Professor Whitfield Diffie
Inventor of public key cryptography
Broader contributor to privacy
Professor Jonathan Katz
Director at Maryland Cybersecurity Center
Jon Choi
R&D at Ethereum Foundation
Nathan Wilcox
CTO at Zcash
Yuchen (Cassandra) Shi
Grant manager at Ethereum Community Fund
Steven Becker
Head Of Risk at MakerDAO
Niraj Pant
Research at Polychain Capital
Ali Yahya
Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Professor Shouchen Zhang
Leader, OBF
Michael Arrington
Partner at Arrington XRP Capital
Zhuo Wang
Director of NENT foundation
Steven Pu
Founder at Taraxa.io
Dan Kolkowitz
Tech advisor at QLC Chain
Kacper Bak
Senior Research Engineer at Quantstamp
Dongyan Wang
Chief AI Officer at DeepBrain Chain Inc.
Natalia Karayaneva
CEO and Founder at Propy Inc.
Dr. Mo Dong
Research Lead and Co-founder at Celer
Roy Keene
Lead Developer at Nano
Professor Thomas Austin
Co-founder at 0 chain
Martin Stroka
Managing Director at Crypto Science
Bharath Ramsundar
Co-Founder and CTO at Computable Labs
Chance Du
Project Lead at Coefficient Protocol
Jaeson Yoo
Chief Evangelist at AMO Labs
Jian Wang
Founder and CEO of Enotes
Nikil Viswanathan
Co-founder and CEO Alchemy
Kingsley Advani
Founder & Partner at Chainfund Capital
Agenda
Date and Time
Mon, Jun 11, 2018, 10:00 AM –
Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 5:00 PM PDT
Location
Computer History Museum
1401 North Shoreline Boulevard
Mountain View, CA 94043
United States
Cryptolab.stanford.edu
In the past, people have relied on trusted third parties to facilitate the transactions that define our lives: how we store medical records, where we get our news, how we share information about ourselves with scientists and advertisers, and how we communicate. Advances in distributed systems and cryptography allow us, in principle, to eschew such parties. Today, we can create a global, irrefutable ledger of transactions, events, and diagnoses, such that “rewriting history” is computationally infeasible. Our goal is to explore the consequences of contracts and promises written in mathematical ink. For example, these ledgers (and related cryptographic primitives) may empower individuals to have more control over their personal data and its use by others, including social networks, industry, the healthcare system, and scientists. Our Initiative is an open, highly connected place for everyone on campus, across the different departments and schools.
The Stanford Distributed Trust Initiative is a university-wide multi-disciplinary program with the following goals:
- Bring together Stanford expertise in cryptography, big data, privacy, health, sensors and devices, and economics
- Provide a forum for discussing and setting future directions of distributed trust and identity
- Foster collaborations among Stanford researchers and industry
- Provide a forum for the early communication of new results
- Foster communication between industrial sectors
- Push the forefront of real-world blockchain applications
- Help to set standards for blockchains
- Provide multi-dimensional training for students and postdocs
Crypticlabs.org
CRYPTIC LABS IS AN INNOVATIVE RESEARCH INSTITUTE PRIMARILY FOCUSED ON SOLVING FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS IN SECURITY TO ADVANCE THE VIABILITY AND GROWTH OF THE BLOCKCHAIN.
We are building a unique community of illustrious cryptography and security advisors, researchers and innovative blockchain entrepreneurs who work on decentralize and distributed trust.
Cryptic Labs also functions as a unique accelerator focusing exclusively on security, privacy and trust to advance the viability of the blockchain. By combining cryptography and related security researchers with blockchain practitioners and startups, we have the opportunity to perform a great service to the community and the world in general.
To companies in our accelerator we offer collaboration on research, talent acquisition and mentorship. We act as a bridge between university, venture capital and industry in this global exchange of ideas and resources
The vision of Cryptic Labs, more practically the people’s lab, is a distributed research institute where any citizen on earth can propose research topics in blockchain, distributed systems, and cryptography and participate in them. As well, anyone can propose education topics, teach and take classes, ask and answer questions on the platform
cpitch.com
CPC, founded by Stanford affiliates in April 2015, is devoted to connecting early stage startups with the top VCs and CVCs in the Silicon Valley, such as Sequoia, Greylock, NEA, Intel Capital, and many others. CPC currently has over 1,700 members. 121 companies in the field of AI, AR/VR, Fintech, Healthcare, Enterprise etc have pitched on our platform, with over $92 million raised to date.
Partners
VENUE
Computer History Museum
1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA 94043
Website: http://www.computerhistory.org
Stanford Faculty Club
439 Lagunita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305
Website: https://facultyclub.stanford.edu