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.

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.

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.