WEBIT.FESTIVAL Europe
13-15 May 2019, NDK, Sofia
About the Summit
The Blockchain Global Summit gathers the world's top blockchain experts, crypto, investors and founders. It is one of the Webit.Festival 2018 major parallel summits.
The building blocks of the agenda include Smart Contracts, New Economy and Sectoral Disruptors, Governance, Banking and Finance, Crypto Currencies, the Future of Money & Payments, A Decentralised World, ICO Regulation and Governance.
The event hosts hottest ICOs pitches in front of global Investors.
TOPICS
AUDIENCE
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55%
Blockchain
community -
30%
ICO founders /
Start-ups - 15% Investors
- 47% Europe
- 39% USA
- 7% MENA
- 5% Asia
- 1% Rest of the World
First announced speakers include
Attending Companies
Agenda
14th May
Blockchain
11:00 - 11:05 Opening
Mark Turrell
Orcasci / Founder
11:06 - 11:42 Panel discussion: Blockchain: 10 years later use and implementation
Mark Turrell
Orcasci / Founder
Kohei Kurihara
Tokyo Chapter Governent Blockchain Association, President | CollaboGate, Chief Marketing Officer
Yuri Lobyntsev
Cindicator / Co-founder and CTO
Marc Taverner
Bitfury / Global Ambassador & Market Development
Naveed Ihsanullah
Algorand / Head of Engineering
11:43 - 12:00 Keynote: Decentralized AI: The Key to a Beneficial Technological Singularity
Dr. Ben Goertzel
SingularityNET / CEO & Founder
12:01 - 12:37 Blockchain: The future opportunities.
Mark Turrell
Orcasci / Founder
Alexander Shulgin
Visionary, Investor, Composer
Rick Tumlinson
SpaceFund Inc. | EarthLight Foundation / Founder
Jon Walsh
Blockchain Rookies / Partner
Johan van den Arend Schmidt
IBM / VP Global Business Services
12:38 - 12:53 Keynote: Blockchain & Media
Alexander Shulgin
Visionary, Investor, Composer
12:54 - 13:09 Keynote: Security Token Offerings: Tokenized Securities and the Future of Investment
Ethan Pierse
CryptoAssets Institute | BorderlessVentures / Director | Founding Partner
13:10 - 13:25 Keynote: Cybersecurity, Blockchain, AI - The time is NOW!
Fernando Martinho
Naoris / Co-Founder & CTO
Social Agenda
19:30 - 22:00 Webit Night Urban Summit (open to all Webit pass holders)
20:00 - 23:00 Black Tie Dinner (5 stage menu and finest Bulgarian wines) including Webit.Awards (only for Platinum Pass holders)
23:30 + The Famous Webit.Party (open to all Webit pass holders)
Webit.Festival is a very inspiring conference where there are a lot of interesting people to meet. I’m impressed by the dynamism of this country in getting things moving.
Benoit Legrand
Global Head of FinTech, ING Group
I feel fantastic, not only because the number and level of people attending. It does not matter how many people, but how warm is the host, how warm is the event, how the ideas are sparkling. And this is exactly a sparkling event.
Alexander Shulgin
Founder, Gruppa Kompaniy Familia
The best about Webit.Festival is getting a lot of people together. You get the people who work at companies building something bigger, people who set the policy and if it all comes together ideas get exchanged and a new inspiration is found.
Kristo Kaarman
Co-founder & CEO of TransferWise
I go to conferences all the time, all over the world - this one is unique! I love coming here where you meet people you don't meet anywhere else.
John Lunn
Operating Partner at Paypal
Webit has been amazing. One of the most interesting things is that there is so many different variety of guests and industries all into one event.
Or Benoz
Founder and CEO of Rewire
My experience with Webit in Bulgaria this year was very interesting in the communication part. For me digitalization was very much about dehumanizing contacts and I have found that it will deliver potentially the opposite. You will get more direct contact with the customer and this was for me a very interesting finding.
Frank Jansen
Executive Director for Corporate and SME Business Development, CIBANK