A lot has been written down already after HiveBeeCon, thus I want to focus on different aspect of the event and Hive events in general - instead of describing my personal experience of meeting great folks. Which, of course was great and stimulating, I want to look towards future of Hive events and Hive in general. Come and join me.
HiveBeeCon turned out to be a great way to connect and glue the Hive community together. This is as much as important as announcing technical breakthroughs and reaching out outside of Hive. It's the vibrant community that is so unique in Hive and we should celebrate and advertise this feature.
However, there's one thing I miss in Hive events - reaching out to business.
HiveBeeCon was more of a event for the community members than for outsiders, but HiveFest should show quite different approach.
Everyone is entitled to criticism, but I want my bit to bring some additional value. Maybe before next HiveFest the community will figure it out so that other Hive events might do the same.
During few of the conversations I had my interlocutors and I agreed on that we need to find a way to advertise Hive to business.
To introduce business approach to Hive dApps.
Lots of dApps are created and managed by tech savvy people to whom technical solutions might be more important than user friendlyness and business model. Introducing entrepreneurs and their expertise might result in improving all layers of Hive ecosystem.
It's easier said than done
It doesn't mean we should give in at the beginning and not try.
After the HiveBeeCon, I imagine the situation where some business person saw us and considered some of the attendees have tens of thousands of dollars at their disposal thanks to Hive, and at the same time nobody would be trying to sell him/her anything. There was no crypto shilling, no pump and dump schemes, no dreams about moons and mass adoption, there was no nft selling... I hope you grasp the difference I want to describe.
Adding to that, imagine this person's face when told that a project without CEO or any other central authority not only survived the hostile acquisition, but was able to provide foundations for enterprises (like Splinterlands) and is able to pull out people out of poverty.
This is a comment by @xplosive under this @taskmaster4450 post.
I'm sure business-minded person would be interested how to use this ecosystem to their advantage. To build a business model upon Hive's infrastructure.
I know it's hard. I've been trying to pitch Hive to Stakecube - CEX that went bankrupt but us trying to pay users back. Even though, we would gi with them listing bHive they're don't want to listen to arguments that Hive can create additional revenue streams for them and would allow them 5o sell new products. Crypto sphere isn't the perfect example of reliance
On the other hand, we may also attract mission-minded people like 'eco' people by showing them what Hive communities have achieved in Ghana. Especially in these days of climate change. Imagine Hive being a centre for fighting with deforestation in Ghana creating lasting solution to Sahara desert expansion southwards (I think that boreholes are only a temporary solution and there is a Green Wall project for Subsaharan countries or Paani Foundation in India that are aimed at permanent revitalisation).
Let's all think of someone who might get invited to next events. I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to create a list of businessmen for which we will make a presentation about Hive when they attend meetup or Fest. We shall have a small meetup in Katowice this year and we'll try discussing this issue.
Having this chance now, I want to thank @gtg and @hallmann for making this meetup the reality - I guess the community grew only stronger and the ideas we exchanged will bear fruit thanks to opportunity the HiveBeeCon provided.
See you all next time!