Downtown Quincy, city councilor to host Boston Blockchain Week starting Wednesday

QUINCY – Kilroy Sq. downtown will play host to CEOs, reporters, hackers and different expertise specialists beginning Wednesday as Quincy-based QUBIC Labs attracts business leaders for Boston Blockchain Week. 

Greater than 500 individuals are anticipated to return to the town for 3 days of occasions hosted by the startup incubator, which was based in 2020 by Quincy Metropolis Councilor Ian Cain.

He and Mayor Thomas Koch will welcome company at midday Wednesday, adopted by a number of days of panels that can function audio system starting from native firm founders and executives to public officers and reporters. The occasion will culminate in a two-day “Hack Boston” at Harvard College in Cambridge on Saturday and Sunday.

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Boston-based Pillar VC, which hosted the sequence of occasions prior to now, didn’t renew  its  dedication to host blockchain week this 12 months. As a substitute, Cain latched onto the concept and deliberate per week that can contain stay music, networking and pop-up occasions at native companies along with the scheduled panels, together with a Ladies in Blockchain occasion at 16C, a restaurant on Cottage Avenue.

Cain has lengthy stated his aim with QUBIC Labs is to attract the high-tech industries that thrive in different cities to Quincy. 

“There is no motive that Quincy, with its entry to the Pink Line and its thriving enterprise neighborhood, cannot be a vacation spot for startups,” he stated in 2020.

QUBIC was chosen as the primary grant recipient underneath the state’s Expertise & Innovation Ecosystem Awards program and acquired practically $2 million to assist foster progress in blockchain expertise. 

Blockchain refers back to the  expertise behind cryptocurrency and different on-line transactions. The blockchain permits for safe peer-to-peer transactions utilizing a decentralized community of computer systems, together with a document of nameless customers.

For extra data or to register for Boston Blockchain Week, go to bostonblockchainweek.com.

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