Note: Given the current global situation, we recommend double-checking information about specific events with organizers before planning on heading there.
New Zealand Game Developers Conference
Date: August 17-20.
Location: Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand.
Event Type: offline festival.
This is an annual professional development festival for those working in creative technology and interactive media. The New Zealand Game Developers Conference showcases New Zealand’s digital and storytelling talents, including visual effects, film, television, video games, and augmented and virtual reality.
A full four-day program has been prepared for participants, which includes master classes with experts from Unreal Engine, Script to Screen, the University of Canterbury, Universal Music, and Atawhai Interactive, as well as expert talks and panel discussions on a whole range of hot topics. On August 20 there will be a Convergence Day where game developers, creative technologists, researchers, scientists, and students will meet professional film producers, directors, and screenwriters to discuss content creation through digital technologies, including virtual production and XP/mixed reality.
World Blockchain Summit
Date: August 18-19.
Location: Toronto, Canada.
Event Type: offline summit.
The World Blockchain Summit is a global series of meetings organized by Trescon. This time, investors, blockchain and crypto projects, exchanges, regulators, and technology leaders will gather to discuss the future of the industry at a summit in Toronto. The list of speakers at the summit is quite extensive, including:
- Koleya Karringten, CEO and co-founder of Absolute Combustion;
- Toufi Saliba, CEO of Toda.Network;
- Philippe LeBlanc, CEO and co-founder of Funday;
- Ashley Wright, co-founder of Crypto Babes;
- Toufic Adlouni, managing director of Renno & Co;
- Judy Sahay, CEO, and founder of CROWD WEB3.
Superverse
Date: August 20-21.
Location: Pepsi Center, Mexico City, Mexico.
Event Type: offline summit.
Superverse is the largest Web3 event bringing together developers, artists, and project founders. The format of the summit combines education and entertainment to attract new users to metaverses, NFT, GameFi, SocialFi, and VR/AR. The two-day event will feature numerous presentations from creators, cutting-edge technology builders, artists, musicians, and experts from the cryptocurrency world in Latin America.
SIGMA Belgrade
Date: August 22-25.
Location: Belexpocentar, Belgrade, Serbia.
Event Type: offline conference and exhibition.
SiGMA is a conference and expo dedicated to the gaming industry. The Belgrade expo will focus on the growing opportunities for sports betting and gambling in the region. Throughout the event, speakers from around the world will speak in two conference halls. They will discuss regulation and compliance, slots and casino trends, SEO and digital marketing, email marketing and e-commerce, cyber sports, anti-money laundering, and much more.
On August 22, the SIGMA CIS GAMING AWARDS will be held, where the most outstanding companies and individuals in the industry will be awarded. On August 23, there will be a pitch competition for companies with an opportunity to win up to $500,000 in investment.
CoinsPaid will be attending the Belgrade expo and will be looking forward to meeting everyone, answering your questions about the company’s products, or sharing contacts. Look out for booth B9.
Devcom Developer Conference 2022
Date: August 22-26.
Location: Congress Center East of Koelnmesse, Cologne, Germany.
Event Type: offline and online conference.
Europe’s largest gaming conference will once again offer a wide range of events and sessions for international game developers, game publishers, and service providers. This is the first in-person event since 2019, however, there is still the opportunity for online participation.
sTARTUp Day 2022
Date: August 24-26.
Location: University of Tartu Sports Centre, Tartu, Estonia.
Event Type: online and offline festival.
sTARTUp Day is an event where startups, investors, executives, and people interested in creating startups meet. This year, innovation and entrepreneurial empowerment are the festival’s main themes. These topics will be discussed in two stages by leading experts from various industries.
CoinsPaid will be going to Tartu to participate in sTARTUp Day.
Coinfest Asia
Date: August 25-26.
Location: Café del Mar Bali, Bali, Indonesia.
Event Type: offline festival.
The festival, organized by Indonesia’s leading media platform, Coinvestasi, and supported by Coindesk.com and Coingecko, aims to be a place to discuss the future of crypto-assets and blockchain technology in Asia. During the two-day event in Bali, crypto-enthusiasts, industry leaders, and regulators will share experiences and ideas, network, and discuss the following topics:
- Who’s hacking the blockchain;
- Unstable stablecoins;
- How Web2 companies get to Web3;
- How to build Web3 companies;
- Opportunities in decentralized finance for institutions;
- Identifying crypto market cycles;
- The economic realities of the metaverse;
- The new economy: merging gaming and finance;
- Banking on digital assets.
Bit Block Boom
Date: August 25-28.
Location: Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol, Austin, USA.
Event Type: offline conference.
This is the fifth conference focusing exclusively on Bitcoin. It will be attended by various people, from Bitcoin pioneers to newcomers. Many informative workshops will be held for participants. You will learn how to make a personal budget in Bitcoin and use it as essential money, how to work more privately on the Bitcoin blockchain, the importance of managing your node, and much more.
CryptoCon
Date: August 26.
Location: Scottsdale Plaza Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
Event Type: offline conference.
CryptoCon will explain how to strategically master the cryptocurrency market and maximize ROI through careful fundamental and technical analysis. Seth Maniscalco, a crypto wealth coach, will give practical advice on how to increase your income.
DeFi Security Summit
Date: August 27-28.
Location: Paul & Mildred Berg Hall, Stanford University, USA.
Event Type: offline summit.
This is the first annual summit dedicated to DeFi and smart contract security. The event aims to spread awareness of both the benefits and the various vulnerabilities existing in this technology. Speakers at the DeFi Security Summit include:
- Kurt Barry, from MakerDAO;
- Emiliano Bonassi, from DeFi Italy;
- Julien Bouteloup, from BlackPool & Stake DAO;
- Tarun Chitra, from Gauntlet;
- Nurit Dor, from Certora;
- Jared Flatow, from Compound Labs;
- Emilio Frangella, from Aave;
- Dan Guido, from Trail of Bits;
- and many others.
