24th January 2018 - Developer’s Meetup (Presentation in both Japanese and English)

This event will be held at NYU School of Professional Studies Tokyo (NYUSPS Tokyo), 22F, Shinagawa Intercity Tower A, 2-15-1 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo - Please take the middle elevator!

Agenda

19:00 – 19:30 Networking and Registration

19:30 - 19:40 Opening Address by Dušan Stojanović, Director and Founder of True Global Ventures with 9/18 exits and 3 exits in a week in 2012 awarding him “Business Angel of the Year” in 2013

19:40 – 20:10 Opensource projects by Jeff Wentworth, Co-founder of Curvegrid (Tokyo, Japan)

Curvegrid is a blockchain tooling startup based in Tokyo, Japan. Curvegrid is building a blockchain application server as well as a software development practice. Blockchain is the technology behind cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Blockchain and its associated applications are revolutionising the way we think about money, information, and the relationships we have with each other.

Before co-founding Curvegrid, Jeff spent six years at Goldman Sachs as a Vice President and global product owner of block and object storage. Prior to that, Jeff was a technology consultant and customer engineer at EMC.

20:10 – 20: 25 Networking and Refreshments

20:25 – 20:55 Opensource projects by JP Thor, CEO of Bountysource (Melbourne, Australia)

Bountysource is a platform for anyone to post bounties on issues for open-source projects, and for developers to solve and earn money. Bountysource has a community of 46,000 open-source developers (growing by 10,000 every year) ready to solve issues and claim bounties on open-source projects. Customers include IBM, Facebook, Ripple and Google. Bounties can be paid in fiat, Bitcoin, Ripple, Mastercoin with plans to support Dash and Ether soon.

20:55 – 21:10 Networking and Refreshments

21:10 - 21:40 A Decentralised Database for dApps by Neeraj Murarka, CTO of Bluzelle (Singapore)

Bluzelle provides an on-demand, decentralized database network that gives applications better performance, greater reliability and massive scalability. To ensure developers get the highest throughout in performance, reliability and scalability, Bluzelle implements swarming technologies. A swarm is a large group of nodes (computers) that work together to store and manage data. Nodes in these swarms can go down and new nodes can come up with minimal impact on the network. Overall Bluzelle is a meta-swarm comprised of multiple swarms. Bluzelle has worked with AIA, Maybank, Temenos, BT, KPMG and more.

21:40 – 22:00 Networking and Refreshments