Another great month for DOVU. Here is everything that happened, and a couple of new announcements.

MOBI announcement

DOVU has become founding member of MOBI with major mobility leaders

The Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative includes among its partners global car automakers and technology firms

Read all the info here.

Welcome Lisa Kimpton to DOVU

Lisa Kimpton joins DOVU as Marketing Manager, bringing over 9 years of experience and a degree in Media, Marketing & Cultural Studies. She’s worked for Trunki, Coull, Crealytics and even a local Bristol charity, so her background spans over both B2B and B2C, with a particular talent for brand building and events management.

Lisa is extremely excited to get involved in an industry that’s planning for our future in tech and experience.

Given Arwen’s transition to an advisory role, Max Lomuscio will start focusing more on the growth of the business in the crypto space.

Our strategy will be focusing on raising the awareness on all the amazing things we are building and in making DOVU a top renowned company in the blockchain industry — more on this in Chapter 3 of our explainer series about DOVU.

If you haven’t already, have a read of Chapter 1, Move with DOVU and Chapter 2, Token Flow.

Bounty Campaign

More than 25,000 tokens have been distributed last week for our Bounty Campaign.

We’d like to thank everybody who contributed to this. We need our community to spread out all the exciting things we are building and we will engage in another campaign in the future.

Special thanks go to marcous and Nabil Abou-Rahme for their outstanding work.

On pilots

The 2 previously announced pilots kick started this month with 2 global car manufacturers. Both are very excited to work with us and we have established a plan and roadmap for the projects. The development team are working hard to deliver on the tight deadlines.

We also signed up another NDA, this time with a global technology company.

We get it, NDAs are only half exciting. They hold a huge potential that we can’t tell you about until both parties decide it is the right time to do it. Luckily, we are very confident in the value we are building and we know it’s just a matter of time before our results go public.

We have just disclosed more details about our pilot with BMW, have you read them?

A snapshot of the BMW branded wallet used during our pilot.

Also, we have been approached by a big city council in the US. It’s too early to say what kind of initiatives we will be able to work on together, but it’s fantastic to see cities and communities that want to get DOVU involved.

To build up an effective ecosystem, we will need to collaborate not only with private companies but also public institutions at different levels.

All our events during May and June

16th and 17th of May: Consensus. Consensus 2018 will feature 250+ speakers and 7,000+ attendees from the leading industry startups, investors, financial institutions, enterprise tech leaders, and academic and policy groups who are building the foundations of the blockchain and digital currency economy.

17th of May: Connected CARS Europe: Bringing together a wide-range of high-level experts from the Connected Mobility sector, the event will focus on the way forward to ensure the development of future-proof and sustainable smart transport systems in Europe.

6th June TU Automotive Detroit: Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electric. The world’s biggest conference & expo for future auto tech.

6th June: Future tech for the next Generation — Osborne Clarke, Bristol. The event will feature exhibitors, demonstrations and seminars from South West companies at the forefront of innovation in connectivity, transport, robotics and prop-tech, whose disruptive technology will impact businesses across all industries and help promote the efficiency of the smart cities of the future.

7th June: BlockerCon, Bristol, UK. This event offers a fresh look at Blockchain technology and its power to transform the world

19th and 20th June — Future of Transportation World Conference 2018 at Cologne Messe, Germany

The Future of Transportation World Conference will bring together world transportation leaders from automotive manufacturers and their suppliers, transportation authorities and city planners, rail and public transportation technology firms and operators, technology and software giants, drone and personal air transportation solution companies, freight and logistics companies, mass-transit solution providers, business consultants, and inventors of new and disruptive global mobility solutions, all with the common goal of devising better solutions for the increasingly demanding challenge of providing safe, efficient, sustainable transportation for the world in 2030 and beyond.

25th June: Blockchain in Aerospace. The Aerospace Technology Institute is starting a new series of networking lunches entitled D3: Discover Discuss Disrupt that will be focused on themes of disruptive technologies.

ATI is a joint government/industry initiative with a remit to create a technology strategy for the UK’s civil aerospace sector, and to develop a portfolio of R&D projects to realise this strategy. The UK government has committed up to £150m per year for this, matched by industry. The portfolio currently stands at a value of around £1.7bn, and consists of over 200 projects with around 200 participants (industry, academia, and research organisations).

The DOVU team has been invited as a guest speaker to a session around the theme of ‘Blockchain in Aerospace’.

26/27th June Blockchain Summit Series, London, a 2 day conference and exhibition connecting over 2,500 industry leaders, business decision makers, tech innovators and investors.

28th and 29th June: Token Economy Conference by Token Market: an insight on the current global blockchain ecosystem and the growing token economy

Recruitment

DOVU is always looking for new talent to join us in our exciting mission. Here are the current open positions: