Builder Nights Seoul - Agentic Edition

About this event

Hosted by MetaMask, Vana, LF Decentralized Trust and Ticker Capital Details • 📅 Date: Friday, 2 October • ​⏰ Time: 4:30PM - 7:00PM KST • 📍 Venue: Seoul, South Korea - Register for location • ​​​🎪 Free entry - but approval is required, as spaces are limited • 👉 Register now at the event page: https://luma.com/bnseoul26 Agenda • ​4:30PM - Doors open - Networking and refreshments • ​5:00PM - 6:30PM - Panel discussions • ​6:30PM - 7:00PM - Networking and refreshments About the Event • ​LF Decentralized Trust joins MetaMask’s Builder Night in Seoul - heading to the agentic frontier, examining developments in decentralized technologies, and exploring institutional adoption beyond finance • ​Featuring institutions, tech leaders, developers and ecosystem contributors developing decentralized and agentic technologies • ​The open source tech, tools, protocols and ideas quietly re-writing what's possible onchain. All in one room Panel Discussions Panel 1: Digital infrastructure for the AI era - Forging trusted decentralized systems for the digital-first world Moderated by Juilan Gordon, VP Asia Pacific & Middle East, LF Decentralized Trust • The move to a decentralized, digital-first world presents challenges and opportunities • Success means modernizing both public and private infrastructure, which requires working openly and collaboratively to ensure scale, security and interoperability across new digital systems. • Julian Gordon will lead a discussion with technology leaders on how they are leveraging open development and governance to build trusted new systems that are reshaping the economy in the AI era - with a focus on Verifiable AI, digital identity, proof of personhood and data portability. • Speakers will share specifics on their work to modernize digital identity, payments, supply chain resilience, economic inclusion and more. Panel 2: How Web3 is contributing to and accelerating trusted decentralized technologies in the agentic era Moderated by Art Abal, Managing Director, Vana Foundation • Wallets already let millions of people hold their own keys, sign for themselves and prove what they own without asking anyone's permission. • Can the same building blocks, self-custody, smart accounts, onchain permissions and verifiable credentials, let a person give an AI agent limited, revocable authority to act for them, with a record an institution can check? • And what would wallets and developers need to ship for a bank, a hospital or a government to accept a request that comes from an agent? Why Korea 🇰🇷 ​Korea is a leader in decentralized technologies and open source, and has already experimented with digital identity, CBDCs, digital assets, tokenized deposits, data portability, institutional blockchain infrastructure and consumer wallets at significant scale. ​The experiments are happening - and pilots are becoming shared infrastructure that institutions can build on and people can trust. ​These developments become even more important in the age of AI. AI agents depend on data, identity, permissions and the ability to act on behalf of a person or organization. Who controls that data? Who gives permission? How is consent verified? And what infrastructure sits underneath it all? ​That’s what we want to explore in Seoul - featuring the people and organizations building what’s next. ​Co-hosts About MetaMask ​MetaMask is the world’s leading self-custody web3 platform with 19 million monthly active users. Developed by Consensys, MetaMask is the most beloved and trusted way a global user base relies on to mint and collect NFTs, join DAOs, play games and participate in DeFi protocols. About Vana ​Vana is the decentralized data layer for a new AI economy. one where people, not platforms, own the intelligence. Vana turns private data into a user-owned, permissioned asset that can move beyond platform silos, be reused across systems, and generate ongoing economic value. About LF Decentralized Trust ​LF Decentralized Trus