It's that time of year again, folks... Conference season! You guessed it, I'm heading to another conference to promote Krypton.
This time I'm going all the way to Shanghai, China!
I'll tell you all about it in a minute but, first, I'd like to catch you up on the last conference I attended, Consensus 2016.
I'm sure you'll all agree that sending me to Consensus 2016 was a fantastic networking opportunity. I know that I never really posted my summary of the conference since I caught that terrible NYC flu that knocked me out of commission for three weeks upon my return home.
I did have the opportunity, however, to answer a great question about the trip in The Dood's interview with me. Here's the entire interview, in case you missed it.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dood-interviews-covertress-from-krypton-covertress-covertress?trk=mp-reader-card Here's The Dood's question and my reply.
Bitcoin Dood: Krypton was represented at the Coindesk Consensus summit. There were a lot of big names and players in the fintech industry in attendance. Could you tell us a little about the conference and how Krypton was received?covertress: I began by joking with the attendees of Consensus before I ever arrived. On Twitter I posted a picture of Angelina Jolie in Maleficent and said that everyone at Consensus will know my true identity. Haha. Many more than a few people actually recognized me from Twitter. Roger Ver, Purse’s CEO, Andrew Lee, and Emily from Shapeshift.io were among them. It was a pleasure for me to connect with these people in real life.
Oh! And speaking of faces… I took one of the personally worst photos ever when I snapped a selfie with Gavin Andresen. I’d show you but, I’d have to kill you. Lol.
I wished that I had not booked my travel arrangements so early because Consensus added two days to their agenda, before the conference, and devoted this to a hackathon. I missed it. One of my primary reasons for attending was to find more developers and try to hire them for Krypton. As luck would have it, one of the first people I met was Eric Piscini, a principal at Deloitte, who was one of the panelists at the hackathon. He caught me up on what I missed and introduced me to some amazingly talented devs. He was personally blown away by these kids at the hackathon as was I when I met them too.
Overall, I couldn’t be more pleased with the stack of business cards that I collected and new friends that I made. In my opinion, there is simply no substitute for conducting business face-to-face. I plan to attend many more conferences on behalf of Krypton.
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I've said all this to bring you back to the upcoming conference in Shanghai, China, and why it's so important that I attend.
The conference is the International Blockchain Week & Devcon 2. Click the 'about' tab on the following page to read more.
http://www.blockchain2016.org/index_en.htmlShanghai International Blockchain Week is a major event for the global blockchain industry. Significant players from the industry and investment institutions will be attending the conference, which provides a great opportunity for me to present Krypton to potential businesses, higer education universities and angel investors.
It will be held September 19-24 at the Hyatt on the Bund, a 5 star hotel located on the banks of the Huang Pu River at the northern end of the Bund in Shanghai.
As expected the conference is not inexpensive. The cost of the conference is $1,500 and my coach airfare to get there from Florida is another $1,100. Fortunately, I have a friend whom I can stay with instead of shelling out another $2k for a hotel room.
All this brings me to my pitch...
I need your help... especially you whales.
Krypton's Development Fund is dry. Please give what you can to help me renew the business contacts I generated when I attended Consensus 2016 and help me attend the premiere event of the year, where I'm sure I will meet many more influential business leaders who will be more willing to help Krypton, having met me in person.
Krypton Development Fund (BTC) - 12pWLhz1cYmFPaKSBF5Pui5YddJS1jsxsz
Krypton Development Fund (KR) - 0x2529e0018a17dcc067f536d1cd3e1fd9af066099Thank you for your support. I'm going for all of us who are interested in growing Krypton into the blockchain leader I know it can become.
-- covertress
may move farm.... just now seeing this coin 
