Martin Koeppelmann (https://www.linkedin.com/in/koeppelmann) will present Ethereum State Channels (http://www.jeffcoleman.ca/state-channels/), which are designed to address the scalability problem present with all cryptocurrencies. For context, Martin will describe the Lightning Network (https://lightning.network/), which is a similar proposal for Bitcoin.



Martin and Joseph Chow (https://github.com/ethers) will also give an update on Serenity (https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/12/24/understanding-serenity-part-i-abstraction/), the upcoming software release from the Ethereum Foundation, and on other important software and events in the Ethereum ecosystem.