Token2049, the annual Web3 convention, opens its doorways tomorrow, April 18, however these doorways could be barricaded with sandbags because the heavens have opened in current days to inundate the desert metropolis with a wall of water.
The town, which generally will get simply 9.5cm (about 4 inches) of rain in a 12 months, has seen near 15cm (about 6 inches) fall in simply 24 hours between Monday and Tuesday night, throwing the tinder-dry metropolis into chaos.
Social media is awash with movies and clips of the unlikely scenario, with streets turned to rivers, automobiles submerged, planes spraying water on flooded runways, and tales of diverted flights and guests to the convention trapped of their lodges.
The town’s worldwide airport, the second busiest on the earth with 87 million passengers, informed vacationers this morning to not come – a primary for the desert nation.
The occasion itself remains to be scheduled to go forward regardless of the inconveniences guests are experiencing. The hope is that the return of the sort of climate the Emirates expects for this time of 12 months – blue skies and temperatures round 30c – shall be adequate to get the town again on its toes and wheels once more.
Cointelegraph’s reporter Ezra Reguerra is in Dubai to report on the occasion and has despatched some eye-popping movies of the town after the storms.
TOKEN2049 will run from April 18-19, 2024, on the Madinat Jumeirah Resort in Dubai. Thought of by many because the main international Web3 and crypto neighborhood occasions of the 12 months, 2024 marks the primary time the occasion is going down in Dubai.
Tickets bought out properly prematurely, and a superb 10,000 attendees are anticipated over the 2 days. It would deliver collectively founders, executives, and decision-makers from greater than 4,000 firms and 100 international locations.
The agenda is filled with a variety of subjects, together with decentralized AI, Web3 gaming, DeFi, and blockchain scalability. And, as one would anticipate from the town of Dubai, the occasion shall be accompanied by exhibitions, dwell DJ units, and high-class hospitality.
TOKEN2049 truly started on April 15, with a week-long sequence of meetups, workshops, and events. The second TOKEN2049 occasion of the 12 months will happen in Singapore in September.
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