Register for the Protocol Symposium here.
You can now sign up for the inaugural Protocol Symposium! Attendance is free, but each salon is capped at 100 guests, with priority given to recipients of the Protocol Kit. To register and get more information, visit the main event page.
The plenary session, hosted by Tim Beiko and Venkatesh Rao, is on Tuesday, September 17th at 24:00 UTC (20:00 Eastern / 17:00 Pacific). They will give an overview of the summer's research program and an introduction to the Symposium's 2-week agenda.
The central themes of the Symposium are encryption, organizational design, voting mechanisms, reality negotiations, and fire and flood management. The main event track, composed of six research salons, will touch on each of these themes. Think of it as a 2-week film festival for protocols, with daily showings!
The plenary and capstone sessions will bookend the main track, covering SoP big-picture themes, promising avenues for future research, and some operational details. In particular, we will share details about how you and your institution might be able to participate in future research.
The first part of the Symposium ends on September 26th, at which point the unconference begins. This will be an opportunity for anyone to host or suggest an event. To give you a sense of what the unconference will look like, here's a sample list of workshops and salons from a brainstorm during the Sop24 Cohort Finale:
A case study on how to integrate protocol thinking into business management,
A workshop for visually representing protocols,
A live gaming experience that illustrates how interoperability works,
An exercise on narrative construction as a tool to explore the influence of protocols.
A Q&A session on institutional partnerships with Summer of Protocols.
Once you've signed up, don't hesitate to pitch an idea of your own or suggest one for someone else to run with. Your input is welcome on the forum. The unconference agenda will be crowd-created, live, during the unconference kickoff on Friday, September 27th at 14:00 UTC.
Help co-create the agenda by sharing your ideas and expertise.
To register for the Symposium and unconference, and to get more information, visit the main event page. Attendance is free, but each salon is capped at 100 guests, with priority given to recipients of the Protocol Kit.
We hope to see you at the Symposium! If you have any questions, please email research@summerofprotocols.com