Bitcoin Foundation, Blockchain Capital Brock Pierce is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist with an extensive track record of founding, advising and investing in disruptive businesses. He's credited with pioneering the market for digital currency in games and has raised more than $500 million for companies he has founded. He is the Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, co-founder of Blockchain Capital, co-founder and Head of Strategy at Block.one, and founding board member of Mastercoin (first ICO).

Joshua is an Internet-media entrepreneur. He worked at Accenture as technology and corporate strategy consultant and Deutsche Bank in its global investment banking and M&A group prior to starting North America’s first free-to-play MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game) publisher, GamersFirst, which became one of the largest free-to-play MMORPG publishers in the Western Hemisphere with offices in U.S, India, Brazil and Turkey. He also started a virtual game asset trading platform in Asia and one of the largest virtual currency payment platform for gamers in North America, Palyspan, as its early backer, shareholder and a board member, and it was acquired by Visa International. He won the local Business Journal’s Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award in 2010 and was chosen as one of 40 under 40 in 2011. He is also Founder and General Partner of Exponential, a $150M early-stage venture fund. He also founded and chaired YPO Singularity University Seminar, awarded one of the highest rated educational programs in YPO, Young President’s Organization. He has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business with concentrations in Finance, Accounting and International Business. He is a runner, yoga practitioner, meditator, and burner.

Miko Matsumura founded crypto exchange Evercoin, and is a Venture Partner with BitBull Capital. He is also an investor in the Pantera Capital ICO Fund (a $100M ICO-only fund). He is personally invested in FileCoin, Brave, CIVIC, Propy and Lyft.

As chief Evangelist for the Java Language and Platform he participated in the first wave of the Internet, and is now fully engaged in the crypto-fueled Internet of value.

As a 25 year operating exec in Silicon Valley, he has raised over $50 million in capital for Open Source startups. He was an advisor to AI startup Sentient during their 100M series C and currently advises cryptocurrency startups like Guardian Circle (Decentralized Global 911 Emergency Services) and Hub (Decentralizing Professional Social Networking). He is also an LP with Focus Ventures, a firm with over $800M under management, 9 IPOs and 44 exits.

He holds an Master’s degree in Neuroscience from Yale University where he worked on abstract computational neural networks.

In 1999 Roger began his career by founding MemoryDealers.com at the age of nineteen while still attending college. Under his leadership the company quickly grew to become a market leader, employing dozens of people across the world and generating millions of dollars in revenue. MemoryDealers is still in business to this very day with a team of happy people around the world.

In 2005 Roger saw an opportunity in the market for fibre optic transceivers used in networking subsystems, so he founded Agilestar.com. Agilestar went on to become a world leader in optical transceivers used by fortune 100 companies around the world. To this very day thousands of Agilestar transceivers are sold to customers around the world each year, and thousands more can be found on secondary marketplaces like Ebay.com

In 2011 Roger heard about Bitcoin for the first time. The price was still under one U.S. Dollar each, but he already knew that it was one of the most important inventions in the history of humankind. His company Memorydealers became the first established business in the world to start accepting Bitcoin for payments. Roger then went on to become the first person in the world to start investing in Bitcoin startups. He nearly single handedly funded the entire first generation of Bitcoin and Blockchain businesses including Bitcoin.com, Blockchain.com, Bitpay.com, Kraken.com, purse.io, and many many more. Those businesses have gone on to raise hundreds of millions of additional funding, and serve tens of millions of customers around the world. Subsequent investors in the companies that Roger helped provide the seed funding for have been people such as Sir Richard Branson, Virgin, Google Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Founders Fund, and many more. Roger has devoted his full time attention to Bitcoin and blockchains ever since.

Crystal is passionate about building A.I. responsibly to augment and uplift humans, rather than replace them. Her life mission is disrupting the future of work by decentralizing jobs and creating a world of entrepreneurs, in which any human is their own enterprise. Along this mission she is the Chairman of Restart Week, a philanthropic organization for the benefit of underserved countries through technology and capital. She was previously the Founder of LA Startup Week, an annual 5-day series of events celebrating entrepreneurs and startups in Los Angeles and the Code for America Brigade in Los Angeles (Code for LA) supporting open government and civic hacking for the Mayor's Office.

Roger Benites is a Bitcoin enthusiast and audacious entrepreneur. He supports Bitcoin and Blockchain technology as ideology since the beginning. His own frustrating experience with money remittances in South America inspired him to participate actively in this new world full of opportunities to give solutions to the everyday problems of the common people. InkaPay, his new international payments and remittances platform, in parallel roger, led the project on building Crypto Currency datacenters in Latin America, build the first 5mw mining farm in Venezuela, expanded operations in Argentina on 5mw facility and has recently deployed a 15mw datacenter in northern sweden, roger is a true proof of a believer blockchain is the financial future.

Javier majored in quantitative finance and risk management. After his study in Hong Kong, UK and China, he started his career in HSBC Global Banking in its Global Trade and Receivable Finance department. He later joined Bank of China International as an investment banker. He is an early blockchain adopters, he was part of the core team member when his previous employer started to study the application of blockchain technology to the banking services.

Prior joining Bithumb, Javier worked in two Hong Kong based cryptocurrency exchange, Gatecoin and Tidebit. He is now responsible for the global expansion of Bithumb, the largest Korean cryptocurrency exchange.

Waseem is a serial entrepreneur with a strong background in technical leadership. Previously Waseem co-founded Inbox2 (acquired, used by 90 million users) and Fileboard (based in San Francisco), a leader in the sales-enablement software space. Waseem also advises and coaches entrepreneurs/CTO’s and CEO’s on implementing and adopting highly scalable software solutions and growth systems. Waseem co-founded Tradebits in 2014.

Tradebits™ is the first educational, user-friendly, high-performance, scalable, reliable, safe and regulated Digital Currency Ecosystem designed for the masses - the next 100 million users - that want financial freedom. It consists of the interconnected Tradebits Exchange™, a robust, scalable and decentralized crypto-to-crypto exchange; GetMIO™, an easy-to-use cash-to-crypto gateway where users can buy and sell crypto with cash; the GetMilly™ wallet, a secure wallet to store your crypto with recovery capabilities and super easy and user-friendly Slide & Trade features and in-app education; and ICObello™ an independent ICO rating and listing platform supported by expert and community reviews.

Blockchain & Crypto professional with an expertise on conducting due diligence for ICO projects, business model design, token economics/mechanics design and ICO preparation & promotion. Early investor in Ethereum, Golem, Filecoin, STEEM & CyberMiles. Additionally, an experienced business development professional with a track record of building international partnerships, private and public fundraising. Other than being a global top 20 cryptocurrency exchange, at COBINHOOD, we pride ourselves on our insight into the crypto investment and trading market. We have a subscriber list of over 300,000 investors and traders.Mr. Sites has ten years of experience providing consulting and tax advisory services in the areas of international and federal tax. His clients have been from industries such as: financial services, internet commerce, manufacturing, private equity, and alternative energy. He has significant experience with international supply chain restructuring as well as experience with repatriation, foreign base company income, and cost sharing agreement implementation. Mr. Sites also assists clients in determining the tax consequences of various cryptocurrency and blockchain related transactions, including advising international exchanges and providing opinion memos on initial coin offerings. In this capacity, Mr. Sites serves as RSM’s Washington National Tax technical lead on all cryptocurrency and blockchain matters.

Christopher spearheads Carey Olsen's crypto practice, advising on the launch in 2017 of Coinshares Fund I (a venture cap fund investing in crypto assets) and ARC Reserve Currency, Jersey's first initial coin offering or "ICO". Christopher also advises on all aspects of fund and corporate transactions, including the legal and regulatory aspects of fund launches, and joint ventures. He also has considerable experience in dealing with the Jersey Financial Services Commission in navigating investment vehicles through the Jersey regulatory approval process.

Tom is an advisor for Jersey's Minister for External Relations on strategic policy initiatives for the development of Jersey's export banking, fintech, blockchain and corporate finance industries. Tom is building Jersey's framework for the growth of the blockchain and fintech industries including legislative proposals for the regulation of initial coin offerings and negotiating a game-changing memorandum of understanding between Digital Jersey and Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange.

Dr. Andreas Glarner works with international companies in the technology, industrial and internet sectors. He specializes in the fields of intellectual property, unfair competition, advertising law, licensing and distribution, as well as information technology and data protection. He acts both as legal counsel and litigator in these fields. In addition, he has extensive expertise in fintech and blockchain technology applications, gaming services, e-payments and export control measures, both from a legal and a compliance point of view. Andreas Glarner has published various articles on topics related to his practice areas.

Chris Miess was the CFO of TenX conducting a 80m USD ICO. This ICO was the largest in Asia and has set the standard for many ICOs to come. Before his tenure at TenX, Chris worked for many years in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in London. He advised FinTech companies on capital markets and M&A transactions. Amongst his clients were FinTechs, banks, credit card companies and other financial institutions. Chris is also the founder and CEO of ICONIC Capital, the leading ICO consulting and investment company in Asia. Most recently, ICONIC was integral in completing highly successful projects such as GIFTO, Appcoins, Aidcoin, Datum and Quantstamp. In total ICONIC has raised more than half a billion dollars for its clients. Chris has recently been appointed as the official advisor in Blockchain and FinTech matters to the Austrian government.

IOVO - the first decentralized human value network giving power over data back to the people, who generate it. He has established himself as a significant figure in the crypto space by entering the market at its early stage of development and being an early investor of some of the leading blockchain projects. Krzysztof is also a founder of the first decentralized ethereum based lottery, a co-founder of Chain Capital and a key organizer of Poland’s largest crypto conference Connect Warsaw. At the same time, he is a regular feature on the keynote circuit and an advisor to blockchain based companies.

Christian completed his Doctorate in Law in 2005 before furthering his studies with an Adv. LL.M. in International Taxation from the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. Christian has worked as a tax advisor for a Big 4 Audit firm in Malta as well as reputable local Corporate Service provider.

In 2009 Christian together with Karl Schranz was one of the founding members of another a Corporate Services Provider in Malta, before leaving to set up E&S Consultancy in 2010. Christian currently sits on the board of all of the companies within the E&S Group and his competences include Malta direct and indirect taxation, international tax structuring, Taxation of Tokens, Cryptocurrencies, ICOs, trusts, corporate and company law and related legal advice.

Jamy's Super Power is bringing people together under a common flag. Using his Super Power has led him to create the BDXAlliance, an ecosystem that allows crypto to be used in everyday life. Helping Governments and ICO start-ups alike, the BDXAlliance is Blockchain-as-a-Service to solve hard problems - simply.

Being a Technology Futurist, Salman is early Blockchain adopter and key influencer in the space, currently empowering the next wave of Blockchain innovators through evangelizing, training & speaking at global forums. Efficacious author and public speaker, Salman has been featured as success story in “Soul Beats @ UAE” the book published by Department of Economic Development of Dubai.

He advises regulators, corporates & senior managers on applications of Distributed Ledger DLT, Big Data & IoT and AI. Salman lives, plays and works in UAE and on stages around the world committed to empower the human potential.

A seasoned CTO, with experience in Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Disaster Recovery, Bigdata, AI, &managed services professional focused on business value. Jorge has been advisor in seven ICOs with comprehensive understanding of applications of risks of Blockchain technology.

He created the process A 6 of security: Assess, Architect, Apply, Administer, Awareness and Agility. He architects practical & business focused solutions using standards and industry best practices, designed SLAs to meet today’s business resiliency using cloud computing & managed services business requirements. Mr. Sebastiao has been the speaker at numerous international conferences with topics including: Blockchain, AI, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Big Data, & Managed Services.

Sergey Zhdanov has remarkable and diversified experience in Finance. Before EXMO, as EY Auditor, he was involved in completing the IAS/IFRS/US GAAP transformation, consolidation, modelling and analytical procedures, auditing BS and PL accounts, completing internal controls systems (SOX), preparing reporting deliverables and providing professional guidance for junior EY colleagues being in charge and managing the team comprising 5 members. He was also involved in advisory projects, preparing deliverables and presenting it to the top management of the client.

Founded in 2013 and based in London, Kiev, Barcelona and Moscow, EXMO is #1 exchange in Eastern Europe, and one of the world's largest global exchanges in volume and liquidity. There are 1.5 mln users, 50 000 active traders, 315 000 daily visitors, 70 trading pairs, 5 fiat currencies (USD, EUR, RUB, PLN, UAH) on the platform. The average daily trading volume is $50 mln.

Thomas Nägele serves international finance, technology and industrial companies in the blockchain / DLT, telecommunications and Internet sectors as well as public institutions. As a Liechtenstein lawyer with experience as a software developer, he deals with Internet / IT law as well as civil and corporate law. He also takes care of the associated legal advice and exercises teaching and lecturing. He also specializes in corporate governance.

Ray is the CEO and Co-founder of Paxful, one of the world's largest peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace. Paxful gives the people a simple, fair, and secure marketplace for trading bitcoins. With over 300 payment methods accepted in the platform, Paxful is one of the most accessible and user-friendly bitcoin marketplaces online.

Aside from making cryptocurrencies accessible, Ray also launched the #BuiltwithBitcoin charitable initiative that aims to show the humanitarian capability of bitcoin. He’s an NYC native and has been a serial entrepreneur since 2001.

While attending the University of Michigan, Jeremy founded the Blockchain Education Network (BEN), a global educational nonprofit. He went on to cofound Augur, the decentralized prediction market platform, and lead their ICO—the first ever on Ethereum and first "utility token." In 2016, Jeremy started a new company, SAAVHA. Most recently, Jeremy worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence and investor at Blockchain Capital, where he sourced over a half dozen investments and helped structure the firm's landmark security token ICO. Jeremy has also served as the founding editor-in-chief of Distributed magazine. He advises some of the top startups in the industry and is often cited in the press surrounding blockchain technology.

Christopher Obereder is a 26-year-old serial entrepreneur and Forbes 30 under 30 member. He has been the CMO of various well-known ICOs and helped to raise over $100 million in total. Previously he launched various wordwide gaming hits and sold his gaming company to Genera Games, the company behind Disney's mobile games. He has also been the CMO of Tellonym, one of the fastest growing apps of 2018, and is part of various Valley-based startups.

Shane Molidor is the Global Head of FBG One, which is the client-facing trading division of FBG Capital. FBG One operates an over-the-counter (“OTC”) desk to service clients seeking to trade large quantities of crypto assets, as well as a designated market making program to support token projects following issuance. FBG One trades upwards of $1B per month, and the team consists of over 20 professionals across trading, IT, and business development.

Prior to joining FBG One, Mr. Molidor worked in business development at Gemini Trust Company, LLC: a fully regulated New York-based cryptocurrency exchange and custodian founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.

Mr. Molidor has worked alongside premiere trading institutions, token projects, and regulators in the cryptocurrency ecosystem since 2015. His experience has equipped him with an intimate understanding of exchange infrastructure, custody solutions, evolving regulation, and marketplace dynamics. Mr. Molidor holds of Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University and also attended The London School of Economics where he studied Economics.

Miguel has an extensive career in the media industry from filmmaking to radio. He began his journey in the crypto-world by spearheading blockchain media on RT.com in an exciting show called 'Cryptolium' that traveled the world and exposed the latest happenings in the world of Blockchain. Bringing along his 10 year filmmaking experience as a seasoned documentarist and a UCLA Film School graduate, his aim in the blockchain media space is to facilitate cinematic emotion and feeling to create a powerful connection with the viewer and take blockchain into the masses.

Centralized media has limits and that is why Miguel created 'The Future is Now' - a decentralized documentary film series covering the progress of blockchain technology and the crypto-industry around the world.

He is currently the CMO of Futurama Blockchain Innovators Media, an arm of the Futurama eco-system that aims to be a powerful player in the crypto-media creating new avenues for blockchain implementation into socio-economic growth of the industry.

Anatoly Radchenko, co-founder of United Traders and Kvadrat Black hedge fund. United Traders is an investment company that has been active since 2009. In 2017, the company raised $35 mln through ICO.

Anatoly is a No.1 financial and crypto blogger in Russia. His 12 years of experience in traditional finance and 5 years in the crypto world allow him and his team to have a subtle anticipation of the upcoming blockchain technology development after institutional investors enter the market.

United Traders is set out to change the traditional crypto exchange landscape by adding liquidity to tokens and tokenizing conventional financial assets.

Henok “Hen” Tekle is a founding partner of AlphaChain, a blockchain advisory and investment firm. Having appeared on media outlets such as CNBC, Hen is a notable blockchain angel investor, advisor, content creator, public speaker and fund manager. Hen is a passionate advocate for the disruption brought by token economies and blockchain technology, and regularly speaks at conferences around the world about the ushering of Blockchain 3.0. Further, Hen’s angel investor syndicate has deployed substantial capital to support the mainstream adoption of blockchain technology.

Mr. Sites has ten years of experience providing consulting and tax advisory services in the areas of international and federal tax. His clients have been from industries such as: financial services, internet commerce, manufacturing, private equity, and alternative energy. He has significant experience with international supply chain restructuring as well as experience with repatriation, foreign base company income, and cost sharing agreement implementation. Mr. Sites also assists clients in determining the tax consequences of various cryptocurrency and blockchain related transactions, including advising international exchanges and providing opinion memos on initial coin offerings. In this capacity, Mr. Sites serves as RSM’s Washington National Tax technical lead on all cryptocurrency and blockchain matters.

Joel Telpner is a corporate and finance partner in the New York office of the international law firm Sullivan & Worcester and is the head of the Firm’s Fintech and Blockchain Practice Group. He is a seasoned advisor, strategist and problem solver. Mr. Telpner brings more than 30 years of legal experience in a career that includes time as an AmLaw 100 partner, the former U.S. general counsel of a global financial institution, and a venture capitalist. He is a highly sought after legal advisor in the blockchain space.

- Pioneer in structuring some of the first ICOs and blockchain based applications;

- Structured the first issuance of digital securities utilizing blockchain technology for Overstock.com and helped in launching Overstock’s distributed ledger platform, tZero;

- Legal advisor for some of the biggest cryptocurrencies;

- Led a panel discussion about ICOs and best practices at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January.

He is working on policy initiatives on global regulatory issues for blockchain on behalf of the Global Blockchain Business Council, the Blockchain Research Institute and Wharton Reg@Tech. He is a member of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance’s Legal Working Group, which focuses on best practices for ICOs, and of the Digital Currency & Ledger Defense Coalition, a coalition of lawyers and academics who focus on the legal issues surrounding digital currency and distributed ledger technology.

Mr. Telpner has an M.B.A. from University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School and a J.D., with distinction, The University of Iowa, and a B.B.A., The University of Iowa.

He has also had many awards and honors including: "Deal Maker of the Year," Finance Monthly, 2014 ($1.5 billion issuance by SanDisk); "Lawyer of the Year," Corporate LiveWire, 2014; New York Super Lawyers (2006-2007; 2013-2018 & The Legal 500 U.S. (2009-2018).

Ms. Seungmin Jasmine Jung is a Partner and Senior Foreign Attorney at JIPYONG LLC.

Ms. Jung represents clients in the finance, fintech, energy, real estate and technology sector and has extensive experience in structured finance, derivatives, acquisition finance, project finance, private equity funds and M&A transactions. She is also considered one of the foremost experts on cloud computing, cryptocurrency, blockchain, data privacy, and cybersecurity.

Prior to joining JIPYONG LLC, Ms. Jung was the Head of Legal at Amazon Web Services Korea where she specialized in cloud computing and data privacy. Ms. Jung started her legal career as an associate at the NY office of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed and subsequently worked at Shin & Kim and Franklin Templeton Investments in Seoul, Korea.

Currently, Ms. Jung regularly advises clients on cryptocurrency and blockchain while frequently lecturing at conferences, and contributing articles, on legal issues surrounding the 4th Industrial Revolution. Ms. Jung also teaches technology law at Yonsei University, her alma mater.

Ms. Jung is a member of the New York Bar. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her B.A. in political science from Yonsei University.

25 years career focused on investing in infrastructure (led over $12 billion in investment across Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe) and advising senior government leaders (heads of state, ministers, mayors, agency heads) to attract private investment in infrastructure projects. CEO and Managing Partner of Singapore-based Emerging Infra-Tech Partners (EIP) and Infra-Tech Capital (ITC). EIP is a boutique advisory firm specializing in infrastructure finance. ITC is an investment firm that is establishing a fiat + crypto currency fund to invest in technology start-ups targeting the global infrastructure market, and ICOs of block chain-based infrastructure companies.

Christian Ferri President and CEO BlockStar, Founder of the Blockchain Compliance Alliance, Advisor to the Board of 25+ companies, LP of the Protocol Ventures fund.

Christian is the President and CEO of BlockStar, a Blockchain Holding Company providing ICO security and enterprise tokenization services that invests, advises and trains on Blockchain and ICOs.

He’s the founder of the Blockchain Compliance Alliance, a non-profit initiative supported by government agencies and influential entities in the space to create the first decentralized due diligence standard for ICOs. Christian is an investor, writer, public speaker, advisor and connector in distributed system based ventures and ICOs. Former Lead at PwC Tech Advisory, Christian was fortunate enough to have lived the transition, bringing two decades of traditional business experience coupled with the new decentralized frontier. He’s often quoted in publications such as Forbes and Entrepreneur.

Toufi chairs the ACM Practitioner Board Conference Committee on the global blockchain + AI initiative called AiDecentralized backed by the ACM (No1 in computer science). Toufi also works with the UN ITU on blockchain and AI (No.1 UN tech agency) and was invited to the Wuzhen Summit World Internet Conference (No.1 CEO/leader conference) for his global expertise. He also advises the Financial Services Roundtable (No1 in financial services) on Blockchain (FSR: 100 CEOs, $100 Trillion USD AUM). He is also CEO at Toda Algorand, a world leader in blockchain tech. And redefining network protocols at layer zero with Toda-T which he is a credited co-author of and runs a startup factory PrivacyShell. In addition, with one set of partners, Toufi has done 27 Billion usd in exits and with another 19 Billion in exits as a serial entrepreneur, co-founder or investor.

Evan Conceptualizes, Innovates and then works on Executing world-changing ideas. He love's building and rebuilding Products. Using creativity, ideas and magic, he builds products in a way you will never forget.

Evan believes in coming up with original ideas and turning them into digital businesses that are both innovative and profitable.

Evan Luthra has that rare and coveted ability to turn original ideas into businesses that are both innovative and profitable. At 22 years-old, he has an already impressive resume and career history. He started his journey as a serial entrepreneur as an adolescent and was bitten by the "digital bug" early and often. This forward thinking, technology-minded entrepreneur embarked on his first digital endeavour at just twelve years old by curating technology-related news, and he garnered a notable quarter of a million readers in doing so.

He then began developing mobile apps with the advent of mobile app popularity. Always on the cusp and leading edge of new trends and innovations, he has become a true innovator and a recognized name in the world of Startups. He has started various technology companies and manages products used by millions of people.

Evan has extensive knowledge and experience in mobile apps and his company, EL Group International has developed and delivered mobile apps for major Fortune 500 companies. Evan's strategy follows a simple, but proven formula: conceptualize, innovate, execute.

More recently Evan is heavily invovled in the crypto industry working with leading companies such as GazeCoin.io, Hashgraph.com and others under EL Group subsidary Almora.io and has been regarded as a Blockchain expert and pioneer by the worlds leading organziations and publications.

Evan is an accredited Angel Investor and invests in a variety of products and businesses through his Startup Studio and otherwise. From being the first investor over snapchat , to an early investor in Eazeup.com (Fastest growing on-demand Tech company in 2016) to most recently in Wheelys (Top 15 company to watch out in 2017 by INC).

Evan believes in using technlogy to disrupt existing industries and has companies in a diverse set of industries from FoodTech, FinTech, Marijuana, Travel, Nightlife, Food and Beverage, Lifestyle, Social, AI, VR, AR, MR, Entertainment, Fashion and more.

He is a featured speaker at different universities and conferences around the globe; he speaks about Mobile Apps, Entrepreneurship and trending tech topics, to huge audiences and has spoken for Tedx, United Nations, Google, Nielsen and has done guest lectures at Delhi University, Washington State University, San Francisco State University and more.

With his keen insights and digital expertise, Evan is constantly thinking of new ideas that will innovate, simplify and make the quality of daily life that much better.

Loretta is a highly dynamic, skilled banking, financial and consulting professional with over 25 years in financial markets and related sectors. She has a worked for major investment banks at Board, MD or senior management level throughout Asia and India including, RBS (India), Macquarie Group (India), Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and Elara Capital (India), Spanning a long career, Loretta has tremendous exposure to global financial markets, multiple asset classes and emerging market environments. Loretta has advised many international banks, global hedge and pension funds on managing portfolio and exposure to derivatives and related products. Loretta champions the cause for responsible blockchain adoption with global governments , regulators and industry players . She was the recipient of the Fintech Australia, "FinTech Leader of 2017", “Female leader of 2016” and Sancta Sophia College (Within Sydney University) Alumni Award 2016 for Social impact.

Vikram is a Partner in Hassans’ Corporate and Commercial department and co-leads the firm’s FinTech Team. Vikram acts on initial coin offerings/token sales and other distributed ledger technology matters, including licence applications under Gibraltar’s DLT Providers Regulations. Vikram has also been deeply involved in assisting the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission with the drafting of some of the Guidance Notes to Gibraltar’s DLT Providers Regulations and with shaping the DLT and ICO Regulatory Framework in Gibraltar. He is also contributing to the EU Commission’s Blockchain Observatory and Forum.

In addition, Vikram acts on all aspects of corporate transactional work and commercial projects, specialising in investment and finance structures and mergers and acquisitions. Vikram advises numerous multinational companies on tax and corporate matters and is very experienced in cross-border structures and transactions. Vikram also advises certain high net worth individuals and families on their personal and business structures.

Hassans has been consistently ranked as the leading law firm in Gibraltar by Chambers Europe, Chambers Global and Legal 500 (the most respected industry-standard rating agencies for law firms, globally). Vikram has been ranked annually in Chambers Global and Chambers Europe since 2012 as a leading lawyer in General Business Law. More recently, Vikram has been ranked by The Legal 500 EMEA as a Leading Lawyer in Technology, Media and Telecommunications.

John Hensel is the COO of Securrency, Inc, a financial services technology infrastructure and products company that delivers unique decentralized investment banking tools built around core universal identity, rights, and interoperability technology. This lightweight, yet powerful, infrastructure supports Securrency’s complete suite of security and compliance products to enable the secure and compliant issuance, maintenance, and secondary trading of tokenized securities by issuers, broker-dealers, alternative trading system (ATS) operators, and exchange operators.

Prior to co-founding Securrency, John was an officer in the United States Navy for 25 years serving as both a pilot and director of major defense, multi-national acquisition programs. In this capacity, his responsibilities included leading large organizations and the management of a program portfolio valued in excess of $15 billion. He led negotiations and engagements at the highest levels of foreign government to include Defense Ministers, Ambassadors, and Service Chiefs in 22 countries. Leveraging these experiences, John is a recognized ambassador for distributed ledger technology innovation, particularly in the areas of multi-jurisdictional regulatory compliance. He is known for his diplomacy in advancing the interests of the rapidly evolving financial services industry and has established himself as a prominent voice in the global security token marketplace. John is often sought for insight into the future of such markets sharing Securrency’s vision at conferences around the world. As COO, he is responsible for day-to-day global operations of Securrency, Inc. As Senior Executive Officer of Securrency’s Middle East North Africa (MENA) subsidiary, he leads the deployment and execution of Securrency’s Abu Dhabi Global Market operations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

John graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1992 with a B.S. in Physics. He received a M.A. from the U.S. Naval War College in 2003 and a MBA from John Hopkins University in 2009. John and his wife Jeannie have two sons and live in Dubai, UAE.

Jackie (Raven) Hart has 20+ years as a strategist and project manager consultant on both coasts, specifically NY/Boston/Silicon Valley. She has managed and led large-scale Fortune 500 software development projects in the high-technology, biotech and financial sectors with market leading companies such as Oracle, Microsoft, Genentech, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Bechtel.

Jackie is currently working with organizations and their emergent leaders that are accelerating the blockchain economy by creating ethical and high social impact for humanity and the planet through ChainReaction Labs, a purpose-driven marketing boutique where she is Co-Founder. By working with ChainReaction Labs global team she sees the decentralized blockchain technology as a mechanism that can create and sustain a safer, fairer and more prosperous society.

Jackie is also Founder of ZeroPoint:Blockchain in Balance. The ZeroPoint Experience is an immersive zone within Blockchain conferences for attendees to come undone, to re-center and regroup and connect with other aligned attendees in a more intimate and authentic environment. ZeroPoint seeks to engage people and support those who are open to doing business in a more conscious and collaborative way.

Jackie has been a speaker on numerous conferences on the topic of Blockchain for Good. She serves on the Board for regenerative community blockchain company and is on several blockchain advisory boards. She is a long time meditator, yogini, nature connection guide and mother to five children she sees as her biggest teachers.

Thomas advises clients in traditional and/or alternative products, which makes him coveted his expert advice. Rye is the VP of one of the world’s leading investment and securities firms, a Harvard Graduate, who’s acquired tremendous experience in institutional asset management. This has led Rye to be one of the first to truly determine the capabilities of Blockchain and its potential impact on the real economy.

“Art is the soul language of all movements. I’m here to decentralArt”, - Nanu Berks

Originally from Argentina, always nomadic, currently building art installations that explore the intersections between consciousness expansion and transcendental technologies. Nanu has a background in Social/Tech/AI/Communication, and enjoys “sharing information about the blockchain evolution through experiential art” Ask her about crypto cultural creation, color mind&body maps, and 5 senses social experiments.

Kirill Gourov is a Director at Eastmore Group, a New York based alternative investing firm, where he focuses on digital currency investment. He was previously the founder of CSquared, a blockchain strategy consulting firm focusing on the financial services industry. He also headed blockchain strategy at Boston Consulting Group unit Expand Research. He has been actively involved in the Bitcoin community since early 2013 and published one of the earliest pieces on digital currency valuation. He is a graduate of Baruch College in New York City and is a CFA Charterholder.

Danver was a former international educator focused on increasing student learning and achievement. She now takes her knowledge of how humans learn into the world of Artificial Intelligence and is most passionate about her direct participation in helping to develop a benevolent AI for humanity at Mind.AI. She is also the co-founder and CEO of Camp Cyberia, a community of burners who gather annually to celebrate life, love, and caring for each other. She is also the President of its 501c(3) not-for-profit foundation based in California that supports art education throughout the global community.

John Feng is the CEO of OKCoin Japan. Before partnering with OKCoin to establish OKCoin Japan, John spent over 20 years working as an alternative investment professional in New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong at leading US, Japanese and Chinese Financial institutions including Goldman Sachs, Mizuho and CITIC. John is fluent in English, Japanese and Chinese.

John also loves to travel around the world for no particular reasons, and has yet to meet someone who has been to as many countries as he has.