Vote for the Kin Team to SXSW 2019!

Community voting for South By Southwest (SXSW) is officially open, and we need your help! In case you’re not familiar with it, SXSW is an annual conference in Austin that covers a variety of topics, spanning marketing and coding to health and politics. We’ve proposed six sessions for the 2019 conference, and we need your help to turn these proposals into real sessions at SXSW.

This year, they’ve created their first ever blockchain and cryptocurrency track which will explore ideas, investors, leaders, and tokens that will impact global economies and business — a perfect fit for Kin.

Voting is open from today until August 30. We’ve submitted six sessions for the 2019 conference that will discuss consumer use-cases of cryptocurrency, decentralization, and crypto economics. Check out our proposals below, and head over to the SXSW Panel Picker to upvote Kin.

Here is a complete list of all sessions:

• You Don’t Use Bitcoin, but You Will Use Cryptocurrency: In this session, Alex Frenkel, VP of product at Kin will explore how cryptocurrency will affect consumer’s lives in a positive way. He will draw on case studies from Kin and from around the industry to demonstrate how this exciting technology will change the world as we know it, and ultimately, how this will benefit consumers.
• Cryptocurrency: Easy to Do, Hard to Do Right: This session will share insights on how popular chat app Kik integrated the cryptocurrency Kin to improve its user experience. Laura Newton from Kik will discuss how she created use cases for cryptocurrency in the app and learnings from the integration, while Noa Kessler from Kin will share best practices for building and integrating cryptocurrencies into consumer applications.
• Why Blockchain Isn’t Right for Your Business: In this fireside chat, Robert Hackett of Fortune and Ted Livingston, founder and CEO of Kik and Kin, will explore when it’s right (or not right) for companies to use blockchain technology.
• Use Blockchain to Increase Engagement in Your App: In this panel, Kin, the cryptocurrency, and IMVU, the largest avatar-based social network, will talk about how they’ve created better experiences for their users. This will include discussions on why they chose to integrate a cryptocurrency, how to integrate a cryptocurrency, and the benefits they’ve seen in doing so.
• It’s the Crypto-Economy, Stupid: In this panel, Tanner Philp (director of corporate development, Kin), Paul Veradittakit (partner, Pantera Capital), and Jake Brukhman (founder and managing director, Coinfund) will discuss how to launch a crypto-economy, and what considerations are necessary in order to create a successful and sustainable crypto-economy. The panel will share real life case studies from current projects in addition to best practices for those looking into creating a cryptocurrency.
• Building a Blockchain Company is Damn Hard: To launch a token or to implement a blockchain is different from fully becoming a decentralized company. Companies should only make the transition if they’re willing to fully commit to decentralization and transparency as new tenants to their business. In this panel, Rod McLeod ( VP communications, Kin), Richa Vajpeyi (head of marketing, Aion), Mike Mason (head of ecosystem, Aion Foundation), and Matt Coolidge (co-founder, Civil Media Company) will discuss the considerations and benefits of becoming a decentralized company.

Want to hear Kin’s VP of Product explain how cryptocurrency will positively impact consumers’ lives? Or about the integration of Kin in Kik, the first partner in the Kin Ecosystem? Vote for our sessions here, and give us the opportunity to share our learnings with SXSW’s massive, highly-engaged audience.

Thanks for supporting Kin!