Talk: Juan Benet—DWeb Progress: "Where have we been? What's next?"
August 2nd, 2:00pm-2:45pm
Decentralized Web Summit 2018
Front End Stage
Speakers: Juan Benet, IPFS, Founder
The Decentralized Web movement has made admirable progress in the last few years. But to realize our hopes and dreams, we have much more to do. Let's take a tour and celebrate the significant achievements of many groups and people in the last couple of years. And let's look ahead together, at the promising directions and hard challenges ahead. This talk aims to inspire, to bring us together, and to cheer us on for the road ahead.


Juan Benet created IPFS, Filecoin, and other open source protocols. He is the founder of Protocol Labs, a company improving how the internet works. He studied Computer Science (Distributed Systems) at Stanford University. Juan is obsessed with Knowledge, Science, and Technology.