Blockcon is a 3-day Blockchain conference taking place at the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica, CA from October 10-12th 2018.

Topics run the gamut of all things Blockchain including many new concepts that have become more important over the last year.

Subjects covered over the 3 days include:

-Importance of Digital Privacy

-Tackling Tokenization

-Domain Names On The Blockchain

-Token Economics

-Blockchain for Social Good

-Airbnb on the Blockchain

-A World of Three Zeros: Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

-Smart Contracts on Bitcoin

-How Luxury Goods and Arts Benefit From Blockchain

-The Role of Economy in the Design of Virtual Worlds

-AI + Blockchain

-The Future of Cloud Infrastructure

-Asia as the next 1 Billion Users In Crypto

-Decentralized Trading

-Stable Cryptocurrency

-Decentralized Marketplaces

-Decentralized Identity

-Choosing The Best Blockchain Startup Jurisdiction

-The Future of Smart Contracts

-Community Owned Networks

-Why Decentralization is Not a Goal

-Democratizing Trading and Investing

-A Decentralized Facebook

 

This is just a taste of the many many topics being covered. Some appear to be workshops and knowledge oriented to help people with various skillsets they want to build in the space.

Speakers include: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan, Naval Ravikant, founder of Angel List, Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate, Ralph C. Merkle, creator of Merkle trees and the famous philosopher Alan Watts.

Other companies represented include: Consensys, Start Engine, Perkins Coie, MetaCert, Presearch, Deloitte, NEM, Google, BCG, Civic, and Edge among dozens of other groups

Attendees are across industries and roles: