Welcome to Devcon!
That is your Devcon VI Guide, and it consists of every little thing it’s essential find out about Devcon, the environment and extra. Learn carefully as we cowl issues to concentrate on earlier than departure, throughout transit to the venue from Bogotá’s worldwide airport El Dorado, and data associated to pre-registration dates, neighborhood efforts at Devcon VI, facet/after occasions, and extra!
Bookmark this tab in case you’re heading to Devcon, and we are able to’t wait to see you all quickly.
I. Arriving in Bogotá 🛬
To kick issues off, let’s begin with the primary steps when arriving in Bogotá.
Covid necessities 😷
Vaccination or a damaging check result’s wanted for entry.
Please inform your self right here, or use your own home nation’s embassy web page as necessities may change. Additionally, bear in mind that your airline or transit firm might need further necessities.
Getting into the nation 🇨🇴
Return flight
You’ll want to indicate a ticket to your returning flights to enter Colombia. They generally ask for it, and generally they don’t, however play it secure and guide your journeys accordingly.
Professional tip: Some journey websites like Priceline make it straightforward to guide a flight after which cancel inside 24 hours for a full refund, in case plans change.
Test-Mig
Between 24 hours and 1 hour earlier than departure, you should fill out the ‘Test-Mig’ kind, out there on the Migración Colombia web site. You’ll obtain a affirmation electronic mail to current upon arrival in Colombia.
Security 👷♀️
An area expression in Bogotá is: “No dar papaya” = “Do not give papaya (to thieves)”. It primarily means, don’t make your self an apparent goal: use widespread sense whereas in Bogotá. Which means:
Look the place you’re going, being conscious of the world round you moderately than getting misplaced in your telephone’s display screen.Don’t put on flashy objects like costly watches, or these gold-plated {hardware} wallets and loudly branded crypto-swagDon’t stroll round together with your telephone out or together with your laptop computer when not necessaryIt’s an enormous metropolis, so depart these valuables (passport, extra money/playing cards) at your hotelUse Uber or DiDi, the place a 20-min journey prices round $3 USD. Keep away from hailing road taxis in favor of one thing with a status/score system, an match these plates to what you see within the app, as all the time.Tip: perhaps pay the additional greenback for a nicer “Uber Consolation” (advisable when coming from the Airport)Attempt to not stroll residence alone at evening (Reminder: Journey Sharing is simple & low cost)
Climate ☀️
At an altitude of two,600m, the temperature in Bogotá hovers between 9° – 18° C (or 48° – 65° F) with out an excessive amount of wind. Nevertheless, you shouldn’t neglect your jackets and raincoats, as rain showers occur!
The place to remain in Bogotá? 🏠
We’ve some suggestions on areas near the venue in our Bogotá Metropolis Information. Chapinero, Parkway / La Soledad, and La Candelaria are good areas, however all the time verify journey instances between potential-stays and the convention middle
Web3 Journey reserving 🏨
When you haven’t booked your keep but, try one of many neighborhood initiatives round Devcon: Windingtree is a platform the place you possibly can guide inns in Bogotá with stablecoins.
To get your first web3 journey expertise, please learn their information or ask any query on the Windingtree Discord:discord.gg/MTYEm2BfWS.
Electrical energy 🔌
In Colombia, shops and sockets are Sort A (two pins) and Sort B (three pins). Hold an adapter with you, if wanted!
Foreign money change 💶
The foreign money is the Colombian Peso (COP). You may change money or withdraw from ATMs on the Airport.
You may verify change charges right here.
Translation apps 📱
We advocate Spanish Dict, DeepL, or Google Translate.
II. Transit 🚙
Most attendees will likely be touchdown quickly, and we wish to just be sure you’re in a position to simply navigate towards the Devcon venue.
Nearly all of of us will arrive at Bogotá’s airport, El Dorado Worldwide Airport (BOG). From there, there are just a few straightforward methods to succeed in the Agora Bogotá Conference Heart, the place Devcon will happen.
We advocate utilizing Uber and ordering an “Uber Consolation” or cabify from the airport to the place the place you’ll keep. Ubers are low cost and the most secure type of transit. When you order an Uber Consolation, it is going to decide you up on the second flooring ‘Arrivals’ degree of the Airport, second lane, on the door you select.
There will likely be a Devcon logistics staff on the airport to assist information you starting on October eighth. It is possible for you to to acknowledge them by their clothes (which we’ll share extra quickly).
III. Devcon Registration 📝
a. Pre-Registration 🧾
Optionally, skip the road on Day-1 by registering beforehand, and obtain your wristband, SIM card (in case you want one), and POAP earlier than issues even kick-off!!
Pre-registration dates and locations are:
Saturday, October eighth
— Hilton Bogotá Corferias: 12pm – 5pm
Sunday, October ninth
— Hilton Bogotá Corferias: 9am – 5pm
— Hyatt Place Bogotá: 9am – 5pm
Monday, October tenth
— Hilton Bogotá Corferias: 8am – 5pm
— Hyatt Place Bogotá: 8am – 5pm
— Schelling Level @ Gran Carpa Américas Corferias: 8:30am – 5pm
— ETHLatam @ Ágora Bogotá: 8am – 9pm
b. DOORS OPEN: On-site Registration 🥳
DOORS: October eleventh @ 8:00AM**
OPENING CEREMONY: October eleventh @ 9:30AM
PROGRAMMING: Every day at 10:00AM
DEVCON VENUE: Agora Bogotá Conference Heart
Registration “Must Know”
Earlier than you arrive, you MUST redeem your code for a ticket QR and obtain the PDF to your system or print it prematurely.Wristbands are required for entry and have to be picked up at registration. Don’t lose your wristband — it is not going to get replaced.Swag will likely be distributed contained in the venue throughout Devcon. Paid add-on Sweatshirts can be picked up then.For all on-chain public sale and raffle ticketeers, please be certain that you’ve got redeemed your tickets.
c. Web and SIM Playing cards 💻
We are going to present free SIM playing cards for all attendees, first-come-first-serve! They are going to be legitimate for 15 days or 20 GB, whichever comes first.
You’ll obtain the sim playing cards at registration and pre-registration.
TIP: Make sure that to have some cellular knowledge out there for when arriving on the airport, to get an Uber to your lodging. Bogotá airport wifi is free for half-hour.
Wi-Fi Information 📶
We can have upgraded Wi-Fi at Devcon this yr! Nevertheless as all the time, offering excellent Wi-Fi for 1000’s of individuals is hard. Please be respectful and observe the Wi-Fi tips offered within the Code of Conduct.
Wi-Fi identify: DevconBogota
Wi-Fi password: runafullnode
IV. Venue and Experiences 🏢
a. Welcome to the Agora Bogotá Conference Heart 🙏
The Agora is a contemporary and absolutely geared up venue, just some minutes from Bogotá’s El Dorado Worldwide Airport and from the historic Santa Fe and Candelaria neighborhoods.
We’ve plenty of distinctive actions and areas for everybody to stay up for each inside and outdoors the primary venue, together with a packed schedule on levels of all sizes, all kinds of meals choices, and different experiences.
Let’s begin with these experiences!
POAP 🏆
Snag your collectible ERC-721 token at registration to show your attendance at Devcon!
Colombian Chiva 🚌
All of the Ethereum communities in LATAM are united to share how Ethereum has been impacting communities round Latin America. The ETH LATAM and ETH Colombia communities will create a vibrant house with their Colombian “Chiva” bus. You’ll find the colourful truck parked within the Devcon venue, within the outdoors house on the first flooring.
Music Stage 🎸 & Chiva Lounge 🪩
Subsequent to the Chiva bus, the music stage – one other neighborhood initiative – is awaiting you. There will likely be a program with breaks daily from 11AM to 9PM.
Discover this system, introductions to all artists, and extra particulars concerning the Chiva Lounge right here.
Throughout the day there will likely be delicate jamming, sound therapeutic, and silent DJing. Within the night after 5PM you possibly can anticipate some important acts with native drinks and DJs to heat you up within the moderately cool nights of Bogotá.
Artwork at Devcon 🎨
Rituals, shamanism, magic, and thriller come to mind in Latin America’s identification. Coding, hacking, and know-how at massive have turn out to be instruments for brand new generations to decode and recreate Latin America’s digital narrative.
“RITUALES – Latinamerica decoded” is an NFT exhibition at Devcon that reveals the work of digital & digital Latin artists who implement blockchain to boost the impression of their artwork whereas taking a vital imaginative and prescient of their context, additionally searching for revolutionary options to get better & re-scale our relationship with nature and the cosmos.
We invite you to go to the _Hacker Basement_ to observe the work of 13 chosen artists in addition to stay performances and interactive installations.
Hacker Basement 🕵️♀️
The hacker basement will likely be your high-focus zone away from the busy convention happenings.
It units the suitable situations for a person to check new dapps on their laptop computer, to be taught, or to hack on new concepts in a gaggle.
Every little thing a hacker wants will likely be taken care of: cozy seating, electrical energy, web, and, in fact, cyberpunk lighting and low-fi beats to get you in the suitable temper to construct!
Ebook a gathering room 👥
Assembly rooms of assorted sizes will likely be out there within the venue on convention days 2, 3, and 4. They’re situated on the fifth flooring and will likely be reservable on a first-come-first-serve foundation initially of every day.
“Devcon After Darkish” 🌝
For the primary time in Devcon historical past, we’re maintaining the venue open late. As a substitute of ushering all attendees out of the constructing at 5PM sharp, we’re leaving the venue open till 11PM to offer an area for continued collaboration, stay music, recreation nights, a Blissful Hour every day from 6-8 PM & extra!
Talk about and counsel neighborhood actions on the Froum.
You’ll find an outline of Devcon After Darkish actions right here. Keep in mind that this program continues to be a Work-in-Progress and extra objects will likely be added over time!
Group Hubs ✨
This yr, we wish to foster collaboration, networking, change, creativity, creation, experimentation and leisure by means of numerous areas devoted particularly to that.
Group Hubs are a reserved house on the Devcon venue powered by the neighborhood for the neighborhood. By enabling a handful of communities to create, focus on and show content material of their selection, we pave the best way for a extra decentralized Devcon.
There will likely be six totally different hubs, all specializing in essential and related subjects with their very own curated program, thrilling issues to be taught and to expertise. You’ll find the Group Hubs space on Ground 1!
Meet this yr’s Group Hubs:
Crypto Economics & Governance HubDesign Group HubReGen HubTemporary Nameless ZoneWomen Leaders in Web3Zero Data Group
Treasure Hunt 🏆
“No Time to DAI” is a story-based treasure hunt problem distributed by means of Devcon (and past) in Bogota. Gamers can interact with a browser-based cellular pockets dapp, which can preserve observe of all gamers’ progress on-chain.
To play, you should discover clue #0 within the devcon venue. Mild role-playing is inspired, curiosity and a spotlight to element is required, and a few crypto information is useful.
Superior and/or aggressive gamers should keep forward of the time curve with a purpose to win. Lots of of ETH is hidden all through the sport, proper there for the taking up Görl testnet! Görli ETH required to play.
Gamers can ask for assist/hints within the Discord: https://discord.gg/4PVZzNdsnW
Carbon Offsetting for Devcon VI 🌳
The neighborhood initiative, “Local weather Pleasant Devcon VI Dapp” allows you to compensate to your carbon dioxide emissions created by attending Devcon.
Upon coming into a departure airport the dapp calculates your flight emissions and provides it to the estimated occasion emission per particular person. All transactions happen totally on-chain.
Chances are you’ll instantly mint a particular POAP for collaborating within the Devcon neighborhood offset.
After Devcon VI, the POAP additionally permits you to vote on which nature conservation undertaking to retire carbon credit from. May or not it’s the Indigneous Reservation of the Matavén Forest in Colombia…?
You may offset your flight and get the POAP right here!
This work has resulted from over 2 years of neighborhood dialogue and implementation of DIP-17 which was primarily based on DIP-1 and DIP-12.
For more information, see the FAQ right here.
Cryptomurals 🖼
CRYPTOMURALS goals to protect the cultural heritage of the very best road artwork worldwide.
For the primary time, CM is internet hosting the “road artwork hunt” throughout Devcon Bogotá in partnership with DoinGud. They’re internet hosting graffiti excursions in downtown Bogotá through the 4 days of Devcon, the place folks will be capable to unlock the very first 3 cryptomurals that may create an NFT that will likely be air-dropped among the many ones who achieved the three spots.
Folks can subscribe to the Graffiti tour & be part of the mission to turn out to be a road artwork hunter by means of the CM web site.
Ticket attestations / Minting distinctive NFT 🎟
This yr, in collaboration with Good Token Labs, attendees can now permissionlessly attest that they had been a Devcon VI ticket-holder.
Utilizing this attestation, third events can supply unique “permissionless perks” to Devcon attendees with out your pockets deal with being made public. You too can mint a memento NFT!
For extra info go to the Devcon web site, try the FAQ in addition to different details about Bogotá and the Devcon programming!
Impression Cubicles 🌤
In previous years, cubicles have solely been out there to groups with massive budgets which are in a position to pay for sponsorship packages. This yr, we reserved cubicles for groups with excessive impression on the Ethereum ecosystem, no matter their budgets.
These groups embrace shopper groups, many teams working to enhance Ethereum’s infrastructure, public items efforts, rollup initiatives, and chosen different high-impact initiatives.
You’ll find the Impression Cubicles within the foyer on the third flooring.
Public Good Supporters 🌻
We launched the Devcon Supporter Program in lieu of conventional sponsorships, and people groups who participated deserve particular thanks for his or her contributions to the ETHColombia Quadratic Funding Spherical @ Devcon, to Gitcoin, CLR.Fund’s open grants, and to the Protocol Guild (which supported core Ethereum analysis and growth). EF will likely be collaborating on this effort too!
Our staff owes an enormous THANK YOU to these groups and DAOs that joined our first-ever Supporter Program this yr with out most advantages anticipated by sponsors. Their help of the Ethereum ecosystem got here with out issues like reserved seating, most branding, speaker slots, named occasion areas and different conventional sponsor-like advantages.
Meals 🥗
Anticipate the meals to be a mixture of very native conventional Colombian meals, and worldwide meals.
We are going to attempt to all the time have vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free meals, though sadly can’t accommodate all dietary restrictions.
V. Program & Agenda 📆
a. Devcon Internet Replace & Passport App Launch
For Devcon Bogota Occasion days http://devcon.org web site will get a whole re-lift so as to add info associated to all issues Devcon expertise. As well as the Devcon Passport PWA (Progressive Internet App) goes stay at app.devcon.org. Remember to set up the PWA in your telephone and create an account to be sure to have the hottest info and a customized agenda which you could share with your pals and colleagues.
The passport might be signed in by way of electronic mail or you possibly can merely Register together with your web3 pockets. Add your favourite audio system to your checklist to see all of the periods they’re doing simply or just filter primarily based in your wants, and pursuits. Discover all the knowledge associated to the venue map, the place to search out particular rooms and activations and far more.
b. Web3 video archive and occasion agenda by Swarm community and Etherna
Web3 Devcon Agenda
Right here yow will discover a web3 model of the Devcon Agenda hosted on the Swarm community, a decentralized knowledge storage and distribution know-how.
Web3 video internet hosting
The Devcon video archive will likely be out there on Etherna, a web3 decentralized video platform utilizing the Swarm community as storage, along with the present video internet hosting choices.
c. Cannot discover a room?
When you want a hand with discovering a room (or the rest at Devcon), you possibly can all the time ask our volunteers (you’ll acknowledge them by their shirts).
d. Devcon Week
Don’t neglect that Devcon is greater than a 4-day convention, however an entire Devcon Week! That includes the ETH Bogotá hackathon, the DAOist, Schellingpoint and extra.
VI. Discover Bogotá 🌆
Excellent news! Our staff has put collectively a Metropolis Information on numerous the must-know particulars for getting round bogota. Test it out right here
The information covers every little thing from methods to get round, to security, areas that you’re going to wish to see and/or keep round. See an included FAQ on vaccinations, meals, language and extra!
Devcon Aspect Occasions 👯
You may anticipate many neighborhood occasions, meetups, and social gatherings to be occurring round Devcon. A giant because of the superb neighborhood for placing a lot devoted work into organizing facet occasions! Try the Colombia Blockchain Week schedule for a schedule!
Co-Work House After Devcon 💻
In want of a spot to compensate for work after the frenzy of all 4 convention days?
The venue will likely be open for co-working on Saturday the fifteenth and Sunday the sixteenth October.
Entry is FREE for all who’ve a Devcon ticket, with snacks and house for collaboration out there.
ETH Medellin & ETH Panama ♦️
A bus-ride or brief flight away lies Medellin, Bogotá’s hotter and extra touristic neighbor. An incredible excuse to increase your journey or journey is to unite with the Ethereum Medellin neighborhood for every week of open co-working, night occasions, and numerous conferences.
ETHMedellin 🇨🇴 — Oct 18-22
Only one week after ETHMedellin and an inexpensive one-hour flight, ETHPanama will likely be going down in tropical Panama Metropolis. Be a part of for some continued studying, publicity to the Panamanian Ethereum neighborhood, and there simply could be a gaggle surf journey afterwards for the extra adventurous of the group!
ETHPanama 🇵🇦 — Oct 26-28
VII. Different issues to know
Security first! 🛟
Emergency numbers
Nationwide emergency quantity (24-hour normal line): Tel: 123
Metropolitan Police: Tel: 112
We can have medical workers on the venue on-site in case of emergencies.
You too can contact emergency@devcon.org.
Code of Conduct 👔
Please keep in mind to abide by the Code of Conduct, which is accessible right here.
For any questions concerning the Code of Conduct, or to make a report/file a criticism, contact a workers member or a volunteer.
Keep updated with the newest information! 🗞
Comply with Deva on Twitter: https://twitter.com/efdevcon
Be a part of our official Telegram neighborhood for questions and facet occasions.
That is it! Bear in mind to bookmark this web page for fast entry to all issues Devcon, and welcome to Bogotá!
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EF Devcon staff 🦄
