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.
Applications are now closed – if you missed the deadline and are highly interested in attending one of the tracks, you can write to research@summerofprotocols.com with a short professional or academic background and statement of interest.
The Symposium will have three components:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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