Elementh at BEF 2018 Singapore
Right now I’m writing these lines from Singapore airport, waiting for my plane to go home to St. Petersburg.
4 days in Singapore were so fast. Forum, roadshow, a quick tour of the city’s sights a few after-parties on the roofs of local skyscrapers…. Everything merges into one quick short-term adventure, as if I flew here only yesterday.
Going to this trip, I did not know what to expect, because it was my first experience visiting the International Blockchain Conference. The first evening on arrival in the city, I was on the roof of the Fullerton Bay Hotel in the beautiful Lantern bar. There my first networking began. A funny guy named Hugo, who perfectly understands Russian, having lived in Russia for 4 years, told his vision of the ICO market and how he as an advisor signs any government in any countries.
Evening beer and this networking were very useful, I felt asleep easily, despite the different time zone, and in the morning at the conference through Hugo I managed to communicate with new people. Interesting, that the Blockchain Economic Forum conference, organized by the Russian LAToken project, attracted many Russians to Singapore and almost half of the conference was Russian-speaking, and it was not only ICO projects :) The first day was full of business cards . Afterparty for VIP tickets on the 71st floor of the skyscraper was the best event of the day. Main networking was there.
As a result of the day, we went to dinner to local food court. Strange, cheap and very tasty food.
The second day at the conference was hard, the reports were still boring, networking was much tighter, even the afterparty on the roof of Singapore’s tallest skyscraper was not so good at all. That was a very lazy networking. I decided to leave early.
As a result, it turned into a dinner with an interesting person who can do advertising in FB, even when FB is against ICO advertising. And as an old resident of the city, he also showed excellent places for dinner in Singapore.
The third day of the conference started perfectly, it was a day dedicated to ICO, as a result — many useful contacts and potential partnerships. In the evening, having escaped from the conference, we drove off to a meeting with Ian Balina. He is a very powerful opinion leader in the ICO market. I succeeded in pitching Elementh, handing a business card, making photos with him and now waiting for news from him. It is necessary to say, it’s a long path, so I have to find the next meet-up with him and remind about our project several times :) Evening afterparty was right at the conference, which was definitely not very cool, as everyone had already got to know each other by this time.
The last day in Singapore was in a roadshow format, which had about 30 local investors. During the pitch I was a little bit worried, apparently affected by the long absence of experience of pitches before investors. It turned out a lot of networking, useful acquaintances and potential partnerships in the Asian region and investments in the project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWGfoRgatfk
At the end of the road show in half a day I had time to visit the local botanical garden, climb the Marina Sand Bay and finish my trip with the same bar on the roof of Fullerton Bay, where my Singapore adventure began.
Conclusions:
1. International conferences Must Have for the project. Those acquaintances and partnerships that are acquired there, can not be obtained otherwise.
2. There is no need for pitch or project presentation, it is enough to have a VIP ticket and participate in all after-parties, where the main networking takes place.
3. To participate in the roadshow, request a full list of confirmed investors to advance all the inquiries in advance, this will significantly improve the quality of networking at the event.
Well, finally, the question is: why in such an advanced city as Singapore, you can’t pay anywhere with PayPass? Everywhere you need a credit card. Well, damn, it’s a 2018, not 2000!
