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The two-and-a-half
year wait for a chance to see your domain
industry friends and colleagues face to face
again is about to end! The first major domain
industry business event since NamesCon Global
in January
2020 is coming up fast now with NamesCon
set to return August 31 through
September 3, 2022. While a global pandemic has
changed the timing, the place remains the
same as where we left off in 2020, the downtown Omni
Hotel, in Austin, Texas. |
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A
huge step in the road back to normalcy, the release
of the full conference
agenda (other than some space reserved
for most timely late additions) has now happened and
it outlines a lot of sessions worth getting excited
about, especially given the ambitious scope of
this show that encompasses everything related to the world of
digital assets including domain names, NFTs and
other emerging elements of a new economy.
I
know I am bit biased on this point, but one
session I'm especially looking forward to is
the very first business session in
the Bodis Keynote Hall at 11:05am on
Opening Day, August 31 (right after the
Welcome Address from Soeren Von Varchmin,
the Chairman of Namescon's Supervisory
Board) . That's because I'll be on stage
then to have a Fireside Chat with the
multi-talented Christian
Calvin.
Christian
is a veteran domain investor that many of
you have come to know over his more than 10
years in the business, but the Tennessee
native is also a prolific abstract
expressionist artist
with a unique style that is attracting a
significant following (Nashville's
newspaper, The
Tennessean, just covered a major
exhibition of Christian's work).
As
a guy who has always been tuned in to the
latest technology, it won't surprised you to
hear he is marrying his large scale canvas
artwork with the cutting age NFT
market. We'll be talking about how creative
people can use their
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Christian
Calvin
Domain Investor/Artist |
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experience
with domains and other digital assets to do
things that weren't possible before now -
but that's just the start. During the show,
Christian will be creating a painting for
the NamesCon community and will be doing
it live, giving the audience a chance
to see the entire process as an artistic
idea is rendered in physical form! |
Dozens
of business sessions will follow in the Keynote
Hall and on the Breakout Stage over the
remainder of Opening Day and the next two business days
- Thursday, September 1 (also the
day of the Live
Domain & NFT Auction that starts at
3PM Central Daylight Time) and Friday, September
2. The big event will close Saturday, September
3 with a day devoted entirely to socializing.
NamesCon's Fun
Day will be filled with conversation,
collaboration, celebration, eating, drinking and
table hopping at Austin's famous Banger’s
Sausage House and Beer Garden (you can bring a
Plus-One, too)!
A
blast from the past
- Fun Day at the last NamesCon Global
conference in January 2020 (also at Banger's in
Austin, Texas). Left to right are attendees Krinal
Mehta, Prakhar Bindal and Aishwin
Vikhona.
The
agenda is far too big for us to do justice to in one
article, check
it all our for yourself, and we will continue
to fill in some of the details and late-breaking
additions in this column as we continue the
countdown to Opening Day. Registration
is open now and, as a DN Journal reader,
you can get a 20% discount using the preceding link.
If you need a room at Omni, you can also take
advantage of the special show rate NamesCon arranged
with the hotel by booking
here (don't delay as the conference's
block of rooms is limited). We hope to
see you in Austin!
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