David Drake, The Soho Loft Media Group and LDJ Capital Chairman, speaks at this year’s Blockchain Expo Europe in Amsterdam organized by Encore Media/Six Degrees
NEW YORK – June 25, 2018 – Fintech professionals, government leaders, developers, service providers, data scientists, venture capitalists, investors, corporate executives, blockchain startups, marketing and development managers, press and media, and platform providers will convene at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands for the Blockchain Expo Europe on June 27 and 28, 2018.
David Drake, LDJ Capital Chairman, will be one of this event’s speakers. More recently, David Drake is also seen as a leader in blockchain and cryptocurrency. He saw the value of digital assets when it was yet unpopular. It all started in 2011 when Drake collaborated on the JOBS Act to create new laws underlying all fundraising in the U.S. for all ICOs. He runs a $200M LDJ Cayman Fund focused on cryptocurrency, mining, and ICO acquisitions. LDJ Capital Credit also offers middle market bridge financing to seed upcoming ICOs. Previously, he held a majority stake as a Managing Partner with Robert Hambrecht in an Alternative Energy Fund NewCommons Capital 2009-2010.
He says, “I am looking forward to taking part in this global effort of giving the people the opportunity to learn more about blockchain technology through events like this, the Blockchain Expo. With the major firms and corporations exploring blockchain technology and its applications, I am very excited to see how things will unfold for the blockchain and crypto space in the coming years.”
The two-day event features exhibitions from partners and delegates, interactive panel discussions, keynote speeches from the speakers and delegates, and discussions on solution-based case studies. The tracks for Day 1 include ICO and cryptofinance strategies, blockchain for enterprise, blockchain for business, and developing blockchain apps. The tracks for Day 2 include transforming the financial services, blockchain for enterprise, blockchain technologies as well as ICO and token investments.
The Blockchain Awards 2018, dubbed The Blocks, and the official networking party will be held after the expo event on June 27, 2018. There will be networking breaks in between the panel discussions and exhibition and there are also networking opportunities for the attendees after the event.
Together with David Drake here are some of the speakers at this expo:
• Arnaud Le Hors, Senior Technical Staff Member Web and Blockchain Open Technologies, IBM
• Boris Spremo, Operations Director Blockchain Innovation, BNY Mellon
• Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger
• David Lu, Venture Partner, Virgil Capital
• Igor Erker, Director, Columbus Capital
• Logan Ryan Golema, CTO, Hercules SEZC
• Maria van Duijvenbode, Senior Manager – Financial Services, Deloitte
• Noelle Acheson, Media Producer, CoinDesk
• Richard Crook, Head of Emerging Technology, The Royal Bank of Scotland
• Tanya Stephens, Senior Innovation Manager, Procter & Gamble
The diamond sponsor of the expo is HEdpAY while IBM and Stratis are the platinum sponsors of the event. Integrated Green Energy (IGE) Solutions is the green sponsor, eToro is the bar sponsor, and Bezant, LendLedger, #MetaHash, New Alchemy, and Soluna are the track sponsors of the event. Some of the event’s gold sponsors include Aurora, Azhos, BLABBER, Crowd Machine, Deribit, FarmaTrust, FinanceMalta, Hercules, MillionCoin, Momentum, Optherium, and Project Partners Management. The silver sponsors of the event are Abacus, Ambrosus, Chaintech, elastos, Fibonatix, KryptoPal, LGO Markets, Loyakk, MiraLab, REMME, Spectiv, Xstar.io, and Zuber Lawler & Del Duca LLP. Some of the bronze sponsors of the event include Aico Smart Agency, Altcoinomy, Biteum, Goldmint, Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX), Humanscape, Kinesis, Tokenview.com, Ubex, University of Nicosia, and Universal Reward Protocol. Some of the event’s ICO sponsors are Arianee, Attrace, BitSong, Criptohub, Currency of the Internet (COTI), CyberVein, Gaimin.io, ICOBazaar, Pithagoras.io, Value Protocol, and VERA. The networking party sponsor of the expo is Coinweb while XcelTrip is the expo’s lanyard sponsor. Some of the expo’s media partners include CoinDesk, Coinfox, Coininfoline.com, CoinMarketPlus, CoinStaker, Cointelegraph, DC Forecasts, FinTech Weekly, Huobi News, IOT Tech News, MarketingTech, The Soho Loft Media Group, and Tokeny. PR Underground is the official PR partner of the expo.
About LDJ Capital
LDJ Capital (http://ldjcapital.com/) is a multi-family office that invests and manages investments for partners and clients in the areas of hospitality, real estate, energy, pharma, tech, telecom, mobile, entertainment, media, publishing, advertising, compliance services, aerospace, shipping & transportation, and more recently digital assets, such as cryptocurrency and blockchain firms through ICOs.
LDJ Cayman is focused on cryptocurrency, mining, and ICO acquisitions. To seed upcoming ICOs, partner Middle Market Credit also provides corporate market bridge financing.
The firm is involved in Asset Management, Equity Financing and Debt Financing and Placement, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Partnering and Strategic Alliances, Restructuring and Workouts, Startups and Management, and Alternative Finance Strategies.
LDJ Capital has 3 subsidiaries:
1. LDJ Capital Group: Victoria Partners, LDJ Venture Capital, LDJ Hedge Fund, LDJ Media Fund, LDJ Capital Advisory, and LDJ Capital Investment Bank.
2. LDJ Real Estate Group: Acquisitions, Developments, and Hospitality
3. The Soho Loft Media Group: Times Impact Publications, The Soho Loft Conferences, and Victoria Global Communications. Times Impact Publications include the digital publications: The Soho Loft News, Family Offices Today, and Times Realty News.