Schedule

Blockchain Summer Institute 2026 Schedule

 

Day

Topic

9:00 - 11:30

11:30 - 12:30

13:00 - 15:30

15:45 - 17:00

17:00-19:30

Notes

 
Day 1 (Monday, August 17th)Introduction

Introduction to Summer Institute

 
Team formation
 
Introduction to the SDGs
 

Sponsored Team Lunch

Introduction to the Three Layer Model for Designing Blockchain Solutions

    
Day 2 (Tuesday, August 18th)Layer 1 Protocols & Applications

Introduction to Bitcoin (Dr. Victoria Lemieux)

Discussion and Interview with Anil Patel, Author of The Treasury of Michael Saylor & The Bitcoin Handbook (led by Jarrett Vaughan)


Bitcoin Script UTXO smart contracts on BitcoinCash (Kyle Wildeman)

Lunch

Monad - Dr. Mohammad Jalalzai

Granville Island Walking Tour
 

   
Day 3 (Wednesday, August 19th)Layer 1 Protocols & Applications

Ethereum (Dr. Tim Weingartner)

Lunch

Ethereum (Dr. Tim Weingartner)

    
Day 4 (Thursday, August 20th)Layer 1 Protocols & Applications

Self-Sovereign Identity and Data Spaces (Gabriella Laatikainen, Senior Scientist, VTT)

Lunch

Solana (Simon Stern)

    
Day 5 (Friday, August 21st)Layer 1 Protocols & Applications

XRP (Mayowa Rosanwo)

Lunch

BSafe and BGIN (Shin'Ichiro Matsuo)

Beach BBQ at Locarno Beach

   
Saturday (August 22nd)Weekend

Industry Event (see separate Event Schedule)

Lunch

Industry Event (see separate Event Schedule at bottom of this page)

    
Sunday (August 23rd)Weekend

Free morning; activities on own

Bitcoin Block Party (Noon to 7pm)

Bitcoin Block Party (Noon to 7pm)


Bitcoin Block Party (Noon to 7pm)		   
Day 6 (Monday, August 24th)Blockchain + Quantum
Blockchain + Quantum (Dr. Chen Feng and Dr. Hassan Khodaiemehr)

Quantum computing and quantum threats

Quantum safe blockchain design

Lunch

Hands on post-quantum design studio and workshop (Dr. Chen Feng)

    
Day 7 (Tuesday, August 25th)Blockchain + AI

Blockchain + AI overview - Dr. Ibrahim Javed; LaZAI (Yao Du)

Blockchain for AI Safety & Data Sovereignty (Dr. Victoria Lemieux)

Lunch

When AI Meets Blockchain: Building AI Agents with Hermes (Saurav Roy)

    
Day 8 (Wednesday, August 26th)Blockchain Governance/Regulation & Tokenomics

Regulation and Governance of Blockchain Technology (Amy ter Haar, Senior Legal Counsel at Blackberry)

Lunch

Start of Blockathon

    
Day 9 (Thursday, August 27th)Blockathon

Blockathon

Lunch

Blockathon

Swiss Evening

   
Day 10 (Friday, August 28th)Blockathon 

Blockathon

Lunch

Blockathon

    
Day 11 (Saturday, August 29th)Blockathon Final Presentations & Judging

Blockathon Final Presentations & Judging

Lunch

End of Summer Institute

    

Industry Event at UBC Robson Square

Agenda
9:00 - Opening welcome

9:30-10:15 - Opening keynote by Yargo Vo Tessaro, Layerzero

10:15-10:30 - Coffee break

10:30-11:30 - Panel discussion on Venture Founding, Dr. Chang Lu, former Director of Research at Blockchain at UBC and Assistant Professor of Management at UBCF; Dr. Robert Rohling, Director of the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems at UBC and manager of UBC's HATCH venture founder program; Jesse McKee, Head of Strategy, 221A; Stephen Pederson, Defi Legal

11:30-1:30 - Networking, Booths, Hosted Lunch

2:00-4:30 Student and faculty visit to DCTRL Vancouver: https://dctrl.wtf/

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.

Blockchain@UBC

Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems, ICICS 179 – 2366 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
E-mail blockchain.ubc@ubc.ca

Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver are funded through the Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters program.

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