Our next event will be Wednesday, May 4th 2016 and it will take place in a new venue. Due to some unfortunate circumstances we have had to move the event to Rainmaking Loft - Meeting Room, International House, 1 Saint Katharine's Way, London E1W 1TW, UK.



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We’d like to thank the London Ethereum Meetup main event sponsor http://b9lab.com/ . B9lab is the independent provider of quality education, advice and research about blockchain technology and decentralised applications. Their clients are leading global institutions as well as talented independent developers around the world.



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Thanks to our second sponsor, BTL (http://btl.co/), we’re also going to professionally record the event. BTL builds enterprise level solutions that enable businesses to increase efficiency and open new opportunities by harnessing the power of the blockchain in everyday transactions.



We’ll have three presentations of around 25-30 minutes with 15 minute breaks in between. There will also be 5 short (2-3 minutes) presentations at the end. If you have an amazing idea you have been working on or if you would like to tell everyone about how you are using Ethereum in your company, this is your chance! Email Vlad ([masked]) and he will add you to the schedule.



Nick Zeeb, Clearmatics



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Nick Zeeb is the tech lead at Clearmatics. He's been obsessed by the blockchain since reading Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper and now finally gets paid to hack on blockchain technology. Before joining Clearmatics he worked as a senior engineer at a low latency FX exchange, an investment bank and a hedge fund. He holds a master's degree in engineering and computer science from the University of Oxford.



Nick will be talking about the potential of blockchain technology in the world of finance. He will give an overview of the current financial system and its problems, talk about the opportunities for blockhchain technology and suggest practical approaches of how we can work with existing financial institutions to achieve these.



Joris Bontje, EtherCasts



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Joris Bontje is a software engineer with experience in the fields of big data, blockchain and smart contract technology. Joris hosts the educational YouTube channel EtherCasts, which educates people on how to create decentralized applications with Ethereum. Joris is actively involved in advising large corporations on how to take advantage of the disruptive possibilities of blockchain technology and building Ethereum-based solutions which demonstrate these possibilities.



Joris will be talking about the State of the DApps. For more than a year he has been hosting and curating a list of all the Ethereum DApps known to mankind (except some obvious scams / ponzi schemes) on http://dapps.ethercasts.com/ . In his talk he'll reflect on the kind of DApps that are being developed by the community. What trends can we see? What are the favorite languages, frameworks and licenses? And of course answer the important question: does a "Tinder for Horses" already exist?



Jack du Rose, Colony.io



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Jack du Rose is cofounder of Colony, an Ethereum platform for decentralised organisations. Colony seeks to make building an organisation online as easy as creating a Facebook group by allowing people from all over the world to collaborate on projects without the need for formal hierarchy or trust.



In this presentation, Jack will be discussing the theoretical, practical and legal challenges surrounding decentralised autonomous organisations, and the kinds of organisations Colony is bringing to the Ethereum ecosystem.



We're keeping with the tradition of no sales pitch, content-heavy, information rich presentations. Ideally we would like to keep this meetup focused on development and use cases. If you are passionate about the price movement, feel free to discuss it with the cryptocompare community here: https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/eth/forum/BTC



We're always looking for more speakers and sponsors.



We also have three speaker slots available per meetup (going fast - next available ones are in August!) so if you have topics that are fun and exciting, projects to demo, now is your chance!



Sponsors makes this event possible. Please make yourself known if you'd like to help via email to [masked].



We are also running a couple of Slack channel with newbie help on the Slock.it slack - anyone can get an invite at http://slock.it:3000.;



Finally, we'd like to invite anyone willing to help to join us in coordinating the next one. PM us (vlad.cealicu, stephan.tual, singuratecu) for an invite to our Skype organizer channel.