World Blockchain Hackathon, San Francisco

Who can Participate :
-Blockchain developers looking to improve their skills or expand their horizons.
-Students and developers that want to learn and work in blockchain tech companies.
-Designers of all skill-sets.
-Entrepreneurs that can add value to teams. 
-Blockchain startup that is looking for funding &/or that need to focus on marathon development.

If you are interested in participating in any other way, We are always open to chat. Join the telegram group or write worldblockchainhack@gmail.com

SCHEDULE:

▶️8:30 - 9:30am Doors Open&Coffee snacks
9:30 - 12:30pm Opening Ceremony/Workshops
*** 9:30 - 11:00am Hyperledger Fabric - C. Mohan IBM Fellow 
*** 11:00 - 12:30pm Achain - Kseniia Ryuma Smart Contract Developer
*** 12:30 - 2:00pm - Solidity Smart Contracts dev - Rico Chen - Blockchain Engineer & Advisor
*** 12:30 - 2:00pm - Testing Smart Contracts with JavaScript Unit Tests - Fodé Diop - Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies Instructor at Product School

2:00pm -  Team Formation
1:00 - 2:00pm Lunch Served
2:30pm Coding Begins
6:00 - 7:00pm Dinner Served
9:00 - 9:30pm Pitch Practice Session
12:00am Midnight Snack

Hack through the Night* *The venue will be open and staffed overnight if you'd like to hack through the night.
*Coding continues throughout the second day till 3:00pm

▶️Sunday, June 17th:7:00 - 8:00am Breakfast Served
12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch Served
4:00pm - Submission Deadline
4:00 - 5:00pm Judging
5:30 - 6:00pm Closing Ceremony
6:00pm - Event Close

⏺ World Blockchain Hackathon developers will have a complimentary entrance to BEF 2018 live-hacking session. The winners of the Hackathon will be announced and rewarded at BEF stage June 19th.

⏺  Already have an idea you want to implement, or you are looking for teammates, go to CrowdForge.

❗️Make sure you read and understand the Participation Agreement and Official Rules. You agree to abide by these rules when you register❗️

Key Presenter: Dr. C. Mohan IBM Fellow (IBM Almaden Research Center) & Distinguished Visiting Professor (Tsinghua University)

Dr. C. Mohan has been an IBM researcher for 36 years in the database and related areas, impacting numerous IBM and non-IBM products, the research and academic communities, and standards, especially with his invention of the ARIES family of database locking and recovery algorithms, and the Presumed Abort distributed commit protocol. This IBM (1997), and ACM and IEEE (2002) Fellow has also served as the IBM India Chief Scientist for 3 years (2006-2009). In addition to receiving the ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award (1996), the VLDB 10 Year Best Paper Award (1999) and numerous IBM awards, Mohan was elected to the US and Indian National Academies of Engineering (2009) and named an IBM Master Inventor (1997). This Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Madras (1977) received his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin (1981). He is an inventor of 50 patents. He is currently focused on Blockchain, Big Data and HTAP technologies (http://bit.ly/CMbcDB, http://bit.ly/CMgMDS). Since 2016, he has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor of China’s prestigious Tsinghua University. He has served on the advisory board of IEEE Spectrum, and on numerous conference and journal boards. Mohan is a frequent speaker in North America, Europe and India, and has given talks in 40 countries. He is very active on social media and has a huge network of followers. More information can be found in the Wikipedia page at http://bit.ly/CMwIkP

You will also have a chance to meet Martin Stroka, an international startup and venture expert, with a decade of experience working between Silicon Valley and China, and, join DCSF Blockchain Protocol Group that explores blockchain and decentralized technologies.