Rust NYC

Join us on Thursday, March 19th at our sponsor Materialize. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. to give attendees plenty of time to grab pizza and socialize, and the talk begin at 7:15 p.m. Following the success of the UnConf we've absorbed all of your feedback and a one off special!

Jon Bauman has been working on Rust and C++ Interoperability for several years and is one of the key figures in the space. He's flying in from Seattle especially for this talk.

Abstract: What is technology for and how do we do it well? Join me for stories and discussion about what I've learned working in all kinds of software and what I think we miss when we think that our jobs end at making the KPIs go up and to the right. I'll talk about my journey from nerdy kid obsessed with being technically correct (the best kind of correct) to nerdy adult obsessed with what knowledge even is and how we pass it along despite perfect communication being essentially impossible. Along the way, we'll get into why I think C++ is still so important, what I think is so great about Rust, and why I've put a huge amount of effort into bringing the two communities together. We'll talk about the technical challenges of interoperability and the social challenges of building robust consensus. Finally, we'll talk about what I've been up to lately, how life rarely goes the way we expect, and where I'd like to go from here. There will be a little code, some philosophy and a lot of jokes. Hopefully we'll all get to learn something new and see the world more complexly.

Bio: Jon Bauman has worked in tech for over two decades across various industries and programming disciplines. He is a proud alumnus of the University of Michigan, Etsy, Mozilla and the Rust Foundation. Jon brought his experience in Rust and standards development to bear as the implementer of AVIF support in Firefox and has been an active member of the WG21: the ISO C++ standardization committee, advocating for better interoperability and memory safety across all languages. Jon enjoys applying multidisciplinary skills to deeply understand complex systems and the perspectives of diverse stakeholders, forge pragmatic solutions, and build systems for the long term which benefit people.

Join us on Wednesday, March 25th at our sponsor Materialize. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. to give attendees plenty of time to grab pizza and socialize, and the talk begin at 7:15 p.m. Following the success of the UnConf we've absorbed all of your feedback and a one off special with two incredible speakers in town for both the EY Digital Asset Conference & Blockworks Digital Asset Summit!

Speaker, Paul Brody is Chairman of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance- Nightfall is a ZKZK roll-up that works on Ethereum compatible networks. It’s in currently in testnet on Plume and CELO and in development for Starknet. Its companion application is called Starlight and between the two technologies, people can build & run complex, multi-party privacy-enabled transactions on public blockchains.

Speaker, Zach Obront is Co-Founder & CTO at Etherealize – One of the biggest challenges for blockchain adoption is privacy. The solution is Zero Knowledge Proofs. While this technology was once exclusively in the domain of cryptographers, the advent of zkVMs means that any Rust developer is just a few hours away from leveraging this tool. Zach will walk through the basics of zkVMs and show how they can be used to create privacy on public blockchains.