DeCenter

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Spring Conference Agenda

Program

Thursday, April 13

8:15 am

9:00 am

Check-in and Continental Breakfast

All events will take place in the Maeder Hall Auditorium,, intersection of Olden and Prospect streets, unless otherwise noted.

9:00 am

9:15 am

Welcome

Andrea Goldsmith, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering and Co-Director of the DeCenter, Princeton University

Jaswinder Pal Singh, Inaugural Professor of Computer Science, Technology, and Societal Change; and Co-Director of the DeCenter, Princeton University

9:15 am

10:00 am

Fireside Chat

Rostin Behnam, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Andrea Goldsmith, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering and Co-Director of the DeCenter, Princeton University

10:00 am

10:30 am

Opening Remarks

Andrea Goldsmith, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering and Co-Director of the DeCenter, Princeton University

Jaswinder Pal Singh, Inaugural Professor of Computer Science, Technology, and Societal Change; and Co-Director of the DeCenter, Princeton University

10:30 am

10:45 am

Coffee Break

10:45 am

11:45 am

Panel 1 – Governance and the Blockchain

Nolan McCarty, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs; Vice Dean for Strategic Planning, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Moderator

Tony Douglas, Jr., Co-Founder & Chief DAO Officer, Convex Lab; Head of Strategy, DAO Research Collective

M. Todd Henderson, Michael J. Marks Professor of Law, University of Chicago

Porter Smith, Head of Network Operations, Deal Partner, a16z

12:00 pm

1:00 pm

Lunch and Keynote

The lunch and keynote will take place in the Friend Center Convocation Room, at the intersection of William and Olden streets.

Roya Mahboob, Co-founder and CEO, Digital Citizen Fund

1:15 pm

2:15 pm

Panel 2 – Case Study: NFT and Digital Assets

Matt Weinberg, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Associate Director of the DeCenter, Princeton University

Moderator

Charlie Durbin, Co-Founder and CEO, Decent

Kevin Leyton-Brown, Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia

Laura Rodriguez, Co-founder, The Miami Ape

2:15 pm

3:00 pm

Keynote

Carole House, Executive in Residence, Terranet Ventures, Inc.; former Director for Cybersecurity and Secure Digital Innovation, White House

3:00 pm

3:20 pm

Coffee Break

3:20 pm

4:20 pm

Panel 3 – Power, Trust, Ethics: Is Bitcoin the answer (and if so, what is the question)?

Andrew Chignell, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor in Religion, Philosophy, and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University

Moderator

Troy Cross, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Reed College

Amit Levy, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University

Natalie Smolenski, Founder and Executive Director, Texas Bitcoin Foundation / Senior Fellow, Bitcoin Policy Institute

Craig Warmke, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Northern Illinois University

4:20 pm

5:00 pm

Lightning Talks

Maria Apostolaki, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University

Moderator

5:00 pm

5:15 pm

Closing Remarks

Jennifer Rexford, Provost; Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Princeton University

5:15 pm

6:15 pm

Poster Session and Reception

The poster session will take place in the Friend Center Convocation Room, at the intersection of William and Olden streets.