Grammy-winning artist Akon and AKOIN co-founders Lynn Liss and Jon Karas will be presenting the Social Impact Award Malta AIBC Summit has announced its finalists for the official awards ceremony taking place on 7th November 2019, at the InterContinental Hotel, St Julian’s Malta. On the first day of the summit, the AIBC Awards ceremony will honour the crème de la crème in the worlds of AI, blockchain, tokenisation, robotics, IoT, and more. The awards evening includes a Gala Charity Dinner at the InterContinental ballroom. This fund-raiser is organised by SiGMA Group and all proceeds will go towards The SiGMA Foundation. Thousands of nominations were received for consideration and 30 experts from the blockchain, AI and deep tech space have chosen three finalists in each category. The winners of each award will be decided by a panel of 7 judges of influence within the industry. Finally, it has now been confirmed that Grammy-winning artist Akon will also be judging the Social Impact Award along with AKOIN co-founders Lynn Liss and Jon Karas. The finalists are as follows: Payment Service Provider of The Year 2019 Finalists Wirex Salamantex Trustly DAO Building of The Year (sponsored by AmaZix) Finalists Dash MakerDAO DAOcasino IOT Implementation of The Year 2019 (sponsored by Momentum Protocol) Finalists The Things Network Deloitte Yptokey Social Impact Award 2019 (sponsored by Lucky.io) Finalists Fintech4Good Ethichub Give Foundation Best AI Application of The Year 2019 (sponsored by TakaMaka) Finalists SingularityNET Spacept Unbiased Mass Adoption Project of The Year 2019 (sponsored by AmonTech) Finalists Salamantex Future1Exchange HUPAYX Fintech Startup of The Year 2019 (sponsored by OVR) Finalists AeroBandCashaaPynk Asset Tokenization of The Year 2019 (sponsored by AeroBand) Finalists TaoDust BlackMantaCapital STOBOX Blockchain & AI for Arts Award 2019 (sponsored by Black Manta Capital) Finalists Solarex Umnai Domineum BlockChain Solution DEFI Award 2019 (sponsored by 8 PAY) Finalists MakerDAO Sologenic Simply VC