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
E. David Burt
Premier of Bermuda, Government of Bermuda
Joseph Lubin
Founder & CEO, Consensys
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
David Mills
Senior Associate Director, Federal Reserve Board
Mark Garabedian
Director of Digital Assets and Tokenization, Wellington
Donna Milrod
Chief Product Officer, State Street
Charles Jansen
Managing Director, Head of DeFi Transformation, S&P Global
Jack Pouderoyen
Director, Digital Asset Strategy, Swift
Chris Bruner
Chief Product Officer, Tradeweb
Lidia Kurt
CEO, Seturion / BX Digital
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
Nicola White
VP of Crypto Institutions, Robinhood
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
Kelly Mathieson
Chief Business Development Officer, Digital Asset
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
Max Heinzle
Founder & CEO, 21X
Amar Kuchinad
CEO, Copper Technologies
Ryan Rugg
Head of Digital Assets Citi's Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi
Stijn Vander Straeten
CEO, Crypto Finance | Deutsche Börse Group
Kristen Mierzwa Barrie
Head of Digital Assets, FTSE Russell, an LSEG business
Chris Brummer
CEO, Bluprynt
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
Cory Pugh
CEO, Bridgetower Capital
Chuck Mounts
Managing Director, S&P Global
Angie Walker
Global Head of Commercialisation, APEX Digital, APEX Group
Mike Foy
Chief Financial Officer, AMINA Bank
Dan Phillips
Markets Digital Asset Product, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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
Maredith Hannon
Head of Business Development, Digital Assets, WisdomTree
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
Sarah Hammer
Managing Director, Charles Schwab
Michael Orzano
Head of Exchange Products and Digital Assets, S&P Dow Jones Indices
Alexander Höptner
CEO, AllUnity
Anna-Naomi Bandi-Lang
Digital Asset Structuring, UBS Investment Bank
Giovanni Vicioso
Global Head of Cryptocurrency Products, CME Group
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
Fernando Vazquez
President, Capital Markets, Chainlink Labs
Torab Torabi
CEO, Move Industries
Rodrigo Coelho
CEO, Edge & Node
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
Summer Mersinger
CEO, Blockchain Association
Jacob Phillips
Co-founder, Lombard
Ophelia Snyder
Co-Founder, 21.co
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
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
NOV 4-5, 2025  |  THE METROPOLITAN PAVILION

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E. David Burt
Premier of Bermuda, Government of Bermuda
Premier the Hon. E. David Burt, JP, MP, is Bermuda’s 13th and youngest Premier when he was elected to the Government of Bermuda’s highest office at the age of 38.

Premier Burt graduated from Florida Air Academy, where he earned his private pilot’s license as a teenager. He is also an alumnus of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he graduated cum laude and received a Bachelor of Business Administration with a double major in Finance and Information Systems.

Premier Burt was initiated into the Nu Beta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated in the Spring of 1998. He was awarded the George Washington University Presidential Administrative Fellowship and received his Master of Science in Information Systems Development in 2003. Mr. Burt attained a Project Management Professional certification in 2009.

As an entrepreneur, in 2004, upon returning to Bermuda, Premier Burt started GMD Consulting Limited, an IT consulting company focusing on project management. He served as president from its inception until 2016, when he stepped down upon being appointed leader of the opposition. Premier Burt co-founded HITCH Limited and was the lead developer for the award-winning HITCH Mobile App, enabling Bermuda residents to hail taxis.

As the leader of the Bermuda Progressive Labour Party since 2016, he has led his party to three landslide election victories in 2017, 2020, and 2025.

Since winning his first election and becoming Premier of Bermuda, he has led a Government with a progressive agenda of fairness, opportunity, and innovation. Under his leadership, the Progressive Labour Party Government has implemented transformational reforms that include the establishment of Bermuda’s first-ever statutory minimum wage, decriminalizing cannabis for personal possession, reducing payroll taxes on hardworking Bermudians to the lowest levels in the island’s history, while increasing taxes for high earners.

His Government has taken measures to ensure that Bermudians are supported, including increasing funding for professional development for teachers and scholarships for students, making a record investment in affordable housing, launching a Mortgage Guarantee Programme, reducing down payment and interest costs for first-time homeowners, and increasing seniors’ pensions seven times in line with the rate of inflation.

This has all been done while Premier Burt has worked tirelessly to position Bermuda as a global leader in digital finance and delivered Bermuda’s first budget surplus in over two decades last year.

In the past, Premier Burt has served on the Bermuda Tourism Board, National Training Board, as a Director of the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce and has been a Director of the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation.
Premier Burt and his wife Kristin have been married since 2012 and have two beautiful children, Nia and Edward.