Arriving

Traveling was hard, most of the scholars had difficulties with their visas and flights, but gladly most of them were able to make it (some even traveled for over 24 hours!) This is a reflection on how some of us are some spoiled and think taking a flight for a conference is easy (I had tourist visa for the USA so was able to make it in fewer stops).

Language card which says you’re a tourist and looking for the hotel.

Cultural shock is big when you don’t understand anything about the country, lucky for us the scholarship team prepared us with cards, tips, and documents filled with information in case of an emergency.

Scholars created a telegram group where we were in constant contact, many of us gathered at the airport and were able to counter the shock and made it safely to the hotel. The Ethereum Foundation gave SIM cards to every participant, with this we were ready for the first day at Devcon!

Credits To Hasib for the Picture 😎

Devcon V

The agenda was packed with simultaneous conferences, workshops, and lightning talks. You could simply not do it all. You need to solve what I call the Devcon Trilemma.

The Devcon Trilemma

During a certain period of time, you have to pick one of the three, you can’t hunt for rare swag, go to a talk and do networking at the same time. Depending on your personal goals you have to play with these activities, in the end, the Devcon experience will be good or bad depending on your choices!

Cristian Espinoza, Oscar Fonseca & Raul Jordan. The only Hondurans at Devcon 5

I’m personally a swag collector, so I tried to find rare swag, also working on DeFi so maximized my time for all talks and workshops focused on that theme. The rest of the time I spent it looking and talking with people I knew from Crypto Twitter, I even got to talk with Hudson, Anthony Sassano, and pet Kabochan!