The crypto market is buzzing despite local financial downturns and another COVID-19 variant, the spread of which is causing new restrictions. Due to circumstances, some of the events are moving online, some have stricter security measures, and others are postponed. Here is a list of the most interesting events related to blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, and fintech.
Note: Considering the current pandemic and corresponding regulations, we recommend you double-check the information about particular events with organizers before planning your participation.
LEAP
Date: February 1-3.
Location: Riyadh Front Expo Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Event Type: Offline conference.
One Giant Leap Event | Tech Event 2022 Saudi Arabia is an international event that brings together the most advanced technical experts worldwide to discuss future technologies. For three days, scientists, major corporations, startups, and venture capitalists will come together to discuss the limitless potential of technological innovation, including blockchain technology and digital assets.
Frankfurt Digital Finance Conference 2022
Date: February 2.
Location: Alfred-Brehm-Platz, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Event Type: Offline and online conference.
The event will bring together leading players in the European digital finance ecosystem—top managers, entrepreneurs, investors, scientists, and policymakers— to discuss topics that will shape the finance industry’s future. The organizers facilitate the exchange of ideas and foster collaboration by helping upcoming companies find corporate partners and investors for rapid scale-up and renowned financial service providers to innovate their business models.
Scott’s Mining Conference
Date: February 7-8.
Location: Kalahari Resort, Round Rock, USA.
Event Type: Offline conference.
This is a two-day conference during which experts will talk about ongoing trends in the Bitcoin mining industry as well as technologies and strategies that can make crypto mining ventures more profitable.
A Global Blockchain Startup Competition
Date: February 9.
Event Type: Online competition.
Blockchain startups have an exciting opportunity to express themselves and receive up to $2 million in investments in this event backed by X Ventures and Agora. Besides financing, the winners will get a chance to present their development at another large-scale event in February—the 9th Edition Global Blockchain Congress (see below).
Virtual NFT Confex 2022
Date: February 10.
Location: New Delhi, India.
Event Type: Online exhibition and conference.
A virtual event entirely dedicated to NFTs of all kinds. Non-fungible tokens are already used in many business spheres from sports, music, real estate, and fashion to art and collectibles. At the event, major industry players will discuss the present and future of NFTs and how they can be used in various industries and products.
ETHDenver 2022
Date: February 11-20.
Location: Denver, USA.
Event Type: Online and offline festival.
Organized by SporkDAO, ETHDenver is an innovative festival, the first of its kind. The event is dedicated to the Ethereum ecosystem, blockchain technology, and Web 3.0. The festival includes a week of intensive workshops for enthusiasts, designers, and blockchain developers. The other three days will be devoted to seminars and speeches given by major figures in the blockchain industry. Art installations, live music, networking, and much more also await festival attendees.
Blockchain Dubai Summit 2022
Date: February 15-17.
Location: Grand Hyatt Dubai, Dubai, UAE.
Event Type: Offline summit.
The event will gather CEOs of crypto and financial institutions to focus on the impact of blockchain and related technologies on financial services. Participants will jointly explore opportunities to accelerate the adoption of blockchain technology in banking and financial institutions.
Bitcoin Day Sacramento
Date: February 19.
Location: Event Center Dr, Roseville, USA.
Event Type: Offline event.
The event will bring together local, regional, national, and international representatives of the Bitcoin community to talk about current issues, share insights and expand the understanding of the first cryptocurrency.
9th Edition Global Blockchain Congress
Date: February 21-22.
Location: Dubai, UAE.
Event Type: Online congress.
An exclusive private congress where promising, carefully selected blockchain startups searching for funding will be presented to major investors. The focus is on projects in the metaverse, GameFi, and DeFi. Last year’s event attracted 650 investors and delivered more than 200 blockchain projects. This time promises to be just as impressive.
iFX EXPO Dubai 2022
Date: February 22-24.
Location: Dubai World Trade Center, Dubai, UAE.
Event Type: Offline conference and exhibition.
iFX EXPO Dubai 2022 is one of the world’s largest B2B-focused FinTech exhibitions. It unites the biggest global brands in financial technology, investors, and experts. The visitors are offered an exhibition of the sphere’s latest achievements, discussions of the most urgent topics, insights from industry pioneers, and much more.
Digital Assets and Distributed Ledgers in Financial Services
Date: February 22.
Event Type: Online conference.
The event will explore the factors driving institutional adoption of DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology), opportunities related to cross-border payments, CBDCs, tokenization, clearing, and settlement. Attendees will separately discuss potential options for large-scale institutional acceptance of digital assets.
CGC X
Date: February 22-23.
Event Type: Online conference.
This is the leading conference on blockchain games, held for the tenth time. All participants will enjoy the speeches of industry experts, the opportunity to walk around a virtual platform and meet industry leaders, information about the latest projects in the field of GameFi, participation in quests, socializing in lounge areas with live DJ performances, and so on.
TES Affiliate Conferences
Date: February 23-26.
Location: Hotel Calipolis Sitges, Barcelona, Spain.
Event Type: Offline conference and exhibition.
The event will bring together professionals from online entertainment, e-commerce, finance, gaming, and many other industries. Visitors will be able to hear expert speeches and see the exhibition stands. The main essence of the event is networking, development, and maintenance of human relations in the sphere of high technologies.
EGR Nordics Awards 2022 / EGR Nordics Briefing 2022
Date: February 24.
Location: The Westin Dragonara Resort, St. Julian’s, Malta.
Event Type: Online and offline briefing/award ceremony.
This event brings together leading online gambling companies that either already operate in or are considering entering the Scandinavian e-gaming market. The event will feature high-level discussions that will give attendees a better understanding of the strategic and operational nuances of working in this complex market.
The EGR Nordics Awards ceremony will follow the main event. Awards are given to the most successful and innovative online gambling companies in Northern Europe.
Asia Family Office & Wealth Management Summit 2022
Date: February 24-25.
Event Type: Online summit.
Asia Family Office & Wealth Management Summit 2022 is a profile event for investors, specifically family investment fund representatives. Other topics to be addressed include cryptocurrency investments and the impact of innovative financial technology on investment and fund management.
MIT FinTech Conference
Date: February 25.
Event Type: Online conference.
This is one of the events organized by a group of MIT students who have come together to explore and collaborate on innovative financial technology. The conference will feature some of the biggest names in the crypto industry as well as US regulators.
Mobile World Congress
Date: February 28 – March 3.
Location: Fira de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Event Type: Online and offline congress.
MWC Barcelona is one of the world’s largest technology exhibitions. The international congress brings together representatives of tech giants such as Microsoft, Google, Meta, IBM, Intel, Samsung and many others. One of the areas presented at the event will be financial technology. However, many of the products displayed are at the intersection of many different fields, so the expected 1,500 exhibitors will definitely have a few interesting things to show. Likewise, among the 1,000 speakers, there will be some compelling topics across several industries.
