RE: Keynote Speaker(s)?

I’m inclined to agree with Chris on this. Perhaps it would be better to allow a small group of people to kick-off the event with short conceptual talks about interesting utilizations of the technology (or opportunities it presents) that could benefit from standardization. This could help set a tone for the kinds of things we dig into.

Just a thought, what are yours?

- Daniel

From: Christopher Allen [mailto:ChristopherA@blockstream.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 3:00 PM
To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
Cc: Blockchain Workshop <public-blockchain-workshop@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Keynote Speaker(s)?

Please no sage on the stage. This initial workshop will largely consist of experts. As I've said before I desire a participative event.

-- Christopher Allen

On Wednesday, May 11, 2016, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org<mailto:schepers@w3.org>> wrote:
Hi, folks–

We got an offer from Ripple to have Stefan Thomas as a keynote speaker at the workshop.

Here's a short bio:
[[
Stefan Thomas is the CTO of Ripple. Stefan is also the producer of the popular “What is Bitcoin?” video and the founder of the largest website for novice Bitcoin users, WeUseCoins.com. He created a set of open-source Bitcoin libraries called BitcoinJS, which today are maintained and used by Bitcoin businesses of all sizes including BitPay, BlockChain.info, Bitaddress, Coinpunk and others.
]]

And here's his Keynote at Bitcoin London 2013:
  https://youtu.be/hVOpXGlGwXs<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fyoutu.be%2fhVOpXGlGwXs&data=01%7c01%7cdabuchne%40microsoft.com%7cb521499316eb42b60ea408d379e7a719%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=eYuJ0eP7nxCfwNd3donlw6O5rnKAHu%2fkDFAvXhN7Z08%3d>
  https://youtu.be/0lpeZ01H_Bk<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fyoutu.be%2f0lpeZ01H_Bk&data=01%7c01%7cdabuchne%40microsoft.com%7cb521499316eb42b60ea408d379e7a719%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=tCA29vtSdXws%2fx7sQLGyQovxY244C9GlXFBfUr91pLY%3d>
  https://youtu.be/COUYwcDMqzk<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fyoutu.be%2fCOUYwcDMqzk&data=01%7c01%7cdabuchne%40microsoft.com%7cb521499316eb42b60ea408d379e7a719%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=FkEDnM4uECH033sc%2f8Rb%2bvZPvxfE5VJYC%2fdd3mBDQiw%3d>

For a fair process, I'd like to know if anyone else has suggestions for speakers.

We should also decide what the goal of any keynote speaker would be, what topics we would like to see addressed, when they would speak (perhaps an opening and closing keynote?), and how long the presenter would have.

Thoughts?

Thanks–
Doug