World Blockchain Summit, Singapore
The second week in Singapore was just as busy as the first for the Clarity team. We did manage to sneak in a team building day at Universal Studios, which was a really fun day. All team members were sufficiently soaked by the Jurassic Park Rapids, so we’ll conclude it was a success! We started week two with a quick team swap as founders Julie and Luke returned to #CLRTY HQ in Jersey, and the lovely team from FundingTec joined Aynsley, Steve and Amy for Trescon’s World Blockchain Summit, Singapore Edition.
Day one was media central. Steve and Aynsley spent the morning in interviews and Q&A’s doing a fantastic job of explaining the project to a new network. It was great to see the Clarity brand was recognised within the community and that people were interested in hearing about our development in person as they had been following our progress on social media. Increase in brand awareness is really encouraging for us as a startup and we were certainly grateful for the FundingTec squad as the Clarity stand was always full with delegates! This conference was very well connected with over 500 delegates attending including investors, influencers and reporters. So it was a perfect opportunity for the whole team to chat with such an engaged group of people and get feedback on our platform. In addition, there were some very interesting fellow exhibitors at the event, representing a number of exchanges, so we took away a lot of really helpful information ahead of our upcoming public token sale in August.
On the second day we were really pleased that the footfall remained as busy as day one, particularly as Aynsley was speaking on the MainStage in the afternoon. It was also brilliant to hear that a lot of the talks in the morning were highlighting how Blockchain can be a catalyst for change, as this lead nicely into Aynsley’s keynote on Blockchain: A Force for Good. Aynsley’s talk was well received and sparked a few more conversations on our link with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Having been at the B1G1 Conference the week before, the whole team were freshly enthused about supporting the Global Goals through the Clarity project.
We finished day two competing in the StartUp World Cup Pitch, where Aynsley and Steve only had 6 minutes to explain the whole project vision to the judging panel. All of the judges asked us some insightful questions from which we learnt a lot. The Startup World Cup Competition competitors covered a wide range of topics, it must have been really difficult to compare the projects against each other. Within the group, the Clarity project seemed to be one of the newest startups which is perhaps why we didn’t come away with first prize, but as always it was a great learning experience with good comments to takeaway and build on.
As always, the Clarity team throw themselves into each conference 100% so we were ready to get back home and recuperate before taking on the challenges of a new week. Singapore was, and is, an awesome place and it is safe to say that the idea of a Clarity Singapore office was thrown about more than once!
