Blockchain Expo Europe
Amsterdam ▪︎ 23-24 November 2021
Insightful discussions with an engaged audience at the Blockchain Expo Europe in Amsterdam with Gokce Gizer as the chairperson of The Future of Digital Assets track and Daniel Doll-Steinberg as a keynote panellist on cryptocurrencies and CBDCs.
Hosted by TechEx, the world-leading Blockchain Expo series returned to the RAI, Amsterdam on the 23rd-24th November to host its annual Europe event.
Bringing together key industries from across the globe for two days of top-level content and discussion across four co-located events covering Blockchain, IoT, Cyber Security & Cloud, AI and Big data.
The Blockchain conference agenda presented 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.
DAY 1: Blockchain for Enterprise
Day 2: Future of Digital Assets
Keynote Panel: Cryptocurrencies and CBDCs – the differences, the similarities, and the potential benefits
Why digitise fiat currency?
Centralisation within decentralisation – have we come full circle?
Pivotal regulatory landmarks and their knock-on effects
A knock-on effect – does CBDC adoption defeat the crypto stigma?
Panellists:
▪︎ Daniel Doll-Steinberg - Cofounder, EdenBase
▪︎ Chhay Lin Lim - Lecture/Researcher, Saxion University of Applied Science
▪︎ Eric Yang - CEO, MaskEX
Keynote Panel: 2022 – The year for digital assets
An engaging open discussion with stakeholders from the corporate world and experts from the tech community:
No longer the dirty word – Institutions finally acknowledging crypto
Going mainstream with crypto adoption – how far has it come and how mainstream can crypto ever go?
Tokenization – the utility of NFTs outside of the creator economy
The potential of DeFi – who benefits?
Panellists:
▪︎ Christopher May - Co-founder and Co-CEO, Finoa
▪︎ Michiel Ipenburg - CEO, SocialBlox
▪︎ Abdel Boazzati - Partnerships and Blockchain Lead at Coca-Cola
▪︎ Julian Gray - VP Digital Science & Digital Innovation | BP Innovation & Engineering, BP
Key Takeaways from the panel:
Big corporations are discussing how we deal with it and what the future of it is.
The corporate world is working on understanding and sorting out its implications, including policy and tax regimes, as well as the perception of global institutional companies to use stable coins and how to reduce volatility.
An entry point for corporates to go into it is NFT is through gaming and tokenization, currently as a marketing and sales effort. Mass adoption of these technologies is at the beginning stages so it’s not an urgency for corporates.
Corporations will find a way to use and innovate with technologies, slowly and surely, and they will engage consumers. However, there’s a need to spread the word that there’s a use for these.
Institutional investor adoption has a long way to go. “How” is the question, and even though there’s lots of money flowing into the market it’s not directly into these technologies. They are primarily indirect investment vehicles.
There’s an increase in Crypto VCs. Family offices and traditional investment firms are looking into it, however due to lack of education there is a missed opportunity.
NFT has a $2.6T market cap and tech companies, like crypto.com are working on making this a user-friendly process to increase adoption.
There’s a lack of education and the release of vast numbers of coins being released without utility is turning a lot of people off. There’s an urgent need to educate the people, and show that even when the market crash happens 1 BTC is still 1 BTC. We need to use crypto as crypto.
Blockchain Expo Attendees
5,000+
Attendees
500+
Speakers
350+
Exhibitors
5,000 attendees are expected to congregate for the conference including CTO’s, Heads of Innovation and Technology, IT Directors, Developers, Start-Up’s, OEM’s, Government, Automotive, Operators, Technology Providers, Investors, VCs and many more.
The Blockchain Expo will showcase the most cutting-edge technologies from more than 300 exhibitors and provide insight from over 500 speakers sharing their unparalleled industry knowledge and real-life experiences.