New York Oct 2020
CoinGeek Live was a unique live link-up between New York, London, and the world.
With ground-breaking content from the top speakers in the Bitcoin SV (BSV) ecosystem and beyond, the blockchain conference discussed explained, and celebrated the achievements and the potential of BSV.
BSV is the only blockchain that’s truly open for business – with low transaction fees, dependable infrastructure, and a culture that promotes working within legal and regulatory frameworks.
Whether you are a developer, an entrepreneur, an investor, or just want to learn about the original Bitcoin, CoinGeek Conference Live is for you.


Agenda
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09:00 - 09:05 EDTConference Day 1 - Open
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09:05 - 09:25 EDTBitcoin SV: One World, One Chainnone: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin Association
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09:25 - 09:45 EDTBitcoin SV Technical Update: Infrastructure for the World BlockchainSteve Shadders - CTO, Technical Director | nChain, Bitcoin SV Node Project
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09:50 - 10:15 EDTXR (Experiential Reality) Applications: Greater Power with Bitcoin SVnone: Robert Rice - Founder & CEO, Transmira Inc. (Omniscape)
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10:15 - 10:25 EDTJohannesburg, South Africa – Live Briefing with Centbee
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10:25 - 11:05 EDTBetter Payments: Improving the Consumer Experience with BitcoinModerator: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin AssociationDerrick Horton - President, Anypaynone: Nick Jones - CEO & Founder, ZumoDaniel Lipshitz - CEO, GAP600Bernhard Müller - General Manager & Chairman, Centi Ltd.
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11:05 - 11:25 EDTCustody Changes Everything: How BSV Opens a New World for Digital Asset CustodiansKaren J. Wendel - President & CEO, TrustChains, LLC
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11:25 - 12:05 EDTThe Future of Digital Asset Security & CustodyModerator: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin AssociationKaren J. Wendel - President & CEO, TrustChains, LLCSebastian Higgins - VP, Custody Services, GenesisGabriel Frank - Director of Sales, Curv
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12:05 - 12:45 EDTThe Future of Banking, Financial Products & BlockchainModerator: Simit Naik - Director of Business Services, nChainThomas Moser - Alternate Member of the Governing Board, Swiss National BankJason Urban - CEO, Drawbridge LendingDr. Edgar White - Director, The White Company
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12:45 - 13:25 EDTRegulation of Digital Assets & Digital Asset BusinessesModerator: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin AssociationJoshua Ashley Klayman - Senior Counsel, Linklaters LLPMasakazu Masujima - Partner, Mori Hamada & MatsumotoHoward Schweitzer - CEO, Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies | Former COO, Troubled Asset Relief Program (U.S. Treasury)Dr. Lukas Repa - Head of Legal, Digital Innovation & Blockchain for European Commission
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13:35 - 14:35 EDT3rd Bitcoin SV Hackathon - Finalist PresentationsModerator: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin AssociationJudges: - ,George Gilder - Economist, Writer, Investor & Technology Visionary,Steve Shadders - CTO, nChainnone: Dr. Craig S. Wright - Chief Scientist, nChainJackson Laskey - Principal, Unbounded CapitalFinalists: - ,Aleksandar Dinkov - Bitcoin SV Hackathon Finalist, STOTASKNiels van den Bergh - Bitcoin SV Hackathon Finalist, KYRTWill Devine - Bitcoin SV Hackathon Finalist, Repzip
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14:35 - 14:45 EDTJohannesburg, South Africa – Live Briefing with Centbee
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14:45 - 15:25 EDTOutsourced Computation on Bitcoin: How One World Blockchain Powers a New Future for Computing & Cloud Systemnone: Dr. Craig S. Wright - Chief Scientist, nChain
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15:25 - 15:35 EDTDay 1 Wrap-Upnone: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin Association
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07:00 - 07:05 EDTConference Day 2 - Open [ASIA PACIFIC BLOCK]
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07:05 - 07:35 EDTInternet of Things & Big Data on the Bitcoin SV BlockchainPaul Chiari - Founder, WeatherSV & MetaStremeDaniel Keane - Co-Founder & Managing Director, Predict Ecologynone: Brendan Lee - Founder, Elas Digital
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07:35 - 7:55 EDTNew Browsers & Domain Systems for a Bitcoin SV-Powered InternetJeff Chen - Founder & CEO , Maxthon Ltd.
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07:55 - 08:40 EDTRe-Invent the Internet: New Models for Digital Media & User ContentModerator: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin AssociationConnor Murray - Co-Founder & CEO , True ReviewsLuke Rohenaz - CEO, TonicPowBilly Rose - Co-Founder, Twetch
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08:40 - 08:55 EDTSmart Contracts & Tokens on Bitcoin SV: Going MainstreamJames Belding - Founder & CEO, Tokenized
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08:55 - 09:55 EDTToken Solutions on Bitcoin SVModerator: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin AssociationJames Belding - Founder & CEO, TokenizedRyan X. Charles - Founder, Money ButtonSteve Shadders - CTO, nChainStephan Nilsson - Co-Founder & CEO, UNISOTnone: Robert Rice - Founder & CEO, Transmira Inc. (Omniscape)Jerry Chan - CEO, TAAL Distributed Information Technologies, Inc.
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10:00 - 10:30 EDTEHR Data: The First Healthcare Data Platform Using the Bitcoin SV BlockchainRon Austring - Chief Scientist & Consultant, EHR DataCheryl D. Jorgenson - Chief Clinical Officer, EHR DataJoseph Eckstein - Director of Product Design, EHR Data
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10:30 - 11:00 EDTClean Data: Clinical Research Integrity and Data Hygiene Using Bitcoin SVDr. Robert Huber - Founder & CEO, JuvaTech | Neuroscientist, Bowling Green State UniversityPhillip Runyan - Director, Veridat
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11:45 - 12:05 EDTThe Shift from Bitcoin “Miners” to “Transaction Processors”Jerry Chan - CEO, TAAL Distributed Information Technologies, Inc.
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12:05 - 12:35 EDTKeynote Speechnone: Thomas Lee - Managing Partner & Head of Research, Fundstrat Global AdvisorsDavid Grider - Director & Lead Digital Asset Strategist, Fundstrat Global Advisors
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12:35 - 13:05 EDTDigital Asset Investments: Real Utility, Real ValueModerator: Patrick Prinz - Europe & Operations Manager, Bitcoin AssociationDavid Grider - Director & Lead Digital Asset Strategist, Fundstrat Global AdvisorsStéphane Ouellette - Co-Founder & CEO, FRNT FinancialLuca von Wyttenbach - Institutional Services & Products, Bitcoin SuisseJoshua Lim - Head of Derivatives, Genesis Global Trading
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13:10 - 13:45 EDTKeynote Speech: Balancing Innovation & Regulation for Growth of Blockchain TechnologyModerator: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin AssociationCongressman Darren Soto - , U.S. Representative (FL-9)
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13:45 - 14:40 EDTThe Future of Exchanges & Trading in a Tokenized WorldModerator: Ella Qiang - Southeast Asia Manager, Bitcoin AssociationTom Albright - CEO, Bittrex Globalnone: Armen Azatyan - CEO & Co-Founder, TDXPLennix Lai - Director of Financial Markets, OKExGabor Nagy - Business Development Director (Europe), OKCoinDaniel Skowronski - General Manager, fabriik
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14:45 - 15:25 EDTSocial & Online Content Creators: Moving On-Chain to Make MoneyModerator: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin AssociationEileen Brown - Blogger, ZDNetDouglas Rushkoff - Author & Host, Team Human | Professor of Media Theory & Digital Economics, CUNY/QueensIsaac Morehouse - CEO, Crash, Inc.
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15:25 - 15:40 EDTTransaction Processing: A Key to Drive Adoption of BSV BusinessesJackson Laskey - Principal, Unbounded Capital
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15:40 - 16:00 EDTModern Finance on the Bitcoin SV BlockchainRoy Bernhard - Chief Visionary, The Bayesian GroupCassandra Cook - Head of Marketing, The Bayesian Group
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16:00 - 16:35 EDTFireside Chat - It’s About Time: The Importance of Bitcoin as a Timestamp Servernone: Dr. Craig S. Wright - Chief Scientist, nChainnone: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin Association
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16:35 - 16:45 EDTDay 2 Wrap Upnone: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin Association
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09:00 - 09:05 EDTConference Day 3 - Open
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09:05 - 09:25 EDTMaking Bitcoin Easy to Use for EveryoneModerator: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin AssociationAlex Agut - CEO, HandCashRafa Jiménez Seibane - CTO, HandCash
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09:25 - 10:05 EDTEsports & Advantages of a Massively Scalable BlockchainModerator: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin AssociationJohn Brackens - CTO, Esports Entertainment Groupnone: Adam Kling - CEO, KronoverseRahul Sood - Co-Founder & CEO, Unikrn
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10:05 - 10:50 EDTCashless Casinos: How Bitcoin Technology Can Create a Better & Safer Gaming ExperienceModerator: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin AssociationMatthew Dickson - Co-Founder & CEO , BitBossEd Andrewes - CEO, Resorts Digital GamingStephen Crystal - CEO, SCCG ManagementEric Bowers - VP of Architecture & Innovation, Boyd Gaming
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10:50 - 11:35 EDTiGaming Future: How the Bitcoin Blockchain Can Power More Efficiency and Transparency Across the Industry’s Value ChainModerator: Nick Hill - Director, Premier ConsultingPhillip Runyan - CEO, Hold GamingAlex Shore - CTO & Co-Founder, BitBossLloyd Purser - COO, FunFair TechnologiesSam Brown - CCO, Hero GamingCarl Brincat - Chief Legal & Enforcement Officer, Malta Gaming Authority
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11:35 - 12:05 EDTIntellectual Property & BlockchainModerator: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin AssociationScott Adams - Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLPWill Chelton - Chief Legal Officer, nChainCerian Jones - Patent Attorney of Counsel, nChain
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12:05 - 12:15 EDTSwitzerland Live Q&A with Patrick Prinz, Bitcoin Association - Hosted from Zug, Switzerland
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12:15 - 12:45 EDTKeynote Speech - From the Internet to Bitcoin: The Digital Ledger to Advance the World’s Technology Infrastructurenone: Dr. Craig S. Wright - Chief Scientist, nChain
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12:55 - 13:15 EDTBlockchain Intelligence: Analytics, Forensics & Compliance Tools for Bitcoin SVLance Morginn - President, Blockchain Intelligence Group
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13:15 - 13:40 EDTKYC On-Chain: Real-Time Business KYC for BSVRussell E. Perry - Founder & CEO, kompanyPeter Bainbridge-Clayton - Founder & CTO, kompany
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13:40 - 14:10 EDTDigital Currency & Global Compliance: Tools & Tips for Exchanges, Wallets & Other Service ProvidersModerator: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin AssociationAngus Brown - CEO, CentbeeDomenic Carosa - Founder & Non-Executive Chairman, BanxaDelphine Forma - Board Member, Crypto Valley Association & OpenVASP Association
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14:15 - 14:55 EDTVenture Investments for the Future of Bitcoin & BlockchainModerator: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin AssociationPaul Rajchgod - Managing Director of Private Equity, Ayre GroupZach Resnick - Managing Partner, Unbounded CapitalJan Smit - General Partner, Two Hop VenturesBradley Rotter - Co-Founder, Entanglement Research Institute
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14:55 - 15:25 EDTExploring the Opportunity to Digitise the Physical World with the Bitcoin BlockchainRichard Baker - CEO, Geospock LtdDavid Washburn - CEO, nChain
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15:25 - 15:35 EDT3rd Bitcoin SV Hackathon - Winners AnnouncementModerator: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin AssociationFinalists: - ,Aleksandar Dinkov - Bitcoin SV Hackathon Finalist, STOTASKNiels van den Bergh - Bitcoin SV Hackathon Finalist, KYRTWill Devine - Bitcoin SV Hackathon Finalist, Repzip
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15:35 - 16:30 EDTKeynote Speech & Fireside Chat - Can Satoshi Nakamoto Save the Internet & World Money?George Gilder - Economist, Writer, Investor & Technology Visionary,none: Dr. Craig S. Wright - Chief Scientist, nChain
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16:30 - 16:45 EDTDay 3 Wrap-Upnone: Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin Association
Speakers


Elected in 2016, Darren Soto represents Central Florida in Congress. He fights every day to create high paying jobs, increase access to higher education, and ensure clean water, land, and air for his constituents.

U.S. Representative (FL-9) | Co-Chair, Congressional Blockchain Caucus
Elected in 2016, Darren Soto represents Central Florida in Congress. The 9th District includes all of Osceola and parts of Orange and Polk Counties, and is home to many of the people who make Orlando’s theme parks world-renowned, who grow more citrus and raise more cattle than anywhere else in the State, and who explore the farthest reaches of the galaxy from the Kennedy Space Center.
Darren entered public service to work for these hard-working Floridians. Serving for a decade in the Florida Legislature, he fought to create high paying jobs, increase access to higher education, and ensure clean water, land, and air for his constituents. Soto passed landmark legislation protecting families of fallen firefighters, giving victims of sexual assault more time to report their attackers, and allowing Dreamers to be admitted to the Florida Bar. He also secured $25 million to build a state of the art college campus in the District, helped provide $10 million to save Florida’s springs, and brought in $15 million for a high-tech sensors manufacturing facility.
The first Floridian of Puerto Rican descent to serve in Congress, Darren is proud to represent all the diverse people of the 9th District. Soto graduated from Rutgers University and George Washington University School of Law. His hobbies include playing guitar, pastel painting, and kayaking. Initially joining his local Orlando Young Democrats club to make friends, he was soon encouraged to run for the Florida House. At the age of 29, he ran, won, and has brought a sense of humility to public service ever since.

An author and documentarian, Douglas Rushkoff was named one of the world’s 10 most influential thinkers by MIT. His talks are a culmination of his pioneering work, and an infallible source of what’s to come.

Author & Host, Team Human | Professor of Media Theory & Digital Economics, CUNY/Queens
An author and documentarian, Douglas Rushkoff has spent his prolific career thinking about how new media and technology are impacting culture, business, and the economy. Named one of the world’s 10 most influential thinkers by MIT, Rushkoff has written 15 bestselling books and coined such concepts as “viral media,” “social currency,” and “digital natives.” His talks are a culmination of his pioneering work, and an infallible source of what’s to come.
In expansive and exuberantly perceptive keynotes, Rushkoff touches on subjects as varied as how educators can retain the value of live presence in classrooms populated by screens, or how branding and advertising professionals can communicate with the human consumers behind the statistical profiles. We can re-humanize our technology and economy, he says; and in his book and popular podcast of the same name, Team Human, he shows how to reconnect people at work, home, school, in our faith practices, and even politics. His approach yields better, longer lasting results—for individuals, and the connected communities we form together. “Rushkoff [has] a pretty good idea of how information technology and the culture we’ve built with it went off the rails. He even has a pretty clear idea of how to get things back on track,” says NPR.
Among his bestselling books, translated to over 30 languages, are Present Shock, an exploration of our instantaneous, always-on culture, Program or Be Programmed, a clarion call for digital literacy, and Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, a critique of the digital economy and a set of actionable principles for thriving within it. A witty and astute media presence, Rushkoff has made many television, NPR, and PBS appearances, including his Frontline documentaries Generation Like, about teens and social media; The Persuaders, about the arms race between marketers and the public; and The Merchants of Cool, about who really drives youth culture. Rushkoff has appeared everywhere from Occupy Wall Street to The Colbert Report. He is also Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY, a correspondent on digital business and society for CNN, a consultant to the United Nations and the State Department, a graphic novelist, and the winner of the Marshall McLuhan Award for Media Writing, as well as the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity.

George is an American investor, writer, economist, techno-utopian advocate, and co-founder of the Discovery Institute. His 1981 bestseller Wealth and Poverty advanced a case for supply-side economics and capitalism during the Reagan administration.

Economist, Writer, Investor and Technology Visionary
Author 19 books: Life After Google: Fall of Big Data and Rise of Blockchain Economy (Regnery 2018). Scandal of Money (Regnery 2016). A 21st Century Case for Gold (AmericanPrinciplesProject.org/gilder. 2015); Knowledge&Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism (Regnery 2013); Men&Marriage; Wealth&Poverty (new edition Regnery 2012);The Spirit of Enterprise (Micron Technology history); Life After Television, Microcosm, Telecosm, The Silicon Eye, Israel Test (reissued with foreword by Joe Lieberman, Encounter, 2012). Microcosm and Telecosm listed among the era's top 10 technology books by VentureBeat and Microcosm ranked among the era's top two technology books by Wired. Knowledge and Power was libertarian "book of the year" at FreedomFest 2013. Contributor Forbes, National Review, and the Wall Street Journal. Co-author The Party That Lost Its Head (Knopf, 1965) , with Bruce Chapman. Work as venture capitalist (angel) with U.S. technology companies (such as Otoy--world's leading 3D graphics in the cloud; Immusoft, pioneering the programming of immune cells; Gerson-Lehrman Group, world's leader in knowledge networking; Rivetz, leader in digital wallet security and bitcoin interfaces; and Israeli tech companies--such as EZchip, leader in network processing chips, ASOCS, world leading software defined radio chip design); Contextors, breakthrough language recognition products. Wrote Gilder Technology Report. Began technology writing in the Rosen Letter and Release2.0.; on boards of private companies such as Berkshire Corporation (10 years; cleanroom products), Seldon Technology (4 years; carbon nanotube filters), Rivetz (current; security products) and public companies such as Wave Systems (1993-2015), K-12 (several years in the late 1990s and early 2000s), Mosaix (5 years in the 1990s). Number 27 Management Guru in Clayton Christensen's Top 50. Founder-fellow of Discovery Institute. Specialties: Long distance running, chiefly trail and hill races, and Nordic skiing.


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 the 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 him (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).


Managing Partner & Head of Research, Fundstrat Global Advisors
Thomas Lee is a Managing Partner and the Head of Research at Fundstrat Global Advisors. He is an accomplished Wall Street strategist with over 25 years of experience in equity research, and has been top ranked by Institutional Investor every year since 1998. Prior to co-founding Fundstrat, he served most recently as J.P. Morgan’s Chief Equity Strategist from 2007 to 2014, and previously as Managing Director at Salomon Smith Barney. His areas of expertise include Market Strategy, Small/Mid-Cap Strategy and Telecom Services. Mr. Lee received his BSE from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in Finance and Accounting. He is a CFA charterholder and is an active member of NYSSA and the NY Economic Club.

Thomas Moser is an Alternate Member of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank. Before he was an Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C., USA.

Alternate Member of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank
Thomas Moser is an Alternate Member of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank. Before he was an Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C., USA. He received his Doctorate in Economics from the University of Zurich.

Dr. Lukas Repa's area of expertise is distributed ledger technologies and decentralised ecosystems with a focus on regulatory and legal aspects. He qualified as attorney-at-law at the bar of Vienna, Austria.

Head of Legal, Digital Innovation & Blockchain for European Commission
Dr. Lukas Repa is a lawyer by training and graduate from the University of Vienna, Austria (Mag.iur and Dr.iur) and the College of Europe in Bruges (LL.M). After internships in Istanbul and new York, Lukas clerked at the Tribunal of First Instance of the ECJ in Luxembourg and the Austrian Administrative Supreme Court. After qualifying as attorney at law at the bar of Vienna, Austria, Lukas joined the European Commission as civil servant in 2003. Lukas has a background in finance from private practice and working almost ten years in DG COMP’s Directorate D for financial services (payments, retail banking, insurance and capital markets). From 2017 to 2018, Lukas worked as fellow at UC Berkeley, USA, on FinTech including on AI, cloud computing and blockchain technology. Since December 2018, Lukas holds a position as senior policy officer for innovation in DG CNECT Unit F3 where his area of expertise is distributed ledger technologies and decentralised data ecosystems with a focus on regulatory and legal aspects. More recently, Lukas has helped set up the International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA) and coordinated the organisation of the World Blockchain Congress “CONVERGENCE” in 2018.