FREE Two-day Zero Knowledge Proof Developer Workshop & Hackathon

Held at the prestigious King’s College London, this two-day Zero Knowledge Proof developer workshop & hackathon is hosted and delivered by extropy.io and workonblockchain.com, with support from Zcash Company & PegaSys. Big thank you to Zcash Foundation and Kings College London for kindly sponsoring this event. Extropy is a blockchain development company based in the UK (Oxford) focusing on Distributed Application Development, Smart Contract Auditing, Education and Research. Check out their website on www.extropy.io Work on Blockchain is a global recruitment platform for technical professionals aimed at the blockchain and DLT space. The platform launched on September 2018 and now have over 100+ vetted candidates looking for work and the number of active candidates is increasing daily, most with strong commercial blockchain experience. The platform is a valuable hiring tool to companies in search for technical experts in a “short supply and high demand market” having attracted the attention of smart blockchain developers, software engineers, researchers, architects, data scientists and CTO’s from across the world. Check out their website on www.workonblockchain.com Intro With the commercial blockchain knowledge and expertise from Extropy, game theory and cryptography (e.g., zk proofs) knowledge from Oana Ciobotaru, Applied Researcher from Pegasys (Consensys), the expertise from Daira Hopwood who is a core Engineer and Protocol Designer from Zcash Company and the extensive blockchain developer network from workonblockchain.com, this two-day event promises to be informative, educational, practical and fun. Join us and learn how to put zero knowledge proofs into practical use. This is our first Zero Knowledge Proof developer workshop in London with plans to host many more in the future. To keep the level of teaching to a high standard, we will limit the class size to 40 delegates. We require all our students to attend both days, and there will be plenty of opportunity to attend in future if this class become oversubscribed. Pre-requisite: We require all our students to attend both days. In order for our students to get the most out of this workshop, it’s vitally important for our delegates to have a strong background in software egnineering and a strong interest in blockchain technology. Although a major plus, no prior knowledge or experience with zero knowledge proof is required. What's inportant fo us is your passion to learn about ZKP and blockchain technology.  Schedule November 17th - Day One (Theory and Hands on session) 09:00 - 09:30 Breakfast09:30 - 10:00 Intro to teams and attendees10:00 - 11:30 Introduction to ZK, background and theory with Q&A11:30 - 12:30 Team pitches12:30 - 13:30 Lunch13:30 - 17:30 Hands on session, using Zokrates and Ethereum17:30 - 18:00 Further Team formation18:00. Team can start hacking from home November 18th - Day Two (Further Theory and Hack Day)09:00 - 10:00 - Breakfast10:00 - 12:00 - Writing R1CS circuits with Zcash with Q&A12:00 - 13:00 - Hackathon13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch14:00 - 17:00 - Hackathon17:00 - 18:00 - Team presentations18:00 - 18:30 - Judging and prizes. Location: King’s College London. The exact room will only be provided to delegates who are selected for the workshop. This is to help us control the number of delegates per class due to limited space. Sponsorship opportunities: We are actively looking for sponsors at our future workshops. If your company is looking for developer exposure, looking to hire awesome developers or want to help us drive the blockchain developer ecosystem, please reach out to Antonio Sabado on contact@workonblockchain.com Follow us on LinkedIn & Twitter:https://www.linkedin.com/company/extropy_214484/https://twitter.com/extropy_io https://www.linkedin.com/company/work-on-blockchain/https://twitter.com/work_blockchain Sign up to our newsletter on www.workonblockchain.com to stay up to date on all our future workshops, hackathons and events.