If you have a booth, you need to have highly technical people there, or even people that know about the tech. It doesn’t make a good display to have people that know little about what they work on.
If you don’t know your competitors, don’t buy a booth, walk around other’s booths to learn what they do
Too many booths
Too many side events, but most are full, so it’s good
Too much focus on brand awareness and too little on the actual tech
VC money are on display
Marina Bay is still so big I already got 13k steps in today, while only going to few meetings
Going alone is not possible anymore, too much to process
Cold thoughts, after a relaxing weekend:
I doesn’t make much sense to make ‘crypto’ events anymore, the definition has become too big: there’s Ethereum and everything in it, there’s Bitcoin, there’s non-EVM and everything has its own culture and rules. TOKEN2049 can’t possibly encompass everything in an ordinate manner
Monday follow-up is the worst, but a week-long conference is probably worse for the body and mind
Singapore is good, but too humid: day side events should be banned if they’re more than 2 km from Marina Bay Sands
So many private events that it was impossible to sit at a table in a random restaurant in the whole area
There are two types of projects: the ones that only care about speculation, and the ones that care about building a platform. There’s very little projects that sit in between