Last week over 25,000 innovators and industry leaders descended on the Big Easy for North America’s fastest growing tech conference, Collision.

The New Orleans event featured a wide array of highly acclaimed speakers from former Vice President, Al Gore to CEO of Oracle, Mark Hurd. Over 5,600 of the world’s best tech startups and venerable Fortune 500 organizations collaborated to share ideas, products and technology driven solutions for some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

Collision has a history of catalyzing some of the world’s greatest innovations in tech. In 2011, after Collison’s European Web Summit, Uber secured $37 million series B funding with Goldman Sachs. Scott Stanford, co-founder of Sherpa Capital and investor in Uber, remembers, “The magic began basically after the conference was over, in the evening, when everyone goes to the pubs. It was truly magical.”

At Bee Token, we were honored to be selected to participate at Collision as a growth startup since the acceptance rate was so low.

Of all the technologies on the forefront today, blockchain garnered much of the attention and focus at Collision. Jordan Ong, Head of Product at Bee Token, reminisces, “It was amazing to see the level of interest in blockchain at Collision. People are quickly realizing that decentralization will have a huge impact on the technology sector.”

Blockchain benefits users through democratization, transparency and security. It obsolesces the need for most intermediaries. In recent years, the sharing economy revolutionized how many of us live our daily lives and travel. How exactly do the sharing economy and blockchain intersect?

At Collision, the Bee Token team educated attendees on how their blockchain platform is reinventing the sharing economy.

Some of the biggest sharing economy disruptors from the likes of AirBnB to Uber, take a large portion of proceeds for simply connecting people. Bee Token’s platform, Beenest enables home sharing on the blockchain while removing the middleman. Beenest is the first platform of its kind. Users connect and pay with BEE coins from which the company takes zero commission.

Raustin Memon, Head of Marketing & Growth recalls, “We had numerous hosts talk to us about how they were fed up with the fees that other platforms like Airbnb were charging… We can now focus on the culture of home sharing, which is bringing people together without a middleman. And after all that really is the ethos of the sharing economy, and the service that we are striving to provide.”

Raustin Memon, Head of Marketing & Growth. Interview at Collision Tech Conference, New Orleans 2018.

The Bee Token team is made up of industry veterans with backgrounds developing revolutionary tech at Uber, Facebook and Google. They know the weaknesses in the current dominant platforms when it comes to security, payments and the sharing economy.

By design, the sharing economy and blockchain make a natural union. On Beenest, authentic peer-to-peer sharing can be truly frictionless and transparent. The future of home sharing requires 0% commission on the Beenest decentralized home sharing network with Bee Protocols. The platform aligns incentives between hosts, guests and mediators. Save money or earn extra through the power of the blockchain.

You can experience hospitality on the blockchain now. Beenest is available in San Francisco, Los Angeles and currently expanding to other cities.

Bee Token CTO, Tony Tran emphasizes the invaluable takeaways from Collision, “Collision was an unforgettable experience. We were able to connect with new hosts and meet users from our platform. In doing so, we were able to gain valuable feedback on how we could improve. In addition, we were able to establish lasting friendships and connect with other startups with similar goals.”

We look forward to sharing the progress of the decentralized sharing economy at Collision 2019!

“Let the good times bee”

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