Alt Convention - 8-10 October Batumi Georgia

[aussie_striker]

Due to lower than expected costs for Alt Convention, the prices set for sponsors is being reduced. I have reflected the new pricing as I know it on the post above. I expect the pricing on the website to change today. If there is a different price on the website compared to what I have put, the website is correct. Having said that if someone is quick they may be able to get hold of some of the sponsorship offers before the bigger players see that the price has dropped.

Tickets are expected to go on sale before mid May. There will be press releases regarding the tickets and overall convention. Ticket prices have also been reduced from initial costing and are expected to be as follows;

General entry : $20
Economy Class: $200
Business Class: $300
High Roller: $400
There is more details about the classes on the site.

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[aussie_striker]

BitPay just agreed to provide Elizabeth Ploshay as a speaker/panelist for Alt Convention
She will be at Alt Convention as an official presenter/representative of BitPay and the Bitcoin Foundation.

It is not yet on the website but will be in the next couple of days.

[jdebunt]

BitPay just agreed to provide Elizabeth Ploshay as a speaker/panelist for Alt Convention
She will be at Alt Convention as an official presenter/representative of BitPay and the Bitcoin Foundation.

It is not yet on the website but will be in the next couple of days.

That is a pretty big name, congratulations!

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If you think that is big you would be floored if you knew what we are currently negotiating....Although early stages next month we may have an announcement regarding, well I can't really say, but it is very big, huge in fact. I think many in here will really stand up and take notice. Unfortunately I cannot disclose anything because nothing is worked out yet and meetings are scheduled for June. After that prepared to be blown away.

[jdebunt]

If you think that is big you would be floored if you knew what we are currently negotiating....Although early stages next month we may have an announcement regarding, well I can't really say, but it is very big, huge in fact. I think many in here will really stand up and take notice. Unfortunately I cannot disclose anything because nothing is worked out yet and meetings are scheduled for June. After that prepared to be blown away.

A decent amount of mystery never goes by unnoticed, don't worry

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Unfortunately I have been told that we have to wait for contracts to be signed prior to giving out the info so my hands are tied.
There is one new bit I am able to mention though.

GBBG has partnered with a major multi-national event management, planning, and marketing firm to take Alt Convention to the next level. This firm has the ability to market our tickets and sponsorship packages on an international scale. They can get our event into major media and ensure our event is a HUGE success. So, we will have a massive company promoting and selling our tickets. This means the opportunity that tickets will sell out is even greater. And the pace of this sale may even be quicker than originally planned. So this is a massive step forward for the convention.

Awhile ago I mentioned an opportunity to get pre-purchase tickets which would assist GBBG with some upfront funds to market the convention and pay some of the upfront costs. The first offer was finished however they had made a second offer. Although it may be too late for most of you guys to get in on it I will put details here for you.

This is part of what was emailed to those that had applied for the offer but not yet finalised it.

 We have made some major improvements regarding Alt Convention. These improvements will be announced over the next few weeks. And the good news for you is that they have delayed our sale of tickets to the general public a few days. We fully expect tickets to be on sale by Monday or Tuesday of next week. The moment tickets go on sale, we will NOT be able to honor any pre-sale purchases. So, if you are considering to buy some pre-sale tickets and get an awesome return on your investment, you need to complete this over the weekend.

This is the offer which is available on the bitbillions website

Alt Convention Offer

Alt Convention tickets will go on sale during the first 10 days of May. We are finalizing pricing, payment processing, and a registration forms now. And, we have a really cool announcement coming along-side the global marketing push to get these tickets selling like hot-cakes!

What is the secret? Well, we can’t spill all the bean yet, but, we can say this:

The central, core theme of Alt Convention will be focused on the fact that we WILL solve the crypto-currency industry banking issues permanently and forever.

Do you know what that means? It means that everyone and their mother who is remotely involved in a crypto-related business is going to HAVE to be at Alt Convention. They won’t just WANT to come, they will HAVE to come. We are going to announce a solution to the very biggest problem the entire industry faces. And, the people and businesses who are at Alt Convention will be the very first to benefit!

We anticipate the ticket orders, sponsor orders, and exhibitor orders to start flying in during May. Before that happens, we want to give our membership one last chance to cash in on the success. You guys are our loyal, long-term supporters. So, above and beyond anyone else, you deserve the opportunity to win. And, you can help us put together the funding for an explosive marketing campaign!

PRE-PURCHASE TICKETS OFFER

Purchase pre-sale tickets for Alt Convention at a price of $50 per ticket (as many as you wish until they run out).

GBBG will re-purchase them from you as economy and above tickets are sold at retail to attendees coming to the convention. We expect to sell 3000 to 4000 of those tickets retail.
   

• Purchase 1 to 3 tickets at $50 each and we will buy them back from you at $75 each.
• Purchase 4-6 tickets at $50 each and we will buy them back from you at $80 each.
• Purchase 7 or more tickets at $50 each and we will buy them back from you at $85 each.

*GBBG Events will begin purchasing pre-sale tickets back from the investors no later than 1 June 2015 on a first invested first bought back basis. The tickets will all be bought back by the opening day of the event. In the event that the event is postponed, the tickets will be bought back by the opening day of the changed event schedule.

**GBBG Events plans to begin selling real tickets to the general public as early as 10 May 2015. So, depending upon sales, some investors could see a profit in just a few weeks.

This offer is limited to 1,000 pre-sale tickets and already over 250 have been purchased.

Do not miss this chance, it is as the only legitimate guaranteed 50% profit you will ever see in your life. Unless we do it again next year.

There is only a couple of weeks before tickets go on sale and the marketing campaign will ensure that they sell well. The success of the convention will also mean more success for you. More referrals, more money in the revenue pools, more trust in GBBG. I think those that take up this offer will also be very happy with a quick profit. No other convention offers you anything like this chance to profit from ticket sales so do not let the chance slip away.

To participate in this offer you must request and sign the Alt Convention Pre-Sale Ticket Agreement which you can obtain by emailing info@altconvention.com with “Ticket Pre-Sale Offer” in the subject line.

Hurry before time or the tickets run out!

You would have to be quick but I thought it worth mentioning. I am fighting to have the offer again next year but the fact is after this convention the money will probably already be there for upfront costs. Still I hope it can be repeated so many people can get such a great benefit.

[Last of the V8s]

BitPay just agreed to provide Elizabeth Ploshay as a speaker/panelist for Alt Convention
She will be at Alt Convention as an official presenter/representative of BitPay and the Bitcoin Foundation.

It is not yet on the website but will be in the next couple of days.

wonder if these 2 outfits will last that long

[jdebunt]

Sounds very exciting indeed, will look into ways to attending this event

[aussie_striker]

Another speaker added for Alt Convention

Siân Jones
@COINSULT

Founder, EDCAB

Siân is a regulatory compliance consultant at COINsult, focused on digital currencies and consensus-based technologies. She advises fintech startups on regulatory, tax and jurisdictional strategy and helps established businesses evaluate cryptocurrencies and blockchain, decentralised and distributed technologies.
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Siân is founder of EDCAB – European Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology Forum, a Brussels-based public policy platform, and also a founder member of the UK Digital Currency Association and co-lead of its Regulation and Banking Group. She convened the first roundtable meeting of European digital currency associations.

Siân contributes regularly to Europe’s leading cryptocurrency podcast, EpicenterBitcoin; briefs Members of the European and UK Parliaments about virtual currencies; and frequently speaks and sits on regulatory panels at conferences and meet-up groups.

Siân currently divides her time between London, Brussels and the Isle of Man.

[Forestsage]

Real nice list of speakers so far. Can't wait to see who else you guys get and for new/bigger sponsors.

[aussie_striker]

Another speaker added


Lilia Vershinina
@lilechkafleur

Head of Banking Relations at Kraken

Lilia Vershinina is a head of banking relations at Kraken Bitcoin exchange, actively involved in recent development of cryptocurrency technologies and their applications in FinTech. She has held various business development and managerial positions in IT industry, with background in sales and public relations. Previously Lilia served as a VP Business development at Videal and Head of development center at Service2Media. Since 2014 she is an advisor at Bitalo AG in terms of strategy and marketing.

[aussie_striker]

Tickets for Alt Convention are now live and available to purchase.

You can get them at http://altconvention.com/ticket-types/get-tickets/

There are discounts for multiple ticket sales.

For anyone that would like to earn from promoting tickets there is an opportunity to within business builders club which is accessible from the Bitbillions site.
Only premium members are currently able to earn from the sales and they get 7% of every sale.
You need to become a premium member of Business Builders Club first if you are interested which costs $9 a month.
You then have to email requesting a tracking link to receive commissions.

7% commissions on single tickets would give a commission of;

$20 = $1.40
$200 = $14
$300 = $21
$400 = $28

There has been some more high level talks which hopefully will lead to some exciting events being secured.
There is a community on the Altconvention website that you can join now as well.
Most of the speakers have been requested to join it and hopefully they will over the coming week.

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New speaker added

Rick Falkvinge
@Falkvinge
Founder – Swedish Pirate Party

Rick Falkvinge is the founder of the Swedish and first Pirate Party, which has representation in the European parliament and has spawned Pirate Parties in more than 60 other countries. Rick Falkvinge is the founder of the first Pirate Party, and a political evangelist for its ideas of freedoms of speech and expression. In particular, he stresses how industrial interests of the 1900s are fighting the net’s core values, the ability for everybody to publish their ideas and creations, and how these industries drive us towards a Big Brother society.

On this platform of civil liberties, his party became the largest in the below-30 demographic in the 2009 European Elections, beating the political competition on less than one percent of their campaign budget. This can be largely attributed to new ways of organizing large numbers of people that he created and applied while leading the party. An entrepreneur at heart, he founded his first company at 16, and has remained a trailblazer since. Because of his successes in cost-effective management and changing policy, he has been named a Top Global Thinker by Foreign Policy magazine, as well as shortlisted as one of the world’s most influential people by TIME Magazine. When not making policy, keynoting about cost-effective management, or exploring technical subjects in detail, Mr. Falkvinge can usually be seen cooking, sampling a scotch whisky, or riding a fast motorcycle.

[jdebunt]

New speaker added

Rick Falkvinge
@Falkvinge
Founder – Swedish Pirate Party

Now that is an interesting addition....missed him a few times at events already...

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The website has been changed a fair bit over the last week. There is now a community section which most of the speakers have joined.

http://altconvention.com/community/

Just looking through the list I do not believe I have added this speaker to this thread

Pavel Kravchenko, PhD
@kravchenkopo

Chief Cryptographer at Tembusu Systems

Pavel has a Ph.D. in information security and has worked as an engineer on public key infrastructures for the banking industry and government. In 2014 joined Stellar Development Foundation and worked there as a cryptographer. In Tembusu Pavel is working on a technology that preserves privacy of users but makes infrastructure compliant with law. Pavel is passionate about educating people about cryptocurrencies – he created an academic course and already held it in 4 universities. He also founded a research lab that is dedicated to resolving scientific problems of cryptocurrency industry.

There are a few big names in negotiations to come as well. Some of them will be meeting in June, some hopefully earlier. Details will be announced when able.

Altconvention has also been added to the list of events on coindesk

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-events/

A quick search I also found this

http://www.cadiganventures.com/steve-cadigan-to-give-a-keynote-at-alt-convention-2015-in-batumi-georgia/

[aussie_striker]

Along with a lot of changes to the site there has been some super saver prices put on tickets for those that purchase early.
Here are the super saver prices;

High Roller SUPER SAVER! $310
LIMITED TO 250 TICKETS ONLY! This ticket gets you access to all speeches, workshops, round-table meetings, panels, evening events, and the exhibit hall. It also gets you entrance to the hackathon as a spectator or competitor. In addition, you have access to ultra-exclusive VIP discussions, events, and venues. Exclusive face-to-face meetings with VCs, investors, start-ups, innovators, celebrities, etc. In addition, you will have VIP seating at all venues, dinners, and events.
NOTE: High Roller class tickets will be $400 after these first 250 tickets have been sold. They will be $570 at the door.
   
Business Class SUPER SAVER! $207
LIMITED TO 250 TICKETS ONLY! This ticket gets you access to all speeches, workshops, round-table meetings, panels, evening events, and the exhibit hall. It also gets you entrance to the hackathon as a spectator or competitor. Basically the only thing you cannot access is the exclusive High Roller events.
NOTE: Business class tickets will be $300 after these first 250 tickets have been sold. They will be $428 at the door.

Economy Class SUPER SAVER! $104
LIMITED TO 250 TICKETS ONLY! This ticket gets you access to most speeches, workshops, evening events, and the exhibit hall. It also gets you entrance to the hackathon as a spectator or competitor.
NOTE: Economy Class tickets will be $200 after these first 250 tickets have been sold. They will be $285 at the door.

General Admission SUPER SAVER! $11.30
LIMITED TO 1,000 TICKETS ONLY! This ticket gets you access to general admission speeches, most workshops, general admission evening events, and the exhibit hall. It also gets you spectator access to the hackathon awards ceremony.
NOTE: General Admission tickets will be $20 after these first 1,000 tickets have been sold. They will be $30 at the door.

Hackathon Entrant SUPER SAVER! $11.30
LIMITED TO 250 TICKETS ONLY! This ticket gets you entrance to the hackathon as a competitor. It also gets you access to general admission speeches, most workshops, general admission evening events, and the exhibit hall.
NOTE: Hackathon entrant tickets will be $20 after these first 250 tickets have been sold. They will be $30 at the door.

Exhibitor SUPER SAVER! $512
Show off your goods/services to thousands of attendees. • 2 × 3 meter (approx. 6×10 ft.) raw exhibit space, table and two chairs • Wi-Fi and electrical outlets • Listing as an exhibitor on the website and in other promotional materials as available • Two Economy Class tickets for staff members •20% off additional staff members tickets (contact us to arrange discount purchase) * We anticipate up to 20,000 exhibit hall attendees throughout the conference. You may combine booths to create larger spaces.


   

[aussie_striker]

Must say I am amazed at the lack of comments on this thread. Every update this convention gets better and better. Here is another confirmed speaker.


Professor David Lee

Director, Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics
Director, Global Master of Finance
Vice President, the Economic Society of Singapore
Founder, Ferrell Asset Management

David Lee founded Ferrell Asset Management in 1999 and is currently the Executive/Academic Director of Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics. He holds the appointment of Practice Professor of Quantitative Finance, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, in Singapore Management University. He graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a PhD in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics.

David is also an Independent Director of two SGX-listed companies, a property developer, and sits on the Investment Committee and Council of two charitable organizations and the Economic Society of Singapore. He was the Founding Vice Chairman of the Alternative Investment Management Association (Singapore Chapter), a member of the SGX Security Committee, and MAS Financial Research Council. He was also the Group Managing Director of OUE Limited and Auric Pacific Limited, as well as the Chairman of MAP Technology Limited.

David speaks frequently in international conferences with occasional appearances in Bloomberg, Reuters and Channel NewsAsia. He has several podcasts on the latest trends in Digital Currency and Asia Finance. He has published in academic and applied journals, including Journal of Investing, Journal of Wealth Management, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Applied Financial Economics, and several books and chapters on Cryptocurrency, Asia Finance, Household Economics and Hedge Funds. His latest three books on Asia Finance focus on Banking, Sovereign Wealth Funds, REITs, Financial Trading & Markets, Fund Performance, and Digital Currency. His current research is on Serving the 70pc Underserved, Payment Systems, Financial Inclusion, Impact Investing and Financial Technology.

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Another speaker

Pamela Morgan
@Pamelawjd

Pamela is an entrepreneur, attorney and educator who has spent most of her career working in and advising small businesses. As a founding member of Empowered Law PLLC, she is a widely respected authority in the use of multisignature for corporate governance and consumer protection. Her practice focuses on digital currencies and legal innovation using technology to reduce risk and uncertainty in business and legal settings. As a founder and CEO of Third Key Solutions, she now spends much of her time working with bitcoin companies to implement multisignature, key management, cold storage, and recovery solutions.

[aussie_striker]

There is now a page which gives a loose agenda for the convention

http://altconvention.com/topics/

[aussie_striker]

A couple more speakers added

Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof

BITNATION Founder and CEO: Susanne is an international entrepreneur, tech investor, and writer. She has worked in Sweden, France, Brazil, China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, United States, Libya, Egypt, Ghana and Indonesia in the past.

In 2008 she started Wise Strategic Communication in Afghanistan, which conducts research on local perceptions on governance, on behalf of government clients. She sold Wise in February 2011 to a US contracting firm. In the wake of the Arab Spring, in 2011 she started Shabakat Corporation in Egypt and Libya to support local grassroots movements throughout the civil war.

In July 2014 she started BITNATION ‘Governance 2.0′: Borderless > Decentralised > Voluntary. Bitnation is a blockchain powered Governance 2.0 Operating System, the world’s first Cryptonation, offering all services traditional governments provides, from law, to dispute resolution, insurance, security, and diplomacy. Since Bitnation’s start, it has released its Alpha platform Pangea v. 0.1.0 featuring basic profile settings, encrypted messaging, and a blockchain notary, it has built a worldwide network of local Ambassadors, an open source space agency, integrated 3rd Party applications for basic income, voting platforms and more, and conducted groundbreaking pilots including the first marriage, World Citizenship, birth certificate and land titles on the blockchain, which Bitnation has received worldwide media attention for.

She’s the author of the forthcoming book “The Googlement – The DIY Guide To Starting Your Own Nation (And Changing The World)” – Nortia Press, and a regular writer and speaker at conferences, having appeared in New York Times, Forbes, WIRED, VICE, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, Huffington Post, CoinTelegraph, Bitcoin Magazine, Swedish, Russian and French Television, TEDx, Google Solve For X, University of Cambridge, London School of Economics, and many other venues.


Tatiana Moroz
@queentatiana

Tatiana Moroz is a singer songwriter, activist and entrepreneur. As a graduate of Berklee College of Music, Tatiana began spreading the word about cryptocurrencies through music and presentations at various Bitcoin conferences around the world including Bitcoin South in New Zealand, the Latin American Bitcoin Conference, Bitcoin in the Beltway, Coins in the Kingdom, the Libertarian National Convention, Inside Bitcoins, and many more. She created Tatiana Coin, the first-ever cryptocurrency project designed to support artists. Tatiana is the CEO and founder of CryptoMediaHub, a PR, advertising, and marketing company focusing on digital currencies. Tatiana is also owner of the activist talent and event agency Same Side Entertainment and the founder of the Women’s Crypto Association.