DEVCON1 was held November 9–13, 2015, at Gibson Hall in the City of London. It featured over 50 talks across 5 days, with approximately 400 attendees. The first half of the week focused on research and ÐApp development, the second half on industry and social implications.
The full agenda was preserved via the Wayback Machine.
Day 1 — Monday, November 9: Research
| Speaker | Talk |
|---|---|
| Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood, Jeffrey Wilcke | Keynote & Ethereum Roadmap |
| Vlad Zamfir | Challenges in Public Economic Consensus |
| Lucius Greg Meredith | Monadic design patterns for the blockchain |
| Vitalik Buterin, Vlad Zamfir, Gavin Wood, Martin Becze, Dominic Williams | Panel: Scalability |
| Vlad Zamfir | Casper |
| Daniel Nagy, Viktor Trón | Swarm |
| Dominic Williams | Introduction to Consensus |
| Martin Becze | Ethereum & Webassembly |
| Juan Batiz-Benet | IPFS |
| Jeff Coleman | Universal Hash Time |
| Aaron Davis | Lightning Talk: Metamask.io |
| [REDACTED] | BTC Relay |
| Vitalik Buterin | Scalable Blockchains & Asynchronous Programming |
| [REDACTED] | Digital Identity & Ethereum-based Public Key Infrastructure |
| Denis Ignatovich, Grant Passmore | Towards Imandra Contracts: Formal verification for Ethereum |
| [REDACTED] | Raiden: Scaling out with offchain state networks |
| Jack Pettersson | Towards safer languages for smart contracts |
| Peter McBurney | Formal semantics for protocols |
Day 2 — Tuesday, November 10: DApp Development Strategies
| Speaker | Talk |
|---|---|
| Roman Mandeleil | Ether.Camp |
| Marley Gray | Announcing Ethereum Blockchain as a Service (Eth-BaaS) |
| Victor Wong, Kieren James-Lubin, Jim Hormuzdiar | BlockApps STRATO |
| Ryan Reich | BlockApps are written in Javascript |
| Don Tapscott | How blockchain technology can help us achieve prosperity |
| Christian Reitwießner | Building a DApp: Writing contracts |
| Alex van de Sande | Building a DApp: Design Principles for Dapp developers |
| Fabian Vogelsteller | Building a DApp: What are DApps and why Meteor |
| Peter Borah | Contract-Oriented Programming: Modularity, Extensibility, & Security |
| Christian Reitwießner | Writing safe smart contracts |
| Joris Bontje | DApp Design Patterns |
| Tim Coulter, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, Ryan Casey, Piper Merriam, Kristoffer Josefsson | Panel: Ethereum Dapp Development Frameworks |
| Patrick Salami | Lightning Talk: HitFin |
| Hudson Jameson | Lightning Talk: Learning Ethereum |
| Edmund Edgar | Lightning Talk: Reality Keys |
| Thomas Bertani | Lightning Talk: Provably honest oracle service |
| Simon de la Rouviere | Tokens |
| Arkadiy Paronyan | Mix |
| Roman Mandeleil, Piper Merriam, [REDACTED], [REDACTED], Nikolai Mushegian | Panel: Middleware & on-chain Services |
Day 3 — Wednesday, November 11: Deep Dive into Ethereum Protocols
| Speaker | Talk |
|---|---|
| Alex Leverington | devp2p |
| Vitalik Buterin | Understanding the Ethereum Blockchain Protocol |
| Jordan MacLeod | Guest Speaker |
| Piper Merriam | Ethereum Alarm Clock |
| Jutta Steiner, Gustav Simonsson | Securing Ethereum: One does not simply build a blockchain from scratch |
| Konstantin Kudryavtsev (for Iuri Matias) | Embark – DApps Framework |
| Roman Mandeleil | Announcement |
| Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood, Fabian Vogelsteller, Nikolai Mushegian, [REDACTED] | Panel: Standardization |
| Zsolt Felföldi | Progressing toward the Ethereum Light Client |
| Gavin Wood | Shh! Whisper. |
| [REDACTED], Gavin Wood, Jeffrey Wilcke, Martin Becze, Roman Mandeleil, Jim Hormuzdiar | Panel: Ethereum Clients |
| Tim Coulter | dappstore |
| Nick Dodson | Weifund & Boardroom |
| Ryan Casey | ENS (Ethereal Namespace) |
| [REDACTED] | HydraChain: Permissioned distributed ledgers based on Ethereum |
| KC Chng (video recording) | Digix Global: Assets on the Ethereum Blockchain |
| Utkarsh Verma (video recording) | Mati |
| Owen Barnes | Lightning Talk: A New Way to Work |
| John Robert | Lightning Talk: NomaTrip.com |
| Piotr Janiuk | Nano-payments on Ethereum |
Day 4 — Thursday, November 12: DApps
| Speaker | Talk |
|---|---|
| Jack Peterson | Augur |
| Nikolai Mushegian, Kat Obermeyer | Maker |
| Martin Koppelmann, Stefan George | Gnosis |
| Casey Detrio | Liquidity on Blockchains with Batch Auctions and Smart Markets |
| Dominic Williams | Synthetic Assets |
| Stephan Karpischek, Ian Cusden (UBS) | Smart Bonds |
| R. Tyler Smith | FreeMyVunk: Join the movement |
| Phil Barry | ujo Music |
| Matan Field | Backfeed |
| Wendell Davis, Peter Borah, Julian Pittleman, Jim Berry, Vinay Gupta, Tyler Smith | Panel: Gaming on the Blockchain |
| Christoph Jentzsch | Slock.it |
| Matthew Spoke (Deloitte) | Rebuilding Enterprise Processes with Blockchains and Smart Contracts |
| Jeff Scott Ward, [REDACTED] | Balanc3: Triple Entry Accounting |
| Ashley Taylor, Marian Oancea | Inflekt: Event & Community Management |
| Connor Keenan | Decentralized Reddit |
| Jack du Rose | Colony |
| Wayne Hennessy-Barrett | Ethereum: The African Opportunity (Nairobi) |
| Niran Babalola | Registries |
| Edmund Edgar, Vitalik Buterin, Jack Peterson, Martin Koppelmann | Panel: Prediction Markets |
Day 5 — Friday, November 13: Industry & Social Implications
| Speaker | Talk |
|---|---|
| Nick Szabo | History of the Blockchain |
| Maarten Ectors | Ethereum & Internet of Things with Ubuntu Core |
| Taylor Gerring | Ethereum in the Enterprise Environment |
| Joseph Lubin | Towards a Dynamic Economic, Social and Political Mesh |
| Gavin Wood | Ethereum for Dummies |
| Greg Slepak | Measuring Decentralization |
| Wendell Davis | Special announcement |
| Joseph Lubin, William Mougayar, Vinay Gupta, Gavin Wood | Panel: The Pathway to Ethereum Adoption |
| Bill Marino | Agreement Making in Solidity: A Legal Perspective |
| William Mougayar | Communicating the Ethereum Narrative |
| Andre Junge | Myths and Facts of Reputation Systems |
| Adi Chikara | Blockchain Model Canvas |
| Lee Braine, Ian Cusden, Andrew Keys, James Slazas, Rex Maudsley | Panel: Banking with Smart Contracts |
| Martin Koppelmann | Basic Income (Circles) |
| Henning Diedrich | IBM MTN Project |
| Lawrence Orisini, John Lilic, [REDACTED] | Transactive Grid |
| Elias Haase | Insurance on the blockchain |
| Jessi Baker | Provenance |
| Vinay Gupta | Dangerous Old Men: cypherpunk's failure, Ethereum's success |
Venue
Gibson Hall, 13 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 3BA. Nearest tube stations: Bank, Monument, Liverpool Street.
Source
Archived from the original DEVCON1 website.