Ethereum European Development Conference (EDCON), a conference focusing on Ethereum technology, research as well as Ethereum-based applications, will be taking place in Paris on 17-18 Feb 2017.

Organized by LinkTime Technology, the conference is being supported by the Ethereum Foundation, ADETIF, the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris - Europe (ESCP), the Asseth (French Ethereum, nonprofit), La ChainTech (French blockchain, nonprofit).

The topics to be covered during the conference include Ethereum base-layer technology, Ethereum research (PoS, scalability), privacy (eg. zero knowledge proofs), formal verification, Ethereum consortium chain development, applications being built on Ethereum, and growing the Ethereum community.

So far, confirmed speakers for the conference include the likes of Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum founder; Ethereum Core Researchers Vlad Zamfir, Nick Johnson, Martin Becze, and Joseph Chow; Jeff Coleman, Founder of Ledger Labs; and Christoph Jentzsch, Slock It CTO.​

“If the conference is profitable, we will be donating 20% of the profits to the Ethereum Foundation, 25% to Ethereum communities in each country in proportion to the revenue (tickets+sponsors) that we get from each country, and 10% for blockchain talent building programs including training and education”, the announcement reads.