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The January meetup will take place at the Blockchain Expo in Olympia on the 23rd of January at 16:00. In order to get in, you need to both RSVP to the meetup page you are currently reading AND sign up for your free pass (http://gateway.blockchain-expo.com/london/free-expo-pass/register/) which will get you access to the rest of the expo. Head to the "Blockchain Developers" track on the day for the meetup.



Speaker Line-up:



1 - Yanislav Malahov - http://www.aeternity.com/



Yanislav Malahov envisioned as early as 2013 to have powerful algorithms on blockchains (http://medium.com/@yanislav/king-of-bitcoin-godfather-of-ethereum-a9af9ecf56d5). Now he is working as the founder of æternity (http://www.aeternity.com) - a new lightning blockchain for smart contracts. In his talk he will share his personal story with the early Ethereum team, and what got him to start a new turing-complete blockchain, which he dubs 'The Oracle Machine'.



2 - Anish Mohammed - Zero Knowledge Protocols



(note: due to unfortunate circumstances Christoph Jentzsch couldn't be with us at this meetup to present Charity DAO, he will however attend one of the next ones)



Anish has been working in the security and cryptography area for the past 15 years, as a researcher and as a consultant. Most recently he has been involved in the Blockchain ecosystem as one of the founding members of UKDCA . He is also on the advisory board for Adjoint, Ripple Labs and Chain of Things. These days he works for large UK bank where he is lead security architect of Blockchain initiatives. He is regular speaker and contributor on both Blockchain and Cybersecurity.



3 - Mona El Isa - https://melonport.com/



CEO and co-founder of Melonport, Mona El Isa, will present “Melon”, a blockchain software for asset management. The talk will give an overview of Melon's vision, a deep dive into how the protocol will work as well as how they hope to achieve the next milestones. They will also be unveiling their new demo for the first time publicly in London!



Former star-trader at Goldman Sachs, Mona was promoted to Vice President by the age of 26 and made the “top 30 under 30” list in Trader Magazine in 2008. She Moved to Geneva-based macro fund Jabre Capital in 2011, before deciding in 2014 that the future of finance lay in blockchain technology. She studied Economics & Statistics at the University College London.



Note: We are looking for both speakers and sponsors to prepare the whole year 2017! Ping us ([masked]) with your projects, demos, PoCs etc and we'll get back to you ASAP.