Program
Tuesday, April 21
8:30 am
9:30 am
Registration and Breakfast
9:30 am
9:40 am
Welcome Remarks
Jaswinder Pal Singh, Inaugural Professor of Computer Science, Technology, and Societal Change; and Co-Director of the DeCenter, Princeton University
9:40 am
10:30 am
Blockchain from First Principles to Humanitarian Applications
Matt Weinberg, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Associate Director of the DeCenter, Princeton University
Houman Haddad, Head of Emergency, United Nations World Food Programme
10:30 am
11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am
12:00 pm
Panel 1: Decentralization and Pragmatism
Mike Neuder, PhD Candidate, Princeton University
Moderator
Danny Ryan, Co-Founder and President, Etherealize
Omid Malekan, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School
Mallesh Pai, Researcher, Tempo Labs
12:00 pm
1:15 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm
2:30 pm
Panel 2: Politics of Digital Asset Policy
Nolan McCarty, Associate Dean of Academic Assessment in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, Princeton University
Moderator
Tyler Williams, Counselor at Treasury, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Ron Hammond, Head of Policy and Advocacy, Wintermute
Christy Goldsmith Romero, Distinguished Visitor from Practice, Georgetown University Law Center
Francesco Castella, Global Policy and Government Affairs, Circle
2:30 pm
3:00 pm
Coffee Break
3:00 pm
4:15 pm
Panel 3: Decentralized Protocols beyond Blockchain
Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
Moderator
Sohyeon Hwang, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University
Moderator
Liz Barry, Executive Director, Metagov
Mike Masnick, Founder and Editor, Techdirt Blog
Sujith Nair, CEO, Beckn Labs
Rudy Fraser, Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
4:15 pm
4:40 pm
Student Lightning Talks
Mike Neuder, PhD Candidate, Princeton University
Kyle Onghai, PhD Candidate, Princeton University Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Viraj Nadkarni, PhD Candidate, Princeton University
Kaya Ito Alpturer, PhD Candidate, Princeton University
4:40 pm
6:00 pm