Blockchain is rewriting systems of trust that bind our transactions online and potentially in the real world.

This full day conference will explore the Social Impact of Blockchain technologies. Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum - these buzzwords are migrating from geek slang to the dictionary as they define an independent architecture for human trust and exchange. Amidst news of discord and hacking, who is responsible for building a reliable distributed ledger? How can the architecture behind crypto-currency benefit the greatest number of earthlings? Friday 4 November at DG717 in San Francisco, we will take a look at how blockchain could evolve to support or supplant our existing social institutions:

• Can we depend on the Blockchain?

• Who owns the Blockchain?

• How will Blockchain reach the wider world?

• Who makes the Blockchain?

• How will Blockchain evolve?

Please visit our conference web site for a schedule and additional event information.
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Conference starts at 9am and runs until 5:30pm.

Speakers include:

• Adam Levine CEO of Tokenly and the Editor-in-Chief of the Let’s Talk Bitcoin! show

• Shin’ichiro Matsuo, Ph.D. Research Affiliate- Director's Liaison for Financial Cryptography, MIT Media LabCo-Founder, BSafe.network

• Kazue Sako Senior Engineer, NEC

• Elizabeth Stark: Co-Founder & CEO of Lightning

• Kazue Sako: Senior Engineer, NEC

• Brian Behlendorf: Executive Director, Hyperledger

• Ethan Heilman: Researcher, Boston University

• Ryan Shea: Co-Founder & CEO, Blockstack Labs

• Olaoluwa Osuntokun: Chief Bit Flipper at Lightning

• Sachiko Yoshihama: Manager, Blockchain Technology, IBM Research – Tokyo

• Tadge Dryja: Lightning Network Developer

• Charley Hine: Chief Product Officer, Shift Payments

• Robert Schwentker: Founding President, Blockchain University

• Bryan Bishop: Bitcoin Core Contributor

• Jeremy Rubin: co-founder of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative

With additional speaker listings to come.

Light lunch will be served. Raffle prizes given away. Free Wifi, no power outlets.

Please see the official conference website for the latest information.

Social Impact of Blockchain is the first day of a two day conference series called THE NEW CONTEXT CONFERENCE. Please feel invited to our second day event: Collaboration with Microbes.

THE NEW CONTEXT CONFERENCE, an annual conference hosted by Digital Garage and Joi Ito, co-founder of Digital Garage and current director of MIT Media Lab, will take place on November 4-5th in San Francisco. From 2005, the conference has covered seminal topics surrounding internet business and technology. This is the first year that the conference is organized by DG and its newest Open Innovation R&D Initiative “DG Lab”.

Members of the press, please contact ncc2016@dg717.com for media credentials.