Wow.
It’s been a week since we wrapped up the first-ever edition of Crypto AI:CON - See you 2025 😘, and we're just now landing from it all, beyond grateful for the milestones we've achieved.
Let's take it from the beginning..
When Tim Haldorsson and Jack Haldorsson first came up with the idea of hosting a big AI conference to close out the year, I’ll admit I was a bit nervous.
After all, we’re in the middle of scaling Lunar Strategy: The Crypto Ecosystem Growth Agency & Lunar Labs Capital with a bigger team and projects.
But if you know Tim and Jack, you know their ideas are always wild and visionary.
The synergy between Lunar and the conference concept was too good to pass up.
So, six months ago, Jack and the team went full throttle. From securing sponsors to managing logistics and marketing, they’ve been relentless in bringing this vision to life.
The goal was clear:
Bring projects, devs, investors, founders and KOLs together to discuss AI's future in crypto.
Does AI need crypto, or does Crypto need AI? Were the questions to be answered.
Partnering with DFINITY and #ICP felt natural as they’re leading the way with AI fully on-chain.
As part of the ICP Hubs Network (covering Portugal and France), we wanted to go above and beyond. That’s how the idea of hosting a local Hacker House for devs came to life.
Over two days, the Hacker House brought together 100+ developers, diving deep into Web3 and ICP. Massive shoutout to Tiago Loureiro, Marina Atarova, and Elodie G from our ICP HUB Portugal & ICP HUB France for leading this initiative, as well as the ICP HUB Poland team for their support. It created incredible networking opportunities, not to mention a chance for our Accelerator projects building on ICP to connect in person.
Highlights? Oh, we had plenty.
Hosting Pierre Samaties from DFINITY for a keynote and fireside chat with Michaël van de Poppe was next-level.
Seeing the announcement of a new AI paradigm live? Unreal.
The concept of a world computer, where AI builds and updates apps autonomously, is like stepping into 2024 and realizing the future has already arrived.
Seriously, check out Dominic Williams’ post on it here https://lnkd.in/dDxhb2h6
Watch Pierre’s keynote: https://lnkd.in/d4R52EaK
Fireside chat? https://lnkd.in/dicgz7vV
This was a team effort in every sense of the word. A huge shoutout to Jack for leading the charge with Tim, and to the incredible crew behind the scenes: Nick • Web3 Ghostwriter, Luka Mrkic, Andreas Smolyarson, Vineet Nair, Adam Westerén and everyone else who worked non-stop.
Also, major thanks to our sponsors, you made this happen! (Special shoutout to Privasea AB for the best merch, those caps were 🔥)
Collaborating with Embassy Labs made everything run smoother, and their production setup? Absolutely top-tier.
We’re already with ideas for next year’s edition, but one thing’s for sure: we’ll be back.
See you all soon!