Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies are always to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing,

blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Feature Tech Podcast.

I'm your host, Juliet Lamar, and we have with us today, Sev Madden, he is the CEO at Block Party. Hello, Zev. Hey, Julian. How are you?

I'm doing excellent. I'm ready to party. Let me know what this Block Party is all about.

Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. And thank you for the introduction. That's pretty cool. So Block Party

is an event ticketing blockchain company. And what I mean by that is that we,

you know, we're looking to utilize blockchain technology in the event ticketing industry,

everything from entering the gate to, you know, selling secondary tickets and managing fraud and all of those sorts of things

that are challenges in the industry.

So again, why don't you give people a broad idea of the different challenges within the industry?

Because I don't think that people understand quite the need for this, because there is a huge need.

If you've gone to a live event or concert or what have you, you know, there is a lot of

ticket fraud.

There's a lot of, you know, reselling the wrong stuff.

So why don't you give us an overview of the different problems that you're finding?

Yeah, absolutely.

And maybe, you know, just as a brief background, I mean, my experience was running a music festival

recently, sort of 20,000 people, little way, and was a headliner, and before that I was at

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