True Global Ventures will be hosting their 11th Developer-centric Startups Event in Tokyo on 26th June. We will delve deeper into use cases of Blockchain and DLT while also recognising the power of open source ecosystems.

The event will feature speakers Yat Siu, Chairman of Animoca Brands & CEO of Outblaze. David Edelsohn from IBM, JP Thor CEO of Canya and Pavel Bains, CEO of Bluzelle Networks.

Animoca Brands Animoca Brands - a game development company which leverages on popular titles such as Doraemon & Garfield. Animoca Brands recently partnered with Formula One to develop their Formula One Delta One game. They have sold a limited edition Non-Fungible Token for their blockchain based Formula One game for USD103,000. Could gaming be the key to mass adoption of Blockchain ?

Bountysource Bountysource allows anyone to post bounties for open-source projects, developers can solve and earn money. Bountysource closed the largest bounty ever on Bountysource with Mozilla, backed by Education First at USD50,000 and renewed with IBM for USD100,000 worth of Bounties to be placed on their platform. Bountysource now has a community of 58,500 open-source developers with customers including Facebook, Ripple, Google.

Bluzelle Bluzelle is a decentralised data cache that speeds up application performance. Bluzelle’s MEIER cache solution provides high throughput, low latency and superior security with performance 30x faster than current solutions. MEIER's use case is perfect for game developers and video streaming.

Agenda 18:30 - 19:00 Networking & Registration

19:00 - 19:10 Opening Address by Dusan Stojanovic & Matsuzaki Hayate

Dusan Stojanovic is the Director and Founder of True Global Ventures with 10 out of 19 exits, “European Business Angel of the Year” 2013, did 3 Blockchain transactions in 3 weeks in 2017/2018.

Matsuzaki Hayate is the Community Operation Incubation Manager at BINARYSTAR. He manages new businesses as incubator manager and will also head community design.

19:10 - 19:35 Opening Speaker: Yat Siu, Chairman of Animoca Brands, CEO of Outblaze

Animoca Brands titles leverage internationally recognized intellectual properties such as MasterChef, Garfield, Doraemon, Ben 10, Astro Boy, Beast Quest and more all fully licensed by their respective IP owners. Animoca also recently acquired Stryking Entertainment in Europe with Bayern Munich and the Bundesliga license, Formula 1 license and Major League Baseball champions license. Their vision is to bring the next millions onto Blockchain through gaming!

19:35 - 19:55 Networking & Break

19:55 - 20:20 Insights with David Edelsohn (New York) Senior Technical Staff Member, Open Source Ecosystem, CTO GCC Technology at IBM.

20:20 - 20:45 Opensource project: Bountysource powered by CanYa: JP THOR (Australia) CEO of CanYa

Bountysource allows anyone to post bounties for open-source projects, developers can solve and earn money. Bountysource closed the largest bounty ever on Bountysource with Mozilla, backed by Education First at USD50,000 and renewed with IBM for USD100,000 worth of Bounties to be placed on their platform. Bountysource now has a community of 58,000 open-source developers (growing by 10,000/year) and customers include Facebook, Ripple, Google. Bounties can be paid in fiat and digital currencies.

20:45 - 21:05 Networking & Break

21:05 – 21:30 How Decentralization provides a better experience for Games, IoT and Media, Bluzelle: Pavel Bains, CEO of Bluzelle Networks

Bluzelle is a decentralised data cache that speeds up application performance. Bluzelle’s MEIER cache solution provides high throughput, low latency and superior security with performance 30x faster than current solutions.

21:30 - 21:45 Closing Remarks