When and where is it on?
DLA Piper’s office 3 Noble Street London EC47EE, Thursday February 19th from 5.30pm to 9pm.
How many years has it been going?
This is the sixth one.
What was the inspiration to start it?
We wanted to help people understand the challenges and opportunities around Initial Coin Offerings; this is education not promotion!
What exciting things can people look forward to?
Insight from people who are in the midst of this exciting New Asset Class.
What opportunities are on offer for those attending?
Attendees will have the opportunity to understand and listen to the lessons from firms that have carried out ICOs, get up to date legal and accounting information, and an overview of the ICO market including thoughts on where it is heading.
Who will be speaking?
A variety of speakers many of who typically speak globally at paid-for conferences. See a more detailed list below.
What tips would you give to people attending to get the most out of it?
Come with an open mind and ask questions: even if you think they sound stupid, these are often the BEST ones.
How can people book tickets?
https://www.meetup.com/ICO-Meetup-London/events/246777432/
What else would you like people to know?
Here is the agenda: essentially the event is designed to give people an insight into what is happening to the ICO ecosystem.
AGENDA
17.30 – Registration
18.00 – Welcome and introduction to speakers – Jonny Fry
18.05 – Legal Challenges around carrying out an ICO – Martin Bartlam
18.20 – Overview of ICOs and thoughts on how the market is evolving – Jonny Fry
18.35 – ICOs from a Japanese view and Cardano’s plans having carried out a successful ICO
18.50 – Presentation from Contract Vault’s Zug-Gordon Mickel
19.05 – Common misconceptions and insight into Blockchain as a technology – Gary Nuttall
19.20 – Q&A
19.30 – Drinks
Further details about the speakers:
Team Blockchain’s Jonny Fry will be giving an update titled ‘Recent developments in the CryptoCurrency market and evolving trends’.
Jonny Fry is a blockchain, crypto economics, ICO and funds specialist, with over 25 years’ experience as CEO of an asset management business, which he floated in London with over £1 Billion under management.
DLA Piper’s Martin Bartlam will be talking on ‘Legal challenges around ICOs’.
Martin Bartlam is experienced in complex capital markets transactions, securitization and derivatives. He has over 20 years of experience as a finance lawyer and has lectured on and acted as external examiner on international bond finance, project finance, syndicated lending and financial instruments at Kings College, London University.
Team Blockchain’s Gary Nuttall will be explaining ‘The Opportunities Challenges and myths of Blockchain’, An overview of blockchain technology that underpins many ICOs and the most common questions people ask about blockchain.
Gary Nuttall has over twenty-five years’ commercial technology experience working in a number of sectors including retail, pharmaceuticals, commodity trading and insurance. He provides blockchain consultancy and is a regular presenter, keynote speaker and evangelist on blockchain, ICO’s and cryptocurrency.
Cardano Taro Yoshioka and Nathalie Prang will be talking about ICOs from a Japanese view and Cardano’s plans having carried out a successful ICO.
Kentaro Yoshioka is the Executive of the UK branch of the Japanese start-up Emurgo, the Cardano entity specialized in business development. With a mixed cultural background, Taro, as he likes to be called, carried out cross-cultural studies and anthropology, and backpacked throughout 120 countries around the world.
Nathalie previously worked in Research & Development at Apple and, after being part of a well-established corporation, she recently joined the Japanese start-up Emurgo in London to be part of the cryptocurrency market and blockchain technology adventure, believing that they are going to play major roles in the future of our worldwide society.
Gordon Mickel is co-founder of Contract Vault. (www.contractvault.io)
Based in Zug – in the heart of Crypto Valley – Contract Vault is an advanced platform built with blockchain technology that allows users with little or no legal or blockchain knowledge to create, customize, manage and deploy legally-binding conventional and smart contracts.
