# Events ### Upcoming Events {% hint style="info" %} To stay up to date with all of our planned events, join our Discord! {% endhint %} ### Past Events **Fred Thiel (CEO of Marathon Digital) on Bitcoin Mining**: December 13th, 2021 **Venture Series: Bain Capital Ventures** (with Stefan Cohen and Alex Evans): November 29th, 2021 **Building a Smart Contract on Ethereum** (with Alchemy's Neetish Sharma): November 11th, 2021 \[[recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdFt1qSb1-o)] **Research at Messari** (with Dustin Teander and Seth Bloomberg): November 9th, 2021 **Building Your First DApp on Solana** (with David Cao): October 20th, 2021 \[[recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ODRsK31IWk\&t=1s)] **Introduction to MEV** (with Paradigm's Georgios Konstantopoulos and Flashbots' Robert Miller): September 30th, 2021 \[[recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPjmEOCXVJs)] --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.harvardblockchain.xyz/initiatives/events.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.