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
G. Daniel (Dan) Doney
Managing Director, Chief Technology Officer, DTCC Digital Assets, DTCC
Nadine Chakar
Global Head of Digital Assets, DTCC
Jonathan Ehrenfeld Solé
Head of Strategy, Swift
Nelli Zaltsman
Head of Platform Settlement Solutions, Kinexys by JPMorgan
Raj Dhamodharan
Executive Vice President, Blockchain and Digital Currencies, Mastercard
Bryan Steil
Congressman, House of Representatives
David Mills
Senior Associate Director, Federal Reserve Board
E. David Burt
Premier of Bermuda, Government of Bermuda
Sergey Nazarov
Co-founder, Chainlink
Stani Kulechov
Founder, Aave Labs
Justin Sun
Founder, TRON
Ed Felten
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Offchain Labs
Nate Holiday
CEO, MakeInfinite Labs
Mark Garabedian
Director of Digital Assets and Tokenization, Wellington
Charles Jansen
Managing Director, Head of DeFi Transformation, S&P Global
Stephanie Lheureux
Head of Digital Assets Competence Center, Euroclear
Jack Pouderoyen
Director, Digital Asset Strategy, Swift
Chris Bruner
Chief Product Officer, Tradeweb
Andrew McCormick
Head of eToro US, eToro
Donna Milrod
Chief Product Officer, State Street
Alex Cordover
Chief Executive Officer, Tradable
Larry Wade
Global Head of Compliance and Regulatory Relations for Crypto, PayPal
Ed Budd
Chief Product Officer, Partior
Marius Ciubotariu
Co-Founder, Kamino Finance
Nathan Allman
Chief Executive Officer, Ondo Finance
Thomas Short
Co-Founder, Kamino Finance
Carlos Domingo
Co-founder & CEO, Securitize
Ben Jones
Co-Founder, Optimism
Rodrigo Coelho
CEO, Edge & Node
Lidia Kurt
CEO, Seturion / BX Digital
Samuel Bisig
CTO, Seturion / BX Digital
Will Peck
Head of Digital Assets, WisdomTree
Jorgen Ouaknine
Global Head of Innovation and Digital Assets, Euroclear
Alireza Dorfard
Managing Director - Head of Market Data + Services, Deutsche Börse Group
Stacy Rosenthal
Head of Payments Platforms, PayPal
Bruno Grossi
Head of Digital Assets, Banco Inter
Max Heinzle
Founder & CEO, 21X
Amar Kuchinad
CEO, Copper Technologies
Stijn Vander Straeten
CEO, Crypto Finance | Deutsche Börse Group
Juan Carlos Reyes
President of CNAD, Government of El Salvador
Kelly Mathieson
Chief Business Development Officer, Digital Asset
Laurens Schepens
Lead UBS Tokenize, UBS
Will Artingstall
Head of Digital Asset Payments and E-commerce Services, Citi
Ryan Rugg
Head of Digital Assets Citi's Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi
David Palmer
CPO, Pairpoint by Vodafone
Aviad Stein
Global Head of Digital Asset Solutions, Broadridge Financial
Cory Pugh
CEO, Bridgetower Capital
Kristen Mierzwa Barrie
Head of Digital Assets, FTSE Russell, an LSEG business
Ankur Prasad
SVP, Head of Bank Product, Capital One
Andrew Moss
Head of Digital Asset Research , Jefferies
Rajeev Bamra
Head of Strategy, Digital Economy , Moody's Ratings
Thomas Cowan
Head of Tokenization, Galaxy
Daniel Coheur
Global Head of Digital Assets and Fund Distribution, APEX Group & Tokeny
Christoph Schneider
Head of IT, GLEIF
Angie Walker
Global Head of Commercialisation, APEX Digital, APEX Group
Alexander Höptner
CEO, AllUnity
Eric Saraniecki
Head of Network Strategy, Digital Asset | Canton
Matthew Sigel
Head of Digital Assets Research, Vaneck
Mark Nichols
Partner Digital Asset Consulting Leader, Ernst & Young (EY)
Maredith Hannon
Head of Business Development, Digital Assets, WisdomTree
Ryan Louvar
Chief Legal Officer and Head of Business and Legal Affairs, Digital Assets, WisdomTree
Sam ten Cate
MD - Head of Digital Strategy, State Street Investment Management
Kathleen Wrynn
Global Head of Digital Assets, Invesco
Kerem Kolcuglu
Digital Finance Advisor / Managing Partner, Government of Bermuda / Penrose Partners
Patrick Collins
CEO, Cyfrin
Torab Torabi
CEO, Move Industries
Edward Woodford
Founder & CEO, zerohash
Michael Bentley
Co-founder and CEO, Euler Finance
Rayhaneh Sharif-Askary
Managing Director, Head of Product & Research, Grayscale
Jason Lau
Chief Innovation Officer, OKX
Lamine Brahimi
Co-Founder, Taurus
Markus Franke
Founder & CEO, Mento Labs
Jacob Phillips
Co-founder, Lombard
Summer Mersinger
CEO, Blockchain Association
Nick Ducoff
Head of Institutional Growth, Solana Foundation
Misha Putiatin
CEO & Co-founder, Symbiotic
Joe Flanagan
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Maple, Maple Finance
Martin Quensel
Co-founder of both, Centrifuge and Anemoy
Gabor Gurbacs
CEO, Hadron
Ophelia Snyder
CoFounder, 21.co
Wormhole Oracle
Founder, LlamaRisk
Alex Gluchowski
CEO / Founder, Matter Labs
Andre Salem
Co-founder & CEO, Cryptum
Kevin Liu
Co-Founder, Metis and GOAT Network
Charles Adkins
CEO, Hedera Foundation
Ji Hun Kim
CEO, Crypto Council for Innovation
Vanessa Fernandes Da Silva
Advisor / Partner, Aeonic Digital
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
Jacquelyn Melinek
Founder, CEO, Token Relations
Ari Juels
Chief Scientist, Chainlink Labs
Alex Zhang
Co-Founder, Pharos
Jeremy Ng
Founder & CEO, OpenEden
Scott Dykstra
CTO and Co-Founder, Space and Time
Michaël van de Poppe
Founder & CIO, MN Capital & MN Fund
Laszlo Szabo
CEO & Co-Founder, Kiln

More SmartCon speakers announced soon…

NOV 4-5, 2025  |  THE METROPOLITAN PAVILION

Where Worlds Converge.

Kim Hochfeld
Global Head of Cash and Digital , State Street Investment Management
Kim Hochfeld, Senior Managing Director, is the Global Head of Cash, Digital and Securities Lending for State Street Investment Management. Kim has responsibility for the design and execution of the firm’s Digital Strategy, as well as the distribution of the firm’s institutional liquidity solutions. She co-chairs the Talent and Learning Council, is a member of the Executive Management Group, the EMEA Executive Committee, and State Street’s senior leadership team.

Prior to her current role, Kim was Head of Liquidity Distribution for EMEA and Asia at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Kim has been involved in the money market fund industry since 2005 and has held several senior-level sales and leadership roles at the Royal Bank of Scotland, Blackrock and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. Prior to this, Kim worked at Bank of America, Bank One, and JP Morgan in London, Geneva and Brussels.

Kim has served two terms as elected Chair of the Board of the Institutional Money Market Fund Association (IMMFA), the industry trade body based in London, and is now serving a third term as a Board member.

Kim holds an MSc from the London School of Economics & Political Science and a BA from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.