More than 15,000 attendees and 550 audio system are at this yr’s Consensus Web3 conference in Austin, Texas.
A protracted-running, crypto-centric conference has introduced it’s coming to Toronto for the primary time in 2025.
Consensus appears to convey collectively trade gamers from around the globe to discuss digital belongings, blockchain, Web3, and synthetic intelligence (AI).
Consensus 2025 will happen from May 14 to May 16, 2025, on the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Consensus chair Michael Casey introduced on the Consensus fundamental stage in Austin, Texas this morning. Casey additionally introduced the conference can be heading to Hong Kong from February 18 to 20 subsequent yr.
Founded in 2015 and produced by crypto publication CoinDesk, Consensus says it’s the longest-running crypto and Web3 occasion globally, with greater than 15,000 attendees, 750 journalists, and 550 audio system at this yr’s conference.
The occasion, which is leaving Austin after three years due to town embarking on a major renovation of its conference heart, known as Toronto’s tech ecosystem “among the fastest-growing in North America” and mentioned it’s pushed by a thriving group of startups, tech giants, and a powerful expertise pool.
Toronto metropolis councillor Shelley Carroll adopted Casey’s announcement on the stage with a pitch to the 2024 attendees.
“Many of you have dabbled in Toronto but I want to see you collected in one place because if Toronto is full of one thing, it’s potential talent,” Carroll mentioned. “There are so many people that are growing their careers, we have a collection of top flight North American universities and publicly funded colleges that are churning out ethnically and gender diverse talent that is waiting to connect with these things.”
Consensus 2024 consists of audio system like ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood, a16z crypto managing accomplice Chris Dixon, and numerous American politicians together with presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The occasion can be holding a hackathon, a pitch competitors, and a “karate combat event.”
A Canadian delegation of greater than 150 company, startup, and ecosystem leaders is current at this yr’s conference, together with representatives from Air Canada, RBCx, Kraken, Coinsquare, DMZ, and MaRS Discovery District.
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Consensus’ Toronto debut comes as the way forward for main North American tech conference Collision in town is in query. Last yr, Collision mentioned it could stay in Toronto via 2024 after inking a one-year extension of its lapsed three-year contract. The deal adopted BetaKit’s report that the tech occasion was in search of a three-year deal at greater than double its earlier charge.
At the time, a Collision spokesperson had confirmed to BetaKit that 5 different cities have been bidding to host Collision, with one supply conversant in the bid course of telling BetaKit that Vancouver had put ahead a “promising” proposal with “cash on the table.”
Consensus mentioned its Toronto occasion will cowl cryptocurrencies, tokenization, and the newest FinTech and blockchain improvements. The occasion may even discover Web3’s affect on tradition and communities, AI alternatives and challenges, information administration, privateness applied sciences, and tackle how governments are coping with modifications caused by this tech.
Early fowl tickets for Consensus 2025 in Toronto are on sale right here.
UPDATE (05/30/24): This article was up to date with extra info and Shelley Carroll’s on-stage remarks.
Feature picture courtesy Consensus.