Upcoming Conferences + Lisk Meetups
The Lightcurve team is hard at work spreading the word of Lisk. As a slew of blockchain and cryptocurrency conferences around the world quickly approaches, we wanted to provide a breakdown of the ones where the Lightcurve team is going to be present.
With conferences like Token 2049 in Hong Kong, Slush in Tokyo and Forward JS in Ottawa down, there are still many to go. Last week, Community Manager Mat Piaggi and Lisk Academy Lead Jacob Kowalewski traveled to Vilnius, Lithuania to attend the Crypto Capital World Summit on April 25–26. Hosted at the Vilnius Grand Resort, a sprawling hotel complex half an hour outside of Vilnius, the conference offered a speaker lineup consisting of Tim Draper, Monetha founder Justas Pikelis and Lisk’s own Jacob Kowalewski.
To suit the nature of the projects in attendance, namely budding ICOs, Jacob’s keynote was titled “Marketing an ICO to Facilitate the Adoption of Blockchain Technology”. The subjects covered included the problem with ICOs today, the solution to these problems and how the candid and supportive nature in which Lisk conducted it’s 2016 ICO has contributed to Lisk’s core values of education, as well as enablement. The unanimous feedback was that Lisk presented one of the strongest keynotes at the conference. On the second day, Jacob also participated in a panel discussing ICO marketing with these young projects and explained that ICOs should become more altruistic in how they educate and facilitate adoption and build their community, rather than solely focus on raising funds.
Jacob and Mat formed several key relationships over the span of two days, including a number of projects planning to develop on the Lisk network. Overall, the conference was a great success with each attendee now acutely aware of Lisk’s vision.
Upcoming Conferences
On May 4-5, blockchain conference Chainges will be taking place in Amsterdam. Cryptographer Iker Alustiza will be a featured panelist in a vibrant panel discussion focused on blockchain platforms. He will participate alongside Interim President at NEM, Kristof Van de Reck, and Ilya Smagin, Smart Contract Lead Developer for Waves. They will cover several topics, including decentralized applications for mainstream use, and whether or not tokenization is necessary to make dapps functional and popular.
Shortly thereafter, we will be attending and sponsoring Consensus 2018, a blockbuster blockchain technology summit in New York City. This will be host CoinDesk’s fourth year running the conference and will feature over 250 speakers and over 4,000 attendees from the leading industry startups, investors, financial institutions, enterprise tech leaders, and academic and policy groups who are building the foundations of the blockchain and digital currency economy. Given that Consensus will be occurring during Blockchain Week in New York, there will be dozens of meetups and events taking place every evening.
Subsequently, members of the team will attend Token Summit in New York City on May 16-17. The conference will focus on the economics, regulation and best practices surrounding blockchain-based tokens, protocols and crypto-assets. Attendees include projects from the blockchain and cryptocurrency space as well as venture capital firms.
At the same time, from May 16–18, the WeAreDevelopers World Congress will be taking place in Vienna. WeAreDevelopers will bring together 8,000 tech enthusiasts with an incredible speaker line-up including the likes of Steve Wozniak and Andreas M. Antonopoulos. We hope to increase our involvement in developer-focused conferences like this one. We also plan to begin sponsoring similar events in the future.
Following WeAreDevelopers, members of our Design team and Human Resources will be attending major design conference OFFF Barcelona 2018 to hear and see the most creative and talented minds today in the design world, as well as to attract additional talent to add to our team.
Max Kordek, CEO and co-founder of Lisk, will be speaking at the Distribute 2018 conference on the campus of Bucerius Law School in Hamburg on June 28. The overall goal of the conference is to learn how to best take advantage of blockchain technology.
We see tremendous value in attending conferences as it allows us to stay attuned to overall developments in the blockchain industry, network with other projects and learn more about what they are doing. But most importantly, it allows us to talk about and showcase Lisk to people who previously may not have heard of Lisk or to those who might know a little bit about Lisk, but not quite grasp the impact that we want to make.
Upcoming Lisk Meetups
The Lisk New Orleans community will be hosting its fifth Lisk meetup in New Orleans on May 30. The main topic of discussion will be the Lisk ecosystem, with the support of Lisk USA and Edward Trosclair.
On June 7, Lisk Mentor Matthew and Lisk USA will host Miami’s third Lisk meetup. The focus of the meetup will be on blockchain governance, the Lisk platform, and the Lisk DPoS system.
Make sure to visit the events page on our website for the latest information on which events and conferences we will be attending, as well as where you can check out Lisk meetups.
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