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!

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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!

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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

We are incredibly grateful for all your support during this event! Your support pushed the DeSci Summit from a side event to a rich ecosystem in its own right with four days of workshops, talks on the main stage at Eth Denver, independent speaking events, a multi-week long hacker house, and socials to bring everyone together.

Between these events you brought together over 700 builders, founders, scientists, and institutions in DeSci to connect, build, and collaborate towards a better science.

With your contribution and the momentum that you supported, we hope to go beyond just creating the DeSci Summit but also build out an event infrastructure for more organizations to host smaller Summits in their own locations, secure ongoing funding, and continue to act as the connecting fabric between builders in DeSci.

We’re here to update you about your support at the Summit so far, what your support will bring in the future, and how to receive 2024 tax deductions for your donation.

We are incredibly grateful for all your contributions across the board. Your support brought the DeSci community together with over two weeks of programming in five venues across Denver. You supported the NERD labs hacker house, workshop-style collaborations at SciOS, speakers and panels at Colorado University, and conversations between DeSci and the broader Ethereum ecosystem at AuraSci and BUIDLhub. Together, we were able to discuss, collaborate, and connect with over 700 researchers, developers, founders, and participants.

If you were one of our three Pulsar-level supporters, you set the stage. You helped us secure venues and put on 4-days of workshops at the Scientific Coordination Infrastructure and Operating Systems workshops (SciOS) during the entirety of the EthDenver event.

As a galaxy level sponsor, you worked to transform all of the information from the Summit into productive outputs by supporting several events and hackers at the NERD Labs hacker house.

Collectively the star and planet sponsors were able to ensure we could show up at BUIDLhub and the University of Colorado, as well as connecting all of the participants through multiple social hours throughout the week from AthenaDAO's breakfast to a lunch sponsored by BTQ.

With your sponsorship we were able to gather at BUIDLHub, SciOS, University of Colorado Boulder, AuraSci, and multiple other venues throughout the week to take insights into action at EthDenver.

After the Summit, we are excited to iterate on past feedback, improve the structure of the Summit, and make sure this event will continue super-charging the future of DeSci for years to come.

We built a conference suite to improve the next Summit, including a website template and organizational Airtable for managing sign-ups. We are working on a repeatable organizing guidebook. This project will free our hands up to be even more intentional about inviting critical thinkers and builders into the space, booking even better venues earlier, and making other improvements. In addition, we hope that these materials can help DeSci communities worldwide organize their own events more easily.

We’re also working to establish a year-long social media presence, newsletter, and forum for Summit attendees, projects, and funders. With this increased exposure, we hope to be a connector both within the DeSci space and between DeSci, technology, and open science. With this initiative it’s important to us to facilitate collective movement forward.

OpSci organizes the DeSci Summit and is a 501c3-compliant organization. This status makes all of your sponsorships tax deductible. If you would like a receipt for tax purposes, please reach out to hello@opscientia.com.

If you want to keep hearing about updates in the DeSci Ecosystem or submit your own tools and projects - please subscribe to the DeSci Summit Quarterly Newsletter.

Thank you again for supporting the DeSci Summit! We’re constantly iterating and want to make the DeSci summit as valuable for you as possible. If you have feedback, comments, or questions, please comment on the article below or fill out this form.

Until Next Time,

DeSci Summit Team

Shady El Damaty, Jon Starr, Ellie DeSota