Tezos to launch Proof of Attendance Token at Singapore FinTech Festival 2022

This will be my 7th Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF). It's amazing how SFF has evolved and grew as a festival alongside my career trajectory across the fintech and blockchain tech spaces since 2016. I've attended SFF across the years in various capacities and it has never failed to inspire me to dream big across the years -- from an attendee in my 20s walking the massive Expo halls, to manning booths and speaking at SFF panels in my 30s. A key SFF highlight was speaking with Mike Shinoda on the #Web3 Convergence of Finance and Media panel last year.

This year, SFF 2022 comes full circle for me, in the capacity to not only contribute to Web3 thought leadership, but to also deploy a real world, cutting edge blockchain tech solution from the Tezos ecosystem to enhance the SFF participant experience on the ground. Here's the latest updated itinerary of where my team will be at during SFF:

SFF x Tezos tech showcase:

For the product techies, we will be deploying on the ground Souvie and integrating it with Ella, a robot coffee barista that will accept SFF PoA token mints for a free cup of coffee (gas fees on us). My team stress tested Souvie at the prestigious Art Basel Hong Kong (typical Art Basel fairs draw similar foot traffic to SFF of up to 60k pax) with a successful deployment of an Asia-centric Tezos NFT generative art exhibition that resulted in thousands of mints from a highly engaged audience:

SFF Innovation Lab Crawl and on ecosystem building:

We're currently in Day 2 of the SFF Innovation Lab Crawl. We've opened TZ APAC 's offices aka the TZ APAC EGG Web3 Incubator Space where we host mentors and entrepreneurs in residence to receive Lab Crawl visitors. In the past 24 hours, we had great conversations on all things Tezos:

At the heart of these conversations at TZ APAC, we are built to BUIDL ecosystems. Think of TZ APAC as your Web3 ecosystem builder with innovation in mind. Great Web3 investment theses abound as part of this ecosystem building strategy, and the beauty of this space is that it's open source. More specifically, ecosystem building is all about growing the interconnectivity of #Web3 communities, with emphasis on operational efficiency, network effects and strong product market fit for Web3 investors. We started our ecosystem building strategy with the launch of our incubator program with 22 startups enrolled in our inaugural cohort, leading to a Demo Day in December. Stay tuned for that. Meanwhile, here is a shout out from the legendary venture capitalist Tim Draper on our incubator:

Last but not least, I'd like to thank my team leads David Tng Jivan Tulsiani Frederick Fung Echo L for your hard work and dedication; all our partners (some of whom are also SFF ambassadors) and friends of TZ APAC committed to building the future of Web3 together.