Venture capital firm Hack VC has today announced it will present the bi-annual event, hack.summit(), a gathering of some of the world’s key technical leaders in Blockchain.

All ticket sales from the event will be donated to coding nonprofits, particularly those that support diversity in coding, which includes Women Who Code, Black Girls Code, Free Code Camp, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Coder Dojo, Bridge Foundry and more.

Leading organizations such as Oracle, IBM, Facebook, Microsoft, Github, and Uber have supported the cause in previous years.

Alaina Percival, CEO of Women Who Code, said: “hack.summit() is able to reach a large global community through fantastic speakers and the online platform. Women Who Code loves that the conference is accessible to all of our 137,000 global members and is honored to be the recipient of donations from the attendees to support our growing community”.

The event aims to educate and encourage the advancement of technology, regardless of location or socioeconomic status.

This year’s event titled hack.summit(“blockchain”), will be held July 9-11, 2018. The event gathers leading technical founders of blockchain foundations to educate the world on important blockchain topics.

Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with high profile speakers, including Jed McCaleb, technical founder of Mt. Gox, Stellar, and Ripple, Riccardo "Fluffy Pony" Spagni, technical leader of Monero, Dawn Song, co-founder and CEO of Oasis Labs, Eyal Hertzog, co-founder of Bancor, Eli Ban-Sasson, co-founding scientist of ZCash, and many more.

hack.summit(“blockchain”) will also feature a global virtual hackathon, giving developers the opportunity to “hack for good”, with both the chance to win tokens donated from blockchain foundations, as well as, help raise funds for charitable causes via sponsorship donations. The hackathon will be powered by the decentralized coding portal, Deconet.

Dawn Song, Founder and CEO of Oasis Labs, said: “We are really excited to join hack.summit() and learn from the amazing developer community. We look forward to sharing our vision and transformative technology for scalable and privacy-preserving smart contracts.”