ETHDenver Day 1

DAY 1

Session One: ZK in Ethereum

9:30 a.m.

Opening Keynote

• Zac Williamson, CEO of Aztec

10:00 a.m.

What is the Optimal Approach to Ethereum Scaling?

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Pavel Sinelnikov, DevEx Lead at Metis (moderator)

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Avi Zurlo, CEO of NIL Foundation

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Barnabas Kiss, Co-founder of Malda

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Declan Fox, Product Lead at Linea

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Jordi Baylina, Co-founder of Polygon

10:40 a.m.

Building the future of
Ethereum now

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Lancelot de Ferrière, CTO at Hyle

10:55 a.m.

Scaling Universal ZeFi: How Malda and RISC Zero are unlocking Boundless Execution

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Barnabas Kiss, Co-founder of Malda

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Brett Carter, VP of Product at RISC Zero

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Mashiat Mutmainnah, Ecosystems Lead at RISC Zero

11:15 a.m.

Ethproofs

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Austin Baggio, Strategy at o1_Labs (Moderator)

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Elias Tazartez, CEO of Kakarot

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Uma Roy, Co-founder of Succinct

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Dr Ouyang, Co-Founder of Snarkify

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Stephen Duan, Developer Lead at ZKM

12:00 p.m.

On ZKsync’s Integration with Fermah

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Anthony Rose, CTO at Matter Labs/ZKsync

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Vanishree Rao, Founder of Fermah

12:30 p.m.

Sequencer design for multi rollup ZeFi application

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Barnabas Kiss, Co-founder of Malda

DAY 1

Session Two: ZK for Privacy

12:40 p.m.

Opening Keynote: Privacy with Aleo and zPass

• Zk Lim, DevRel Engineer at Aleo

12:55 p.m.

On Grant Applications at Aleo

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Zack Xuereb, Engineer at Aleo

1:10 p.m.

ZK: Redefining Zero-Knowledge—Build in Any Language, Prove on Any Device, All from Your Browser

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Muthu Venkitasubramaniam, CEO of Ligero Inc

1:30 p.m.

Is Privacy essential for crypto mass-adoption?

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Evin Mcmullen, Co-founder of Privado ID (Moderator)

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Zk Lim, DevRel Engineer at Aleo

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Zain Cheng, CTO at Horizen Labs

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Francis Berwa, Head of Investment at zkPass

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Ze Pedro Sousa, DevRel Engineer at Aztec

2:10 p.m.

Client side proving as a solution for privacy

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Anat Veredgorn, Product Accelerator Lead at StarkWare

2:30 p.m.

Winning ZK applications from recent zkVerify hackathon

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Rolf Versluis, Developer Growth Lead at zkVerify

2:45 p.m.

Open, but Private: Data Legos and Blind Computation

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Juan Angel, Ecosystem Growth Lead at Nillion

3:00 p.m.

Interview

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Howard Wu,CEO of Provable

DAY 1

Session Three: ZK in AI

3:30 p.m.

Opening Keynote: When ZK meets AI

• Brandon Kase, CEO at o1 Labs

3:45 p.m.

Client-side ZKAI - Biometric proofs

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Lasha Antadze, Co-founder of Rarimo

4:00 p.m.

How can AI benefit from ZK?

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Lasha Antadze, Co-founder of Rarimo (Moderator)

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Evan Shapiro, CPSO at Mina

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Garvit, CEO of Electron

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Harry Grieve, Co Founder of Gensyn

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Scott Dykstra, Co-founder of Space & Time

4:45 p.m.

Interview

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Eric Vreeland, CSO at Polyhedra

5:15 p.m.

Closing Keynote: A hidden crisis in AI - Data Alignment Problem

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Daniel Kwak, Marketing Lead at LazAI