The BlockShow Europe 2018 conference ended yesterday, May 29, after two days of panels and speakers, including Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and BTCC co-founder Bobby Lee.Speaking about the conference, Bobby Lee told Cointelegraph: "I think conferences are important to get the word out there, to educate people and help them learn about cryptocurrency and blockchain. This is how we get on-board the next billion people."
This year's BlockShow Europe was five times bigger than the previous one in Munich last spring, and twice as large as BlockShow Asia this past fall.
3,000 people attended, 93 companies had exhibitions at the event, and over 90 companies supporting it as sponsors.
Leading up to the event, BlockShow Europe held meetups in Paris, Rome, and Zurich where voting took place for the best startup for the BlockShow Oscar competition.
BlockShow Europe also released a study during the conference outlining the best European countries for starting a blockchain company.
The conference included the results of its blockchain industry leaders poll, where users of the BlockShow app globally could vote on the top woman and top EU business in blockchain.
Dr Quy Vo-Reinhard, Chief Data Officer and co-founder of the HIT Foundation was selected by 2000 voters as the most influential woman in the blockchain space, and blockchain tech firm Bitfury selected as the most game-changing company.
"This was my first time in Europe and being exposed to so many great projects in this region was eye opening. It certainly will help us build our future roadmap in Europe."
Jimmy Wales spoke at the conference about his WikiTribune project, designed to support responsible journalism, also touching on the subject of crypto by referring to Bitcoin as "Definitely" a bubble.
BlockShow's next stop is the U.S., with a conference coming to Las Vegas this August.
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Published on May 30, 2018
by Cointele | Published on Coinage
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