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May 15 - 20, 2023
the Pit 600 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL
This spring, the Pit is bringing together ZK researchers, academics, and protocols from around the world for a full week of shoulder-to-shoulder collaboration in Chicago.
Over 6 days, we’ll discuss and address the largest challenges facing Web3 today and answer the most important questions surrounding zero-knowledge. Don’t miss your chance to attend this industry-shaping event.
Applications for this event are now closed.
Who’s attending
Here are a few of our ecosystem's researchers and academics gathering in Chicago for zkWeek.
![Albert Garreta](/static/albert-bf08a32ef56a7d15544dd7e2a7c9314f.png)
Albert Garreta
Blockchain and Cryptography Researcher at Nethermind
![Anton Yezhov](/static/anton-e11dd67bae6d43b241ea6afb4578e04c.png)
Anton Yezhov
Head of Engineering at Zpoken
![Arun Devabhaktuni](/static/arun-5baf199ce8878d7db0b8f6951f5430c1.png)
Arun Devabhaktuni
Mantle
![Arya Pourtabatabaie](/static/arya-239894d3157778e75d352207cfc3841c.png)
Arya Pourtabatabaie
Senior Backend Engineer at Consensys
![Cooper Midroni](/static/cooper-416e656a3a0bd99bc9630eb57077a744.png)
Cooper Midroni
Product/Growthat Mantle
![Daniele Pinna](/static/daniele-bb39b895e88f38c710f1212754dec71e.png)
Daniele Pinna
Head of Research and Investment at 0VIX
![Evan Shapiro](/static/evan-e2bce3052616e1639ee0c85f86c95221.png)
Evan Shapiro
CEOat Mina Protocol
![Hamid Salehi](/static/hamid-af4eca1a076d6399cdab78acb505b547.png)
Hamid Salehi
Director of Product Management at AMD
![Ismael Hishon-Rezaizade](/static/ismael-51304cfee9136e9e1119f6366be9b35d.png)
Ismael Hishon-Rezaizade
Co-founder and CEOat Lagrange Labs
![John Burnham](/static/john-ddf5db2703bfb5aec06b2205cb8c3229.png)
John Burnham
CEO at Lurk Lab
![Jon Stephens](/static/jon-def977d76d944b76fe520b5b410da9f3.png)
Jon Stephens
Chief TechnologyOfficer at Veridise
![Jonathan Wang](/static/wang-490f67943f320a0694df2f16f278be92.png)
Jonathan Wang
Co-founderat Axiom
![Jorrit Palfner](/static/jorrit-117e7876f22a37a021e143665afacd29.png)
Jorrit Palfner
Co-founder and CEOat Light Protocol
![Julian Deschler](/static/julian-ceb57a15e027da0264387120bc25fedc.png)
Julian Deschler
Co-founderat Elusiv
![Manmit Singh](/static/manmit-1b02cac575c6ab5c8c9940e2e84bf455.png)
Manmit Singh
Starkware DeveloperAdvocate
![Mason Liang](/static/mason-fa7bb8dc75d81e039011fa923f32551f.png)
Mason Liang
Software Engineer at Scroll
![Michal Zajac](/static/zajac-0de6ba7c8062cb8fd017911102e4c06b.png)
Michal Zajac
Head of Cryptography Research at Nethermind
![Mikhail Komarov](/static/mikhail-ead4a607a1b08e3e95b2d9c86a3503ab.png)
Mikhail Komarov
Founder at =nil; Foundation
![Nathan Holland](/static/nathan-1d9b4446145f72a269fbc0842ce30db4.png)
Nathan Holland
Protocol Engineer at O(1) Labs
![Robert Chen](/static/robert-2c45c5ad4dc3d4acf24f569947c4334e.png)
Robert Chen
Founder at Otter Sec
![Swati Gupta](/static/swati-611fd01f746baf8dbdc76334f4624bb6.png)
Swati Gupta
Sr Product Manager at AMD
![Tomer Solberg](/static/tomer-1128a81b125e25e604d1cf347b9afa67.png)
Tomer Solberg
Principal Researcher at Ingonyama
![Victor Ji](/static/victor-bf23cf23aaa11fdedaf527746d244cac.png)
Victor Ji
Co-founder atManta Network
![Yannik Schrade](/static/yannik-21dc8be220fdb5607647b346b4ac3bcc.png)
Yannik Schrade
Co-founderat Elusiv
Collaborate with Jump
Expect to connect with Jump developers, researchers, and thinkers for an entire week of collaboration.
![Csongor Kiss](/static/csongor-96467721a3a73305097497e6d8fdaacd.png)
Csongor Kiss
Jump
![Emanuele Cesena](/static/emanuele-1409c4a8848515d626582c211a1b6f83.png)
Emanuele Cesena
Jump
![Kaveh Aasaraai](/static/kaveh-b89098640c49dc2ad59206edae9963aa.png)
Kaveh Aasaraai
Jump
![Rahul Maganti](/static/rahul-22dcdb5c1dd949de2c4888aa38a018a6.png)
Rahul Maganti
Jump
![Saeed Badreg](/static/saeed-a674517d475044991d718bed4abbfae5.png)
Saeed Badreg
Jump
zkWeek at a Glance
Proof System Components | Hardware Acceleration Not for Dummies | Real Talk on Virtual Machines |
Rollups | FPGAs / ASICS | ZK EVMs |
Bridges | GPUs | Risc Based Architectures |
Oracles | Security | zkNetworking Event and Dinner |
Laying the ZK Groundwork | Nutz and Boltz of ZK Development | Event Wrap-Up and Final Presentations |
Lookup Arguments | Compilers and Precompiles | Closing Party |
Arithmetization Schemes | Proving Infrastructure | Final Presentations |
Languages |