There are some great things coming together for the Raleigh Meetup. While attendance still appears to be low, we are slowly gaining steam (in a manner of speaking). We have lined up a Steemit all-star to speak to the gathering on June 15.
Big News
As of this morning, we have confirmed a speaker for the gathering. Our guest speaker will be our very own @Ashe-Oro, CEO of @SmartSteemer. Ashe is also the host of Liberty Entrepreneurs podcast. This is going to be a great opportunity for Steemit hobbyists to gather and talk about the future of the premiere blockchain social network.
The Steemit Meetup it free. Better yet, the Cryptolina two-day blockchain conference is discounted for Steemians from the normal price of $499. We have set up the Steemit discount, which is far more generous than I originally anticipated. The event organizers are giving Steemit members a FIFTY percent discount. Half price. If you use the code STEEMIT50 your price to attend Cryptolina will only be $250. Again, you do not have to attend Cryptolina to attend the free Steemit meetup. But you are going to miss a great line up of speakers. I can't list all of the pending speakers, but I can confirm that Jeff Garzik, co-founder of Bloq (among other things) will be speaking at Cryptolina. There are a few other big names that are currently being firmed up as well.
The slate of speakers for Cryptolina is growing. It is promising to be an excellent event. One speaker I want to mention is a member of the Steemit community, @finpunk (Robert Viglione) of ZenCash. I look forward to seeing Rob present at Cryptolina. I also hope to see him at the Steemit Meetup!
The biggest issue facing this plan right now is attendance. I am going to secure the venue at the convention center and cover the cost of drinks and snacks (maybe pizza). It ain't no meeting unless there are snacks, right? The only way we are going to ensure a decent turnout is to spread the word. So far this is what things looks like:
Confirmed or likely
@cloudculpepper
@coldsteem (as a speaker at Cryptolina, I will be there anyway)
@beachsagebrush
@journeyfreedom
@florio
@artibeus
Maybe
@deanlogic
@bluelightbandit
@tomkirkham
Even if we only have six or eight people, we will still hold the meetup. I plan to provide information about the meet up to attendees of Cryptolina and invite anyone who is attending the crypto conference to come to our meeting as well. This is in hopes that we can recruit new members to the platform who already have a demonstrated interest in crypto.
The list is slowly growing. I will continue posting about this once a week. My request is that you resteem this post or send information about the event to people you think may be interested in attending. This promises to be a fun and informative opportunity for Steemians in our region to get together and discuss the platform. I really hope we can get a good turnout. I don't mind buying pizzas and drinks if we an get a good crowd together.
Now that we have the Meetup information out of the way, let me plug Cryptolina once again. The line up of speakers is going to be great. For $250 (using the code above), this is a steal. Among the speakers who will be attending are:
Steemit member Rob Viglione, Founder of ZenCash
Jeff Garzik, Co-Founder of Bloq and CTO of Spacechain
Valerian Bennett, CEO & Founder at PopChest
JP Baric, Founder and CEO of MiningStore
Flip Filipowski and Brian Platz, Co-CEOs of Fluree
Shannon Code, Co-Founder of $coval and EmblemVault
Aditi Sriram, Cons_Academy (ConsenSys)
Rik Willard, Founder of Agentic Group
Tyler K. Gibbons, Partner at Riser McLaurin & Gibbons LLC
John Walsh, CEO of SightSpan
Dan Spuller of the Chamber of Digital Commerce
There are several more speakers who are confirmed or pending.
Feel free to leave any suggestions, recommendations or comments you have about this event in the comments section. If you can think of a way to get wider distribution on this event across the platform, feel free to chime in.
Again, the Steemit Meetup is free. It is being supported by Cryptolina, but there is no charge for attendance. It you want to attend Cryptolina as well, you have access to the steepest discount being offered to this event. Use the code above and I hope to see you there! Please respond below if you plan to attend! We need a head count so we can guesstimate how much food we need.