Istanbul ETH Privacy Agenda

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
SUNDAY 30. APRIL

10:00
Welcome to the Privacy Conference
Rik Krieger, President of the LPA

10:10
Privacy for Humans
Althea Allen, Head of Comms, PSE Team by Ethereum Foundation

10:30
Keynote: Mathematical Compliance - The Future of Proof of Innocence (incl. Q&A)
Orkun Mahir Kilic, Co-Founder, Chainway

11:00
Privacy as a Mindset: Navigating the Web3 Reality Beyond the Utopian Dream (incl. Q&A)
Jan Z., Product Manager, Blockwallet

11:20
Panther’s SNARK and research paper (incl. Q&A)
Anish Mohammed, Co-Founder, and Mark Blunden, Lead Cryptographer, Panther

11:40
Escaping the Rock and the Hard Place: The Link between Innovation and Freedom
Ryan King, Head of Business Development, DUSK

12:00
Lunch break

13:30
zkBob for everyday transactions privacy (incl. Q&A)
Igor Barinov, Founder, zkBOB

14:00
Blockchain privacy - What’s in this for me? (incl. Q&A)
Jakub Kocikowski, Product Manager, Aleph Zero

14:20
Unmatched high availability without compromising privacy (incl. Q&A)
Dr. Cristian Lupascu, CEO/Co-Founder, Omnia

14:40
Ethereum is no dark forest - reclaim privacy (incl. Q&A)

Dr. Sebastian Bürgel, Founder, HOPR

15:00
Thinking about the shutterized beacon chain as a stepping stone for user privacy (incl. Q&A)

Dr. Friederike Ernst, COO, Gnosis and Co-Host, Epicenter

15:20
Panel discussion: Where next for web3 privacy? (incl. Q&A)

Dr. Friederike Ernst, COO, Gnosis and Co-Host, Epicenter, Dr. Isa Sertkaya, CTO, Silent Protocol and Althea Allen, PSE Team, Ethereum Foundation.

16:00
Award Ceremony of the ETH Privacy Hackathon

17:00
Closing the Privacy Conference
Sabine de Witte, Vice President of the LPA

SPEAKERS / PANELISTS

COO, GNOSIS

Dr. Friederike Ernst

Germany

Retired physicist, turned credible neutrality creator. Co-Founder and COO at Gnosis Chain, Co-host at Epicenter podcast. Postdoc at Columbia and Stanford.

Althea Allen

USA

Head of Comms, PSE Team, Ethereum Foundation

PSE - Ethereum Foundation

Co-Founder Chainway

Orkun Mahir Kilic

Turkey

Orkun is technical co-founder at Chainway, a web3 venture builder. Chainway is building DeFi, Infrastructure, and Zero Knowledge applications across different ecosystems.

Igor Barinov

United Arab Emirates

Ex-xDai team. By day Igor works on Blockscout. By night he works on a multichain multi-collateral stable $BOB with optional ZK privacy @zkBob.

Founder, zkBob

CTO, Silent Protocol

Dr. Isa Sertkaya

Turkey

Isa Sertkaya is the CTO of Silent Protocol and leads a team of international cryptographers, software engineers and blockchain experts by shaping the privacy enhancing protocols, technical specifications, product visions, and roadmaps. Prior to joining Silent Protocol, Isa was Chief Researcher at TUBITAK BILGEM Blockchain Research Lab and was responsible for researching and leading cryptographic protocol design and analysis for almost 20 years. .

LPA SPEAKERS

Dr. Sebastian Bürgel

Germany

Sebastian is the Founder of HOPR. He received his PhD from ETH Zurich, before turning his insatiable curiosity and energy to the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. His previous project, SONECT, a blockchain-based mobile cash withdrawal solution, attracted the interest one of Switzerland’s largest financial institutions, PostFinance. A regular speaker at major blockchain conferences, Sebastian is also one of the world’s top smart contract and Solidity developers. His work includes building applications for a wide range of industries such as insurance, real estate, finance, biomedical and others.

Founder, HOPR

The LPA

Leading Privacy Projects

VENUE

ETH #PRIVACY

Hyatt Regency Istanbul Ataköy

Turkey has a very strong and vibrant crypto community. It belongs to the Top 12 countries worldwide adopting crypto currencies in 2022.

We believe it's time to embrace the interest & passion the Turkish communities bring to crypto projects worldwide and start to have a regular ETH event in this Metropolis, built on 2 continents.

Our venue:

Hyatt Regency Istanbul Ataköy
Experience the convergence of comfort, culture, and convenience during your stay at Hyatt Regency Istanbul Ataköy. Discover Istanbul’s history as you explore sights such as the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia, then return to your spacious guest room, offering contemporary décor and spectacular city and sea views.

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