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.

Ishan Vishnoi
VP - BCM Product & Operations, Chainlink Labs
Eric Turner
CEO, Messari
Shea Ketsdever
Product Lead, Flashbots
Serena Leung
Head of RWA Tokenization, Polygon Labs
Krzysztof Urbański
Governance & Partnerships Lead, L2BEAT
DavideFi
General Manager, LFJ
Fiona Ma
VP of Growth, Falcon Finance
Brian Foster
Global Head - ETFs | Crypto-as-a-Service | Government, Coinbase
Lorenz Breidenbach
Head of Research, Chainlink Labs
Shyam Nagarajan
Chief Operating Officer, Hedera
Solomon Tesfaye
Chief Business Officer, Aptos
Johannes Göttsch
Head of Strategy & Business Development, LinkPool and stake.link (SDL)
Yuga Cohler
Head of Wallets, Coinbase
Roman Tirone
Head of Build, Senior Manager, Chainlink
Jordan Bregman
Strategic Growth Director, Chainalysis
Johnny Reinsch
Executive Director, Tokenized Asset Coalition
Gerald Gallagher
Host, Crypto in America
Patrick Collins
CEO, Cyfrin
Rodrigo Coelho
CEO, Edge & Node
Ophelia Snyder
CoFounder, 21.co
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
Laszlo Szabo
CEO & Co-Founder, Kiln
Mitchell Demeter
CEO, Sonic Labs
Joe Sticco
Co-Founder, Cryptex Finance
Paul-Adrien Hyppolite
CEO, Spiko
Demian Brener
Founder & CEO, OpenZeppelin
Vivek Raman
CEO, Etherealize
Michael Bentley
Co-founder and CEO, Euler Finance
Jason Lau
Chief Innovation Officer, OKX
Jakov Buratovic
Master of DeFi, Lido
Markus Franke
Founder & CEO, Mento Labs
Nick Ducoff
Head of Institutional Growth, Solana Foundation
Ari Juels
Chief Scientist, Chainlink Labs
Andrew McFarlane
CTO, Validation Cloud
Sergio Mello
Head of Stablecoins, Anchorage Digital
Zayi Reyes
Head of Partner Marketing, Chainlink Labs
Summer Mersinger
CEO, Blockchain Association
Hong Kim
CoFounder & CTO, Bitwise Asset Management
Ben Sherwin
General Counsel, Chainlink Labs
Rayhaneh Sharif-Askary
Managing Director, Head of Product & Research, Grayscale
Johann Eid
CBO, Chainlink
Cody Carbone
CEO, The Digital Chamber
Michaël van de Poppe
Founder & CIO, MN Capital & MN Fund
Eleanor Terrett
Journalist, Host, Crypto In America
Mustafa Al Niama
Head of Capital Markets, Mysten Labs
Frances Edwards
Chief Operating Officer, Avantgarde Finance
Joe Flanagan
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Maple, Maple Finance
Philip Forte
Founder, Elixir
Andy Bohutsky
Founder/CEO, Concero
Torab Torabi
CEO, Move Industries
Fernando Vazquez
President, Capital Markets, Chainlink
Jacquelyn Melinek
Founder, CEO, Token Relations
Sandra Ro
CEO, GBBC
Gabor Gurbacs
CEO, Hadron
Jakob Palmstierna
President, GSR
Dror Gurevich
CEO, Velocity Career Labs
Eliezer Ndinga
Head of Strategy, 21.co

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NOV 4-5, 2025  |  THE METROPOLITAN PAVILION

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Ben Sherwin
General Counsel, Chainlink Labs
Ben Sherwin has been General Counsel at Chainlink Labs since shortly after mainnet launch in 2019. He served as GC at blockchain and FinTech companies after leaving Bank of America's equity capital markets desk in 2012 and, prior to that, ran equity capital markets legal at Merrill Lynch, where he sat on several SIFMA committees and served on the FINRA Corporate Financing Committee. He was trained at Sidley and holds a JD from Boston College Law School, an MA in War Studies from King's College London, and a BA in History from Yale University.