Meetup Blockchain & Cryptocurrency: from Supply Chain to Fintech

With over 50,000 attendees at Web Summit this November, you can find the most incredible niche communities. HUUB and Startup Braga are helping to connect with your Blockchain community during the Websummit.

Our Meetups are open to all those motivated by blockchain innovation, in an informal gathering to meet other people, projects, and ideas.

After a long day of Web Summit, how about learn more about what people are doing with blockchain and meeting other people passioned by this technology in an informal way, with some drinks?

Program:

Networking Snacks and Drinks

Welcome notes from HUUB and Startup Braga

What the "block" are they doing?
-Talk: Blockchain 101
-- Guilherme Campos -> Deloite EMEA Blockchain Lab

-Talk: Launching an Initial Coin Offer (ICO)
-- Nuno Correia, CEO UTRUST - > https://utrust.io/

-Talk: Applying Blockchain to Supply Chain.
-- Luis Roque, CEO HUUB -> http://thehuub.co/

Networking Snacks and Drinks

Participation is free; please RSVP to secure your place.

More about the speakers:

• Luis Roque, CEO HUUB -> http://thehuub.co/ -

CEO, Ph.D. candidate, tech & AI enthusiastic, knowledge & people-centric.

Luís is co-founder and CEO of HUUB, a tech startup focused on disrupting the Supply Chain Industry. It was born, back in 2015, in a small garage with 80 sqm, 1 employee and 1 German brand as the first customer. Now, it has 35+ employees in 7 different areas. HUUB manages the complete Supply Chain of 27 brands, from 12 different countries and 3 continents. It already had set up two operations, Portugal and Netherlands, and a third is coming, now in the US.

This has given Luís a humbling appreciation of a company journey, from day one, and an understanding of what it is like to be a founder, a leader, a manager, a decision maker.

• Nuno Correia, CEO UTRUST - > https://utrust.io/

An early cryptocurrency investor, deeply involved in crypto markets and community since early 2011 and successfully co-founded several B2C ventures. With a background in Law and Marketing, he is passionate about the transformative future of digital payments.

UTRUST is a ground-breaking payment platform that empowers buyers to pay with their favorite cryptocurrencies while providing the best consumer protection in the market. In a nutshell, buyer protection – a unique protection mechanism in crypto payments that allowing users to pay with confidence. UTRUST recently raised 1.5 million in 90min on their ICO (https://medium.com/@UTRUST/press-release-utrusts-pre-ico-sells-out-1-5-million-in-90-minutes-public-ico-20th-september-c68cd8b5079b)

• Guilherme Campos -> Deloite EMEA Blockchain Lab

Guilherme Campos is a Senior Blockchain Engineer in the EMEA Blockchain Lab, in charge of growing in-house knowledge, keeping in touch of Deloitte’s international hubs, and for the ideation and delivery of blockchain related proofs of concept within cross industry clients.

Guilherme has been involved with Deloitte for over 3 years, starting in Portugal and recently moving to Ireland. He has worked on a variety of projects, in multiple geographies, mostly in Financial Services and Insurance, ranging from small implementations, to moonshots, to managing work streams within big clients.