# Future Finality [LIVE]: The Scalability End Game with Ansgar Dietrichs, Illia Polosukhin, Amos Zhang

- Speakers: [Illia Polosukhin](https://streameth.org/speakers/illia-polosukhin), [Ansgar Dietrichs](https://streameth.org/speakers/ansgar-dietrichs)
- Channel: [Ethereum Denver](https://streameth.org/ethereum-denver)
- Date: 2023-10-07
- Duration: 29:03
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-hFlzkyXP7a0
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFlzkyXP7a0

## Description

Future Finality [LIVE]: The Scalability End Game with Ansgar Dietrichs, Illia Polosukhin, Amos Zhang

Amos Zhang (MetaWeb Ventures)

Ansgar Dietrichs (Ethereum Foundation)

Illia Polosukhin
Co-Founder, NEAR Protocol
NEAR Protocol, Unchain DAO
Illia Polosukhin is Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol, a decentralized developer platform powered by a sharded smart contract blockchain. NEAR’s vision of a scalable, robust, and highly usable blockchain began in 2018 when they couldn't find a protocol that met the needs of builders. NEAR Protocol launched its mainnet in 2020 and is focused on scaling to global mainstream adoption. Illia has more than 10 years of industry experience, including at Google where he was a major TensorFlow contributor and managed the team building question-answering capabilities for the core Google search, as well as an author of several notable research papers including "Attention Is All You Need." Illia has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Bloomberg, TIME, Wired, New York Magazine, Forbes, and TechCrunch.
https://twitter.com/ilblackdragon