Where TradFi & DeFi Converge

Mr Chan was appointed the Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury on 16 August 2017.Mr Chan has many years of senior executive experience in the banking industry. He was a Managing Director in the Global Markets Division of Credit Agricole Corporate &amp; Investment Bank, and was a Managing Director in Financial Markets of Standard Chartered Bank.Prior to joining the Government, Mr Chan held multiple roles in a number of public and professional bodies, including Vice President of the Hong Kong Society of Financial Analysts, Director of Hong Kong Securities &amp; Investment Institute, Advisor of the Chinese Gold &amp; Silver Exchange Society, as well as a General Committee member of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. Mr Chan was also a member of the Central &amp; Western District Council.Mr Chan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics (Hon) and Psychology from the University of Michigan, USA. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury

Whikie Liu is Director, Capital Markets Strategy at Swift. She is responsible for defining global capital markets related strategy and new initiatives in Swift with a focus on developing innovative products and strategies including post-trade transformation, tokenized asset interoperability, and AI innovations, and she is leading strategic engagement with the industry in APAC region. Prior to this role, Whikie was Head of Capital Market and Standards, China at Swift, responsible for Swift's business development for capital market development and provide ISO Standards expertise in China. Before joining Swift, Whikie worked at Citibank for 12 years where she was responsible for product development of securities services.&nbsp;

Capital Market Strategy Director 

Sergey Nazarov is co-founder of Chainlink, the industry-standard Web3 services platform that has enabled trillions of dollars in transaction volume across DeFi, insurance, gaming, NFTs, and other major industries. As the leading decentralized oracle network, Chainlink enables developers to build feature-rich Web3 applications with seamless access to real-world data and off-chain computation across any blockchain and provides global enterprises with a universal gateway to all blockchains.

Co-Founder

Dr Ouaknine is Global Head of Innovation in Euroclear. He joined Euroclear 3 years ago and has over 20 years of experience in financial industry with a proven track record of managing and delivering complex and innovative projects.Dr Ouaknine is supporting the overall innovation journey of an FMI, and has been in charge of defining the Digital Assets strategy. He led transversal teams of Euroclear (Business, legal, IT, Ops, Risks, …)  to deliver in 18 months a fully regulated platform on DLT, focused as a first step on Primary Market issuance and distribution with a unique value proposition and investors reach.Previously, he founded and served as CEO of two subsidiaries of BNP Paribas (a payment service provider- DIGIFI and a Digital factory - DIGISERV).  Before that, Dr Ouaknine has overseen post-merger integrations, bank restructuring for over a decade, in various countries.He holds a PhD in Law from the university of Nice-Sophia Antipolis.

Global Head of Innovation and Digital Assets 

Stéphanie Lheureux is a Director and Head of Digital Assets Competence Center for the Euroclear Group, based in Paris.  She has an extensive experience managing &amp; delivering innovative projects for Financial Institutions and Capital Markets, both with traditional and blockchain technologies. Before joining Euroclear, she served as CPO of Lemonway, an European Payment Service Provider offering complex payment services for financial marketplaces, in charge of their core product (digital identity, payment and cash management) and web3 strategy. Previously, Stephanie was COO of LiquidShare, a consortium founded by major European Financial Institutions in 2017 to develop and operate a blockchain-based settlement infrastructure for listed and non-listed SMEs.  She was headed a team of product managers and developers responsible for building the multi-party application that connected asset managers, brokers, exchange, custodians and issuers to perform instant settlement of listed equities during industry pilots. Before that, Stephanie was Head of Post Trade Innovation at Calypso Technology (now Adenza, part of Nasdaq Group) where she spent 14 years in charge of Post-Trade Product Management. Stéphanie headed a team of product managers responsible for managing and developing Calypso’s range of products in securities services, clearing, cash management, cross-border payments and other post-trade cross-assets services. She was a founding member of Calypso Blockchain Accelerator group and in charge of Digital Assets initiatives. Stephanie holds a master’s degree in Finance from Paris iX Dauphine University (2001) and a master’s degree in Capital Markets from IAE Grenoble University (2002). 

Head of Digital Assets

Fabio Araujo is a telecommunications engineer and PhD in economics and has been working at Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) since 1998. At the beginning of in his career in the BCB he took part in the implementation of the Inflation Targeting regime in Brazil and, afterwards, dedicated himself to advising the conduct of the monetary policy. More recently, Fabio was the head of the Office of Economic Advisors to the Governor and currently coordinates the work for the future implementation of DREX - the digital version of the Brazilian Real.

Senior Advisor  

Ronit runs the Future of Finance team in Citi Global Insights, Citi’s thought leadership unit. The team is focused on the intersection of the future of money, finance and emerging tech. We provide analysis and advice to Citi’s institutional clients and the bank’s leadership. Prior to his current role, Ronit was Citi’s global head of Banks and FinTech research. Alongside his Citi role, Ronit is an Advisory Board member of the Financial Technology Centre at Imperial College Business School in London and at several technology firms and early-stage VC investors based in the U.K., Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Prior to joining Citi in 1997, Ronit worked in the policy world, including as Research Assistant for a former UK Prime Minister. Ronit's new book “Future Money” has been published in March 2024.

Global Head, Future of Finance, Citi Global Insights

Emma joined Fidelity International in 2021, as Head of Digital Propositions and Partnerships, Asia Pacific ex Japan. Based in Hong Kong, Emma leads the build out of Fidelity’s digital product solutions and digital wealth strategy, enabling an improved client experience in Asia. Since 2023, she leads the distribution efforts for digital assets globally, supporting the commercialisation of Fidelity International’s Bitcoin spot strategy as well as fund tokenization.Emma has been keenly involved in the FinTech Association of Hong-Kong since 2017 and she has been co-chair of the Blockchain committee from 2020 until 2022 and board member since. More recently, Emma has joined the W3W community has a founding member, supporting women in Web3, the non-profit organisation aims to build, educate and invest in the future of women who are in the crypto/web3 industry.&nbsp;

Head of Digital Propositions & Partnerships APACxJ

Dr. Adrian Cheng is the Chairman, Non-Executive Director and major shareholder of Arta TechFin Corporation Limited. Arta TechFin is a Hong Kong-listed company (HKSE: 0279) and a regulated financial institution leading blockchain development in Hong KongDr Adrian Cheng was also appointed as an Executive Director of New World Development Company Limited in March 2007, became Executive Director and Joint General Manager from March 2012, re-designated as Executive Vice-chairman and Joint General Manager from April 2015, re-designated as Executive Vice-chairman and General Manager from March 2017 and re-designated as Executive Vice-chairman and Chief Executive Officer from May 2020. Dr. Adrian Cheng is a member of the Executive Committee and the chairman of the Sustainability Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company. Dr. Cheng is the chairman and non-executive director of New World Department Store China Limited, an executive director of Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited, the chairman and non-executive director of Arta TechFin Corporation Limited, and a non-executive director of NWS Holdings Limited, all being listed public companies in Hong Kong. Dr. Cheng is also a director and the executive chairman of New World China Land Limited, the chairman of New World Group Charity Foundation Limited and a director of certain subsidiaries of the Group. In addition, he is a director of Chow Tai Fook (Holding) Limited and Chow Tai Fook Enterprises Limited, both are substantial shareholders of the Company. He was a non-executive director of New Century Healthcare Holding Co. Limited, Giordano International Limited and a non-executive director and a co-chairman of Meta Media Holdings Limited, all being listed public companies in Hong Kong, up to his resignation on 1 June 2022, 1 December 2022 and 5 October 2023 respectively.

Chairman, Non-Executive Director

Justin Sun is the Founder of TRON, one of the world's largest blockchain DAO ecosystems. Sun has been named Forbes' 30 under 30 in the Consumer Technology category several times, among other global recognitions and actively engaged in philanthropic endeavors. Sun is an avid art collector, gamer, investor, philanthropist, and space enthusiast.In September 2017, Justin established TRON, which is committed to accelerating internet decentralization through blockchain technology and DApps. TRON currently provides the largest circulating supply of stablecoin with over 220 million users and 7.3 billion transactions. On top of this, TRON has transitioned into a DAO featuring self-governance after realizing full decentralization in December 2021.Keenly following the digitalization of artworks, Justin Sun bought masterpieces by Picasso, Giacometti, Andy Warhol, Beeple, Puk, and KAWS worth over $1 billion, most of which he later donated to APENFT Foundation for the NFTization and digitalization of artworks.Justin Sun also takes an active interest in philanthropy. In 2019, he won a bid for Warren Buffett's charity lunch with $4.568 million that was later earmarked by the Glide Foundation for the homeless and helpless; in June 2021, he won the seats of New Shepard by Blue Origin with $28 million that was then donated to the Club for the Future in support of aerospace adventures; he also launched the "Sea of Stars" charity campaign.

Founder

Sandy Peng is a co-founder of Scroll, the most secure and most developer centric zkEVM. Our mission is to become the global transaction layer where application builders, creators and memelords can thrive.Educated in Cambridge, previous work experience includes the SFC, and Fission Capital.Scroll is one of the most highly anticipated zkEVM layer 2 for Ethereum, built with the PSE group in the Ethereum Foundation, working on applying the latest cryptographic zero knowledge proof technology to scaling Ethereum. Scroll raised 80m over the last 2 years.

Sota is the founder of Astar Network as well as CEO at Startale, the company that aims "Web3 For Billions". In addition to that, he is one of the directors at the Japan Blockchain Association. In 2022, he was selected Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia and Japan. In 2023, he was selected "100 Most Respected Japanese in the World" by Newsweek.

As COO, Cynthia leads investor relations and oversees global business strategies at Matrixport. Previously Investment Director at Bitmain Technologies, Cynthia focused on investments in blockchain technology and decentralized applications.Prior to venturing into crypto, Cynthia was Vice President at Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX), responsible for derivatives product development and institutional sales. She started her career in HK as a commodities trader.

Rene Reinsberg is a co-founder of Celo, an emerging Ethereum Layer-2 and mobile-first blockchain network built for the real world and designed for fast, low-cost payments worldwide. Celo is at the center of an ecosystem of technologies, organizations, and individuals that all share a mission of building a regenerative financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity for everyone.Previously, he co-founded Locu (acquired by GoDaddy). Rene started his career in global capital markets at Morgan Stanley and also worked at McKinsey, the World Bank, TechnoServe, and General Catalyst. He holds graduate degrees from Germany's WHU and MIT. 

Celo Co-Founder & Celo Foundation President

Teddy currently serves as the CEO of JINGDONG Coinlink Technology, where he oversees overall planning and strategies, global expansion, and the implementation of its fintech, Web3 and stablecoin business. Teddy held the position of Vice President at JD Technology, the technology subsidiary of JD.com Group.Teddy brings 18 years of practical and senior executive experience in global mobile payment industry and is dedicated to driving technological innovation to serve the entire financial industry.  He specialises in crafting sustainable inclusive financial products tailored for populations in under-developed regions, thereby enhancing the global level of financial inclusion.  Before joining JD, He held senior leadership roles in a number of mobile payment-related Chinese fin-techs including Tencent and Huawei.Teddy was the Key Person in Charge of WeChat Pay at Tencent.  He built the mobile payment infrastructure from the ground and promote its rapid development. Teddy was the Chief Executive Officer of global mobile payment product and operation at Huawei, led a team that provided services across 19 countries and regions. He was a co-founder and established KBZPay, the fastest growing and industry leading innovative mobile wallet application. It is currently the No.1 payment brand in Myanmar.&nbsp;

Andrew currently leads Franklin Templeton’s digital asset initiatives in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He has over 28 years’ experience in financial services in executive roles:

•	Head of Distribution, Credit Suisse Asset Management (Asia)

•	Head of Absolute Return Strategies Sales, Deutsche Asset Management

•	Head of Asia, Tiedemann Investment Group

•	Founder &amp; Managing Director of Shadforth Financial Group in 1996, that was acquired by IOOF in 2014 for $650 million with client assets under advice of $16 billion

•	Teaching Assistant at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania

He is a member of the Securities &amp; Futures Commission of Hong Kong Fintech Advisory Board. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne, a Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning from the University of Tasmania and undertook a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently undertaking a Master of Financial Planning at Victoria University.

Vice President, Digital Assets

Chief Technology Officer

Rita spent 10 years of her career in Alipay, building out its European operations as head of the region, later appointed as Director and CEO of Alipay UK. Rita also served as CEO of Mode Global, a regulator-approved crypto firm in the UK.&nbsp;

Robert Porter is Director, Digital Asset Services at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ). Based in Melbourne, Robert is responsible for developing partnerships and regulator engagement for the bank’s Digital Assets &amp; Currencies enterprise capability.

Director, Digital Asset Services

Serra Wei is a cryptocurrency finance executive, investor, and entrepreneur with a blend of experience in both legacy and blockchain-based finance and cryptocurrencies.Ms. Wei has worked with Goldman Sachs with MBA from Stanford Business School.Currently, Serra Wei is the founder and CEO of Aegis Trust &amp; Custody, dedicated to integrating custody solutions into the world of blockchain.

CEO & Director

Benjamin Quinlan is the CEO and Managing Partner of Quinlan &amp; Associates.Benjamin is the former Chairman of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong and is a Board Member and Chair of the Innovation &amp; Technology Committee at the Australian Chamber of Commerce.Benjamin is an Adjunct Professor at the AIT School of Management, a Conference Ambassador for the Hong Kong Tourism Board, and sits on various Advisory/Steering Committees and Working Groups for Hong Kong Science and Technology Park (HKSTP), Hong Kong Trade and Development Council (HKTDC), the Financial Services Development Council (FSDC), and the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (HKGCC). He is also the Chairman of krip and Divit, a Co-Founder of Nevermind Post-Quantum, a Board Advisor at Fusang, a Senior Advisor at several FinTech startups, a Mentor for PingAn’s Cloud Accelerator, and a Guest Contributor for eFinancialCareers and Regulation Asia. He is recognised as one of Asia’s leading FinTech influencers.Benjamin has an extensive track record advising governments and many of the world’s leading multinational companies, financial services organisations, SMEs, and start-ups on a variety of high-profile strategic engagements. He is quoted extensively in the global financial press and is frequently interviewed by leading media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, TIME, Bloomberg, CNBC, and Reuters. He is also a regular keynote speaker at leading financial services industry conferences across the globe.Prior to founding Quinlan &amp; Associates, Benjamin was the Head of Strategy for Deutsche Bank AG’s Equities business in Asia Pacific and its Investment Bank in Greater China and sat on numerous global and regional executive committees. Before Deutsche Bank, Benjamin worked as a Management Consultant at Oliver Wyman in the firm’s Corporate &amp; Institutional Banking practice.Before joining Oliver Wyman, Benjamin worked at UBS AG in the bank’s Asia Pacific Client Coverage and Group Strategy departments. He began his career in M&amp;A and Capital Markets Advisory at PwC in Sydney.Benjamin holds a Bachelor of Commerce / Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a First-Class Honours Degree in Economics (on scholarship) from Macquarie University, Sydney.

CEO and Managing Partner

Yue Hong is a MDP in BCG’s Hong Kong office – he leads the Crypto and Web 3 capability center in APAC. He is also core member of the Principal Investor &amp; Private Equity practice. He joined BCG as an Associate in Brussels, and subsequently transferred to South-East Asia and Greater China. His recent crypto/Web 3.0 experience:Commercial Due diligence(s) on leading Crypto Exchange(s) Strategy &amp; Market study on the future of Derivative exchange (with focus on emerging economics) Growth Strategy for leading PE/VC-funded crypto-bankCrypto/ Web 3.0 Growth Strategy for a neo-bank/ credit card issuer Web 3.0 Strategy for a crypto-native browser &amp; walletGameFi and Metaverse strategy for a leading Tech playerWeb 3.0 investment strategy &amp; capability build-up for a leading conglomerate Web 3.0 and Token Ecosystem building for a leading digital/ecosystem player Metaverse strategy for a leading global diversified investorHis other strategy/commercial due diligence experience:Internet/ Tech: e-commerce (2b service, verticals), vertical platforms (marketing, community), B2C internet services (education …), AI (robots, software, SaaS), Fintech, Digital marketingConsumer: D2C brands, sport brands (outdoor, traditional), Supply chain services (warehouse, logistics), Pet (food, services), education (K12…) Medtech: Medical aesthetics devices Yue Hong holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management, a Master and Bachelor in Engineering from Universite Libre de Bruxelles and a Bachelor in Business from Solvay Brussels School

Managing Director and Partner

Sandra is a proponent for ‘human-centric tech’. From investment banking and currency markets toblockchain technology, she is an early angel investor and advocate of cryptocurrencies and digital assets.She currently serves as the CEO of Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), the world’s largest leadingSwiss-based non-for-profit association with more than 500 institutional members, 301 ambassadors,across 117 jurisdictions and disciplines.In 2023, she was appointed onto the CFTC Commissioner Caroline Pham’s Global Markets AdvisoryCommittee (GMAC), Digital Asset Market Subcommittee (DAMS) and cochairs the Taxonomy andTokenization Infrastructure workstreams within the subcommittee. She was previously appointed as theSenate representative of the New York State Digital Currency Task Force, and serves on the AIFC FintechCouncil (Kazakhstan), World Economic Forum’s Digital Currencies Governance Consortium, InternationalSecurities Services Association’s DLT &amp; ISO Standards, GI Trust FATF Travel Rule Standards Task Force(South Korea), GBBC’s Global Standards Mapping Initiative, Blockchain for Climate (BxC) Board,Salesforce’s AI Advisory Board, Filecoin Foundation Advisory Board, United Nations World FoodProgramme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator Advisory Council, and several government Convergence AIworking groups and councils as well as Board director of several fintech start-ups.Sandra was a founding member of many of the earliest blockchain associations including HyperledgerFoundation, The Linux Foundation, the Post Trade Distributed Ledger Group (PTDL) and the EnterpriseEthereum Alliance (EEA).She is a frequent guest lecturer and hackathon judge at universities discussing topics from fintech to dataprivacy and harnessing emerging technologies to solve real world problems and has testified andpresented in front of governments including the U.S. Senate Committee - Agriculture, Nutrition &amp;Forestry, UK House of Lords, Economic Affairs Committee, European Parliament, South Korea’s NationalAssembly, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, in both closed door and public forums.Whilst at CME Group, she headed FX &amp; Metals Research &amp; Product Development and founded a newbusiness unit, Digitization. Sandra and her team created the CME CF Bitcoin pricing index and referencerate, CME Bitcoin Futures, and post trade, clearing and settlement solutions.She and her team filed the first set of crypto derivatives patents with the US Patent &amp; Trademark Office(USPTO). Sandra was one of the corporate digital asset pioneers to recognize the potential of thistechnology and its many applications; she presented at one of the first CFTC Technology AdvisoryCommittee (TAC) on the potential of blockchain technology on February 23, 2016. Previously, she was aLondon-based derivatives banker at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank in the foreign exchange andinterest rate markets.Sandra holds a M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from London Business School, studied ComputerScience at Columbia University, School of Continuing Studies and earned a double B.A. degree from YaleUniversity in History (Military) and Studies in the Environment.&nbsp;

Experienced professional with more than 10-year experience in exponential technology including ML, Data, and Blockchain. Recent work includes :the issuance of the world's first commercial bank-issued stable coin A$DC on EthereumAsset Tokenisation and DvP settlement.ZK enabled sacling solutions.

Product Lead Digital Asset Services

Uri is currently working at Chainlink Labs as Chief Architect and has also previously served as an Advisor to the company. Prior to that, Uri was the Co-founder and Board Member of Otterize, where he held the position of Chief Product Officer. Uri was also Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at MuleSoft, where he focused on connecting applications, data, and devices. Uri has also held leadership positions at Barnes &amp; Noble as Vice President of Nook Cloud and at Loyalize as VP of Engineering.

Chief Architect

​20+ years of entrepreneurial and managerial experience with a listed TechFin company and global financial institutions in China and the United States. Technology specialty in blockchain and cryptography application for regulated traditional finance; Investment and trading expertise with top-tier asset managers, investment banks, and hedge funds; License experience with major regulatory regimes (CSRC, SEC, SFC)

Georgina CHUChief Corporate Development OfficerAs the Chief Corporate Development Officer of Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited, Ms Georgina Chu steers corporate planning and development by leading functions across corporate strategy development, GBA development, marketing and public affairs.Ms Chu brings over 25 years of experiences in the telecommunications and data centre industry, and has held key strategic roles. Before joining Cyberport, Ms Chu served as Senior Director of Enterprise and Financial Markets for the APAC region at Equinix Asia-Pacific, and effectively rolled out global programmes, formulated and oversaw execution of sales strategies, and acted as the regional subject matter expert both internally and externally. In her earlier capacity as Executive Director and Country Manager of Colt Technology Services, she successfully drove business growth in the APAC region and managed corporate operations in Hong Kong, on the Mainland and Singapore.Ms Chu holds an MBA from California Coast University in the US and a BBA from Hong Kong Baptist University.&nbsp;

Chief Corporate Development Officer

Mr. Li is responsible for steering the strategic direction of PCCW Solutions and focused on accelerating digital transformation of customers across industries in Asia.Mr. Li has a strong background in developing corporate strategies, driving innovation and technology programs, and leading business transformations. Prior to joining PCCW Solutions, he was the Deputy Director in MTR Corporation responsible for corporate strategy, innovation and technology development. During his tenure in MTR, he partnered closely with the Board, CEO and leaders across departments to develop a new corporate strategy with financial and social ambitions, with digital transformation being a critical enabler.Previously, Mr. Li spent over 11 years at Accenture as a Managing Director with leadership roles across numerous practices including Consulting, Technology, Digital and Operations, with a focus on advisory and system integration delivery to clients in the Asia Pacific region. Besides his client-facing roles at Accenture, Mr. Li was a member of Accenture’s Technology Architecture community and an executive sponsor for Accenture’s Inclusion &amp; Diversity programs.Mr. Li holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California Los Angeles, the United States of America.

I am currently CEO at Hex Trust but my professional experience spans over 15 years, covering areas such as banking, regulatory body and management consulting. I was the Head of Strategy Asia for BBVA, in charge of business development and monitoring the bank’s geographical footprint in Asia. Alongside this, I helped the bank set up branches and obtain regulatory approvals in a number of Asian countries. Since then I’ve had key roles at Abu Dhabi Bank and the Italian Financial Services Authority (Consob) in Rome. As for my education, I got my bachelor's and master's degrees in telecommunication engineering from La Sapienza University in Rome and my MBA from IE Business School.

CEO and Co-Founder

Julien Martin has 25 years in financial services in sell side andinfrastructure organizations of which 18 in Asia.He is the CEO and founder of Digital Climate Group, a financialservice company working on democratizing access to greenfinance products for issuers and investors leveraging blockchain,Web3 and AI.Previously, Senior Managing Director for HKEX and CEO of the Bond Connect Company Limited,a joint venture established by China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) and HKEX. Leadingthe development of Fixed Income products (Cash, derivatives, and post trade), Data &amp; ESGinitiatives including regulatory disclosure, data monetization, ESG products development, index,rating and carbon, digital assets build up. Julien is the key architect that led to the launch of BondConnect in July 2017, delivering policy breakthroughs and market efficiencies in pre-tradeadmission, trading, and settlement for the China interbank bond market.A total of 17 years capital market experience in BNP Paribas group, in FICC trading sales, riskmanagement and platform build up. Julien holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degreefrom ESSEC Business School, Paris.

Founder and CEO 

Sean Lee is a veteran Web3 and fintech expert, devoted to regulatory advocacy and the transformation of digital assets and currencies.  He is the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of IDA, a premier digital asset technology company to lead the widespread adoption of blockchain finance and to empower Belt and Road businesses to seamlessly integrate between Web2 and Web3, where he plays a vital role in shaping the strategic direction of stablecoin and digital asset businesses. Previously, Sean was the founding CEO of the Algorand Foundation, where he spearheaded ecosystem development and token governance efforts which led to the layer-1 protocol achieving top 10 network valuation by CoinMarketCap under his leadership.  In addition, Sean has active engagements with global regulators and policymakers as a Senior Advisor for the Crypto Council for Innovation (<a href="https://cryptoforinnovation.org/" target="_blank">https://cryptoforinnovation.org</a>) in regulatory advocacy and advancing the transformative potential of digital assets and Web3.  He is also a mentor at the MIT Entrepreneurship and Fintech Innovation Node, Techstars Web3 Accelerator, and an elected member of Cyberport Entrepreneurship Committee Advisory Group of the Hong Kong SAR Government. Before entering into crypto and blockchain, Sean spent 20 years and held leadership positions in cloud computing and open source software development companies, working closely with leading financial services institutions on Wall Street and in Asia.&nbsp;

Co-Founder and CSO

Kok Kee leads the AsiaNext team of 50-plus professionals, bringing with him over 20 years of strategic leadership experience in traditional finance, real estate, hospitality and digital assets. He has led 2 other Singapore digital asset exchanges (crypto assets and securities tokens) from inception to licensing and business launch.Prior to that, Kok Kee worked at UBS for 18 years, mainly in Chief Operating Officer roles for the Singapore, Taiwan and China locations. He was Chief Administrative Officer at JP Morgan China for 4 years, before joining Millennium &amp; Copthorne Hotels Plc UK, a real estate and hospitality group under City Developments Limited as its Group Chief Financial Officer. He has extensive experience with strategy and new business development, building best-in-class technology platforms, financial and operations management, and regulatory compliance, and has worked in key cities across the world (Zurich, New York, London, Hong Kong, Taipei and Beijing).

Chief Executive Officer

Co-founder of BGD Labs, contributing to Aave. Prev. CTO at Aave

Daniela Barbosa serves as General Manager of Decentralized Technologies at the Linux Foundation. Since 2021, she has been the Executive Director of Hyperledger Foundation, driving the open development of enterprise-grade blockchain and identity technologies by a global community. She is a leading voice for the power of openly developed decentralized technologies to optimize critical infrastructure for efficiency, privacy, and inclusivity.Daniela has more than 20 years technology experience, including seven years in leadership roles at Hyperledger Foundation with responsibility for the member community as well as broader industry and business community outreach and overall network growth. She started her career at Dow Jones where she worked with the top global brands across various sectors, including finance, consumer and energy, to architect and deliver enterprise systems, ontologies and semantic web solutions. In the early 2000s, Daniela became involved in the early web 2.0 community helping to advance the concept of digital identity and data portability as the pathway for people to reuse their data across interoperable applications.

 General Manager of Decentralized Technologies

Emilio is one of the first contributors to the Aave Protocol. He was responsible, alongside others, for the design and implementation of all three versions of the protocol and has worked extensively on the design for Aave V4. Emilio leads development efforts focused on new and innovative DeFi products to strengthen the Aave ecosystem.

VP of Engineering

CK is the COO of SBI Digital Markets and heads up Risk, Operations and Marketing in SBI Digital Markets. He is responsible for the development and execution of business strategies, establishing industry-leading operations and institutional-grade risk management framework. CK is a highly experienced operations and risk professional in global and regional banks. He has 18 years of experience in operations, risk management, data analytics and strategic project management across financial markets, transaction banking and digital assets. CK was previously in UOB’s strategic Blockchain and Digital Assets unit which drives blockchain strategy and its applications for the bank. Before that, he held senior positions in UOB and prior to that, Standard Chartered Bank for 10 years in Singapore, Korea and China.

Chief Operating Officer

Deng Chao is President of HashKey Singapore, and CEO of HashKey Capital. HashKey Singapore consists of three business lines, HashKey Capital, HashKey OTC, and HashKey Wealth, with a suite of services including asset management, on/off ramp, digital asset trading services targeting institutions, professional and accredited investors. HashKey Capital invests in the crypto and blockchain industry globally through dedicated funds with more than US$1 billion in client assets under management.Previously, Deng Chao was Managing Director at DataYes and a core founding member of Wanxiang Blockchain Labs. Deng Chao started his career at Bosera Asset Management and has a Master’s Degree from the University of Hong Kong. He most recently joined the Forbes Business Council in 2024.

Dr. David Zou, Director of Frontier Research Center at Shanghai Institute for Finance and Development, Chief Economist of Wanxiang Blockchain.Previously, Dr. Zou was the Chief Economist of Bitmain from 2018 to 2019. Dr. Zou held various positions in China Investment Corporation (CIC) and Nanhu Finance Corporation from 2006 to 2019. Dr. Zou has been an associate research fellow of the People’s Bank of China since 2014. In 2015, Dr. Zou was a winner of the 1st Sun Yefang Prize for Financial Innovation (China’s top prize for economists) and the 5th China Soft Science Prize for his research on fintech. In 2019, Dr. Zou was nominated as one of the "top 10 institutional economists of the year" by China Business Network.  In 2024, Dr. Zou’s book on digital assets won China’s top award for financial books.&nbsp;

Director of Frontier Research Center 

Bruno Grossi is the Head of Emerging Technologies at Inter&amp;Co, specializing in Blockchain/CBDC/DREX, AI, and Quantum Computing. With over 25 years in tech, he has a master’s in Computer Science and is passionate about driving innovation in digital finance and decentralized solutions.

Head of Emerging Technology

Rachel Lin is a co-founder and CEO of SynFutures, a decentralized derivatives trading platform. A veteran of both the TradFi and CeFi markets, Rachel previously worked in the global markets division at Deutsche Bank, where she specialised in derivatives, and co-founded Matrixport, one of Asia’s largest crypto neobanks. Since 2020, she has been working to make crypto derivatives accessible to wider audiences through SynFutures.

As Chief Business Officer, Johann oversees the integration process for developers and protocols looking to build with Chainlink. Projects implementing Chainlink span a vast array of decentralized applications, including decentralized finance (DeFi), NFTs, gaming, insurance, and more. Johann has been involved in shaping the DeFi space through the use of Chainlink since its inception in 2019, when he worked with now-leading DeFi protocols like Aave and Synthetix. He is a firm believer that blockchain technology and hybrid smart contracts are set to revolutionize modern financial systems and our relationships with them.

Chief Business Officer

Gregg Bell currently serves as Senior Vice President at The HBAR Foundation, the venture arm of the Hedera ecosystem. Previously, he was the Head of Growth at Binance.US overseeing listings, lending, staking and new business development. Before that, he co-founded and led the asset management business at A3 Financial Investments and the crypto lending business at Salt Blockchain, where he served as Chief Investment Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Gregg’s entrepreneurial and investment experience spans over 15 years, and bridges traditional finance and digital markets, with roles at two multi-billion dollar hedge funds. At ArrowMark Partners, his responsibilities included investment analysis and trading. He began his career at the hedge fund Silver Point Capital. He also spent a tenure on Wall Street as a trader and investment banker at the Royal Bank of Scotland. Gregg holds a B.S. from the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering.

Jennifer is an influential and insightful financial markets business leader with 30 years’ experience driving innovative business solutions enabled by technology that have enhanced efficiency and performance for global leaders in banking, broking, asset management, and market infrastructure. Her detailed understanding of market and regulatory drivers, and the value and potential impact of new technologies is complemented by a proven ability to accelerate growth through acquisition and partnership in the fintech space.

Advisor

From the early telecom and mobile industries to growing Bitcoin.com as its CEO, Stefan Rust is a recognized global leader in early-tech entrepreneurism. Mr. Rust is focused on the blockchain industry founding Laguna Labs and helping to launch decentralized finance protocols truflation.com and nuon.fi.

CEO & Co-Founder

Kean is the Institutional Relations Lead for Lido Institutional, and is focused on growing adoption of stETH. Previously, Kean was a Sales Director at a portfolio and risk management startup, and was also a member of the direct sales team at ConsenSys for 5 years. He focused on MetaMask Institutional, Infura, CodeFi Staking and ConsenSys Diligence. He has worked in Web3 for 8 years.

Institutional Relations Lead

Jonathan originates, structures and executes tokenisation transactions to raise capital, develop ecosystems and facilitate liquidity. He has a diverse skill set spanning accountancy, corporate and green finance, corporate governance and law.  Jonathan draws upon this to devise tokenised products across a wide range of sectors including real estate, sport, art, technology and natural resources.

Senior Tokenisation Director & Legal Advisor

Julian Gordon is VP, Asia Pacific and Middle East, for the Hyperledger Foundation, the open, global ecosystem for enterprise-grade blockchain technologies hosted at the Linux Foundation. Hyperledger Foundation is a collaborative initiative with leading companies, government agencies and academic institutions. Julian is engaged strategically and practically with business leaders and technologists in Asia Pacific and Middle East, developing key blockchain initiatives. He builds and supports Hyperledger membership and communities and links them with global developments. Julian started his career in London, working in technology in banking at HSBC, Lloyds Bank and Kleinwort Benson where he developed risk management, capital markets and treasury systems. Prior to Hyperledger Foundation he held senior Asia Pacific leadership roles with leading technology companies including HP, Cisco and Sun Microsystems. 

VP, Asia Pacific and Middle East

Rajeev is the Head of Digital &amp; Data for Asia and MENA Region at HSBC Securities Services. He has been with HSBC since 2018 and has been instrumental in pioneering HSBC Securities Services Tokenisation and Digital Assets product capabilities .    In 2023, he has led the HSBC’s efforts in Singapore in expanding tokenisation capabilities into Structured products and Collective Investment Schemes like Funds and ETF’s. Creating institutional grade Infrastructure for tokenisation of collective investment schemes and transforming that to creating tokenised customized personal financial advice continues to be an outcome that he works towards. Rajeev has a keen eye for exploring the effective adoption of emerging technology Capital Markets and Securities Services and focusses on economic implications of emerging technologies on post trade business models. He is a highly impactful leader, who drives and influences change and fosters a high-performance culture through empowerment, coaching, diversity of thought and shared optimism.He has over 25 years of financial services industry experience across India, Japan and Singapore driving innovation. His focus has been on business transformation, and he has deep experience in business domain and technology strategy, transformation, and cost optimization. Rajeev has an MBA from Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. He is an Amy and Richard F. Wallman Scholar at Chicago Booth. He also has a Bachelor of Engineering from BITS-Pilani in India.&nbsp;

Head of Data & Digital, Asia & MENA ; Securities Services

Mr. Thomas Zhu is Head of Digital Assets and Head of Family Office Business at China Asset Management (Hong Kong) where he is responsible for cryptocurrency ETFs, tokenization of real world assets, stablecoin treasury management, and crypto funds. Mr. Zhu is currently serving as a member of Entrepreneurship Committee Advisory Group and vetting judge for Incubation Fund at Cyberport. Previously, he worked as an Executive Director in the Securities Division at Goldman Sachs in New York, Boston, and Hong Kong, where he completed over 100 IPOs and financing deals for various companies. Mr. Zhu also independently managed global equity hedge funds. Since 2022, he has been pursuing a Doctor Degree in FinTech at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and founded the PolyU Digital Asset Think Tank as a visiting scholar. In 2023, he established the Asia RWA Work Group to promote the tokenization of real world assets. Mr Zhu also collaborated with asset tokenization companies, along with several major banks and fund companies in Hong Kong, to develop compliant STO products. Mr. Zhu has been providing advice and product architecture for projects related to wholesale and retail CBDCs and stablecoins to policy makers in Hong Kong and Singapore. 

Head of Digital Assets and Head of Family Office Business 

Benjamin Chodroff is the Group Head of HSBC Lab as part of Emerging Technology, Innovations and Ventures team based in Shanghai, China. He leads research and development on applications in digital ledgers, real world asset tokenization, and Web 3.0. Ben holds multiple patents and publications in server virtualization, metaverse, cloud security, IoT, and the author of Ethereum EIP-4736 on Consensus Layer Withdrawal Protection. He previously has worked at IBM as a software developer, CTO at an IoT startup and a cryptocurrency exchange. He graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a BSE degree in Computer Engineer and minor in music. Ben has been building in the public digital asset ecosystem since adopting bitcoin in 2013, Ethereum in 2017, and helped co-found the global OffChain meetup group where he volunteers classes teaching blockchain basics and smart contract coding classes.

Head of HSBC Lab

⦁	MapleStory Universe, Head of BD/Partnerships 

     ⦁	Nexon Korea⦁	     Intelligence Labs Strategy Development, Team Lead

⦁	     Corporate Strategy and Business Development Manager

⦁	     Global Business Development Manager

⦁	University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business

Head of BD/Partnerships

Alexandre Kech is the CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF).Prior to joining GLEIF, Alexandre Kech was Head Digital Securities at the SIX Digital Exchange. As a member of the Executive Board, Alex had full executive responsibility for the Digital Securities business vertical, including relationship management, product and blockchain-based service development, as well as ecosystem expansion.Over the past 25 years, Alex has constructed a unique career combining finance at BNY Mellon, payments/securities infrastructure and standards at SWIFT, and blockchain and digital assets at Onchain Custodian (ONC) and most recently Citi Ventures. As co-founder and CEO of ONC, Alex led the Singapore and Shanghai-based team that built from scratch a custody and prime brokerage service for crypto and other digital assets. As Blockchain &amp; Digital Asset director at Citi Ventures, he built a team to engage the European ecosystem on emerging use cases for blockchain technologies and digital assets.Alex is also involved in industry and standardization initiatives. As the convenor of the ISO TC 68 / SC8 / WG3 which produced the ISO 24165 Digital Token Identifier (DTI), he is a member of the DTI Foundation Product Advisory Committee. He also recently served as co-chair of the Global Digital Finance (gdf.io) custody working group.Alex earned a Bachelor’s degree in translation, and an Executive MBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology while building Onchain Custodian — putting theory into practice in real-time.

Paul Brody is Global Blockchain Leader for EY (Ernst &amp; Young). Under his leadership, EY is established a global presence in the blockchain space with a particular focus on public blockchains, assurance, and business application development in the Ethereum ecosystem.

Global Blockchain Leader

PhD Joao Paulo Aragao Pereira is currently a Senior Technology and Innovation Specialist for the Financial Services Industry at Microsoft and Innovation. I am mainly focused on the cloud platform (Azure). I have been working with technology since 2001, in which I am a devotee and have always been involved with the Financial Industry and its related projects (applicability). I lead the Drex initiatives in Brazil. He previously worked at Itaú bank and in recent years I have been involved with the hot topics of the Financial Services Industry: anti-fraud, anti-money laundering, Open Finance (Banking, Insurance, Investment), agribusiness, instant payment systems such as PIX, digital currency (CDBC) such as Drex, blockchain, cryptoeconomics, microcredit, payments 4.0, crowdfunding, Web 3.0, DeFi, modernization of legacy systems, proof of life and decentralized digital identity. In recent years, I have worked as a consultant on CBDC, blockchain, Superapp and Open Finance projects in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Canada, India, Italy, Norway, Australia, the United States and other Latin American countries such as Peru and Mexico. I was and am a professor of Big Data and AI at FGV and a tutor at POLI-USP. I graduated from USP-EACH and have a master's degree in Networks-AI/ML and a PhD in Health-AI/ML from POLI-USP. I am also married, have two daughters and volunteer to help homeless people in downtown São Paulo.

Head of Innovation for FSI Brazil: AI and Web3

Scott spent nearly a decade as VP of Cloud Engineering at a publicly traded data warehousing company called Teradata, leading teams and building centralized data warehousing systems. He then founded Space and Time as CTO to build a cryptographically verifiable decentralized data warehouse to power on chain AI and give ZK proven data to smart contracts. Scott has been building in the decentralized space for nearly four years.!

CTO and Co-Founder

Joe Sticco is a Co-Founder and DAO Contributor at Cryptex Finance, a decentralized protocol that has developed the Total Crypto Market Cap Token (TCAP), which allows users exposure to the overall cryptocurrency market, as well as several other Indexes and Markets powered by Chainlink data feeds and low latency oracles. Sticco has a background in trading and investment management, having been involved in the financial sector since he was 19 years old. His vision for Cryptex was to create a product that bridged traditional financial principles with the innovative potential of blockchain and decentralized finance (DeFi)&nbsp;

Zayi Reyes has been immersed in the blockchain industry since 2017. As an Ecosystem Marketing Manager at Chainlink Labs, she works on marketing initiatives for the Build program. Her previous experience includes roles at Unstoppable Domains and MGD DAO, where she contributed to expanding the reach and adoption of decentralized technologies.

Ecosystem Marketing 

I’m the CEO of XSwap and a full-stack blockchain developer with a deep passion for decentralized technologies. I’ve dedicated my career to building and leading projects that push the boundaries of blockchain innovation. At XSwap, I focus on driving the company's mission to transform the DeFi space, leveraging my technical expertise and leadership experience to create solutions that empower users and advance the industry. My goal is to keep XSwap at the forefront of blockchain advancements.

Miguel Morel is a technology entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Arkham, a data analytics company that is deanonymizing the blockchain, backed by Bedrock Capital and founders of Palantir and OpenAI.”

Founder and CEO

Michael is the Head of Solutions Architecture where he leads a team providing security advisory and solutions to top blockchain protocols and financial institutions. Michael has over 10 years of experience as a software architect working on blockchain technologies for Fortune 500 clients and major startups. His recent work includes acting as a Protocol Security Advisor to Compound DAO and contributing to security standards including EthTrust. Outside of OpenZeppelin, Michael educates on blockchain technology as a lecturer at UT Dallas and a public policy advisor as part of the Texas Blockchain Council.

Head of Solutions Architecture

Matt leads the product team at Offchain Labs, contributing to Arbitrum and the broader blockchain ecosystem. Originally from Hilo, Hawaii and previously having worked at Google across consumer products and developer platforms, he cares deeply about building enabling technologies that improve lives.

Product Lead

Laurence Moroney is a globally recognized keynote speaker, best-selling author, award winning researcher, and AI expert.&nbsp;

Chainlink Advisor, former AI Lead at Google

I have been working at Klaytn for 5 years. I have primarily focused on developing Layer 1 blockchain as an engineer during this time. Additionally, I have worked on related tasks such as a scalable key management system using HSM and services for on-chain governance. Currently, I am interested in UX/DX technologies or standards such as chain abstraction. I believe that researching these technologies extensively is essential for making blockchain services accessible to non-web3 users.

VP of Tech

Alexandre is the Regional Head of Institutional Strategy for Asia at Aptos, a secure and scalable layer 1 blockchain. He leads financial services partnerships, RWAs and tokenization efforts in APAC and the Middle East. prior to joining Aptos, Alexandre led cryptocurrency topics at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), covering regulatory, banking and digital asset projects; prior to BCG, Alexandre had a background in financial M&amp;A. Having worked in Paris, London, Beijing, Dubai, and now Hong Kong, Alexandre has a global track record and believes that blockchain technology will be a key facilitator in unlocking the potential of financial institutions, and Aptos is at the forefront of this.

Head of Institutions, APAC

Jeff Ren heads up OKX Ventures, the venture arm of world-leading cryptocurrency platform OKX. He oversees the company’s investment and strategic partnership efforts at large and invests in projects driving crypto adoption through blockchain infrastructure, decentralized applications (dApps), Web3 tools, and more. Jeff is a member of the Leadership Council of Asia for The Nature Conservancy as well as Harvard Law School. Previously, he served as a managing director at CITIC Securities International and an executive director at UBS Investment Bank, among other roles. Jeff holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and is an LL.B. from Peking University.

Partner

Anastasia Golovina is the Senior Communications Manager at Chainlink, the decentralized computing platform powering the verifiable web. Anastasia has a background in journalism and has managed communications for top-tier AI, financial, and blockchain organizations, including Protocol Labs, Ledger, Worldcoin, and SingularityNET, among others. In 2021, Anastasia was recognized by PRWeek as one of the most influential people in technology communications.

Senior Communications Manager

David is a Senior Strategy Manager at Tencent Cloud based in Hong Kong. He led global strategy development in Financial Services and Web3 for Tencent Cloud in APAC and EMEA, including market and policy analysis, ecosystem collaboration, new product go to market, and external communication. Prior to Tencent, David was an experienced strategy consultant at McKinsey Hong Kong.<br>

Senior Strategy Manager

Valter Rebelo is the Head of Digital Assets at Empiricus, a BTG Pactual company with a strong retail focus. Empiricus offers a comprehensive platform for investors, blending educational content with operational tools, such as investment funds, while delivering top-tier research. The company operates two of Brazil's largest financial news portals, Moneytimes and Seu Dinheiro. Valter leads Empiricus' crypto products, which boasts over 150,000 subscribers, making it one of the most influential voices in Brazil's rapidly growing digital assets space.

With 15 years in global asset management and 5 years in crypto, Ran is driven to make financial services simpler and more open through DeFi. He started his career at Freddie Mac in 2006, at the beginning of the Global Financial Crisis. Ran has a Bachelor of Science degree from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from CEIBS. He co-founded Orderly with a mission to bring a centralized exchange experience to DeFi. His passion and experience are key to our mission.

Mike Kuehnel is as a member of the Flow Traders Board and Chief Financial Officer.  Mike has over twenty years of investment banking and strategy consulting experience in the global financial market infrastructure space. 

As a finance professional, Henry lives and breathes technology. His passion is backed by his extensive experience and track record in managing international financial institutions, including various executive positions in Citi, Standard Chartered Bank and East West Bank. “Technology is a powerful enabler. I see in it the huge potential to address many pain points in the current financial system. We are aiming to bridge the gaps between DeFi, CeFi and traditional finance.”

&nbsp;Michael is a former professor of Mathematical Finance at Boston University, where he focused on macro-asset pricing, dynamic portfolio optimization, and stochastic processes. Prior to co-founding Krypton, he worked in quantitative asset management, where he realized that the persistent inefficiencies in markets could be solved with better solutions in DeFi.Michael co-founded Krypton Labs to address these problems and bring about an era of blockchain-native investment management. Krypton’s flagship technology introduces a new exchange primitive to the marketplace: The Fully Continuous Exchange, first ideated by Fisher Black in the 1970s. This mechanism drives down the costs of trading and market making to levels not seen before in finance, opening up the design space for real world assets exchange and a new economics of portfolio management. 

Co-Founder and CEO

Peter co-founded Chainlayer in 2019. Peter is a blockchain veteran and hands-on leader who has grown Chainlayer into the well-respected company it is today. Before founding Chainlayer, Peter worked for large financial institutions such as Rabobank and ING in various roles.

Jeremy is the Co-Founder OpenEden, Asia's largest tokenized T-Bill issuer. Before starting OpenEden, he was the former Asia MD of Gemini, Derivatives Head at Goldman Sachs, and Asia CEO of Leonteq.

Augustine Fan is an experienced professional with over two decades of distinctive track records across Wall Street, Family Offices, Private Equity, and Crypto industries.Prior to joining crypto, Augustine worked for a decade at Goldman Sachs as an US interest rates trader &amp; macro specialist across the firm's global offices.  Following his time on Wall Street, he spent 8 years refining his investment acumen as the CIO for HK-based family offices, covering private equity, credit, real estate, listed vehicles, and majority owned portfolio companies.Augustine is a CFA Charterholder, a Leslie Wong Fellow and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia with First Class Honours.  He has spent considerable years living and working in NY, Toronto, London, Tokyo, Shanghai, and HK, with working command of multiple languages

Jack is the co-founder &amp; CEO of Checker, the core infrastructure that enables the future of financial marketsJack was previously an Entrepreneur In Residence at Whitestar Capital. He built one of the earliest tokenization products under the Swiss DLT Bill framework. He also wrote the Unreal Primer into Real World Assets. which hit 1M+ impressions and is widely read among financial institutions. He is an expert in tokenization designs. Jack holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford.  

Christian is co-founder of QuantAMM, a protocol offering novel on-chain asset management infrastructure for both native crypto users and institutions, partnered with Balancer and Chainlink.Christian has over a decade of finance technology experience, starting at London Stock Exchange and the London Metal Exchange, notably being responsible for development of global precious metals pricing systems. Later at Man Group Christian led efforts to on-board new asset classes, treasury management systems and regulatory compliance. Before moving onto the blockchain industry, Christian was lead technical architect for central order management. Starting QuantAMM in mid 2022 alongside Matthew Willetts, Christian has co-authored numerous research papers on MEV, multi-token arbitrage, dynamic portfolio rebalancing using AMMs and LVR. Christian has participated in regulatory compliance panels and has been a strong advocate for DeFi use cases in institutions, especially asset management.

David Mueller is co-founder and product lead at Theoriq, the AI Agent Base Layer. With over a decade of leadership experience in applied AI and data science, David has extensive expertise in AI products, technology, and services. At Coupang, he directed Global Operations Data Science, improving operational efficiency through AI and machine learning. Before that, David led Product Management for AI Innovation at Teradata, integrating AI capabilities into the company's data products.

Kevin is the co-founder and CEO of Keyrock. Before founding Keyrock in 2017, Kevin worked at Roland Berger, where he spent a few years as a consultant and started investigating the expanding cryptocurrency market in 2014. With a background in Business Engineering and International Management, Kevin is an entrepreneur at heart passionate about using innovative technologies to build efficient markets and increase financial inclusiveness.&nbsp;

I'm the co-founder of DODO and JOJO, a professional team dedicated to building decentralized exchanges. We use Chainlink and have established a strong partnership with Chainlink.

I am the founder of StaFi protocol,  a blockchain maximalist, a visionary in the blockchain space with a product-first approach. I am passionate about exploring and developing cutting-edge technologies that push the boundaries of human life.&nbsp;

After over a decade in academia and in various technical roles, Matthew embarked on the entrepreneurial journey co-founding Simply Staking in 2018, with the vision of “empowering the decentralised world of tomorrow”. Since then, as CEO, he has led the company in becoming a global leader in areas such as blockchain infrastructure provision and development.Navigating a cutting-edge technological landscape as well as a highly fluctuating market, he spearheaded the growth of the company to a 50 person operation across three continents, supporting foundational blockchain projects such as Chainlink, Lido, Polkadot and the Cosmos Hub, and developing core technology such as shared sequencing and cross-chain trading.

MatrixedLink is a leading Web3 Service Provider, established as a Chainlink Node Operator. The team contributes to the Web3 ecosystem by running reliable and robust infrastructure.

Benedetto Biondi is the co-founder and CEO of Folks Finance, a leading DeFi protocol offering innovative crosschain lending, borrowing, trading, and managing digital assets all-in-one place. Benedetto is a mentor in the Algorand Miami and Europe Accelerators, Moonbeam Accelerator, Fin+Tech accelerator, DeFi advisor at Climatecoin, and DeFi lecturer at the course of Economics and Law for Digital Assets at the University of Florence.

Brian is the Co-Founder and Co-Lead of zkLend - zkLend is a leading money market protocol natively built on Starknet, a ZK-rollup L2 on Ethereum. Before starting zkLend, Brian spent over 15 years working in financial markets, investment banking and private equity at major financial institutions, including Bloomberg, Standard Chartered Bank and China Merchants Capital. Having experienced the bottlenecks and pain points of TradFi infrastructure firsthand, he is determined to leverage his knowledge to create decentralized debt capital markets accessible to all on-chain. He is confident in the future of DeFi and excited to contribute to merging the gap between TradFi and DeFi.

Kevin Lepsoe, Founder &amp; CEO ETH Gas / Infinity Exchange - Kevin is the founder of ETH Gas, he previously led Morgan Stanley’s Financial Engineering and Structuring before building a venture-funded tech company. A serial entrepreneur, Kevin was previously Founder and CEO for Web2 companies Chinafy and Notey Labs. 

Raffaele has a decade of experience growing global consumer brands and series A to D tech startups. He is cofounder and COO at 0xScope, a company whose mission is simplifying Web3 by building a universal AI Assistant capable of blurring the lines between Web2 and Web3.&nbsp;

Co-Founder and COO

In crypto since 2013, University of Washington Alumni, currently building Klaster.io - Chain Abstraction protocol. Focused on streamlining Web3 UX. DeFi connoisseur, decentralization enjoyer.&nbsp;

Starting at Agenus in 2018, Josh was integral to the development of one of the first tokenized stocks for a public company, a project recognized by MIT Technology Review and which laid the groundwork for compliant tokenization settings. At State Street Bank, he expanded his work to include ETF tokenization and blockchain-based settlement. In 2021, he founded K Level 1 to apply cutting-edge cybersecurity and smart contract capabilities to both enterprise and startup companies.  Josh is an advisor and architect for NYC Node, which provides a compliant, direct connection to blockchains, serving as a public good for NYC. Additionally, Josh co-founded Lendvest in 2022 with the mission of improving the capital efficiency of blockchain-based lending.

A serial entrepreneur since 2013, and blockchain enthusiast since 2016, Zale has been a supporter of the Chainlink protocol and vision since its inception. A jack of all trades with strengths in data analytics, and protocol design. 

Ryan chowGenZ, Serial entrepreneurDeFi Yield Fund Founder, running a multi-strategyDeFi fund with AUM exceeding $20 million

Passionate advocate for blockchain with extensive experience in tech, startup, venture capital and national development sectors. His remarkable career includes key roles such as Chief Strategy Officer for the Malaysia Digital Economy (MDEC) and early investor in South East Asia’s most prominent fintech and crypto startups. Graduated from 3 prestigious Universities, namely the University College of London, London Business School and also Harvard University.

Tech investor and entrepreneur, having led seed rounds that turned into unicorns. I have invested in crypto since 2012 and been involved in building the Brazilian ecosystem ever since. 

Anthony leads the organization of the Asia's flagship event - Hong Kong FinTech Week, attracting over 35,000 global attendees annually. Since 2015, Finoverse has also orchestrated over 80 FinTech and Web3 conferences across Asia, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. With an MBA focused on entrepreneurship and innovation, Anthony has developed Finoverse into a leading platform for connecting FinTech and Web3 industry leaders from over 130 countries. Anthony also co-founded THE VERSE, a private members community, and FTBL, a FinTech basketball league, to foster community engagement in Hong Kong.

Investment Director at SC Ventures Digital Asset Fund, a $100m digital asset investment vehicle.

Investment Director

Pedro is a seasoned blockchain professional, with significant contributions in the industry. As the Co-Founder &amp; CTO of Zaros Labs, he led the creation of Zaros, a novel perpetual futures DEX powered by permissionless market makers using yield bearing assets. With over five years of experience in blockchain projects, Pedro has also served as the Head of Blockchain for Illuvium, the pioneering AAA crypto game. During his time there, he successfully deployed smart contracts securing over $1 billion of TVL on Ethereum.. 

Seamus McNab is the CTO at Pier Two. Pier Two is an Australian-based, enterprise staking and infrastructure services provider. Established in 2018, Pier Two is now one of the fastest growing Web3 services providers in the APAC region with ISO 27001:2022 certification and over $2B in assets under stake and delegation. Pier Two has supported the Chainlink network since 2019, and now supports other globally leading protocols like EigenLayer, Symbiotic, Solana, NEAR, Polygon, and many more. Pier Two is also building the light client Lantern, and is currently in active grant status with funding from the Ethereum Foundation.&nbsp;

Zach Rynes is a Chainlink Community Liaison and the identity behind ChainLinkGod. Since 2019, Zach has been a leading voice within the Chainlink community, accelerating ecosystem growth by serving as an educational resource and as a bridge between the Chainlink Labs team and the community.

Community Liaison

Chris Brewer, COO of Infinity Exchange has 8 years of Investment Banking focused on Special Situations and Distressed Debt Trading.

Aaron Seabrook is a seasoned leader with over 20 years of experience managing complex technology portfolios in the Financial Services Industry. As the Chief Operating Officer at Marketnode, he spearheads the technical and operational strategy for APAC's newest Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI), which supports credit, funds, and structured products. Over the past 6 years, Aaron has focused on harnessing the transformational potential of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to drive market innovation. His extensive background includes senior roles at Contour, R3, Singapore Exchange, and various leading banks, where he consistently delivered impactful results and market-wide transformations.&nbsp;