11th July 2023
Shipowner Expectations From Maritime Education, Dubai
Our recent participation in the ICS Middle East event was nothing short of remarkable. Engaging with industry stalwarts like Steve Kunzer and Glenn Murphy was a privilege that enriched our perspective.
The event's high tea session, centered around "Shipowner's Expectations" and the professional development of the commercial desk, was an enlightening experience. We had the opportunity to hear from distinguished guest speakers, including ICS Chairman Glenn Murphy FICS and Steve Kunzer FICS of Lila Global. Their insights shed light on the evolving landscape of maritime commerce.
Special appreciation to Captain Zarir Irani MBA, Hon.FIIMS, FNI, FICS, HCMM, for steering the ship of this engaging event.
Our interactions with ship owners during this event were both valuable and eye-opening. Gaining insights into their expectations and aspirations was a fantastic experience. It's through these dialogues that we continue to refine our approach at ShipFinex, aligning our strategies to meet the industry's evolving demands.
Thank you to ICS Middle East for providing us this platform to engage, learn, and grow. We look forward to further collaborations that drive maritime innovation to new heights.
2nd May 2023
ICS ME Awards Nite, Dubai
Our Participating in the ICS Middle East Branch's Awards Nite marked a highlight in our journey. Engaging with maritime veterans and emerging professionals was an absolute pleasure. A sincere thank you to Captain Zarir Irani MBA and Jasmin Fichte for this opportunity, reflecting collaboration and commitment to industry advancement.
As platinum sponsors, ShipFinex took pride in acknowledging exceptional student achievements. Witnessing these bright minds embrace excellence was truly heartening.
The event provided a platform to discuss the vibrant collaboration between ICS Middle East and ShipFinex, embodying innovation in maritime commerce. Recognition for our contribution humbled us, reinforcing our commitment to pioneering maritime finance's future.
Kudos to ICS Middle East for nurturing talent and fostering industry connections. Anticipating more engagements for a thriving maritime future.
27th April 2023
Shiptek Conference & Awards 2023 - Singapore
What an exhilarating voyage it has been at the ShipTek Singapore Conference! Our ShipFinex co-founders, ShipFinex's co-founders, Vikas Pandey and Ravi Shankar, embarked on an invigorating journey of connecting with maritime luminaries.
This event marked a pivotal step in our voyage to revolutionize the maritime economy through tokenization. The conference buzzed with electrifying energy and shared enthusiasm, uniting the maritime world toward tokenizing the industry. Amidst this revolutionary tide, we proudly stood at the forefront. Kudos to Captain Vikas Pandey for his illuminating session on "Tokenizing Trillion-Dollar Economy." His insights resonated, sparking engaging dialogues.
This event provided us an invaluable platform to interact with marine industry's finest minds, exploring the latest trends and innovations. With enriched perspectives, we're set to propel our mission forward, reshaping the maritime landscape. Thank you, Captain Vikas Pandey, for your expertise. The ShipTek Singapore Conference has been an incredible odyssey, fueling our journey of transformation.
23rd April 2023
MIT Bitcoin, Boston, USA
Being invited to the hallowed grounds of MIT, a beacon of technological prowess and innovation, is an an amzing experiance to the path we're forging in the convergence of blockchain and finance. The excitement is palpable as we prepare to share our journey of driving maritime asset tokenization, shaping the industry's course, and creating new horizons for all stakeholders.
Our captain Vikas pandey joined the panel with experts: Ariel Scaliter, Andy Chatham , Nicholas Garcia and Harsh Harshvardhan as they discuss the latest developments in the field.We had a long insightful session and threw light on the driving forces of the web3 economy.
On the stage of Stata Center Nakamoto in MIT Campus, we unraveled the potential of asset tokenization, DeFi, and NFTs to fuel transformation, innovation, and individual empowerment.
4th March 2023
Community meet up, Kolkata
Such Remarkable Enthusiasm! Your Energy Was Infectious.
We were thoroughly captivated by the unwavering enthusiasm you brought to the table. Connecting with the dynamic community of Mariners, crypto enthusiasts, and web3 professionals was an absolute delight. Together, we delved into the intricate world of real-world asset tokenization, exchanging knowledge and insights that enriched us all.
Our heartfelt gratitude goes out to the wonderful city of Kolkata for showering Shipfinex, GemsDAO, and Samantak Saha with immense affection.
Your warm reception has left an indelible mark on our hearts
25th February 2023
Community meet up, Miranda, Venezuela
Thank You for Making Our Event a Resounding Success,
Your presence and active participation truly transformed this event into an exceptional success. We trust that the discussions revolving around real-world asset tokenization were both enlightening and captivating.
Our heartfelt appreciation extends to our esteemed ambassador, (Maria Mercedes Lopez Paiva), whose dedication played a pivotal role in bringing this event to fruition.
A special shout-out goes to all who graced our recent community meetup in Venezuela! The experience of connecting with experts in Maritime and Web3 fields was nothing short of extraordinary. Together, we're forging new horizons.
8th January 2023
Education Roadshow in collaboration with CoinDcx & Pune Dao
We had the privilege of taking part in an education roadshow in Pune, centered around Secured Custody of Assets. Our esteemed partners for this event were none other than CoinDCX and Pune Dao, with whom we were thrilled to collaborate. The main thrust of our roadshow was to emphasize the importance of securing custodians of assets, and to provide a learning platform for the local community on how we safeguard our users' assets.
The event itself began with an illuminating panel discussion, featuring some of the brightest minds in the field, namely Diigant Trivedi, Capt Vikas Pandey, and Sai Poorna from the Shipfinex team. They shared their insightful ideas on the topic at hand, and we also had the opportunity to give a compelling product demo to our audience, so that they could experience the exchange platform first-hand. We were delighted to have reached over 100 web 3 enthusiasts who had been eagerly following the technology for a year or more.
6 th January 2023
Community meet up, Hyderabad
The experience of meeting the young crypto enthusiasts and enthusiasts who are truly aware of the importance of decentralization in our current world was an unforgettable one. Being part of this amazing and fun community meetup at META V Cafe (Hydrabad ) and having the opportunity to present our product and BETA test to young Indians was truly amazing.
The founder of Hydrabad Dao, Mr Siv Ram Jonnalagadda, partnered with us and provided us with an incredible amount of love and support with 300 registrations and 120 attendees at the META V Cafe event. Throughout the entire evening, thousands of questions were asked and the audience was filled with sheer enthusiasm and awe.
16th - 20th January 2023
World Economic Forum, Davos
Being part of the 2023 World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting was an honor, immersing us in shaping our world's future. As leaders converged to ignite change, the event echoed collaboration – from economic dialogues to energy shifts. Davos highlighted India's strides in global challenges, spotlighting resolute climate actions.
The National Hydrogen Mission marked a step towards a greener tomorrow. India's commitment to combat climate change is evident post 2022's extreme weather. Pledging net-zero emissions by 2070 in COP26 showcases unwavering dedication. Raj Kumar Singh's alignment with sub-2 degree rise is inspiring. Tech discourse spanned industries, underlining resilience.
'The $11 Trillion Opportunity in the Care Economy' emphasized remedies for female workforce decline, resonating through care infrastructure and empowerment links. WEF enriched our understanding of collective endeavors, strengthening resolve for innovative maritime finance solutions amidst Davos' complex maritime discussions.
29th Nov-4th December 2022
ETH-India Blockchain week 2022
Attending ETHIndia was a truly exhilarating journey into technological innovation and community collaboration. This hackathon, more than an event, is a dynamic movement that celebrates builders coming together to shape Ethereum's future.
At ETHIndia, talented people from all over the world passionate about Ethereum gather together. With over 1500 builders present, it's a dynamic hub for innovation and growth. This is a place where limits are removed and doors are opened to new opportunities. The atmosphere is electric with excitement about advancing technology and unleashing creativity.
During this remarkable gathering, we immersed ourselves in the art of building decentralized applications that have the potential to reshape how we interact with technology. Our aim is to establish a community of self-reliant individuals in a digital garden where everyone has equal ownership and traditional hierarchies are eliminated.
ETHIndia was not just an event; it was a collective dream of creating a decentralized future. It's about being part of a larger narrative where technology blends with humanity's aspirations.
10-13th October 2022
Future Blockchain Summit
As we set our eyes to draw traction from the biggest Crypto friendly geographies in the globe, we set foot in Dubai to attend, represent and showcase ShipFinex at the Future Blockchain Summit. It was a power-packed 4 day event that attracted visitors, investors, builders and Web3 enthusiasts and even folks from Web2 who wanted to explore what new is coming up in the space of blockchain.
We took a booth at the Future Blockchain Summit whereby the ShipFinex team attended the visitors, explained to them what we are building at ShipFinex and intrigued everyone’s interest into this unique asset class through the concept of real-world asset tokenisation and fractional ownership. Apart from this, our COO, Capt.Vikas Pandey also showcased ShipFinex as a project at the BlockStage in the Future Blockchain Summit arena led by an Q&A session. It truly was an eventful experience for the team to connect with such a matured Web3 crowd and create a brand name for ShipFinex at such a global stage.
15th - 16th March 2023
ShipTek International Conference & Awards 2023
Step into our exhilarating journey at the ShipTek Dubai International Conference & Awards 2023, where maritime luminaries converged to shape the industry's horizon. Amidst shipbuilders, tech innovators, and regulatory authorities, we immersed in the industry's pulse, resonating with opportunities and innovation.
An esteemed highlight: ShipFinex clinched the prestigious "Best Project Innovation" award. Our pioneering work in fractionalizing maritime assets revolutionizes ownership accessibility.
Our Captain Vikas Pandey, Co-Founder and COO of ShipFinex, took to the stage and graced the panel discussion on "The Future Of Digitalization In Shipping." His insights reverberated with expertise and innovation, inspiring us all. A huge shoutout to the esteemed panelists and moderator who made this discussion truly enlightening:
David Galea - Managing Director at Master Field Consultancy ,Sherif Azzam - Key Account Manager, Business Development Middle East at DNV - Maritime , our Capt. Vikas Pandey - Co-Founder, COO at ShipFinex , Dr. Ibrahim Behairy - Managing Director Middle East & Africa, WinGD – Winterthur Gas & Diesel ,TONY DAGHER - Managing Director at TMC Shipping and Ramtin Rasoulinezhad, Ph.D. - Chief Technology Officer at Shift Clean Energy
Their presence and insights illuminated the path toward a digitally empowered maritime future, and for that, we extend our heartfelt gratitude.
8th - 9th December 2022
WBS, Bangkok
After achieving a major milestone in the World Blockchain Summit, the world’s leading Blockchain event series led by Trescon is back in Bangkok this time. It started from 8th of December and spread over 2 days, the event was set to foster the future of Web3 in the vibrant setting possible.
WBS, Bangkok is a thought-leader driven initiative bringing together the most highlighted entities in the Blockchain and Crypto World, to emphasize the growth parameters of the technology behind a decentralised era.
To extend the narrative of bringing Maritime assets onto the decentralised economy, we are partnered with WBS, Bangkok as Gold Sponsors, where we will showcase a prominent adaptive solution to resolve the bottlenecks in Shipping Finance. Furthermore, our Co-Founder and COO, Capt Vikas Pandey also delivered a keynote speech denoting the case of how we are building a trillion-dollar economy onto blockchain with proof-of-reserves.
Past Events
20th July 2022
India Blockchain Week Exhibition
Our first venture to connect with a massive and emerging community led us to participate in the India Blockchain Week where we joined hands with a number of emerging and established Web3 leaders and projects to share insights on how the industry is shaping for the better.
ShipFinex took a booth at the India Blockchain Week where we got the chance to meet people from multiple verticals of Crypto and Web3. It was a perfect way to display ourselves as an emerging project and establish the narrative of what we are building.
18th October 2022
ShipFinex sponsored The Middle East branch of the ICS networking event
On October 18, 2022, the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) Middle East chapter hosted a networking event sponsored by ShipFinex. The event included a special panel discussion on "Blockchain Enabling Evolution in Shipping Finance" to advance the idea of combining Web3 and maritime ecosystems.101 attendees, including individuals from ICS and the Web3 ecosystem, attended the event.
Jagdish Pandya, a seasoned startup mentor and the creator of BlockOn Capital, an accelerator for forthcoming Web3 businesses, hosted a panel discussion. The panelists were Mr. Sunil Arora, CEO and Co-Founder of ShipFinex, Mr. Edwin Lee, CEO of NeoVision Ventures in Dubai, Mr. Tony Dagher, Managing Director of TMC Shipping in the UAE, Mr. Nijoe Joseph, an experienced maritime attorney at Stephenson Harwood.
Following the panel discussion, Capt. Vikas Pandey, COO and Co-Founder of ShipFinex, presented ShipFinex's vision of creating the first maritime exchange platform and sparking a new revolution in the maritime sector.
18th-19th October 2022
Exhibited the future of the Maritime economy at the World Blockchain Summit
The World Blockchain Summit's three days were an exciting experience. Meeting investors, promoting the tokenisation of the marine industry, and winning the startup world cup were a few of the World Blockchain Summit's highlights. Additionally, the ShipFinex team participated in the WBS exhibition from October 18 to 19, where we assisted the visitors in understanding the complete ShipFinex ecosystem and helped them join the trillion-dollar revolution.
17th October 2022
Investor Gala Dinner Sponsor and KeyNote Speech by Vikas Pandey at World Blockchain Summit
For the VCs and degens of the Web3 business, ShipFinex organised an Investor Gala Dinner on October 17. Our COO and Co-Founder, Capt. Vikas Pandey gave the opening keynote talk and discussed asset tokenisation and the future of how blockchain can revolutionise the trillion-dollar maritime industry.
Following the keynote address, ShipFinex competed in and won a Regional Chapter of The Startup World Cup against 16 firms with wildly diverse business models and ideas; now the ShipFinex Team will compete in the Final Chapter of the Startup World Cup Pitch (organised by Pegasus Ventures) Competition for the grand prize of $1 million in San Francisco.
14th October 2022
Exhibited at BlockOn Event
Being an official incubatee by BlockOn Capital, we get a great chance to setup a booth at the event organised by them with the idea of bringing together the upcoming builders and creators in the Crypto community. With an attempt to create a universal presence for ShipFinex, it was an important event to connect with Investors, Venture Firms and other key protocols to create an diverse ecosystem.
20th July 2022
India Blockchain Week Project Showcase & Panel Discussion
Our participation in India Blockchain Week was made even bigger as we got the chance to do a complete project showcase on the centre stage. Our COO & Co-Founder, Capt Vikas Pandey, took the stage and presented the entire journey of how ShipFinex was born as an idea and where do we plan to take with its impact in the Shipping and Web3 space.
Furthermore, our Co-Founders Sunil Arora and Capt Vikas Pandey also got speaker opportunities for a panel discussion where they laid down their experience with Blockchain and how and they make use of it in real-world entities.
28th-29th September 2022
Token 2049
To upscale the brand of ShipFinex and spread the name across the most extensive crypto-friendly geographies in Web3, Team ShipFinex sailed to Singapore to attend one of the most prominent Crypto Events of the year; Token 2049, Singapore. The biggest crypto event hosted a gathering of key protocols, exchanges, venture capitals and other emerging technologies in and around the core of Blockchain, curating an opportunity to connect and form collaborations across the industry. We made some long-lasting impact in the event and advocated the idea of ShipFinex, evidently at Token 2049.
13th September 2022
ShipFinex Sponsored VNTR Breakfast
ShipFinex, Lenoverse, and Bitdegree sponsored a breakfast for investors and industry degens hosted by VNTR capital as part of The Meta Week Dubai. 45 investors gathered at the hosted event to discuss the upcoming opportunities in real-world asset tokenisation via blockchain.
15th July 2022
Pre-Launch Event
ShipFinex as an idea initiated back in 2019 and went through a lot of renditions and improvisations to finally launch as a Maritime Web3 project.
To kickstart the official launch of ShipFinex, we set the date for 20th July, in our core hub Dubai and invited our inner circle of Shipping, Technology and Entrepreneurship experts to introduce them with the final launch phase of ShipFinex and what it sets out to achieve.
This Pre-Launch was just the beginning of what’s about to come in the next few days, weeks and months as we begin a huge outreach program to spread across the Shipping and Web3 communities.
20th July 2022
ShipFinex felicitated with Pioneer award at India Blockchain Week
At the Global Blockchain Leadership After Party, the jury honored CO-Founder and COO Mr. Vikas Pandey with the Pioneer Award in recognition of the contributions ShipFinex is making to the trillion-dollar maritime economy through blockchain.
24th September 2022
Soonicorn Ventures Investors Meetup, Delhi Chapter
As we move swiftly to close our funding rounds, networking with Investors from the Web2 space is as important as bringing Web3 investors to validate the idea. Keeping this in mind, we attended the Investor Meetup organised by Soonicorn Ventures and showcased ShipFinex. It was a totally different experience and the response from the Web2 investors was very overwhelming. After the project showcase, team ShipFinex got a chance to talk to the interested investors and project them the future of real-world asset tokenisation and the power of Maritime economy.
20th July 2022
Fintech Festival
It is amazing how fast the Fintech industry has grown and how far we have modified the existing financial structures to enable faster solutions. With the advent of better blockchain technology, the network of Fintech is booming enormously and being at the forefront of this industry, we took part in the Fintech Festival in New Delhi, to meet and greet some of the most influential protocols, investors, builders and enthusiasts. Overlooking the scope of Fintech and the solution we are building at ShipFinex, we took this opportunity to present the use-case we are building and invite the pioneers of the industry to collaborate with us and grow our ecosystem further.
17th October 2022
ShipFinex wins the Regional Startup World Cup Pitch Competition
One of the key highlights of this year's World Blockchain Summit, Dubai was the beginning of the Regional Competitions for the Startup World Cup, 2023. The iconic Startup Pitch Competition conducted by Pegasus Tech Ventures happens every year across 60+ countries with the finals taking place at San Francisco. With ShipFinex just 4 months old, we saw this as a perfect opportunity to showcase how we are redefining Shipping Finance into a Web3 solution.
Our COO & Co-Founder, Capt Vikas Pandey led the Pitch, set the stage, leaving the panel of Judges completely fascinated by the idea of tokenising Maritime Assets, presenting a new-use utility in the Web3 space. With over 16 Startups fighting for the esteemed title, ShipFinex was announced as the Regional Champions of the Startup World Cup Pitch Competition.
18th - 19th November 2022
Metamorphosis
To strengthen our developer community in Bangalore, ShipFinex participated in Metamorphosis 2022; web3 and blockchain event in India’s tech hub of Bengaluru. Spanning over two days, the crypto event featured some of the best developers, entrepreneurs, and investors in the space as speakers, mentors, and attendees to take our crypto ecosystem up a notch.
The event included a special panel discussion on "How different is the Bear Market” where Sai Poorna, Head of Community Outreach, along with Web3 experts and influencers Cryptoking Crypto_Jargon and Raj kapoor discussed the current and upcoming market trends.
1st - 4th November 2022
Lisbon Web Summit
It is amazing how fast the Web industry is growing and how far we have modified the existing financial structures to enable faster solutions. Sai Poorna, Head of Community Outreach took part in the Fintech Lisbon Web Summit 2022, to meet and greet some of the most influential web2 and web3 degens.
25th - 26th November 2022
EthVietnam
Marking entry into one of the biggest chain ecosystems in Web3, Team ShipFinex took part in its first Official Ethereum Conferences in one of the most vibrant crypto communities, Vietnam. Spread over two days, EthVietnam witnessed major entities from the Web3 spaces participating, finding appropriate collaboration opportunities within the community, a key aspect of expanding the global scope of digital assets and their use-case in various industries and solutions.
Our c-suite members Suraz Kottaki (CMO) and Ravi Shankar (CCO) made their presence in the event right from official stage events, to side events and after parties talking with developers, ambassadors, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to add relevant partners in the ShipFinex ecosystem.
