Minima Innovation Challenge Powered by EdenBase
This is an in-person event.
About this event
Join us for the exclusive launch event of the Minima Innovation Challenge (MIC), designed to support and encourage individuals and teams to create innovative solutions using the Minima Protocol, the world's first truly decentralised blockchain network.
We are kicking off the Challenge with a private Launch Event. In the EdenBase Hub we will introduce MIC, hold an AMA session and a fireside chat on ‘The Importance of Decentralisation and Innovation’. The evening will conclude with networking over snacks and drinks.
Agenda
6:30 - Arrivals & Networking
7:00 - Minima Innovation Challenge Introduction & AMA
7:30 - Fireside Chat: The Importance of Decentralisation and Innovation
8:00 - Networking over Drinks & Snacks
Fireside Chat: The Importance of Decentralisation and Innovation
Eric Van der Kleij (Co-Founder, EdenBase)
Hugo Feiler (Co-Founder & CEO, Minima)
Marta Piekarska-Geater (Open Source and Ecosystem, EdenBase)
About Eric Van der Kleij
Eric is a Co-Founder of EdenBase - UK’s first fund with a supergrowth hub and an ecosystem, investing in the next generation of game changing companies, powered by frontier technologies.
Previously, Eric created the world’s leading Fintech hub - Level39.co in London’s Canary Wharf, supporting the growth of many unicorns. He then advised the Kickstart Fintech accelerator, backed by the Swiss Government. Before that, Eric worked for the UK Department for International Trade and the U.K. Prime Minister's office, and led the UK’s famous Tech City (TechNation.io) initiative, feeding into government policy that helped transform the UK’s tech economy.
He is a Chairman of Activeledger.io and chairs the annual CFC-Conference in St. Moritz, moderating high-level regulatory panels, most recently interviewing the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England.
About Hugo Feiler
Hugo is an entrepreneur with over two decades of experience in the marketing communication space. He is Co-Founder and CEO of Minima, the world’s first truly decentralised blockchain protocol based entirely on mobile phones.
Prior to launching Minima, Hugo founded and managed internationally awarded advertising agencies, creating global campaigns for companies including Vodafone, Toshiba, and Sony Electronics. He was previously General Manager of marcomms at Sony Europe for its computer and audio divisions.
About Marta Piekarska-Geater
An expert in Open Source and Ecosystem Leadership, Marta has an impressive track record of leading communities in many organizations including Balancer Labs, The Linux Foundation, Hyperledger, the Sovrin Foundation, and consulting for numerous startups.
She is also a regular public speaker and mentor and been recognised with awards such as CryptoAM’s Most Influential Person in Blockchain, Consensys’ Women in Crypto, and Coindesk's Top 100 people in Blockchain ones. Marta holds a Ph.D. in Computer Security and Privacy and worked in this field with Apple, Block stream, Mozilla, Deutsche Telekom, and others.
She is a founder of the W3C Blockchain Community Group and presently served as Chair of the Sovrin Technical Governing Board.
About the Minima Innovation Challenge
Build the Future of Truly Decentralised Apps
Come and build on Minima, the world's first truly decentralised blockchain network, enabling everyone to freely connect and prosper. Minima is accountable, autonomous, inclusive, resilient, scalable, secure, uncensored and lightweight.
The Minima Innovation Challenge is a two month long competition designed to find brilliant and unique applications for the protocol, outside of what has already been conceived. Now is your chance to shine.
About Minima
Minima is a cryptocurrency designed to be ultra-compact. Designed to remain totally decentralized. Designed to have no rulers. There are no miners and no ever-growing database. A simple yet powerful scripting language, Cascading Proof Chain, adaptive block scaling, and an innovative Proof of Work (PoW) backed user-centric blockchain algorithm that uses both on-chain and off-chain traffic for security. All with Quantum Secure Cryptography. Small enough to run efficiently on your mobile phone. Everyone runs a Complete node. Forever.
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