Welcome to Devcon!
That is your Devcon VI Guide, and it contains all the pieces it’s worthwhile to learn about Devcon, the environment and extra. Learn intently as we cowl issues to pay attention to earlier than departure, throughout transit to the venue from Bogotá’s worldwide airport El Dorado, and data associated to pre-registration dates, group efforts at Devcon VI, aspect/after occasions, and extra!
Bookmark this tab when you’re heading to Devcon, and we will’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 destructive check result’s wanted for entry.
Please inform your self right here, or use your house nation’s embassy web page as necessities may change. Additionally, bear in mind that your airline or transit firm may need further necessities.
Coming into the nation 🇨🇴
Return flight
You’ll want to point out a ticket on your returning flights to enter Colombia. They generally ask for it, and typically they don’t, however play it secure and e-book your journeys accordingly.
Professional tip: Some journey websites like Priceline make it simple to e-book a flight after which cancel inside 24 hours for a full refund, in case plans change.
Verify-Mig
Between 24 hours and 1 hour earlier than departure, you could fill out the ‘Verify-Mig’ type, out there on the Migración Colombia web site. You’ll obtain a affirmation e-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 fairly than getting misplaced in your cellphone’s display screen.
- Don’t put on flashy objects like costly watches, or these gold-plated {hardware} wallets and loudly branded crypto-swag
- Don’t stroll round along with your cellphone out or along with your laptop computer when not vital
- It’s a giant metropolis, so depart these valuables (passport, extra money/playing cards) at your lodge
- Use Uber or DiDi, the place a 20-min trip prices round $3 USD. Keep away from hailing avenue taxis in favor of one thing with a popularity/ranking system, an match these plates to what you see within the app, as all the time.
- Tip: possibly pay the additional greenback for a nicer “Uber Consolation” (beneficial when coming from the Airport)
- Attempt to not stroll house 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. Nonetheless, you shouldn’t overlook 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 examine journey occasions between potential-stays and the convention middle
Web3 Journey reserving 🏨
When you haven’t booked your keep but, try one of many group initiatives round Devcon: Windingtree is a platform the place you possibly can e-book 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 Kind A (two pins) and Kind B (three pins). Hold an adapter with you, if wanted!
Forex change 💶
The foreign money is the Colombian Peso (COP). You’ll be able to change money or withdraw from ATMs on the Airport.
You’ll be able to examine change charges right here.
Translation apps 📱
We advocate Spanish Dict, DeepL, or Google Translate.
II. Transit 🚙
Most attendees will probably be touchdown quickly, and we need to just remember to’re capable of simply navigate towards the Devcon venue.
The vast majority of people will arrive at Bogotá’s airport, El Dorado Worldwide Airport (BOG). From there, there are just a few simple methods to achieve 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 should choose you up on the second ground ‘Arrivals’ degree of the Airport, second lane, on the door you select.
There will probably be a Devcon logistics crew 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 are going to 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 (when 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 “Have to Know”
- Earlier than you arrive, you MUST redeem your code for a ticket QR and obtain the PDF to your system or print it upfront.
- Wristbands are required for entry and should be picked up at registration. Don’t lose your wristband — it won’t get replaced.
- Swag will probably be distributed contained in the venue throughout Devcon. Paid add-on Sweatshirts will also be picked up then.
- For all on-chain public sale and raffle ticketeers, please make sure that you’ve got redeemed your tickets.
c. Web and SIM Playing cards 💻
We’ll 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 certain to have some cellular information 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 may have upgraded Wi-Fi at Devcon this 12 months! Nonetheless as all the time, offering excellent Wi-Fi for 1000’s of individuals is difficult. Please be respectful and observe the Wi-Fi tips offered within the Code of Conduct.
Wi-Fi title: DevconBogota
Wi-Fi password: runafullnode
IV. Venue and Experiences 🏢
a. Welcome to the Agora Bogotá Conference Heart 🙏
The Agora is a contemporary and totally outfitted venue, only a few minutes from Bogotá’s El Dorado Worldwide Airport and from the historic Santa Fe and Candelaria neighborhoods.
We’ve various distinctive actions and areas for everybody to stay up for each inside and out of doors the primary venue, together with a packed schedule on phases 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 will discover the colourful truck parked within the Devcon venue, within the exterior house on the first ground.
Music Stage 🎸 & Chiva Lounge 🪩
Subsequent to the Chiva bus, the music stage – one other group initiative – is awaiting you. There will probably be a program with breaks daily from 11AM to 9PM.
Discover this system, introductions to all artists, and extra particulars in regards to the Chiva Lounge right here.
Throughout the day there will probably be smooth jamming, sound therapeutic, and silent DJing. Within the night after 5PM you possibly can count on some most important acts with native drinks and DJs to heat you up within the fairly 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 change into 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 on the lookout 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 look at the work of 13 chosen artists in addition to stay performances and interactive installations.
Hacker Basement 🕵️♀️
The hacker basement will probably be your high-focus zone away from the busy convention happenings.
It units the proper circumstances for a person to check new dapps on their laptop computer, to study, or to hack on new concepts in a gaggle.
Every little thing a hacker wants will probably be taken care of: cozy seating, electrical energy, web, and, after all, cyberpunk lighting and low-fi beats to get you in the proper temper to construct!
Ebook a gathering room 👥
Assembly rooms of varied sizes will probably be out there within the venue on convention days 2, 3, and 4. They’re situated on the fifth ground and will probably be reservable on a first-come-first-serve foundation at the beginning of every day.
“Devcon After Darkish” 🌝
For the primary time in Devcon historical past, we’re conserving the venue open late. As an alternative 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 Completely satisfied Hour every day from 6-8 PM & extra!
Talk about and counsel group actions on the Froum.
You will discover an outline of Devcon After Darkish actions right here. Keep in mind that this program remains to be a Work-in-Progress and extra objects will probably be added over time!
This 12 months, we need to foster collaboration, networking, change, creativity, creation, experimentation and rest by numerous areas devoted particularly to that.
Group Hubs are a reserved house on the Devcon venue powered by the group for the group. By enabling a handful of communities to create, talk about and show content material of their selection, we pave the best way for a extra decentralized Devcon.
There will probably be six totally different hubs, all specializing in essential and related subjects with their very own curated program, thrilling issues to study and to expertise. You will discover the Group Hubs space on Flooring 1!
Meet this 12 months’s Group Hubs:
- Crypto Economics & Governance Hub
- Design Group Hub
- ReGen Hub
- Momentary Nameless Zone
- Ladies Leaders in Web3
- Zero Data Group
Treasure Hunt 🏆
“No Time to DAI” is a story-based treasure hunt problem distributed by Devcon (and past) in Bogota. Gamers can have interaction with a browser-based cellular pockets dapp, which is able to preserve monitor of all gamers’ progress on-chain.
To play, you could discover clue #0 within the devcon venue. Mild role-playing is inspired, curiosity and a focus 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. Tons 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 group initiative, “Local weather Pleasant Devcon VI Dapp” lets you compensate on 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 individual. All transactions happen fully on-chain.
Chances are you’ll instantly mint a particular POAP for collaborating within the Devcon group offset.
After Devcon VI, the POAP additionally permits you to vote on which nature conservation venture to retire carbon credit from. May it’s the Indigneous Reservation of the Matavén Forest in Colombia…?
You’ll be able to offset your flight and get the POAP right here!
This work has resulted from over 2 years of group dialogue and implementation of DIP-17 which was based mostly on DIP-1 and DIP-12.
For more information, see the FAQ right here.
Cryptomurals 🖼
CRYPTOMURALS goals to protect the cultural heritage of one of the best avenue artwork worldwide.
For the primary time, CM is internet hosting the “avenue 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 individuals will be capable of unlock the very first 3 cryptomurals that may create an NFT that will probably be air-dropped among the many ones who achieved the three spots.
Folks can subscribe to the Graffiti tour & be a part of the mission to change into a avenue artwork hunter by the CM web site.
Ticket attestations / Minting distinctive NFT 🎟
This 12 months, 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 tackle being made public. You may as well 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!
Affect Cubicles 🌤
In previous years, cubicles have solely been out there to groups with massive budgets which are capable of pay for sponsorship packages. This 12 months, we reserved cubicles for groups with excessive impression on the Ethereum ecosystem, no matter their budgets.
These groups embrace consumer groups, many teams working to enhance Ethereum’s infrastructure, public items efforts, rollup initiatives, and chosen different high-impact initiatives.
You will see the Affect Cubicles within the foyer on the third ground.
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 probably be collaborating on this effort too!
Our crew owes a massive THANK YOU to these groups and DAOs that joined our first-ever Supporter Program this 12 months 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’ll attempt to all the time have vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free meals, though sadly can not accommodate all dietary restrictions.
V. Program & Agenda 📆
a. Devcon Net 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 Net App) goes stay at app.devcon.org. Make sure you set up the PWA in your cellphone and create an account to be sure to have the freshest info and a customized agenda which you can share with your folks and colleagues.
The passport might be signed in by way of e-mail or you possibly can merely Register along with your web3 pockets. Add your favourite audio system to your listing to see all of the classes they’re doing simply or just filter based mostly in your wants, and pursuits. Discover all the knowledge associated to the venue map, the place to search out particular rooms and activations and way more.
b. Web3 video archive and occasion agenda by Swarm community and Etherna
Web3 Devcon Agenda
Right here you will discover a web3 model of the Devcon Agenda hosted on the Swarm community, a decentralized information storage and distribution know-how.
Web3 video internet hosting
The Devcon video archive will probably 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 overlook 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 crew has put collectively a Metropolis Information on a number of the must-know particulars for getting round bogota. Test it out right here
The information covers all the pieces from methods to get round, to security, areas that you will need to see and/or keep round. See an included FAQ on vaccinations, meals, language and extra!
Devcon Facet Occasions 👯
You’ll be able to count on many group occasions, meetups, and social gatherings to be occurring round Devcon. An enormous due to the wonderful group for placing a lot devoted work into organizing aspect occasions! Take a look at the Colombia Blockchain Week schedule for a schedule!
Co-Work House After Devcon 💻
In want of a spot to compensate for work after the push of all 4 convention days?
The venue will probably 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 quick flight away lies Medellin, Bogotá’s hotter and extra touristic neighbor. An important excuse to increase your journey or journey is to unite with the Ethereum Medellin group for every week of open co-working, night occasions, and numerous conferences.
ETHMedellin 🇨🇴 — Oct 18-22
Only one week after ETHMedellin and an affordable one-hour flight, ETHPanama will probably be going down in tropical Panama Metropolis. Be part of for some continued studying, publicity to the Panamanian Ethereum group, and there simply may 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 basic line): Tel: 123
Metropolitan Police: Tel: 112
We may have medical employees on the venue on-site in case of emergencies.
You may as well contact emergency@devcon.org.
Code of Conduct 👔
Please keep in mind to abide by the Code of Conduct, which is offered right here.
For any questions relating to the Code of Conduct, or to make a report/file a grievance, contact a employees member or a volunteer.
Keep updated with the most recent information! 🗞
Observe Deva on Twitter: https://twitter.com/efdevcon
Be part of our official Telegram group for questions and aspect 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 crew 🦄