DeveloperWeek 2019

Javascript is one of the most popular programming languages. It's flexibility has impacted the way the web is being built. Let's build a full-stack application with Javascript. We'll touch on integrating with Node, React, D3, web3, Machine Learning and more.

Blockchain, particularly smart contracts, have the potential to revolutionize the future of work, but security and scalability concerns are preventing widespread blockchain adoption for entrepreneurs and enterprises. In this session, Marie Leaf, Head of Public Product at Kadena, will explain how smart contracts can change business operations for the better. Additionally, she will address the current challenges with Ethereum-based smart contract language which are easily exploitable and full of bugs, causing businesses to lose millions of dollars. With these concerns in mind, Marie will explain how open-source smart contract language, Pact, is addressing issues of security, speed and scalability found in Ethereum-based smart contracts. Pact allows users to upgrade smart contracts on the fly and fix bugs as they are discovered. Additionally, Pact supports Formal Verification which allows users to mathematically prove that their code does what it says it will - this is the same technology used in air and space auto-pilot programs. Attendees will walk away learning how business decision makers in all departments, from finance to marketing, can write secure, simple, and scalable smart contracts that are built on both public and private blockchains. The goal is to democratize blockchain technology for all, taking it out of the hands of expert coders and building accessible solutions for non-programmers running businesses.

Organizations are becoming increasingly interested in the use of blockchain to solve enterprise-related issues. The potential to increase trust, security, transparency, and automation in a tamper-resistant and decentralized manner represents a huge opportunity for the right use cases. However, is it that easy? Is blockchain a new enterprise application model? What are some common blockchain topologies? Where do topics such as consensus, identity, and smart contracts fit? Join this session to learn more about these topics, their use within an enterprise/permissioned blockchain deployment, and various considerations (including myths) that should be discussed before deploying this technology.

"What is a smart contract? How does one communicate with it?" We'll go over the syntax of a basic smart contract on the Ethereum network and go over how to communicate to it using remote procedure calls.