Tom Brady Revealed as the Keynote Speaker at the eMerge Americas 2023 Conference in Miami Beach
The keynote speaker for eMerge Americas 2023 will be the recently retired football legend, Tom Brady.
On the opening day of the conference, the seven-time Super Bowl winner and businessman will offer his business views during a moderated chat. On April 20 and 21, the technology summit will be held at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
Brady is the founder of the NFT firm Autograph and the owner of the health and wellness brand TB12. Autograph earned $170 million in a series B transaction that was completed in January 2022. In 2024, he is scheduled to begin working as a pundit for Fox Sports.
After 23 seasons in the NFL, Brady announced last week that he is quitting the game. The announcement was made a year after he made his initial retirement announcement, which he then reversed six weeks later.
With the aim of making Miami the innovation hub of the Americas, eMerge Americas was established in 2014. It brings together investors, venture capital firms, and entrepreneurs in the technology sector. More than 20,000 people from 4,000 enterprises and 50 nations attended the event in 2022.
A platform with venture capital backing called eMerge Americas is working to make Miami the innovation capital of the Americas. The eMerge flagship event, which debuted in 2014, is an annual international tech conference that draws over 20,000 participants from 50 countries and over 4,000 distinct participating organizations.
It is held in the Miami Beach Convention Center. Along with the annual conference, eMerge also plans and hosts executive summits, innovation challenges, startup pitch competitions, masterclasses, webinars, and publishes venture activity and investment insights reports throughout the year. For the past ten years, eMerge has worked to create the South Florida entrepreneurial and technological ecosystem by acting as a catalyst for investment and innovation across the Americas. For additional information, go to www.emergeamericas.com.
A number of events related to the technology sector will take place in the spring, including the React Miami 2023 summit and the Bitcoin 2023 conference for cryptocurrency aficionados.
Miami International Auto Show Returns to Miami October 15-23, 2022
One of the biggest car shows in the country, the Miami International Auto Show, has revealed the dates for its nine-day event this year: October 15–23, 2022 at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
At this year’s auto show, more than 500 of the best cars, trucks, SUVs, and motorcycles will be on display. Over 700,000 guests from all over the world are anticipated for this year’s event.
The South Florida Automobile Dealers Association has been the show’s sponsor since it debuted in 1971. Over the course of its 50-year run, the program has donated over $7 million to regional causes, with the most recent $400,000 going to a longtime partner, the Ronald McDonald House.
The past event included around 300,000 people in attendance, in addition to automakers, historic vehicle groups, and automotive enthusiasts from around the world. Acura, Alfa Romeo, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Genesis, Honda, Hyundai, Jeep, Kia, Lexus, Nissan, Ram, Subaru, Toyota, and Volkswagon are among the exhibitors this year.
The convention center offers $30 for a limited amount of valet parking, which is accessible on a first come, first served basis. Across 17th St. is a municipal garage that charges $2 per hour with a $20 daily maximum. You can view a complete map of convention center parking before you arrive through the shows website. Miami Beach also offers additional public lots and garages close by.
The thrills happen at the Miami Beach Convention Center from October 15–23, 2022. Children under 12 are admitted for $6; adults must pay $15.
Announced: Bitcoin Conference Miami Beach April 6-9 2022
For the 2nd year, the International Bitcoin Conference is coming back to Miami Beach and it will be bigger than the last day. Stretching over 4 day, this event will introduce cryptocurrency experts, investors, and industry leaders through panel discussions, Q&As, lectures and much more. On the last day, a music festival, the “Sound Money Fest” will take place with some major headliners.
This year the Bitcoin Conference will be held at the Miami Beach Convention Center form April 6-9, 2022. This week long event is dedication to the education of the Bitcoin ‘ecosystem’ through companies as well as upcoming project at the conference.
According to the numbers from the previous Bitcoin 2021 Conference, there were 12,000 in attendance making it a sold out event. This was considered the largest Bitcoin event in history. This year, they conference is expected to bring over 35,000 people from all over the world.
Some of the main headliners include Michael Saylor, Nick Szabo, Jack Dorsey and Tony Hawk. Jack Dorsey is the former CEO of Twitter and is also the founder of Block, Inc., a digital payment company based in San Francisco. Michael Saylor is a big name investor in Bitcoin with a stockpile of 21,454 Bitcoin = $876.5 million.
Tony Hawk also made an appearance during last year’s conference and discussed the parallels of cryptocurrency and skateboarding. His charity foundation just recently started accepting bitcoin as well.
The event is open to all ages at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Ticket prices begin at $862. For more information on the conference or to purchase tickets, click here.
Public Meetings Will Shape the Future of Miami Beach’s Convention Center Hotel and 6th Street Corridor
Two intriguing public meetings are coming up in Miami Beach for citizens, neighbors, NIMBYs, YIMBYs, activists, and amateur (or not so amateur) architects and urban planners. On Monday, Miami Beach City Government is holding a public forum in the city hall commission chamber requesting residents’ input on the planned Convention Center Hotel. An earlier version of the hotel, planned for a location adjacent to the new convention center, was defeated in a voter referendum, so it’s back to the drawing board, and this time with hopefully better results.
On July 21, a community meeting will look at ways to improve the semi-desolate, messy, and well, sometimes downright dumpy 6th Street, in South Beach. Just north of the main thoroughfare of 5th Street, 6th is a transition between slightly higher density commercial buildings to the low-scale, leafy, garden apartment blocks of the Flamingo Park neighborhood. It’s being organized by city activist Michael DeFillipi, at Plant Theory.
More Delays for the Big Ol’ Miami Beach Convention Center Hotel
Former Portman proposal for Miami Beach Convention Center Hotel
The timeline for the proposed Miami Beach Convention Center Hotel has more than likely been delayed by a substantial amount of time due to the indecisiveness of a Blue Ribbon panel set up to address the issue by Mayor Philip Levine. The convention hotel was meant to accompany the new convention center, which is currently under construction.
According to the Real Deal, the commission “did not reach any agreement late Monday on where any new hotel should be built, how many rooms it should contain, how tall it should be and whether or not it should incorporate the Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater into its design.” which means they made pretty much zero progress, and because a voter ballot measure is required, and that ballot measure has to be written by August to make it into the November ballot, it’s “highly unlikely” that’s going to happen. As you may remember, the last time the hotel was on the ballot, with a gigantic and rather blah design, it was defeated (I once wrote on Curbed Miami the design looked “like a bad copy of the Fountainebleau, on steroids”). In response, Jack Portman, the only developer who was willing to take on the City of Miami Beach’s frustrating inaction on this issue is still sticking around. Portman, his company, has been the only bidder for the hotel in a while. “I think he just sit tight” Mr. Portman said, showing that by now he should probably be considered a minor saint.
