Top 11 Blockchain Events You Must Attend in 2018 (with Comprehensive Event List Attached)
From an outsider’s view, blockchain practitioners seem to live on airplanes. We are always on the go and always attending conferences, panels, and giving speeches. Around the world. Non-stop.
We are all humans, we all only have 24 hours day. Yet there are so many events, meetups, conferences, and talks happening around the clock at every corner in the world. So how can we maximize our utility, learn the most and network in the most efficient way while being time-conscious?
Our team faces the same trade-off every day. While our developers and researchers are working tirelessly in the office, we are contributing to the blockchain and crypto community by sharing our latest thoughts and insights to attendees and rooting for this awesome technology itself.
Today we are going to share with you the top 11 blockchain events for the remainder of 2018. We handpicked those events just for you and trust us, you don’t want to miss them.
Blockchain Live: London
Time: September 26, 2018
Location: Olympia, Grand Hall, London
Website: https://blockchainlive.com/attend-blockchain-live/
Blockchain Live: London brings together the biggest blockchain innovators and investors with UK industry leaders, tech pioneers and blockchain newcomers. Speakers include Daniel Larimer, CTO of Block.one, Tim Draper, founder of Draper Associates, Joseph Lubin, founder of Consensys, and many more.
Delta Summit: Malta
Time: October 3–5, 2018
Location: Malta
Website: https://delta-summit.com/
Malta is currently leading the charge in regulating the blockchain & cryptocurrency technology. This presents a major opportunity for Malta to host the first official conference launching Malta as a regulated virtual currency and ICO center.
DELTA summit will be Malta’s official platform from where to promote its technology and its related business opportunities. It will also serve as a venue from where crypto enthusiasts, doubters and experts can congregate and exchange ideas.
High-profile speakers include Dr. Joseph Muscat, Prime Minister of Malta, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, Founer & CEO of Binance, Dr. Larry Sanger, Co-founder of Wikipedia, CIO of Everipedia, Kris Marszalek, CEO & Co-founder of crypto.com, and many more.
SF Blockchain Week: San Francisco
Time: October 5–12, 2018
Location: San Francisco, USA
Website: https://sfblockchainweek.io/
Dubbed as “the blockchain event of the year”, San Francisco Blockchain Week is a week of educational, consumer, and developer focused events that aim to push the boundaries of local blockchain innovation which has been welcomed by the San Francisco community. The goal of this week-long, immersive experience is to help the industry reach mainstream adoption through fundamental education and development of projects that matter.
Sponsored by Dekrypt Capital and Noris, the whole week is broken into series of main events: ETH San Francisco Hackathon, SF Blockchain Week Epicenter, and Crypto Economics Security Conference. The week-long event also gathered a pool of well-known speakers include Naval Ravikant, Founder of Angelist, Ella Zhang, Head of Binance Labs, Balaji Srinivasan, CTO of Coinbase & Board Partner of Andreessen Horowitz, Vitalik Buterin, Founder of Ethereum, Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin, etc.
Web3 Summit: Berlin
Time: October 22–24, 2018
Location: Funkhaus Berlin, Germany
Website: https://web3summit.com/about/
Web3 Summit is organized around a single rallying call: to facilitate a fully functional and user-friendly decentralized web.
Devs and researchers are invited to work on lower level protocols and others interested in the latest developments in the decentralised web to join the summit in Berlin for an immersive and collaborative gathering focusing on: P2P protocols. Platform neutral computation language. Data distribution protocols. Blockchains. Transient data/messaging. Encrypted storage. Protocol-extensible developer APIs.
Web3 Summit will have space available for workshops, presentations, AMA sessions — both intimate and large-scale, chill-out rooms, and most importantly, a large hackerspace, where you can camp out, host a hackathon, whiteboard some ideas, present to other teams, and get real work done.
World Blockchain Summit: Dubai
Time: October 24-25, 2018
Location: Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Dubai, UAE
Website: https://dubai.worldblockchainsummit.com/
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Dubai has embraced blockchain technology, and has even put forward plans to incorporate the technology into governmental operations.
By 2020, all visa applications, bill payments and licence renewals will be transacted digitally through an electronic ledger.
This further cemented the nation’s resolve to establish Dubai as the happiest, safest and most innovative city on Earth.
Speakers include government officials from Taiwan, Liberland, Estonia, Kenya, Ukraine, as well as revered individuals in the space: Kent Kristensen, CEO of MessengerBank, Roger Ver, CEO of Bitcoin.com, Michael Bucella, Partner at BlockTower and Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano, Founder & Partner at Morgan Creek Digital Assets.
Dev Con4: Prague
Time: October 30–November 2, 2018
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Website: https://devcon4.ethereum.org/
“The largest Ethereum family reunion of the year.”
Devcon is the annual Ethereum family reunion. The Ethereum Foundation host Devcon to educate and empower its community to build decentralized applications, and to bring Ethereum protocols, tools, and culture to the world.
The name Devcon refers to a developer conference. While the majority of the programming & content will be deeply technical, the organizers think of developers as builders of all kinds: designers, UX researchers, smart contract devs, blockchain researchers, client implementers, test engineers, infrastructure operators, community organizers, and even artists in the community.
Sora Summit: Macau
Time: November 13–14, 2018
Location: Macau
Website: http://sorasummit.com/
Sora Summit is the first conference organized by the Sora Foundation & Sora Ventures. The objective of the conference is to educate, reflect, and develop opportunities for collaboration between leaders and communities in the blockchain industry with an emphasis on Asia’s blockchain ecosystem.
Macau is a special administrative region of China located west of Hong Kong that was once a colony of Portugal. The city is well-known for casino gaming, nightlife, and entertainment.
The discussions will take a deep dive into topics such as investment strategies, marketing & PR, regulations, exchanges, technology development, industry trend in Greater China, Korea, North America, and the rest of the world. Speakers include Jason Fang, Managing Partner of Sora Ventures, Mario Ho, Family Affiliate of SJM Macau Family, David Su, Founding Managing Partner of Matrix Partners, John Fiorelli, Global Head of Advisory of Kenetic, Mike Chen, Co-founder of Block72, Remington Ong, Partner of Fenbushi Capital, Paul Veradittakit, Partner of Pantera Capital, among many others.
Consensus Invest: New York
Time: November 27, 2018
Location: New York City, USA
Website: https://www.coindesk.com/events/consensus-invest-2018/
Consensus: Invest 2018 is yet Coindesk’s another effort to bring together the crypto community. Consensus: Invest 2018 aims to deliver discussions and debates around trends and investment opportunities for digital assets, the fastest growing alternative investments in history. The event brings together institutional investors, family offices, hedge funds, asset allocators and service providers to underline the current sophistication of digital securities and commodities, as well as to offer forecasts on the evolution of these assets in 2019.
Beyond Blocks Blockchain Week: Bangkok
Time: November 26-30, 2018
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Website: https://beyondblocks.com/summit/bangkok/
Southeast Asia has become one of the most important hubs for crypto. Beyond Blocks Blockchain Week is made up of five days of activities held in the heart of Bangkok, made up of amazing networking opportunities, meetups, parties and so much more. Meet the biggest movers and shakers in the industry face-to-face, and be part of the movement to drive the blockchain community forward in Asia.
Coingeek Week Conference: London
Time: November 28-30, 2018
Location: London, United Kingdom
Website: https://coingeekweek.com/
The CoinGeek Conference is a fast-growing cryptocurrency and blockchain conference, which was first launched in Hong Kong in May 2018. Due to popular demand, it is coming to London in November and has grown from a one-day to a three-day event.
World Digital Assets Summit 2 (WDAS): San Francisco
Time: December 9-11, 2018
Location: San Francisco, USA
Website: http://wdas.world/
World Digital Assets Summit 2 (“WDAS 2 ”) San Francisco 2018 is an annual conference designed to showcase the most cutting-edge and forward-thinking trends, technology and projects within the blockchain space.
The mission is to explore the potential of this revolutionary industry by bringing together thought leaders, educators, legislators and enthusiasts as well as combining the world of innovation with real-life applications.
Some of the events listed above are tech-focused, while others serves the general public well. Regardless, all the events have one thing in common — they are truly globally decentralized. Whether you are an individual investor, institutional investor, blockchain entrepreneur, newbie, or doubter, we are sure you will find value in those conferences. Get your air ticket, venture out, and be ready to meet some new minds and ideas!
BONUS TIME!
Click on the link below to get an ever-updating, comprehensive list of events for 2018-2019!
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