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HOUSE OF ZK details:

Join ZKM as we dive into the world of ZK and all it encompasses! Developers, entrepreneurs, and industry experts alike are coming together to discuss the limitless possibilities Zero-Knowledge Proofs brings to the table. Grab your laptop and get cozy in the House of ZK where we will collaborate, work together, and discuss all things Zero-Knowledge with like-minded people who are all working towards a better blockchain experience!

House of ZK by ZKM is hosting its first hacker house meetup during EthDenver where we will host keynotes, lectures, panels, and interactive workshops that will leave you wanting more! Meet with ZK-focused devs and entrepreneurs, share your ideas, and maybe even build your own project. House of ZK is dedicated to providing the resources you need in a surrounding that is supportive for each individuals’ growth.

About the House:

Located near National Western Complex Arena:  10 min drive.

Breakfast and Lunch served daily, 8-15 beds for residency, 50 person capacity.

Speaking opportunities and workshops from industry leaders hosted daily.

Fun, fun, fun! Blockchain and non-blockchain activities hosted nightly.

Pitch Your Product! Pitching competition on Feb 28.

Date:

Feb 23 - 28, 2024

Location:

North Denver, RiNo Art District, Curtis Park

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Build & Chill Registration day
Buidl & Chill is a day is dedicated to setting the tone for the week. While Denver welcomes thousands of buidlers, House of ZK will provide a calm networking area off-site from the Buidlathon where you can bring your team, meet some friends and warm up for a busy week.
Come in, network, have a bite & a sip, and feel the vibe before we dive into the upcoming week!
11:00
10:00
Build & Chill
"(re)Searching for ZK" Day
Industry experts who are leading the research of ZK adoption to blockchain take on EthDenver and share their research.
10:30
10:55
Breakfast + Chill
11:00
14:15
Welcome to House of ZK by Ming
Chief Scientist at ZKM
11:10
14:15
Jeroen van de Graaf
Senior Cryptographer at ZKM.
"On the Power of Polynomials in SNARKs"
12:00
11:55
Diogo Almeida
Researcher at Lightshift Capital.
Keynote: "A new paradigm in privacy: Homomorphic Encryption"
12:15
11:55
Research Panel
Scalability Solutions and Zero-Knowledge Techniques in Blockchain
Jordi Baylina, Polygon zkEVM
Ming Guo, Chief Scientist at ZKM
Dylan Kawalec, CTO at Invo Technologies Inc
Moderator: Victor Munoz, DevRel Lead at Metis
13:05
12:50
Ming Guo
Chief Scientist at ZKM.
"ZKM Introduces the Entangled Rollup"
13:25
12:50
Pavel Sinelnikov
DevRel Lead at ZKM.
"Design Considerations for the Entangled Rollup by ZKM"
13:50
12:50
Ming Guo
Chief Scientist at ZKM.
"Addressing Scalability with Hybrid Rollups"
14:00
12:50
Vipul Saini
Co-Founder & CTO at Cypherock.
Presentation: "Dynamic threshold signature scheme for decentralised access control infrastructure"
14:25
15:00
Simon Judd
Software Developer at Ingonyama.
Technical Workshop: "Icicle: Introduction to GPU-Hardware Acceleration"
15:10
15:00
Aaron Malone
Founder at Collective Ventures.
"The Importance of ZKPs in DeSci"
15:30
15:00
Jeroen van de Graaf
Senior Cryptographer at ZKM.
"Collecting this century's greatest minds with The Delphi Initiative"
15:55
15:00
Jeroen van de Graaf
Senior Cryptographer at ZKM.
"Differential Privacy: why getting privacy right is more complicated than you think"
"GM VM" Day
Today is the day for a deep-dive into VM architectures. Join in and banter the differneces and purposes of different VM srchitechtures in various panels, workshop demos, and roundtable discussions.
10:30
10:55
Breakfast + Chill
11:00
14:15
Welcome to House of ZK by Ming Guo
11:05
14:15
ZKP Design Considerations for Alternative Use-Cases
Jordi  Baylina, Polygon zkEVM
Dcbuilder, Research Engineer at Worldcoin Foundation
Ming Guo, Chief Scientist at ZKM
Daniel Lumi, Senior Product Manager of ZK Stack at Matter Labs
Justin Zhang, Co-founder & CEO at Zpin
Moderator: Evin, Disco.xyz
11:45
14:15
David Barreto
Developer Advocate at Starknet Foundation.
Improving zk-rollup performance with proof recursion
12:05
14:15
Giuseppe De Luca
DevRel Lead at IoTeX.
A Rollup to Scale DePIN
12:30
14:15
Sam Emmes
Director at Salus.
"The Application of ZK-SNARKs in Solidity - Privacy Transformation, Computational Optimization, and MEV Resistance"
12:40
14:15
Remi Gai
BFounder at Inco.
"Develop next frontier dApps with Fully Homomorphic Encryption"
13:20
14:15
Stephen Duan
Developer Lead at ZKM.
"One zkVM to Rule Them all: ZKM's General Purpose zkVM"
14:00
15:25
David Barreto
Developer Advocate at Starknet Foundation.
"Creating and deploying your first Cairo Smart Contract to Starknet"
14:50
15:25
Ming Guo
Chief Scientist at ZKM.
"ZKM Introduces the Entangled Rollup"
15:10
15:25
Pavel Sinelnikov
DevRel Lead at ZKM.
"Design Considerations for the Entangled Rollup by ZKM"
15:35
15:25
Wanli Zhou
Head of ecosystem@Brevis
"Brevis: A Smart ZK Coprocessor for data-driven dApps"
"Synchronous Scaling" Day
Zero Knowledge Proofs have been the trend of the year, let’s discuss why and how ZKPs are being adopted in various projects across the industry. Join us for a full day of panels, keynotes and demos from projects and builders who are scaling with ZKPs.
10:00
10:10
Breakfast + Chill
10:15
14:15
Welcome to House of ZK by Jose Fabrega, Metis
10:25
12:50
Dominik Schmid
Project Manager at Polygon Miden.
“Exploring Polygon Miden’s ZK Rollup for Higher Throughput and Private Applications”
11:15
12:50
Francis Berwa
Head if U.S at zkPass.
"The zk-bridge between off-chain internet to web3"
11:40
12:50
Truly Trustless Bridging with ZK
Dominik Schmid, Project Manager at Polygon Miden
Daniel Lumi, MatterLabs
Shubham Bhandari, Head of Ecosystem at Manta
zkLink, Succint
Moderator: Evin, Disco.xyz
12:30
12:50
Elgios Cheung
Head of Ecosystem at zkLink.
"App Specific Rollups and Liquidity Aggregated Layer 3"
12:45
12:50
Qi Zhou
Founder/CEO at EthStorage.
"Building a Modular Storage Layer for Ethereum on EIP-4844"
13:15
12:50
Ming Guo
Chief Scientist at ZKM.
"ZKM Introduces the Entangled Rollup"
13:35
12:50
Pavel Sinelnikov
DevRel Lead at ZKM.
"Design Considerations for the Entangled Rollup by ZKM"
14:00
15:25
Jon Stephens
CTO at Veridise Inc.
"ZK Circuits in dApps: Common Bugs We Should Avoid"
14:25
15:25
Dylan Kawalec
CTO at Invo Technologies Inc.
"ZKM Middleware: How to Build zkTEE’s for Blockchain Infrastructure"
15:10
15:25
Max Sultakov
Co-founder & CEO at Arcane Finance.
"Building private DeFi dApps on Aleo"
15:25
15:25
Arnav Pagidyala
Principal at HashKey.
"MEV and the ZKP supply chain"
15:40
15:25
Cathie So
Chief Scientist at ORA.
“Scaling Ethereum with AI”
16:00
15:25
Qi Zhou
Founder/CEO at EthStorage.
"Proving Complex Go Program with zkGo and zkWasm Continuation"
"[redeacted] ZK Security" Day
It all boils down to this: ZK’s #1 use case. Let’s talk about it! The day will be filled with panels, keynotes and workshop demos focused on privacy and security, along with the nuances we all dance within this domain.
10:05
10:20
Breakfast + Chill
10:25
14:15
Welcome to House of ZK by Pavel Sinelnikov
10:35
15:25
Jeroen van de Graaf
Senior Cryptographer at ZKM.
"About privacy notions: Zero Knowledge, Fully Homomorphic encryption, Multiparty Computation, Differential Privacy"
11:10
12:50
ZK Cryptography: Enabling End-to-End Security in Blockchain
Jeroen van de Graaf, Senior Cryptographer at ZKM
Eric Vreeland, CSO at Polyhedra
Aetos Huo, Product Director at zkPass
Moderator: Evin, Disco.xyz
11:40
15:25
John Reynolds
Co-founder at ZPass.
Aleo "ZPass: Truly Secure Identity Verification"
12:05
12:50
Privacy vs. Resilience: Building Trust in Decentralized Systems
Daniel Helm, Developer Relations Lead at Scroll
Jose Betancourt, Founder & CEO of Virtual Labs
Aetos Huo, Product Director at zkPass
Daniel Lumi, MatterLabs
Moderator: Evin Disco.xyz
13:15
15:25
Emily Lin
Developer advocate at Linea.
"Fastest Proofs on Mobile: Write zkSNARKs in Go"
14:00
14:40
Kostas Ferles
Chief Research Officer at Veridise.
"Privacy Leakages in ZK: Keeping the Knowledge at Zero"
14:25
15:50
Sam Emmes
BD Director at Salus.
"Practical Application of Zkevm: DeFi & Institutional Use Case"
14:45
15:50
Otto Mora
Business Dev Americas at Polygon ID.
"Polygon ID: ZK powered identity"
15:10
15:05
Jeffery Scholz
Founder of RareSkills.
"Build a simple ZK proof in Python"
15:35
15:05
Jacob Makarsky & Pete Simpson
Contributors to Railgun.
"Private Proofs of Innocence - A Practical Demo"
16:00
15:05
Nanak Nihal
Co-founder at Holonym Foundation.
"Addressing the technical and practical barriers to adoption of ZK identity"
16:10
15:05
Anne-Grace Kleczewski
Co-Foudner at Keom Protocol.
"zk Proofs as Catalysts for Healthier Markets"
16:35
15:05
Erlc Alston
University of Colorado.
"Can Privacy Rights Be Upheld in the Digital Age Absent Encryption? - ZKPs as a Promising Path Forward"
"Builder Brigade" Day
This is the day of opportunity-- no builder will want to miss this! Hear tips, tricks and advice straight from the source. VCs and investors will join in interactive panels and fireside chats focused on guiding the best business practices to get your project off the ground.
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This will be followed by a lightning pitch presentation to various VCs. You must apply to present your project.

The day will end with a networking social of cocktail drinks and snacks, acting as a small pre-party to EthDenver’s official opening party hosted by MetisFest and EthDenver.
10:40
10:55
Breakfast + Chill
11:10
14:15
Mona Tiesler
Head of Investment at Tokentus investments.
Workshop: "How to pitch a highly technical project to investors"
12:15
14:15
Lou Kerner
Crypto Oracle.
Keynote: "10 Thoughts On Community"
12:30
12:50
Building a High-Performing Team: Strategies and Best Practices
Tommy, Investment Manager at Crypto.com Capital
‍Benson, OKX Ventures Partner at OKX
‍York, Head of Investment at Generative Ventures
James Wo, Founder & CEO at DFG
Moderator: Evin, Disco.xyz CEO & Co-founder
Speakers
Jeroen van de Graaf Senior Cryptographer
Jeroen van de Graaf
Senior Cryptographer
Daniel Lumi
Senior Product Manager of ZK Stack at Matter Labs
Ming Guo
Chief Scientist at ZKM
Pavel Sinelnikov Dev Rel Lead
Pavel Sinelnikov
Dev Rel Lead at ZKM
Sandy Peng
Co-founder Scroll
Diogo Almeida
Researcher at Lightshift
Alex Pruden
Executive Director at Aleo
Dylan Kawalec
CTO and Lead Software Architect at Invo Technologies Inc
Kostas Ferles
Chief Research Officer at Veridise
Jon Stephens
Chief Technology Officer at Veridise
Sam Emmes
BD Director at Salus
Joshua
Head of Strategy at zkPass
Simon Judd
Software Developer at Ingonyama
Emily Lin
Developer Advocate at Linea
Anne-Grace Kleczewski
Co-Founder Keom Protocol
Vince Yang
Co-Founder ZkLink
Max Sultakov
Co-founder, CEO at Arcane Finance
Alan Scott
RAILGUN Privacy Project - Contributor
Vipul Saini
Co-Founder and CTO at Cypherock
Mona Tiesler
Head of Investment at Tokentus investments
John Reynolds
Co-founder ZPass
Arnav Pagidyala
Principal at HashKey
Jordi Baylina
Polygon co-founder
Eric Vreeland
CSO (Chief Strategy Officer) Officer at Polyhedra
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