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Jimmy Nguyen
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...

Speakers

Adam Kling
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...

Alex Fauvel
Alex Fauvel
Founder & General Partner
Two Hop Ventures
Alex Fauvel

Alex has a keen interest in the underlying technology of Bitcoin, leading him to found the Dutch Bitcoin SV-focused venture capital fund Two Hop Ventures. He is also a member of the Bitcoin SV Technical Standards Read More...

Alex Speirs
Alex Speirs
Head of Communications
Bitcoin Association
Alex Speirs

A graduate of the University of Auckland Business School, Alex has strong groundings in finance and public policy. He joined the blockchain space following a career in journalism, most recently serving as the Read More...

Andy Mee
Andy Mee
Director of Product & Solution Strategy
nChain
Andy Mee

Andy is the Director of Product & Solution Strategy at nChain. He joined the firm in 2017 and has since then been the architect and creator behind nChain's technology platform Kensei. Read More...

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

Antonio is one of the founders and CEO of BlockQuake™, a regulatory-driven digital asset, and cryptocurrency trading platform. His personal trading experience included stocks, options, and forex before delving into Read More...

Becky Liggero Fontana
Becky Liggero Fontana
Lead Gaming Industry Reporter
CoinGeek
Becky Liggero Fontana

Becky joined entrepreneur and CoinGeek founder Calvin Ayre to serve as the Head On-site Reporter. She now conducts exclusive interviews with senior executives and blockchain enthusiasts for Read More...

Brandon Bryant
Brandon Bryant
Software Engineer
HandCash
Brandon Bryant

Aside from his work with HandCash, Brandon is also an adjunct Professor designing and teaching a course on the original Bitcoin protocol at the University of New Read More...

Brendan Lee
Brendan Lee
Founder & CEO
Elas Digital
Brendan Lee

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. Brendan is also Training and Development Manager Read More...

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

An experienced financial executive in the food & agricultural industry, Brian Choi is the Managing Partner and CEO of The Food Institute, a New Jersey-based food news and market research company founded in Read More...

Bryan Daugherty
Bryan Daugherty
North America Regional Manager
Bitcoin Association
Bryan Daugherty

Bryan is a certified cryptocurrency investigator and the Regional Manager for North America for Bitcoin Association. He helps organizations explore the best use of blockchain for business growth and Read More...

Christian Solomine
Christian Solomine
Board Advisor
BitBoss Corporation
Christian Solomine

Christian is Senior Vice President of Sales for Repay Holdings and also Board Advisor to the BitBoss Corporation, assisting BitBoss with their go-to-market planning for their cashless solution for land-based casinos Read More...

Connor Murray
Connor Murray
Co-Founder & CEO
Britevue
Connor Murray

Connor is the Co-Founder and CEO of Britevue, an online review platform where users earn money and digital rewards for their feedback. He also works as an instructor and course content specialist for the Bitcoin SV Read More...

Craig Massey
Craig Massey
Chairman
Satoshi Dojo
Craig Massey

Satoshi Block Dojo, an incubator for BSV tech startups, is the eighth company that Craig has founded. From eight startups, Craig has had five successful exits with four of those for multi-millions, primarily in the Read More...

Daniel Cossi
Daniel Cossi
President
World Esports Consortium (WESCO)
Daniel Cossi

Daniel is a creator of esports legislation and regulations, as well as president of World Esports Consortium, Brazilian Confederation of Esports (CBDEL) and Empire Esports Entertainment Hainan Read More...

Daniel Lipshitz
Daniel Lipshitz
CEO
Gap600
Daniel Lipshitz

Daniel's view is that Bitcoin SV has the most compelling option to reach mass adoption and enable vast economic progression on a global scale. He founded GAP600, a company that facilitates instant Bitcoin payments & Read More...

Daniel Street
Daniel Street
Co-founder & CEO
Relica
Daniel Street

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 Read More...

Dave Perrill
Dave Perrill
Co-Founder & CEO
Compute North
Dave Perrill

A 25-year veteran of the IT and information security industry, Dave Perrill founded and subsequently sold two technology companies including SecureConnect, which was acquired by Trustwave Holdings in Read More...

David Case
David Case
CTO
FYX Gaming
David Case

Drawing from over 20 years of software development experience across logistics, defense, and e-commerce industries, David brings a broad range of technological Read More...

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

David D’Amico serves as Managing Group Director and Vice President of Digital Asset Banking at Signature Bank (NASDAQ: SBNY), a full-service commercial bank. He brings more than 15 years of experience in private Read More...

Dennis Schroder
Dennis Schroder
President
SeraScript
Dennis Schroder

Dennis Schroder is the Founder and President of both SeraScript and Arakÿta. SeraScript is a suite of document workflow and WORM based document retention products utilizing BSV Blockchain as its verification Read More...

Dr. Dhirendra Shukla
Dr. Dhirendra Shukla
President & Chair
Gray Wolf Analytics Inc.
Dr. Dhirendra Shukla

Dr. Dhirendra Shukla is the co-founder of Gray Wolf Analytics Inc., and also the Professor and Chair of the J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of New Brunswick, Read More...

Dominic Duffy
Dominic Duffy
Director of Marketing
nChain
Dominic Duffy

Dominic brings a wealth of experience in the fields of computer product development and marketing. He joined nChain as Director of Marketing in 2021, applying his knowledge and expertise in taking nChain’s exciting Read More...

Eric Bernhard
Eric Bernhard
General Manager
Fabriik Digital Objects
Eric Bernhard

Eric has experience leading teams in the UK retail landscape, Canadian retail and investment management. He joined Fabriik as VP of Customer before taking the lead on its Tokenization product and the development of Read More...

Eric LaForce
Eric LaForce
Technical Co-Founder
Haste Arcade
Eric LaForce

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 Read More...

Eswar Prasad
Eswar Prasad
Tolani Senior Prof. of Trade Policy & Prof. of Economics, Cornell University
Eswar Prasad

Eswar Prasad is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He was previously chief of the Financial Studies Division in the IMF’s Research Department and also led the Read More...

Francesco Morello
Francesco Morello
Founder
BullishArt
Francesco Morello

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

Gary Ma
Gary Ma
COO
Epik
Gary Ma

Gary has worked with some of the biggest brands and celebrity artists, producing large scale Ultra Music style concerts across the world. Now at Epik, he works with the biggest brands and IP to create premium digital Read More...

Geoffrey Hammond
Geoffrey Hammond
Founder and Manager
Aequantium LLC
Geoffrey Hammond

Aequantium futures fund founder Geoffrey Hammond has comprehensive experience in the financial industry including government regulation, futures markets in including brokerage and discretionary trading. Read More...

George Gilder
George Gilder
Economist, Writer, Investor & Technology Visionary
George Gilder

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 Read More...

George Siosi Samuels
George Siosi Samuels
Founder
Honā
George Siosi Samuels

George is the Managing Director of community-tech consultancy Faiā, and founder of blockchain-based accountability platform Honā. Featured by Tech In Asia and Slack, he's passionate about bridging gaps between Read More...

Hassan (“Hash”) Qureshi
Hassan (“Hash”) Qureshi
Partner
MNP
Hassan (“Hash”) Qureshi

Hash is a partner of MNP with over 25 years of performing internal audit and information systems/information technology audits. He has extensive experience working with blockchain companies, start-ups and Read More...

Henry James
Henry James
CEO
Espo
Henry James

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. Read More...

Jackson Laskey
Jackson Laskey
Co-Founder & CEO
Unbounded Enterprise
Jackson Laskey

Jackson is continuously studying and learning Bitcoin to help him steer Unbounded Enterprise, a venture fund investing exclusively in the BSV ecosystem, into a premier position in the future built on Read More...

James Belding
James Belding
Co-Founder & CEO
Tokenized
James Belding

James is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tokenized, as well as the creator of the award-winning Tokenized Read More...

James Bowater
James Bowater
Founder & Editor-at-Large
Crypto AM | City AM's Crypto Insider
James Bowater

James is the Founder and Editor-at-large of Crypto AM within London’s renowned financial newspaper City AM. He also founded the London Blockchain Forum as a meeting place for people working in blockchain within the Read More...

Jeffrey Baek
Jeffrey Baek
Co-Founder
Peer company
Jeffrey Baek

Jeffery is currently a co-founder at Peer company, building retail services for the Bitcoin ecosystem. Read More...

Jeremy Street
Jeremy Street
Co-founder & CTO
Relica
Jeremy Street

Jeremy is a software engineer with over 14 years of professional experience across various sectors, including finance, gaming, telecommunications, and defense. Read More...

Jill Malandrino
Jill Malandrino
Global Markets Reporter, Nasdaq
Host, Trade Talks
Jill Malandrino

A veteran reporter with more than a decade of experience, Jill explores the ins-and-outs of the ever-evolving investing landscape, delving deep into the markets, cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance, and trading Read More...

Joe Brusha
Joe Brusha
CEO
Zenescope Entertainment
Joe Brusha

Joe partnered with his longtime friend and occasional writing partner Ralph Tedesco to launch Zenescope Entertainment in 2005. He has written comic series including Grimm Fairy Tales, Neverland, Paradise Court and Read More...

Joe Thomas
Joe Thomas
Software Engineer and developer
BitcoinPhone
Joe Thomas

Joe Thomas is a software engineer and the developer of the BitcoinPhone. He is excited to develop software and help businesses leverage the unique properties of Bitcoin Read More...

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

John Pitts and John DiFelice founded information marketplace SLictionary, a groundbreaking micropayments-incentivized dictionary which pays its creative contributors, or "WordSmiths," 70% of seek fees in perpetuity. Read More...

Joseph (Joe) MacCallum
Joseph (Joe) MacCallum
Senior Consultant
Enterprise Risk Services, MNP
Joseph (Joe) MacCallum

Joseph (Joe) MacCallum is a Senior Consultant with an Enterprise Risk Solutions practice at MNP. Prior to joining MNP Joe worked with Gray Wolf Analytics, a firm that is focused on Cryptocurrency & Blockchain risk Read More...

Joshua Lim
Joshua Lim
Head of Derivatives
Genesis Global Trading
Joshua Lim

Joshua Lim is Head of Derivatives at Genesis Trading. He previously managed the spot and derivs trading desk at Galaxy Digital and built the treasury and OTC trading desk at Circle. Before crypto, Josh traded equity vol Read More...

Kal Suurkask
Kal Suurkask
CCO
TAAL Distributed Information Technologies
Kal Suurkask

Kal, who has more than 15 years of business experience in leading organizational strategy and product sales, most recently served as Interim CEO and COO of UK-based nChain and CEO of Canadian-based Elevation Public Read More...

Karen J. Wendel
Karen J. Wendel
President & CEO
TrustChains, LLC
Karen J. Wendel

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, Read More...

Kevin Healy
Kevin Healy
Independent
App Developer & Investor
Kevin Healy

Kevin became interested in Ethereum in late 2016 because of programmable money potential. With the introduction of BSV and sCrypt, he realized that BSV could fulfill the programmable money promises at scale that Read More...

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

Kip has more than 25 years of experience as a management consultant, including leading business process management groups at Wyeth Manufacturing and at Merck Research & Read More...

Kurt Wuckert Jr.
Kurt Wuckert Jr.
Chief Bitcoin Historian
CoinGeek
Kurt Wuckert Jr.

Kurt is an entrepreneur from Chicago with experience in Bitcoin mining, business management, and cybersecurity. As CoinGeek’s Chief Bitcoin Historian, Kurt is a wealth of knowledge on all things Read More...