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.

Hyung Lee
CEO, B-Harvest
Serena Leung
Head of RWA Tokenization, Polygon Labs
Zale Reeves
Founder, NorthWest Nodes
Clayton Lowery
Co-Founder & CSO, The Network Firm
Johnny Reinsch
Executive Director, Tokenized Asset Coalition
Lou Kerner
Founder, CryptoMondays
Ben Sherwin
General Counsel, Chainlink Labs
Andrew McFarlane
CTO, Validation Cloud
Sam Fagin
Director, Payments, Polygon Labs
Robbie Morris
Founder, Contract Level
Dr. Axel U. J. Lode
Head of Decentralized Finance, Blocksize
Kevin Zhang
Contributor, DFX
Zubin Pratap
DevRel Engineering Manager, Chainlink Labs
Kenneth Shek
Moca Network Lead, Animoca Brands
Frank Seibold
Global Head Banking & Cap Markets Sales, Chainlink Labs
Zayi Reyes
Head of Partner Marketing, Chainlink Labs
Jake Denny
Chief Commercial Officer, Pier Two
Sam Elfarra
Community Spokesperson, TRON DAO
Gregory Neven
Research Engineer, Chainlink Labs
Ryan Lovell
Director of Capital Markets, Chainlink Labs
Ed Felten
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Offchain Labs
Kostis Karantias
Research Engineer, Chainlink Labs
Aaron Schnarch
Founder and Executive Director, Compound Foundation

More SmartCon speakers announced soon…

NOV 4-5, 2025  |  THE METROPOLITAN PAVILION

Where Worlds Converge.

Thomas Cowan
Head of Tokenization, Galaxy
Thomas Cowan is head of tokenization at Galaxy Digital, a crypto-focused investment bank. In that role, he leverages the firm’s deep financial expertise and tokenization tech stack to structure, design, and place onchain financial products. Before Galaxy, he worked on the strategy team at Paxos focusing on PayPal’s stablecoin, on the CBDC team at Ripple, and on the CBDC team at the Boston Federal Reserve. He holds an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and history from MIT and MBA & MPP degrees from Harvard University.