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Showing posts with label blockchain expo. Show all posts

Global Crypto Press @ Blockchain Expo Europe This Week!

 The Global Crypto Press is a media partner with Blockchain Expo Europe, now for 3 years! Europe’s largest Blockchain Conference and Exhibition focuses on the future of enterprise technology, with two days of top-level content from leading brands, embracing and developing cutting edge blockchain technologies.

Returning to RAI Amsterdam on June 19-20, the Blockchain event is co-located with the IoT Tech Expo, AI & Big Data Expo and Cyber Security & Cloud Expo so you can explore the convergence of these technologies in one place.

The Blockchain conference agenda will present a series of expert keynotes, interactive panel discussions and solution-based case studies. All exploring the key industries that are set to be disrupted the most by this new technology, including; legal sectors, retail, financial services, healthcare, insurance, energy, music, government, real estate and more.

Blockchain tracks include: Blockchain for Enterprise, Blockchain Platforms and Strategies, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services, Developing Blockchain Applications, Blockchain for Business, Blockchain Technologies, Blockchain Workshops and Innovation & Investors Zone.

For more information visit: https://blockchain-expo.com/europe/

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The Global Crypto Press Association is a media partner with Blockchain Expo events.



Following a sold out pre-ico presale, Crest Token's public sale is about to begin - meet them this week at Blockchain Expo Silicon Valley!

The words "sold out" or "cap reached" have become a lot more rare to see in 2018, with the exception of several projects where the use case for a token is clear. Crest Token is one of those cases.

That's because the project actually revolves around a digital advertising platform called the "DigiAd Platform" which makes real structual improvements to the current model, it outlines ways advertisers can get better results, and publishers can increase their revenue for running the ads.  So the token's role is clear  - it's essential, because advertisers will need them if they want to use the platform.

We asked Founder and CEO Ben Sanders to outline the concept behind it "I have seen how millions of people online struggle to capitalize on the $300Bn online marketing/digital advertising industry due to lack of knowledge and experience. I decided to put a platform together using the blockchain technology that will allow members benefit from professional advertisers and publishers/affiliates (Crest DigiAd Platform), while developing their skillset in becoming successful publishers/affiliates or learning how to run a profitable ad campaigns for any crypto or non-crypto related ads (Crest Affiliate Marketing Education System - CAMES)" says Sanders.

Sanders will also be a guest speaker at the Silicon Valley Blockchain Expo on it's 2nd day, (Thur November 29th) at the "Innovations & Investors Zone" at 12:20pm (link)

The DigiAd platform utilities two emerging tech sectors, both AI and blockchain, with the end goal of ease of use that will allow for businesses with little digital marketing experience to launch powerful global campaigns - all without having to hire an expensive digital marketing director to make it happen.

Here's some of it's stand-out features:

- It allows crypto and non-crypto related advertisers and publishers to cross-promote and benefit across several industries and ad verticals.
- It enables non-crypto Advertisers and Publishers/Affiliates to enter the large and ever growing crypto/blockchain market.
- It allows crypto-focused Publishers/Affiliates to generate income outside of the crypto space, especially during the low crypto traffic demands.
- It allows members to develop their marketing skills through our educational system called CAMES.

Building all of it is a team that already knows the space, their current ventures are already pulling in 20+ million unique visitors each month, and their combined experience in the digital advertising space totals decades. Their CEO also knows what works in the cryptocurrency space as well, having participated in over 40+ ICOs himself.

Those attending the Silicon Valley Blockchain Expo can meet the team in person at booth #114.

For more information, visit them at https://cresttoken.com
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Author: Oliver Redding
Seattle News Desk


Blockchain London Conference arrives in Olympia London - next week!

Blockchain London Conference arrives in Olympia London, don’t miss out! The Blockchain London Conference will arrive in Olympia London next week for the first leg of the 2018 World Series. The world’s largest blockchain event will be co-located with the AI and IoT Tech expo and is set to have 14,000 attendees, 500+ speakers and 250+ exhibitors.

Registration will open at 8am on Wednesday 18th April, Olympia London. Event attendees can expect to meet with like-minded individuals and exhibitors such as IBM, BrandShield, Bitfury, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, Stratis and XcelTrip in a series of networking opportunities, that are included in a paid pass. The first evening of the show will host a networking party at Under The Bridge, starting at 6.30pm. Alongside a VIP lounge to connect with other attendees, there is also an event app where you are able to contact all attendees at the expo and plan meetings.

The Blockchain Expo will also allow you to ask questions to the events 200+ thought leading
speakers in Q&A sessions. These speakers include:

• Neil Marshall, Global Director at Coca Cola
• Jeremy Millar, Founding board member at Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
• Vincent Doumeizel, Vice President Food and Sustainability at Lloyd’s Register
• Richard Kastelein, Founder and Publisher at Blockchain News
• Nicola McCheyne, Head of Ideas Lab at Centrica
• Jo-Jo Hubbard, COO and Co-founder at Electron
• Roberto Garcia, Head of Blockchain IT at Santander
• Mark Simpson, Distinguished Engineer, Innovation Engineering at RBS
• Nigel Collett, Director IT Strategy at BC Ferries
• Julian Gray, Technology Director and BP
• Boris Spremo, Blockchain Innovation at BNY Mellon

There is under a week left to register for the event, so make sure you don’t miss out.

Amsterdam Blockchain Conference will also take place at RAI, Amsterdam on 27-28 June 2018,
alongside the exciting announcement of the Blockchain Awards, taking place during the first
evening of Amsterdam. San Francisco Blockchain Conference will take place at the Santa Clara
Convention Center in the heart of Silicon Valley on 28-29 November 2018.

Global Crypto Press is proud to be a media partner with the Blockchain Expo event series - register at https://blockchain-expo.com/global/

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Blockchain Expo Global - London - April 18th-19th!


Blockchain Expo World Series, the leading global blockchain for business event, is arriving in London Olympia on 18-19 April 2018.

The event features two days of content designed to address key industry verticals, including supply
chain, financial services, healthcare, utilities and more.

Among the six conference tracks is Blockchain for Business and Transforming Financial Services,
which explore the practical applications of blockchain in industry, featuring thought-leadership
keynotes, panels and case-studies led by industry leaders.

Cryptofinance strategies and ICOs are also explored in dedicated conference tracks, reflecting on the
evolving marketplace, including global opportunities, the future of cryptocurrencies, and learning
from recent ICOs.

Confirmed speakers span a range of sectors, including Lloyds Banking Group, ING, Waves,
Hyperledger, Hogan Lovells, London Stock Exchange and the European Commission.

Delegates are also invited to an extensive free-to- attend exhibition hall, where over 300 companies
will be exhibiting the most disruptive technologies across blockchain, IoT & AI.

Learn more, and register for your place, at https://blockchain-expo.com/global

Global Crypto Press is proud to be a media partner with the Blockchain Expo event series - our readers can enjoy a 15% discount by using code 'GLOBALCRYPTO15' when registering!

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3 Killer apps to keep an eye on in the crypto/blockchain space...


Continuing our series on companies and projects featured at Blockchain Expo 2017!  Our first article was "4 companies revolutionizing industries with blockchain" - today, we look at 3 apps that either have, or are about to hit the market!

Props by YouNow

Props seriously has the potential to be a game changer.  It's a decentralized, mobile video and streaming platform, and the company behind it is one that knows the space well - their flagship site YouNow has been in operation since 2011.

They already have popular YouTuber Philip Defranco on board as an adviser, and aim to become the new platform of choice for those who might be on YouTube Live or Twitch currently.

We asked their CEO & founder, Adi Sideman - what's the main reason a streamer might want to switch over to their platform? He told us:

"Currently they don't have any kind of personal stake in the platform that they're helping to build and bringing thousands of registered users to every month. On a decentralized platform, creators, developers, users, anyone who contributes to the network has a personal stake, they're getting paid in an asset that has a potential to grow."

Props is in it's first ICO phase for accredited investors, public ICO begins December 11th.

You can find Props online at PropsProject.com


Stack

Stack is out to solve what I see as the big issue in cryptocurrency.  I view it this way - 2017 was the year the idea of owning cryptocurrency went mainstream. 2018 will now be about putting those cryptocurrencies to use in the real world. That's where Stack comes in.

The STK token is ERC20 token, funded by linking your ether wallet to the app, that can be instantly exchanged on the mobile app into fiat, then using a retailers existing credit card processing capabilities, complete the transaction.

We spoke to Stack's COO Nicolas Dinh, he says:

 "There are 36 million merchants accepting credit cards today, so you're opening up the world of cryptocurrency.  Money that exchanges between shoppers and merchants is at $22 trillion dollars globally, imagine if just 1% of that was cryptocurrency - how big that would be for the entire crypto community."

Stack is currently in pre-ICO phase and can be found online at STKToken.com


Shping

Shping (pronounced 'shopping') could really appeal to both ends of the retail business - the shopper, and the brands.

The one thing I found cool about this, is it's not some kind of 'shopper reward' program - you don't even need to buy the product to earn tokens - you just need to prove you actually looked at it.   This would be done by scanning the items bar code on your phone, that's when a brand can partner with Shping and tell you more, play a video about the product, etc. 

From a brands point of view, it presents a unique opportunity- promoting a product to someone who's holding it in their hand, and in a position to purchase it immediately.

We spoke with their founder and CEO, Gennady Volchek, he says:

"There's a number of way people can earn points, first by scanning the product, if it's a partner product they may want to show you some media about it for additional points, if we don't have a product in the database, you can scan it and enter it in and earn some additional points as well, even by leaving a review of the product - so there's a number of ways a consumer can earn".

Shping's ICO begins Jan 22nd of 2018 and can be found online at tokensale.shping.com

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A collaborative article from our Silicon Valley news team:
Ross Davis (Editor in Chief), Harvest Hill, Drew Jackson, and Kevin Williams.
Silicon Valley News Desk


4 Companies Revolutionizing Industries with Blockchain...


This is the first of a three article series about the companies featured at Blockchain Expo 2017 this past week in Silicon Valley!

Today, we're looking at 4 companies that are bringing powerful blockchain based solutions to existing industries.

doGood: Crowd-sourcing.

What stands out about doGood is they've taken crowd sourcing and crowd funding to new levels. It goes well beyond what you might think when you initially hear those terms, but this isn't yet another "Go Fund Me" clone.

That's because it aims to solve problems beyond people begging for money online.  From smaller, personal ones, to businesses seeking solutions to hurtles on major projects.

In a nutshell, it works like this: The problem/challenge is shared in their online platform.  Others post viable solutions and the community weighs in on the route to take via a points based system.  A structure that could do anything from help someone determine the next car to buy - to corporations letting shareholders weigh in.  They can even give more voting power based on how many shares the individual owns.

We spoke to the founder and CEO Adam Harriss, who previously worked in corporate strategy for HP, on his inspiration for the project "I thought, in order to solve these huge problems, what do we actually need to provide real solutions? Thinking back though my experience - you have to define the problem and define and scope the potential solutions. Once you've done that you can actually break down a large problem like climate change, into smaller and smaller pieces - until you get to something that is addressable".

But their boldest vision may be their escrow service which ties in to all of this.  Where an ICO's funding can be held in escrow, and released to the ICO to use only after promises are completed, and the as community votes they receive the next round of funding. Harriss believes legitimate ICO's wouldn't fear this transparency saying investors are asking more often "Why would I invest in this black box?"

doGood's ICO presale begins December 5th, and can be found online at doGood.io


Map Platform: Global mapping.

The Mapping Aggregation Platform is a decentralized mapping protocol - creating a crowd sourced 3d map of the world.

The demand for pinpoint accurate world mapping is already growing at a rapid pace, as the augmented reality industry explodes and relies on this information.

While privately owned corporations are working on gathering similar data, they don't share it without a price. Using blockchain to keep data constantly updated MAPS aims to be the decentralized solution, where anyone can contribute, or access the data.

Map Platform's ICO begins December 5th, and can be found online at MapPlatform.com


Neuromation: Deep learning / AI.

What first caught my eye about Neuromation was their bold proposition to cryptocurrency miners: you may make more money giving your processing power to our project, than you do mining coins.

We spoke to Yuri Kundin, an adviser on the project says that's the goal long term but points out they are first to the market, saying "currently people are paying Google for $4 an hour for 4 GPUs, that's our key point for democratizing access to AI, we could offer this processing power for $1 or even 50 cents".

Neutomation also has a bold retail automation project - putting this deep learning power to use. Shelf project management could streamline how large retailers operate, with AI monitoring product supply on the floor "the system recognizes all the products on the shelf's, and how many our left, we can send a signal back to the wearhouse letting them know to restock" says Kundin.

Neuromation's ICO presale is live now and can be found online at Neuromation.io


TRNXNHUB: Transaction services.

The first solution they offer is one most who actually use cryptocurrency can see a benefit for.  I have yet to meet anyone with their wallet address memorized, they call it AliasID - where you can register any word or phrase just like a domain name, then cryptocurrencies can be sent there.

We spoke to Matthew C James, founder and chairman of TRXNHUB, he said "currently public keys on blockchain are 40 characters in length and a random string of letters and numbers" he continued "with AliasID we can associate an e-mail address, phone number, or name to a public key".

They also have transaction protection for peer to peer sales, called 'Smart Contracts AI' where smart contracts tie into an escrow service "when UPS or someone delivers an order, it updates the smart contract and releases the funds" James said.  Providing buyer/seller protection for online goods sales made in cryptocurrencies.

TRXNHUB expects to ICO mid 2018 and can be found online at Trxnhub.com

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A collaborative article from our Silicon Valley news team:
Ross Davis (Editor in Chief), Harvest Hill, Drew Jackson, and Kevin Williams.
Silicon Valley News Desk


The Blockchain Expo hits Silicon Valley this week!


The biggest Blockchain/cryptocurrency event thus far is just days away!

The Blockchain Expo will take place November 29th and 30th in Silicon Valley at the Santa Clara convention center, and features over 120 guest speakers, dozens of exhibits, and 65 educational sessions.


Global Crypto Press is a media partner with the event - and will on the ground reporting from the expo!


Full event information can be found at 
www.Blockchain-Expo.com

Use code GlobalCrypto20 to get 20% off tickets!
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Author: Ross Davis
San Francisco News Desk


The biggest blockchain expo & conference is coming to North America!


3000+ blockchain and cryptocurrency enthusiasts and professionals are set to gather for what's expected to be the largest event of it's kind thus far!

The Blockchain Expo will take place November 29th and 30th in Silicon Valley at the Santa Clara convention center, and features over 120 guest speakers, dozens of exhibits, and 65 educational sessions.

I spoke with one of the organizers, Mark Boyle to learn more. I pointed out that currently there seems to be 3 types of people involved in the cryptocurrency scene, and asked - what could each one gain by attending the conference?

- The Hobby Investor (someone doing this for fun, in their spare time).

Blockchain Expo has been designed to ensure that there is something for everyone. Those new to blockchain can learn more about the technology at our Blockchain Technologies conference track. They can also explore the latest blockchain, AI and IoT technologies in our free-to-attend exhibition hall, where over 300 companies will be taking part. Our line-up of industry leading speakers will be discussing the applications of blockchain in a variety of sectors, such as financial services, energy, entertainment and not-for-profit.

- The Serious Investor (years of experience with a large portfolio).

In addition to our free exhibition hall and conference tracks, our paid delegates are invited to attend Blockchain for Enterprise and Transforming Financial Services conference tracks. Here, the likes of Wells Fargo, Pfizer, Toyota and IBM will be discussing the impact that blockchain is having in their respective industries – from development and integration issues through to its potential and future applications.

- The Expert (Developers, engineers, coders).

In a Blockchain Expo first, Santa Clara will see the debut of a conference track dedicated to ICOs, Tokens and Cryptofinance. Here, delegates are invited to explore the latest blockchain based start-ups, pitching their innovations as part of our conference track dedicated to ICOs, Tokens and Cryptofinance. In addition, the likes of W3Coin, FintechWorld, Spectiv and BitAngels will be exploring how to attract investors to your ICO. Paid delegates will also have access to our networking tools, enabling you to contact speakers, exhibitors and other delegates directly to arrange meetings and interviews.

We're also proud to announce Global Crypto Press is partnering with the event and will on the ground reporting from the expo!

Full event information can be found at www.Blockchain-Expo.com
Use code GlobalCrypto20 to get 20% off tickets!

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Author: Ross Davis
San Francisco News Desk