ComeTogether CEO and Co-Founder had the opportunity to sit down “virtually’ with Sid Deshmukh of Sportsy for his Let’s Talk Sports Tech program. It was great to have the opportunity to discuss the current state of technology use in the world of sports and how NFT solutions can play a role in helping them achieve their goals.
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Stavros is co-founder of ComeTogether. He holds a MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering and has 7 years of experience researching and developing Blockchain-based projects. By leveraging this experience he is architecting the Blockchain layer of ComeTogether’s solutions and also serves as a COO.
10 years bringing new tech to markets. Former cloud robotics software engineer. MEng Electrical and Computer Engineering. Having always been a music event enthusiast, I have had frustrating experiences due to ticket scalping and inflated prices. I take this problem personally. Having fell down the crypto rabbit hole since 2017, I was thrilled when I realized that NFT ticketing was the cure for this problem, which led to starting ComeTogether in 2018.
Provide NFT members with special perks that are only available to this group of individuals.
Create an ongoing target market for new offers to NFT members.
Continue to share updates and offers with NFT members long after the initial purchase.
Different levels of NFTs can be connected with different levels of access, rewards or content.
Owners of NFTs feel as though they are part of an exclusive group that can only be accessed via the NFT.
Superior audience insights vs legacy ticketing. Know who attended the event even if the ticket changes hands or in case of a group purchase. Use them to define more targeted marketing for future customer outreach.
Stathis co-founded ComeTogether in 2018, a startup providing NFTs with utilities. Nowadays, his main focus at ComeTogether is to build client/partnership relationships. In other words, he is creating awareness around NFT ticketing, memorabilia and memberships for live events. Stathis has a broad background from Finance to Computer science and web3. He pursed his master degrees at the University of Bristol, UK and then moved in France to work with Accenture as a Software engineer. He was awarded the best paper award in ‘1st Workshop on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems (BlockSys 2018)’  Â
Achilleas Kotsis, Chief Technology Officer, has 20 years of experience managing complex IT projects. He co-founded startup clickdelivery.gr in 2009, worked as CTO/COO and exited to Delivery Hero in 2016. He has recently joined ComeTogether in early summer of 2022.
Claudia is ComeTogether’s CMO, leading our strategy and content for external communications. She brings more than twenty years of B2B technology marketing leadership roles in telecommunications and IT networking and security organizations – startup to Fortune 500. Initially working with ComeTogether as a mentor and then joining the core leadership team. She works extensively in mentoring startup initiatives across many industries throughout Europe.
Our tickets are NFTs, meaning they can be resold as digital collectibles even after the event. Increase fan engagement and develop ongoing royalties from future resale.
Most importantly, you get a percentage of each resale. The ComeTogether app and organizer dashboard can support this.
Event organizers and ticketing providers using ComeTogether’s solution to provide better fan experience, as ticket fraud and scalping are prevented.
Incentive for fans to attend the event in order to redeem the NFTs. Gamification /contests (e.g. Scoring memory collectible, redeemable only for fans that predicted who scored correctly).
Provide the ability for notifications after events when needed in alignment with government regulations.
Digital ticketing and Covid-19 certificate, based on blockchain that cannot be forged due to a QR code that updates every 30 seconds.
Privacy and interoperability in compliance with the EU regulation for the Digital Green Certificate.
Medical data stored encrypted in decentralized storage or in the user’s own device.
Always know the Covid-19 status of individuals attending your event via Covid-19 certificates.
Users have full control over their medical data and they choose when and with who they share this data with.
Marketplace for selling NFT collectibles, also interoperable with existing marketplaces, meaning they can be exchanged there as well.
Create royalties out of each event, receive a commission on every NFT resale.
Geographically expand event addressable market worldwide as collectibles can be sold anywhere.
Resale rules can be set so that the event organizer profits from any resale of these NFT collectibles to not only enhance fan loyalty but open new revenue opportunities.