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
Patrick Witt
Executive Director, President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, The White House
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
Chris Zuehlke
Partner/Global Co-Head, DRW/Cumberland
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
Raj Dhamodharan
Executive Vice President, Blockchain and Digital Currencies, Mastercard
Jack Pouderoyen
Director, Digital Asset Strategy, Swift
Donna Milrod
Chief Product Officer, State Street
Chris Bruner
Chief Product Officer, Tradeweb
Andrew McCormick
Head of eToro US, eToro
Alex Cordover
Chief Executive Officer, Tradable
Larry Wade
Global Head of Compliance and Regulatory Relations for Crypto, PayPal
Ed Budd
Chief Product Officer, Partior
Lidia Kurt
CEO, Seturion / BX Digital
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
Samuel Bisig
CTO, Seturion / BX Digital
Stacy Rosenthal
Head of Payments Platforms, PayPal
Juan Carlos Reyes
President of CNAD, Government of El Salvador
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
Matthew Horne
Head of Digital Asset Strategists, Fidelity
Bruno Grossi
Head of Digital Assets, Banco Inter
Kelly Mathieson
Chief Business Development Officer, Digital Asset
Max Heinzle
Founder & CEO, 21X
Amar Kuchinad
CEO, Copper Technologies
Stijn Vander Straeten
CEO, Crypto Finance | Deutsche Börse Group
Ryan Rugg
Head of Digital Assets Citi's Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi
Laurens Schepens
Lead UBS Tokenize, UBS
Will Artingstall
Head of Digital Asset Payments and E-commerce Services, Citi
David Palmer
CPO, Pairpoint by Vodafone
Aviad Stein
Global Head of Digital Asset Solutions, Broadridge Financial
Kristen Mierzwa Barrie
Head of Digital Assets, FTSE Russell, an LSEG business
Cory Pugh
CEO, Bridgetower Capital
Chuck Mounts
Managing Director, S&P Global
Ankur Prasad
SVP, Head of Bank Product, Capital One
Andrew Moss
Head of Digital Asset Research , Jefferies
Rajeev Bamra
Global Head of Digital Economy Strategy, 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
Maredith Hannon
Head of Business Development, Digital Assets, WisdomTree
Christoph Schneider
Head of IT, GLEIF
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)
Aqsa Zubair
Assistant Director, FinTech, Bermuda Monetary Authority
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
Owen Lau
Managing Director, Clear Street
Jim Hiltner
Co-Founder, Head of Business Development, Superstate
Patrick Collins
CEO, Cyfrin
Kathleen Wrynn
Global Head of Digital Assets, Invesco
Rayhaneh Sharif-Askary
Managing Director, Head of Product & Research, Grayscale
Fernando Vazquez
President, Capital Markets, Chainlink
Torab Torabi
CEO, Move Industries
Rodrigo Coelho
CEO, Edge & Node
Edward Woodford
Founder & CEO, zerohash
Michael Bentley
Co-founder and CEO, Euler Finance
Jason Lau
Chief Innovation Officer, OKX
Lamine Brahimi
Co-Founder, Taurus
Markus Franke
Founder & CEO, Mento Labs
Summer Mersinger
CEO, Blockchain Association
Jacob Phillips
Co-founder, Lombard
Nick Ducoff
Head of Institutional Growth, Solana Foundation
Ophelia Snyder
CoFounder, 21.co
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
Alex Gluchowski
CEO / Founder, Matter Labs
Vanessa Fernandes Da Silva
Advisor / Partner, Aeonic Digital
Apurva Joshi
Chief Product Officer, Chainlink Labs
Wormhole Oracle
Founder, LlamaRisk
Andre Salem
Co-founder & CEO, Cryptum
Kevin Liu
Co-Founder, Metis and GOAT Network
Jacquelyn Melinek
Founder, CEO, Token Relations
Charles Adkins
CEO, Hedera Foundation
Ji Hun Kim
CEO, Crypto Council for Innovation
Channi Greenwall
Founder & CEO, Olympix
Johnny Reinsch
Executive Director, Tokenized Asset Coalition

More SmartCon speakers announced soon…

NOV 4-5, 2025  |  THE METROPOLITAN PAVILION

Where Worlds Converge.

Frances Edwards
Chief Operating Officer, Avantgarde Finance
Avantgarde is pioneering the future of DeFi asset management through the curation of vault strategies that fully harness the power of blockchain technology to activate idle assets on chain.

Currently driving transformation and scale; as COO Frances sets the pace and ‘makes things happen’.

She brings over 20 years of experience leading businesses at the forefront of innovation in the new product/ new market/ new asset class domains.

She is a technical specialist in financial product structuring across; DeFi vault curation, funds (private and public (ETF, ETCs, ETPs)), segregated mandates, structured products and derivatives.

Prior to moving into crypto and DeFi she worked across Tier 1 banks and asset managers holding leadership roles at BlackRock and Barclays.