Construct, May 13-15, 2019, New York, NY is less than 50 days away and you still don't have a ticket! You might not be in a rush to get a pass at the low rate of $299, but did we mention that space is limited and we're running out of seats... Maybe our next announcement will help make up your mind. We're thrilled to welcome keynote speakers Ken Liu and Jimmy Song to the main stage at Construct for an intimate fireside chat. |
Science and Fiction: In conversation with Ken Liu and Jimmy Song Art imitates reality—or is it the other way around? The bitcoin core developer Jimmy Song will join a conversation with the noted novelist Ken Liu on science-fiction, cryptocurrencies, and ways to think about the future—and their little known personal histories as colleagues. |
| JIMMY SONG Author - Programming Bitcoin Blockchain Capital |
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| | About the SpeakersKen Liu is an author of speculative fiction, as well as a translator, lawyer, and programmer. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, he is the author of The Dandelion Dynasty, a silkpunk epic fantasy series (The Grace of Kings (2015), The Wall of Storms (2016), and a forthcoming third volume) and The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (2016), a collection. He also wrote the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker (2017). In 2018, Ken wrote “Byzantine Empathy” for MIT Technology Review’s hard SF anthology, Twelve Tomorrows. The Los Angeles Review of Books highlighted it as a “stand out for combining the most in-depth technical grasp of the blockchain with captivating characters and plots.” He also wrote the introduction to Jimmy Song’s Programming Bitcoin (2019). In addition to his original fiction, Ken also translated numerous works from Chinese to English, including The Three-Body Problem (2014), by Liu Cixin, and “Folding Beijing,” by Hao Jingfang, both Hugo winners. Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin developer, educator and entrepreneur. He's the author of Programming Bitcoin published by O'Reilly, venture partner at Blockchain Capital, lecturer at the University of Texas in Austin and Instructor at Programming Blockchain. |
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| Join Ryan Selkis and the Messari team as they host the Changelog Track, a one-stop shop for updates on all the development roadmaps for the projects that are driving the industry, with sessions from 30+ platforms. Get answers to questions like: - What's new?
- Where are they now?
- What can we expect in 2019 and beyond?
Take a look at just some of the projects you can expect to hear from at Construct. |
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