Introduction

Wanxiang Blockchain Labs has been hosting a series of blockchain hackathon since 2017. It is also one of the earliest, largest and most rewarding blockchain hackathon events in China, for which many talented developers have attended. This year, Wanxiang Blockchain Hackathon will move beyond China to the world to further promote the development and innovation of blockchain technology globally.

In 2018, Wanxiang Blockchain Hackathon consists of Berlin, Silicon Valley, and Shanghai Sections (The prize, rules, and agenda may differ in each section.) And this is for Silicon Valley Section Section's registration.





Challenge

There are two types of challenges: one is provided by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs, which is detailed as follows, and the other is provided by sponsors that will be introduced at the venue. Participants could choose Organizer’s challenge and Sponsors’ challenge at the same time.

Main Challenge: Blockchain Technology in Wanxiang Innova City (Wanxiang Group plans to invest RMB 200 Billion over 7 years, starting from 2017, in this ambitious project of 9 square kilometers. Unlike a traditional city with new technology added incrementally, at Innova City cutting-edge technology will be embedded in the fabric of its physical and data infrastructure from planning stage, enabling bolder innovations and ground-breaking experimentations. Among other things, Wanxiang Innova City is to be the first digitalized city running on a secure and versatile cloud infrastructure enabled by blockchain.)

Sponsors' Challenge: Sponsors may also present their unique challenges and prizes at the venue.





Prizes

1. First Prize: one team

$20000, four tickets of Shanghai International Blockchain Week 2018, four round trip flights, four nights accommodation in Shanghai for four people, and the opportunity of Demo presentation on Tech Open Day of Blockchain Week.

2. Second Prize: one team



$10000, two tickets of Shanghai International Blockchain Week 2018, two round trip flight, four nights accommodation in Shanghai for two people.

3. Third Prize: one team

$5000, one tickets of Shanghai International Blockchain Week 2018, one round trip flights, four nights accommodation in Shanghai for one person.

All the winning teams will be invited to Shanghai, and also can choose to participate in the Shanghai station hackathon. But it should be noted that participation in the Shanghai competition requires another new project, the awarded-winning projects cannot be used again.





Agenda

July 28th

• 9:00am - 9:30am，Sign up

• 9:30am – 9:50am，Opening ceremony

• 9:50am –10:50am，Brain storm and teaming up

• 10:50am，Start coding

• 12:00pm-1:00pm, Lunch

• 6:00pm - 7:00pm, Dinner

July 29th

• 7:30am-8:00am, Breakfast

• 1:00pm, Deadline of work submission

• 1:00pm-2:00pm, Lunch

• 2:00pm-5:00pm, Demo presentation

• 5:00pm-5:30pm, Time for judges to evaluate

• 5:30pm – 6:00pm, Award ceremony





Judges

Zaki Manian, Executive Director of Trusted IoT Alliance

Zaki is a prolific contributor to the development of blockchain and cryptocurrency technology. Zaki has deep expertise in cryptography and distributed consensus system. He is also an advisor to the Cosmos and IRISnet project, and several other investment funds and startup in the space.





Li Gong, Partner & Director of Investor Relations at Youbi Capital.

MBA, Stephen M. Ross Business School, University of Michigan. Years of large chemical supply chain and EP projects development. Coordinated communication between board and executive team at tier-one auto-supplier. Deputy secretary general of NACSAE.

Xiao Wang, Managing Partner of InnoSpring Seed Fund

Dr. Xiao Wang is the General Manager of InnoSpring Silicon Valley and Managing General Partner of InnoSpring Seed Fund. She also is the Director of International Partnership at InnoSpring Inc. headquartered in Shanghai and the Director of Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute (North America). Dr. Wang raised and managed two funds at InnoSpring that are backed by seven of the largest venture capital firms in the world, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, IDG Capital Partners, Northern Light Venture Partners, Softbank China, China Broadband Capital and GSR Ventures, each with $1B under management.





Wilson Qiu, Partner at AlphaCoin Fund

Partner at AlphaCoin Fund, a blockchain-focused global venture capital fund. Wilson has led over 30+ blockchain projects investment since 2017. Wilson has been following Bitcoin since 2015. Previously Wilson Qiu worked in investment banking at Citigroup. Wilson holds an MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.





Xiaohan Zhu, Founder of ZMT Capital

Xiaohan started ZMT Capital in 2016. Prior to ZMT, he was a Managing Director at JD Capital, one of the biggest private equity firm in China. He was in charge of JD’s International Funds with 150M AUM.

Xiaohan had executive experience in Marketing, Product Management, Strategy and Engineering at Huawei, Microsoft, Sony, Motorola. He had managed the definition and R&D for products with 100M+ users and teams with 100+ members.

Xiaohan has a MBA from Wharton, where he was a Palmer Scholar. He received his MSEE from UC San Diego and BSEE from Tsinghua University.





Sean Bill, CIO at the SC-VTA

Sean Bill has extensive experience in both the public and private sectors. He served as a Trustee for the City of San Jose’s pension board and is currently the CIO at the SC-VTA; at the latter he is responsible for the management and oversight of a multi-billion dollar portfolio. Prior to entering public service, Sean was a Principal at a Global Macro hedge fund. He is a frequent guest on Bloomberg Television, CNBC and Fox Business News, he brings a unique perspective on the interactions between pension plans, sovereign wealth funds and alternative investments.

Sean is a graduate of Indiana University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.





Brandon Wang

Brandon bring extensive experiences in semiconductor and enterprise software space. He has deep expertise in strategy, engineering, and marketing. Most recently, He was the Group Director, Chief Strategy Office, at Cadence Design Systems( NASDAQ: CDNS). Prior to that, he held various senior positions at ARM for 7 years. He also been with multiple start-ups at Silicon Valley.

A graduate from Zhejiang University, and New Jersey Institute of Technology, Brandon also has an MBA degree in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.





Diana Sun

Diana has been a licensed Financial Advisor for more than five years. She brings more than 15 years of experience in business development and wealth management to the team. She is responsible for marketing and partnership at ZMT.

Diana has a BS degree in Business from University of Washington.





Bilal, Founding Partner of Genblock Capital

Bilal is the founding partner of Genblock Capital, a crypto fund that primarily invests in ICOs, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain technology. He is an early investor in 20+ blockchain companies including Kyber Networks, Icon, Raiden Network, Oracles Network, Nebulas, Zilliqa, Bluzelle, Mainframe, Iris Network, ThunderToken and others. He was previously a senior software engineer at Prezi for 3 years, worked at Amazon on their AWS products such as Amazon Cloudsearch, and held various engineering roles at Autodesk and STMicroelectronics. Bilal graduated from University of Waterloo in Canada with a degree in Mechatronics Engineering.





Shu Dong, Software Engineer at Facebook

Master degree in Computer Science from Northwestern University. Board member of ABC Blockchain Foundation. ABC Blockchain Foundation leads a rapidly growing developer community dedicated to blockchain technology advancement. We held different events to connect developers with blockchain start-up and promote good blockchain projects.





James Hao

Previous Principle Member of Technical Staff at Oracle on Core Database Product. Master Degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. Founding Partner of DFG Capital. DFG is a fast-growing token fund based in Bay Area, and focus on blockchain investment, consulting and incubation. Sample investment portfolios including Quarkchain, Certik, Taxa, DxChain, Celer Network, NKN, Covalent, BlockCloud, Bgogo, Coinsuper, etc. Recently, DFG incubated ANKR.





Angie Krackeler, Developer Tech & Advocacy Manager ar IBM

Multifaceted technology leader leveraging extensive experience with sales, marketing, and business development when establishing technology solutions for multi-national startups. Track record of effectively leading large, global teams of IT professionals located across 15 countries, and managing multi-million-dollar budgets. Proven success showcasing technology offerings for global clients, generating awareness and scope of ways technology can be utilized for business development, and connecting clients with local teams for implementation plans.





Rules

1. At the end of the Hackathon, project and presentation material should be submitted before the deadline in the agenda, after which no additional revision will be allowed.

2. Reasonable workload is one of the standards for evaluating the projects. Participants may study and research relevant knowledge and information before the Hackathon. However, bringing finished or semi-finished projects to the Hackathon is strictly prohisbited. Furthermore, all assignments relating to a project should only be allocated to registered members of its registered team.

3. A strict security detail will be implemented at the venue. Participants should sign in with valid ID Card/Passport.

4. Participants should take care of their own travel expenditure and accommodation. During the Hackathon, the venue will operate for 24 hours every day. Participants may bring their own sleeping bag to rest on site.

5. During the Hackathon, free meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), snacks, and drinks will be provided by the host.





For more information of Wanxiang Blockchain Hackathon 2018, please visit: http://www.blockchainlabs.org/week2018/hack-siliconvalley.html

For the information of Shanghai International Blockchain Week, please visit: http://www.blockchainlabs.org/week2018/index_en.html

If you have CV or any question, please send email to: hackathon@blockchainlabs.org