Cryptocurrency is almost everywhere now. People from around the world are talking about the big wave of cryptocurrency adoption and the impact it is having on us. This fall, crypto space is filled with a great variety of conferences, seminars, and meetings, where like-minders meet to discuss the future of blockchain.
ChangeHero made a list of the most important and exciting blockchain events for crypto seekers in September 2019.
Don’t miss a thing and check out our recommendations.
World Blockchain Forum
**Date(s): **September 1–3, 2019
Venue: Business Design Centre
Location: London, United Kingdom
At World Blockchain Forum participants will focus on discussing the frontier blockchain technology problems, sharing the latest blockchain news, applications in all kinds of industries. The event is the go-to place for all the blockchain enthusiasts and startups to network and expands their reach. The two-day Blockchain event presents a great number of revolutionary insights, projects, discussions about opportunities and challenges stimulating the innovation of blockchain technologies and computer intelligence.
More than 100 speakers are going to share their thoughts on the World Blockchain Forum 2019. The keynote speakers include Yacine Terai (CEO, StartupToken), Marc Low (CEO, Fuel Network), Hon. Wayne Caines (Minister of National Security, with responsibility for ICT Policy & Innovation | Government of Bermuda), Pierre Noizat (Founder & CEO, Blockchain.io)
and others.
DeFi Summit London
**Date(s): **September 10–11, 2019
Venue: Imperial College, South Kensington
Location: London, United Kingdom
If you want to find out more about decentralized finance, you should attend the DeFi summit. It is a 2-day event focused on decentralized financial themes: Banking The Unbanked & Financial Inclusion, DeFi Maturity and Adoption, Compliance & Regulation, DeFi Trading, Open Finance & Economic History, Risk and DeFi Composability. The conference is aimed at contributing to the development of Decentralized Financial system. This community conference is going to gather blockchain trainers, entrepreneurs, academics, investors, regulators, and other like-minders who are looking to learn and take part in the DeFi industry.
Bartek Kiepuszewski (Co-Founder of OasisDEX, Executive Director, Blockchain Architect, MakerDAO), Husayn Kassai (Co-Founder and CEO, Onfido), Felix Feng (Co-Founder & CEO, Set Protocol), Zeeshan Feroz (UK CEO, Coinbase), Allison Lu (COO, UMA Protocol) and other well-known in the blockchain industry speakers will be involved in DeFi summit. The conference will surely give an unforgettable experience for all the participants with sharing ideas for best practices in the development of the finance industry into a transparent place.
IEEE Global Blockchain Summit
**Date(s): **September 16–18, 2019
Venue: NIST Headquarter
Location: Gaithersburg, Maryland, US
IEEE Global Blockchain Summit is a high-profile forum for researchers, practitioners, engineers to present the latest innovations in infrastructure, significant applications, business cases for the blockchain technology. The keуnote theme in the 3-day intensive program will be governance and regulation. Besides that, the summit will represent a rich mixture of the most important topics in the Blockchain world today — ID management, data privacy, governance models, cybersecurity, multi-cloud platform, enterprise applications, new start-up grants and programs.
Featured speakers are Anna Brady-Estevez (Director of Blockchain Initiative National Science Foundation (NSF)) and Tim Persons (Chief Scientist & Managing Director of Science, Technology Assessment & Analytics, US Government Accountability Office (GAO)).
The 5th Global Blockchain Summit
**Date(s): **September 17–18, 2019
Venue: W Shanghai, 66, Lvshun Road, Hongkou District
**Location: **Shanghai, China
Global Blockchain Summit is one of the largest international, high-level blockchain events organized by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs. This year, the summit will invite different representatives from the Blockchain industry to investigate possible commercial applications. The summit is also a place to share professional insights about the developing trends of blockchain today.
Invited speakers: Dr. Feng Xiao (Vice Chairman & Executive Director at China Wanxiang Holdings, Founder of Wanxiang Blockchain Labs), Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum Founder,Wanxiang Blockchain Labs Chief Scientist), Henry Ma (Vice President and Chief Information Officer of WeBank), Alex Batlin (Founder & CEO of Trustology), Antonio Senatore (Global CTO, Deloitte Blockchain) and others.
Blockchain Live 2019
Date(s): September 25, 2019
Venue: Olympia London, Hammersmith Rd
Location: London, UK
The one-day Blockchain Live event focuses on the business and scientific potential of blockchain and distributed ledger technology. This event will include keynotes and speeches on thought-provoking topics like digital trust, distributed disruption, future regulation, future-proof business, operational efficiency, token economics.
As for speakers, festival headliners include Don Tapscott (Co-Founder & Executive Chairman Blockchain Research Institute, Co-Author Blockchain Revolution), Billie Xu (Emerging Technology Analyst London Stock Exchange Group), Klaus Schaaf (Distributed Ledger Evangelist Volkswagen AG), Joe Wreford (Associate Director GB Supply Chain IT Business Partner Coca Cola), etc.
Delta Summit OKEx Malta Tech Week
Date(s): September 30 — October 4, 2019
Venue: To be announced
Location: Malta
We all know that Malta is the most happening place in the crypto world now. Delta Summit is Malta’s first-ever Tech Week and is expected to be a phenomenal event for blockchain and crypto enthusiasts. A lot of insights on digital assets and blockchain technology will be presented within the framework of the event to the global community. Apart from promoting blockchain, the Delta Summit is a great opportunity to pitch individual ideas to world-class investors.
DELTA Summit OKEx Tech Week is a platform to connect with the best innovative minds, such as Dr Joseph Muscat (Prime minister of Malta), Hon. Silvio Schembri (Parliamentary Secretary of Malta), Tim Byun (CEO of OKCoin), Changpeng Zhao (Founder & CEO of Binance), Kris Marszalek (CEO & Co-Founder of Crypto.com), and others. OKEx Tech Week is a great event to dive deep into the blockchain trading and investment strategies.
Altcoin Magazine Mastermind Event
Date(s): September 4–7, 2019
Venue: Wyndham Garden Kuta Beach Bali
Location: Bali, Indonesia
If you are looking for an offbeat experience in crypto, Altcoin Magazine has the perfect setting in Bali. Forget about the keynotes and booths! Altcoin Magazine Mastermind Event is a no-nonsense networking event where influencers and high-performers in the crypto world meet together and discuss on topics like Lightning network, dapps, fintech and obviously altcoins.
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