EcoX SBC Web3 District Warm‑Up Night by DSRPTD sets Stage for Record‑Breaking SBC Summit Lisbon 2025

Ahmed Refaie
Sep 23
5 min read

Updated: Oct 1

On the eve of the SBC Summit Lisbon 2025, EcoX; Dubai’s most famous weekly tech meetup opened the events season with DSRPTD.net; the Tech VC Browser of the world. With an EcoX SBC Web3 District Warm-Up Night in Dubai by DSRPTD for SBC Summit Lisbon; The Greatest Show in Gaming.

The warm-up night on September 15 at Scandal Club in Dubai delivered a powerful prelude of networking, demonstrations, and community energy, priming attendees for three days of global thought leadership at the Super Stage and beyond with Web3 Academy workshops by Web3 District Lisbon on September 17 in Lisbon. The full Summit, held September 16‑18 at the Feira Internacional de Lisboa & MEO Arena, then went on to shatter previous records across attendance, content, and impact.

In Dubai at EcoX SBC Web3 District Warm-Up Night. Franco Fiore. EcoX Co-Founder and Ahmed Refaie, DSRPTD.net Host opened the night followed by the Super-Pitch Session with companies presenting such as USDR the gold backed stable coin by Gustavo Montero, PWR Chain the internet of Web3 by Edy Haddad, and Bonuz the Social Smart Wallet bridging Web2 and Web3—by Matthias Mende.

The Legends Charity Match, held on September 15 (prior to the Summit), featured teams of Portugal Legends vs World Legends. Stars included Luís Figo, Deco, Nuno Gomes, Alessandro Del Piero, Cafu, Michael Owen, Javier Zanetti, Kaká, Carles Puyol among others. It aimed to raise over €1 million for charity.

Stellar appearances on stage & in content the other day September 16.

Peter Schmeichel, Marek Hamšík, Gaizka Mendieta, and Giorgos Karagounis participated in press conferences around these football legends. Among the speakers and the attendees were Baiba Broka the President of the Latvian Biathlon Federation, Nazen Carneiro the Editor in Chief of DJ Mag Brasil and CEO of NZPR the leading music and entertainment PR agency, and Gerald Acheampong the Talent Manager and Former voice of BBC Radio One. Both Nazen and Gerald were seen together at the speaker’s lounge at the summit. With Instagram REELs captured for DSRPTD.

Nazen Carneiro and Gerald Acheampong at the Speakers Lounge.

Formula 1 veteran Rubens Barrichello and the undisputed boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk both delivered keynote speeches live on stage.

“As we at Bonuz enter the global stage from Dubai,” said Bonuz’s Founder Matthias Mende, “we believe the future of fandom is not in passive follows, but active participation, where fans invest not just attention, but trust and actionable value, and where celebrities deliver authenticity and ownership in every interaction.”

Bonuz is an entire ecosystem accessible via a social wallet app, offering endless features through its Dynamic NFT protocol. This protocol bridges the simplicity of Web2 with the capabilities of Web3, empowering creators, brands, events, and communities to engage audiences seamlessly. As a non-custodial mobile app, it enables effortless onboarding in seconds, secure multi-chain asset management (across EVM, Solana, Bitcoin, and more), dApp interactions, and bonuz’s Social ID offers an aggregation of social media links beyond how popular tool Linktree does. It's used for connecting with others and for validating actionable quests. Through DNFTs, it unlocks loyalty programs, vouchers, memberships, exclusive content, and mixed reality experiences like gamified quests—fostering transparent rewards, deeper interactions, and community building for all users.

The Warm-Up Night continued with a stage announcement by Anna Tutova the CEO of Coinstelegram the leading Web3 media, and Joud Alimam the Chairman of Cregen the tech dev company of AI & Blockchain, and TON Banking setting the stage for the screening of ‘Decentralized No Matter What’ V.4 documentary which is trending now on DSRPTD TV.

DJaayz by Cathy Guetta presentation, PWR Chain Presentation, and Joud Alimam and Anna Tutova on EcoX SBC Summit Web3 Warmup Up Night Stage at Scandal Dubai

Following the documentary screening was the debut of DXB Dubai Police Ops Game teaser and promos of two collabs with VESA’s Art Cars which was featured at the Memeland Summit earlier in May in Dubai and the newest collab announcement of the in-game festivals with NIKKA LORAK.

A live presentation from Paris by Raphael Aflalo Co-Founder of DJaayz by Cathy Guetta. DJaayz the world's first app for booking DJs demonstration video was followed by the live streaming set of the Techno Music Artist & Producer NIKKA LORAK sealing the night with dancing tunes.

An opening party in Lisbon at K Urban Beach on September 16 (in partnership with Pin‑Up) featured headline EDM performances from Joel Corry and Imanbek.

Web3 Academy OGs Panel by Web3 District on the Super Stage at SBC Summit Lisbon 2025

Web3 Academy by Web3 District Lisbon on September 17 kicked off on SBC Summit’s Super Stage opened with a Web3 OGs Panel led by Eduardo Baruch, CEO, Web3 District moderating the talk with Ishan Haque, CEO, Origami, Paul Corlett, Product & Grant Manager, The Sandbox DAO, Jordi Baylina, Tech Lead, Zisk, Cameron Dennis, Manager of AI, NEAR Foundation, and Hovort Hvartsou, FIFA Soccer Game Dev.

Gerald Acheampong, Baiba Broka, and Jorge Sebastiao delivering the Web3 Academy workshops on the SBC Summit Lisbon 2025 Super Stage by Web3 Distrcit

The panel was followed by 7 Linked Workshops: End‑to‑end toolkit—from building to compliance including an AMA session with Gary Vaynerchuk. With titles such as Web3 x Al - Building Smarter, Safer, Fairer Betting Platforms by Gerald Acheampong, Founder Tau Oracle, Tax Smart — Master MiCA, VASP & The Final Crypto Boss by Baiba Broka, “Ad-Honorem” Governing Council Member at UNIDROIT and Legal Counsel of ZIG Chain, Making Money with Web3 & Blockchain by Jorge Sebastiao, Co-Founder and Host of EcoX, and many others.

Hosted by Peter Schmeichel. The new Affiliate Leaders Awards made its debut on September 17, recognizing innovation and achievement in the affiliate marketing sector; the SBC Awards followed on September 18 with legendary goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel returning to co-host.

The Summit closed with INFINITY Lisbon at MEO Arena, a standout finale headlined by EDM artists Alok and Timmy Trumpet, among others, with thousands in attendance.