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Proposal: Polkadot Decoded 2023 China (Satellite Event) July 15-16, 2023 (TBD) in Shanghai (TBD), China

2 years ago
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Polkadot Decoded’s Flagship event will be held at the end of June 2023 at the Øksnehallen in Copenhagen. This is the biggest yearly conference focused on all things Polkadot. It brings together the Polkadot community, web3 enthusiasts, new/curious DOT holders, and builders to hear about developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. To align with the global Flagship event and continue the excitement with the regional focus at the strategic local markets of the Polkadot community, a grand satellite event covering the Asian region ( China, Japan, Korea, Singapore and the rest of SEA) will be held on July 15th and July 16th at Shanghai/China (exact location is TBD and the dates will align with the rest of the regional satellite events).

The 2023 Decoded China event will therefore create pivotal experience to the fast growing Polkadot China community and the nearby markets such as Korea, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam and the rest of SEA. The China satellite event will feature presentations, panels, workshops, demos and aligned regional events (i.e. regional hackathon), delivered in the language of Chinese or English. The latest update and news of the Polkadot ecosystem teams, Parity, the Web3 Foundation and the community KOLs from Asia will be shared. The event is focusing on the content curated for a higher-level and border audience, as well as for decision makers, investors, entrepreneurs and Web3 Medias.

The target audience will be crossing over all six of our target personas: Business Decision Maker, Technical Decision Maker, both from startups and Enterprises interested in Polkadot, Builders from teams in the Polkadot ecosystem, DOT Holders, Developer, Polkadot enthusiasts and supporters. Polkadot Decoded China aims to be a general assembly for all things Polkadot/Kusama happening in Asia with a main focus of the China market.

Along with one main stage with the presentations, demos, panels and flagship event (Decoded Copenhagen) highlight playbacks, 2023 Decoded China satellite event will have networking areas, private meeting areas, exhibition areas (for parachain and ecosystem teams) and one after-party to celebrate with the community. The China satellite event aims to have between 300-500 attendees, 25 speaking slots (presentations, demos, panels and Copenhagen highlight session playbacks are all included), 20 exhibition booths (for selected parachain teams and the Substrate-based ecosystem projects), and one Substrate job fair.

The 2023 Polkadot Decoded China satellite event will be facilitated and hosted by Aitijia’er, an event agency based in China, who produced the 2020 Web3 Form @ Shanghai (Web3 rebranded towards China due to the regulation concern) and 2022 Decoded China @ Hangzhou.

More details of the proposal, please see this link here

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2 years ago

Hello, thank you for publishing your proposal for the commmunity to discuss. A few questions on the document:

  1. One of your primary objectives is to "Attract, engage and convince decision makers in startups, web2 companies and enterprises who evaluate platforms to consider and join Polkadot" - can you clarify how do you quantify and measure this goal? what metric are you using to measure the accomplishment of this point?
  2. same question with the following goal: "Grow, engage and enthuse the global community of developers, token holders and fans, strengthening their interest in and belongingness to Polkadot, turning them into advocates and “Polkadot citizens.”
  3. agenda and speakers: do you have a precurated list of speakers and how exactly does this list align with the Copnehagen agenda?
  4. what is the amount of attendees you are expecting at the event? it seems to me that the food budget is a bit out of range with past proposals for China.
  5. after-party: I am wondering why do you use an events bounty benchmark for this type of request? it would be easier to understand why your after party cost is 15k USD: what will it include, which venue, how many people, etc.
  6. agency fees seem a bit expensive in comparison with other proposals, but I might be wrong, so I would like to understand how they plan to distribute the staff costs. Does this align with your past 2022 proposal? and if no, why?

All in all, it seems to me like a big take for a side event, given the main agenda will be focused in Copenhagen. I am also not sure if as part of the deliverables for this event there will be recordings of the talks produced here - and if this is taken into account as part of the logistics.

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2 years ago

@rtti5220
Thanks for the questions. Please see the answers below.

  1. One of your primary objectives is to "Attract, engage and convince decision makers in startups, web2 companies and enterprises who evaluate platforms to consider and join Polkadot" - can you clarify how do you quantify and measure this goal? what metric are you using to measure the accomplishment of this point?

The success metrics of this event is described in the last section of this proposal, which will be provided in the post-event report no later than 14 days after the event.

General Event (after the event completes)

  • The number of the registrations
  • The number of the attendees
  • The number of the speaking engagements (the number of teams apply for the speaking slots on China stage)
  • The number of the speaking guests (the number of teams actually speak on China stage)
  • The number of the exhibited projects (based on the booth sign up)
  • The number of the media engagements (articles or videos published)

Additionally we will also provide

  • the pictures of events (venues outside and inside, exhibition areas, stage, teams, speakers per session, audiences)
  • the videos of this event (per speaking session, highlight videos)
  • the after party
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