February 23-24, 2017
San Francisco, CA
IC3 staff and members gather twice per year to discuss the major technical challenges and innovative solutions to widespread blockchain adoption. Our Sponsor Member Chain hosted this 2-day Retreat at their offices in SF. Note: IC3 offers two levels of membership: Sponsor Member fees are $450k per year. Regular members fees are $150k per year. We opened Day 1 to non-members and students as an Open House with a Reception hosted by Chain.
| Session | Speaker | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday February 23 – IC3 Open House | ||
| Registration | 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. | |
| Welcome and Event Preview | Ari Juels and Adam Ludwin | 1:30 – 1:45 p.m. |
| Session 1: Scaling and Consensus | (Chair: Emin Gun Sirer) | |
| Teechan - Overview and Demo | Ittay Eyal | 1:45 – 2:05 p.m. |
| REM: SGX for Consensus | Fan Zhang | 2:05 – 2:25 p.m. |
| Honey Badger BFT - Overview and Demo | Andrew Miller | 2:25 – 2:45 p.m. |
| Sleepy Consensus and Applications | Rafael Pass | 2:45 – 3:15 p.m. |
| Proof of Stake Consensus - Overview and Demo | Phil Daian | 3:15 – 3:25 p.m. |
| Break | 3:25 – 3:55 p.m. | |
| Session 2: Smart Contracts and Confidentiality | (Chair: Ittay Eyal) | |
| Ivy: A Predicate Language for Smart Contracts | Dan Robinson | 3:55 – 4:20 p.m. |
| Town Crier: An Authenticated Data Feed - Overview and Demo | Ethan Cecchetti and Fan Zhang | 4:20 – 4:45 p.m. |
| Solidus: Confidential Transactions Reimagined - Overview and Demo | Ethan Cecchetti | 4:45 – 5:10 p.m. |
| Confidential Assets | Dan Robinson | 5:10 – 5:30 p.m. |
| Gyges: Criminal Smart Contracts | Ari Juels | 5:30 – 5:50 p.m. |
| Open House Wrap up | Emin Gun Sirer | 5:50 - 6:00 p.m. |
| Reception | Hosted by Chain | 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. |
| Friday Feb 24 - IC3 Staff and Members-only | ||
| Breakfast | 9:00 – 9:30 a.m. | |
| Session 3: Blockchains in Action I | (Chair: Elaine Shi) | |
| The Bosco Permissioned Blockchain: Simple Code, High Throughput | Robbert van Renesse | 9:30 – 9:50 a.m. |
| Proof of Luck SGX Blockchain - Overview and Demo | Warren He, Mitar Milutinovic and Dawn Song | 9:50 – 10:10 a.m. |
| Anonymous Voting on the Ethereum Blockchain | Patrick McCorry | 10:10 – 10:30 a.m. |
| Correct and Secure Smart Contracts | Phil Daian | 10:30 – 10:50 a.m. |
| Zero-Collateral Lotteries in Ethereum and Bitcoin | Andrew Miller | 10:50 – 11:10 a.m. |
| Sealed-Glass Proofs: Using Transparent Enclaves to Prove and Sell Knowledge | Ari Juels | 11:10 – 11:30 a.m. |
| Lunch | 11:30 – 12:30 p.m. | |
| Session 4: Industry perspectives - Blockchain Opportunity Areas | (Chair: Andrew Miller) | |
| Hyperledger Fabric Architecture | Binh Nguyen and Marko Vukolic, IBM | 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. |
| Semantically Rich Segmented Blockchains | James Litsios, Digital Asset | 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. |
| Software Guard Extentions (SGX) Update | Vinay Phegade, Intel | 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. |
| Blockchain Opportunity Areas | Adam Ludwin, Chain | 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. |
| Break | 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. | |
| Session 5: Blockchains in Action II | (Chair: Ari Juels) | |
| Analysis of Blockchains | Rafael Pass | 3:00 – 3:20 p.m. |
| Falcon Network and the construction of fast wide-area interconnects - Overview and Demo | Soumya Basu | 3:20 – 3:45 p.m. |
| Hybrid Consensus: Efficient Permissionless Consensus | Elaine Shi | 3:45 – 4:10 p.m. |
| Fruitchains: An Incentive Compatible Blockchain | Rafael Pass | 4:10 – 4:30 p.m. |
| Fruitchain Demo | Elaine Shi | 4:30 – 4:40 p.m. |
| Aspen: Service Oriented Sharding | Adem Efe Gencer | 4:40 – 5:00 p.m. |
| Day 2 Wrap up | Ari Juels | 5:00 – 5:10 p.m. |
| Retreat Dinner | Hosted by Chain at Papito | 6:00 p.m. – drinks run out |