[Event] Blockchain Tech Summit 2018

The Blockchain Tech Summit

The Blockchain Tech Summit is a conference, organized by the Global Startup Ecosystem, designed to educate the tech community and connect people in the industry who are working with or are interested in blockchain technology. 

The first annual summit, held on May 10th, 2018 in New York and part of Blockchain Week NYC, will feature 50 speakers who are experienced in the blockchain sector share their insights on the trends and ecosystem surrounding blockchain.

The agenda for Blockchain Tech Summit seems to be broken up into two sections: Part 1 will be held during the morning from 8 AM to 12 PM on the main stage featuring panels and keynotes. Parts 2 and 3 will occur simultaneously from 1 PM to 6 PM: there will be panels and speakers on the main stage, but there will also be off-stage workshop meetings, Q/A sessions, and round-table discussions.

There's a lot to learn from these speakers.

More information about Blockchain Tech Summit can be found on their eventbrite page, where you can also purchase tickets to attend the event yourself. ​

Going To Blockchain Tech Summit 2018

I was able to attend the Blockchain Tech Summit, and so let me tell you about the experience and what it was like. (And what was said. A bit.) 

First, let me speak of the event itself. It was held in NYC at the Galvanize building. 

My ticket to get in. I edited it, just a tiny bit.

The venue. Galvanize.

The Tech Summit is inside of there!

The room that the talks took place in.

The atmosphere of the event wasn't like any event I went to before...how do I put this...It was very small and tight knit. 

A look inside.

Actually being inside. I edited a few faces/screens out of the pic, for courtesy.

The room doesn't have many people, so every member of the audience matters. And when the speakers speak, it's not like they're saying a speech in front of some large audience, it's in front of a group of peers, so they're really speaking with you like at a small dinner party moreso than talking "at you" like most events/speeches. It was very cool. 

The event had a combination of single speakers and panel discussions. Both were pretty interesting. I won't go into detail about the speeches themselves, but the content was usually about the speaker's experience running a blockchain company, including tips for what worked and what didn't, discussions about how to handle various non-business aspects of blockchain (like media, public perception, legal stuff), talks about how to make blockchain succeed and what needed to be done in the future, and also present opinions of blockchain and where blockchain will trend in the future. 

The speakers themselves were all people high up on the corporate ladder for big companies involved with blockchain. And there were people from various sections, from the US government, to startups, to bigger companies, from various departments such as IT and even legal teams. Networking with the people at the event seemed VERY useful. 

The host telling a really cool story. (I don't want to show any faces!)

The event concluded with the host telling this awesome story about his grandpa from 8 generations ago, and related it to blockchain being an important tool. 

Overall, the event was good. Useful insights were shared about all sorts of blockchain related areas, and the people at the event were all people that it'd be great to network with. I'd recommend the event for anyone wishing to go to it in the future. 

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