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.

Andre Salem
Co-founder & CEO, Cryptum
Kevin Liu
Co-Founder, Metis and GOAT Network
Jacquelyn Melinek
Founder, CEO, Token Relations
Ji Hun Kim
CEO, Crypto Council for Innovation
Johnny Reinsch
Executive Director, Tokenized Asset Coalition
Aaron Schnarch
Founder and Executive Director, Compound Foundation
Jakov Buratovic
Master of DeFi, Lido
Dan Silverman
Co-CEO, Balcony
Ari Juels
Chief Scientist, Chainlink Labs
Channi Greenwall
Founder & CEO, Olympix
Alex Zhang
Co-Founder, Pharos
Jeremy Ng
Founder & CEO, OpenEden
Scott Dykstra
CTO and Co-Founder, Space and Time
Eleanor Terrett
Journalist, Host, Crypto In America
Michaël van de Poppe
Founder & CIO, MN Capital & MN Fund
Laszlo Szabo
CEO & Co-Founder, Kiln
Rhett Shipp
CEO, Avant
Sogol Malek
Founder CEO , XTreamly
Mitchell Demeter
CEO, Sonic Labs
Joe Sticco
Co-Founder, Cryptex Finance
Andra Nicolau
Co-Founder, LYS Labs
Paul-Adrien Hyppolite
CEO, Spiko
Noah Buxton
CEO, The Network Firm
Ashish Khandelwal
Founder & CEO, Anq
Demian Brener
Founder & CEO, OpenZeppelin
Sandra Ro
CEO, GBBC
Vivek Raman
CEO, Etherealize
Austin Przybysz
Co-founder and Chief Builder, Instruxi
Ben Weiss
Crypto Reporter, Fortune
CJ
CEO, XSwap
Victor Lee
Founder, Maiga.ai
Jillian Friedman
COO, Symbiotic
Christian Pusateri
CEO/Co-Founder, Mind Network
Austin Arnold
Founder, Altcoin Daily
Vijay Pravin Maharajan
Founder and CEO, bitsCrunch
Christian Harrington
Co-Founder, QuantAMM
Frances Edwards
Chief Operating Officer, Avantgarde Finance
Aaron Arnold
Host/Founder, Altcoin Daily
Michael del Castillo
Founder and CEO, Media Luna
Robbie Morris
Founder, Contract Level
Karen Ottoni
Senior Director of Ecosystem & Strategic Initiatives, LF Decentralized Trust
Pritam Dutta
Founder & CEO, Zoth
Mathew Harrowing
Co-Founder, Instruxi
Eric Turner
CEO, Messari
Patrick Delaney
CEO, Ampli Technologies
Benedetto Biondi
CEO, Folks Finance
Jonny Huxtable
CEO and Founder, LinkPool and stake.link (SDL)
Ben Forman
Founder & Managing Partner, ParaFi Capital
Solange Gueiros
DevRel Education Manager, Chainlink Labs
Kubilay Ozcelik
CEO, Matrixed.Link
Peter Van Mourik
Co-founder, Chainlayer
Shea Ketsdever
Product Lead, Flashbots
Jake Loo
CTO, thirdweb
Bill Lee
Co-Founder & CEO, DualMint
Matthew Felice Pace
CEO, Simply Staking
Fiona Ma
VP of Growth, Falcon Finance
Rich King
Co-founder, RPS AI
Andy C
Co-Founder, The Rollup
Ilan Klein
Founder, NFT Bridges
Serena Leung
Head of RWA Tokenization, Polygon Labs
Mike Grantis
Co-Founder & CEO, General TAO Ventures
James Wright
CEO, Multisynq
Ryot Seo
Co-Founder, Xitadel
Joshua Gottlieb
CEO & Founder, Lendvest
Corey Caplan
CTO of World Liberty Financial, World Liberty Financial
Amy Hang
Chainlink Advocate, Chainlink Community Volunteer
Edwin Mata
CEO & Co-Founder, Brickken
Felix Bengtsson
Founder, Planet Ix
Isaac Zarb
Co-Founder and CTO, Simply Staking
Danielle Tamasi
Product Manager, CCIP, Chainlink Labs
Vladimir Novakovski
Founder & CEO, Lighter
Zale Reeves
Founder, NorthWest Nodes
Clayton Lowery
Co-Founder & CSO, The Network Firm
Mathias Lundoe Nielsen
Founder & CEO, EntravelX
Kevin Rusher
CEO, RAAC
Artiona Bogo
Global Head of Solutions Architecture, Chainlink
Alex Bowman
CEO, Voyager
Charles Cao
Founder, Swan Chain
Yonathan Lapchik
CEO, SukuPay
Zayi Reyes
Head of Partner Marketing, Chainlink Labs
Michael So
Co-Founder & CEO, Tokenyze
Hannah Yang
Co-Founder, TerpLayer
Surendra Kalidindi
Co-Founder, COO & CTO, Hadron by Tether | Pointsville
Cody Carbone
CEO, The Digital Chamber
Bogdan Habic
Co-Founder and CTO, Tenderly
Eman Herawy
Founder, Arabs in Blockchain
Benjamin S.P.
Founder, Cap
Johann Eid
CBO, Chainlink
Philip Forte
Founder, Elixir
Kylie Poole
Head of UK Sales & Partnerships, Chainlink Labs
Sunil Sachdev
SVP, Embedded Finance and Digital Assets, Fiserv
Oleg Kron
Co-Founder, CTO, Concero
Gabriel Otte
Co-Founder and CEO of Dinari, Dinari
Andy Kangpan
Co-Founder and General Partner, Metalayer
Dennis O'Connell
President, ERC-3643 Association
Ashley O'Brien
Customer Engagement Strategist, Banking and Capital Markets, Chainlink Labs
Andrew McFarlane
CTO, Validation Cloud
Hong Kim
Co-Founder and CTO, Bitwise Asset Management
Nick Stoev
Founder, Mellow
Simran Singh
CEO and Co-Founder, Monaco Research
NOV 4-5, 2025  |  THE METROPOLITAN PAVILION

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E. David Burt
Premier of Bermuda, Government of Bermuda
Premier the Hon. E. David Burt, JP, MP, is Bermuda’s 13th and youngest Premier when he was elected to the Government of Bermuda’s highest office at the age of 38.

Premier Burt graduated from Florida Air Academy, where he earned his private pilot’s license as a teenager. He is also an alumnus of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he graduated cum laude and received a Bachelor of Business Administration with a double major in Finance and Information Systems.

Premier Burt was initiated into the Nu Beta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated in the Spring of 1998. He was awarded the George Washington University Presidential Administrative Fellowship and received his Master of Science in Information Systems Development in 2003. Mr. Burt attained a Project Management Professional certification in 2009.

As an entrepreneur, in 2004, upon returning to Bermuda, Premier Burt started GMD Consulting Limited, an IT consulting company focusing on project management. He served as president from its inception until 2016, when he stepped down upon being appointed leader of the opposition. Premier Burt co-founded HITCH Limited and was the lead developer for the award-winning HITCH Mobile App, enabling Bermuda residents to hail taxis.

As the leader of the Bermuda Progressive Labour Party since 2016, he has led his party to three landslide election victories in 2017, 2020, and 2025.

Since winning his first election and becoming Premier of Bermuda, he has led a Government with a progressive agenda of fairness, opportunity, and innovation. Under his leadership, the Progressive Labour Party Government has implemented transformational reforms that include the establishment of Bermuda’s first-ever statutory minimum wage, decriminalizing cannabis for personal possession, reducing payroll taxes on hardworking Bermudians to the lowest levels in the island’s history, while increasing taxes for high earners.

His Government has taken measures to ensure that Bermudians are supported, including increasing funding for professional development for teachers and scholarships for students, making a record investment in affordable housing, launching a Mortgage Guarantee Programme, reducing down payment and interest costs for first-time homeowners, and increasing seniors’ pensions seven times in line with the rate of inflation.

This has all been done while Premier Burt has worked tirelessly to position Bermuda as a global leader in digital finance and delivered Bermuda’s first budget surplus in over two decades last year.

In the past, Premier Burt has served on the Bermuda Tourism Board, National Training Board, as a Director of the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce and has been a Director of the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation.
Premier Burt and his wife Kristin have been married since 2012 and have two beautiful children, Nia and Edward.