With a record 45,000 attendees this year, the Singapore Fintech Festival was a roaring success and NEM had the opportunity to be part of it

The Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) is considered one of the key conferences in the Southeast Asian region on Fintech and this year, NEM had the opportunity to be part of this major event, held at the Singapore Expo.

Organised by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the country’s central bank, 2018’s SFF saw a record-breaking 45,000 attendees with almost 130 countries taking part in the conference.

NEM had the opportunity to be one of the exhibitors at SFF2018 and an international team of NEM staff from UAE, Malaysia, Australia and Indonesia were at the conference to help the Singapore team engage and educate the attendees about blockchain as well as NEM.

Also tagging along with the NEM team were two of NEM’s eco-system partners, Proxima X and Omniaz, who were there to showcase their use cases that were on NEM or based on the NEM blockchain. Omniaz especially had the opportunity to showcase their BevTech solution ahead of their official launch on 1st December.

“The Fintech Festival was a great success for Omniaz and our Smart Bottles. People were able to experience firsthand the power of NEM’s Catapult in connection with IoT’s; something very special for a lot of attendees. It was also the perfect opportunity to gather direct feedback before our public launch on the 1st of December together with Wine Connection at their Wine Fair in Singapore and then later in Malaysia.” — Marc Giovannini (COO & Co-Founder Omniaz)

The three-day conference between 12th to 14th November saw a huge crowd hitting Singapore Expo and the NEM booth itself had its fair share of visitors curious about blockchain and NEM. In fact, a high number of tertiary students were seen at the NEM booth, eager to seek advise on how to get blockchain onto their projects. With the high number of students expressing interest in blockchain and NEM, there is hope that there will be more adoption in the future from these future graduates.