To bridge the gap between scientist and the blockchain tech community. The blockchain revolution offers great potential for Open Science. Immutable data trails, novel means to research money distribution and even crowdfunding methods arise - just to name a few.

The most exciting concept is the living knowledge network, the easiest way to explain it is to draw an analogy to bitcoin. Replace the bitcoin scripts with scientific conclusions and see the consensus mechanism that keeps the bitcoin blockchain honest as a mean to keep science meaningful and honest. All incentivised by a Knowledge token, just like bitcoin mining is incentivised by an intrinsic value on the bitcoin blockchain.

There will be breakout sessions, handson, discussions, talks.