Crypto NYC and EdCon 2018 present: Ethereum dApp Pitch Fest
from Wednesday, April 4, 2018 5:30PM to Wednesday, April 4, 2018 7:30PM
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The second annual Community Ethereum Development Conference (EdCon 2018) kicks off May 3-5 in Toronto. Conference speakers include Vitalik Buterin, Joseph Lubin, Gavin Wood, Mihai Alisie, and many other luminaries from throughout the Ethereum ecosystem In cooperation with EdCon 2018 and Airswap, Crypto NYC is thrilled to present our first DAPP PITCH FEST! This contest is a preliminary round leading to the Superdemo contest at EdCon for projects based in greater New York City. Come see local teams compete to win a trip to EdCon 2018 in Toronto this May, where they will face off against a slate of dApp projects from around the world before a panel of Ethereum superstars for a chance to win ether prizes and a Blockgeeks membership. See EdCon Highlights for more on the Superdemo event. Note: Crypto NYC believes strongly in making its events accessible to as broad an audience as possible. If you cannot afford a ticket, email us to let us know and we'll work it out. *** If you are working on an Ethereum dApp, see below for eligibility criteria and application instructions. *** Teams will have ten minutes to pitch their demos and business models followed by five minutes of Q&A by our panel of judges: Nicholas Chirls, Partner, Notation Capital: Nicholas is a general partner at Notation, a first-check venture firm based in Brooklyn, NY. He was previously Head of Seed Investing at betaworks, a startup studio that created companies like bitly, Chartbeat, Dots, Giphy, Tweetdeck and others. He's been an active investor and builder in the blockchain community since 2013, and Notation is an active investor in blockchain companies and cryptoassets directly through their funds. Don Mosites, Co-founder, Airswap: Don is a serial entrepreneur, product designer and full-stack engineer with more than a decade of experience building products for companies small and large including Google and Zynga. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon and is originally from Pittsburgh. Lane Rettig, Founder, Crypto NYC: In addition to helping run Crypto NYC, Lane is also an Ethereum core developer focused on web assembly and the Ethereum virtual machine. Lane has an MBA from the Wharton School and co-founded Seratis, a healthcare technology company that was acquired in 2016. Santiago Siri, Founder, Democracy Earth Foundation: Santi founded Democracy Earth, a Y Combinator backed non-profit building incorruptible digital governance technology, and the Partido de la Red (Peers Party), the first digital political party that ran for elections with candidates committed to people's will online. He is partner of Bitex.la, a leading Bitcoin fintech company in Latin America. He published 'Hacktivismo' in 2015 with Random House. He has been a member of the World Economic Forum since 2012. he was awarded by MIT Technology Review 35 under 35 leading innovators of Latin America. He also co-founded the Argentine Game Developers Association. Many thanks to our friends at Airswap for hosting this event. Eligibility criteria and application instructions for dApp teams: We still have space for a small number of qualified, high-potential teams to join this pitch contest. Please ensure that your team meets the following criteria, then click the application link below to apply to pitch. Application deadline: 11:59pm Friday, March 23, 2018 EDT Criteria: 1. Your project must run on Ethereum and must use the platform for more than issuing tokens. 2. Your project must be interesting and novel (at our discretion)--e.g., no clones of pre-existing products. 3. Your project must have a demoable technical prototype, i.e., more than just a slide deck or mockups. 4. Your project must not already be on the market, i.e., you must not yet have users on mainnet. Apply by the deadline by filling out this form: https://cryptonyc.typeform.com/to/f21OZg
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