BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Canada/Pacific BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180311T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181104T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180503T000000Z UID:9A2FFF8C-5CAF-4977-B618-4EB4042F75A0 DTSTART;TZID=Canada/Pacific:20180315T183000 DTEND;TZID=Canada/Pacific:20180315T203000 DESCRIPTION:Join IEEE Women in Engineering\, IEEE Young Professionals\, and IEEE Blockchain Special Interest Group on March 15th\, 2018 for their fir st workshop of the Blockchain Series. In this workshop\, three dedicated b lockchain pioneers will walk us through Bitcoin and Ethereum - contextuali zing the cryptocurrencies within the larger field of decentralized protoco ls. Insights into the potential impacts and uses of blockchain technology in engineering & technology will be explored. An overview of Bitcoin and E thereum projects being built today\, and some suggestions on how to engage just might inspire participants to get involved:\n\n- Bitcoin – a decen tralized\, peer-to-peer money system. Presented by Taylor Singleton-Fookes \, with this talk we will learn how math based trust can provide a very st rong promise of censorship resistance\, irreversibility\, and scarcity. We will go through hands on activities using (testnet) Bitcoin wallets and a ddresses. We will talk about some advanced features like multisig and go t hrough recommendations on how to be confident and safe using Bitcoin. At l ast we will discuss the current state of the Bitcoin network (busy) and co mmunity (contentious\, splintered) and discuss some of the ideas and techn ologies on the horizon of this extremely fast moving space.\n- Ethereum - a global public cryptocurrency and programmable general purpose blockchain . This talk\, facilitated by Alex Salkeld\, will unpack fundamental featur es of the Ethereum blockchain\, smart contracts\, benefits of decentraliza tion and design thinking for new business models unlocked by public blockc hains and global cryptocurrencies. Lastly\, it will provide an overview of the blockchain technology stack and Ethereum ecosystem\, projects being b uilt today and where value is created and captured.\n- State of Blockchain Technology - focusing in particular on its widespread disruption of exist ing industries and processes of innovation. During this talk\, Chelsea Pal mer will contextualize the Bitcoin and Ethereum platforms within the large r field of decentralized protocols\, and give insights as to the various w ays in which blockchain may impact every single form of engineering and te chnological practice. She will conclude with an overview of some the IEEE ’s existing blockchain initiatives and projects\, and ways to get involv ed with the Vancouver blockchain ecosystem and beyond.\n\nSpeakers:\n\nhtt p://vancouver.ieee.ca/files/2018/01/Taylor-Singleton-Fookes.png\nTaylor Si ngleton-Fookes\nTaylor Singleton-Fookes is a developer and political think er born and raised in Calgary. He received a B.S. in Financial Mathematics at the University of Victoria\, and when he found out about Bitcoin in 20 13\, he grew intensely interested in it. After relocating to Vancouver\, T aylor worked in the Distributed Ledger Technology industry\, learning a si gnificant amount of front end coding as he went. He is currently working a s an independent contractor\, and in his spare time is one of the main org anizers at [dctrl community commons](http://www.dctrl.ca).\n\nhttp://vanco uver.ieee.ca/files/2018/01/Matt-Lockyer.jpghttp://vancouver.ieee.ca/files/ 2018/02/NEW-Alex-Salkeld.jpg\nAlex Salkeld\nAlex Salked has been involved with the local Vancouver Bitcoin community since 2013\, with a large focus on community outreach and education. In January 2014\, at 26 months\, his daughter was perhaps the youngest person to independently buy Bitcoin fro m an ATM. He helps run [dctrl community commons](http://www.dctrl.ca)\, in cluding meetups that cover a wide range of topics about blockchain technol ogy and decentralization. He focuses on the intersection between gamificat ion\, decentralization\, and AR/VR\, produces educational media\, and give s private consultations on cryptocurrency trading.\n\nhttp://vancouver.iee e.ca/files/2018/01/Chelsea-Palmer.jpg\nChelsea Palmer\nChelsea Palmer is a n educator\, event organizer\, and decentralization proselytizer. She crea tes community projects and wrangles operations on behalf of [Finhaven](htt p://www.finhaven.com)\, a global platform for regulated\, tokenized capita l pools. Her work focuses on understanding and designing cultural and soci etal layers to effectively support widespread adoption of disruptive and d ecentralizing technologies. She raps about technology\, critical theory\, and cryptocurrency as [msGNU](http://www.stuckincyber.space).\n\nCo-sponso red by: IEEE Young Professionals\, IEEE Blockchain Special Interest Group\ n\nAgenda: \n- 6:30 PM - Registration\n- 6:45 PM - Opening\n- 7:00 PM - Bi tcoin by Taylor Singleton-Fookes\n- 7:20 PM - Ethereum by Matt Lockyer\n- 7:40 PM - State of Blockchain Technology by Chelsea Palmer\n- 8:00 PM - Ne tworking\n\nRoom: 11th Floor\, Bldg: VentureLabs\, 555 West Hastings Stree t\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, Canada LOCATION:Room: 11th Floor\, Bldg: VentureLabs\, 555 West Hastings Street\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, Canada ORGANIZER:WIEVancouver@ieee.org SEQUENCE:10 SUMMARY:Blockchain Series - Workshop #1 URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/159974 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Join IEEE Women in Engineering\, IEEE Youn g Professionals\, and IEEE Blockchain Special Interest Group on March 15th \, 2018 for their first workshop of the&nbsp\;<em><strong>Blockchain</stro ng></em><strong> Series</strong>. In this workshop\, t<span style="font-we ight: 400\;">hree dedicated blockchain pioneers will walk us through Bitco in and Ethereum - contextualizing the cryptocurrencies within the larger f ield of decentralized protocols. Insights into the potential impacts and u ses of blockchain technology in engineering &amp\; technology will be expl ored. An overview of Bitcoin and Ethereum projects being built today\, and some suggestions on how to engage just might inspire participants to get involved</span>:</p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Bitcoin</strong> &ndash\; a decent ralized\, peer-to-peer money system. Presented by <strong>Taylor Singleton -Fookes</strong>\, with this talk we will learn how math based trust can p rovide a very strong promise of censorship resistance\, irreversibility\, and scarcity. We will go through hands on activities using (testnet) Bitco in wallets and addresses. We will talk about some advanced features like m ultisig and go through recommendations on how to be confident and safe usi ng Bitcoin. At last we will discuss the current state of the Bitcoin netwo rk (busy) and community (contentious\, splintered) and discuss some of the ideas and technologies on the horizon of this extremely fast moving space .</li>\n<li><strong>Ethereum</strong> - a global public cryptocurrency and programmable general purpose blockchain. This talk\, facilitated by&nbsp\ ;<strong>Alex Salkeld</strong>\, will unpack fundamental features of the E thereum blockchain\, smart contracts\, benefits of decentralization and de sign thinking for new business models unlocked by public blockchains and g lobal cryptocurrencies. Lastly\, it will provide an overview of the blockc hain technology stack and Ethereum ecosystem\, projects being built today and where value is created and captured.</li>\n<li><strong>State of Blockc hain Technology </strong>-&nbsp\;focusing in particular on its widespread disruption of existing industries and processes of innovation. During this talk\, <strong>Chelsea Palmer</strong> will contextualize the Bitcoin and Ethereum platforms within the larger field of decentralized protocols\, a nd give insights as to the various ways in which blockchain may impact eve ry single form of engineering and technological practice. <span style="fon t-weight: 400\;">She will conclude with an overview of some the IEEE&rsquo \;s existing blockchain initiatives and projects\, and ways to get involve d with the Vancouver blockchain ecosystem and beyond.</span></li>\n</ol>\n <p><strong>Speakers:</strong></p>\n<table style="height: 1081px\;" width=" 895">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width="232">\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><s trong><em><a href="http://vancouver.ieee.ca/files/2018/01/Taylor-Singleton -Fookes.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2677" src="http:// vancouver.ieee.ca/files/2018/01/Taylor-Singleton-Fookes-271x300.png" alt=" " width="271" height="300" /></a> &nbsp\;<br /></em></strong><strong><em>T aylor Singleton-Fookes</em></strong></p>\n</td>\n<td width="427"><em><stro ng>Taylor Singleton-Fookes</strong></em> is a developer and political thin ker born and raised in Calgary. He received a B.S. in Financial Mathematic s at the University of Victoria\, and when he found out about Bitcoin in 2 013\, he grew intensely interested in it. After relocating to Vancouver\, Taylor worked in the Distributed Ledger Technology industry\, learning a s ignificant amount of front end coding as he went. He is currently working as an independent contractor\, and in his spare time is one of the main or ganizers at <a href="http://www.dctrl.ca">dctrl community commons</a>.</td >\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td width="232">\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><strong> <em><a href="http://vancouver.ieee.ca/files/2018/01/Matt-Lockyer.jpg"><br /> </a><a href="http://vancouver.ieee.ca/files/2018/02/NEW-Alex-Salkeld.jp g"><img class="alignnone wp-image-2945 size-medium" src="http://vancouver. ieee.ca/files/2018/02/NEW-Alex-Salkeld-265x300.jpg" alt="" width="265" hei ght="300" /></a><br /></em></strong><strong><em>Alex Salkeld</em></strong> </p>\n</td>\n<td width="427"><em><strong>Alex Salked</strong></em>&nbsp\;< span style="font-weight: 400\;">has been involved with the local Vancouver Bitcoin community since 2013\, with a large focus on community outreach a nd education. In January 2014\, at 26 months\, his daughter was perhaps th e youngest person to independently buy Bitcoin from an ATM. He helps run < /span><a href="http://www.dctrl.ca"><span style="font-weight: 400\;">dctrl community commons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400\;">\, including meetups that cover a wide range of topics about blockchain technology and decentralization. He focuses on the intersection between gamification\, d ecentralization\, and AR/VR\, produces educational media\, and gives priva te consultations on cryptocurrency trading.</span></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td width="232">\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><strong><em><a href="http:// vancouver.ieee.ca/files/2018/01/Chelsea-Palmer.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2679" src="http://vancouver.ieee.ca/files/2018/01/Che lsea-Palmer-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" /></a><br /> Chel sea Palmer</em></strong></p>\n</td>\n<td width="427"><em><strong>Chelsea P almer</strong></em> is an educator\, event organizer\, and decentralizatio n proselytizer. She creates community projects and wrangles operations on behalf of <a href="http://www.finhaven.com">Finhaven</a>\, a global platfo rm for regulated\, tokenized capital pools. Her work focuses on understand ing and designing cultural and societal layers to effectively support wide spread adoption of disruptive and decentralizing technologies. She raps ab out technology\, critical theory\, and cryptocurrency as <a href="http://w ww.stuckincyber.space">msGNU</a>.</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><ol>\n<li>6:30 PM - <strong>Registration</strong></li>\n< li>6:45 PM - <strong>Opening</strong></li>\n<li>7:00 PM - <strong>Bitcoin< /strong> by Taylor Singleton-Fookes</li>\n<li>7:20 PM -&nbsp\;<strong>Ethe reum&nbsp\;</strong>by Matt Lockyer</li>\n<li>7:40 PM - <strong>State of&n bsp\;</strong><strong>Blockchain Technology&nbsp\;</strong>by Chelsea Palm er</li>\n<li>8:00 PM -&nbsp\;<strong>Networking</strong></li>\n</ol> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR