Overview of Handycon Event - What to Expect

We are super excited for the first ever Handshake conference - Handy Con - happening in just a few days.

This is a quick overview of what to expect

in almost what people are calling a flash / popup event.

It is just an example of how awesome and engaged the Handshake community is!

We are using Airmeet for the conference, and it is totally free for attendees with a couple amazing and supportive sponsors. We will try our best to stream it to Clubhouse for the audio version - but definitely register for the event on Airmeet - as we will have video on and some may even share screen and do demos.

3 Phases of the Event

There are now 3 phases of this event to meet all the different timezones and schedules - all in the same event.

Round Table and Networking

We most likely will leave the event room open before and after the phases for the round table sessions so people can network and meet new people in the community throughout the 2 days.
Speaker sessions

We told most speakers no need to create a powerpoint - but do encourage them to come on video as well as audio. Almost all will be presenting live, with more shy and/or anonymous people providing pre-recorded content but there for question and answer.
Majority will be panels and interactive

Most will be panels, as we think this is the best way for the community to engage, and keep it from being a bit boring and/or sales-y.

Moderators will try their best to make it equal for all panelists. We are also trying to balance the community with international community members and various companies and even outside of the Handshake ecosystem.

Here’s the current speaker lineup:

Jehan Chu

Founder of Kenetic.capital

Vinny Lingham

Co-founder & CEO of Civic.com

Andrew Rosener

CEO at MediaOptions.com

Clay Collins

Founder of Nomics, and owner of c/

Andrew Lee

Founder of Purse.io and Handshake

Mike Carson

Co-founder of Park.io and Impervious

Yuriy Dybskiy

Founder, CEO of Puma BROWSER

David Vorick

Sia Skynet Lead Developer

Thomas Barrett

President of EnCirca, Inc

Tieshun Roquerre

Co-founder, CEO of Namebase

Matt Zipkin

Lead Developer at Impervious

Mike Michelini

Host at Global From Asia
Blogger at SkyInclude

Jothan Frakes

Vice-Chair, Technical Operations
of the Registrar Stakeholder Group

Johnny Wu

Community Manager at Namebase

Steven Mckie

CEO/Founding Partner at Amentum

Mark Smith

Founder of Namesake.domains
(owner of gin/)

Steve Webb

Co-founder of Impervious

Soeren von Varchmin

CEO CloudFest / NamesCon

Kurumiimari

Founder of Shakedex

Handshake Jesus

Chjango

Chad Folk

Leader of Rdao
and the RealtyDAO platform

Anthony Liu

Co-founder, CTO, Namebase

Kiba Gateaux

Full-stack Developer - ConsenSys

Oscar Seivane García

CO-FOUNDER OF SQENA BARCELONA, DEVELOPER OF ALLHNS

Nikhil Bhaskaran

Founder IoTIoT.in

Sajan Nair

Digital Marketing person
Owner of GoMommy/

Graham Wallace

Retiree but just pretending

Robert Raichici

Co-founder OF Shakestats

Gautham Elango

CO-FOUNDER OF SHAKESTATS

🍓🍓🍓 Annabelle Cen

Community Manager, HNSfans

Brantly Millegan

Director of Operations,
Ethereum Name Service

Leoni Rossberg

Program Manager,
Entrepreneurs for Knowledge

Redsolver

Developer of SkyFeed

Sebastian Rasor

developer of hmail (Handshake email)

Andreas Renz

Developer of HNSsearch

Ken Sheng

Founder of Goldshell

Neel Yadav

Developer of Handshake Email

Sam Parker

Host of Crypto n Coffee,
Namecoin maximalist

More to be announced soon

A time to make collaborations and deals

We want people to be able to put the barriers down and talk about collaboration. We hope to integrate with more services in the internet and create more win win collaboration for THE END user, those surfing the internet, in mind.

While this was put together on a rather last minute short notice, we see an amazing response of people to speak, share, promote, and attend.

Each one of you participating is showing the world there is a real need and a real community to support the Dweb - the decentralized internet.

While sessions will be recorded, we do hope you can attend live. There will be real time, networking, and more. Plus some deals for sure and other fun activities.

And TLD auctions to wrap up each session.