2025 Protocol Symposium

Applications are now open for the second annual Protocol Symposium, where we aim to bring together the activities of the Summer of Protocols program year in a week-long capstone online event. In 2025, the third year of this program, we’ve been pursuing three major threads: education, scene-building, and focused research tracks. The overarching theme of the symposium will be the same as that of the program year: Accelerating Order.

Space is limited and applications are due August 22nd, 2025. We encourage applying early since space for both components is limited.

1. Foundations Workshop (September 12-14, 2025, Fri-Sun): Up to 30 participants will convene over multiple Zoom sessions, to work towards a formal, mathematizable theory of protocols, with the goal of collaboratively producing a first-draft whitepaper/research program.
2. Protocol School (September 15-19, 2025, Mon-Fri): This will comprise twelve 90-minute learning modules. The modules will be taught by 2025 cohort teaching fellows.
3. Hackathons and coworking sessions (open to Protocol School attendees, and interleaved with school sessions).

The Protocol School will be college-level, and suitable for university students, researchers, and working professionals from any background. Some background in technology will be helpful but not necessary. A certification will be available for participants of the Protocol School component who meet the requirements.

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