BTC Media, the world's leading Bitcoin and blockchain-focused media company, has announced that its inaugural blockchain conference, “Distributed: Trade”, will be held in St. Louis, Missouri on June 14, 2016. It is the first global event focusing on blockchain technology applications for both trade networks and financial services.

The attendees will include professionals from leading industry startups, investment firms, financial services institutions, logistics services providers, corporate treasurers and CFOs, manufacturers and academic and policy groups worldwide.

BTC Media will be hosting the conference in partnership with SixThirty, a leading fintech accelerator in the US.

"We are extremely pleased to partner with SixThirty," said David Bailey, CEO of BTC Media. "By combining BTC Media's knowledge of the blockchain ecosystem with SixThirty's insight as a fintech innovator, business accelerator and leading driver of disruptive B2B technology, we have created a first-of-its-kind, collaborative event focusing on cutting edge blockchain solutions."

The conference aims to provide a platform to bring together the industry's leading blockchain technology companies and major enterprises to brainstorm on how the new technology will disrupt and optimize trade networks and financial services. The agenda will be focused on blockchain developments related to supply chain management, global payments, insurance services, and capital market operations.

Together with the conference, BTC Media will also officially launch its newest media property, Distributed, an expansion of its popular weekly blockchain technology report The Distributed Ledger into a 24-hr news portal covering enterprise-level blockchain applications.