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.

Thomas Zschach
Chief Innovation Officer, Swift
Chris Perry
President, Broadridge Financial Solutions
Nelli Zaltsman
Head of Platform Settlement Solutions, Kinexys by JPMorgan
Bryan Steil
Congressman, House of Representatives
Raj Dhamodharan
Executive Vice President, Blockchain and Digital Currencies, Mastercard
Mark Garabedian
Director of Digital Assets and Tokenization, Wellington
Jonathan Ehrenfeld Solé
Head of Strategy, Swift
Sergey Nazarov
Co-founder, Chainlink
Stani Kulechov
Founder, Aave Labs
Ryan Rugg
Head of Digital Assets Citi's Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi
Aviad Stein
Global Head of Digital Asset Solutions, Broadridge Financial
Stephanie Lheureux
Head of Digital Assets Competence Center, Euroclear
Tom Menner
CTO, SBI Digital Markets
Max Heinzle
Founder & CEO, 21X
Samuel Bisig
CTO, Boerse Stuttgart Digital Assets / BX Digital
Ankur Prasad
SVP, Head of Bank Product, Capital One
Steven Goldfeder
CEO and Co-Founder, Offchain Labs
Justin Sun
Founder, TRON
Lidia Kurt
CEO, BX Digital
David Palmer
CPO, Pairpoint by Vodafone
Ben Jones
Co-Founder, Optimism
Patrick Collins
CEO, Cyfrin
Nate Holiday
CEO, MakeInfinite Labs
Will Peck
Head of Digital Assets, WisdomTree
Summer Mersinger
CEO, Blockchain Association
David Carlucci
Managing Partner, Carlucci Consulting
Will Artingstall
Head of Digital Asset Payments and E-commerce Services, Citi
Jorgen Ouaknine
Global Head of Innovation and Digital Assets, Euroclear
Ophelia Snyder
CoFounder, 21.co
Alex Gluchowski
CEO / Founder, Matter Labs
Kevin Liu
Co-Founder, Metis and GOAT Network
Gerald Gallagher
Host, Crypto in America
Eleanor Terrett
Journalist, Host, Crypto In America
Charles Adkins
CEO, Hedera Foundation
Scott Dykstra
CTO and Co-Founder, Space and Time
Hong Kim
CoFounder & CTO, Bitwise Asset Management
Kristen Mierzwa Barrie
Head of Digital Assets, FTSE Russell, an LSEG business
Joe Sticco
Co-Founder, Cryptex Finance
Juan Carlos Reyes
President of CNAD, Government of El Salvador
Sota Wantanabe
CEO, Startale Labs
Maredith Hannon
Head of Business Development, Digital Assets , WisdomTree
Paul-Adrien Hyppolite
CEO, Spiko
Cody Carbone
CEO, The Digital Chamber
Demian Brener
Founder & CEO, OpenZeppelin
Jacquelyn Melinek
Founder, CEO, Token Relations
Vivek Raman
CEO, Etherealize
Amar Kuchinad
CEO, Copper Technologies
Luca Prosperi
CEO & Co-Founder, M0
Michael Bentley
Co-founder and CEO, Euler Finance
Rajeev Bamra
Head of Strategy, Digital Economy , Moody's Ratings
Mustafa Al Niama
Head of Capital Markets, Mysten Labs
Adam Lawrence
Co-Founder, CEO, RWA.xyz
Frances Edwards
Chief Operating Officer, Avantgarde Finance
Matthew Sigel
Head of Digital Assets Research, Vaneck
Markus Franke
Founder & CEO, Mento Labs
Joe Flanagan
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Maple, Maple Finance
Nick Ducoff
Head of Institutional Growth, Solana Foundation
Philip Forte
Founder, Elixir
Vanessa Fernandes Da Silva
Advisor / Partner, Aeonic Digital
Sergio Mello
Head of Stablecoins, Anchorage Digital
Thomas Cowan
Head of Tokenization, Galaxy
Sandra Ro
CEO, GBBC
Alexander Höptner
CEO, AllUnity
Dror Gurevich
CEO, Velocity Career Labs
Ari Juels
Chief Scientist, Chainlink Labs
Michael del Castillo
Founder and CEO, Media Luna
Cynthia Wu
COO, Matrixport
Nic Roberts-Huntley
CEO & Co-Founder, Blueprint Finance
Wormhole Oracle
Founder, LlamaRisk
Andre Salem
Co-founder & CEO, Cryptum
Jeremy Ng
Founder & CEO, OpenEden
Shea Ketsdever
Product Lead, Flashbots
Ashish Khandelwal
Founder & CEO, Anq
Adam Levi
Co-Founder, Backed Finanace
Ryan Zega
Head of Structured Finance, Aptos
DavideFi
General Manager, LFJ
Jonny Huxtable
CEO and Founder, LinkPool and stake.link (SDL)
Channi Greenwall
Founder & CEO, Olympix
Kubilay Ozcelik
CEO, Matrixed.Link
Peter Van Mourik
Co-founder, Chainlayer
Matthew Felice Pace
CEO, Simply Staking
Andy C
Co-Founder, The Rollup
Shyam Nagarajan
Chief Operating Officer, Hedera
Solomon Tesfaye
Chief Business Officer, Aptos
Eliezer Ndinga
Head of Strategy, 21.co
Kate Laurence
CEO, Founder & General Partner, Bloccelerate VC
Johannes Göttsch
Head of Strategy & Business Development, LinkPool and stake.link (SDL)
Isaac Zarb
Co-Founder and CTO, Simply Staking
Hyung Lee
CEO, B-Harvest
Robbie Morris
Founder, Contract Level
Zale Reeves
Founder, NorthWest Nodes
Clayton Lowery
Co-Founder & CSO, The Network Firm
Johnny Reinsch
Executive Director, Tokenized Asset Coalition
Lou Kerner
Founder, CryptoMondays
Fiona Ma
Protocol Strategy Lead, Falcon Finance
Andrew McFarlane
CTO, Validation Cloud
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

More SmartCon speakers announced soon…

NOV 4-5, 2025  |  THE METROPOLITAN PAVILION

Where Worlds Converge.

Adam Levi
Co-Founder, Backed Finanace
Co-Founder of Backed, issuer of xStocks. Ex CTO@DAOstack. PhD in theoretical physics.