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
Moderator5:00 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.