TokenFest | San Francisco, CA

7:00am - All Day	Event Registration Opens
7:00am - 7:55am	WaffleFest Breakfast!	Network with attendees and enjoy tokenized waffles on our expo floor!	Expo Hall
8:00am - 8:25am	Welcome & Introduction	Welcome & Introduction with Brinkley Warren, Co-Founder of Token Fest.	Amphitheater
8:30am - 8:45am	Keynote: Bill Barhydt, ABRA	Crypto Investing Simplified: Powering The New Token Economy	Amphitheater
8:45am - 9:00am	Fireside Chat With Michael Casey	The Truth Machine: Blockchain And The Future Of Everything	Amphitheater
9:00am - 9:15am	Unicef Keynote: Chris Fabian	Solving Global Problems With Blockchain Technologies	Amphitheater
9:15am - 10:00am	Convergence: Decentralization	Decentralized Business Models & Next Generation Blockchain	Amphitheater
10:00am - 10:15am	Break	Break	Expo Hall
10:15pm - 10:25pm	Jonathan Johnson: Medici Ventures	This Is Way Bigger Than The Internet	Amphitheater
10:30am - 11:15am	ICO Landscape	Deep Dive Into The State Of The ICO Marketplace	Amphitheater
11:15am - 12:00pm	Convergence: Governance	Convergence: Governance	Amphitheater
12:00pm - 1:10pm	Lunch	Networking Lunch In The Expo Hall	Expo Hall
1:15pm - 1:30pm	Keynote: Peter Diamandis	Keynote: Peter Diamandis	Amphitheater
1:30pm - 1:55pm	Fireside Chat: Draper Family	Fireside Chat With Tim Draper & Adam Draper	Amphitheater
2:00pm - 2:50pm	Crypto Investing	Evaluating Crypto Investments	Amphitheater
3:00pm - 3:15pm	Break	Break	Expo Hall
3:15pm - 4:00pm	Convergence: Blockchain Empowerment	Industry Transformation Through Blockchain Technologies	Amphitheater
4:00pm - 4:45pm	Token Design	Token Design	Amphitheater
4:45pm - 5:00pm	Break	Break	Expo Hall
5:00pm - 5:30pm	ICO's & The Future of Blockchain Startup Funding	ICO's & The Future of Blockchain Startup Funding	Amphitheater
5:30pm - 5:55pm	Fireside Chat With Ned Scott	Fireside Chat With Ned Scott	Amphitheater
5:55pm - 6:00pm	Announcement	Closing Remarks	Amphitheater
6:00pm - 9:00pm	Steemit Opening Party!	Live DJ Featuring Award Winning Andy Caldwell, Cocktails & Premium Networking On 2nd Level of Innovation Hangar (Sponsored by Steemit!)	Innovation Hangar (2nd Level of Expo Hall)

7:00am - All Day	Event Registration Opens
8:00am - 8:15am	Keynote with Patrick Byrne	Patrick Byrne - CEO, Overstock.com/tZERO	Amphitheater
8:15am - 8:30am	From Web 2.0 to Blockchains: Fireside Chat with Eric Ly and Larry Sanger	Eric Ly - Co-Founder, LinkedIn & HubToken; Larry Sanger - Co-Founder, Wikipedia & Everipedia	Amphitheater
8:30am - 8:45am	Keynote: Open Source Blockchains & The State of Hyperledger	Brian Behlendorf - Executive Director, Hyperledger	Expo Hall
8:45am - 9:45am	Hyperledger	Permissioning Your Blockchain, KYB (Know Your Blockchain)	Amphitheater
9:45am - 10:00am	Break		Expo Hall
10:00am - 10:15am	Keynote: Enterprise Blockchain with Matt Roznak	Matthew Roszak - Chairman and Co-Founder, Bloq	Amphitheater
10:15am - 11:05am	Tokenizing the Enterprise	Securing Hardware & Storage for Enterprise	Amphitheater
11:05am - 11:50am	Blockchain For Good	Blockchain for the UN's Sustainable Development Goals	Amphitheater
12:00pm - 1:15pm	Lunch		Expo Hall
1:15pm - 1:30pm	Special Announcement	Introducing The Best Banking App with the Best Assistant with PETE technology in conjunction with Best Blockchain Advisors. And MagicChannel.com's Tribute to HOUDINI!	Amphitheater
1:30pm - 1:45pm	Keynote: The Energy Arms Race	Saransh Sharma - President, 4New	Amphitheater
1:45pm - 2:15pm	5-min Lightning Talks: The Future of Decentralization	Metal Payments: The Viral Cryptocurrency Mechanism	Amphitheater
2:25pm - 2:50pm	5-min Lightning Talks: The Future of Blockchain Innovation	Tokenizing Assets on The Open Trading Network	Amphitheater
2:55pm - 3:30pm	5-min Lightning Talks: The Future of P2P Infrastructure	Unstoppable Data Storage on Blockchain	Amphitheater
3:30pm - 3:45pm	Break		Expo Hall
3:45pm - 4:45pm	Token Design	Inside the SEC and Token Sales	Amphitheater
4:45pm - 5:30pm	Convergence: Women in Blockchain	The Future of Government is Culture	Amphitheater
5:30pm - 5:55pm	Token Fest Update & Closing Remarks	Brinkley Warren & Ryan Colby (Token Fest)

Time	Presenter
9:00am - 9:15am	Braden Pollock - CEO, Legal Brand Marketing
9:15am - 9:30am	Stani Kulechov - Founder & CEO, ETHLend
9:35am - 9:50am	Patrick Guay - Blockchain Developer, Etherparty
9:55am - 10:10am	Jarrod Dicker - CEO, Po.et
10:15am - 10:30am	Break
10:30am - 10:45am	Anthem Blanchard - CEO, AnthemGold
10:50am - 11:05am	Elvina Kamalova - Director of Growth, Blockmason
11:10am - 11:25am	Dan Edwards - VP of Finance, CashBet
11:30am - 11:45am	Roy Meirom - Co-Founder & VP Business Development, WeMark
12:00pm - 1:15pm	Lunch
2:00pm - 2:15pm	Steven Staley - CEO, Gravity Network
2:20pm - 2:35pm	Will Murphy - VP of Blockchain, Talla
2:40pm - 2:55pm	Matej Michalko - Founder, President, DECENT
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Break
5:00pm - 5:15pm	Jazzwall Sharad - Head of Product, SWARM Fund

Time	Presenter
8:45am - 9:00am	Louis O'Connor - Managing Director, Agrolandic
9:05am - 9:20am	Ilya Nikiforov - CEO, Disciplina Blockchain
9:25am - 9:40am	David Vaskevitch - Founder, Gaia
9:45am - 10:00am	Break
10:00am - 10:15am	Phil Sigler - COO, The LendingCoin
10:20am - 10:35am	Andy Park - CEO, Coral Health
10:40am - 10:55am	Geofrey Rainey - CTO, Vanig
11:00am - 11:15am	TBA
11:20am - 11:35am	Uma Hagenguth - COO, Appics
11:40am - 11:55am	Matan Field - CEO and Lead Architect, DAOStack
12:00pm - 1:15pm	Lunch
1:30pm - 1:45pm	Renat Khasanshyn - Co-Founder, Etherisc
1:50pm - 2:05pm	Brent Martin - Technology & Innovation, CoinCart
2:10pm - 2:25pm	Brent Traidman - Chief Revenue Officer, Bread; James MacWhyte - Chief Product Officer, Bread
2:30pm - 2:45pm	Yves Daoust - EVP Business Development, IVEP
2:50pm - 3:05pm	Jeff Mahony - CEO, UBIQUICOIN
3:10pm - 3:25pm	Alex Bessonov - CEO, BitClave

Time	Presenter	Presentation
3:30pm	Phil Sigler - COO, The LendingCoin	The LendingCoin
3:38pm	Christiana Zoupa - CEO & Co-Founder, Oceanus Foundation	Oceanus Foundation
3:46pm	Grant Cohen - Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Fan Controlled Football League	Solving The Largest ICO Problem
3:54pm	Srini Katta - Founder, Social Chains Hubert Vaz-Naik - COO, Social Chains	Social Chains
4:02pm	Alex Howard - Co-founder, Giftcoin Tim Bichara - Co-founder, Giftcoin	Giftcoin
4:10pm	Geofrey Rainey - CTO, Vanig	The World's first integrated E-Commerce and Supply Chain Ecosystem powered by blockchain.
4:18pm	Alex Mashinsky - CEO, Celsius Network	Celsius Network
4:26pm	Oliver Prock - CEO & Founder, Smarter Than Crypto powered by Salus Alpha	Smarter Than Crypto powered by Salus Alpha
4:34pm	Tom Friend - Founder/CEO, Ash Elements	Ash Elements Fractional Mineral Rights Security Token
4:42pm	Emilio Fierro - Investor Relationship Manager, STOM.Network	STOM.Network

Time	Presenter	Presentation
3:30pm	Manshu Agarwal - CEO, Ponder	Ponder App
3:38pm	Saleem Lala - Partner & Co-Founder, Lala & Sons- Bankcrypt Protocol Dania Hanif - Co-founder, Bankcrypt Protocol	BankCrypt Protocol
3:46pm	Chad Ledford - Co-Founder, Dax.Network	Dax.Network
3:54pm	Alexander Dmitriev - CEO, Verifier	Verifier
4:02pm	Jodee Rich - CEO, Crypto.Kred	Crypto.Kred
4:10pm	Alexander Demidko - Fluence.ai - a decentralized database network , Fluence.ai	Fluence
4:18pm	Kahana Moti - Founder, People's Coin	People's Coin
4:26pm	Minh Le, MD - CEO, The Coupon Token @CircularPlaces.com	The Coupon Token @CircularPlaces.com
4:34pm	Grant Cohen - Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Fan Controlled Football League	Fan Controlled Football League

Speakers

Ryan Colby

Ryan Colby is the Founder and Co-Producer of Token Fest, LLC. He is an experienced Conference Producer who has managed award winning events during his tenure with IDG World Expo including the BioITWorld Conference & Expo, the ProjectWorld Conference & Expo and the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. Ryan is focused on creating the ultimate networking events for senior level executives within the blockchain industry. Token Fest is a media and events company providing distinctive, experiential events to evangelize blockchain technology around the world. The company is already planning additional events for 2018 & 2019 along with Token Magazine, the first digital publication for the decentralized economy.

Ryan Colby

Brinkley Warren

Brinkley is the Host and Co-Producer of Token Fest. He is a serial-entrepreneur passionate about bringing together world-class people and ideas to curate great experiences that accelerate exponential impact. Brinkley's background founding and leading media and tech companies has enabled him to acquire a unique blend of operational experience across the entrepreneurial lifecycle. He has co-founded and launched brands such as MegaBots.com and LeanMonitor.com among others. His first business was a digital music venture where he produced music for over 300 artists, including two Grammy-Award winners. He began his career with CNN, the Discovery Channel, and Cabin Creek Films. Brinkley is a Fulbright Fellow, and holds two master's degrees, including an MA in journalism. He's passionate about applying blockchain technologies to drive positive impact.

Brinkley Warren

Tim Draper

Tim Draper is the founding partner of Draper Associates and DFJ. Tim’s original suggestion to use viral marketing as a method for spreading a software application from customer to customer was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail, Skype, and others. Tim has been recognized as a leading supporter of entrepreneurship with numerous awards and honors. He was listed as #46 of the most outstanding Harvard alumni, #7 on the Forbes Midas List, #1 of the Most Networked Venture Capitalists by Always On, and #98 in Worth Magazine’s 100 Most Powerful People in Finance. Tim also received the World Entrepreneurship Forum’s “Entrepreneur for the World” in 2015. Tim received a BS from Stanford University with a major in electrical engineering and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He served on the California State Board of Education in 1998-1999, and currently leads an initiative to create six new states in California (Six Californias) to encourage competition and choice in government. In 1994, he created a non-profit for young children to learn about business and entrepreneurship called BizWorld. In 2011, he created Draper University of Heroes, a residential and online school to help extraordinary young people meet their entrepreneurial goals.

Tim Draper

Matthew Roszak

Matthew Roszak is co-founder and chairman of Bloq, a leading blockchain technology company. Mr. Roszak is also founding partner of Tally Capital, a private investment firm focused on cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based technologies with a portfolio of over 50 investments, including Block.One, Blockstream, Civic, Doc.ai, Factom, Orchid, Rivetz, Token Report and Qtum. Mr. Roszak serves as chairman of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, the world’s largest trade association representing the blockchain industry. In addition, Mr. Roszak serves on the board of BitGive, a blockchain-enabled charity foundation. Mr. Roszak is also the founder of the Chicago Blockchain Center, a public-private partnership with the State of Illinois, CME Group, DRW and Lightbank. Mr. Roszak was a producer of the industry’s first ever documentary, The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin. Mr. Roszak is a sought after thought leader on blockchain technology, and has testified as an expert before U.S. Congress and spoken at the U.S. Federal Reserve. Mr. Roszak has presented at TEDx, been featured on CNBC and quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Financial Times.

Matthew Roszak

Kathryn Harrison

Kathryn is currently the Director of Global Offering Management for IBM Blockchain Platform, where she is the executive responsible for conceptualizing, developing and delivering IBM Blockchain software products. Making it for organization to embrace and embed blockchain technology is her key mission, and as part of this role, she is an active member of Hyperledger, the open source blockchain initiative within the Linux Foundation. She is dedicated to bringing blockchain technology to emerging markets and public sector use cases so that it can benefit people globally. In previous roles at IBM, Kathryn served as the Payments and Blockchain Leader for IBM Middle East and Africa, responsible for developing and communicating the IBM point of view on blockchain and its impact on banking, government and supply chain across Middle East and Africa. Her interest in blockchain grew out of her experience working on payment modernization with several major banks in Turkey. Prior to her Istanbul assignment, Kathryn led Smarter Cities projects to help state and local governments across the US embrace technology solutions to improve operations, services and quality of life for their citizens. Kathryn began her career in financial services at Gerson Lehrman Group in New York and Hong Kong where she led legal, political and regulatory research for the firm’s investment clients in North America and Asia. During business school, she worked at Morgan Stanley, where she sat on the international equities desk. Outside of her career at IBM, Kathryn Harrison has been appointed to the Lauder Advisory Council at the University of Pennsylvania, where is an advisor the Director of the Lauder Institute. She previously served as the President of the Lauder Institute Alumni Association. She is a frequent conference speaker on topics related to blockchain including IFC CEO, Digital Currencies and Blockchain and the DC Blockchain Summit. Kathryn has a Bachelor of Science the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, an MBA from the Wharton School and an MA from the Lauder Institute both at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kathryn Harrison

Jamie Smith

As Global Chief Communications and Marketing Officer for The Bitfury Group – the world’s leading full service Blockchain company – Smith works to fundamentally enhance and positively advance the way the global community does business, transfers value, and opens up new doors to prosperity for billions of people throughout the world. Smith has dedicated her career to making lives better, improving security, and ensuring opportunity is available to all. Smith brings nearly two decades of communications experience, serving at the highest levels of government and the private sector, to the global blockchain arena. Smith previously served as Special Assistant to President Obama and deputy White House press secretary, Executive Vice President at Edelman Public Relations, Director of Public Affairs for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and General James Clapper, Communications Director for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation under its then Chairman John D (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Traveling Press Director for Secretary Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Presidential Campaign, Communications Director for former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and The Albright Group, LLC. and policy aide to Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY). Jamie speaks regularly around the world – from Money 2020 to the World Economic Forum at Davos to SxSW to the Clinton Global Initiative – she is an industry expert in the emerging technology of Blockchain. She serves as the Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Future Council on Blockchain. She is the creator and President of the Global Blockchain Business Council and the co-creator and President of the Blockchain Trust Accelerator and was recognized by Innovate Finance on the Women in FinTech 2016 Powerlist. Jamie also serves as a member of the Advisory Board for the Bretton Woods II initiative at New America.

Jamie Smith

Brian Behlendorf

Brian Behlendorf is the Executive Director of Hyperledger. Behlendorf was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has also served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2013. He was the founding CTO of CollabNet and CTO of the World Economic Forum. Most recently, Behlendorf was a managing director at Mithril Capital Management LLC, a global technology investment firm.

Brian Behlendorf

David Wachsman

David Wachsman is Founder and CEO of Wachsman. After beginning his communications career in politics, Wachsman worked in biotech, in mobile app development, and in advertising. Later, Wachsman led day-to-day operations at a boutique Manhattan public relations agency, managing dozens of high profile clients across a multitude of complex verticals. Founded in 2015, Wachsman has served as the communications arm of more than sixty premier organizations in the financial technology space including Dash, ICONOMI, Aragon, Bitcoin Suisse, Lisk, Kik, Coinsource, Crypto Valley Association, IOHK, Cofound.it, Steemit, KeepKey, Kraken, Jaxx, Coinsetter, SatoshiLabs, Overstock.com’s t0, DECENT, Airbitz, SONM, and Unocoin, among many others. Today, Wachsman is the world’s largest blockchain-focused public relations agency, with rapidly growing offices in New York and Dublin.

David Wachsman

Ned Scott

Ned is the CEO and founder of Steemit.com, the first social media website based purely on blockchain. Ned is also an advisor to startups, including the cryptocurrency project for dating and matchmaking, MatchPool. Ned has been immersed in cryptocurrencies since 2013 when he discovered Bitcoin in a Yahoo! Finance article. His drive for building the future comes from his passion for understanding motivation and incentives, which he first discovered studying psychology and economics at Bates.

Ned Scott

Bill Barhydt

Bill's passion is information technology and how it can be used to improve people's lives. Prior to Abra, he co-founded Boom Financial, where he also serves as Chairman. He gave the first TED talk on Bitcoin in 2012, and serves as an advisor and mentor to Boost.VC, a Bitcoin-focused incubator fund. Bill won the Technology Pioneer Award from the World Economic Forum in 2000 for his work at WebSentric, the first online meeting service that required no software install, and has consulted to federal and international regulators on the impact of digital currencies and decentralized transaction systems. In addition to co-founding and advising multiple start-ups, including m-Via, Sennari, Plaxo and KnowNow, Bill worked for Goldman Sachs, NASA and the CIA.

Bill Barhydt

Sheila Warren

Sheila Warren is the Head of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology at World Economic Forum. She is a former executive and general counsel of TechSoup, a 501(c)(3) global social enterprise that has facilitated USD ~ $9B in technology donations and grants for over 100 donor partners and has created community-based technology platforms supporting 900,000 registered NGO's in 200+ countries. It has created on of the largest active NGO databases in the world. Sheila designed, built and launched NGOsource, a groundbreaking web-based service that streamlines diligence requirements for international grantmaking. She has guided multilateral strategy with 20+ leading foundations resulting in changes to the government regulations around international grantmaking for the first time in 20 years.

Sheila Warren

Sarah Hody

Sarah Hody is an attorney at Perkins Coie, where she counsels entrepreneurs, established tech businesses, financial services companies, and innovators in the blockchain token space. She focuses on providing actionable regulatory assessments that drive both product development and product marketing, along with the appropriate contracts, privacy policies, and licensing programs to correspond with the regulatory advice. Sarah’s background includes serving as in-house counsel at Coinbase, a digital currency exchange company, where she negotiated and drafted agreements on global payment services integrations, evaluated risks and advised business teams on commercial partnerships, and managed the company’s money transmission licensing programs. Sarah also has experience with token crowdsales, asset-backed tokens, corporate governance, Bank Secrecy Act compliance, and financial services litigation.

Sarah Hody

Michael Casey

Michael Casey is a writer, researcher, media commentator and public speaker in the fields of economics, finance and digital technology. He is a Senior Advisor for the Digital Currency Initiative at MIT’s Media Lab, where he heads research into blockchain applications that advance financial inclusion and economic efficiency in the global economy. He is also a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and is Chairman of the Advisory Board at Coindesk, the leading media outlet and events coordinator within the digital currency and blockchain industry. Prior to joining MIT, Casey worked at The Wall Street Journal, where he spent eighteen years as a reporter, foreign correspondent, editor and senior columnist covering global economics and markets. He is the author of five books. These include The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and the Blockchain are Challenging the Global Economic Order and its recent sequel The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything, both co-authored with Paul Vigna, and The Social Organism: A Radical Understanding of Social Media to Transform Your Business and Life, which he co-wrote with Oliver Luckett. Casey is a graduate of The University of Western Australia in his hometown of Perth and has higher degrees from Curtin University and from Cornell University. He currently lives in Pelham, NY.

Michael Casey

Adam Draper

Adam Draper is the founder and managing director of Boost VC. Adam is a 2x entrepreneur and a 4th generation venture capitalist. He also has a very large comic book collection. In 2009, the same year that Adam graduated from UCLA, he founded Xpert Financial, a secondary market for private securities. After settling millions of dollars in private security transactions and becoming a registered broker dealer, he left Xpert Financial in late 2012 and began angel investing, where he backed such startups as Coinbase, Plangrid and Amplitude. Adam then partnered up with Brayton Williams to change the face of global startup mentorship. The focus of Boost VC on future technology development stems from Adam Draper's dream to create an Iron Man suit.

Adam Draper

Peter Diamandis

Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is an international pioneer in the fields of innovation, incentive competitions and commercial space. In 2014 he was named one of "The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders" – by Fortune Magazine. In the field of Innovation, Diamandis is Founder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, best known for its $10 million Ansari XPRIZE for private spaceflight. Diamandis is also the Co-Founder and Vice-Chairman of Human Longevity Inc. (HLI), a genomics and cell therapy-based diagnostic and therapeutic company focused on extending the healthy human lifespan. He is also the Executive Founder of Singularity University, a graduate-level Silicon Valley institution that studies exponentially growing technologies, their ability to transform industries and solve humanity’s grand challenges. In the field of commercial space, Diamandis is Co-Founder/Co-Chairman of Planetary Resources, a company designing spacecraft to enable the detection and prospecting of asteroid for precious materials. He is also the Co-Founder of Space Adventures and Zero-Gravity Corporation. Diamandis is the New York Times Bestselling author of Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think and BOLD – How to go Big, Create Wealth & Impact the World. He earned an undergraduate degree in Molecular Genetics and a graduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from MIT, and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Diamandis’ mission is to open the space frontier for humanity. His personal motto is: "The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself." In 2016, the Greek Government honored him by issuing a 1.2 Euro stamp into circulation. Also in 2016, the book How To Make A Spaceship – A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight, Peter’s biography and the story of the XPRIZE was written by Julian Guthrie with a Foreword by Richard Branson and an Afterword by Prof. Stephen Hawking.

Peter Diamandis

Diego Pucci

Diego has shown his interest in technology and entrepreneurship early, by starting up a web and mobile agency just after his high school. Holding various positions from IT Manager to developer in various startups and global enterprises, Diego have built a strong career with 11-year experience on managing innovative web-based projects. Diego is most passionate to serve the noblest Open Source technology movement. CEO and founder of Utopian.io, international STEEM community, which rewards professionals for their contributions to Open Source projects.

Diego Pucci

Brianna MacNeil

Brianna is the Product Manager, Blockchain at RightMesh. She's involved in developing token economics, strategic partnerships and product communications. RightMesh is a protocol aiming to bring internet to the next billion with mesh networking and blockchain. She’s spent the past 6 years’ building platforms to transition traditional industries like real estate and home improvement into the 21st century. After learning about Ethereum approximately one year ago, she immediately knew that blockchain technology could radically transform the world. Since then, she spends most of her spare time researching new blockchain projects and uses this information to invest in blockchain and cryptocurrency products. She believes that blockchain technology in 2017 is similar to the Internet in the early 90’s, placing us in the early adopter phase.

Brianna MacNeil

Jonathan Johnson

Jonathan Johnson is president of Medici Ventures, Overstock's subsidiary that oversees a portfolio of blockchain technology and fintech businesses, which include tZERO, and investments in Bitt.com, PeerNova, Ripio, Factom, SettleMint, IdentityMind, SpeedRoute, FusionIQ, Blue Ocean, Spera, and Symbiont. In this role, Johnson is responsible for continuing Medici Ventures' efforts to pioneer growth and innovation in applying the blockchain to financial systems and beyond. Under Johnson's leadership, Medici Ventures has invested in several cutting-edge blockchain technology firms, successfully completed the world's first blockchain-based stock offering on its t0 platform, and was a featured presenter at the Monetary Authority of Singapore's prestigious Global FinTech Hackcelerator. Johnson is also a member of Overstock.com’s board of directors, and served as the chairman of Overstock's board of directors from 2014 to 2017, transitioning to the position after five years as the company's president, and later, as the acting CEO and executive vice chairman of the board.

Jonathan Johnson

Charles Hoskinson

Charles Hoskinson is a Colorado based technology entrepreneur and mathematician. He attended Metropolitan State University of Denver and University of Colorado at Boulder to study Analytic Number Theory prior to moving into cryptography via industry exposure. His professional experience includes founding three Cryptocurrency related start-ups, Invictus Innovations, Ethereum and IOHK- and a variety of colorful positions in the public and private sector. He was the founding chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation’s education committee and established the Cryptocurrency Research Group in September of 2013. His current projects focus on education of cryptocurrency topics, evangelism of decentralization and making cryptographic tools easier to use for the mainstream.

Charles Hoskinson

Jarrod Dicker

Jarrod Dicker is an entrepreneurial technology and media executive. Prior to joining Po.et, he was vice president of innovation and commercial strategy at The Washington Post where he oversaw the company’s technology, product, operations and strategy across all business platforms. While at the Post he also founded RED, the company’s research, experimentation and development group. Prior to that, he led product and technology teams at RebelMouse, Time Inc. and Huffington Post. He sits on the Board of Advisors for Rutgers University School of Innovation, mentors at Techstars IoT and is an advisor to MOGUL Inc., a technology platform that enables women worldwide to share ideas and access content based on personal interests.

Jarrod Dicker

Jeff Mahony

Jeff Mahony is co-founder & CEO of Ubiquicoin, the first decentralized digital currency to be backed by a financial guarantee, built on a proven infrastructure, with an equitable revenue share structure. With over 30 years of experience in the digital finance, defense and engineering spaces, Mahony was previously a founding member of launched SaveDaily where he also serves as Chairman and Managing Principal. SaveDaily was founded in 1999 where Mahony conceived a white label banking business model that combined scores of small investors into opportunities previously only available to high net worth individuals. In this way, SaveDaily encouraged people to begin the process of financial growth. The mission of a democratic financial service is in keeping with the DNA of Ubiquicoin, spreading economic enfranchisement across the globe. SaveDaily not only handles over 170,000 transactions per day, but has increased financial security for countless otherwise first time investors. Prior to SaveDaily, Mahony was President and CEO of Jeda Media Group, Inc., an internet strategy firm and served as a research engineer in the space and defense industry.

Jeff Mahony

Carol Van Cleef

Carol Van Cleef provides legal and strategic advice to depository institutions, money services businesses, other financial services companies, and FinTech firms on federal and state regulatory, compliance and enforcement matters. She advises a range of clients, from startup businesses to publicly traded companies, private equity funds and other entities in understanding the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), USA Patriot Act, sanctions regulations, and state money transmitter licensing statutes; creating, evaluating and enhancing anti-money laundering and OFAC compliance programs; and addressing consumer protection issues including privacy and data security and unfair, abusive and deceptive practices. Carol is a pragmatic and forward-thinking advocate in the regulation of fintech and regtech, including emerging and alternative payments systems, prepaid access, mobile payments, virtual currencies, and blockchain/ledger technologies. A Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Carol created a series of AML compliance training programs sponsored by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors and attended by regulators from 45 states and representatives of domestic and foreign banks, securities firms, money services businesses and other entities. She also developed and leads an AML Compliance Bootcamp for Virtual Currency and Blockchain Technology Companies, which has been attended by the virtual currency community and bankers. She participates in the Uniform Law Commission's efforts to draft a model legal code for virtual currencies.

Carol Van Cleef

Jonathan Levi

Jonathan Levi is the CEO and Founder of HACERA and an early blockchain veteran, who left Wall St. (Goldman Sachs, Barclays Capital, Standard & Poor’s) to follow his passion of building highly distributed, complex systems. He was elected as one of 11 members of the Technical Steering Committee of Linux Foundation’s HyperledgerTM and one of two official release managers for Hyperledger Fabric 1.0. Jonathan is an applied cryptographer with a M.Sc. from Stanford University in Applied Mathematics and over a decade of experience in the financial industry and a decentralized blockchain space.

Jonathan Levi

Sarah Brooks

Sarah Brooks is passionate about innovative technologies that solve big problems and create a positive and lasting impact on the world. She has a unique background in law, business, and technology and currently serves as outside legal & business counsel for early-stage startups. Prior to her work in law, Sarah spent several years working with Fortune 100 corporations helping them understand emerging technologies, create new business models and products, develop go-to-market strategies and run scalable pilots. Sarah also helped launch TechSquare Labs - a Google for Entrepreneurs hub in Atlanta, GA with a focus on supporting entrepreneurs and creating a strong economy in the Southeast.

Sarah Brooks

Gwen Cheni

Gwen Cheni has 17 years of professional investing experience, starting at the sell-side at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, then the buy-side at Legg Mason, Lord Abbett, Brown Brothers and Harriman, now a Partner and Portfolio Manager at a hedge fund investing in technology in San Francisco. She has been an angel investor for the last six years with an 100% successful exit rate. She is currently a mentor at Galvanize and on the Board of Advisors at Singularity University Ventures. She is a frequent speaker at technology and investing events, as well as on the judges panel at pitch contests. She is passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship.Gwen Cheni

Gwen Cheni

Xiahong Lin

Xiahong Lin is an entrepreneur and software engineer who became interested in Bitcoin since 2011. Xiahong experimented with Ethereum smart contracts and founded Bodhi, a decentralized prediction market platform focusing on the Chinese market in 2017. Before Bodhi, he founded panony.com, an easy-to-use bitcoin wallet service. Previously Xiahong worked as soft engineer at Edmodo, Twitter and Tencent. He has a Master of Science from Purdue University where he specialized in Statistical Machine Learning, and Master of Science in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Xiahong Lin

Matan Field

Matan Field is the lead architect and CEO of DAOstack, a comprehensive toolkit for decentralized collaboration at scale. Built on an open, modular and upgradable architecture, the DAO stack includes the governance and economic framework needed for collectives to self-organize around shared goals and interests. Matan began his career as a theoretical physicist, having completed his PhD in theoretical physics at the Weizmann Institute, researching fundamental physics and String Theory. For two decades, he has been curious about alternative economic and organizational models and has become increasingly bothered by a feeling that “something is broken”. During his postdoctoral research at the Technion, he discovered the blockchain and founded La’Zooz, a decentralized real-time ride-sharing network. He then co-founded Backfeed to develop a basis for decentralized governance and decentralized organizations. DAOstack builds on the vision and concept of Backfeed while expanding to become an all-purpose governance framework as well as include an application/interface layer.

Matan Field

Patrick Byrne

In 1999, Patrick M. Byrne launched Overstock.com. In 2016, Overstock had revenues of $1.8 billion. In 2012, Byrne’s pro-freedom political orientation challenged Overstock to become the first online retailer to accept bitcoin for payments. In 2015, Byrne used Medici’s t0.com trading platform to become the first person to purchase a digital bond entirely on the blockchain, and in 2016 Overstock was the first company ever to issues shares of a public company on an ATS.

Patrick Byrne

Fabio Silva

Fabio was elected in 2016 by the French portal Techfoliance as one of the 15 influencers of the Fintech market in Brazil. He is specialist in Blockchain, Innovation, Venture Capital, Startups, Strategy and Human Resources. He has more than 11 years of experience in companies such as Syngenta, Philips, and Whirlpool, leading strategic projects in Latin America, USA, Europe and China.

Fabio Silva

Harry Schmidt

Harry Schmidt is Chief Technology Officer at Steemit. A relative newcomer to the cryptocurrency space but a veteran of the content web, Harry has previously served as head of engineering at The Information, Silicon Valley's premier technology publication, and at Casetext, a legal research and publishing platform. Prior to that he was a product strategist and engineering program manager for Wildfire, a Google social media marketing property. In a past life he studied applications of machine learning in the study of ancient Greek and Latin literature.

Harry Schmidt

Alex Mashinsky

Alex is the founder and CEO of Celsius Network, a community-based lending platform that allows members to borrow dollars by using crypto as collateral and earn interest on crypto through lending it out. Alex is a serial entrepreneur and founder of seven New York City-based startups, raising more than $1 billion and exiting over $3 billion. Alex founded two of New York City's top 10 venture-backed exits since 2000: Arbinet, with a 2004 IPO that had a market capitalization of over $750 million; and Transit Wireless, valued at $1.2 billion. Over 35 patents have been issued to Alex, relating to exchanges, VOIP protocols, messaging and communication. In fact, Alex has a foundational patent on VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) technology dating back to 1994 and is now working on MOIP (Money Over Internet Protocol) technology. Alex has received numerous awards for innovation, including being nominated twice by E&Y as ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’, in 2002 & 2011; Crain's 2010 Top Entrepreneur; the prestigious 2000 Albert Einstein Technology medal; and the Technology Foresight Award for Innovation (presented in Geneva at Telecom 99). As one of the pioneers of web-based exchanges, Alex authored patents that cover aspects of the Smart Grid, ad exchanges, Twitter, Skype, App Store, Netflix streaming concept and many other popular web companies. Additionally, Arbinet’s fundraising story was featured as a case study in 2001 by Harvard Business School.

Alex Mashinsky

Andy Bromberg

Co-founder and CEO, CoinList

Andy Bromberg

Simar Mangat

Simar graduated from Stanford in Computer Science with a specialization in Biocomputation and Artificial Intelligence. Simar has loved working on startups ever since he was a kid - from casually selling paperclip bow and arrows to more officially founding three startups while in high school and college. In particular, he cofounded a non-profit edtech startup called Stoodle that provided free collaborative classrooms for students to tutor one another. This became a Top 14 app used by teens in 2014 (Business Insider) and was recognized by both the White House and Department of Education. Simar additionally loves building strong teams at communities. While at Stanford, he served as Freshmen and Sophomore class president, head TA-ed the inaugural VR class for the GSB with Prof Jennifer Aaker, began Stanford Kindness day, section led as a TA for introductory CS courses, RA-ed in the freshmen only Larkin dorm, and served (pun intended) as Tennis Instructor for a summer at Sierra Camp. On the technical end, Simar brings deep domain expertise in systems, artificial intelligence, and biocomputation. He, along with two friends, published one of the first iOS applications to do real-time video classification. In addition, while at Pavlov as their first engineer, Simar built a comprehensive pipeline for CV deep learning that has since received over 100 million API requests. He is so stoked to bring his technical and operational knowledge to democratize the content creator ecosystem.

Simar Mangat

Phil Sigler

A visionary, Phil Sigler brings a talent for recognizing early stage opportunities. At the age of 18, Sigler began a successful real estate investing career, and as a result, discovered a flawed financial system. Several decades later, he formed TLC to improve the real estate financing model. Sigler has an extensive and accomplished background in commercial real estate and has successfully launched multiple companies.

Phil Sigler

Eric Ly

Eric Ly is the founder of Hub, a project working to create a new trust protocol on the blockchain. Eric was a co-founder of LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, and served as its founding CTO. Since becoming involved with blockchain, Eric believes billions of people will benefit from increased economic opportunity from decentralizing trust and reputation. Eric is a four-time serial entrepreneur and graduated from Stanford and the MIT Media Lab.

Eric Ly

Nick Kritikos

Nick Kritikos leads Global Business Development for ConsenSys having recently joined the private venture production studio from Microsoft where he lead the US Microsoft Technology Centers as National Director since 2014. During his tenure the MTCs tripled their revenue and customer impact while expanding engagement responsibilities and improving execution quality. Prior to joining Microsoft, Nick spent 18 years at Oracle, where he rose from business development and field sales roles to Vice President of Worldwide Alliances and Channels.

Nick Kritikos

Ran Neu-Ner

Ran Neu-Ner is a born entrepreneur. Graduated from university with a B.Com and a CFA. After a number of business ventures – some hugely successful and some not – Neu-Ner started The Creative Counsel, a marketing and sales company. In 2015 Ran concluded the biggest business transaction in South Africa where he sold The Creative Counsel to a French owned international business, The Publicis Groupe for just over $150mn. The Creative Counsel is South Africa's leading activations agency with an annual turnover $100 million. In 2010 he joined the Young Presidents Organisation, a global network of successful CEO’s, sharing learnings and ideas exchange where he is still an active member. He has also taken on an EXCO role for the Johannesburg City Chapter. Ran has been a part of the Blockchain world since 2013 and has advised several projects. He is the founder of Onchain Capital, a Crypto Asset Fund. In 2017 Ran’s obsession with cryptocurrency has inspired him to start and host the world’s first televised cryptocurrency show called Crypto Trader which is aired weekly on a Thursday night at 20:30 on CNBC Africa, DSTV channel 410. On the show, he interviews blockchain and cryptocurrency experts on ICO’s and cryptocurrency trends. He is currently #20 of the 100 most influential people in Crypto Currency in the world.

Ran Neu-Ner

David Pinski

David Pinski is the Chief Strategist for Financial Innovation at Hitachi’s Global Center for Social Innovation. In this role, he heads research and development of new products and services with a particular focus on blockchain and data analytics technologies. His background is banking and fraud systems in a variety of roles from Product Management to Head of Architecture. He has worked for major banks such as Capital One, ING Direct, Bank of America and startups such as Zumigo and Silver Tail Systems. He has over a dozen patents filed (four issued) in the area of fraud mitigation, payment networks and banking systems. Hitachi is supporting one of the largest contributing teams to the Hyperledger Fabric project. David has been a speaker at many financial industry and technology conferences on topics from blockchain to the future of banking systems.

David Pinski

Andreas Fichter

As part of his role in the SAP Innovation Center Network, Andreas leads the customer engagement for Blockchain in North America. With his background in computer science and a strong focus on innovation and emerging technology trends he enables customers to innovate and create the next generation of enterprise applications.

Andreas Fichter

Gregory Keough

As CEO of Finova, Keough has driven the company’s mission to transform the future of global banking through the creation of fair and affordable digital financial services for consumers outside of formal financial and investment systems. Finova has raised over $100M from Silicon Valley VCs and private equity firms and is working now to transform the traditional capital raising process through the creation of digital equity securities to be traded in cryptocurrency on the blockchain. Keough is a serial entrepreneur who previously served as CEO of a MasterCard Telefonica joint venture for global Mobile Financial Services, and over the last 20 years was founder and CEO of multiple venture-backed companies going back to the early days of the internet. Keough is frequently featured as an expert in leading publications such as Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Bankless times, Next Billion, FinTech Weekly, Consumer Finance Innovator, CryptoCoin News, and others. One of the few living recipients of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA's) Intelligence Star Medal for extraordinary courage in the line of duty, Keough was named “Gamechanger of the Year” in 2017 by ACQ Global, was a finalist for Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year, recognized as Washington's Top Technology and International Leaders, Latin America Top Banker of the Year, and others.

Gregory Keough

Benjamin Jessel

Ben Jessel leads Business Growth for Kadena, a next generation smart contracts platform. Ben has led numerous award winning Distributed Ledger projects for clients in the area of Syndicated Lending and Post Trade Derivatives processing. Ben has experience both delivering blockhain pilots as well as building the foundational elements for moving from pilot to production implementation which includes the development of blockchain business cases, governance and operating models. Ben is active in thought leadership and the conference circuit having published articles across both Distributed Ledger, scalable architectures and spoken at conferences including the IMN conference, and the MBA technology conference. Ben has 18 years of consulting experience, primarily in financial services and innovative technology, having worked in Big-4 organizations such as Accenture and Deloitte as well recently with Capco - The Capital Markets Company where he remains a fintech advisor.

Benjamin Jessel

Hanna Zubko

Hanna Zubko is Co-Founder and CEO of IntellectEU, blockchain development and integration company building a solution for blockchain integration challenges, and blockchain-based solutions for KYC/identity management, document management and authentication, supply chain transparency. Today IntellectEU is an 80 engineers strong team working globally with office locations across North America and Europe. In addition, Hanna serves as Vice Chair for Hyperledger Marketing Committee and Co-Chairs Blockchain for Social Impact working group. Hyperledger is an open source collaboration initiative hosted by the Linux Foundation to advance blockchain technology, uniting 185+ leading organizations such as American Express, Cisco, BNP Paribas, SWIFT, IBM, Intel, SAP and others. IntellectEU joined Hyperledger at its inception as one of the founding members. For the last three years Hanna served as a judge at SWIFT Innotribe Competition for Fintech StartUps. Hanna is a member of Entrepreneurs Organization and Forbes Business Development Council.

Hanna Zubko

Alex Bessonov

Alex is a Senior Engineering Leader and Executive with over 20 years of experience in the Software and Security Industry. Prior to founding BitClave, a blockchain startup, Alex has served as the Founder and General Manager at whiteCryption, a security and cryptography-oriented company. Alex led whiteCryption to millions of dollars of revenue, while at the same time amassing numerous Fortune 500 clients. More recently, Alex has served as the Chief Security Officer at LG Electronics, overseeing all product lines as well as heading a large effort to remodel and centralize the company’s security team. In the past, Alex has also held multiple leadership and engineering positions at companies such as NXP, Microsoft, and eBay. His corporate experience aside, Alex’s true passion is building teams and products. Alex currently holds advisory and mentorship roles in ventures such as Alchemist Accelerator, Draper University, .406 Ventures, and HMG Strategy, LLC. Alex holds MSc and BSc degrees in Computer Science and Math from Technion and the University of Tel Aviv.

Alex Bessonov

Elvina Kamalova

Specializing on the ICO research of blockchain-based companies. Currently the Director of Growth at Blockmason, where she facilitated the development of one of the fastest developed products on the blockchain, that served as a foundational level for the first credit transaction ever recorded on blockchain through a decentralized app. Previosuly, Elvina spent 3 years at EY, where she developed a EY FinTech USA advisory practice while working with some of the world's biggest financial corporations. Elvina earned degrees in Technology Management, Economics and Law. She received an accelerated business training at Stanford University and completed a Venture Capital Investment program at 500 Startups in collaboration with Stanford University Center for Professional Studies. Elvina's background gives her a multi-lens approach to addressing the possibilities and concerns of the growing blockchain market to adopt paradigm shifts in the industry.

Elvina Kamalova

Patrick Byrne

Andy Park

Andy Park is a health technology entrepreneur who built his last company to over 50 full time staff and a $30 million valuation in three years. He developed software and patent-pending tools currently used by Genentech, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson and others. After a successful liquidity event, Andy realized the power of the blockchain to solve key security and data aggregation issues in the medical industry. Coral Health is Andy’s next major move in health technology and is a natural extension of his PhD thesis research. He has assembled a growing team of technologists, leading scientists, and key health policy experts. With a suite of business applications for labs, payers, physicians, drug companies, and health authorities, Coral Health is driving down operational costs and encouraging the productive data sharing needed to allow for truly personalized patient care. With Andy’s vision and leadership, Coral Health will be at the center of healthcare’s transformation.

Andy Park

Kyle Kistner

Kyle holds an MSc in Molecular Biology and was previously involved with vaccine development. Ever since learning about Blockchain in 2011, Kyle has been turning his research skills toward understanding the space.

Kyle Kistner

Anne Connelly

Anne Connelly is passionate about harnessing blockchain and decentralized technology to transform the lives of people in developing countries. Anne is Faculty at Singularity University at NASA Ames in Silicon Valley, teaching global leaders how exponential technologies can solve problems that impact over a billion people. She has been an active part of the global blockchain community since 2012, working with notable companies including Jaxx, Ledger Labs and the ixo Foundation and is currently the Vice Chair of the board of Blockchain Canada. She previously worked with Doctors Without Borders Canada in Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and currently serves on their board of directors. Anne has a Bachelor of Life Sciences from Queen’s University, an MBA from McMaster University, and a Fintech Certificate from MIT. She was honoured as one of CBC’s 12 Young Leaders Changing Canada.

Anne Connelly

Amy Wan

Amy Wan is Founder & CEO of Sagewise, a dispute resolution infrastructure for smart contracts. She is also author of the upcoming Bloomberg Law practice guide on ICOs. Previously, she was a Partner at a boutique securities law firm and General Counsel at a real estate crowdfunding platform. Amy is also the founder and co-organizer of Legal Hackers LA, which programs around the intersection of law and technology; was named one of the one of ten women to watch in legal technology by the American Bar Association Journal in 2014; and was nominated as a Finalist for the Corporate Counsel of the Year Award 2015 by LA Business Journal. Amy has also worked in international regulatory and trade policy at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and was a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Transportation. She holds an LL.M. in Public International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a JD from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, and a BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Southern California.

Amy Wan

Jon Duschinsky

Jon Duschinsky is a social innovator and corporate cage-rattler who rewrites intra-organizational narratives by tackling the well-worn story of profits over people, he is an advisory board member for Giftcoin who are using blockchain to revolutionise the experience of charitable giving by creating absolute trust and transparency. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience as a fundraiser for charities and NGOs, Duschinsky works with Fortune 500 companies, startups, governments and causes to develop strategies that engage communities through participatory actions. He has founded a number of successful companies in the social innovation space. He led a project with the White House on behavior change and gun control, and was part of the team behind the Ice Bucket Challenge that raised more than USD 100 million to help cure ALS. As a founder of the think tank Invisible Hand, he and his team develop radical solutions to complex problems like the rise of childhood obesity or the spread of Alzheimer’s disease. His most recent venture, Oreka Solutions, is an incubator for cutting edge technologies that can deliver systemic environmental or social change. Duschinsky was voted the world’s second most influential communicator in social innovation (second only to Bill Clinton) by a group of his peers, and has shared speaking platforms with leaders such as Mikhail Gorbachev and Steve Wozniak. He is the author of two books, Philanthropy in a Flat World and (me)volution.

Jon Duschinsky

Todd White

Todd White is the lead partner in the boutique Rulon & White Governance Strategies. Having more than 15 years of government relations background in Federal Policy, he brings an in-depth knowledge of several key issue areas such as net neutrality, internet policy, and disruptive technologies including digital assets which has cascaded the firm’s involvement into ICO offerings. Mr. White brings comprehensive strategies while consulting with Members of Congress, Executive Branch, and Federal Agencies such as the Securities Exchange Commission, and the U.S Treasury. He has proposed new programs, changes in eligibility requirements, funding formulas, while navigating several policies which have been enacted into law. He has also assisted domestic and international corporations removing costly regulatory and policy barriers, expanding market access and policy incentives promoting innovative project delivery within the crypto currency ethos. Todd began his career on Capitol Hill as an Aide for Ex-Congressman John Conyers (D), of Michigan. Following his tenure on the Hill, he joined Equity Services Inc., on the pension desk after being licensed as a NASD/FINRA Investment manager for three years. He then co-founded Defined Pension Benefit Holdings, LLC until selling the firm’s $900 million portfolio assets under management to Sun Life in 2004. He is an alumni of Harvard, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Executive M.S Public Policy; Central Michigan University, MBA, Management and Taxation; and the Honors College of Eastern Michigan University, B.Sc. in Quantitative Economics.

Todd White

Natalia Karayaneva

Ms. Karayaneva has over 12 years of experience in real estate development. She has a Masters degree in Sustainable Urban Development form Oxford University and founded her first company at 19.

Natalia Karayaneva

Asheesh Birla

Asheesh is VP of Product for Ripple. Asheesh started his career as an entrepreneur where he founded a content management company that he later sold to Thomson-Reuters. He continued to work at Thomson-Reuters as the Vice President of Global Technology where he helped transform Thomson-Reuters into a world leader in online financial business content. After Thomson-Reuters, Asheesh joined an educational startup, Kno (acquired by Intel Corp), as the Director of Product where he helped launch an award-winning textbook learning platform for tablet and mobile devices.

Asheesh Birla

Chris Fabian

Christopher Fabian (@hichrisfabian) is a technologist who co-founded UNICEF's Innovation Unit in 2006. He currently leads UNICEF Ventures, and is a Principal Advisor in UNICEF’s Office of Innovation. Chris led the launch of the 11M$ UNICEF Venture Fund in 2015, creating the first fund of its kind in the United Nations. The Fund uses a venture capital approach to invest in startups working on frontier technology like virtual reality, machine learning, and crypto-currency that can have a positive impact on humanity. The Ventures team also makes larger secondary investments in platforms like two drone testing corridors (in Malawi and Vanuatu) launched in 2017, as well as the Magic Box, an open source analytics platform that combines data and engineering from companies like Amadeus, IBM, Google, and Telefonica to produce insights that help the organization make better real-time decisions. Previously, Chris's teams have worked on technology for low infrastructure environments including award winning work on RapidPro, an SMS-based information system with more than 3.5M active users in 35 countries. Chris’s academic roles have included teaching at NYU, Tsinghua University and IIT Delhi, and he has recently been an invited speaker at Google, Facebook, Twitter, and the US Congress, exploring how to create fairness in a world of rapid technological change. In 2013 he was recognized as one of TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential People."

Chris Fabian

Olga Feldmeier

Olga Feldmeier is CEO of SMART VALOR, a Swiss-based blockchain start-up building a decentralized marketplace for tokenized alternative investments. Olga has extensive experience working in the banking and financial services sector for global brands such as Barclays Capital, UBS Wealth Management and Boston Consulting Group, where she focused on strategy projects at financial institutions such as Deutsche Bank, Unicredit and Commerzbank. Prior to founding SMART VALOR, Olga held the position of Commercial Managing Partner at prominent Silicon Valley Bitcoin startup Xapo. Olga is a prominent founding member of the Crypto Valley community, and is the producer of the ICO Summit, the first global conference focusing on blockchain crowdfunding in Switzerland. She is also a mentor at the largest European accelerator program, Kickstart Accelerator, and regularly delivers talks at conferences and universities on the regulation of Blockchain industry, the tokenization of assets and the disruption of the banking industry.

Olga Feldmeier

Robby Greenfield

Robert is a Technical Director at Consensys, the leading firm within the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency markets. He serves as the organization’s Blockchain for Social Impact CTO, helping the firm consult and develop blockchain projects within Fortune 100 companies and multinational NGOs. Prior, Robert has spent his professional career at Goldman Sachs, Teach for America, and, most recently Cisco Systems. He also founded Nomsy, a dietary restriction platform aiding consumers with niche content to better maintain their dietary lifestyle. Robert received his B.S. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He very involved within his community and is the Vice President of the Silicon Valley graduate chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., a member of 100 Black Men, and Chair of the Board of Directors of the African American Community Service Agency – the oldest Black managed non-profit in Silicon Valley. Robert is also the Blockchain Curriculum Director for StreetCode Academy, a hack-hustle-design focused non-profit that teaches students of color in East Palo Alto how to code, grow businesses, and expose themselves to the tech industry and emerging technologies.

Robby Greenfield

Renat Khasanshyn

Renat Khasanshyn, Co-Founder of Etherisc. Before joining Etherisc, Renat was Venture Partner at Runa Capital and CEO of Altoros. Most recently Renat led inception of insurance practice at Altoros together with its key customers Allianz, Allstate and Liberty Mutual, focusing on canonical use cases of blockchain, - fronting, reinsurance and insurance securitization (catastrophe bonds). Renat co-founded Altoros, a 250+ employee strong software and research laboratory in the area of distributed databases, container orchestration & developer marketplaces.

Renat Khasanshyn

Uma Hagenguth

Uma started her journey as an online entrepreneur at the age of 16, helping businesses successfully transition to digital. While still in school, she co-founded a global digital marketing agency and discovered her passion for science and technology studies. Through a mentor she learned about cryptocurrencies in 2013, became a crypto-blogger on Steemit in 2016 and co-founded Appics, a social media APP that aims at introducing the masses to the benefits of blockchain technology.

Uma Hagenguth

Katherine Kuzmeskas

Kat is co-founder and CEO of Simply Vital Health, a blockchain solution to problems in medical recordkeeping and healthcare payment systems. Fortune Magazine named her among the 34 Leaders Who Are Changing Health Care. She founded the company as a solution for problems she faced as a hospital administrator. Solutions include support for data security, care-coordination, post-hospital data, communications, and analytics for decision making and risk management. Prior to founding SimplyVital Health, Katherine was the Program Manager of the Center for Musculoskeletal Care for Yale New Haven Health. She was also a strategic planner for the medicine and surgery service lines at Yale New Haven Health and designed an enterprise wide care management dashboard at a statewide community health center network. She received a full ride and attained a 4.0 in her Master of Public Health program with a certificate in leadership. Kat is a 2007 Rio Grande Valley Teach For America Alumnus, a program that is more selective than Harvard Law.

Katherine Kuzmeskas

Justin Newton

Justin Newton has been an early pioneer in the development of both the Internet and blockchain technology. One of the few people to have contributed to Internet standards (RFCs) and bitcoin standards (BIPs), he has played a key role in the development of both of those world changing technologies. His last four companies: AboveNet, NetZero/United Online, Demand Media, and Blackline Systems have all exited with $1 Billion + IPOs. Justin founded The Internet Service Provider’s Consortium (the first trade association for ISPs) and was their Public Policy Director. He currently serves on the Industry/Law Enforcement Portal Working Group of the Blockchain Alliance, the State Legislative Working Group of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, the Digital Currency Group (DCG) Alliance, the OAX Working Group of the OPEN ANX Foundation, and the Distributed Identity Foundation. He is also on the Board of Directors for Adra Software. Justin is currently the founder and CEO of Netki (https://www.netki.com), a Los Angeles based financial technology company. Their flagship Digital Identity product helps companies operating on public and private blockchains to meet their identity needs as they relate to customer onboarding, risk, and compliance. Netki’s digital identity solutions are part the IBM blockchain ecosystem, Linux Hyperledger, and PwC Australia's Digital Asset Services.

Justin Newton

Rob Massey

Rob Massey has 20 years of professional experience in tax consulting for technology companies including search, SaaS and gaming with an expertise in blockchain, cryptocurrency and tokenization. He serves companies throughout the blockchain ecosystem inclusive of miners, specialty chip design and manufacturing, payment processing, wallet hosting, exchanges, ETFs, hedge funds, tokenization and protocol development. Rob leads Deloitte’s blockchain efforts in tax for the global firm.

Rob Massey

Eiland Glover

Eiland Glover is the CEO and Cofounder of Kowala, creator of the world’s first autonomously stabilizing cryptocurrency: kUSD. Eiland has spent his career creating systems and companies at the intersection of finance, technology, education, game theory, and human psychology. He is a firm believer that new technologies must be consciously designed and utilized to empower humans. In 2012, Eiland learned about bitcoin and wondered why this amazing technology had not become ubiquitous. He co-created Kowala based on his belief that a decentralized stable coin is necessary for the mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies.

Eiland Glover

Saransh Sharma

Mr. Sharma has deep experience and perspective ranging over 18 years in the sectors of Financial Services, Healthcare, Hospitality, Real Estate, Social Media, Aviation, Environmental Services and Entertainment. Mr. Sharma’s tenure started on Wall Street working for Alliance Bernstein LP, an asset management company with over 890 Billion in assets under management. After Wall Street, Mr. Sharma worked with Social Media Companies in Silicon Valley and orchestrated over a billion dollars of private securities transactions. Most recently, Mr. Sharma has worked extensively with multi billion dollar five star hotels in multiple international domiciles to help improve their profitability and to obtain financing to better extract value from the hotel’s supply chain. Additionally, Mr. Sharma serves on the Board of Florida Smart Justice Alliance, a non profit organization focused to transform Florida’s Criminal Justice system by providing out of the box treatment solutions to current inmates. He currently presides as the Chief Strategist to a Healthcare Group and President to a global utilities company.

Saransh Sharma

Brent Traidman

Brent has over 15 years of experience leading high impact growth software companies, of which many have had successful exits. Most recently, Brent led Bread's successful token sale in December 2017. The token sale sold out in under 2 hours and raised $32Million USD. Bread is considered a thought leader in the world of crypto, with over one million users in over 140 countries. Bread is on a mission to build the world's first decentralized bank. Prior to Bread, Brent worked in the Vista Equity Partners portfolio where he helped drive two exits. Brent builds revenue engines and helps develop growth strategies. He is also the Chief Revenue Officer of Bread and is focused on revenue and margin maximization. When not at work, he helps advise a Silicon Valley venture capital firm on early stage investments, and regularly speaks, mentors, and attends global accelerator conferences.

Brent Traidman

Trevor Koverko

Trevor Koverko founded Polymath in 2017 to disrupt the securities industry by creating an open platform that gives businesses access to the blockchain, smart contracts and token creation technology. Prior to Polymath, Trevor Koverko was a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, blockchain speaker, and cryptocurrency investor. Trevor founded eProf.com, an online education platform and Digital Assets International, a world leading tech private equity firm. In 2015, Trevor's Oculus Rift-based project became the world's first VR exit. Trevor graduated academic All-Canadian from Canada's top business school, Ivey, and was formerly a National Hockey league player, drafted by the New York Rangers in 2005. He has since invested in dozens of blockchain companies and was an original advisor/investor to the $30 billion USD Ethereum project. Trevor is 30 years old and splits his time between Toronto, Barbados and blockchain events worldwide.

Trevor Koverko

Marshall Hayner

Marshall Hayner is CEO and Co-Founder of Metal, a payments processing platform that pays people cryptocurrency for making transactions on the blockchain. Marshall believes that Metal can change the way the world views money. Not only has Marshall started the first Facebook integrated bitcoin wallet QuickCoin in 2014, but he has worked on numerous digital currency projects including Dogecoin, Stellar, Block.io, ChangeTip, and the Bitcoin Fair. Marshall is an advocate for social good and has started the Metal Foundation to promote social causes through cryptocurrency.

Marshall Hayner

Jordan Earls

Jordan Earls is the co-founder and lead developer of the Qtum Project. Jordan currently serves as the co-chair of Chamber of Digital Commerce's Smart Contracts Alliance. Jordan has been active in the blockchain space since 2014 and has reviewed over one hundred cryptocurrencies for potential exploits. Jordan is currently working on building a new x86 VM to introduce the ecosystem which will allow developers fluent in C, C++, Rust, Haskell and many other languages to write smart contracts.

Jordan Earls

Michael Didiuk

Highly experienced in regulatory compliance of the investment management and financial services sectors, Partner Michael Didiuk counsels companies involved in marketplace lending, automated investment advice, blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) in navigating the complex regulatory environment. Michael joined Perkins Coie after almost eight years at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, where he worked in the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations in the SEC’s San Francisco Office, the Division of Investment Management and on the executive staff of two SEC Commissioners at the SEC’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Prior to public service, Mike represented financial institutions in private practice for seven years, where he worked extensively on private fund matters such as formation, private placements, redemption and compliance issues and regularly provided advice regarding the application of the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the Commodity Exchange Act. During this time, Mike also represented clients going through SEC exams and prepared clients for registering with the SEC.

Michael Didiuk

Alex Felix

Alex Felix is a Managing Partner at CoinFund LLC, a blockchain technology research company and private cryptoasset investment vehicle. He leads investment research and advises clients on blockchain product development, business models, cryptoeconomics and token sale structuring. Alex has been an active researcher and investor in blockchain since 2013 and has held lead advisory roles on projects for Kik Interactive, YouNow, Sweetbridge and many more. Additionally, he has 10 years of private equity and leveraged finance experience at American Capital, BofA Merrill Lynch, RBS and Guggenheim Partners. Alex has a degree in Economics and Earth Sciences from Dartmouth College.

Alex Felix

Robert Finch

Rob Finch is the Co-Founder & CEO of ICO Alert, which maintains the only comprehensive list of ICOs. ICO Alert is now viewed by the crypto community as the trusted source for ICO information, a title that Rob and his team are incredibly proud of. He first discovered Bitcoin in 2012 and has been an active investor in the cryptocurrency space ever since. With more than 10,000 hours of research into blockchain tech, cryptography, and consensus protocols, Rob possesses a deep understanding of the cryptocurrency space.

Robert Finch

MacLane Wilkison

MacLane Wilkison is the cofounder and CEO of NuCypher, a Y Combinator and Polychain Capital-backed company that provides decentralized key management and cryptographic access controls for decentralized applications. He is a software engineer and former investment banker at Morgan Stanley, where he provided M&A and financing services to enterprises in technology, media, and telecommunications. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and certified Financial Risk Manager.

MacLane Wilkison

Robert Crea

Robert M. Crea counsels investment advisers, private fund managers and broker-dealers on a variety of fund formation, regulatory and compliance, and securities law matters. He regularly works with clients to structure and document U.S. and offshore private investment funds and assists clients with a variety of state and federal regulatory and compliance issues. He represents pension plans and other institutional investors in connection with their investments in hedge funds, private equity, venture capital and real estate funds. Mr. Crea also counsels on regulatory matters affecting cryptocurrency offerings. In addition, he advises emerging companies regarding formation and financing and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Crea is a CFA charterholder and CAIA charterholder and a member of each of the CFA Institute and CAIA Association.

Robert Crea

Matej Michalko

Matej is the CEO of DECENT and is on a mission to redefine the internet through an open-source, decentralized content distribution platform. Matej’s interest in online privacy was fueled first while studying Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne where he completed a project implementing privacy protection for mobile devices at Nokia Research Center. Since 2011 he became extensively involved with Bitcoin. Mining at his own laptop in the beginning, later switching to GPUs and ASICs. He served as the CEO of many Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency conferences in Austria, China, Belgium, UK (BitcoinExpo, Central European Bitcoin Expo, BTC2B Congress) and more. Matej founded the first Bitcoin Marketing agency in the world. He also founded the first Cryptocurrency e-Gaming Consulting Firm and served as a consultant in the Isle of Man. Matej is a regular speaker at major conferences about the immense potential and vertical integration of Blockchain Technologies into various industries.

Matej Michalko

Vlad Trifa

Vlad Trifa is an experienced technologist and entrepreneur who has been at the forefront of the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution for over a decade. Currently, he is Chief Product Officer of Ambrosus and oversees the engineering team and the development of their core technology. Previously, he launched and led the Swisscom Digital Lab - a leading innovation center that helps medium and large companies leverage the latest innovations in AI, Blockchain, and IoT to optimize their businesses. Before that, he co-founded and led the product and R&D departments at EVRYTHNG, an award-winning industry-grade IoT cloud platform used by numerous Fortune 100 companies. As the founder of WebofThings.org, he is a well-respected expert in distributed embedded sensing and wrote numerous publications, patents and a book about the intersection of Web and IoT. The results of his PhD research carried out at MIT, ETH Zurch, and SAP played a central role in W3C efforts to create a standard for the Web of Things. Vlad graduated with a PhD in computer science from ETH Zurich and a MsC in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence from EPFL.

Vlad Trifa

Jill Richmond

Jill Richmond is the Senior Vice President of Spark PR's blockchain and crypto practice group, Sparkchain. She is a strategy consultant and thought-leader on emerging technology and is currently working with new leaders in some of the most advanced technologies coming to market, among them blockchain, artificial intelligence and digital platforms. Jill has almost 20 years of experience focused on startups including co-founding two, advising several, helping talented CEO's better tell their and their company's story, vision go-to-market and mission as well as supporting global innovation within the World Bank Group. Jill has curated and spoken at many conferences and panels and is currently a regular contributing writer for Forbes Woman where she interviews some of the greatest minds in technology, media, venture capital, about women on the front lines of innovation in Silicon Valley and the "hard thing about hard things," as well as BTC and Distributed Media. Her views on technology and innovation have been featured in The Washington Post, VentureBeat, The New York Times, BBC, Modern Luxury, BTC Media, Forbes and Spectator.

Jill Richmond

Pavel Bains

Pavel is an entrepreneur, futurist, designer and investor in exponential technologies. He is the CEO of Bluzelle Networks, which builds blockchain and distributed ledger solutions for the finance industry. Pavel also provides advisory, M&A, and capital raising services for companies in digital media and technology. Pavel is an investor in fintech startup Bench and virtual reality startup VR Chat. In addition, Pavel often speaks on panels and conferences about where digital media, finance and technology are heading. Pavel also is a contributing writer to Fast Company, Venture Beat, Forbes and The Huffington Post.

Pavel Bains

Rodolfo Gonzalez

Rodolfo Gonzalez is a Partner at Foundation Capital who invests in innovative financial services platforms and consumer technology entrepreneurs. Rodolfo is fascinated with financial technology, disintermediation, and bringing transparency and simplicity to the consumer experience. He works closely with the team at BlockCypher, and leads much of the sourcing for Foundation's fintech, blockchain, and insurtech deals. He was 17 when he co-founded his first startup, Mexplosion, to host the Mexican qualifiers for the World Cyber Games e-gaming competition in 2001. His second and more recent entrepreneurial venture was a crowdfunding platform for social enterprises called YouVest. Rodolfo has lived and worked in over six countries and across four continents, and is an MIT Sloan and McKinsey alum.

Rodolfo Gonzalez

Sonny Singh

Sonny is one of the leading FinTech operators in Silicon Valley who has worked at two high profile FinTech companies. He also writes a quarterly article for TechCrunch on various FinTech topics and has been interviewed several times on Bloomberg TV. Sonny is currently the Chief Commercial Officer of BitPay which has raised over $30M from Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Richard Branson and Felicis Ventures. Previously, Sonny was the Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Jumio which raised over $40M from Andreessen Horowitz and Citibank. Sonny is also an advisor to Lumia Capital where he focuses on FinTech companies in identifying key investment themes, sourcing attractive deals, and helping develop portfolio companies.

Sonny Singh

Marc Boiron

Marc Boiron has leveraged his strong corporate and securities law background and his near obsession with blockchain technology to build a practice advising blockchain companies on a breadth of issues, including token generation events, smart contracts, and cryptocurrency and related regulatory laws. He is often invited as a speaker and quoted on issues relating to blockchain technology, especially to educate on constant developments in blockchain regulations and token offerings. Marc has a monthly column in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal and is an avid writer on developments in blockchain-related laws.

Marc Boiron

KJ Erickson

KJ Erickson is the Founder and CEO of Simbi (YC S16), a marketplace for trading services that runs entirely on nonconvertible virtual currency. Prior to Simbi, KJ spent 9 years as the Founder and CEO of FORGE, an NGO providing post-war reconstruction services to more than 70,000 refugees in war-torn Africa. Her awards include the Skoll Scholarship for Social Entrepreneurship, the Do Something Award for public service, and the Stanford Haas Public Service Fellowship. KJ has also been named a “Top 40 Leader Under 40” by the New Leaders Council, a “Person You Should Know” by CNN, and a “Top 10 College Woman” by Glamour Magazine. She holds an MBA from Oxford and a BA in Public Policy from Stanford.

KJ Erickson

Kristen Stone

Kristen Stone is the head of partnerships at Coinbase, the world's most widely used digital currency platform, where consumers, merchants, developers, and traders can transact with digital currency. Her focus is on identifying, researching, and developing new market opportunities. Previously, she worked at a major oil and gas company building their data analytics team and driving improvement through data analysis. After becoming passionate about Bitcoin technology and digital currency in 2012, she moved across the country to join Coinbase. Since then, she has brokered partnerships and managed integrations with major financial institutions such as USAA, Braintree, and Fidelity.

Kristen Stone

Steven Sprague

Steven Sprague is the CEO of Rivetz Corp. and one of the principle industry evangelists for the application of trusted computing technology. Steven has a strong technical foundation in the principles, capabilities and business models of incorporating trusted hardware into everyday computing, and is skilled at translating these concepts into layman’s terms. Steven is the co-founder of Rivetz Corp. a company focused on the use of trusted computing and Trusted Execution TEE to enhance the quality and security of the relationship with the user and their device. Rivetz provides app developers services and tools to enable simple integration of embedded cyber security capabilities of modern devices. Rivetz is playing an important role in providing the key technologies for the protection of private keys, encryption and secure instructions for blockchain, identity, messages, IoT and crypto currencies. Steven graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in mechanical engineering.

Steven Sprague

Jeremy Gardner

Jeremy Gardner is the Co-founder and GP of Ausum Ventures, a venture firm investing in blockchain technology for the betterment of humanity and the world. While attending the University of Michigan, Jeremy founded the Blockchain Education Network (BEN), a global educational nonprofit and cofound Augur, the decentralized prediction market platform, and led their ICO— the first ever on Ethereum. He most recently worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence and investing partner at Blockchain Capital, where invested in over a half dozen startups and started a new company, SAAVHA, a legacy database security firm. He also served as the founding editor-in-chief of Distributed Magazine. Lastly, Gardner helped structure the landmark Blockchain Capital security token ICO (ticker: BCAP).

Jeremy Gardner

Joel Dietz

Joel Dietz is re-imagining crypto-investing as the founder of Swarm Fund. A respected crypto-veteran, Joel co-founded the first smart contract educational channel (EtherCasts), the Ethereum Silicon Valley meetup, wrote the original “AppCoin Manifesto,” and built the first decentralized asset and governance platforms on the Bitcoin blockchain. His facilitation of the “LoveNest” blockchain-community living space setup in Palo Alto has included many presentations on Decentralized Autonomous Society, DAO Democracy, Futarchy, and Liquid Democracy. He holds degrees from Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania and has won prizes from Google and Salesforce.

Joel Dietz

Toni Lane Casserly

Toni Lane is an artrepreneur in the Digital Currency and Blockchain Industry who co-founded CoinTelegraph and CULTU.RE, the virtual blockchain nation movement. She is an empath, investor, artist, advisory board member, transformational evangelist and founder who has been affectionately entitled "The Joan of Arc of Blockchain" by her peers and various publications. Miss Lane serves as an advisor to several notable companies, funds and family offices, including, but not limited to: SingularityU, Polymath Network, Factom, The United Nations, Propy, HSBC, Cisco, P&G, Institute for the Future and St. Gallen Symposium. Miss Lane is grateful to have been given the opportunity to be of service toward these accomplishments, and retains the perspective that every idea of who a person "is" appears irrelevant in the face of time. True unconditional love and friendship; what matters. In other worlds, Toni Lane is a recording artist and the founder of the "immateralism" (post art) movement where she uses consciousness as a medium.

Toni Lane Casserly

Raphaël Mazet

Raphael Mazet is a social entrepreneur and CEO of Alice, a social impact network built on the Ethereum blockchain bringing together nonprofits, donors and impact investors. Alice went live in May 2017 with its first application, a conditional donation platform that gives donors full transparency on what charities achieve with their money. The initial pilot helped 15 rough sleepers in London find accomodation and deal with physical and mental health issues. Prior to Alice, Raphael was COO of CliqStart, a charity tech startup focused on advocacy that he co-founded after having spent ten years working as a lobbyist and corporate communications consultant in Europe and Latin America.

Raphaël Mazet

Nathan Nichols

Nathan Nichols is the Chief Executive Officer of TaxToken. After considering his long-term ambitions and passion for leading others, Nathan respectfully declined an offer from the “big four” and seized the opportunity to co-found TaxToken. TaxToken leverages blockchain technology and artificial intelligence to modernize the tax and accounting industry. TaxToken's innovative products and growing interest from investors have been recognized by several news outlets, including The Washington Post. Prior to launching TaxToken, Nathan devised the concept for Vote-for-Humanity, an online voting and ticket sale platform. Votefor-humanity stimulates event ticket sales by enabling customers to donate to charities through their usual ticket purchasing methods. In 2016, while attending school, Nathan started a student-led investment fund with a focus on emerging markets, cryptocurrencies, and growth strategy. Nathan studied accounting at James Madison University where he was class president in Beta Alpha Psi, an honors accounting and finance fraternity.

Nathan Nichols

Nancy Wojtas

Nancy Wojtas has served as counsel in connection with corporate governance matters, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, private and public offerings, joint ventures, venture capital and bank financings, proxy contests, cryptocurrency offerings and going private transactions. Nancy began her career with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the division of Market Regulation and later served as counsel to the Chairman of the Commission. Nancy was recognized as Lawyer of the Year in Corporate Governance in Palo Alto by The Best Lawyers in America in 2013. She has been recognized as a leading lawyer by The Best Lawyers in America in Corporate Governance from 2007-2018 and in its 2016 “Women Lawyer of the Year” awards. Nancy is a member of the Opinions Committee of the California State Bar. Formerly she was the co-chair of the Corporations Committee of the Business section of the California State Bar. Nancy is a frequent speaker on corporate governance, securities law and token offering topics. In addition, for the last 15 years, she has been a speaker on various corporate governance subjects at Stanford Directors' College.

Nancy Wojtas

Braden Pollock

Braden Pollock is a well-known domainer and serial entrepreneur who owns several companies, both online and off. Among his businesses is Legal Brand Marketing, LLC, (LegalBrandMarketing.com) which focuses primarily on lead generation for DUI attorneys as well as lawyers in other practice areas. Braden also owns the popular entertainment website ScienceFiction.com. He has an equity interest in several other businesses including The Grooming Network (StraightRazors.com, etc), BoldMetrics.com and Epik.com. His domain portfolio is well into the thousands of names with a current focus on premium one-word .com names. Braden’s newest venture is a data-driven ad network that will apply predictive behavioral analytics to lead generation products designed to better monetize domains through development, search and social. He also serves on several Boards including the non-profit, Benevolent.net.

Braden Pollock

Cécile Baird

Cecile Baird co-founded Decentrl.Agency a boutique marketing agency for blockchain startups following 5 years of working in crypto for over 40 startups. Cecile is a people broker, who has helped startups raise over £100M in funding. She has helped place clients in over 200 news outlets such as The Guardian and CNBC, in top tech conferences around the world including TechCrunch Disrupt and Money2020. She has participated in the organisation of over 30 global conferences, meetups and roundtables spanning 2014 to now, including the first blockchain roundtable at the European Union, the first Pitch at the Buckingham Palace, and helped launch the first Crypto category at The Europas in 2014. In 2015, Cecile co-founded Blockchain For Good, a think-tank which brings together the greatest minds in blockchain to explore and debate the development of blockchain, for the greater good of humanity, society, economy and our environment. She is an author with publications featured in Coin Telegraph and Coindesk and a speaker on blockchain internationally since 2014, for organisation’s such as InnovateUK and Amnesty International, and an expert advisor for the UK Government’s All Party Parliamentary Group for Blockchain.

Cécile Baird

Bradley Miles

Bradley previously led research for CoinDesk, the world leader in news and information on digital currencies, and architected their State of Blockchain report and spotlight study on ICOs. He is the CEO of Turing Advisory Group, a sell-side advisory firm for token sales with an emphasis on research and best practices. Bradley is the best selling author of #BreakIntoVC: How to Break Into Venture Capital and Think Like an Investor and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Techstars in New York City.

Bradley Miles

Dmitrii Kutuzov

As a Head of Development in the Open Trading Network, Dmitrii Kutuzov is working intensely on elaborating the OTN cross-chain technology. Dmitrii has a degree in Cybersecurity and since his graduation, he has worked as a PHP developer, product owner at gaming projects and has managed the billing department with the world's leading broker. 12+ years of experience in the IT industry allow Dmitrii to find the best solution to turn OTN into the world's first 100% collateralized decentralized exchange. His intention is to unite isolated blockchain projects into one global network to establish easy and transparent exchange transactions.

Dmitrii Kutuzov

Stephen King

Stephen King is an entrepreneur with a focus in commercial real estate and blockchain technology. Since 2013, Stephen has lead King Realty Group in Princeton, New Jersey and participated in over forty-five million in real estate transactions. Stephen has worked on several technology companies and participated in the design of two iOS applications. Stephen is the co-founder of Rex and founder of Princeton Ethereum Meetup.

Stephen King

Maxwell Sanchez

Maxwell Sanchez is Co-Founder and CTO of VeriBlock, a blockchain software development company. He is also the co-inventor of the Proof-of-Proof protocol which enables blockchains to inherit Bitcoin's computational security in a fully decentralized, transparent, trustless, and permissionless manner. Passionate about decentralized and trustless technologies since 2011, Maxwell has built remote miner management software, OpenCL/CUDA GPU miners, cloud services, cryptocurrencies, and more for the blockchain ecosystem. He is a lead developer of the three-year-old Curecoin project which rewards users for contributing idle computing resources to biomedical research, developed the first public blockchain testnet to use post-quantum cryptography, and actively works on alternative blockchain security and scalability solutions leveraging level-2 technologies.

Maxwell Sanchez

Justin Fisher

Justin Fisher is Co-Founder and CEO of VeriBlock, a blockchain software development company. He is also the co-inventor of the Proof-of-Proof protocol which enables blockchains to inherit Bitcoin's computational security in a fully decentralized, transparent, trustless, and permissionless manner. During his more than 25 years in the Internet bandwidth, web hosting, financial & information services and telecommunications industries, Justin has been an incubator of companies that include ISPs, VoIP telecom, internet financial services, and collaborative gaming. Justin has also provided information systems consulting to numerous businesses across the financial services, real estate, healthcare, and staffing industries.

Justin Fisher

Mark L. Sokol

Mark L. Sokol is the CEO of Best Banking (Bitcoin Enabled Secure Transactions) and Best Bitcoin Advisors. 1-(833)-BEST-BBA. Mr. Sokol pioneered the world’s first “Source Engine,” when he created a meta-search engine, BestSearching.com. From the Best brand he founded which powered Best Bidding and other properties, Sokol created a search engine that Google could not emulate, a “source engine,” which served the top results from Google, MSN, Yahoo! and Ask.com from 2008-2013. Since then Sokol has created the Best team of banking, crowdfunding and Bitcoin experts available to re-launch the new Best Banking.

Mark L. Sokol

Natalia Sokolova

Natalia Sokolova "MsBankingAndBlockchain.com" is the Client Relationship Manager of Best Banking and Best Blockchain Advisors (Building Economies Securely Tokenized) and a co-founder of The Sokol Family Office and SGG World, LLC a Singe Family Office and Strategic Guidance Group. SGG invests in and advises a number of companies in digitally disruptive technology space including blockchain, ICOs, cryptocurrency, etc. Ms. Sokolova is a member of a number of domestic and international family office networks, current member of the ShareNett Family Office platform, as well as an invited speaker and consultant.

Thanks to her very successful international modeling career with many covers and features including being a Playboy Playmate, she has been seen on the covers of Maxim, FHM and is also a member of SAG/AFTRA. Ms. Sokolova became a Managing Director for ULG, LLC a worldwide licensing agent for the Elite Modeling Agency in Beverly Hills. She started her career at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC, working for the Director of the International Division, European Affairs. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from University of Maryland.

Together with Mark L. Sokol, the CEO of Best Banking, they have created a presentation indicating where banks and crowdfunding platforms are boldly going on the Blockchain, along with their “Best Assistant” technology and “PETE” (Personal Engagement Through Encryption) and the upcoming Best Pay wallet found in The Best Banking App.

Natalia Sokolova

Pete Martin

Pete Martin is the Founder & CEO of Votem, a blockchain-based mobile voting company. Pete is a successful serial entrepreneur who has started and sold several businesses including most recently selling his consulting firm to KPMG. Pete had successful careers with IBM and as an executive at SAP running an $80M business unit until starting his consulting firm. He has been in the technology business and enterprise-software space for more than 25 years.

Pete Martin

Michael Chin

After growing up in Seattle, Michael graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis with degrees in finance and accounting. He has spent his entire career in the credit industry – beginning with J.P. Morgan’s principal mezzanine credit investment group in New York, then in JPM’s Debt Capital Markets and Syndicated Leveraged Finance group in Hong Kong, helping Asian issuers with investment grade, high yield debt, and syndicated loan offerings. He later joined Intermediate Capital Group (a FTSE 250 composite company with over Euro$20 billion in AUM) and subsequently served as Managing Director of Constance Capital originating and executing share-backed financing loans. At BLOCKMASON, Michael has led key customer and buyer relationships, token economics design, as well as dealing with listings on various cryptocurrency exchanges. Michael is fluent in Mandarin, is an investor in technology and property, and currently lives in Hong Kong.

Michael Chin

Ari Eisenstat

Ari is a co-founder and chief evangelist of Moeda, a Global Cooperative Credit Union and Cryptocurrency using Blockchain technology for micro-finance (Moeda.in). Moeda is a Blockchain based financial services company dedicated to investing in communities and social entrepreneurs. Using cooperative principles and partnerships, Moeda creates loans that empower businesses that work for gender equality and the sustainable development goals. With Ethereum, Moeda has developed smart contracts, digital currency assets, and financial technology to provide secure, transparent, and more affordable credit union services than ever before. Ari was selected to be an International Chamber of Commerce representative to the United Nations during the post-2015 negotiations. Ari is a member of the UN's Interagency Working Group for Youth and Gender Equality and the Co-Executive Director of the UN Global Sustainability Index Institute, an independent foundation mandated to measure and accelerate capital for the 2020 Sustainable Development Goals. He is the co-founder of the "U.N.trepreneurship Initiative," which connects entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs across sectors to innovate for the Global Goals.

Ari Eisenstat

Shuonan Chen

Shuonan Chen is the Founder and Managing Partner of Agile VC, a Silicon Valley based VC fund focused on blockchain and fintech. She also sits on the board of the North American Blockchain Association and teaches at UC Berkeley. Prior to this, Shuo has worked at Goldman Sachs in investment banking, where she helped companies raise late stage funding and get publicly listed. Deals she has worked on have a combined market capitalization of over US $300 billion and span over a dozen industries (including over US $200 billion in TMT.) Shuonan received a Juris Doctor degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong where she specialized in financial regulation and has work published by Cambridge University Press. She also received a B.S. (Business Administration), B.A. (Economics), B.A. (Rhetoric) and Certificate for Engineering Leadership from the University of California, Berkeley with Honors.

Shuonan Chen

Yves Daoust

Yves is a serial entrepreneur with a technology background, who has successfully built technology ventures over the past 20 years in North America and in Europe. He co-founded Bluestreak Technology, a Montréal-based embedded software company that developed a solution deployed in more than 25 million cable boxes and connected TVs, and 10 million mobile devices worldwide. Used by operators, programmers and consumer electronics manufacturers for video delivery and user experiences, the solution pioneered the modern software environment for TV-centric consumer applications. He signed corporate licensing agreements with Vidéotron and Time Warner Cable in the first two years. He started business development in Europe, signed licensing agreements with NDS/Cisco, Thomson, TVCabo, SAGEM, DivX/NeuLion and Orange. Yves also introduced the solution in Asia and contributed to its implementation in mobile devices, which led to agreements with Qualcomm FLO TV, Access Japan, Mitsubishi and Panasonic LSI. The company was acquired in the spring of 2015 by Espial, an Ottawa-based IPTV solution provider.

Yves Daoust

David Vaskevitch

David’s career as visionary software architect, business innovator, and author spans more than 35 years. Among his first ventures was PlanDesign, a strategic planning consultancy that advised large corporations on business process re-engineering. A subsequent venture, Standard Software, was one of the earliest venture capital–funded software companies in North America. In 1986, David joined a small software company called Microsoft, where he held various senior executive positions in his 23-year service. From 2001 to 2010 he served as Microsoft’s Chief Technical Officer, reporting directly to Bill Gates until Gates’ retirement in 2008.

David Vaskevitch