Ambassador and Mentor Program
Hyperledger Ambassadors will be available to you throughout the event. These technical evangelists have expertise in the different Hyperledger projects and are interested in helping new community members get involved in the project. Please take advantage and connect with an Ambassador while at the event.
How do I find an Ambassador?
Ambassadors will be wearing an Ambassador pin. Also, they will be at the designated areas during the times listed below.
Wednesday, December 12
Breakfast
7:30-9:00
Ambassadors will be located on the Ground Floor during the main breakfast. Look for them at the bottom or the ramp on the right.
Ambassador Lounge Hours
Located on the 2nd Floor in the Sponsor Showcase
Morning Break | 10:30-11:00
Lunch | 12:30-13:50
Afternoon Break | 15:20-15:30
Booth Crawl | 17:30-18:30
Speed Networking and Mentoring Session
13:00-13:50
Use this dedicated time to meet with multiple mentors and Ambassadors in a speed networking session where you can ask questions and receive feedback. Whether you’re new, or not so new, to open source and Hyperledger, we invite you to register to attend the mentoring session. Pre-registration is required. Mentee application form.
Thursday, December 13
Ambassador Lounge Hours
Located on the 2nd Floor in the Sponsor Showcase
Morning Break | 10:35-1:55
Lunch | 12:25-13:45
Afternoon Break | 17:15-17:25
Meet the Ambassadors
Arnaud Le Hors
IBM
Arnaud Le Hors is Senior Technical Staff Member of Blockchain & Web Open Technologies at IBM. Arnaud has been working on standards and open source for over 25 years and has been involved in every aspect of the open technology development process: technical, strategic, political, and legal. Arnaud was editor of several key web specifications including HTML and DOM and was a pioneer of open source with the release of libXpm in 1990. Arnaud currently is the main representative for IBM at W3C, a member of the Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee, a contributor to Hyperledger Fabric, and a member of the European Blockchain Observatory.
Baohua Yang
Baohua Yang is currently the principal architect of Oracle's Blockchain, leading the development of Blockchain service and product. His interests include Fintech, Distributed System and Analytics, especially on emerging technologies such as Blockchain, BigData, Cloud and Machine Learning. More information can be found at http://yeasy.github.com.
Caroline Church
Caroline graduated with an MEng in Software Engineering from Aberystwyth University in 2009. She is a maintainer of Hyperledger Composer, focusing mainly on the Playground, she also developed the Hyperledger Composer Node-Red nodes. Since graduating from University Caroline has worked for IBM and for the past two and half years she has mainly focused on front-end development.
Daniel Hardman
Daniel has been a software engineer, architect, and dev leader for a quarter century–much of it intersecting with the fields of cybersecurity and digital identity. He developed the original specs for Hyperledger Indy’s SDK, and has contributed code or guidance to most of the Indy codebases. He writes regularly on identity topics. He’s also worked in machine learning/AI, supercomputers, public and private cloud, big data, SaaS, and enterprise software, and he’s founded and sold a dot com. He has graduate degrees in computational linguistics and business. He currently serves as the secretary for the Technical Governance Board of the Sovrin Foundation.
Hart Montgomery
Hart Montgomery received his B.S.E. from Princeton in 2008 and completed his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford in 2014, during which he was awarded a Stanford Graduate Fellowship. He joined Fujitsu Laboratories of America in 2015. His current research interests are spread throughout general cryptography, with a current focus on cryptocurrency and applicable cryptographic techniques, lattice-based cryptography, and cryptographic primitives.
Kyle Den Hartog
Kyle Den Hartog wants to see a world where passwords are eliminated as the primary form of authentication. This vision led him to be an eager contributor to the design and development of DID-Auth along with other standards in the decentralized identity community. Loaded with a Bachelors of Arts in Computer Science from the University of Iowa, a penchant for blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, and a need to enhance human cultures everywhere with self-sovereign identity systems, Den Hartog launches himself headfirst into active like-minded communities that embrace these topics. When Den Hartog isn’t designing standards for breakfast, eating code for lunch, and evangelizing self-sovereign identity for dinner, he enjoys skiing, bicycling, and traveling. So far, Den Hartog claims his favorite place he visited was Tanzania where he particular enjoyed Mafia Island. To find out more about Kyle, checkout his blog at kyledenhartog.com or connect with him on Twitter @kyle_dh
Swetha Repakula
Swetha Repakula has been working in IBM’s Open Technologies division for the last three years. Since late 2017, she has been working on Hyperledger Fabric, an open source Blockchain platform on the integration of the Hyperledger Burrow EVM. Previously she was a full time open source contributor for Cloud Foundry.
Vipin Barathan
Vipin is the chair of the Identity Working Group and a member of the Architecture Working Group in the Hyperledger Community. Vipin works on bridging the gap between business and technology, having had prior experience in translating business processes and needs into working software. In the blockchain space, Vipin is actively engaged with the Federated as well as the Open Blockchain community. He is interested in crypto-economics, legal & regulatory topics, and transformation of legacy systems through innovation and interoperability.
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