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