2024-11-09 –, Ground Floor. Main Stage
Explore how IPNI (InterPlanetary Naming Infrastructure) enhances decentralized networks by combining traditional DHT principles with a federated system for improved performance. This session will cover the benefits and trade-offs of this approach, the expansion of IPNI's use cases, and strategies for navigating progressive decentralization within Web3.
Will is a web hacker, focused on making the web better - by building technical systems to make progress on the interwoven access, privacy, cultural, and security problems that exist today.
He's worked as a software engineer at Google on Gmail, Google+, and Google ideas. Will completed grad school at the University of Washington in 2016, with projects measuring and addressing online censorship. He has worked and studied in China and taught computer science in North Korea.
He currently holds a position as Research Engineer at Protocol Labs working on IPFS.