Ethereum & Wanxiang to Co-Host Blockchain Week in Shanghai
The Ethereum Foundation and Wanxiang Blockchain Labs has recently announced the International Blockchain Week in Shanghai, which will be a combination of Devcon and the Global Blockchain Summit. On September 19-24th, the event will have both Devcon presentations, a Demo Day, Blockchain Summit segments, and an optional sightseeing tour the day before the....
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For the second year running, Microsoft will be the Premiere Sponsor of the Ethereum developer conference Devcon2 slated for Shanghai in September where the most up-to-date research and development work supported by the Ethereum Foundation will be showcased. Prime location in Shanghai. The Foundation is working with Wanxiang Blockchain Labs this year to jointly host their respective events during the International Blockchain Week at Hyatt on the Bund between September 19 and 24. This is based on their realization that both Ethereum’s Devcon1 and Wanxiang Blockchain Labs’ Global Blockchain....
This weekly roundup of news from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong attempts to curate the industrys most important news, including influential projects, changes in the regulatory landscape, and enterprise blockchain integrations.In this 30th edition of the Shanghai Man column, we preview the Wanxiang Shanghai Blockchain Week, an offline event that normally is the biggest blockchain conference on the Chinese calendar. Next week, despite all the regulatory crackdowns, the event is still planning to go ahead, albeit with a one-month delay from its usual place in mid-September.The flagship....
In an effort to foster further development of blockchain technology, WanXiang Blockchain Labs, a Chinese research institution, and Deloitte, one of the largest accounting and audit firms in the world, have teamed up to launch the first ever Shanghai blockchain hackathon beginning on January 8th. “Our focus on how technology and going digital are changing the ways we live is globally orchestrated. Deloitte people from the different countries around the world [have] formed a specialized team ‘Deloitte digital’ to understand the impact how digitizations [sic] is changing every industry and....
The second Global Blockchain Summit and International Blockchain Week in Shanghai will take place from September 19-24, 2016, a combined Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and Ethereum Devcon presentation. In an exclusive interview, Ethereum Foundation Executive Director, Ming Chan, told Bitcoin Magazine: “This year we not only have an event twice the size of last year's that will be sold out again, the excitement expressed by attendees, speakers, sponsors and supporters is inspiring in itself, and is sure to fuel even more of the kind of synergistic creativity, invention and breakthrough moments....
A new group is focusing on promoting blockchain tech in Shanghai. Calling itself the Shanghai Industrial Development Blockchain Alliance, the group is seeking to turn the city into a regional hub for the technology. According to a press release announcing the organization, members include the Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Research Institute, Wanxiang Blockchain Lab and Hyperledger member BitSE. The group's origins date back to earlier this summer when discussions between the Shanghai government and members of the local blockchain sector began. BitSE CEO DJ Qian told CoinDesk:....