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SushiSwap is proud to announce the launch of its inaugural DeFi Kitchen virtual event! This industry event & hackathon promises to be a great opportunity for the community to come together and learn about everything that’s happening in the crypto space 🚀 We have assembled a fantastic selection of A-list speakers/panelists from a variety of backgrounds, including representatives from well-known DeFi protocols, institutions and project founders.

📺 The virtual event is open to everyone that is interested or involved in crypto, and provides a unique opportunity to get an inside scoop of what’s happening at top tier DeFi protocols, institutions and established crypto companies.

👩🏻‍💻 The hackathon will focus on the developer audience to cook up innovative solutions and features on several different protocols. We have joined forces with ETHDubai to collaborate on a variety of technical workshops and a big prize pool 💸

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Event Logistics

🗓 Date: March 9th 2023

⏰ Time: 15:00 - 20:00pm UTC

📍 Location: virtual live stream event on crowdcast (event link shared via e-mail)

💸 Fee: It’s free!

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TLDR; Agenda

• Panel: Discussing trends in DeFi.
• Panel: Investor outlook for DeFi in 2023.
• Panel: What’s happening in the infrastructure layer of Blockchains (Layer 1s)?
• Panel: What does the future of scaling solutions (Layer 2s) look like?
• Panel: Institutional outlook for DeFi in 2023.
• Hackathon: announcement, workshop and prize reveal.

Confirmed Speakers

Sushi Core Team:

Infrastructure:

• Jared Grey: Head Chef at Sushi
• Sarang Parikh: Core Developer at Sushi

DeFi:

• Sami: New Order / Redacted Cartel
• Halko: Strategy & BD at Dopex
• Seraphim Czecker: Head of Risk at Euler
• Devin G: Co-Founder & COO at Gammaswap
• Mohak Agarwal: CEO of Claystack
• Jason Ma: DeFi at Axelar

Investors:

• Avi Felman: Head of Digital Asset Trading at Goldentree

• Steve Goulden: Senior Crypto Analyst at Cumberland DRW

• Yida Gao: GP at Shima Capital

• 0xb1: Jason Stone

• Marc Weinstein: Partner at Mechanism Capital

• David Duong: Head of Institutional Research at Coinbase Research

• Luigi Demeo : Head of DeFi at Ava Labs

• Isha Varshney: Head of DeFi at Celo

• James Hodgkins: Head of DeFi at Aptos

• Kendall Cole: Director at Proximity Labs (NEAR)

• Dave Uhryniak: Director of Ecosystem Development at TRON DAO

• Neel Somani: CEO of Eclipse

• Smit Vacchani: Head of DeFi at OP Labs (Optimism)

• Arjun Kalsy: Head of Ecosystem at Mantle

• Peter Haymond: Sr. Partnerships Manager at Offchain Labs (Arbitrum)

• Josh Crites: Developer Relations at Aztec

Institutional:

• Bruno Faviero: CEO at Magna.so
• Narek Gevorgyan: CEO at CoinStats
• Rob Behnke: CEO of Halborn
• Ashwath Balakrishnan: Director of Research at Delphi Digital

Event Schedule

March 9th ‘23 livestreamed in UTC time

3.00 - 3.05 pm: Opening & welcome

3.05 - 3.20 pm: Foreword by Jared Grey - Head Chef, Sushi

3.20 - 4.00 pm: Panel #1: Discussing trends in DeFi.

4.05 - 4.45 pm: Panel #2: Investor outlook for DeFi in 2023.

4.50 - 5.30 pm: Panel #3: What’s happening in the infrastructure layer of Blockchains (Layer 1s)?

5.35 - 6.25 pm: Panel #4: How does the future of scaling solutions (Layer 2s) look like?