IOHK | Summit 2019 Titles

IOHK is pleased to announce that the IOHK Summit will be taking place on April 17 and 18 of this year in Miami, USA.

As an industry leader in functional programming, formal verification, and proof-of-stake blockchains, IOHK will be hosting speakers, partners, and cryptocurrency experts from around the world at this two-day public event.

A cryptocurrency is only as good as the community behind it. We’ve been humbled by how amazing, patient and helpful our community has been. The next phase of Cardano’s development will be Shelley, a path to the full decentralization of Cardano.

Shelley
The Cardano Shelley release is named for Percy Bysshe Shelley, the English poet and author of Ozymandias, a cautionary tale about the precariousness of legacy. As Cardano becomes decentralized during the Shelley era, it's a reminder to ensure that the legacy IOHK leaves is a good one.

Goguen
The Goguen work is named after Joseph Goguen, a pioneering US computer scientist. By paying homage to great figures and their contributions, we honor those who built the foundations we stand upon now.

Basho
Matsuo Basho was a poet, renowned for traveling the length of Japan at a time when it was dangerous to do so. He represents the challenges of our journey towards scalability, and the opportunity to define an entire culture if we are successful.

Byron
The name of the Cardano Byron release was inspired by the English Romantic poet Lord Byron, father of Ada Lovelace, and is a symbolic acknowledgment of where everything began.

Ada
Ada Lovelace was the first to recognize the potential of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, and is often called the first computer programmer. Cardano's token is named after her, as is the sub-unit, the lovelace, to pay homage to her vision of the future, and her contributions in the face of adversity.

Voltaire
Voltaire was the nom de plume of François-Marie Arouet, an outspoken writer and philosopher of the French Enlightenment. He represents the work to create a treasury and governance system, which will enable debate among the community to flourish.

Cardano
Gerolamo Cardano, namesake of the Cardano platform, was an Italian polymath and contemporary of Leonardo Da Vinci, known for challenging the status quo. He was a contentious figure, brilliant but challenging, a spirit that the Cardano platform aims to embody as it changes the future of money.

For more information please see https://cardanoroadmap.com/

We would like to thank our sponsors The Cardano Foundation, CV VC AG + Labs Zug, Chaineers and Emurgo. For more information about the summit please visit: https://iohksummit.io/

A live stream of the event will be posted to our social media channels. Follow us on Twitter @InputOutputHK

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