IOHK sponsor Financial Cryptography and Data Security conference 2017, Malta
The conference is a week-long annual event for cryptography as applied to finance. IOHK’s chief scientist, Aggelos Kiayias, put the programme of speakers together, and core themes of the event were blockchain and Bitcoin. Prominent figures from the crypto community attended including IOHK CEO Charles Hoskinson, IOHK CSO Jeremy Wood, Silvio Micali, Adam Back, Emin Gün Sirer, Vitalik Buterin and more.
The keynote speech was delivered by MIT professor and cryptography pioneer Silvio Micali, who spoke about his Algorand protocol. A number of IOHK staff attended and Dmitry Meshkov, IOHK researcher, presented Improving Authenticated Dynamic Dictionaries, with Applications to Cryptocurrencies.
Malta was not only a chance for IOHK staff to attend the conference, but also a great opportunity to come together to work, because they are usually spread across the world and across time zones. Almost 40 of IOHK’s researchers, developers, executives, and operations staff collaborated for up to two weeks, working to push forward major projects, as well as spending time getting to know each other in the evenings.
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More about IOHK:
IOHK is a company focused on decentralization and disruption. With operations in Hong Kong, Japan and Eastern Europe, and employees and partners from Latvia, the Netherlands, Austria, France, Ukraine, Argentina and Brazil in addition to its multinational core members, IOHK is a truly global company despite its small overall size and short history.
We not only aim to cause disruption with our technology, but also with the way we organize a group of talented and motivated people around the same vision and passion.
We are always looking for talented and motivated people to join our team, and more importantly to collaborate with. Our goal is to cause cascading disruption and there are many ways to be a part of it. If you feel like you have something to contribute, whether directly to IOHK or one of its projects, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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