Qtum, QUOINE.. Blockchain tycoons are visiting South Korea to attend the 9th Asian Leadership Conference

20 innovators in Blockchain are gathering in Korea to discuss about the future of Blockchain… Qtum founder Patrick Day, QUOINE founder Kayamori, French Rep. Joachim son-forget…Blockchain tycoons are visiting South Korea to attend the 9th Asian Leadership Conference.

Can you picture the world blockchain technologies will change? You may have a chance to catch a glimpse of it. On May 16th and 17th, the 9th Asian Leadership Conference (ALC) will be held at Grand Walkerhill Seoul, where 20 global blockchain leaders will gather to discuss about the present and future of blockchain.

Source: Asian Leadership Conference Homepage In the 8th conference, former US President Barack Obama took a session.

Patrick Dai has established “Qtum”, which has the second biggest aggregated market value among cryptocurrency projects led by Chinese. He dropped out Chinese Academy of Sciences, worked as the top analyst in Alibaba, the biggest e-commerce company in the world, and founded “Qtum” in Singapore. Forbes nominated him as one of "the 30 Chinese innovators under 30”. He will take a role of the keynote speakers with French Rep. Joachim son-forget and Day-Jae Jin, the chairman of the Korea Blockchain Association.

Markus Gnirk, the leader of the blockchain consulting company of “tryb”, is also on the list of “the innovators under 30” nominated by Forbes. He has been a founding member of the global startup accelerator, “Startup Bootcamp Fintech” and the Singapore Fintech Association. He will be the host of “Government and cryptocurrency” session to have discussion with Ken Kawai from the law commission of the Japanese cryptocurrency association and HyunJin Cha, the chairman of the Korea Financial Telecommunications & Clearings Institute.

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In the session of “Blockchain and Cryptocurrency from the perspective of investors”, guest speakers will have a discussion about how to invest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain companies. Famous guest speakers will also take sessions: Dan Morehead, CEO of Pantera Capital called as the legend in the crypto-investment as he marked 25,000% of ROI in the last 4 years, David Drake, Chairman of LDJ Capital, and Jin-Hwa Kim, the co-founder of Korbit and board member of Korea Blockchain Association.

In the 9th Asian Leadership Conference, there will be various sessions explaining how blockchain technologies can be applied to different fields of business including finance, logistics, medicine, and retail. Doni Benjamin, senior advisor of ConsenSys has been establishing a system where Australian consumers can get the electricity from the power plants rather than buying it from electricity companies. He also has been leading a project to store citizen’s medical data and contracts on Blockchain with IBM, the global IT giant.

Mike Gayamori, the founder of the first Japanese cryptocurrency market QUOINE, will present cases where the cryptocurrency market is actually integrated with banking services like remittance and exchange based on blockchain technologies, explaining how blockchain-integrated finances can reduce commission fees and track the every detail of remittance, increasing transparency.

Source: CHEONG WA DEA President Moon promised that the government WILL give an answer to citizens’ request of not to prohibit the trade of cryptocurrencies, which has got more than 200,000 “agreements”.

Long story short, even though the Korean government announced that it would not promote cryptocurrency markets and prohibit ICOs in Korea, industry leaders around the world are gathering up in Seoul to discuss blockchain technologies with the support of the major paper company in Korea. Regulators and government officials have no choice but to listen to their voices at some point and to change their direction toward cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies.