Events

The IMDEA Software Institute organized the first “IMDEA Software – Tezos Blockchain Workshop” that took place in Spain, the 16th of January, 2020.

A scientific event that counted with many top class researchers and blockchain experts to discuss about the utility of Tezos technology.


Agenda

10:00 – 10:30 Introduction

Manuel Carro, Director of the IMDEA Software Institute.

Michel Mauny, Chief Scientific Officer at Nomadic Labs. 

Consensus

10:30 – 11:00  The State of Consensus

Awa Sun Yin, Founder at Cryptium Labs.

11:00 – 11:30  Making BFT consensus live

Alexey Gotsman, IMDEA Software Institute.

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

Verification

12:00 – 12:30  Verifying Tezos Smart Contracts and Codebase at Nomadic Labs

Bruno Bernardo, Nomadic Labs.

12:30 – 13:00  Type and Proof Structures for Concurrency

Aleksander Nanevski, IMDEA Software Institute.

13:00 – 14:15 Lunch 🍽️ 

Security and privacy

14:15 – 14:45  Present and Future of Privacy in Tezos

Marc Beunardeau, Nomadic Labs.

14:45 – 15:15  zkSNARKs: who, what, and…blockchains!

Dario Fiore, IMDEA Software Institute.

Resource Consumption and Performance

15:15 – 15:35  Resource Usage Analysis, Verification, and Optimization

Manuel Hermenegildo, IMDEA Software Institute.

15:35 – 15:55  StreamChain: Towards Sub-Millisecond Processing in Blockchains

Zsolt István, IMDEA Software Institute.

15:55 – 16:00 Wrap up

16:00 – … Time for informal discussions, breakout sessions 

Coffee break