Hey Everyone!

It's 4 months later and we’re still energized from meeting all of you at the incredible DeSci Summit at Eth Denver! Over 2 weeks and 5 venues we connected with over 681 invitees, heard from over 55 researchers, developers, and enthusiasts, and brought projects from across the open and decentralized science ecosystems to share the latest breakthroughs and explore the future of decentralized science.

We started the week off with a two-hour DeSci Summit at BUIDLhub, where we shared the vision of DeSci with the wider Ethereum community. We dug into the current problems in science, data management in science, and our vision for a decentralized future.

On the next day, AuraSci held their first in person gathering AuraNova.2024. They brought together 24 speakers to share their insights and visions on DeSci at the AuraNova Denver event. Rooted in DeSci (Decentralized Science), dedicated to pioneering scientific and technological exploration, highlighting its key role in human and societal advancement.

This event gave participants ways to get involved through the Muse Matrix Fellowship, highlighted new developments like AminoChain, and reminded us how distributed communities can come together around important topics, such as women's health research, that haven't been properly funded or explored.

AuraNova was able to introduce AuraSci’s mission and vision face-to-face. They see technology's progress as a fusion of material, spiritual, and intellectual growth. Through the DeSci lens, AuraNova created an environment where creativity, innovation, and intuition merged. You can watch the event recording here.

Huge shout out to Michael Ferreyros who worked with The Stemcell Biobank & Disease Modeling Core for the Gates Institute at CU Anschutz to bring DeSci into academia. At the University of Colorado Boulder you helped us bridge the gaps between technology and academia by connecting with the local students, faculty, and community members and sharing the latest DeSci applications. You brought us into how we could bring citizen science to astronomy, creating AI for data generating agents, work together through FAIR data, and many more.

Throughout the week, many of you participated in the 4-day SciOS (Scientific Coordination Infrastructure and Operating Systems Workshops) event, which brought together open science deep infrastructure technicians and engineers to collaborate on shared solutions, standards, and paths forward for a technology-based scientific ecosystem that enables FAIR, collaborative, and AI-enhanced open science practices. There you defined the open problems in science, built ontologies, mapped out the Open Science space, and began using the technologies that other builders are creating.

During all this, The NerdLabs hacker house initiative brought together the power of existing DeSci, OSS, and Open Science tooling to nurture interoperable tooling. It hosted 20+ hackers who were met with over 16 DeSci Project workshops. Using and serving these tools, the hackers crafted solutions tailored to meet their own passions and interests. For example, an app that uses a phone's accelerometer and camera to issue onchain points for squats completed, or an app that issues onchain reputation when following certain nutrition plans, judged by scanning the barcode on food packaging. Moreover, the house hosted cross-industry social events, facilitating networking and brainstorming sessions between the DeSci, DeFi, NFT, Socialfi, L1/L2, and the wider web3 sphere. Special acknowledgment goes to AsaDAO for their invaluable contributions to these gatherings.

In between all the official events, we hosted many smaller socials that gave our community a chance to connect on a more intimate level. From the Speaker Dinner, to the AI Alliance Mappy Hour, the AuraNova Pizza Social, to a final close off at the Bierstat Lager house. Thank you all for coming!

To keep everyone's inboxes clear, we won't be using this email list again. However, if you're interested in staying up to date on opportunities to participate, give feedback, or hear about developments in the DeSci space, please sign up for our quarterly newsletter.

We're already collecting feedback to start making next year's event meet even more of the community's values and needs. Feel free to leave a comment on this newsletter or if leave your feedback here!

As always, you can stay connected with us on YouTube, Twitter, and Telegram.

None of this would have been possible without the incredible support organizing team who put in countless hours to make these events a reality and our generous funders.

OpSci, Science Commons Initiative, DeSci World, DeSci Labs, and Protocol Labs - your contributions made it possible for us to connect across these different sectors and communities and start getting to work on the future of science!

To all our sponsors, organizers, speakers, and attendees - we're honored to be part of this incredible community, and we can't wait to see what we accomplish together in the years to come!

We hope to see you soon!

The DeSci Summit Team

Shady El Damaty, Jon Starr and Ellie DeSota

Hey Everyone!

It's 4 months later and we’re still energized from meeting all of you at the incredible DeSci Summit at Eth Denver! Over 2 weeks and 5 venues we connected with over 681 invitees, heard from over 55 researchers, developers, and enthusiasts, and brought projects from across the open and decentralized science ecosystems to share the latest breakthroughs and explore the future of decentralized science.

We started the week off with a two-hour DeSci Summit at BUIDLhub, where we shared the vision of DeSci with the wider Ethereum community. We dug into the current problems in science, data management in science, and our vision for a decentralized future.

On the next day, AuraSci held their first in person gathering AuraNova.2024. They brought together 24 speakers to share their insights and visions on DeSci at the AuraNova Denver event. Rooted in DeSci (Decentralized Science), dedicated to pioneering scientific and technological exploration, highlighting its key role in human and societal advancement.

This event gave participants ways to get involved through the Muse Matrix Fellowship, highlighted new developments like AminoChain, and reminded us how distributed communities can come together around important topics, such as women's health research, that haven't been properly funded or explored.

AuraNova was able to introduce AuraSci’s mission and vision face-to-face. They see technology's progress as a fusion of material, spiritual, and intellectual growth. Through the DeSci lens, AuraNova created an environment where creativity, innovation, and intuition merged. You can watch the event recording here.

Huge shout out to Michael Ferreyros who worked with The Stemcell Biobank & Disease Modeling Core for the Gates Institute at CU Anschutz to bring DeSci into academia. At the University of Colorado Boulder you helped us bridge the gaps between technology and academia by connecting with the local students, faculty, and community members and sharing the latest DeSci applications. You brought us into how we could bring citizen science to astronomy, creating AI for data generating agents, work together through FAIR data, and many more.

Throughout the week, many of you participated in the 4-day SciOS (Scientific Coordination Infrastructure and Operating Systems Workshops) event, which brought together open science deep infrastructure technicians and engineers to collaborate on shared solutions, standards, and paths forward for a technology-based scientific ecosystem that enables FAIR, collaborative, and AI-enhanced open science practices. There you defined the open problems in science, built ontologies, mapped out the Open Science space, and began using the technologies that other builders are creating.

During all this, The NerdLabs hacker house initiative brought together the power of existing DeSci, OSS, and Open Science tooling to nurture interoperable tooling. It hosted 20+ hackers who were met with over 16 DeSci Project workshops. Using and serving these tools, the hackers crafted solutions tailored to meet their own passions and interests. For example, an app that uses a phone's accelerometer and camera to issue onchain points for squats completed, or an app that issues onchain reputation when following certain nutrition plans, judged by scanning the barcode on food packaging. Moreover, the house hosted cross-industry social events, facilitating networking and brainstorming sessions between the DeSci, DeFi, NFT, Socialfi, L1/L2, and the wider web3 sphere. Special acknowledgment goes to AsaDAO for their invaluable contributions to these gatherings.

In between all the official events, we hosted many smaller socials that gave our community a chance to connect on a more intimate level. From the Speaker Dinner, to the AI Alliance Mappy Hour, the AuraNova Pizza Social, to a final close off at the Bierstat Lager house. Thank you all for coming!

To keep everyone's inboxes clear, we won't be using this email list again. However, if you're interested in staying up to date on opportunities to participate, give feedback, or hear about developments in the DeSci space, please sign up for our quarterly newsletter.

We're already collecting feedback to start making next year's event meet even more of the community's values and needs. Feel free to leave a comment on this newsletter or if leave your feedback here!

As always, you can stay connected with us on YouTube, Twitter, and Telegram.

None of this would have been possible without the incredible support organizing team who put in countless hours to make these events a reality and our generous funders.

OpSci, Science Commons Initiative, DeSci World, DeSci Labs, and Protocol Labs - your contributions made it possible for us to connect across these different sectors and communities and start getting to work on the future of science!

To all our sponsors, organizers, speakers, and attendees - we're honored to be part of this incredible community, and we can't wait to see what we accomplish together in the years to come!

We hope to see you soon!

The DeSci Summit Team

Shady El Damaty, Jon Starr and Ellie DeSota