Lucky.io & AKON Takes Center Stage in Malta 2019

Pauline Bernadette Saberola
3 min readNov 12, 2019

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With more than 6,000 blockchain enthusiast and AI aficionados, the third edition of the Malta AI & Blockchain Summit proved to be a powerhouse event as it gathered the world’s foremost thought leaders and renowned innovators in the blockchain space. The event last November 7 & 8 was also graced by more than 150 exhibitors and 700 investors — who pillared exciting opportunities for each attendee present at the event.

This year’s Artificial Intelligence & BlockChain (AIBC) Summit closed the year with numerous conferences and expos — with topics that revolved around various issues and challenges on the industry discussed by well-known experts and dignitaries such as Bobby Lee, Yorick Wilkes and David Orban. Celebrity guest Akon was also present at the event to provide entertainment as well as give his thoughts on this revolutionary technology.

Lynn Liss, Akon and John Karas from the Akoin Foundation

For enterprising startups, the AIBC Summit was also a venue to pitch to investors about one’s project. Promising AI & Blockchain ventures are carefully selected by the organizers and are given at least a 20-minute opportunity to stand on stage and pitch to the crowd. For this year, the organizers also had the chance to select which organization gave the best pitches, with Photocert winning the best AI pitch while Gamerhash took home the business-supporting package of the year.

Akon Steals the Show

Grammy-award winner and co-founder of Akoin, AKON shared of his own perspective and his plans to further develop a platform for Africa.

Akon thinks that Blockchain and he were destined. Blockchain might be a big help in Africa. “Africa is our targeted market because Africa has the most challenges, if it works in Africa you can utilize that in any developing market around the world,” he said.

Akon donated two-star prizes during the awards night auction. The opportunity to name a street and a rare chance to be a guest on this special occasion, wherein the official Village Lighting Ceremony in Africa who has just received solar lights and power from Akon Lighting Africa. This is a much-awaited event for them because finally there will be light after dark.

LUCKY PRESENTS THE SOCIAL IMPACT AWARDS

Blockchain is about giving back and that is why we’ve always patronized ventures with social impact — making people less fortunate luckier. For this year, lucky.io is a proud presenter of the Social Impact Project of the year award. And giving the award to the night’s winner, EthicHub is hip hop artist Akon who was likewise the guest of honor of the #AIBC gala dinner!

All Eyes are on Manila 2020

AIBC will launch in Manila for the first time next year. More than 5,000 exhibitors including the investors, suppliers are expected to attend to form a fresh connection and build the utmost business deals. All of this will happen on June 08 and 09, next year (2020). Over 12,000 are welcomed to join this promising event to build not only great opportunities but to join as one the Asian and European communities together.

Know more about the event in Manila at www.aibcsummit.com

And to know more about Lucky, sign up at www.lucky17.io for FREE tokens and FREE Play.

Visit https://ethichub.com/ to know more!

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