Detailed Schedule

Day 1 (19.07): DeFi & Developers

• 11:00 – 12:00 PM – Proximity Office Hours
• 12:00 – 1:00 PM – Developers Office Hours
• 1:00 – 1:20 PM – Marieke Flament, NEAR Foundation, will present ways of building beyond the hype.
• 1:20 – 1:30 PM – Illia Polosukhin, Co-founder of NEAR, will discuss what to build on DeFi.
• 1:30 – 1:50 PM – Evgeny Kuzyakov, Co-founder of Proximity, will talk about social in Web 3.0.
• 1:50 – 2:10 PM – Mark Sugden and Denny Balon, Decentral Bank, will talk about USN: stability and utility.
• 2:10 – 2:30 PM – Didier Pironi, Ref.Finance product manager, will present REFlections on DeFi and their predictions for the next 6 months.
• 2:30 – 2:50 PM – MJ, Head of Product @ Proximity Labs, will talk about how to build DeFi on NEAR.
• 2:50 – 3:10 PM – Radu Ciocan, Burrow DAO, will talk about Supply, Burrow, Thrive”.
• 3:10 – 3:30 PM – Georgia Rakusen, Founder and Lead Researcher @ DAO, will discuss driving adoption through user research.
• 3:30 – 3:50 PM – Vadim Ilin, NEAR DevRel Pagoda, will share how to build Smart Contracts in JavaScript.
• 3:50 – 4:10 PM – Sherif Abushadi, NEAR Foundation, will discuss the past, present, and future of education in the NEAR ecosystem.
• 4:10 – 5:00 PM – Happy Hours

Day 2 (20.07): Aurora Day

• 12:00 – 1:30 PM – Aurora Office Hours
• 1:30 – 2:30 PM – Marieke Flament Office Hours
• 1:30 – 2:30 PM – Investors Office Hours (Fabric VC, Pantera Capital)
• 2:30 – 2:50 PM – Alex Shevchenko, CEO of Aurora Labs, will present the evolution of the Aurora ecosystem and infrastructure.
• 2:50 – 3:10 PM- Maxim Senkevich, Co-founder of Atomic Green, will discuss the future of decentralized finance.
• 3:10 – 3:30 PM- Eyang, Co-founder of Aurigami, will talk about Aurigami’s Aurora story.
• 3:30 – 3:50 PM – Jason Ma, Director of Business Development @ Axelar, will present Enabling Next-Gen Interoperability in Aurora.
• 3:50 – 4:10 PM – Marcelo Fornet, Protocol Team Lead @ Aurora Labs, will discuss NEAR to Aurora interoperability. Crossing without bridges.
• 4:10 – 5:45 PM – Happy Hours

Day 3 (21.07): Web3 Communities

• 12:00 – 1:00 PM – Grants Program Office Hours
• 1:00 – 2:00 PM – Illia Polosukhin Office Hours
• 2:00 – 3:00 PM – Human Guild Office Hours
• 3:00 – 3:20 PM – Illia Polosukhin, Co-founder of NEAR, will present the Evolving ecosystem Governance.
• 3:20 – 3:40 PM – Zaven Nahapetyan and Dasha Kova Nagorodnyuk, Co-founders of Niche, The Rise, Fall, and Dramatic Rebirth of Social Media.
• 3:40 – 4:00 PM – Nadim Kobeissi, Founder of Capsule Social, will discuss Decentralized Discourse for Writers and Content Creators on Web3.
• 4:00 – 4:20 PM – Kelly Perera, International Vice President of Ape Squared Creative, will share GameFi vs. Gaming: how to build your community.
• 4:20 – 4:40 PM – Anton Vaisburd, Head of NEAR UA, will answer the question of how regional hubs contribute to the ecosystem.
• 4:40 – 5:00 PM – Anton Derlyatka, Co-founder & CEO of Sweatcoin, will talk about The Next Billion: Who are they?
• 5:00 – 5:20 PM – Sasha Hudzilin, Co-Creator of Human Guild, will share the experience of developing the Gaming ecosystem on NEAR.
• 5:20 – 5:40 PM – James Sinka, Orange DAO.
• 5:40 – 7:00 PM – Happy Hours

Immerse yourself in three days of networking, workshops, and more hosted by the NEAR ecosystem and its community.

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