{"id":7196,"date":"2020-12-15T08:06:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T08:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitsacard.com\/blog\/?p=7196"},"modified":"2025-03-24T16:03:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T16:03:54","slug":"malta-ai-blockchain-summit-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitsacard.com\/blog\/en\/malta-ai-blockchain-summit-2019","title":{"rendered":"Malta opens again its doors to AI &#038; Blockchain Summit 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 120%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the great success of last year, the wonderful island of <\/span><b><i>Malta is preparing to become the &#8220;Blockchain Island&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, consolidating as a Country at the forefront of this technology, as it will once again host companies, startups and investors at the <\/span><b>Malta AI &amp; Blockchain Summit<\/b> <b>2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which will take place on May 23 and 24, at the Hilton hotel in Portomaso.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 120%;\">Backed by the Maltese government, the summit has expanded considerably following the unexpected success of last year, when more than 8.500 participants, hundreds of new companies and developers came together to analyze possible investments, new companies and the long-term prospects for the blockchain industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 120%;\"><b>The event includes a focus on artificial intelligence along with blockchain technologies <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and will host interest groups in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Big Data<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blockchain<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IoT<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quantum<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Technologies, in <\/span><b>order to support an industry that is in full development and growth.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 120%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Malta Summit agenda includes expert and influential technology conferences, interactive debates and practical applications of technologies and <\/span><b><i>will host 100 startups<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b><i>700 investors<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b><i>5.000 delegations<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b><i>300 exhibitors<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5187 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/bitsacard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/malta-ai-blockchain-summit-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"928\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bitsacard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/malta-ai-blockchain-summit-2019.jpg 928w, https:\/\/bitsacard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/malta-ai-blockchain-summit-2019-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bitsacard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/malta-ai-blockchain-summit-2019-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bitsacard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/malta-ai-blockchain-summit-2019-700x523.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 928px) 100vw, 928px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 120%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, the program will include prominent names like <\/span><b><i>Roger Ver<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b><i>Tim Draper<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b><i>Ben Goertzel<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of SingularityNET, along with the second appearance of the <\/span><b>robot Sophia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The event will also be attended by the <\/span><strong>Prime Minister of Malt<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>a<\/strong>, Joseph Muscat, and the <\/span><b>Minister of Financial Services, Digital Economy and Innovation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Silvio Schembri.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 120%;\">More than 100 new companies will be selected to showcase their products and initiatives throughout the event, allowing the most promising entrepreneurs the opportunity to raise funds, find mentors and recruit the best talent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 120%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to the coincidence, on the same date, of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bitsacard.com\/blog\/fintech-unconference-2019-madrid\"><b>Fintech Unconference<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Madrid, this year Bitsa will not be present at the Malta Summit.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 120%;\">However, we will be watching all the news of the event with the promise of participating in the next Summit and give our contribution as a startup in the Fintech sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 120%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if you do not want to miss anything about this unique event, we leave you the complete program, published on the official website of the <\/span><b>Malta AI &amp; Blockchain Summit<\/b> <b>2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the great success of last year, the wonderful island of Malta is preparing to become the &#8220;Blockchain Island&#8221;, consolidating as a Country at the forefront of this technology, as it will once again host companies, startups and investors at the Malta AI &amp; Blockchain Summit 2019, which will take&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":8739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitsa-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitsacard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitsacard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitsacard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitsacard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitsacard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitsacard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13989,"href":"https:\/\/bitsacard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions\/13989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitsacard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitsacard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitsacard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitsacard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}