So no major news coming out from the conference, I think the team need to focus more on delivering the platform, since the December postponement the team has been silent on the status of the platform. Melonport ICO is next week and could beat ICONOMI to their game

I think yall are missing most or all of the differences. I don't even know if melonport and iconomi are competitors. Melonport seems to be trying to a blockchain version of a very well-defined real world business, a prime brokerage. Prime broker is kind of like etrade or TD Ameritrade for hedge funds and trading firms. If you're a hedge fund, you automatically need a suite of services, someone to lend you margin, someone to clear your trades, someone to lend you stock, maybe someone to do your risk management, maybe someone to validate your returns, maybe someone to lend you credibility (Bernie Madoff was his own prime broker, and could never have ran his scam had he had a regular prime broker). Melonport seems to be trying to do this for crypto hedge funds. I think eventually (many years from now) they hope that they can compete with prime brokers directly if clearing equity trades can be done on the blockchain.

Iconomi does not seem to want to be a prime broker. They seem to want to be something like a hybrid of covestor.com and an ETF issuer for the blockchain. There's no reason these business would be competitors. There non-crypto analogs do not compete at all in the normal financial world. It might be more accurate to describe iconomi as a competitor with melonport's cypto-hedge fund clients (maybe). It might even make sense for iconomi to eventually become a client of melonport.