04-06, 11:05–12:05 (Europe/Zurich), Merge Stage
Decentralized autonomous organizations are a fascinating organizational structure found everywhere in the Ethereum ecosystem. However, designing a successful DAO is difficult and involves many aspects such as organizational design, legal aspects, and a roadmap to decentralization. In this workshop, the Swiss industry association DAO Suisse is going to give a crash-course on how to design a successful DAO covering these aspects. We will give short inputs on the different topics and then open for a discussion to cover the challenges faced by the workshop participants and learn together how to approach them. The workshop serves as a starting point to better understand the design of DAOs and offers assistance in how to set up DAOs for practitioners.
Florian Spychiger received his MSc. in Quantitative Finance jointly by the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich and his PhD at the UZH Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies Group. Currently, he is working as a research associate at the Zurich University of Applied Science. He conducts research on decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and on incentives in blockchain systems. Florian analyses existing incentives in blockchain protocols and in DAOs and designs new systems. Specific research topics include consensus design, decentralized autonomous organizations and blockchain governance. Furthermore, he is a council member of the industry association DAO Suisse that promotes DAOs in Switzerland.
As a specialist in financial market law, Romedi Ganzoni advises banks, asset managers and other regulated companies as well as FinTechs and start-ups on all legal and regulatory matters.
He specializes in traditional financial market law as well as in the areas of digital finance, FinTech, Web3 and ESG. He has broad experience in these areas and supports his clients with creative solutions in the implementation of their business models.
Romedi Ganzoni is himself co-founder of a successful start-up, regularly holds webinars and lectures, publishes in his areas of expertise and is regularly invited as a panelist.
Una is a multifaceted young professional, embodying various roles in her career.
She is a dedicated researcher, leading the project no1s1 at ETH as a PhD candidate. Her research explores topics such as decentralized autonomous buildings, decentralized physical infrastructure, digital twin, IoT and regenerative built environments. Leveraging her background in architecture, she thrives as a builder and maker. She brings ideas to life through cyber-physical integrated prototypes and products. The love of community rans in her vein. She is a facilitator for multiple DAO communities and cross-culture, multidisciplinary associations. She believes in open communication and the value of hard conversations. She is a speaker and guest lecturer on many different occasions.