The Blockchain Conference

Created by Lighthouse Partners and Massing PR in 2016, this event is considered to be the first business-oriented blockchain and crypto conference targeted at and produced for a professional business audience. Held at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco in February 2016, this event is considered to be the first business-oriented blockchain and crypto conference targeted at and produced for a professional business audience.

More than 240 professionals attended, including executives from blockchain and crypto startups, technologists from enterprise IT vendors, strategists from early adopters, as well as investors, analysts and the media.

With sponsorship from Gem, Symbiont and Tendermint, the conference keynote was presented by John Wolpert, IBM’s first global offering director for its nascent blockchain business, who famously pronounced that IBM was “All in on Blockchain.”

With a speaker faculty of nearly 50, Other presenters at the event who since have risen to prominence in the blockchain and digital asset community included: Sergey Nazarov (Chainlink), Kieren James-Lubin (BlockApps), Bruce Pon (Ocean Protocol) and Olaf Carlson-Wee (Polychain Capital).

Topics covered during the day included enterprise adoption of blockchain, non-financial markets applications of blockchain, and the rise of institutional interest in crypto.

The event had a good press attendance and earned extensive coverage. SiliconANGLE's The Cube covered the event with several interviews during the show and articles following the event still available on their YouTube Channel. See videos and coverage below.

Massing PR provided full-spectrum event marketing support, including brand identity, graphic and web design, digital engagement, and public relations. The success of this inaugural event launched The Lighthouse Partners’ Blockchain Conference series of in-person, meetup, workshop, and virtual events.

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