Computational Law and Blockchain Festival SF

We’re a global movement of lawyers, policymakers, technologists, and academics who explore and develop creative solutions to some of the most pressing issues at the intersection of law and technology. Through regular local meetups, hackathons, and workshops, Legal Hackers spot issues and opportunities where technology can improve and inform the practice of law and where law, legal practice, and policy can adapt to rapidly changing technology.There are currently over 80 Legal Hackers chapters around the world, with over 10,000 Legal Hackers, across 5 continents - and if you're in the SF Bay Area, this chapter is yours!The SF Bay Area is a globally unique hub of technologists, tech-policy advocates, and tech-forward lawyers, so please get involved, propose themes, events, talks, discussions, projects — as well as issues around blockchain, we’re considering gathering around privacy, drone law, net neutrality, democracy and propaganda technology, post-nation-state hacking …For the longest time, we’ve been forced to live our lives under the yoke of legal systems and structures created, sometimes hundreds of years ago, by distant, unaccountable others, to fit the whims and needs of the powerful few. Today, we have the power and agency to shape and create systems and structures to meet the needs of all of us, in more open, transparent, participatory ways.

SF Legal Hackers

The first annual Computational Law & Blockchain Festival (#clbfest2018) is a three-day global (48 city!) event bringing together coders, designers, lawyers, policymakers, researchers, and students to co-create the future of law, legal practice, and policy, and how they intersect with new systems of identity, trust, governance, and value exchange. The Festival will be hosted simultaneously at independent, self-organized nodes in cities around the world.
Welcome to your SF/Bay Area node! We're excited to be hosting all three activity tracks at the Impact Hub in SF, generous host to an ongoing series of events at the intersection of Blockchain and Impact.
The Festival is designed to be as inclusive as possible, with activity tracks for participants of all backgrounds, interests, and skill levels:
LEARN
New to computational law or blockchain technology? Need a blockchain 101? Want to learn how to write a smart contract? Learn the basics from local and global experts at our educational sessions and workshops. If you can't make it to all the sessions, follow along at our livestream video feed: <A STYLE="color: #013653; background-color: #f8f8fa; outline: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;" HREF="https://bit.ly/clbfestsfsat" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://bit.ly/clbfestsfsat</A>
HACK
Take part in our Global Challenge, a distributed, 24-hour hackathon that challenges participants to build open-source computational law and blockchain-for-law uses cases with a chance to win awesome prizes. Check out the list of challenges here: <A CLASS="linkified" HREF="http://legalhackers.org/clbfest2018-hack/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://legalhackers.org/clbfest2018-hack/</A> - We'll be presenting the challenges at our Kick-off sessions on Friday from 6-9pm, then teams will have a 24 hour window to hack from Saturday 1pm to Sunday 1pm. Join the discord group to form teams in advance!
DISCUSS
Join our Global Symposium, a distributed policy hack to discuss core issues related to blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies with the goal of contributing to a free and open global survey of those issues, drawing from discussions happening in nodes around the world. Lawyers, policymakers, and blockchain founders facing knotty regulatory issues can join the discord group to get set up for the symposium!
 
Attend in person or remotely: The Festival welcomes enthusiasts of all ages, genders, backgrounds, skill levels, and disciplines, and will be free to attend and participate.
We'll be hosting an informational kickoff on Friday evening for those who want to learn more and organize ahead of the weekend, and will be announcing local sponsors and prizes in the run up to the event!
Our event in SF is generously sponsored by: Amberdata.io (<A CLASS="linkified" HREF="https://amberdata.io/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://amberdata.io/</A>) - Your platform for blockchain health and intelligence DLA Piper (<A CLASS="linkified" HREF="https://www.dlapiper.com/en/us/focus/fintech-blockchain/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.dlapiper.com/en/us/focus/fintech-blockchain/</A>) - Global Law Firm Republic Crypto (<A CLASS="linkified" HREF="https://republic.co/crypto" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://republic.co/crypto</A>) - Giving everyone access to early-stage crypto-startup investing Deconet (<A CLASS="linkified" HREF="https://deco.network/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://deco.network/</A>) - Blockchain tech for software development that equitably and automatically rewards contributors Consensys (<A CLASS="linkified" HREF="https://new.consensys.net/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://new.consensys.net/</A>) - Harness the power of Ethereum
With thanks to our SF event cohosts and co-organizers: Impact Hub SF (<A CLASS="linkified" HREF="https://sanfrancisco.impacthub.net/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://sanfrancisco.impacthub.net/</A>) CodeX Stanford Blockchain Group (<A CLASS="linkified" HREF="https://law.stanford.edu/projects/blockchain-group/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://law.stanford.edu/projects/blockchain-group/</A>) CoMakery (<A CLASS="linkified" HREF="https://www.comakery.com/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.comakery.com/</A>) Legal.io (<A CLASS="linkified" HREF="https://www.legal.io/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.legal.io/</A>) ZenCash (<A CLASS="linkified" HREF="https://zencash.com/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://zencash.com/</A>) UC Hastings College of the Law (<A CLASS="linkified" HREF="http://www.uchastings.edu/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.uchastings.edu/</A>) Shareable.net (<A CLASS="linkified" HREF="https://www.shareable.net/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.shareable.net/</A>)
More details on the global event here: <A CLASS="linkified" HREF="http://legalhackers.org/clbfest2018/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://legalhackers.org/clbfest2018/</A>
SCHEDULE
Friday - March 16, 2018
18:00 Kick-off (3rd floor of Impact Hub) 18:30 Context Setting - Event goals, stakeholder and partner introductions, event comms channels. 19:15 Panel: General ecosystem status and developments, feat. Shawn Douglass, CEO of Amberdata and Mark Radcliffe, Partner at DLA Piper 20:00 Drinks / Team Formation / Informal Discussion
Saturday - March 17, 2018
HACK TRACK (3rd floor of Impact Hub) - Hack track participants should pre-register for challenges here (<A CLASS="linkified" HREF="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQPaWitG8GKZ0xTdipHptwZlBeH9atPGjScI5768pRl5mC0w/viewform" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQPaWitG8GKZ0xTdipHptwZlBeH9atPGjScI5768pRl5mC0w/viewform</A>) and are welcome to join all LEARN or DISCUSS track sessions. Hacking on challenges officially begins at 13:00. The location will be open overnight on Saturday for teams that wish to stay on site hacking. Hacking will officially end at 13:00 on Sunday.
LEARN TRACK (1st floor of Impact Hub)
08:30 Check-in, Breakfast & Welcome 10:00 Blockchain and Crypto 101 - History, Limitations, Players, Outlook - Alex Voto 11:00 Introductions / Intention Setting Noon Lunch 13:00 Sustainable Open Source and Blockchain - David Sneider 14:00 Keeping Track of Your Coins - Bernat Fortet 15:00 Decentralizing the Web - Jonathon Brown, Brian Kennish 16:00 Regulatory Environment for Security Tokens - Keith Farley 17:00 Taxation of Cryptocurrencies
DISCUSS TRACK (1st floor of Impact Hub and online (<A CLASS="linkified" HREF="https://discord.gg/SKyaNfR" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://discord.gg/SKyaNfR</A>))
13:00 Policy Issue 1: Privacy & Security - led by Ashkan Soltani 15:00 Policy Issue 2: Tokens - led by Steven Nam 17:00 Policy Issue 3: Financial Services Chartering & Licensing - led by John Muller
Sunday - March 18, 2018
LEARN TRACK (1st floor of Impact Hub)
08:30 Check in and Breakfast 10:00 Virtual Currencies vs. Utility Tokens - Noah Thorp, Jane Lippencott 11:00 Blockchain and Purpose - Derek Razo, Neal Gorenflo, Vienna Looi, Jane Lippencott, Tony Lai
DISCUSS TRACK (1st floor of Impact Hub, and online (<A CLASS="linkified" HREF="https://discord.gg/SKyaNfR" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://discord.gg/SKyaNfR</A>))
09:00 Policy Issue 4: Smart Contracts as Legal Contracts - led by Anthony Di Franco 11:00 Policy Issue 5: Securities Laws - led by Chante Eliaszadeh
HACK TRACK (3rd floor of Impact Hub)
13:00 Hacking finishes. Deadline for submissions. Lunch and Review 14:00 Challenge pitches. 15:00 Local judging. 16:00 Local winners announced. Closing reception. 18:30 Event ends
[Note: Schedule is subject to change! Check back before the event itself for the latest info]
SF EVENT LEARN & DISCUSS TRACK SPEAKERS
Jonathan Brown, Founder, MIX Blockchain
Jonathan was a participant in the Drupal web development community for ten years where he created the blockchain Drupal modules Coin Tools and Ethereum. As he fosters the growth of the MIX development community, he endeavours to replicate the vibrancy of the Drupal development community.
Anthony Di Franco - Founder, Open Insulin
Anthony is a blockchain technologist, programmer, and mathematician focused on logic programming and bio-hacking. He has served as Head of R&D for a blockchain startup and is the Founder of Open Insulin, where his team is developing an open-source technical and legal infrastructure for decentralized production of insulin.
Shawn Douglass, CEO at Amberdata
Shawn is a Business & Technology Executive with 20+ years of demonstrated success. Company builder who understands business models, technology, the levers of businesses large and small and triangulates on what matters.
Chante Eliaszadeh - Co-Founder & President, Blockchain at Berkeley Law
With a focus on blockchain, entertainment, business, and technology law, Chante is the Co-Founder and President of Blockchain at Berkeley Law. At the club, the first and largest of its kind, her initiatives include teaching law students about the intersection of blockchain and law, mentoring legal research in the field, developing a curriculum for smart contracts, and creating a blockchain legal clinic.
Neal Gorenflo, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Shareable.net
Neal is a social entrepreneur working toward a resilient society and leads the development of Shareable, a Tides Center project committed to promoting sharing, the commons, and contribution to the common good as key to the definition of the good life. Neal is also a Strategy Fellow at FAS.research, a leader in using the sciences of network analysis & complexity for social change, a member of Stanford's Persuasive Technology Lab, studying how technology changes beliefs and behavior, and a board director at ForestEthics, which harnesses market forces to save endangered forests.
Keith Farley, Sharespost
At Sharespost, Keith is an analytically-oriented, data-driven product manager with hands-on experience delivering end-to-end consumer and enterprise products. Fluid in cross-team collaboration to guide products through conception, design, testing, analysis, and execution. His specialties include Agile/Scrum, ecommerce, data analysis, UX, mobile strategy, SQL, partner success, SaaS, integrations, and acquisition.
Bernat Fortet, Co-Founder at Cryptagon.io
Bernat is a serial entrepreneur with a love of design, and the Co-Founder of Cryptagon.io, a supercharged personal crypto portfolio tracker. Previously, he was the Founder of Flourish, crafting the next generation of learning experiences through machine learning and the use of AI for personalized interactions. Bernat’s front-end expertise combines with a designers touch to develop beautiful and effective products.
Tony Lai - CEO & Cofounder, Legal.io; Co-Chair Codex Stanford Blockchain Group
Tony is an Entrepreneurial Fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX) where he co-chairs the CodeX Blockchain Group, and a Co-founder of Legal.io, working on applied research and innovation in the design of legal service delivery systems, with a focus on ecosystem engineering to support trusted exchange and value flow. Tony practiced law advising tech, media, and telecoms companies, public sector bodies and charities across Europe, Asia, and Africa on regulatory, transactional and IP issues, and now advises non-profit associations and blockchain companies on legal, social and governance innovation, including the Distributed Ledger Foundation, StartX, the American Bar Association, Shareable.net, Vevue, and TrustToken.
Jane Lippencott - CoFounder, ZenCash
Cofounder of ZenCash, Aleph, Eden, and Cmerce. Advisor to startups Catseye, Moveco, and TOSCoin. Blockchain Director of KX Incubator. Member of CodeX Stanford Blockchain Working Group and Board of NextGen Women's Network. Continuously involved in various projects that leverage blockchain technology to provide the network infrastructure necessary for people to securely express themselves and collaboratively build value.
John Muller - CodeX Stanford Blockchain Group
John is a member of the CodeX Stanford Blockchain Group, which tracks, guides, and influences policy and regulations in the blockchain space. He brings nearly two decades of experience at Paypal, where he was General Counsel and Vice President of Global Payments Policy. John also has practiced at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
Steven Nam - CodeX Stanford Blockchain Group
Steven is a legal scholar of competition and decentralization and a member of the CodeX Stanford Blockchain Group, where he is planning a journal on blockchain law & policy. He has been a Distinguished Practitioner at Stanford, lectured at UC Davis Law, and was an antitrust associate at Jones Day and CSO of a blockchain startup. He has published widely, most recently in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law.
Mark Radcliffe, Partner at DLA Piper USA
Mark has worked with startups for over 30 years. He earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He represents companies in their intellectual property and finance matters. His experience covers a wide variety of industries, including blockchain, Internet, software (particularly open source), IoT and semiconductors. He has worked on several initial coin offerings. He is the Chair of the Open Source Industry Group and has worked on open source transactions for over 15 years. This experience makes him particularly well suited to assisting companies with blockchain transactions. He is also Global Chair of the Corporate Venture Capital Group which enables him to assist startups in making connections for startups.
Derek Razo - Partner, Purpose Economy Fund
Derek co-founded Purpose Ventures to organise entrepreneurs, investors and legal practitioners to create new and better standards for governing and financing social ventures. He is an entrepreneur, investor and facilitator with a passion for social change. Derek is a cofounder and partner at Purpose Economy Fund, an impact investment firm and think tank which helps companies stay independent and mission driven for the long term using innovative financing and ownership solutions.
Vienna Rae-Looi - Finance, Operations, Engagement Lead at Economic Space Agency
With a background in the sciences, international relations, and law, Vienna proposed for elections and governance to be run on the blockchain in 2013 while organizing an electoral reform movement of 80,000 Malaysians. She has been involved in blockchain since 2011, when she co-founded a blockchain start-up, and thereafter has traded and angel invested in the space. Currently, Vienna is leading operations at Economic Space Agency. She also has co-founded a human rights organisation and a media station focusing on ASEAN socio-economic current affairs, and hosted an international conference for the International Network of Engaged Buddhists.
David Sneider, Project Lead, Co-Founder, Deco.Network
David’s current focus is Deco.Network, an on-blockchain market for code. He has “created” a holiday that celebrates the Solar System's movement around the Milky Way. Called Galactic Tick Day, it has been featured by Popular Mechanics, Space.com, NowThis, Nautilus, and others.
Gee Sivalingam, CEO and Founder at Token Garage
Gee Sivalingam is the CEO and founder of Token Garage, a syndicate of product designers, engineers and technologists who enable decentralized virtual economies through cryptocurrencies. He has deep experience in smart contract development, contract auditing, marketplace design for decentralized economies, economic modeling, and design of pegged/ non-pegged cryptocurrencies and distribution of tokens to a global audience. His mission is to empower entrepreneurs to build open and community-driven projects that can enable and drive new economies.
Ashkan Soltani - Researcher and Technologist
Ashkan is an independent researcher and technologist specializing in privacy, security, and behavioral economics. He has served as the Chief Technologist for the Federal Trade Commission, advising it on its technology-related policy. Ashkan also was recognized as part of the 2014 Pulitzer-winning team for his contributions to the Washington Post’s coverage of national security issues.
Noah Thorp - Founder & CEO, CoMakery; Co-Founder, CitizenCode
Noah has long been an active member of the Bay Area blockchain development community. He founded and architected CoMakery, a token issuance and administration platform for online collaborators. Previously, he co-founded a holacratic blockchain prototyping studio. In addition, Noahwas VP of Engineering for the Nasdaq Private Market launch team.
Alex Voto, Consensys
Alessandro Voto is a West Coast Regional Director for Consensys, a Brooklyn-based blockchain technology venture studio, and a Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future, a Bay Area non-profit futures think tank. Alessandro connects organizations and social entrepreneurs with the San Francisco Bay Area blockchain community to build decentralized applications and services. He sits on the Governance Committee of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, and works with ConsenSys' Enterprise team to form strategic technology partnerships. His focus lies at the intersection of economic design, peer-to-peer technology, and social change.

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