Web3 Foundation welcomes you to the launch of the Polkadot - New York community!



We are excited to be in NYC and are bringing with us some core members of the Polkadot team as well as some prominent local guest speakers.



Agenda:



1) Jake Brukhman, CoinFund: Generalized Mining and the Third-Party Economy



2) Patrick Nielsen, Clovyr: Introduction to Clovyr



3) Jack Platts, Web3 Foundation: Introduction to Polkadot and the Web3 Foundation



4) Björn Wagner, Parity Technologies: Why Polkadot is Significant for exchanges, infrastructure and developer tool providers, blockchain innovators and Dapp Developers



5) Robert Habermeier, Polkadot: Polkadot for Developers: Status, Roadmap and Tools



Speaker Profiles



Jake Brukhman, MD and CEO @ CoinFund



Jake is Managing Director & CEO at CoinFund, a blockchain-focused cryptofund founded three years ago as one of the world’s very first diversified portfolios of cryptoassets, regarding cryptocurrencies and tokens as a radically new asset class.



Patrick Nielsen, CTO & Co-Founder @ Clovyr



Patrick led development for J.P. Morgan’s open source blockchain projects including Quorum and Constellation, and sat on the firmwide Cryptography Review Board. A software and security researcher by training, he has held executive positions in information security and privacy at companies large and small.



Jack Platts, Head of Communications @ Web3 Foundation



Jack is based in Berlin, Germany where he is on the team launching the Polkadot protocol and coordinating the integration of other protocols within the Web3 tech stack. Jack leads various community and communications efforts in the domain of decentralized technologies at the Web3 Foundation.



Björn Wagner, Founder & CCO @ Parity Technologies



Prior to Parity, Björn gained extensive expertise in the fields of industrial automation and digitization. Currently serving as Chief Commercial Officer, Björn is driving the company's commercialization, partnership and product efforts.



Robert Habermeier, Co-Founder @ Polkadot



Robert Habermeier is a Thiel Fellow and co-founder of Polkadot, a platform that connects public and private blockchains to power a web 3.0. He has a research and development background in blockchains, distributed systems, and cryptography. A longtime member of the Rust community, he has focused on leveraging the language’s features to build highly parallel and performant solutions.



We’ll have time for questions, discussion, and networking. Drinks and snacks will be served.



This event is free but we can only accommodate a limited amount of guests. **RSVP early!**



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medium.com/polkadot-network



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twitter.com/polkadotnetwork



Join the discussion at the watercooler:



Riot: https://riot.im/app/#/room/#polkadot-watercooler:matrix.org



Further Reading:



Lightpaper:



https://polkadot.network/Polkadot-lightpaper.pdf



Whitepaper:



https://github.com/polkadot-io/polkadot-white-paper