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Mitchell Gildenberg  is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of  Switchboard , a fast, permissionless, and customizable oracle network that allows any developer to build the custom feed they need. Mitchell is a former third-level software engineer and technical lead of cloud services at Google, where he worked for over four years. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a master&#3...

Rennick Palley is Founding Partner at Stratos, an industry-leading VC firm focused on early-stage crypto projects. Rennick previously worked as a Research Associate at Sanders Capital, a $75 billion global equity manager. Rennick holds dual Bachelor's degrees in Applied Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, along with a Masters in Quantitative Finance from the...

J.D. Seraphine is a visionary leader and Web3 innovator in the fields of AI, blockchain, and cryptocurrency, recognized for his engaging keynotes, entrepreneurial spirit, and unwavering commitment to driving positive change on a global scale. With a diverse background spanning technology, entertainment and philanthropy, J.D. is a dynamic force at the intersection of innovation and social impact. I...

Karan Bharadwaj  is the CEO of Arithmic, the world’s first universal and scalable Layer-2 with native staking. Previously, Karan served as Chief Technology Officer at multiple companies including XinFin (XDC), and later, Mool, an AI and fintech company empowering people to organize their financial life through their markets web app by providing investment analysis and research. Karan is a seasoned...

Alan Orwick  is the Co-Founder of  Quai Network , the only fully scalable and programmable Proof-of-Work Layer 1 designed for global commerce.  He also serves as the CEO of  Dominant Strategies , the development behind Quai Network devoted to building blockchain tooling and infrastructure. Previously an Apple software engineer, Alan is committed to continue innovating the Quai Network with his eng...

Terence Kwok, Founder and CEO of Human Institute Terence Kwok is the founder and CEO of Humanity Protocol , a leading organization dedicated to amplifying human potential amidst the transformative impact of artificial intelligence.  He is a visionary technology entrepreneur from Hong Kong and the CEO and founder of one of Asia's first unicorns. Kwok's journey has been marked by strategic p...

Raj Parekh is the co-founder and CEO of Portal, a web3 platform that provides developers and businesses with the confidence to build and deploy complete Web3 products and services for their end users. Prior to founding Portal, Raj was the Director of Global Crypto Product at Visa, where he launched USDC settlement over Ethereum for payments on the Visa Network and built their crypto compliance pro...

Matthew Le Merle is Managing Partner and CEO of Blockchain Coinvestors. Launched in 2014, Blockchain Coinvestors’ vision is that digital monies, commodities and assets are inevitable and all of the world’s financial infrastructure must be upgraded. Our mission is to provide broad coverage of the emerging unicorns and fastest growth blockchain companies and crypto projects. Our investment strategy...

Alison Haire  is CEO and Founder of Lilypad - a groundbreaking serverless & permissionless distributed compute network which provides internet-scale compute to both web3 and traditional tech. She is dedicated to building out open infrastructure with democratic access to technology & driving positive change in tech culture. Alison has a background in enterprise software engineering, technol...

Joao Reginatto  is the Chief Strategy Officer at  M^ZERO Labs . Prior to this, he served as the Vice President of Product for Stablecoins at Circle, where he led the development of USDC. With 25 years of experience in tech product development, Joao has built both consumer and enterprise products, primarily in the finance sector. He possesses a strong technical background and is passionate about bl...

Myles Harrison has over 10 years of experience of creating award winning products across financial services. A visionary product leader he has a proven track record for delivering commercial success in scaling companies as well as a large global bank. He is passionate about harnessing the opportunities from emerging technologies to drive innovation and generate value for consumers. Having graduate...

Jerry Li  is the co-founder and CEO of  Artela Network , an extensible blockchain network enabling developers to build feature rich dApps. Previously, he served as the Chief Architect of AntChain, the blockchain platform of Ant Group. Jerry is also the founder of one of China’s top NFT marketplaces, Jingtan. In addition to his experience in crypto, Jerry has an extensive background in tech as the...

Dan Hughes is the Founder of Radix DLT, which he has been building for over 11 years. He started his career as a games developer on entertainment titles for PC's and consoles. Games are commonly pushing the boundaries of the hardware that they are running on, and as such developers of titles need to be able to think astutely and "out of the box". This has proved to be his most valuab...

Jiahao Sun, the founder and CEO of  FLock.io , is an Oxford alumnus and is an expert in AI and blockchain. With previous roles as the Director of AI for the Royal Bank of Canada and an AI Research Fellow at Imperial College London, he founded  FLock.io  to focus on privacy-centered AI solutions. Through his leadership,  FLock.io  is pioneering advancements in secure, collaborative AI model trainin...

Karel Kubat is the Founder of Union, the first fully trustless bridge powered by zero-knowledge technology. Karel has been coding smart contracts since 2016, beginning with Solidity and then expanding to Rust and Go in 2018. Drawing from his deep technological expertise and his background in Systems Engineering, Karel developed the IBC Protocol on Substrate (Polkadot) and is now committed to bring...

Alvin Kan  is a distinguished figure in the Web3 space. He brings a wealth of development and managerial experience to Bitget Wallet in his current role as the COO. Before joining the Bitget Wallet team, Alvin had worked for over 15 years on different projects, including leading ecosystem growth at BNB Chain and heading up Sei Labs in Asia. Alvin spent eight years with LinkedIn before taking the p...

Wei Xie is the COO of ArenaX Labs. Previously, was the Head of Digital Assets at a large Canadian pension fund, focused on investment strategies encompassing digital assets such as cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, as well as machine learning enabled liquid strategies. As COO at AI Arena, Wei takes charge of all business operations, including Finance, Legal, Marketing/Communications, and...

Yair Cleper, CEO and co-founder of Magma Devs, the initial core contributor to Lava Network, Yair is an accomplished serial entrepreneur having started his first company at age 21. Prior to focusing on crypto and co-founding Lava, he spent 6 years as the solo founder and CEO of Supersmart—the worlds first cashierless supermarket checkout technology. Supersmart processes $1.5B a year for top retail...

Martin de Rijke is Growth Lead at Syrup, a new protocol unlocking Institutional Yield in DeFi. Syrup is powered by the Maple Finance Secured Lending arm. Go to  syrup.fi  for more information. 

Kyle "Post Master": Crypto Investor, Karate Combat Up only gaming top earner. Developer and NFT artist at Stickbug.org. Mixed martial arts fighter.

Billy Luedtke   is the CEO and Founder of  Intuition ,   an Ethereum-based authentication protocol. Billy previously served as Senior Technology Advisor at EY, a leading global professional services organization providing assurance, tax, audit, strategy and transactions. At EY, Billy created the company’s blockchain consulting practice, leading the technical development of blockchain-enabled distr...

Amy Kalnoki is the Co-Founder and COO of Bitwave, the #1 digital asset finance platform for enterprises. Bitwave automates accounting workflows, enables regulatory compliance, reduces tax burden complexity, streamlines payments, and unifies data with a modern, connected platform.  Amy is a serial entrepreneur and technology industry veteran with expertise in enterprise software sales, accounting,...

Mathias Beke is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Kairon Labs, formerly working from a prominent Belgian Bank, he is now responsible for overseeing the trading and technology teams in developing cutting-edge algorithmic trading software that Kairon Labs utilize to offer upscale market-making services for digital asset issuers and and over 500+ token projects.  Kairon Labs’ propr...

Fabian Vogelsteller was part of the Ethereum Foundation in its early days and helped shape the Ethereum ecosystem from 2015 to 2018 by building the official Ethereum Wallet, the first decentralized web3 Browser and tools like web3.js, the Blockchain space’s most used JavaScript library. In 2015 he proposed ERC20, the token standard that initiated the whole movement around DeFi protocols and create...

Tim Wang  is the COO at  Elixir ,  a liquidity infrastructure layer that helps power decentralize orderbook exchanges, both spot and perpetual futures. He previously led crypto vc at Hudson River Trading, a proprietary trading firm active in both the traditional and crypto markets. He spent a number of years in traditional markets investing across venture, private equity, and investment banking wi...