Event Details:
Location
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
326 Galvez St
Stanford, CA 94305
United States
Stanford’s first-ever Digital Assets Week will bring together the world’s best computer scientists, business executives, academics, lawyers, and thought leaders to explore digital currency and decentralized networks. The program will feature deep dives on current advancements in blockchain technologies and digital currency, including central bank digital currency (CBDC), as well as group discussions about the policy and regulatory challenges ahead for the global crypto ecosystem. The program will also explore the future of decentralized architecture (beyond currency) and how data can empower communities to build stronger, more resilient, and trustworthy social systems. Follow the link for more information about the week and how to register for each event: https://conferences.law.stanford.edu/digitalassetsweek/
Schedule
Monday, November 14, 2022
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Meeting Agenda
***Agenda Subject to Change****
Time
Talk Title
Speaker
9:00 - 9:05 AM
Paul Toback, Executive Director of FDCI
9:05 - 9:25 AM
David Mazières, Faculty Co-Director of FDCI
9:30 - 10:30
Robustness and Scalability Presentations
Session Chair: Paul Toback
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Breaking conventional wisdom: Linearly-scalable Layer-1 - Geoff Ramseyer, PhD Candidate
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Byzantine-Fault-Tolerant Multicast, Joachim Neu, PhD Candidate
10:30 - 11:00 AM
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:15 PM
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Moderator
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Carole House, Former Director of Cybersecurity and Secure Digital Innovation at the National Security Council, The White House
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Panelists
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Professor Dan Boneh–Faculty Co-Director, Stanford FDCI
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Henry Holtzman, Chief Innovation Officer, MobileCoin
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Paul Brigner, Head of US Policy and Strategic Advocacy, Electric Coin Company
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Sujit Raman–Chief Legal Officer, TRM Labs
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12:15 - 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 - 2:30 PM
Making Markets Work Better
Session Chair: Ashish Goel, Professor of Management Sciences and Engineering, and -- by courtesy -- Computer Science
2:30 - 3:00 PM
Coffee Break
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Afternoon Panel - Getting to Critical Mass: The First 10 million Digital Currency Users
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Moderator
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Ananya Kumar, Assistant Director of Digital Currencies, Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center
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Panelists
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Paul Wong–Director of Product, Central Bank Digital Currencies and Institutions, Stellar
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Nikhil Raghuveera, Head of Strategy and Innovation, Celo Foundation
- Mike Todasco, Former Head of Innovation for PayPal
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4:00 - 4:30 PM
Jonathan Padilla, Atlantic Council Millennium Leadership Fellow, Snickerdoodle Labs CEO, and Stanford FDCI Deputy Director
4:30 - 4:45 PM
Paul Toback
4:45 - 6:00 PM
Reception
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