Korea Blockchain Week (KBW), one of many main blockchain and Web3 occasions in Asia, will return for 2023 following the immense success of the 2022 version, which was the primary in-person iteration for the reason that Covid pandemic.
KBW2023 is based by Factblock, a Web3 ecosystem accelerator, and co-hosted by Hashed, the main Korean-native VC fund. The convention will happen from September 4 to September 9, with the principle occasion, KBW: Influence, operating from September 5 to six at The Shilla Seoul, the first venue for the gathering. Korea Blockchain Week 2023 comes on the heels of the profitable KBW 2022, which, regardless of the bear market slowdown, attracted over 8,700 attendees, 256 journalists, and 130 audio system.
KBW hosted a powerful lineup of audio system that featured main crypto visionaries and founders corresponding to Vitalik Buterin, Changpeng Zhao, Sandeep Nailwal, Illia Polosukhin, Caroline Pham, Michael Clean, and lots of others. The speaker slots for this 12 months are but to be introduced, however the brand new version is about to construct on the breakthrough success of final 12 months, together with much more audio system from main Layer1, Layer2, DeFi, NFT, and GameFi initiatives, in addition to essentially the most famend journalists, enterprise funds and market members.
The content material schedule, but to be formalized, will embrace technical and enterprise speeches and panels from the members on the brand new tendencies of 2023, together with synthetic intelligence, zero-knowledge expertise, blockchain regulation, and lots of extra. KBW 2022 generated over 130 printed articles and a staggering 1.42 billion on-line reader impressions because of its media companions. MarketAcross, a number one PR agency, is returning as a media companion on this 12 months’s version as effectively.
“Since its inception in 2018, KBW has been a collaborative effort between Factblock and Hashed to create essentially the most impactful blockchain occasion on this planet, extending past Asia. KBW2022 introduced us nearer to attaining this purpose, with the participation of insightful and passionate opinion leaders and a variety of participating aspect occasions.
This 12 months, we’re doubling our efforts to arrange for KBW2023, aiming to create a worldwide platform the place blockchain builders from everywhere in the world can collect to share new tendencies and insights on the trade. We hope that this occasion will open up new alternatives via a sturdy community impact,” mentioned Edward Hong, Chief Platform Officer at Hashed.
“Korea maintains its place as a number one pressure within the blockchain trade, and the immense success of KBW 2022 serves as proof, drawing massive crowds and prime minds within the ecosystem even amidst a bear market,” acknowledged Seonik Jeon, founding father of Factblock and Korea Blockchain Week. “For this 12 months’s occasion, our purpose is to additional improve the KBW expertise by fostering the alternate of progressive concepts and alternatives throughout the sector, with a heightened deal with the increasing the institutional and NFT panorama.”
About Korea Blockchain Week
Korea Blockchain Week is the premier blockchain and cryptocurrency occasion in Asia, bringing collectively trade leaders, traders, and lovers worldwide to debate and discover the most recent developments and tendencies. Organized by Factblock and co-hosted by Hashed, the convention contains a sequence of speeches and panel discussions by the main minds of the blockchain house, in addition to a wealthy collection of aspect occasions and networking alternatives to foster collaboration throughout the Korean and world blockchain group.