Blockchain DevFest Unlock Sponsorship Proposal
Background.
The Blockchain Developer Festival, also shortened as the <u>Blockchain DevFest </u>, is a developer-focused event, is a 2-day virtual and physical event culminating in a hackathon, keynotes, panels, workshops, awards and a dinner party. This conference hosted on the 27th and 28th of June will bring together developers, ambitious students from universities across Africa, visionary founders, investors, VCs, Governments, and accelerators. It’ll be hosted at the National ICT Hub and Motiv in Kampala, Uganda.
There will be a 4 day hackathon that will contain key tracks that align well with the Hosting sponsor’s focus with the final 2 days held physically including a pitch and demo day on 27th June. Builders will submit projects to the tracks selected. Builders are incentivized to find ways to build integrated solutions spanning across technology stacks and verticals to maximize their chances of winning. The conference will take place on 28th where we will have panels, keynotes, round tables and more.
Previous DevFest<u>2024 DevFest Edition</u>****
The 2024 Edition happened on the 29th of June and we had unlock labs among the sponsors.The event had more than 400 registrations/attendees across a wide array of professions majorly developers and tech enthusiasts. Participants came from a number of other African countries such Rwanda, Kenya , Nigeria, Ethiopia ,Tanzania, south Africa and Malawi.
<u>Quick Summary</u>: Authored by Danny Thomx, Unlock ambassador.The attendees were introduced to the unlock protocol and many of them have leveraged unlock in different capacities in the past year and here are some cases.
1. The previously concluded bitcoin pizza day in 5 Ugandan Cities last month:a) <u>Pizza Day Kampala</u>b) <u>Pizza Day Mbarara</u>c) <u>Pizza Day Jinja</u> d) <u>Pizza Day Entebbe</u>e) <u>Pizza Day Arua</u>
2. Builders have been leveraging and contributing to the unlock East African ecosystem growth initiative to increase unlock protocol adoption . Across all member states most of whom were participants in the event.
3. As a result of our initiatives , we have strengthened collaboration with many other conferences in the region that have successfully taken on unlock as a ticketing and memberships infrastructure for example <u>EthSafari</u> , <u>EthRwanda</u> and the mentioned pizza day parties.
4. David, as a host of the Blockchain developer festival contributed greatly to other regional activation grants by unlock such as <u>Unlock East Africa</u> which resulted in the first edition of <u>EthRwanda</u> hackathon where he was one of the judges for the hackathon.
**Audience:**500+ attendees
Developer Audience Type
1.Junior web3.0 devs
2.Intermediate web 3.0 devs
3.Front and back end Web 2.0 devs
4.Game developers
Other attendees.
- University students
- Business executives
- Enthusiasts
- Artists and creators
What to Expect this year.
- Access to 50+ hackathon builders.
- Protocol workshops during the conference
- Startup Demo Day - presenting the best hackathon projects that can compete globally in partnership with VC firms like Hashed Emergent.
- Pre-event X spaces with a global outreach.
- Networking with 500+ attendees
- A dedicated branded meeting area during the conference for attendees to connect.
- After-support for developers and builders through (developer program like p2einferno , internships, Jobs, grants, funding, and accelerators like CV VC <u>Lisk Incubation Hub</u>.
- 15 minute keynote speech from the unlock representative.
- Panel discussion including a representative from Unlock ,
- Social media mentions and ads featuring Unlock media,stickers and ads.
- Continuous partnership with several other DevFest partners such as , <u>Base</u>
<u>Celo</u>, <u>Starknet</u>, <u>Ethereum Support Program </u>
- Panel discussions including a representative from Unlock
- Promo videos and ad content featuring Unlock as a premier sponsor.
- Continuous partnership with top universities which have partnered with us universities such as <u>Uganda Christian University </u>, <u>Makerere University </u>, <u>Kyambogo University </u> and more such that they utilize Unlock in their events , certifications and membership schemes in the region.
- Any other ideas that can be used to promote Unlock both at and after the event.
Projected Benefits & Impact.
We aim to amplify Unlock protocol’s visibility and community participation in the Unlock DAO by:-
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Having more than 100 attendees join the different unlock community social media platforms; discord and X where they can directly get involved and become active contributors.
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Organise an event session for developers to learn more about Unlock.
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Running a pilot of computing short course certifications using unlock in all the computer science departments of the 3 mentioned universities above as initial steps of a broader push for adoption of Unlock for certification by different organizations and communities in the region.
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Have at least 3-5 projects developing on top of Unlock features for the hackathon and all of them will be open sourced.
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As a way to further increase unlock adoption & usage, we are leveraging partnerships and usage of regional ecosystem infrastructure built on unlock like the <u>ETHRwanda Faucet</u> to help builders get easier reach to resources in the hackathon.
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Onboarding at least 2 organisations/communities to unlock by setting up unlock-enabled memberships for those in attendance such as the rotaractors , and other developer groups.
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Working with regional developer circles like <u>Web3 Developer Clubs</u> , EthRwanda community, <u>AyaHQ</u>, and <u>One Dev</u> and to further advance promotion and adoption of Unlock in their developer communities.
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Enabling/guiding the top 5 creators among the attendees to monetize their communities with NFT Memberships, including setting up a live onboarding demo for them.
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Free 1:1 onboarding for all projects integrating Unlock.
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Uploading all the Conference content, starting with the Unlock keynote session, onto our newly created <u>DevFest YouTube channel</u>, where it can be kept for future reference and broader outreach. We will also clip short highlights and transcribe key points into a LinkedIn carousel or tweetstorm.
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Continuously inviting our community and attendees to feature in all Unlock-related events.
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Assigning a content creator for the Unlock activities and booth will help create better-focused content that we can use to promote Unlock even post-event.
Partners & Supported communities
Over our existence, we have built a network of partner communities with whom we build and grow the Web 3 ecosystem in Uganda, East Africa, and Africa at large, whose reach we can leverage to amplify Unlock utilization and usage. These include :
East Africa
<u>OneDev</u>(Kenya)
<u>Web3Clubs</u>(Kenya)
<u>BAD DAO</u> (Kenya)
<u>Decentracode</u>(Uganda)
<u>EthRwanda</u> (Rwanda)
<u>EthSafari</u>(Kenya)
West Africa.
<u>Web3Bridge</u>(Nigeria)
<u>AyaHQ</u>(Ghana)
Ask: $3500
[<u>Budget breakdown</u>