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.

Sean Chung
Blockchain Partnerships, APAC Lead, Chainlink Labs
Shaz Jaleel
Head of MENA - BD, Chainlink Labs
Zachary Fallon
Global Co-Chair of the Digital Assets & Web3 Practice, Latham & Watkins
NOV 4-5, 2025  |  THE METROPOLITAN PAVILION

Where Worlds Converge.

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Fernando Vazquez
President, Capital Markets, Chainlink Labs
Fernando Vázquez is President, Capital Markets, Chainlink. He is an open-source software industry veteran with over twenty years’ experience across technology innovation and governance, capital markets, and digital assets. He serves on the boards of regulated financial institutions and foundations globally and is a member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s International Technology Advisory Panel. Prior to joining Chainlink Labs, Fernando was CEO of SBI Digital Asset Holdings, part of the TSE-listed financial conglomerate SBI Group.

Fernando’s early career began in academia, where he first became deeply involved in the budding Linux community. This led him to the corporate world with a number of roles at the NTT Group, eventually becoming a founding member and technical director of NTT’s Open Source Software Center, where he built a team that made major contributions to open source projects that underpin modern cloud and Internet services.