It’s been an intense month for DOVU!

Lots of events and great progress.

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First Pilot with BMW completed

DOVU presented at the at Tate Modern the fruits of the 12 week accelerator project with BMW to over 200 representatives. The project for BMW Innovation Lab was well-received and we are currently working on further use cases!

Here is a small recognition we received from BMW:

We are looking forward the press from BMW to be able to share more details with the community, at the moment all covered by our NDA.

It has definitely been a first important step to demonstrate the value of DOVU and a huge source of learning valuable lesson that we will be using for our next pilots.

Tate Modern is a majestic building in the Heart of London. DOVU was invited to present by the BMW Innovation Lab. Image by Nana B Agyei.

Talking about pilots…

2 more pilots were scheduled with 2 global manufacturers.

The first one will kick off in a few days, while the second is planned for this summer. Can you guess who those OEM are? If you do, the community has created a sub-channel where you can win a few DOV — ask the moderators in the DOVU telegram channel to get involved.

Things are getting smarter. So are we.

In the last week of March, we attended the Smart IOT Event in London. Irfon’s session “How will Blockchain disrupt the transportation and mobility sector” managed to inspire the audience and, among others, two universities approached DOVU for a preliminary discussion on a series of initiatives. We will keep you posted as this can open up interesting opportunities for the DOVU ecosystem.

Partnerships for the future

We established two important partnerships that we will help us in strengthening our tech initiatives and accelerating our brand presence:

SimpleWeb Block: the global center of excellence for blockchain

Simpleweb Block, backed by DOVU, works on strategic projects to accelerate the adoption of blockchain applications.

DOVU and Simpleweb Block will collaborate on bringing the benefits of blockchain to the masses. Mass-adoption won’t take one ‘killer app’. It will take many.

Simpleweb block will spin out new protocols and potentially new token sales with projects that could relate to and interact with DOVU ecosystem.

Learn more here: https://medium.com/@dovuofficial/introducing-simpleweb-block-the-global-centre-of-excellence-for-blockchain-858a8cc22aae

Techdrive

Founded in 2012 by entrepreneurs Hermione Way and Serhan Perincek, racing car driver Collete Davis and Emmy Award winning journalist Kym McNicholas, TechDrive is a news site at the intersection of travel tech? and transport. The partnership will see new editorial around blockchain, mobility and the future of travel, covering startups to corporates who are wanting to implement blockchain technology into their products or services.

More here: http://techdrive.co/blockchain-mobility-token-dovu-partners-with-future-of-travel-publication-techdrive/

We are hiring!

Passionate about the mobility and blockchain? Join us!

Tom and James will be leading our SimpleBlock initiative, so we are looking for the next CTO and Blockchain Lead Developer to keep driving DOVU further in the blockchain world.

If people and social media are your bread and butter, you should jump on board as a community manager.

Looks like our Q2 will be even busier:

We aim to connect experts in the blockchain and mobility industry. It’s DOVU time!

JLR Immersion Event, 17/18 April, Coventry, UK

17/18 April, Coventry, UK RailLive, 18/19 April, Bilbao, Spain

18/19 April, Bilbao, Spain Blockchain Society at the University of Bristol, 19 April, Bristol, UK

19 April, Bristol, UK Chainges, 4–5 May, Amsterdam, Netherlands

4–5 May, Amsterdam, Netherlands Consensus NY, 14–16 May, New York, USA

14–16 May, New York, USA Connected Cars Europe 2018, 17 May, Brussel, Belgium

17 May, Brussel, Belgium BlockerCon, 7 June, Bristol, UK

7 June, Bristol, UK Founders at Smart Transportation & Mobility, 12–14 June, London, UK

12–14 June, London, UK Blockchain Summit London, 27–28 June, London, UK

27–28 June, London, UK Transportation as a Service, 9/10 July, Coventry, UK

Are you attending one of these events? Let us know on Telegram or Twitter!

Latest insights:

On the 27th of March Irfon Watkins held an AMA session on Reddit. Have you read his answers? https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/825bb9/im_irfon_watkins_ceo_at_dovu_ama/

Last but not least

The team has been preparing a new paper to complement our initial vision and strategy for DOVU.

We will divide it in 3 posts and publish them during the course of next week.

They will cover:

DOVU vision explained and decoded

Token strategy

Growth strategy

Stay tuned!