Goal

• Define current pain points in conference/event planning,
• Outline ideas using impact certificate to create a decentralized application for event planning to solve those pain points.

Pain points

• Taipei Blockchain Week planning experience as a DAO for example. Planning a conference as a DAO is already very different as compared to normal corporation that are for-profit with paid employees.
  • The effort comes from volunteers on their own time, unpaid. Their time/effort contributions are extremely valuable and precious and hard to come by.
  • The effort is more decentralized, more people helping but attention is looser as well. Contributors can easily drop in and also drop out as other priorities come up and they lose bandwidth
  • Harder to hold people accountable as volunteers, we’re already grateful for people willing to work, harder to be picky with quality of work or fire people who aren’t doing a good job.
• (Isabel to fill in here) g0v jothon and g0v summit organizers - g0v jothon every two month and every 2 years there is an international summit for g0v, but it’s so much work that it’s hard to find volunteers who want to own the entire process. HyperCerts can ideally relieve the effort

Problem

• Planning a conference is hard and a lot of work, the process is not transparent, resources are scattered, lack clarity in incentives, and hard to find people dedicated to it.

Solution

• Using hyperCerts, we can open source conference or general event planning to hopefully
  • Improve transparency and fairness
  • Find the best contributions and resources available
  • Aligning incentives between organizers, planners and attendees.

How

• Using hyperCert as infrastructure layer, build front end and potentially web2 backend solution
• The conference organizer can use a plug and play tool to define the scope, location, and resources needed for the conference by creating hyperCerts detailing what’s needed with clear guidelines and concrete ways to evaluate progress and results
• Different organizations can sponsors different areas they care the most about that’s most relevant.
  • (e.g. different Ethereum projects can chip in and sponsor Vitalik’s visit)
  • Food companies sponsoring food and drinks for the conference
  • Airline company sponsor flight of a few speakers
• The event organizer/DAO committee can have weekly open/recorded meetings to evaluate and track progress of every work stream/task to give feedback on progress and help coordinate between people.
• Build integration between each hyperCert into slack/Discord/telegram channel
• Event tickets can be replaced with hyperCerts in people’s wallet. Everyone who contributed can come, people can also financially contribute as individual donors can come (like buying a ticket, but now we won’t need tickets)

Risks

• Competition for resources can play out ugly with public drama
  • Media agencies can bad mouth each other in hopes of winning or claiming impact
• Can get messy and disorganized with too many chefs in the kitchen and different opinions