Polkadot

CESS: Modular Blockchain and Decentralized Cloud Network

▴ Demo

• Jessie Dai, Co-Founder, CESS

• Alex Liu, Developer Community Lead, CESS

13:10 | 20m | Present

Polkadot

Litentry: Use Your Identity with Privacy Preserving Credentials

▴ Demo

• Hanwen Cheng, Founder & CEO, Litentry

13:30 | 20m | Present

Polkadot

Moonbeam: Cross-Chain Connected Smart Contract Platform

▴ Demo

• Wuzhong Zhu, DevRel Engineer, Moonbeam

13:50 | 30m | Panel

Polkadot

Bridges: Moving Data and Tokens Between Blockchains

• Mod: Max Rebol, Managing Partner & CEO, Harbour Industrial Capital

• Wuzhong Zhu, DevRel Engineer, Moonbeam

• Terry Lam, Co-Founder, NUTS Finance

14:20 | 20m | Present

Polkadot

Polkadot 2.0 Ideology: Asynchronous Backing and Agile Coretime

• Filippo Franchini, Technical Educator, Web3 Foundation

14:40 | 20m | Present

Polkadot

Web3Go: Data Intelligence Network

▴ Demo

• Hao Ding, Founder & CEO, Web3Go

15:00 | 10m | Present

Polkadot

Tanssi: Polkadot 2.0 with AppChain

• Christine Lee, Head of Business Development, Tanssi

15:10 | 10m | Present

Polkadot

Astar: Whats Next for Astar?

• Vincent Chan, Growth, Astar

15:20 | 50m | Panel

Polkadot

Interoperability: Cross-Chain Communication

• Mod: Max Rebol, Managing Partner & CEO, Harbour Industrial Capital

• Thibault Perréard, Head of Strategy, Bifrost Finance

• Andre Ringdorfer, Senior Manager Strategy & BD, Heliswap

• Jayant Ramanand, Co-Founder, Mantra Chain

• Ben Stani, Director of BD, Matrixport

• Tee Ahmed, Contributor, Stellaswap

16:10 | 10m | Present

Polkadot

Introducing Polkadot Blockchain Academy

• Max Wegman, Program Manager, Polkadot Blockchain Academy

• Erin Woggon, Operations Manager, Polkadot Blockchain Academy

16:20 | 30m | Present

Polkadot

XCM: Use Cases of Cross-Consensus Message Format

▴ Demo

• Keith Yeung, Core Runtime Developer, Parity Technologies (Polkadot)

16:50 | 10m | Closing

See you tomorrow

Nov 6. Stage B

08:30 | 30m | Door Opens

A cup of joe

09:00 | 10m | Opening

GM, Hong Kong!

MC of the day:

• Hanis Harmiles, Founder, Reinvent DAO

• Cathie So, Core Contributor, 852dev.xyz

• Mia Lam, Core Contributor, 852dev.xyz

09:10 | 20m | Present

Beyond Cryptocurrency: Code and Data on Blockchain

• Herbert Yang, GM of Asia, DFINITY Foundation

09:30 | 40m | Panel

Tokenization: RWAs, Green Finance, Intangible Assets, DAOs

• Mod: Scarlet Wong, Core Contributor, 852dev.xyz

• Hanis Harmiles, Founder, Reinvent DAO

• Yoon Kim, Co-Founder & CMO, Elysia

• Jay Lee, Partner, K&L Gates

• Monin Ung, Managing Partner, MUNG Blockchain Law Firm

10:10 | 30m | Panel

Decoding Regulation: Virtual Asset License, Token Governance

• Mod: Alan Wong, Associate, Stephenson Harwood

• Kevin Law, APAC Director of Business Development, CoinDesk Indices

• Jay Lee, Partner, K&L Gates

10:40 | 30m | Panel

Stablecoin: Pegged Approaches

• Mod: Scarlett Ho, Executive Director, Hailstone Labs

• Andy Cho, Director of Asia, Frax Finance

11:10 | 30m | Panel

LSDfi: The State of Liquid Staking

• Mod: Shilin Zheng, Managing Director, Forbole

• March Lam, Director, BD & Investments, stakefish

• Thibault Perréard, Head of Strategy, Bifrost Finance

• Terry Lam, Co-Founder, NUTS Finance

11:40 | 20m | Present

Native Assets are Key to the Web3 Experience

• Ben Far, Head of Partnerships, Radix

12:00 | 20m | Present

Navigating the Paradox of DeFi and Credit

• Jakob Kronbichler, Co-Founder, Clearpool

12:20 | 20m | Break

Break

5-star hotel light lunch

12:40 | 30m | Panel

Web3 Emergence: Why APAC Now? What to BUIDL?

• Mod: Cathie So, Core Contributor, 852dev.xyz

• Rae Deng, Head of Engagement, Parity Technologies (Polkadot)

• Herbert Yang, GM of Asia, DFINITY Foundation

• Andy Cho, Director of Asia, Frax Finance

13:10 | 30m | Present

Quantum Algorithm: Doomsday of Major Cryptocurrencies

• Duncan Wong, Founding Member, Abelian

13:40 | 30m | Panel

Cryptanalysis: Safeguard with Post-Quantum Cryptographers

• Mod: Cathie So, Core Contributor, 852dev.xyz

• Duncan Wong, Founding Member, Abelian

• Christopher Tam, Head of Partnerships, BTQ

14:10 | 20m | Present

zkRoute: Decentralizing Zero-Knowledge Proof Generation

▴ Demo

• Christopher Tam, Head of Partnerships, BTQ

14:30 | 20m | Present

Oracle Problem: How to Fix It Once and for All

• Joshua Tobkin, Co-founder & CEO, SupraOracles

14:50 | 30m | Panel

Hitting the Wall: Why L2 Scaling Solutions are Not That Scalable

• Mod: Cathie So, Core Contributor, 852dev.xyz

• Joshua Tobkin, Co-founder & CEO, SupraOracles

• Herbert Yang, GM of Asia, DFINITY Foundation

15:20 | 30m | Panel

Data Fabric: Index, Query, APIs, Oracles, Intelligence

• Mod: Haw Dong Ho, Community Manager, PARSIQ

• Andy Cho, Director of Business Development, IQ.wiki

• Hao Ding, Founder & CEO, Web3Go

15:50 | 30m | Panel

Wallet: UX for Next Wave of Web3 Consumers

• Mod: Mia Lam, Senior Designer, Meed

• Cathy Lai, Co-Founder & CEO, DROP System

• Belsy Yeun, CTO, Vectis by NYMLAB

• Arthur Wu, BD Director, Litentry

16:20 | 30m | Panel

Web2 Enterprises Integrating Web3

• Mod: Sean Lee

• Kelly Lai, Head of Product, Blockpour

• Joshua Chu, Group Chief Risk Officer, XBE

• Sean Lawrence, Head of APAC, Kaiko

16:50 | 10m | Closing

See you tomorrow

Nov 7. Stage A

08:40 | 30m | Door Opens

Art by barista

09:10 | 10m | Opening

GM!

MC of the day:

• Cathie So, Core Contributor, 852dev.xyz

09:20 | 30m | Present

Internet Computer as a Layer 2 Solution for Bitcoin

▴ Demo

• Herbert Yang, GM of Asia, DFINITY Foundation

• Paul Liu, Staff Engineer, DFINITY Foundation

09:50 | 10m | Opening

Ethereum

Ethereum HK Day: Road to Devcon

• Cathie So, PSE, Ethereum Foundation

10:00 | 10m | Present

Ethereum

Ethereum Hong Kong: How It All Started

• Jehan Chu, Founder, Kenetic; Ethereum Hong Kong Meetup

10:10 | 20m | Present

Ethereum

Ethereum Foundation: What We Do at Ethereum

• Cathie So, PSE, Ethereum Foundation

10:30 | 20m | Present

Ethereum

Growing the Ethereum Ecosystem, Starting with the People

• Harith Danny, ETHKL

10:50 | 30m | Present

Ethereum

Exploring New Applications of ZKPs

• Alex Kuzmin, PSE, Ethereum Foundation

11:20 | 30m | Panel

Ethereum

Zero-Knowledge Proofs Panel

• Mod: 0xZoey, PSE, Ethereum Foundation

• Chris Tam, Product & Partnerships, BTQ

• Alex Kuzmin, PSE, Ethereum Foundation

11:50 | 20m | Present

Ethereum

Tech Review: EIP-4337 Account Abstraction and Mainstream Adoption with Self-Sovereign Identity

• Belsy Yeun, CTO, Vectis by NYMLAB

12:10 | 20m | Present

Ethereum

Account Abstraction Deployment for Web2 Developers

▴ Demo

• Raymond Lam, Co-Founder & CTO, Custonomy

12:30 | 10m | Present

Ethereum

Research Review: EIP-4844 Proto-Danksharding & KZG Polynomial Commitment

• Joshua Tobkin, Co-founder & CEO, SupraOracles

12:40 | 10m | Closing

Ethereum

See You in Devconnect & Devcon!

• Cathie So, PSE, Ethereum Foundation; Core Contributor, 852dev.xyz

12:50 | 10m | Closing

Closing

Nov 7. Stage B

08:40 | 30m | Door Opens

Roasted freshly

09:10 | 10m | Opening

GM!

MC of the day:

• Mia Lam, Core Contributor, 852dev.xyz

• Aaron Lai, Core Contributor, 852dev.xyz

09:20 | 30m | Panel

Sovereignty Blockchain: Abstracting Complexity for Seamless Building Experience for Consumer Products

• Mod: Shilin Zheng, Managing Director, Forbole

• Phoebe Poon, CEO, Liker Land

• Belsy Yeun, CTO, Vectis by NYMLAB

• Leonardo Bragagnolo, CPO, Desmos Labs

09:50 | 20m | Present

CosmWasm: WASM Smart Contracts for Cosmos and Beyond

▴ Demo

• Belsy Yeun, CTO, Vectis by NYMLAB

10:10 | 30m | Panel

Emerging Career: Developer Relations Engineer

• Mod: Scarlet Wong, Core Contributor, 852dev.xyz

• Alex Liu, Developer Community Lead, CESS

• Wuzhong Zhu, DevRel Engineer, Moonbeam

10:40 | 10m | Opening

Polygon

Polygon HK Day: Ushering Polygon 2.0

• Aaron Lai, Polygon Guild HK

10:50 | 20m | Present

Polygon

Polygon 2.0: The Value Layer of the Internet

• Ayush Bhadauria, Senior Program Manager, Polygon Labs

11:10 | 10m | Present

Polygon

Supernova: Astar zkEVM

• Vincent Chan, Growth, Astar

11:20 | 20m | Panel

Polygon

Ethereum is Now Economic Viable

• Mod: Henrique Centieiro, Senior Research Manager, HashKey Capital

• Christopher Cheung, Co-Founder & CTO, DTTD

11:40 | 30m | Panel

Polygon

zkRollups: On-Chain Contracts with Off-Chain Virtual Machine

• Mod: Henrique Centieiro, Senior Research Manager, HashKey Capital

• Ayush Bhadauria, Senior Program Manager, Polygon Labs

• Jane Ma, Co-Founder and Co-Project Lead of zkLend

12:10 | 40m | Present

Polygon

Polygon CDK: Unlocking a New Paradigm with New Security Considerations

▴ Demo

• Rahul Saxena, Polygon Advocate, Polygon Labs

• Aman Pandey, Global Lead DevRel Strategy & Growth, Polygon Labs

12:50 | 10m | Closing

Closing