Quote from: Raptor_73 on May 15, 2017, 03:19:59 PM

Quote from: Pang. on May 15, 2017, 01:04:45 PM

Any Dash speaker in the Consensus conference 2017?

I was seeing the sponsors, & Dash sponsor it, but i do not seen any speaker in the list.

Zcash, Ether, Monero & Ripple people are in the event.

http://www.coindesk.com/events/consensus-2017/speakers/

https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/proposal-consensus-leadership-summit.14630/#post-124416

"This proposal is cross-posted at www.dashcentral.org/p/travel-consensus-201705

This proposal funds the attendance of most of the Dash Core Team leadership to attend Consensus 2017 (including additional tickets beyond our package), to hold our first in-person core team leadership meeting, and extends an additional day to allow part of the team to attend Token Summit, an event the day after Consensus.

More information about Token Summit can be found here: http://tokensummit.com/

In a previous proposal, the network approved a sponsorship package at Consensus 2017, including a booth and attendance at the event for Daniel Diaz and myself. As a core team, we've been discussing the value - after years of working together - of meeting in the flesh and holding a strategy session, but we've never had the money, and travel from Europe and Asia to our office in Arizona was a significantly long journey for many team members. We see an opportunity at this year's Consensus conference for nearly the entire team to finally meet, and enabling us to increase our already significant presence at arguably the most important blockchain conference of the year.

We would aim to meet for an all-day in-person strategy session on Sunday prior to Consensus, which I will take the lead to plan to ensure the time is effective. The conference ends on Wednesday, and the team would depart on Thursday except myself and perhaps one other team member to attend Token Summit.

Historically, Dash has always benefited in a significant way when we invest in industry conferences, with increased demand clearly correlated with every event in which we communicate our strategy and what makes us unique. From the LABitConf in 2015 and 2016, to Miami in 2016 and 2017, to d10e last year, we consistently benefit from a rising price and increased budgets in the weeks and months following these events. With a larger presence at Consensus, we would expect to reach a much larger audience of one-on-one conversations, and get even more benefit from the significant investment we've already made into this event."

I just want to add that Ryan will in fact be speaking and we already have a number of scheduled meetings with industry leaders that will be coming by our booth to learn more about Dash. We expect to have a good conference this year and will also be attending Token Summit, right after as explained.