This is a great proposal, and I want to flag a neighbouring one (Devcon 8 India: Sovereign Infrastructure Hub) rather than a competing one, so it’s on the record early.
I’m posting an intention this week for a “Sovereign Infrastructure” hub: a reframe of the “Node Operators” hub from previous editions, aimed at end users running their own connection to Ethereum instead of depending on a third-party RPC provider. Light clients, node tooling on hardware people already own, and wallets that verify rather than trust.
The relationship to yours is clean, I think: you serve the people who build the networking layer, we serve people downstream of it who mostly don’t know it exists. Every light client in our hub is a devp2p and libp2p consumer, and when they break for our attendees, they break in your territory: discovery behind NAT, UDP filtering, holding peers on a phone that keeps backgrounding, battery-driven connection churn.
So, concretely: we’d send anyone who wants to go a layer deeper straight to you, and you’d have somewhere to send people who want to actually run something. If a joint session appeals — light clients as p2p consumers, and what the network looks like from a phone or a conference wifi network rather than a datacentre, I’d be glad to put it together with you. We’ll have maintainers in the room with real data on what fails.
Either way, good luck with the proposal. Happy to coordinate scheduling so we’re not competing for the same audience at the same hour.