Global Leaders
Speakers
SmartCon brings together the world’s leading voices in finance, Web3, and government to share firsthand insights on how blockchain and onchain technologies are transforming industries, institutions, and the global economy—sparking critical conversations that chart the course of an onchain future.


Thomas Zschach
Chief Innovation Officer, Swift


Chris Perry
President, Broadridge Financial Solutions


Nelli Zaltsman
Head of Platform Settlement Solutions, Kinexys by JPMorgan


Bryan Steil
Congressman, House of Representatives


Jonathan Ehrenfeld Solé
Head of Strategy, Swift


Raj Dhamodharan
Executive Vice President, Blockchain and Digital Currencies, Mastercard


David Mills
Senior Associate Director, Federal Reserve Board


Mark Garabedian
Director of Digital Assets and Tokenization, Wellington


G. Daniel (Dan) Doney
Managing Director, Chief Technology Officer, DTCC Digital Assets, DTCC


Stephanie Lheureux
Head of Digital Assets Competence Center, Euroclear


Charles Jansen
Managing Director, Head of DeFi Transformation, S&P Global


Sergey Nazarov
Co-founder, Chainlink


Stani Kulechov
Founder, Aave Labs


Aviad Stein
Global Head of Digital Asset Solutions, Broadridge Financial


Stacy Rosenthal
Head of Payments Platforms, PayPal


Max Heinzle
Founder & CEO, 21X


Sam ten Cate
MD - Head of Digital Strategy, State Street Investment Management


Larry Wade
Global Head of Compliance and Regulatory Relations for Crypto, PayPal


Samuel Bisig
CTO, Seturion (designated) / BX Digital


Ankur Prasad
SVP, Head of Bank Product, Capital One


Ed Felten
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Offchain Labs


Justin Sun
Founder, TRON


Nathan Allman
Chief Executive Officer, Ondo Finance


Lidia Kurt
CEO, Seturion (designated) / BX Digital


David Palmer
CPO, Pairpoint by Vodafone


Marius Ciubotariu
Co-Founder, Kamino Finance


Thomas Short
Co-Founder, Kamino Finance


Ben Jones
Co-Founder, Optimism


Nadine Chakar
Global Head of Digital Assets, DTCC


Ryan Rugg
Head of Digital Assets Citi's Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi


Rodrigo Coelho
CEO, Edge & Node


Patrick Collins
CEO, Cyfrin


Ed Budd
Chief Product Officer, Partior


Nate Holiday
CEO, MakeInfinite Labs


Donna Milrod
Chief Product Officer, State Street


Will Peck
Head of Digital Assets, WisdomTree


Summer Mersinger
CEO, Blockchain Association


David Carlucci
Managing Partner, Carlucci Consulting


Will Artingstall
Head of Digital Asset Payments and E-commerce Services, Citi


Jorgen Ouaknine
Global Head of Innovation and Digital Assets, Euroclear


Andrew Moss
Head of Digital Assets Research, Jefferies


Alex Gluchowski
CEO / Founder, Matter Labs


Kevin Liu
Co-Founder, Metis and GOAT Network


Charles Adkins
CEO, Hedera Foundation


Aaron Schnarch
Founder and Executive Director, Compound Foundation


Scott Dykstra
CTO and Co-Founder, Space and Time


Ophelia Snyder
CoFounder, 21.co


Hong Kim
CoFounder & CTO, Bitwise Asset Management


Laszlo Szabo
CEO & Co-Founder, Kiln


Joe Sticco
Co-Founder, Cryptex Finance


Kathleen Wrynn
Global Head of Digital Assets, Invesco


Lamine Brahimi
Co-Founder, Taurus


Kristen Mierzwa Barrie
Head of Digital Assets, FTSE Russell, an LSEG business


Juan Carlos Reyes
President of CNAD, Government of El Salvador


Johann Eid
CBO, Chainlink


Gerald Gallagher
Host, Crypto in America


Eleanor Terrett
Journalist, Host, Crypto In America


Angie Walker
Global Head of Commercialisation, APEX Digital, APEX Group


Daniel Coheur
Global Head of Digital Assets and Fund Distribution, APEX Group & Tokeny


Maredith Hannon
Head of Business Development, Digital Assets, WisdomTree


Paul-Adrien Hyppolite
CEO, Spiko


Cody Carbone
CEO, The Digital Chamber


Demian Brener
Founder & CEO, OpenZeppelin


Vivek Raman
CEO, Etherealize


Amar Kuchinad
CEO, Copper Technologies


Michaël van de Poppe
Founder & CIO, MN Capital & MN Fund


Martin Quensel
Co-founder of both, Centrifuge and Anemoy


Andy Bohutsky
Founder/CEO, Concero


Fernando Vazquez
President, Capital Markets, Chainlink


Jacquelyn Melinek
Founder, CEO, Token Relations


Luca Prosperi
CEO & Co-Founder, M0


Michael Bentley
Co-founder and CEO, Euler Finance


Rajeev Bamra
Head of Strategy, Digital Economy , Moody's Ratings


Mustafa Al Niama
Head of Capital Markets, Mysten Labs


Frances Edwards
Chief Operating Officer, Avantgarde Finance


Matthew Sigel
Head of Digital Assets Research, Vaneck


Markus Franke
Founder & CEO, Mento Labs


Joe Flanagan
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Maple, Maple Finance


Nick Ducoff
Head of Institutional Growth, Solana Foundation


Vanessa Fernandes Da Silva
Advisor / Partner, Aeonic Digital


Philip Forte
Founder, Elixir


Sergio Mello
Head of Stablecoins, Anchorage Digital


Thomas Cowan
Head of Tokenization, Galaxy


Sandra Ro
CEO, GBBC


Alexander Höptner
CEO, AllUnity
.webp)

Torab Torabi
CEO, Move Industries


Gabor Gurbacs
CEO, Hadron


Dror Gurevich
CEO, Velocity Career Labs


Jakob Palmstierna
President, GSR


Austin Przybysz
Co-founder and Chief Builder, Instruxi


Ari Juels
Chief Scientist, Chainlink Labs


Michael del Castillo
Founder and CEO, Media Luna


Cynthia Wu
COO, Matrixport


Nic Roberts-Huntley
CEO & Co-Founder, Blueprint Finance


Ben Forman
Founder & Managing Partner, ParaFi Capital


Edward Woodford
Founder & CEO, zerohash


Wormhole Oracle
Founder, LlamaRisk


Andre Salem
Co-founder & CEO, Cryptum


Jeremy Ng
Founder & CEO, OpenEden


Shea Ketsdever
Product Lead, Flashbots
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NOV 4-5, 2025 | THE METROPOLITAN PAVILION