Web3 Foundation and BlockchainBeach.us welcomes you to the launch of the ‘Polkadot - Los Angeles’ community!



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



Preliminary Agenda:



1) Taylor Monahan, CEO and Founder of MyCrypto



Talk: Unintended Consequences of Product Design



2) Robert Habermeier, Co-Founder @ Polkadot



Talk: Polkadot for Developers: Status, Roadmap and Tools



3) Ameen Soleiman, CEO @ SpankChain



Talk: Introduction SpankChain: economic infrastructure bringing the benefits of cryptocurrency to the adult entertainment industry.



4) Dr. Rand Hindi, CEO @ Snips



Talk: Decentralized, Encrypted Machine Learning



Speaker Profiles



Taylor Monahan, CEO and Founder of MyCrypto



Taylor Monahan is the founder & CEO on MyCrypto, an open-source, non-custodial wallet solution. Previously she founded MyEtherWallet. She is dedicated to making the Ethereum ecosystem safer and easier to access for everyone.



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.



Ameen Soleimani, CEO @ SpankChain



Ameen is the CEO of SpankChain, a blockchain based adult entertainment platform. He was previously a software engineer at ConsenSys where he focused on state channels research and P2P energy trading. He also helped launch AdChain, the first Token Curated Registry to curate a list of non-fraudulent online publishers.



Dr Rand Hindi, CEO @ Snips



Dr Rand Hindi (@randhindi) is an entrepreneur and data scientist. He is the CEO at Snips, the first decentralized, private by design voice assistant. He has been elected as a TR35 by the MIT Technology Review, as a "30 under 30" by Forbes, and is a lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris. He was previously a member of the French Digital Council where he focused on AI and Privacy issues. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Bioinformatics from University College London (UCL).



We’ll have time for questions, discussion, and networking.



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