In partnership with the EU Commission invites THE European Business Transformation Experts and Country Delegations from all 28 European member states, discussing diverse practical and conceptional scenarios beyond the hype from the fields of alternative Finance, Blockchain Innovation, and Digitalization. With top-level experts and country patrons from all 28 EU member states the goal is to bring together bright minds to give inspiring talks and discussions, that are idea-focused, and on a wide range of subjects that reflect crowd-based disruption. Stakeholders from all 28 European member states represented by dedicated Country Patrons will gather in Athens from the fields of practitioners, academia, and politics to foster learning, inspiration and wonder – and provoke conversations that matter. Crowd Dialog Europe is a yearly full-day event being curated by numerous CrowdSourcing and CrowdFunding associations, with an audience of about 400 delegates. After Helsinki (Finland) 2015 and Graz (Austria) 2016 , Athens (Greece) 2017, Vienna (Austria) 2018 we will announce soon who will be the hosting city 2019 for Europeans leading gathering of great minds to discuss crowd-based disruption as well as the present and future effects on businesses, states and its people.