State Of The Block (SOTB 2022)
Dubai, UAE — December 12–16th, 2022 — State Of The Block (SOTB), the invitation-only summit designed to help mature DLTs and crypto startups make business with the world's largest public and private organizations. The already Iconic event is relocating to Dubai Internet City. Home to the most prestigious global ICT giants, including Microsoft, Oracle, HPE, IBM, Dell, Siemens, Canon, Logica, Sony Ericsson, Schlumberger and Cisco, as well as many small and medium enterprises and startups, the DIC is the largest tech hub in the MENA region counting 24,000 workers, 2000 businesses and 12 innovation centres.
SOTB is set to become one of the most important rendez-vous dedicated to Blockchain, Tokenization and Decentralization. Limited to 400 attendees and open to economic and geopolitical-focused media, the conference aims at giving makers and visionaries the opportunity to share experiences, shape the future by designing regulatory frameworks, and help the crypto market mature by matching private and public organizations’ needs with the products and skills of SMEs using DLTs technologies to solve IoT, Smart Cities, Industry 4.0 challenges.
SOTB starts on December 15, 2022 with an opening session animated by Dr. Martin Hiesboeck (Uphold) and Kazé A. Onguene (Datachain Foundation) and streamed by JNK Securities on one of Time Square giant screen. Making the DIC for a couple of minutes, the centre of the digitized world.
38 speakers from all over the planet have confirmed their participation. Crypto experts, opinion leaders, influencers and C-level decision-makers from leading multinationals based in the MENA region, Europe and the US are gathering for a five days retreat in Dubai, at Dubai Internet City. Home to the most prestigious global ICT giants, including Microsoft, Oracle, HPE, IBM, Dell, Siemens, Canon, Logica, Sony Ericsson, Schlumberger and Cisco, as well as many small and medium enterprises and startups, the DIC is the largest tech hub in the MENA region counting 24,000 workers, 2000 businesses and 12 innovation centres.
Dubai Internet City, which is part of Dubai Holding subsidiary TECOM Investments, was founded in October 1999, and opened its doors in October 2000. Datachain Foundation has a long-term partnership with HPE and its Digital Life Garage located in the DIC. The Digital Life Garage is HPE’s next-generation co-innovation platform designed to transform how technology impacts society and accelerates business to output production-ready digital solutions.
State Of The Block, A Game Changing Event?
Business-oriented events count among the fastest ways to boost business development. They also provide the opportunity to proceed to competition analysis, by gathering information about competitors, markets and regulations. Choosing the right event can be tricky, especially for entrepreneurs evolving in emerging markets like the Blockchain and DLTs. Companies pay fortunes to highlight their brand and products at conferences counting more sellers than purchasers. SOTB was designed with the need of all stakeholders in mind. the innovators, looking for use-cases and business opportunities, the layer1 protocol owner and their community, willing to increase their network token market share by onboarding new projects on their platforms, the corporate and institutions, in search for new services and sandboxes secured enough to experiment technologies that are still in their experimental phases.
5 reasons your business and community will benefit from SOTB:
1. Get in touch with the newest trends
No matter how informed and experienced you may be in your industry, it is impossible to predict or keep up to date with all the new trends which are emerging in your particular niche. Change indeed is permanent. Some of the changes that may occur in your market have the potential to seriously impact and even destroy your business if you are not aware of them.
Attending events such as SOTB, where like-minded and experienced people come together, is a way to keep yourself informed of new trends so that you are not caught by surprise and end up losing market share to competitors by investing time and resources in such events and preparing themselves accordingly for these changes.
Events like SOTB grant you access to knowledgeable panellists who can help you advance your business in a positive way by providing valuable information and perspective you can then use to grow your business.
2. Get in touch with industry leaders
Conferences are merely about sitting down and listening to the speaker. And, doing business has less to do about what you know, than with whom you are connected with. Events like SOTB offer the opportunity to network with other entrepreneurs working in the same industry and merge ecosystems.
The largest technology conferences in the world are attracting leading technology experts, politicians, investors and innovators from all over the world. Some of these big events are gathering over 100,000 attendees each year and more than 500 speakers. These gatherings are the biggest tech marketplace in the world. Investments are made and deals are signed during the few days these events last.
With the right people attending, entrepreneurs have the unique opportunity to connect with decision-makers that need their products and expertise. Connections are made during break time and business opportunities are discussed around sophisticated drinks in the evening. You can never tell; you may find yourself sitting next to your future supplier or customer.
3. Build relationships with Investors
Events like SOTB are an amazing tool to support your business development strategy. It gives you the opportunity to build new business relations, contact potential clients, and meet with future hires. It is a space where trust is built and long-term relationships are strengthened. These kinds of conferences also grant businesses the opportunity to meet investors looking for profitable companies to invest their money in. Invite investors and organise side business meetings to build relationships with them. If you don’t end up beating an investor, you can learn from others who have, and also learn what you did wrong.
4. Find Inspiration
Entrepreneurship is a lonely journey and most of the time we are so isolated that we need a little inspiration to feel inspired, refreshed and energized to continue.
Learning from the achievements of successful entrepreneurs can encourage you to do more and implement their successful strategies in your business.
The inspiration you gain from these people will help you to improve your productivity, which can lay the foundation for future growth. Most successful business owners return from such events with new ideas, enhanced creativity and innovative concepts to apply to their business.
5. Grow Into A Thought Leader
International speakers from many sectors including technology, business, and finance will take the stage elaborating on the future of Blockchain, DeFi, Metaverse and decentralized governance models such as DAO. The event will centre around four days of Workshops, Conferences, and Panels, in several iconic parts of Dubai Internet City. State Of The Block’ speakers are among the very best in their fields. Learning from them by attending their sessions will enable you to gain insights that are normally not easily accessible except in such events. The experience and information gained during SOTB 2022 will help you develop your mindset and become a thought leader in your industry.
What you will learn will not only take you out of your comfort zone but will also broaden your view of your business and of your industry as a whole. By joining STOB cooperative ecosystem and you will be a renowned contributor and get invited to participate as a keynote speaker in events organized by its members.
State Of The Block (SOTB) is organized by:
Datachain Foundation
The Datachain is a decentralized data management infrastructure operated as an open-source foundation. Its federative architecture is designed to support data sovereignty and critical data protection. The underlying distributed data management infrastructure facilitates peer-to-peer digital ecosystem implementation, allowing to secure, structured and safely exchange of heterogeneous data between individuals, and private and public entities (businesses, administrations, associations…).
“The infrastructure’s intrinsic Token (DC F.A.T) enables the access and the use of AI-augmented digital services relying on decentralized distributed databases or Datawallets. We are building the backbone of a machine to machine network powered by bias-free algorithms and trustful data. By doing so we will we enable a frictionless circulation of information.”
Uphold
Uphold is a multi-asset digital money platform offering financial services to a global market. Uphold’s unique ‘Anything-to-Anything’ trading experience enables customers to trade directly between asset classes with embedded payments facilitating a future where everyone has access to financial services. Built on a core of proprietary technologies and e-money apps, Uphold embraces a future where people and businesses around the world have access to safe, transparent, fair, and affordable financial services.
Uphold serves 184+ countries, across 200+ currencies (traditional and crypto) and commodities with frictionless foreign exchange and cross-border remittance for members around the world. Since our launch in 2015, Uphold has powered more than US$4+ billion in transactions.
Getting in Touch
DATACHAIN FOUNDATION
16 rue Washington,
75008 PARIS 8, FRANCE
Phone +331 53 41 14 00
t.me/datachain
contact@datachain.one
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