Something interesting for Storj?

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Maybe that’s something for Storj to attend:

@bre @super3

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Indeed, this can be interesting. :+1:t2:

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Looks like a great event.
Wish I could volunteer to attend :smiley:

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I bet. But honestly I see potential there. AWS, Microsoft and Slack are there for a reason. :money_mouth_face:

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Yeah I think that too. And Storj could make much more out of this than just attending an event.
Storj could position itself as not just for developers, but also as partner for startups.
Most startups need some sort of storage today and most startups will be grateful if they don’t have to pay high AWS prices for their storage requirements.

But in Munich you will also find a vibrant startup and entrepreneurship community and culture backed and supported by the two large local universities, LMU and TUM. This means there are a lot of potential customers and partnerships. Let me just link to some high profiles Storj could reach out to:
https://www.iec.uni-muenchen.de/index.html
https://www.iec.uni-muenchen.de/take-off/lmu-ec-accelerator/index.html

So if you ever want to go there, make sure to have enough time and schedule some further talks around it.

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Just in case anybody was wondering about how these universities rank, there was just a new ranking published: QS World University Rankings 2023: Top Global Universities | Top Universities.
According to them TUM and LMU are ranking 1st and 2nd place of Germanys universities.

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This looks great. I’ve added it to a proposed list of events. When I have confirmation I’ll update this post.

Thank you!

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Might be “B&B 2023” then, ugh :laughing:

When you pick it up, let me know. I know the founders in person since years. Potentially easier to get in touch (qed).

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Amazing. What a potential can be found in this community. :heart_eyes:

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That was Bits & Pretzels 2022:

https://bits22.hspx.de/agenda?fullwidth=1&hidenavbar=1

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And growing:

After 5000 in 2022 it seems this event has grown to limited number of 7500 attendees this year.

https://www.bitsandpretzels.com/

Bits & Pretzels hosts 7,500 founders, investors, and industry leaders for three days full of learning, networking & doing business during Munich Oktoberfest.

The list of speakers sounds again impressing as previous years:

  • Jarek Kutylowski, Founder & CEO DeepL
  • Toto Wolff, CEO & Team Principal Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team
  • Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO & Co-Founder Klarna
  • Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
  • Christian Lindner, Federal Minister of Finance & Member of the German Bundestag
  • Tim Höttges, CEO Deutsche Telekom
  • Sachin Dev Duggal, Founder & Chief Wizard Builder.ai
    All speakers: Bits & Pretzels Founders Festival • 29 Sep - 01 oct 2024 • Munich
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FYI, we are participating in this upcoming event in Munich:

And we were also presenting at IBC in Amsterdam just a few days ago

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That was the reason to revive this thread.
I hope @john can stay in Munich for a few days and visit the Oktoberfest, which begins on September 21st.
It would have been a nice series of events for the Storj team to attend: IBC Amsterdam from September 13-16, the HPC Roundtable in Munich on the 19th, and Bits&Pretzel from September 29th to October 1st and of course partying at the Oktoberfest every day :partying_face: :beers: :partying_face:.

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