Alt Convention - 8-10 October Batumi Georgia

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We are working on the agenda for Alt Convention. It would be very helpful if the community would lend suggestions for the following:

1. Round Table topics and issues to debate/discuss with the Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, and other government officials regarding FinTech and digital currency policy.

2. Round Table topics and issues to debate/discuss with the central bank and banking CEOs and banking regulators/compliance officials.

3. General topics for speeches, workshops, round tables.

Thank you all very much!!!

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Now on the front page it shows this;

Join us in the beautiful resort city of Batumi for the most important business, finance, and technology event of the year. 3 full days of conference sessions, round-table meetings, panels, exhibit hall, and networking events. Whether you are a business owner looking to integrate future payment opportunities, an innovator seeking capital, a government official working on regulation, or an individual wanting to learn about entrepreneurship or bitcoin, you will find everything and more here. Thought provoking speakers will address a range of topics. Engaging hands-on workshops will allow you to walk away from the event prepared to use new technologies and services in your existing business. Government officials, banking leaders, and FinTech innovators will debate various policy issues in productive round-table meetings. With over 350 ticket sold in advance of global marketing push, and over 2,500 people expected to attend, this is the FinTech event you cannot afford miss!

Grab your tickets before JUNE 25TH for HUGE discounts!

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Another speaker

Sarah Martin
@Sboonemartin

Sarah Martin is the Vice President of the Digital Currency Council, the leading professional organization for executives in the digital currency industry. She is also the founder and CEO of Boone Martin, a public affairs firm dedicated to advancing bitcoin and blockchain technology. Sarah writes regularly about digital currency and has published in VentureBeat, American Banker, CoinDesk, and the Council on Foreign Relations. She has also spoken at Cornell University, NASDAQ, Inside Bitcoins, Virtual Currency Today, and Digital Finance 2015. Last March, Sarah launched the first Bitcoin Women’s Day in partnership with BitPay, ChangeTip, and the Bitcoin Foundation. She was also named one of SWIFT/Innotribe’s “Power Women in FinTech” this year. Previously, Sarah worked for the UN, US Dept of State, USAID, and Princeton University. She graduated cum laude from Cornell University and holds an MA in international economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

[jdebunt]

Recently did a small article on the event over at Digital Money Times:

http://digitalmoneytimes.com/crypto-news/alt-convention-conference-lands-in-georgia-on-october-8-10th/

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Are there any seminars in London??

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Are there any seminars in London??

This is about the convention in Georgia. There may be meetups there but this is not the correct place to be asking.

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There is only one day left to get your discounted tickets to Alt Convention
With fantastic speakers, hackathon, Show and Tell, Workshops and government officials in round table discussions this is an event not to be missed.

http://altconvention.com

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Another speaker added


Andreas Fletcher
Eurex Innovation Office

Financial markets interest me greatly. The business areas involving trading, clearing, settlement and custody are of particular interest. Since 2012 I have also been very committed to studying how cryptocurrencies and the underlying blockchain technology can improve the exchanges. Finding ways to connect the standard financial market with the emerging blockchain technology is a great challenge which I enjoy working on every day. I do consultant work on this topic and am happy to share my knowledge and get into conversations with other people that have this same interest.

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Just heard there is going to be some news about Alt Convention and was given the 'small news' that being;

Max Keiser will be coming, speaking, and promoting it on RT
Simon Dixon is coming and bringing BnkToTheFuture
Jeff Garzik - core bitcoin developer - is coming
that is just the little news...

I think it is about time some people on here start taking notice of this event

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All I can say is WOW....

Check out this offer that just got posted on the page http://altconvention.com/special-offer/

Tickets – SPECIAL OFFER!
Home Tickets
SAVE UP TO $750 !!! PARTICIPATE AT ALT CONVENTION FOR ONLY $200 !!!

Alt Convention is shaping up to be the most important Digital Currency and FinTech event of 2015. There will be important keynote speeches such as Andreas Antonopolous, Jeff Garzik, Max Keiser, Jon Matonis, Steve Cadigan, Jonas Kjellberg, Uri Levine, and more. There will be high level banking and financial industry workshops with representatives of central banks, banking CEOs, regulators, compliance officials, and more. There will be government workshops with regional legislators and representatives from Ministry of Finance of Georgia, Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, Invest in Georgia (GNIA), Georgia’s Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA), Ministry of Finance and Economy of Ajara, Ministry of Education of Ajara. And, there will be workshops with most of the leading providers of Blockchain applications, hardware, and enterprise services.

YOU ARE IN LUCK !!!

If you have been dreaming of attending Alt Convention, you absolutely must hear this amazing news!

A very important financier, and staunch supporter of Blockchain, believes so much in the importance of Alt Convention for the FinTech industry, that he is extending an incredible limited-time offer to ANYONE who wishes to accept, regardless of age, gender, race, affluence or lack thereof.

Scholarship Up To $750

On our Ticket Purchase page is a special listing for a $200 Scholarship Package. What do you get?

• Business Class Conference Pass ($300 value)
• 3 Nights Hotel Room in 5 Star Beach-Front Hotel ($375 value or more)
• 3 Days Breakfast & Lunch ($60 value)
• Entry to All Evening Events ($100 value)

Your Price: $200

No kidding! The financier extending the offer will cover any additional costs on your behalf. You pay only $200 and you get over $835 in accomodation, meals, and conference/event attendance.

HURRY UP! THERE IS AN EXTREMELY LIMITED QUANTITY OF THESE SCHOLARSHIP PACKAGES!

GET YOUR SCHOLARSHIP PACKAGE NOW BEFORE THEY ARE ALL SOLD OUT!

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Another speaker added


Max Keiser
@maxkeiser

The Keiser Report

CEO & co-founder of StartCOIN Holdings. He is one of the world’s most vocal advocates, early adopter, and investor in Bitcoin, Bitcoin startups such as BitPay, Crypto and Crypto startups. He is the co-founder of Bitcoin Capital. The Keiser Report airs to millions on RT, providing world class financial news and analysis and was the first major media outlet to cover bitcoin and crypto currencies. He founded the first patented prediction market, the Hollywood Stock Exchange, invented the first patented virtual market-making technology and currency.

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Another speaker added


Stacy Herbert
@stacyherbert

StartJOIN.com

VP of content at StartJOIN and StartCOIN. She co-hosts, writes and produces The Keiser Report on RT. Stacy is one of the earliest adopters and advocates of Bitcoin and was the force behind the creation of the top-40 crypto currency MaxCoin. Her media roots go back to Los Angeles where she worked developing scripts for Michael Phillips. More recently she has worked as a writer and producer for BBC and Channel X in London.

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Another speaker added


Simon Dixon
@simondixontwitt

BNKToTheFuture.com

Simon Dixon is the CEO & co-founder of BnkToTheFuture.com, Fund Manager of Bitcoin Capital & author of the book ‘Bank to the Future’. An ex-director of the UK Digital Currency Association & UK CrowdFunding Association, who regularly speaks on the future of finance to governments, businesses, investors and financial institutions. An ex-investment banker that left corporate in 2006 to launch his first business, angel funded by billionaire Peter Hargreaves and advocate of CrowdFunding since raising finance for BnkToTheFuture.com through Equity CrowdFunding on it’s own platform. You will find Simon regularly quoted & appearing in much of the major press & media including BBC, FT, CNBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal to mention a few.

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Here is a consolidated list of speakers currently published for Alt Convention in order of first name.
How many of them would you like to see?

Adam Krellenstein
Amor Sexton
Andreas Fletcher
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Charles Hoskinson
David Lee, Professor
Dragos Birsan
Elizabeth T. Ploshay
Evan Wagner
Jon Matonis
Jonas Kjellberg
Junior Ogunyemi
Lilia Vershinina
Max Keiser
Michael Mellinghoff
Pamela Morgan
Pavel Kravchenko, PhD
Reuben Bramanathan
Rick Falkvinge
Robby Dermody
Sarah Martin
Siân Jones
Simon Dixon
Stacy Herbert
Steve Cadigan
Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof
Tatiana Moroz
Ty Bennett
Uri Levine
 

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More speakers!!!

Micah Winkelspecht @winkelspecht
CEO and Founder Gem.co Micah regularly speaks, moderates, and hosts at Bitcoin and startup events, and is co-organizer of the Los Angeles Bitcoin meetup group of over 1,000 members.

Greg McMullen @gmcmullen
Chief Policy Officer for ascribe.io is joining us to speak @Altconvention - In his legal practice, Greg combined his interest in technology, privacy, and intellectual property law with his class proceedings practice.

Trent McConaghy @trentmc0
Co-founder and CTO Ascribe.io  AI researcher and entrepreneur with long term vision.

Masha McConaghy
Co-founder Ascribe.io

Surely there are people in this group that are excited about the lineup being presented here

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Another speaker added to the site

Peter Todd
@petertoddbtc
Bitcoin Core Developer

While best known for his often outspoken and highly public development research work on Bitcoin Core and the Bitcoin protocol, Peter is a consultant to a wide variety of Bitcoin and blockchain related ventures. Backing up this diverse work is an equally diverse background, including a fine arts degree, computer science and physics, and a few years experience working as an analog electronics designer.

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I no longer see Andreas Antonopulos and Jon Matonis among the speakers. What's the matter?

[aussie_striker]

With only a couple of days before Alt Convention I apologise for not having posted updates lately. Doesn't mean others couldn't have but obviously nobody did.

Firstly there was major changes to the event mainly due to the major sponsor claiming they had financial issues and could no longer underwrite the event. This was a major blow as they had been wanting fairly exclusive sponsorship and the money that was due to come from them was going to cover the remaining speaker costs. It should be noted that speakers have their costs split with an upfront payment and another payment due later. In some cases they were split into three payments. Unfortunately the up front payments are non refundable which means that money is lost.
Here is a quote from the CEO regarding the issue

In late July our major sponsor contacted us citing "banking issues" and saying they would be funding only via Bitcoin. Then, when i pushed for funding so we could start buying plane tickets/hotels for our speakers, they said they were backing out completely. This has caused us a HUGE problem. We have been scrambling to find new sponsors. In addition, we missed our milestones with the government due to this. So, we have missed our government grant funding. We are really hurting now financially. We are still selling small sponsorship packages and tickets, but that is not sufficient to cover what we have promised. We trusted a great deal in funding that is not materializing.

This has been compounded by far less than anticipated ticket sales. This also meant money was tight when it should have been coming in.

Following the cancellation of several speakers since there was no money to cover their payments one of the representatives for three of the speakers demanded that the full payment of $80K be paid for speaker fees. This represented 100% of the fees had the speakers attended. Obviously this was not able to be given and since the speakers were not even going to speak was quite ludicrous to even try. The representatives threatened to cause issues for alt convention online. There are thoughts that the speakers knew nothing about this and those reps were just trying to pocket some cash. It should be noted that there had already been around $16K paid to them.

Other issues were technical. The Bitbillions site was having major server issues which took the best part of a month to finally get sorted out. Then about a week ago Alt Cnvention site came under a major DDOS attack. It is believed that the representatives of those speakers mentioned previously organised that. The Alt convention site was moved to the bizzabo platform since tickets are organised through there already.

https://events.bizzabo.com/altconvention/

There is even some free tickets available right now if you hurry.

I will post the agenda in a separate post. The event starts tomorrow

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A DANDI PROJECT

Imagine going to the corner market to buy some vegetables, bread and water. The clerk tells you the price and you hand her some money you printed from your computer just before you left your flat. This money was not issued by your government. Actually, it was not issued by any government, yet people all over the world accept it, trust it, and use it every single minute of every single day. Actually, they trust and use it more than the money issued by their government.

Imagine you do a job for someone and they pay you with this money; money they just printed from their computer. You take some of it and spend it at the local corner market to buy food for your family. Then, you go home and scan some of it into your computer. After you scan it into your computer, you throw the paper away because it is no longer worth anything, and you email the money to your mother in another country. She prints it out of her computer and goes shopping to buy food.

Imagine this new money is so easy to use on the street, that it is easier and more common than paper money printed by your government. Imagine that it is so easy to use online that it is more common than credit cards and other electronic payments offered by banks.

Imagine this money is the exact same face value in every country on earth. So, you no longer have to convert currencies when you travel. And, you no longer have to convert currencies when you send payments abroad, or purchase things online from another country.

Imagine a man in Ukraine packs his bags, scans his money into his computer and heads to the airport. He flies to London and goes to the nearest Internet café. He prints out his money and begins shopping, eating in cafes, and living as if his money was exactly the same in London as in Ukraine.

Imagine you never needed a bank, credit, or debit card ever again.

Imagine your income, gifts, and payments could not be traced or controlled by any government or agency on earth.

Imagine no person, government, agency, or organization on earth could ever learn where you got your money or where you spent it. Imagine no government or organization on earth could ever learn what you used your money for.

This is the technology and future Dandi will present at Alt Convention in Batumi Georgia.

If you want to learn more about this and many other incredible Blockchain projects, you don’t want to miss Alt Convention on October 8th, 9th, and 10th in Batumi, Ajara, Georgia Republic.

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Agenda for Alt Convention

08Oct15


    9:30am
        Morning coffee and fruit
        9:30am - 10:00am Oct 8
    10:00am
        Opening Introduction
        10:00am - 10:30am Oct 8
        David Ruebush
        CEO, Global Bitbillions Group Incorporated
    10:30am
        Introduction to Blockchain and Digital Currency
        10:30am - 12:00pm Oct 8
        Pavel Kravchenko, PhD
        Chief Cryptographer, Tembusu Systems Pte Ltd
    12:00pm
        Lunch
        12:00pm - 1:00pm Oct 8
    1:00pm
        Introduction to Blockchain and Digital Currencies
        1:00pm - 2:00pm Oct 8
        Pavel Kravchenko, PhD
        Chief Cryptographer, Tembusu Systems Pte Ltd
    2:00pm
        Disruption: Bitcoin and the blockchain
        2:00pm - 3:00pm Oct 8
        Justin Newton
        CEO, Netki, Inc.
    3:00pm
        Coffee Break
        3:00pm - 3:30pm Oct 8
    3:30pm
        General Questions & Answers
        3:30pm - 5:00pm Oct 8



09Oct 15

    9:30am
        Morning coffee and fruit
        9:30am - 10:00am Oct 9
    10:00am
        Towards an ownership layer for the internet, via blockchain and machine learning
        10:00am - 11:00am Oct 9
        Trent McConaghy
        Founder/CTO, ascribe GmbH
    11:00am
        Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Banking System
        11:00am - 12:00pm Oct 9
        Michael Chobanian
        Leader, KUNA Bitcoin Agency
    12:00pm
        Lunch
        12:00pm - 1:00pm Oct 9
    1:00pm
        Compliance, legislation, regulation, and other issues
        1:00pm - 2:00pm Oct 9
        Sian Jones
        Co Founder, EDCAB | European Digital Currency & Blockchain Technology Forum
    2:00pm
        How Blockchain Can Save Copyright
        2:00pm - 3:00pm Oct 9
        Greg McMullen
        CPO, ascribe GmbH
    3:00pm
        An Evolving Ecosystem
        3:00pm - 4:00pm Oct 9
        Justin Newton
        CEO, Netki, Inc.
    4:00pm
        Cryptocurrency as an alternative method of investment
        4:00pm - 5:00pm Oct 9
        Vitali Pavlov
        Project Manager, HashCoins OÜ

10OCT15

    9:30am
        Morning coffee and fruit
        9:30am - 10:00am Oct 10
    10:00am
        Investment and business climate and regulations in Georgia
        10:00am - 11:00am Oct 10
        Aleksandre Papiashvili
        Senior Investment Adviser, Georgian National Investment Agency
    11:00am
        Boosting Innovation in Georgia: Short-term Results and Future Plans
        11:00am - 12:00pm Oct 10
        Giorgi Kintsurashvili
        Head of Skills Development and Capacity Building Division, GITA – GEORGIA'S INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY
    12:00pm
        Lunch
        12:00pm - 1:00pm Oct 10
    1:00pm
        Startup labs, consultancy and outsourcing options in Georgia
        1:00pm - 1:30pm Oct 10
        George Abashidze
        Managing Partner, SIGMA Group
    2:00pm
        A Dandi Project
        2:00pm - 3:00pm Oct 10