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


Kelly Mathieson
Chief Business Development Officer, Digital Asset


Chris Bruner
Chief Product Officer, Tradeweb


Andrew McCormick
Head of eToro US, eToro


Ryan Rugg
Head of Digital Assets Citi's Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi


Alex Cordover
Chief Executive Officer, Tradable


Larry Wade
Global Head of Compliance and Regulatory Relations for Crypto, PayPal


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


Ed Budd
Chief Product Officer, Partior


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


Lamine Brahimi
Co-Founder, Taurus


Laurens Schepens
Lead UBS Tokenize, UBS


Will Artingstall
Head of Digital Asset Payments and E-commerce Services, Citi


Donna Milrod
Chief Product Officer, State Street


Kathleen Wrynn
Global Head of Digital Assets, Invesco


David Palmer
CPO, Pairpoint by Vodafone


Maredith Hannon
Head of Business Development, Digital Assets, WisdomTree


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


Vanessa Fernandes Da Silva
Advisor / Partner, Aeonic Digital


Andrew Moss
Head of Digital Asset Research , Jefferies


Rajeev Bamra
Head of Strategy, Digital Economy , Moody's Ratings


Angie Walker
Global Head of Commercialisation, APEX Digital, APEX Group


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


Alexander Höptner
CEO, AllUnity


Michael del Castillo
Founder and CEO, Media Luna


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)


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


Kerem Kolcuglu
Digital Finance Advisor / Managing Partner, Government of Bermuda / Penrose Partners


Misha Putiatin
CEO & Co-founder, Symbiotic


Edward Woodford
Founder & CEO, zerohash


Martin Quensel
Co-founder of both, Centrifuge and Anemoy


Wormhole Oracle
Founder, LlamaRisk


Andre Salem
Co-founder & CEO, Cryptum


Felix Bengtsson
Founder, Planet Ix


Isaac Zarb
Co-Founder and CTO, Simply Staking


Hyung Lee
CEO, B-Harvest


Zale Reeves
Founder, NorthWest Nodes


Clayton Lowery
Co-Founder & CSO, The Network Firm


Lou Kerner
Founder, CryptoMondays


Mathias Lundoe Nielsen
Founder & CEO, EntravelX


Sam Fagin
Director, Payments, Polygon Labs


Kevin Rusher
CEO, RAAC


Theo Fields
GP, Bloccelerate VC


Alex Bowman
CEO, Voyager


Charles Cao
Founder, Swan Chain


Yonathan Lapchik
CEO, SukuPay


Michael So
Co-Founder & CEO, Tokenyze


Dr. Axel U. J. Lode
Head of Decentralized Finance, Blocksize


Stephen Wink
Global Co-Chair of Fintech Industry Group, Latham & Waktins
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Hannah Yang
Co-Founder, TerpLayer


Luca Curan
Head of AI / DePIN, Base, Coinbase


Surendra Kalidindi
Co-Founder, COO & CTO, Hadron by Tether | Pointsville


Kevin Zhang
Contributor, DFX


Zubin Pratap
DevRel Engineering Manager, Chainlink Labs


Sunil Sachdev
SVP, Embedded Finance and Digital Assets, Fiserv


Matthew Fisher
Institutional Lead, Katana


Kenneth Shek
Moca Network Lead, Animoca Brands


Zeki Ulu
Technical Lead, Llama Risk


Will Nuelle
General Partner, Ventures, Galaxy


Adam Minehardt
Head of Public Policy, Chainlink Labs
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NOV 4-5, 2025 | THE METROPOLITAN PAVILION