Nym Summer Events Recap

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For Team Nym this summer has been hot in more ways than one. We have been busy building the privacy infrastructure and ecosystem of the future (launching Shipyard, introducing new wallet releases, launching NymConnect, continuously fine-tuning the reward-sharing parameters of our mixnet), but we’ve also continued our efforts to contribute to the global privacy conversation both online and in person.

Here’s a roundup of Nym’s privacy summer.

1. Crypto Valley Conference

On 3 June, COO Alexis Roussel talked about DAOs and privacy at the Crypto Valley conference in Zurich.

2. RightsCon

RightsCon is the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age. This year Chelsea Manning and Harry Halpin were in conversation with Melissa Chan, where they discussed mixnets, the future of privacy, and the implications of new technologies for whistleblowers.

Watch the event back here: https://youtu.be/YVgTSgRHyVA

3. Monerokon

Monerokon is an annual meeting of privacy advocates, cypherpunks, scientists, and philosophers and is designed to disseminate scientific and technical advances in privacy and financial technologies. This year Max Hampshire represented Nym at the event and gave a talk at the lightning session.

Watch it back here: https://youtu.be/qGIUZVTM1dc

4. PETS

The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brought together experts from around the world to present and discuss recent advances and new perspectives on privacy technologies. The 22nd PETS was a hybrid event with a physical gathering held in Sydney, Australia, and a concurrent virtual event hosted by the Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub. Nym is a proud sponsor of the event, and Nym CFO Andrei Serjantov gave an opening speech.

We also had a virtual booth during the event, where online participants could interact with us and learn more about Nym.

5. CDPC Conference LatAm

It was fantastic to see the CPDP Conference in Latin America underscoring the importance of privacy as a global issue. NCPDP LatAm 2022 was dedicated to “Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection in Latin America” and we were happy to participate in it.

Nym was on the opening plenary and hosted a panel titled “Tackling surveillance and its business model” with Nym CEO Harry Halpin and Nym advisors Renata Avila, CEO of the Open Knowledge Foundation, and Andrés Araúz, candidate in last year’s Ecuadorian presidential race. It was a pleasure to share this panel with Rafael Bonifaz, Sally Burch, Octavio Rossell and Gustavo Amaturo.

6. Festival der Zukunft

The Festival of the Future in Munich is an event for visionaries, entrepreneurs, scientists, artists, nerds, creatives, experts, and optimists who care about the future.

It took place at the Deutsches Museum — one of the world’s largest science and technology museums and one of the leading locations for technical and scientific culture. The new Forum of the Future was a creative meeting place with a VRLab, changing special exhibitions, and spectacular events. The focus of the event was on experiencing and trying out high-tech innovations and finding joint answers to the question: which innovations will make the planet a better place?

Nym’s Security Consultant Chelsea Manning gave a well-received presentation at the festival, and Nym was delighted to have a presence there.

7. Hope 2022

At the end of July, Nym was in New York for HOPE 2022, which celebrated the contributions of scientists, educators, and technologists during the extraordinary upheaval of the last three years.

Ahmed Ghappour, General Counsel at Nym Technologies, led a workshop at the event, presenting a brief overview of the history of the successes and failures of privacy in cryptocurrency and blockchain. He also demonstrated the tracing and de-anonymisation of actual transactions in real time, and presented tools and techniques for guaranteeing strong privacy.

Wondering where you can meet us next?

BIP001

On July 28–29, Nym is heading to BIP001 (Partisan Edition) in Ukraine to support the local community in these difficult times!

Nym COO Alexis Roussel will give a presentation on the topic: “Mixnets, the right to anonymity, and the future of democracy” on the 29th of July in Uzhgorod.

Join us — let’s support Ukraine together!

Surfinbitcoin

Nym is a proud sponsor of Surfinbitcoin! Nym will have a booth at the event which will take place at Biarritz, France between the 25th and 27th of August.

Come hang out with us!

Cosmoverse (September 26–28)

Nym CEO Harry Halpin will be giving a presentation in Medellín, Colombia. Stay tuned for more info regarding the topic and time.

If you’re hosting Nym meet-ups or events in your local area and want to be listed on the Nym calendar, please get in touch with Marina at events@nymtech.net

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