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Jimmy Nguyen

Founding President

Bitcoin Association

Jimmy Nguyen

Jimmy is the Founding President of Bitcoin Association and an award-winning intellectual property & digital technology lawyer. In 2008, Lawdragon named him (at only age 36) one of the 500 Leading Lawyers in Read More...

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Adam Kling

Founder & CEO

FYX Gaming, Inc.

Adam Kling

Adam is the Founder and CEO of FYX, the company behind the leading blockchain eSports title "CryptoFights". He is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in building a variety of Read More...

Adrian Grenier

Actor | Regional Goodwill Ambassador

North America, UN Environment Programme

Adrian Grenier

Actor, filmmaker, musician, entrepreneur and philanthropist Adrian Grenier is as passionate about embodying compelling characters as he is about developing successful business ventures and leading a campaign for Read More...

Ahmed Yousif

Middle East Lead

BSV Blockchain for Government Initiative

Ahmed Yousif

ICT industry veteran Ahmed Yousif joined the Makkah Municipality in 2015 in Saudi Arabia as a Digital Transformation and Strategic Head. He is also the Middle East Lead for the BSV Blockchain for Government Read More...

Alex Agut

CEO

HandCash

Alex Agut

Alex is a product designer and marketer. His passion is making new technologies accessible to everybody by creating amazing products that people Read More...

Donny Deutsch

Former CEO and Chairman

Deutsch Inc.

Donny Deutsch

Donny Deutsch, former CEO and Chairman of Deutsch Inc., is one of the most prominent media and business voices of our time. He hosts On Brand with Donny Deutsch podcast that examine where current events, politics, and Read More...

Ian Grigg

Financial Cryptographer

Ian Grigg

Ian Grigg built the first digital cash and digital assets exchange back in 1995-1996. He invented the Ricardian Contract to describe any form of digital asset where claims were made about the instrument, and triple Read More...

Saeed Mohammed Ali Alhebsi

Advisor in AI & Sr. Project Mngr, UAE Ministry

of HR & Emiratisation

Saeed Mohammed Ali Alhebsi

Saeed is an Advisor in AI and Senior Project Manager for the UAE Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MOHRE). He is also co-founder of Startup Lex, a co-founder in Casa Mobili, and an owner of VETC Read More...

Dr. Craig S. Wright

Chief Scientist

nChain

Dr. Craig S. Wright

Craig is the creator of Bitcoin under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. He leads nChain in developing one of the largest blockchain patent portfolios with over 1000 pending applications and over 150 Read More...

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09:00 EST
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09:05 - 09:30 EST
BSV Blockchain: It’s About Time

General

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Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin Association
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Jimmy Nguyen Founding President Bitcoin Association

Jimmy Nguyen

Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Jimmy Nguyen is one of the world’s top Bitcoin and blockchain advocates. He is a renowned public speaker, media commentator and global ambassador for Bitcoin SV. Jimmy joined nChain and then helped launch Bitcoin Association after a 21-year career as an intellectual property and digital technology lawyer. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/U.S.

In 2008, Lawdragon named Jimmy (at only age 36) one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” and described him as a “dynamo talent.” He has also been recognized by the Century City Bar Association as “Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” (2011), and by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel with its Industry Leader Award (2017). For his diverse leadership, Jimmy has been named a “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leader” (2015) by Diversity MBA magazine and was inducted into California Minority Counsel Program’s Diversity Hall of Fame (2015).
09:30 - 09:50 EST
BSV: Technical Update

Information Technology

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Steve Shadders - CTO, nChain | Technical Director, Bitcoin SV Infrastructure Team
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Steve Shadders CTO nChain | Technical Director, Bitcoin SV Infrastructure Team

Steve Shadders

CTO, nChain | Technical Director, Bitcoin SV Infrastructure Team

Steve Shadders has been involved in Bitcoin infrastructure since early 2011. As one of the first authors of open-source mining pool software “PoolServerJ,” he was at the forefront of implementing new features like merged mining and local coinbase generation that are in common use today.

Steve was actively involved in Mike Hearn’s Bitcoin project as one of the earliest contributors and still uses it today as his staple Bitcoin library. Today, Steve heads up nChain’s engineering team and is the Technical Director of the Bitcoin SV Node project. He is passionate about the future role of Bitcoin in reshaping the world. In his own words, it is disruptive technology with “more potential to change the world than the printing press.” In his role, he contributes his ecosystem-wide perspective to support building the mining and UX infrastructure needed to enable Satoshi’s Vision to be realized.
09:50 - 10:30 EST
Online Games: Next Level on the BSV Blockchain

iGaming

Brandon Bryant - Software Engineer, HandCash

Eric LaForce - Technical Co-Founder, Haste Arcade

Jackson Laskey - Co-Founder & CEO, Unbounded Enterprise

Taylor Searle - Strategic Advisor, Built By Gamers
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Brandon Bryant Software Engineer HandCash

Brandon Bryant

Software Engineer, HandCash | Adjunct Professor, University of New Hampshire

Brandon began working with Bitcoin in 2016 as an original employee at Anypay, where he worked on processing Bitcoin payments. After winning a Bitcoin Association Developer Scholarship, Brandon met the HandCash team in London and began working on the team as a Cloud Engineer shortly after.

Brandon is also an adjunct Professor designing and teaching a course on the original Bitcoin protocol at the University of New Hampshire.

Eric LaForce Technical Co-Founder Haste Arcade

Eric LaForce

Technical Co-Founder, Haste Arcade

Eric LaForce is one of the technical co-founders of Haste Arcade, a first-of-its-kind leaderboard payout gaming platform that leverages the BSV ecosystem.

Eric has a Master's in Computer Science from UNC-Chapel Hill with a research focus in interactive graphics. He has developed significant technology products across multiple industries ranging from startups to enterprises. Recently, Eric has helped build and sell a technology consulting organization as their SVP of Engineering.
Jackson Laskey Co-Founder & CEO Unbounded Enterprise

Jackson Laskey

Co-Founder & CEO, Unbounded Enterprise

Jackson is a Partner at Unbounded Enterprise, a venture/hedge fund among the very first to be investing exclusively in the BSV ecosystem.

As a former professional poker player/educator, a software developer, and a professional jazz pianist, Jackson is the beneficiary of a rather non-traditional background for a professional investor. Had Jackson, and by extension Unbounded Enterprise, come from a background similar to his investing peers, he likely would have stuck with the Crypto consensus and missed the potential of BSV as so many others have.

As a poker player and as a jazz musician, Jackson was forced to learn how to think beyond the readily available resources to establish a unique point of view to stay a step ahead of his peers. With this skill set, the risk management abilities requisite of any professional poker player, and strong computer science fundamentals, Jackson emerged well prepared to take on the challenge of investing in the rapidly changing world of Bitcoin investing with its unbounded opportunity and misinformation pitfalls.

Jackson looks forward to continuing to learn about Bitcoin and helping to steer Unbounded Enterprise into a premier position in the future built on Bitcoin.
Taylor Searle Strategic Advisor Built By Gamers

Taylor Searle

Strategic Advisor, Built By Gamers

Taylor leads the strategic integration of Bitcoin technology at Built By Gamers, a premier esports organization. Built By Gamers is working with strategic partners to lead the way as a pioneer to bring mass adoption of the Bitcoin economy to the traditional esports audience.

Taylor has a career in leading the business and technology strategy within the private equity and startup space. He has a Chief Information Officer Certificate from the Heinz School of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon, a Master of Science degree in Taxation and a Bachelor of Science degree in Accountancy from W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Taylor is also a Chartered Financial Analyst, Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, Certified Public Accountant in the state of Arizona, and is a Certified Financial Risk Manager.

Taylor is a Bitcoin enthusiast that is constantly seeking ways to build bridges between the Bitcoin economy and traditional finance and technology industries.
10:30 - 10:40 EST
Conference Announcements

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Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin Association
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Jimmy Nguyen

Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Jimmy Nguyen is one of the world’s top Bitcoin and blockchain advocates. He is a renowned public speaker, media commentator and global ambassador for Bitcoin SV. Jimmy joined nChain and then helped launch Bitcoin Association after a 21-year career as an intellectual property and digital technology lawyer. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/U.S.

In 2008, Lawdragon named Jimmy (at only age 36) one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” and described him as a “dynamo talent.” He has also been recognized by the Century City Bar Association as “Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” (2011), and by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel with its Industry Leader Award (2017). For his diverse leadership, Jimmy has been named a “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leader” (2015) by Diversity MBA magazine and was inducted into California Minority Counsel Program’s Diversity Hall of Fame (2015).
10:40 - 11:00 EST
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Esports & Blockchain: The Next Level of Professional Gaming

eSports

Moderator

Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Panelists

David Case - CTO, FYX Gaming

Daniel Cossi - President, World Esports Consortium (WESCO)

Tyler Farnsworth - CMO, Built by Gamers

Henry James - CEO, Espo
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Jimmy Nguyen

Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Jimmy Nguyen is one of the world’s top Bitcoin and blockchain advocates. He is a renowned public speaker, media commentator and global ambassador for Bitcoin SV. Jimmy joined nChain and then helped launch Bitcoin Association after a 21-year career as an intellectual property and digital technology lawyer. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/U.S.

In 2008, Lawdragon named Jimmy (at only age 36) one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” and described him as a “dynamo talent.” He has also been recognized by the Century City Bar Association as “Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” (2011), and by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel with its Industry Leader Award (2017). For his diverse leadership, Jimmy has been named a “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leader” (2015) by Diversity MBA magazine and was inducted into California Minority Counsel Program’s Diversity Hall of Fame (2015).
Panelists

David Case CTO FYX Gaming

David Case

CTO, FYX Gaming

Drawing from over 20 years of software development experience across logistics, defense, and e-commerce industries, David brings a broad range of technological insights. David joined the crypto world in 2017, and has spent the intervening months researching the wide range of crypto projects and technologies.

As Chief Architect of CryptoFights, and with the rise of Bitcoin SV as a development infrastructure, David is obsessed with the world which we can now build and is excited to bring a first-class eSports and gaming platform to Bitcoin.

Daniel Cossi President World Esports Consortium (WESCO)

Daniel Cossi

President, World Esports Consortium (WESCO)

Daniel Cossi is an entrepreneur and investor in technology, innovation, education and eSports. He is a creator of eSports legislation and regulations, a startup reality show mentor and judge, head of eSports city projects and president of World Esports Consortium (WESCO), Brazilian Confederation of Esports (CBDEL) and Empire Esports Entertainment Hainan Ltd.

Tyler Farnsworth CMO Built by Gamers

Tyler Farnsworth

CMO, Built by Gamers

Tyler Farnsworth is Chief Marketing Officer of Built By Gamers, a leading eSports organization. Tyler is an influencer marketing expert, spending nearly a decade in the industry. He is passionate about telling incredible stories, building and leading award-winning teams, and helping brands connect with the people they serve.

Tyler has built a reputation of challenging organizations to be bold in their marketing. This tenacity has helped him execute 100’s of programs for leading companies including The Kroger Company, PetSmart, Microsoft, P.F. Chang’s, See’s Candies, Norwegian Cruise Lines, and many more. All great campaigns were made possible by incredible clients that had the guts to say yes.

Tyler is a proud father of four boys, a fluent Spanish speaker, a Jurassic Park aficionado, an active outdoorsman, and a lover of classic pinball.

Henry James CEO Espo

Henry James

CEO, Espo

Henry is a 10-year sportstech and fintech founder. He has worked in partnerships with companies including SAP and DBS to develop B2C and B2B products that have brought digital transformation in motorsport and financial services.

In 2021, Henry launched the eSports fan engagement platform, Espo, which recently announced its blockchain-compatible metaverse and NFT expansion for the eSports community called EspoWorld.

Through his companies DCM, Finex and Espo, Henry has served a wide range of clients from government and talent to organizations including Red Bull, Aston Martin, Bang & Olufsen, Formula E, and more.
11:40 - 12:10 EST
Blockchain Solutions for Responsible Gaming Compliance

iGaming

Moderator

Becky Liggero Fontana - Lead Gaming Industry Reporter, CoinGeek

Panelists

Peter Bainbridge-Clayton - Founder & CTO, kompany

Paul Foster - CEO, Crucial Compliance

Nick Hill - Sales Director, nChain
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Becky Liggero Fontana Lead Gaming Industry Reporter CoinGeek

Becky Liggero Fontana

Lead Gaming Industry Reporter, CoinGeek.com

After four and a half years of iGaming industry experience with Casino City, Becky Liggero Fontana joined entrepreneur and CoinGeek founder Calvin Ayre to serve as the Head On-site Reporter for Calvin’s media brands. Since August 2009, Becky has exclusively conducted interviews with senior level executives and enthusiasts for CoinGeek.com while continuing to travel the world and document her adventures for all to watch and read.

Panelists

Peter Bainbridge-Clayton Founder & CTO kompany

Peter Bainbridge-Clayton

Founder & CTO, kompany

Since co-founding the organization back in 2012, Peter has overseen the implementation of kompany’s proprietary global live network, which offers users real-time access to official and audit-proof information for regulated and unregulated industries. He’s a true blockchain and AI enthusiast with a varied background in throughput telecoms and government systems, including leading the redesign and implementation of the UK Government Business Register, Companies House.

Paul Foster CEO Crucial Compliance

Paul Foster

CEO, Crucial Compliance

Paul is the CEO of Crucial Compliance and Non-Executive Director of the Gibraltar Betting and Gaming Association. Prior to Crucial Compliance, Paul held Senior Roles at GVC, Ladbrokes Coral, bwin.party and Partygaming.

Crucial Compliance specializes in innovative technological solutions to drive compliance and player protection to protect companies from the ever-changing international regulatory landscape.

Nick Hill Sales Director nChain

Nick Hill

Sales Director, nChain

Nick is a seasoned iGaming professional that has been in the sector for over 20 years. Having held positions as Head of eBusiness in UK and Ireland at Cable & Wireless Plc., COO at Interactive Gaming Holdings Plc (IGH), and Chief Commercial Officer at EveryMatrix allowed Nick to be involved in a great number of projects and gain singular insight into both detailed matters as well as overall perspectives.

Nick has been involved and providing consultancy services to a number of businesses on a global basis. These have led him into new and innovative technologies and verticals including events, processing, blockchain and utilizing tokenization. He uses this experience to learn how new technologies can benefit the iGaming sector overall. Most recently, Nick joined nChain as Sales Director.
12:10 - 12:30 EST
AR, VR & the Metaverse on Blockchain

Marketing Technology

Speaker

Robert Rice - Founder & CEO, Transmira, Inc. (Omniscape)
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Robert Rice Founder & CEO Transmira, Inc. (Omniscape)

Robert Rice

Founder & CEO, Transmira Inc. (Omniscape)

Robert Rice is the Founder and CEO of Transmira, Inc.—the developer of Omniscape, an XR platform seamlessly blending Augmented and Virtual Reality together, focusing on location and monetization. He is an experienced technology and startup executive and advisor with over 25+ years of experience.

Noted as an Internet Gaming Pioneer by Advertising Age magazine in 1996, Robert was also called a “Founding Father of the Digital Nation” in 1998 by The Raleigh News & Observer. He is an authority on mobile augmented reality, persistent immersive environments, virtual reality and worlds, massively multi-user online games, and simulations.

Robert coined the term “XR” in 2014 as an umbrella term for AR, MR, and VR together or in seamless combination of each together. It is now an industry standard term.

09:00 EST
Conference Day 2

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Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin Association
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Jimmy Nguyen

Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Jimmy Nguyen is one of the world’s top Bitcoin and blockchain advocates. He is a renowned public speaker, media commentator and global ambassador for Bitcoin SV. Jimmy joined nChain and then helped launch Bitcoin Association after a 21-year career as an intellectual property and digital technology lawyer. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/U.S.

In 2008, Lawdragon named Jimmy (at only age 36) one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” and described him as a “dynamo talent.” He has also been recognized by the Century City Bar Association as “Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” (2011), and by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel with its Industry Leader Award (2017). For his diverse leadership, Jimmy has been named a “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leader” (2015) by Diversity MBA magazine and was inducted into California Minority Counsel Program’s Diversity Hall of Fame (2015).
09:05 - 09:35 EST
Better Bitcoin Wallets for Consumers & Business

Marketing Technology

Moderator

Patrick Thompson - Associate Editor, North America CoinGeek

Panelists

Alex Agut - CEO, HandCash

Lorien Gamaroff - Co-Founder & CEO, Centbee

Brendan Lee - Founder & CEO, Elas Digital
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Patrick Thompson Associate Editor North America CoinGeek

Patrick Thompson

Associate Editor - North America, CoinGeek

Patrick Thompson has reported on the blockchain and digital currency space since August 2015, and is currently CoinGeek’s Associated Editor for North America and host of the More Than Money show. He studied financial economics at Rutgers University and found the intersection between digital assets and the traditional financial system innovative yet untapped at the time.

Patrick has primarily been involved in the media, education, and marketing side of the blockchain and digital currency space, but recently created the very first decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) on the BSV blockchain—Gorilla DAO—to harness the power of the world’s most scalable blockchain to create goods, services, software, and opportunities for individuals around the globe.

Panelists

Alex Agut CEO HandCash

Alex Agut

CEO, HandCash

Alex is a product designer and marketer. His passion is making new technologies accessible to everybody by creating amazing products that people love.
Lorien Gamaroff Co-Founder & CEO Centbee

Lorien Gamaroff

Co-Founder & CEO, Centbee

Lorien Gamaroff is the Founder and CEO of Bankymoon, a blockchain and cryptocurrency consultancy, and Co-Founder and CEO of Centbee, a cryptocurrency payments and remittance company. He also serves as a Bitcoin Association ambassador.

As Africa's foremost blockchain expert, Lorien has been invited around the world to speak on digital/cryptocurrencies and decentralized/distributed ledgers and their benefits for emerging economies. He has addressed and advised the United Nations, IMF, World Bank, FBI and Commonwealth Secretariat, the South African Reserve Bank, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, TEDx, and a host of professionals in multiple industries and attorneys general throughout the world. He offers insight and guidance to universities, business executives and advises governments on blockchain technologies and their implications.

He pioneered blockchain payments for utility smart metering and was the co-founder of the Blockchain Academy which educates professionals on all aspects of blockchains from regulations to software development.
Brendan Lee Founder & CEO Elas Digital

Brendan Lee

Founder & CEO, Elas

Brendan Lee is the Founder and CEO of Elas, a company built to leverage the superpowers of Bitcoin to create the world’s fastest financial and administrative services. His goal is to engage with government and enterprise clients to see Bitcoin being used as a foundational layer for next generation technologies that can bring humanity forward into the future.

Brendan is also Training and Development Manager at Bitcoin Association where he works with the team building the Bitcoin SV Academy.
09:35 - 09:50 EST
Relysia: Enterprise Wallet Solutions for Bitcoin

Marketing Technology

Speaker

Robin Kohze - Co-Founder & CEO, Vaionex Corporation

Daniel Lipshitz - CEO, Gap600
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Robin Kohze Co-Founder & CEO Vaionex Corporation

Robin Kohze

Co-Founder & CEO, Vaionex Corporation

Robin is a PhD student of the University of Cambridge, Founding President of the Cambridge Metanet Society, and CEO of the Vaionex Corporation, which has released various BSV platforms such as Satolearn, Metashard, Raspora, BSVdevelopers and Block-Codes.

Vaionex is currently creating various STAS tokens solutions on the BSV blockchain, including but not limited to wallets and exchanges and offers consulting and application development services.

Daniel Lipshitz CEO Gap600

Daniel Lipshitz

CEO, GAP600

Daniel Lipshitz is the founder and CEO of GAP600, a company that facilitates instant, Bitcoin payments and deposits, based on proprietary technology. GAP600 financially guarantees zero confirmed transactions.

With a master’s degree in economics from the London School of Economics, Daniel worked for Bank Leumi in London and Deloitte’s in Israel, before being pulled by the entrepreneurial spirit into the technology world. Daniel says it was Bitcoin that brought him back to the study of economics, specifically an interest in Austrian economics. And the synergy between tech and economics led to the formation of GAP600. In Daniel’s view, Bitcoin SV has the most compelling option to reach mass adoption and enable vast economic progression on a global scale.
09:50 - 10:10 EST
Relica: Be On the Map with the BSV Blockchain

Marketing Technology

Daniel Street - Co-founder & CEO, Relica

Jeremy Street - Co-founder & CTO, Relica
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Daniel Street Co-founder & CEO Relica

Daniel Street

Co-founder & CEO, Relica

Daniel is the creative, visionary force behind Relica – a photo sharing application built utilizing the Bitcoin SV network, allowing users to generate micropayments when others interact with their content. Having only discovered the true power of Bitcoin SV in 2019, he was committed to develop an enterprise grade application on this newfound network. Prior to Relica, Daniel worked as a Commercial Leasing Agent for 5 years in the property industry.

Jeremy Street Co-founder & CTO Relica

Jeremy Street

Co-founder & CTO, Relica

Jeremy is a software engineer with over 14 years’ professional experience across a variety of sectors including finance, gaming, telecommunications and defense. His primary area of expertise is server-side development for high availability systems at scale, specializing in Java.

His passion for Bitcoin began upon discovering the technology in 2012.
10:10 - 10:25 EST
MetaID on BSV: One Blockchain, One ID

Business and Technology

Speaker

Sunny Fung - Co-initiator MetaID, Founder, ShowPay
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Sunny Fung Co-initiator MetaID Founder, ShowPay

Sunny Fung

Co-Initiator, MetaID | Founder, ShowPay

Sunny Fung is one of the initiators of MetaID, as well as the founder and CEO of ShowPay Limited. He and his team have dedicated themselves to developing MetaID infrastructures and applications for years, aiming to popularize MetaID technology to developers and users all over the world.

His ultimate goal is to build an interconnected, user-centered, value-free-flow MetaNet where 7 billion people can use MetaID-based applications daily in the future.
10:25 - 10:55 EST
Health Care, Life Sciences & Blockchain

Health Care

Moderator

Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Panelists

Steve Lawrence - CEO, EHR Data

Phillip Runyan - Managing Partner, Veridat

Zachary Weiner - Founder, VXPass.com

Kip Wolf - Head of Technical Ops. & Portfolio Mngmt., X-Vax Technology, Inc.
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Jimmy Nguyen Founding President Bitcoin Association

Jimmy Nguyen

Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Jimmy Nguyen is one of the world’s top Bitcoin and blockchain advocates. He is a renowned public speaker, media commentator and global ambassador for Bitcoin SV. Jimmy joined nChain and then helped launch Bitcoin Association after a 21-year career as an intellectual property and digital technology lawyer. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/U.S.

In 2008, Lawdragon named Jimmy (at only age 36) one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” and described him as a “dynamo talent.” He has also been recognized by the Century City Bar Association as “Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” (2011), and by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel with its Industry Leader Award (2017). For his diverse leadership, Jimmy has been named a “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leader” (2015) by Diversity MBA magazine and was inducted into California Minority Counsel Program’s Diversity Hall of Fame (2015).
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Steve Lawrence CEO EHR Data

Steve Lawrence

CEO, EHR Data

Steve Lawrence is a proven business leader with more than 25 years of experience at the intersection of healthcare, data, and technology. An entrepreneur at heart with a passion for building strong teams, Steve has built multiple companies from concept to market adoption to successful exits. Steve’s career demonstrates his belief in the importance of simplifying the role of providers so they can spend more time with their patients.

As CEO of EHR Data, Steve provides overall corporate leadership and vision for this new healthcare startup focused on transforming the way data is used and shared to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce costs.

Prior to joining EHR Data, he held numerous senior leadership positions at Cardinal Health including leading the Pharmaceutical Distribution Segment Marketing organization, running Medicine Shoppe International, leading multiple market segment sales teams, and managing teams up to 1,200 people. Steve was instrumental in several $1B+ acquisitions to help grow his market segment to over $25B in sales.

Steve first joined Cardinal Health when they acquired RenLar Systems, a successful pharmacy management system company that he helped start. Under the Cardinal umbrella, he created ScriptLine, a company that collected real time prescription data from over 15,000 pharmacies and provided longitudinal studies to pharmaceutical manufacturers. ScriptLine was spun out of Cardinal Health as a new company, Arclight Systems which was ultimately sold to NDC Health Data Systems.

Phillip Runyan Managing Partner Veridat

Phillip Runyan

Managing Partner, Veridat

Hailing from the Silicon Prairie, Phillip Runyan is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Veridat, a SaaS developer building a suite of services for strengthening research integrity and transparency during the drug development process. Phillip is also the founder and CEO of Hold Gaming, a mobile content and platform development company combining mobile gaming, casino content, and eSports.

Dissatisfied after a decade of growth and innovation in the social casino market, Phillip and his team launched their first title in 2019—expanding the footprint from four to 36 U.S. states where casino content could be competitively played for cash prizes. Concerned by questions of trust in the customer service queue, Phillip set out to find the right blockchain solution which had to be cost effective, fast, and scalable—in 2020 the team committed to BSV, the only public blockchain to offer all three.

Zachary Weiner Founder VXPass.com

Zachary Weiner

Founder, VXPASS

Zack Weiner is the founder of VXPASS, a digital vaccination verification and administration platform built on the Bitcoin SV blockchain. He and his impressive team of PHDs, medical professionals and business leaders are currently working with the many countries across Africa and Oceania and the United States as well as providing the digital infrastructure necessary to manage the administration, record keeping, validation and verification of vaccines in these regions, and many more forthcoming.

Zack has 15 years of software development in a variety of industries: including the last 4 years developing and achieving actionable results in the blockchain sector, and more specifically with the BSV space. From his start on his own in high frequency trading, with an impressive exit, to his time with CITRIX and Price Waterhouse Cooper including the complex world of GAAP, the lessons learned have been many, which is why he had the foresight and knowledge base to bring VXPASS to light.

Kip Wolf Head of Technical Ops. & Portfolio Mngmt. X-Vax Technology, Inc.

Kip Wolf

Head of Technical Operations & Portfolio Management, X-Vax Technology, Inc.

Kip Wolf is Head of Technical Operations and Portfolio Management at X-Vax Technology, Inc. His technical experience includes the fields of quality assurance and regulatory affairs, GMP and IT compliance, technical operations, and product supply. His areas of leadership expertise include business transformation, new business development, organizational change leadership, as well as program and project management.

Kip has more than 25 years of experience as a management consultant, during which time he also led business process management groups at Wyeth Manufacturing and at Merck Research & Development. Prior to joining X-Vax, Kip supported the company as a principal consultant at Tunnell Life Sciences Consulting, where for over five years, he led the data integrity practice and consulted, taught, spoke and published regularly on topics of data integrity and quality systems.

Kip completed graduate studies in Drug Development at Temple University and holds an undergraduate degree in Management of Information Systems and an MBA from Eastern University. He can be reached at [email protected].
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11:15 - 11:30 EST
A Way with Words: NFTs with Cash Flow(s)?

Business and Technology

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John “Jack” Pitts - Co-Founder, SLictionary.com
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John “Jack” Pitts Co-Founder SLictionary.com

John “Jack” Pitts

Co-Founder, SLictionary.com

John Pitts and John DiFelice founded SLictionary, a groundbreaking micropayments-incentivized dictionary which pays its creative contributors, or "WordSmiths," 70% of seek fees in perpetuity. In 2021, SLictionary will introduce one of the most revolutionary NFTs in the world—which can not only earn their owners cash-flows but also serve as micro-investments. Micro-investing is a brand new concept never before possible until BitCoin's enabling of micropayments via fractions-of-a-penny transaction fees.

SLictionary also dynamically improves with every interaction, as knowledge-seekers pay a penny per searched word—also earning the right to vote for the best content, thereby pushing the most effective definitions to the top algorithmically. SL stands for Self Learning—human-guided algorithmic PSO machine learning similar to Waymo. SLictionary is inspired by John Walker's (of AutoCAD) "ANIMAL"—a text-based game on Apple II from the late 1970s. www.SLictionary.com is an information marketplace and the first product from Structured Linguistics Co.

John's background is 22 years of professional technology equity research, including a decade during which he helped take a small hedge fund from < $20mm to > $1 billion AUM with large investments in Apple, Paypal, Expedia, Blackberry & Google. He's a former nuclear engineer and US Navy fast-attack Submarine Officer with bachelors in Applied Math and Physics.

You can catch his "Diamonds in the Rough" investment podcasts with entrepreneur Len Mazur on Streamanity.com, and read his BSV research as "@EquityDiamonds" on Medium, Powping and Twitter.
11:30 - 12:10 EST
The New World of NFTs

General

Moderator

Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Panelists

Eric Bernhard - General Manager, Fabriik Digital Objects

Rory MacDonald - Mixed Martial Artist, Professional Fighters League

Francesco Morello - Founder, BullishArt

Shawn Ryan - Co-Founder & CEO, SmartLedger

Victor Tang - CTO, NiftyCo
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Jimmy Nguyen

Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Jimmy Nguyen is one of the world’s top Bitcoin and blockchain advocates. He is a renowned public speaker, media commentator and global ambassador for Bitcoin SV. Jimmy joined nChain and then helped launch Bitcoin Association after a 21-year career as an intellectual property and digital technology lawyer. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/U.S.

In 2008, Lawdragon named Jimmy (at only age 36) one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” and described him as a “dynamo talent.” He has also been recognized by the Century City Bar Association as “Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” (2011), and by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel with its Industry Leader Award (2017). For his diverse leadership, Jimmy has been named a “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leader” (2015) by Diversity MBA magazine and was inducted into California Minority Counsel Program’s Diversity Hall of Fame (2015).
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Eric Bernhard General Manager Fabriik Digital Objects

Eric Bernhard

General Manager, Fabriik Digital Objects

Eric is a senior-level leader with significant experience establishing and setting up teams to thrive in a variety of work environments, with responsibility for budgets up to $8M. He believes that data is the heart of marketing, and people are the soul. He blends customer desires and corporate goals into a symbiotic system that creates value for and between both.

Eric has experience leading teams in the competitive UK retail landscape, especially during Brexit, as well as in Canadian retail and investment management. Eric joined Fabriik as VP of Customer before more recently taking the lead on its Tokenization product and the development of Fabriik’s new Digital Objects.

Rory MacDonald Mixed Martial Artist Professional Fighters League

Rory MacDonald

Mixed martial artist, Professional Fighters League

Rory MacDonald is a Canadian mixed martial artist currently competing in the Welterweight division of the Professional Fighters League (PFL), signing with them in one of the biggest free agency signings in the sport’s history.

Prior to signing with the PFL, Rory competed for Bellator MMA, where he was the former Bellator Welterweight World Champion. Having been a professional competitor since 2005, he is also a former top contender in the UFC. There, he challenged then-champion Robbie Lawler for the UFC Welterweight Championship at UFC 189 in a bout that’s still widely considered one of, if not, the greatest fights in the history of the sport.

Francesco Morello Founder BullishArt

Francesco Morello

Founder, BullishArt

Francesco is the founder of BullishArt, a curated NFT gallery that aims to bring NFTs and related services to artists without knowledge of blockchain.

He also serves as Bitcoin Association’s Ambassador for the Italian community, helping to promote BSV education to Italian speaking people globally.

Shawn Ryan Co-Founder & CEO SmartLedger

Shawn Ryan

Co-Founder & CEO, SmartLedger

A recognized veteran of the technology sales and distribution industry, Shawn is known for advising companies and boards on large-scale, mission-critical technology projects. Respected as a credible voice in decision making, developing trusted partnerships, and driving transformation throughout an entire organization, Shawn helps others extend their thinking and drive material business advantages.

Victor Tang CTO NiftyCo

Victor Tang

CTO, NiftyCo

Victor heads development and design at NiftyCo, democratizing NFTs on the BSV chain in a way that allows artists and art lovers to create, exchange and control access to their artwork safely and securely with minimal barriers to entry.

A veteran with over 20 years in technology, Victor brings a diverse background in ecommerce, ERP, enterprise messaging and business intelligence, developing everything from mobile apps on low availability networks to voice recognition server apps.

09:00 EST
Conference Day 3

Speaker

Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin Association
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Jimmy Nguyen

Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Jimmy Nguyen is one of the world’s top Bitcoin and blockchain advocates. He is a renowned public speaker, media commentator and global ambassador for Bitcoin SV. Jimmy joined nChain and then helped launch Bitcoin Association after a 21-year career as an intellectual property and digital technology lawyer. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/U.S.

In 2008, Lawdragon named Jimmy (at only age 36) one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” and described him as a “dynamo talent.” He has also been recognized by the Century City Bar Association as “Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” (2011), and by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel with its Industry Leader Award (2017). For his diverse leadership, Jimmy has been named a “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leader” (2015) by Diversity MBA magazine and was inducted into California Minority Counsel Program’s Diversity Hall of Fame (2015).
09:05 - 09:20 EST
Fabriik: The Future of Digital Assets and a Tokenized World

Finance and Banking

Speaker

Roy Bernhard - Chief Visionary, Fabriik & The Bayesian Group
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Roy Bernhard Chief Visionary Fabriik & The Bayesian Group

Roy Bernhard

Chief Visionary, Fabriik & The Bayesian Group

Roy Bernhard is the Chief Visionary of The Bayesian Group, a multi-disciplinary, global group of organizations focused on “Modern Finance.” The Group includes a digital currency-focused AI/quantitative hedge fund—Bayesian Fund SPC; Bayesian Markets, a digital asset services business offering OTC trading, liquidity provision and market making services; as well as Fabriik, the world’s first end-to-end BSV tokenization platform.

Roy attended the University of Western Ontario for Computer Science, and Harvard University for Business. He is currently the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Hummingbird Lawyers LLP. He has held executive positions at Workopolis, Spin Master Toys, and other large public companies. His experience brings stability and concrete direction in growing multi-million and billion-dollar organizations.

Roy also served as a consultant at Deloitte, TD/Canada Trust, and Bell. He is an accomplished speaker and was featured on the cover of CIO Magazine.
09:20 - 09:35 EST
Tokenizing Equity & Debt Instruments

Finance and Banking

Speaker

Geoffrey Hammond - Founder and Manager, Aequantium LLC
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Geoffrey Hammond Founder and Manager Aequantium LLC

Geoffrey Hammond

Founder and Manager, Aequantium LLC

Geoffrey Hammond founded the Aequantium futures fund to trade option volatility on blockchain based futures products. He has comprehensive experience in the financial industry including government regulation, futures markets in including brokerage and discretionary trading.

Geoffrey holds a Series III certification and is a member of the National Futures Association.
09:35 - 10:05 EST
Tokenized Assets, Stablecoins and Custody with BSV

Finance and Banking

Moderator

Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Panelists

James Belding - Co-Founder & CEO, Tokenized

Christian Solomine - Board Advisor, BitBoss Corporation

Karen J. Wendel - President & CEO, TrustChains, LLC
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Jimmy Nguyen

Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Jimmy Nguyen is one of the world’s top Bitcoin and blockchain advocates. He is a renowned public speaker, media commentator and global ambassador for Bitcoin SV. Jimmy joined nChain and then helped launch Bitcoin Association after a 21-year career as an intellectual property and digital technology lawyer. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/U.S.

In 2008, Lawdragon named Jimmy (at only age 36) one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” and described him as a “dynamo talent.” He has also been recognized by the Century City Bar Association as “Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” (2011), and by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel with its Industry Leader Award (2017). For his diverse leadership, Jimmy has been named a “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leader” (2015) by Diversity MBA magazine and was inducted into California Minority Counsel Program’s Diversity Hall of Fame (2015).
Panelists

James Belding Co-Founder & CEO Tokenized

James Belding

Co-Founder & CEO, Tokenized

James is an engineer, entrepreneur, and ardent supporter of Satoshi Nakamoto's original vision for Bitcoin. He is a Co-founder and CEO of Tokenized. He is also the creator of the award-winning Tokenized Protocol, an open-source token and smart contract system for the Bitcoin SV network.

He is committed to building universal and easy-to-use tools that help make Bitcoin's value accessible to society at large. James is also a founding member of the Bitcoin Association's Technical Standards Committee.

Christian Solomine Board Advisor BitBoss Corporation

Christian Solomine

Board Advisor, BitBoss Corporation

Christian Solomine is currently Senior Vice President of Sales for Repay Holdings, LLC (NASDAQ: RPAY) and is also Board Advisor to the BitBoss Corporation. He is a dynamic and highly sought-after speaker on topics such as Payments, Gaming, Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence. Recently, he has been assisting BitBoss with their go-to-market planning for their cashless solution for land-based casinos utilizing blockchain and employing a FDIC-insured U.S. dollar stabletoken for seamless routing of credits on and off slots and table games.

Christian’s payments, IoT, AI and gaming experience spans the greater part of the past two decades, including his time as the Chief Revenue Officer for Descartes Labs, Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing for PayNearMe and General Manager for the North America Global Partner Program at Telefonica Digital.

Christian is magna cum laude graduate of James Madison University’s College of Integrated Science & Technology. He also received a Master of Science in Information Technology and holds an MBA from the Daniels College at the University of Denver.

Karen J. Wendel President & CEO TrustChains, LLC

Karen J. Wendel

President & CEO, TrustChains, LLC

An experienced cyber and crypto executive, Karen J. Wendel has over 30 years of C-suite experience in executive and board member positions. Her background is in financial services, including experience in domestic and international regulatory requirements, technology, cyber security, identity, and transaction processing. She has been active in the blockchain and crypto asset space for over five years, working directly with major global banking entities as well as innovators in the blockchain ecosystem.

Karen is a highly knowledgeable leader and strategist, with a passion for detecting and leveraging growth opportunities. She has a proven record of restructuring and rebuilding organizations, including transforming the transaction banking business at a major global bank from a $500M declining play to a $2B growth engine in just under three years.

Karen is the President and CEO of TrustChains, a boutique consulting firm that works with PE and VC firms to identify and evaluate potential acquisitions. In addition, she provides consulting services to private companies in the financial services space, including a custodian focused on cryptoassets and an insurance fintech. She serves on the boards of two privately held entities and one public company.

Karen’s previous experience includes CEO and board roles at IdenTrust (now owned by HID Global Corp), a global identity solutions company based in San Francisco, and eFinance (acquired by IdenTrust) an identity and credit solutions company. Karen was brought into both companies by their investors to drive transformation and strategy. In addition to these companies, Karen was a partner at Capco, a global business and technology consulting firm, and a partner at Gemini Consulting, a global management consulting firm, where she led the financial services practice.

Karen is an author on financial management, payments, and supply chain integration; an advisor to U.S. government agencies and the European Union on emerging technologies for payments and transaction processing, and a keynote speaker at major international banking conferences.

Karen earned degrees in International Relations and Economics from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

Karen resides in San Francisco, Calif., with her family, except when she is sheltering in place in the mountains of Utah.
10:05 - 10:35 EST
Future of Digital Asset Trading & Financial Services

Investment Management

Moderator

Marcin Zarakowski - Legal Counsel & Public Policy Manager, Bitcoin Association

Panelists

Antonio Brasse, CPA, CIA, CFSA, CISA, CAMS - CEO and Co-Founder, BlockQuake

David D’Amico - Group Director, VP Digital Asset Banking, Signature Bank

Joshua Lim - Head of Derivatives, Genesis Global Trading
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Marcin Zarakowski Legal Counsel & Public Policy Manager Bitcoin Association

Marcin Zarakowski

Legal Counsel & Public Policy Manager, Bitcoin Association

Marcin is an attorney-at-law (Poland) specializing in IP law, IT law, data protection (CIPP/E), and AML/KYC with a profound knowledge of various legal aspects of blockchain technology and crypto-assets. Certified Swiss startup board member. He is the Legal Counsel and Public Policy Manager at Bitcoin Association, co-chair of the Privacy Working Group of INATBA, and member of the Expert Panel of EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum.

Marcin is also a member of ThinkBLOCKtank and Swiss-Polish Blockchain Association. He is a speaker and panelist at blockchain-related events, courses, and trainings.

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Antonio Brasse, CPA, CIA, CFSA, CISA, CAMS CEO and Co-Founder BlockQuake

Antonio Brasse, CPA, CIA, CFSA, CISA, CAMS

CEO and Co-Founder, BlockQuake

Antonio is one of the founders and CEO of BlockQuake™. He has nearly two decades of regulatory, financial, operational, and technology audit experience within the financial services industry. Antonio spent much of his career at AIG, Citi and New York Life prior to co-founding BlockQuake, a regulatory-driven digital asset, and cryptocurrency trading platform. His personal trading experience included stocks, options, and forex before delving into cryptocurrency trading.

David D’Amico Group Director, VP Digital Asset Banking Signature Bank

David D’Amico

Group Director, VP Digital Asset Banking, Signature Bank

David D’Amico serves as Managing Group Director and Vice President of Digital Asset Banking at Signature Bank (NASDAQ: SBNY), a New York-based full-service commercial bank. He was appointed to his role in January 2018.

David is serving companies engaged in digital assets and blockchain technology and oversees all aspects of private client commercial banking related to fiat settlement for these firms. In less than four years, the team of three has grown to a department of 18, servicing about 1,000 clients around the globe and managing over $20 billion in deposit balances for the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

David brings more than 15 years of experience in private commercial banking to his role. He quickly learned the digital asset industry needed a path to successfully merge its clientele with the commercial banking industry, one vertical at a time. From OTC desks to cryptocurrency exchanges to crypto mining operations, Signature Bank’s Digital Assets team manages all of the day-to-day banking needs, encompassing client onboarding, account approvals, 24x7 client servicing and ongoing risk mitigation controls for Signature Bank.

In January 2019, Signature Bank successfully launched Signet™, a proprietary blockchain-based payments platform used to settle USD 24/7/365 for all approved Signature Bank commercial clients. Signature Bank is the first FDIC-insured bank to launch a blockchain-based digital payments platform, and Signet is the first such platform to be approved for use by the NYS Department of Financial Services.

David hails from Stroudsburg, Pa. He is a graduate of East Stroudsburg University (East Stroudsburg, Pa.)

Joshua Lim Head of Derivatives Genesis Global Trading

Joshua Lim

Head of Derivatives, Genesis Global Trading

Joshua Lim is Head of Derivatives at Genesis Trading. He previously managed the spot and derivatives trading desk at Galaxy Digital and built the treasury and over the counter (OTC) trading desk at Circle. Before digital currency, Josh traded equity volatility at Goldman Sachs.
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BSV Blockchain in China

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Lise Li - China Manager, Bitcoin Association
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Lise Li China Manager Bitcoin Association

Lise Li

China Manager, Bitcoin Association

Lise is China Manager for Bitcoin Association. Based in Beijing, her role is to implement a comprehensive strategy for growth of BSV throughout China – a key market for the Bitcoin industry. This includes work to highlight the unique capabilities of the BSV Blockchain to developers, enterprises, miners, venture investors, and Bitcoin users.

Lise brings valuable China market experience and relationships to Bitcoin Association and BSV’s growth. Previously, Lise was Chief Operating Officer of Rawpool, a Bitcoin mining pool in China. At Rawpool, her responsibilities included a digital mining project, management of the mining pool operation, expanding customer accounts, and technical research and cryptocurrency industry analysis. Lise also worked for 8 years in the e-commerce industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing.
11:10 - 11:25 EST
Increasing Footprints of BSV Blockchain in Middle East & South Asia

General

Speaker

Muhammad Salman Anjum - Head of BSV Hub, Middle East & South Asia | Chief Mate, InvoiceMate
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Muhammad Salman Anjum Head of BSV Hub Middle East & South Asia | Chief Mate, InvoiceMate

Muhammad Salman Anjum

Chief Mate, InvoiceMate | Head of BSV Hub for Middle East & South Asia

Salman has been named a “Top 100 Blockchain Leader in World.” As a Founder and Chief Mate of InvoiceMate, he is co-creating the future of invoice processing with blockchain enabled trusted process and enhanced efficiency. The business aims to solve the real world business issue of inefficient invoice processing and would result in saving professionals much effort, time and resources.

As Managing Director of Avantas Technology Accelerator, Salman has expanded blockchain technology solutions for government entities, international bodies and large-scale enterprises thus imparted his passion for societal impact through digital transformation initiatives. MedsLOCK (medslock.com) has been a highlight project supporting government authorities, healthcare officials and businesses countering COVID-19 outbreak.

A key influencer in the space of enterprise blockchain adaption, Salman has moderated events and presented keynotes at stages around the world including a talk at esteemed TEDx platform. He’s a Blockchain and FinTech specialist in PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Faculty. Salman is a results-driven professional with over 20 years in corporate and entrepreneurial roles aligning People, Performance and Profit, and has been featured as success story in “Soul Beats @ UAE” the book published by Dubai Government. Pursuing his Doctorate degree, he is a CIPD Member and one of the pioneer Lead Auditors of ISO 29990:2010 for L&D operations.

Salman lives, plays and works in Dubai and on stages around the world committed to empower the human potential.
11:25 - 11:55 EST
Blockchain for a Better Supply Chain & Sustainability

Supply Chain

Moderator

Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Panelists

Stephanie Benedetto - CEO & Co-Founder, Queen of Raw

Phil Derasmo - CTO & Co-Founder, Queen of Raw

Brian H. Choi, CFA - Managing Partner & CEO, The Food Institute

Stephan Nilsson - Co-Founder & CEO, UNISOT
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Jimmy Nguyen

Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Jimmy Nguyen is one of the world’s top Bitcoin and blockchain advocates. He is a renowned public speaker, media commentator and global ambassador for Bitcoin SV. Jimmy joined nChain and then helped launch Bitcoin Association after a 21-year career as an intellectual property and digital technology lawyer. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/U.S.

In 2008, Lawdragon named Jimmy (at only age 36) one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” and described him as a “dynamo talent.” He has also been recognized by the Century City Bar Association as “Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” (2011), and by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel with its Industry Leader Award (2017). For his diverse leadership, Jimmy has been named a “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leader” (2015) by Diversity MBA magazine and was inducted into California Minority Counsel Program’s Diversity Hall of Fame (2015).
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Stephanie Benedetto CEO & Co-Founder Queen of Raw

Stephanie Benedetto

CEO & Co-Founder, Queen of Raw

Corporate attorney turned fashion tech and sustainability entrepreneur, Stephanie is the Co-Founder of Queen of Raw, a marketplace to buy and sell unused textiles, keeping them out of landfills and turning pollution into profit.

Prior to starting Queen of Raw, Stephanie worked as a lawyer in the fashion, media and entertainment, startup, and technology industries and co-founded a sustainable textile manufacturing facility. An advocate for women in business and sustainability, her companies have been featured in NPR, Good Morning America, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, WWD, ELLE, Cheddar, Parade, WCBS, United Nations, Fortune, Entrepreneur, WIRED, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and Fast Company.

Stephanie is a 2020 Inc. Female Founders 100, NASA/NIKE/IKEA/DELL LAUNCH.org Innovator, a Grand Prize WeWork Creator Awards Winner presented by Ashton Kutcher, a Cartier Women's Initiative Laureate, an MIT Solve - Circular Economy Solver, a Climate Change Finalist in Mohammed bin Rashid Initiative for Global Prosperity, a Finalist for The Elevate Prize, a thredUP Circular Fashion Fund Recipient, and an LVMH Innovation Award Finalist. She is a Member of Pledge 1% and New York Circular City Initiative and Founding Member of Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network, along with Aveda, Kering, and Stella McCartney.

Phil Derasmo CTO & Co-Founder Queen of Raw

Phil Derasmo

CTO & Co-Founder, Queen of Raw

Phil is the CTO and co-founder of Queen of Raw, a marketplace to buy and sell unused textiles, keeping them out of landfills and turning pollution into profit. Their blockchain-enabled SasS enterprise software, MateriaMX, provides track and transparency to supply chains while providing the tech needed to participate in the circular economy markets.

Phil is a former Wall Street techie and Department of Environmental Protection engineer turned sustainable marketplace entrepreneur.

Brian H. Choi, CFA Managing Partner & CEO The Food Institute

Brian H. Choi, CFA

Managing Partner and CEO, The Food Institute

Brian Choi is an experienced financial executive in the Food & Agricultural industry. He was recently named Managing Partner and CEO of The Food Institute, a New Jersey-based food news and market research company founded in 1928. His vision is to build the company into the “go-to” source for news, research, advisory and analytics for the food industry.

Earlier in his career, Brian served as Vice President of Finance & Business Development at Woerner Holdings, LP, a single-family investment office focused on private equity investments in the food, beverage, and agricultural industries. In his role, Brian primarily focused on mining for acquisition opportunities and performing financial due diligence. He was also involved in developing business strategy for companies held within the family office’s investment portfolio.

Previous to joining Woerner Holdings, Brian worked at Ernst & Young as Manager in their Transaction Advisory Services group, performing valuation analyses on companies and complex securities. In addition, he worked at Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs as part of their Investment Banking and Fixed Income divisions. Brian currently resides in New York City and is a member of Times Square Church located in Manhattan, NYC. He is a CFA Charterholder and holds a Finance degree from the University of British Columbia in Canada.
Stephan Nilsson Co-Founder & CEO UNISOT

Stephan Nilsson

Co-Founder & CEO, UNISOT

Stephan Nilsson is the co-founder and CEO of UNISOT, an “Enterprise Blockchain Service Provider” providing enterprise turnkey solutions that solves the Top 10 problems in global supply chains. He has over 20 years’ experience working with ERP systems integrations. He is also engaged with Ernst & Young Skye, building an Industry Solution in SAP for the seafood industry that provides Global Traceability, Provenance and BDI through the use of Bitcoin SV Blockchain.

Stephan is the founder and President of Norway Bitcoin and Blockchain Association, co-founder of BITaccel, a Nordic blockchain startup accelerator and MOB in Oslo Blockchain Cluster. He has been involved in the crypto/blockchain space since 2012 and started integrating SAP with blockchain in 2014.

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