Thursday, October 1. Seoul. One evening.
13,000+ attendees. 300+ speakers. The biggest blockchain conference in Asia.
Korea Blockchain Week with Upbit turns Seoul into the center of the industry for a week. We close it.
Introduction.com is hosting the Official Closing Reception, in partnership with FactBlock, the team behind KBW: one intimate, invite-only room of founders, executives, policymakers, and investors.
Attendance by approval only.
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Where You’ll Find Us
SF Tech Week. We’re NEAR(ly) there.
A16z crowd takes over SF. We’ll be at the room that actually matters.
NEAR Foundation is sponsoring a banger. If you know, you know.
London: Assets & Access @ The George, Tue Sept 22
Seoul: KBW2026 Closing Reception, Thu Oct 1
Tampa: Assets & Access @ The Copper Shaker, Thu Oct 1
San Francisco: Assets & Access @ Rickhouse, Thu Oct 8
Miami: Assets & Access @ Better Days, Thu Oct 8
The Industry
New York
Crypto · Crypto Finance Forum NYC, Sept 22
CFOs, treasury and compliance chiefs from the big banks and regulated crypto firms. (Tribeca)
AI · AI Trailblazers Intelligence Summit, Sept 29
Speakers from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Citi and Mastercard for senior marketing and tech executives. (Midtown)
AI · MLcon New York, Sept 28-Oct 2
Hands-on generative AI and ML engineering for the people shipping models. (Brooklyn)
San Francisco
AI · The AI Conference, Sept 29-Oct 1
5,500 builders, researchers and enterprise leaders, 120 speakers at Pier 48.
Fintech · Fintech Week San Francisco, Sept 29-Oct 1
Three summits in three days: Fintech Summit, Fintech Is Femme, Fintech Security.
Venture · a16z SF Tech Week, Oct 5-11
Hundreds of founder, fund and company events across the city. Our NEAR happy hour is one of them.
Product · Product-Led Summit SF, Sept 22-23
Senior PMs trade playbooks on AI-driven, product-led growth. (Burlingame)
Los Angeles
Venture · Ambition 2026, Sept 24
Application-only summit for 150 founders, executives and VCs, hosted by The LA Grind. (Santa Monica)
Venture · Long Beach Tech Week, Sept 28-Oct 1
Founders, investors and civic leaders, summit day Oct 1. (Long Beach)
AI · API & AI Summit by Kong, Sept 30-Oct 1
Engineers running AI agents and APIs in production. (Downtown)
Washington DC
Crypto · Freedom Tech DC, Sept 22-23
Policymakers and technologists on the future of money and open compute.
Crypto · CoinDesk Policy & Regulation, Sept 22
250 general counsels and compliance chiefs in closed-door roundtables with lawmakers.
Chicago
Enterprise · Snowflake World Tour Chicago, Oct 5
Snowflake's flagship data and AI roadshow for enterprise data leaders. (Loop)
Product · Mind the Product Chicago, Oct 6-7
The Midwest's largest product leadership conference, at Harris Theater. (Loop)
Europe
Venture · Sifted Summit, Sept 30-Oct 1
1,500 scaleup founders and 200 investors from 60 countries. (London)
Crypto · CV Summit, Sept 29-30
UBS, BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Binance and Ripple on institutional digital assets. (Zurich)
Venture · Bits & Pretzels, Sept 28-30
7,500 founders and investors at one table as Oktoberfest opens. (Munich)
AI · World Summit AI, Oct 7-8
10,000 attendees and 300 speakers at the tenth edition. (Amsterdam)
Enterprise · DMEXCO, Sept 23-24
40,000 at Europe's largest martech and commerce show. (Cologne)
Middle East & Asia
Crypto · Korea Blockchain Week, Sept 29-Oct 1
Balaji, Lubin, Arthur Hayes and 300 speakers. We host the closing reception. (Seoul)
Fintech · Seamless Middle East, Sept 22-24
The Gulf's biggest payments, fintech and commerce expo. (Dubai)
Enterprise · Tech Week Singapore, Sept 29-30
Five co-located cloud, AI, cyber and data center shows, 29,000 visitors. (Singapore)
AI · AI Everything Abu Dhabi, Oct 6-7
Government-hosted AI summit with Mistral's Arthur Mensch and 200 investors. (Abu Dhabi)
Crypto · TOKEN2049 Singapore, Oct 7-8
25,000 attendees, the year's biggest crypto room. (Singapore)
THE MARQUEE SCORECARD
LAST WEEK’S VERDICT
Room of the week
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 European Blockchain Convention (32%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜ Dreamforce (21%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜ None of the above (21%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Money20/20 Middle East (16%)
🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Avalanche Summit NYC (11%)
Where you were
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 New York (44%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ San Francisco (22%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Heads down this week (22%)
🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Washington DC (11%)
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Somewhere overseas (0%)
ROOM OF THE WEEK
Which room will everyone be talking about next week?
ROLL CALL
Which city are you working this week?
YOUR TAKE
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