London Escapade - My first Blockchain Event (Blockchain Live)
"When I received this email from Block.One saying they were giving some free registration tickets for the London event to their early investors, I decided that it could be a good opportunity to go and "take the temperature" of the whole thing."
"Why should I go ?"
As a photographer and artist, the blockchain technology interests me in the way it can provide new solutions regarding :
- Intellectual property.
- Art distribution (online or not, sales, auctions...).
- Future of Steemit platform.
Going to London was also a good reason to meet some really nice people I had met previously at Afrika Burn a few months ago. Plus, coming from Marseille in the south of France was really fast and convenient.
Blockchain live
The event was organized by Govnet and mainly sponsored by EOS. Everything was on the dot !
The pass picking up went super fluidly thanks to an automatized QRcode, reading and delivering your actual pass on the fly.
The speaking rooms were quite different in size and has at some point led to some difficulties to attend some speeches due to the crowd.
Dan Larimer (CTO/Block.One), Brenden Blumer (CEO/Block.One) and Brock Pierce (Partner/Block.One), during the Q&A session on Block.One and EOS.
Despite this, it was quite easy to find a good talk, plus it means that more and more people are now interested and curious about the Blockchain Technology and the implications it will have in our future everyday life.
The speeches were diverse and interesting, even Interpol was represented. They were explaining the challenges but also the solutions that this technology are bringing to the international police services to dismantle criminal activities.
Interpol representant about new way of fighting crime and cyber crime.
The talk sessions were spaced enough to be able to go take a coffe in the "Enablers" zone, where it was pleasant to elaborate on the discussion with the other attendants, or take some informations about the dozen of startup that were presenting their respective projects.
Dan Larimer, CTO of Block.One and Craig Sellars discussing on the features and last advancements in the Phase 2 (Minimal Viable Test Network - Fall 2017) of the future EOS blockchain.
"It is my mission to help people like you.." Brock Pierce accepting the business card of someone interested on how to integrate blockchain in his startup whose activity is dedicated to the preservation of the environment .
Jason King and Matt Mckibbin, investors, advisors and former crypto activists, also attending the next week event : World Blockchain forum
https://london.keynote.ae/the-event/
It has been a short but fullfilling day for me, I did not answer all my questions, but I saw some good friends and created new one along sharing ideas and concept around this wonderful thing : the blockchain technology.
@eygasmPS : a useful link if you are not aware about EOS :
https://steemit.com/eos/@eosio/the-dawn-of-eos-io
If you liked this you can read my general introduction here :
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@eyegasm/hi-steemit-i-am-eyegasm