Global Blockchain Week is “In the Can,” Enjoy It Now On-Demand!

243 speakers, 93 sessions, and over 2,000 attendees from 64 countries including a couple I’ve never heard of. Local content from partners in Europe, Latin America and China. When it comes to blockchain in the enterprise, I don’t believe there has ever been such a tour de force. And now it's fully online and available on-demand here for all registrants!

I am so proud of what we accomplished over the week and it’s just getting going.  Blockchain Revolution Global and Global Blockchain Week – a fully digital week-long program centered around global blockchain transformation in enterprise, government, and society.

Naturally with the US election looming many of the sessions discussed the crisis of democracy in the US today and explored how governments could be reinvented using the converging technologies of blockchain AI, and the Internet of Things (dubbed The Trivergence by collaborator Bob Tapscott.)

As a taste, on one panel in the future of democracy, we dug into the fragmentation of public discourse, where the concept of “the truth” is undermined and where charlatans and demagogues can make up their own facts. Tomicah Tillman of New America discussed the problem of tribalism today, and how citizens will identify with and support their tribe at the expense of their wellbeing and families, supporting candidates who would say, cut their healthcare, undermine their security or otherwise act in ways that would be injurious to them. We also discussed the problem of how representatives are beholden to powerful interest that fund their campaigns. A great discussion ensured about how smart contracts could enable smart votes where citizens voted for a person and a program and whereby politicians were accountable to citizens rather than their funders.

When you log on to the program you’ll be struck by its appearance and quality too. Rather than a simple, glorified zoom call, we worked hard to create innovative platform experience. We chose to invest in superior production values, and many participants commented that the results were pretty stunning. The program looked more like a TV event than a webinar, as we hosted many of the activities from a television studio and used Social21 for presentation and interaction. We also chose to post all the sessions as streaming content for the rest of the year, for our registrants.

That’s right – all of the sessions featured at this year’s Blockchain Revolution Global are available for on-demand viewing, allowing registrants to engage with world-class thought leadership content for a full month after the event, and a full three months post-event for Premium Pass holders!

Some Big Thank you’s! 

We would not have had the success we did without the support of our sponsors and partners, including Tata Consultancy Services as a Presenting Partner, who hosted the conference on their incredible virtual platform.

ConsenSys Helath, Huobi Global, IBM, and FedEx supported us as Ecosystem Partners.

As Thought Leadership Partners, we worked with Bosagora, the City of Toronto, Deloitte, Interac, PermianChain Technologies Inc., and P&G. 

Our Innovation Partners were Access Copyright, Gowling WLG, Orion Protocol, Props Project, Solve.Care, and MetaVerse.

3IQ and VeriTX offered their support as Resource Partners.

Blockchain Research Institute Europe (BRIE), Blockwall, Huobi Global, and Blockchain Research Institute Brasil supported us as Global Hub Partners, sharing and promoting the event to their regions of expertise.

MCI Canada and Ideacity were our production partners, without whom we couldn’t have managed the complexities of hosting a virtual conference – especially one of such magnitude as this.

We worked with dozens of Community Partners to promote the event, including Atlantic Business Hub, Parity Technologies, Infosys, Grain Discovery, Silicon Valley Blockchain Society, Slalom, Kaleido, Loudhailer, Bitcoin Bay, Lition, Winding Tree, MMH, ICON, France Canada Chamber of Commerce, World BI Group, Hyperledger, Nem Group, George Brown School of Computer Technology, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, Indorse.io, Anyblock Analytics, PharmaLedger, Polkadot, Unibright, Ava Labs, and TRG Capital.

Heartfelt thanks to our staff and members of the Blockchain Research Institute. I continue to be amazed by what a wonderful team and community we have built.

Thank you to those who joined us for this premier blockchain experience. I hope you enjoyed the insights we provided you this week and I encourage you to watch it all on-demand right away here!

Kindest regards,

Don