SPEAKERS

Frederik has more than a decade experience in Banking, Wealth Management & Asset Management. He is a certified currency trader and digital asset management expert. He advises Regulators, Banks and Asset Managers on how digital business models will impact their sector and how technology such as Blockchain, DLT, Big Data and AI will affect their businesses in the short and medium term.

Frederik Gregaard

Chief Executive Officer,

Cardano foundation

Zurich

Faryar Shirzad formerly served on the staff of the National Security Council at the White House from March 2003 through August 2006, first as a special assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs, and then as deputy assistant to the President and deputy national security advisor for International Economic Affairs.

Faryar Shirzad

Chief Policy Officer,

Coinbase

USA

Alex Mashinsky is an entrepreneur who has founded several notable technology firms in the United States. He founded Arbinet in 1996 as a commodity exchange for telecommunication companies to trade unused long-distance minutes. Mashinsky's' other company, VoiceSmart, was one of the first firms to offer telecommunications switches to handle ordinary voice as well as Voice over IP call routing.

ALEX MASHINSKY

Founder and CEO,

Celsius Network

USA

Furqan Rassul

CEO,

Elite Partner Investment LLC

UAE

Navin Gupta is the Managing Director of South Asia & MENA at Ripple. Navin has extensive experience in global transaction banking, payments and cash management, and strategy planning following nearly two decades working for HSBC and Citigroup across the U.S., Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and India.

Navin Gupta

Managing Director of South Asia and MENA,

Ripple

UAE

Hubertus Thonhauser is Managing Partner of Enabling Future, a family office backed venture capital firm based in Dubai with a portfolio covering US, MENA and Europe.

Hubertus Thonhauser

Partner- Ghaf Capital,

Chairman of the Tezos Foundation

UAE

Dr Marwan, a Crypto Pioneer, is also the CEO of Foresee Payment Services LLC, which is the UAE’s first crypto commodity payment processing company. In February 2018, Dr Marwan founded the region's first crypto over the counter crypto trading desk with the establishment of his company OTC Supply DMCC.

DR. MARWAN ALZAROUNI

CEO,

Dubai Blockchain Center

UAE

Dr Ben is a founder and CEO of SingularityNET, a blockchain-based AI marketplace. He is also the chief scientist of robotics firm Hanson Robotics, Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society and Vice Chairman of the Futurist Nonprofit Humanity.

DR. BEN GOERTZEL

CEO,

SingularityNET

Hong Kong

Austin Alexander

VP,

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

USA

With over 12 years of experience in entrepreneurship, Sumit worked with many high-tech companies and established a track record of helping organisations to expand faster. He is a master of user acquisition product and growth and he is leading the Chingari team to be the next big localized mobile entertainment platform in India.

Sumit Ghosh

CEO & Co-Founder,

Chingari App

Silvina Moschini made history as the first Latin American woman to lead a unicorn company when TransparentBusiness reached a valuation of $1 billion in 2020. Silvina is a serial social impact entrepreneur and has advocated for women’s empowerment by helping them access financial independence through access to funding and investment.

Silvina Moschini

Founder/Chairwoman,

Unicoin

Stanislav is a startup movement enthusiast, digital studio founder and entrepreneur with 10 years of experience in IT, web development and digital marketing. He is an expert in decentralised technology and believes it is a way to change society for the better.

Stanislav Novikov

Founder/CEO,

Paysenger

Hon. Rosie Rios

Senior Advisor,

Unicoin Former Treasurer of the United States

Sumit is a Co-Founder and CEO at CoinDCX upon noticing a vacuum of information and understanding around the cryptocurrency ecosystem in India.

Sumit Gupta

Co-founder and CEO,

CoinDCX

Antoni served as a Member of Bulgaria’s Parliament between 2014 and 2017, advocating for progressive legislation to implement blockchain solutions for e-government services, most notably e-voting and storage of databases in a distributed ledger.

Antoni Trenchev

Co-Founder and Managing Partner,

Nexo

Pablo is an expert in blockchain, Ethereum, digital assets, and NFTs. He has issued more than 10M NFTs over the last 3 years. He is currently helping large-scale organizations and start-ups to step into the NFTs world.

Pablo Valles

Venture and Strategy Architect,

ConsenSys

Igneus is a relentless advocate for transformative innovation and a staunch supporter for progressive regulation on the emerging digital asset class. He is helping to shed light on Bybit’s pursuit of bringing quality products and a fair, transparent and efficient trading environment to retail and professional clients around the globe.

Igneus Terrenus

Head of Communications,

Bybit

Ola Doudin has an engineering background and has worked in tech consulting in a Big4 firm in London. She was also involved in engineering research prior to her moving back to tech entrepreneurship and later started BitOasis in 2015.

Ola Doudin

Co-Founder & CEO,

BitOasis

With over 6 years working in the Middle East, Maite joined LaLiga in 2017. Before being promoted to Managing Director, she was managing different institutional, sport focused and socio-educational projects in the MENA region hoping to grow the business and using football as a developmental sport to achieve these goals.

Maite Ventura

Managing Director for MENA,

LaLiga

Nick is an entrepreneur, crypto enthusiast, and keynote speaker who is regularly featured in the media talking about crypto related issues. He has media appearances including Cheddar, CNBC, Quartz, Investing.com, Nasdaq.com, and CoinTelegraph.

Nick Saponaro

CEO and co-founder,

The Divi Project

Dimitrios is responsible for formulating and driving the Group’s global strategy with particular emphasis on institutional client business, licensing footprint, and regulatory engagement as well as geographical expansion.

Dimitrios Kavvathas

Chief Strategy Officer,

Amber Group

Identified by Forbes magazine as one of the “World’s Top 50 Women in Tech”, Noor's previous roles include CIO at The Dubai Future Foundation, and founder of ZenYoga studio chain (acquired by Cedarbridge). Furthermore, Noor was the first Arab woman to scale, IPO and operate a public company in the MENA region, listing Depa on the NASDAQ Dubai and the London Stock Exchange (DEPA:DU) for US$1.1. billion in April 2008.

Noor Sweid

Founder and General Partner,

Global Ventures

UAE

Jehan Chu is co-Founder and Managing Partner at Kenetic, a blockchain Venture Capital and cryptocurrency trading firm based in Hong Kong. A former front-end developer, he started investing in cryptocurrency in 2013 and has invested and supported over 100 projects. Jehan founded the Ethereum HK community (2014), co-Founded the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong (2014) and founded the Hyperledger HK community (2016).

JEHAN CHU

co-Founder and Managing Partner of Kenetic

Valerie Hawley is currently the General Partner at True Global Ventures. She was working at Sorbonne Centre for Artificial Intelligence (SCAI project), an entity aiming to enhance AI (Artificial Intelligence) capabilities across the Middle East.

Valerie Hawley

General Partner,

True Global Ventures

UAE

Rahul Advani

Policy Director, APAC,

Ripple

Singapore

Ralf Glabischnig is an Austrian entrepreneur and investor. He is active in three business areas, Management Consulting & IT Services, Venture Capital and Venture Building! Together with his business partners he is the founder and main shareholder of 15 companies and invested in more than 40 startups through several venture capital structures.

Ralf Glabischnig

Founder Crypto Oasis,

CV VC

Zurich, Switzerland

Mr. Guarda is regularly featured as “top 1, 5, 10, 20 most influential global personalities by Thinkers360.com and many others' in technology, blockchain, fintech, AI, smart cities, and social media lists.

Dinis Guarda

Founder and CEO of ztudium Ltd; Co-Founder of LynKey & FreedomX,

UK

Jorge comes with 30+ years of ICT experience. He architects practical & business focused solutions using new-age technologies. He is a professional advisor in several innovative startups using disruptive technologies with a focus on generating business value and enabling sustainability.

JORGE SEBASTIAO

Co-Founder & Executive Director,

GBO

UAE

Matthias Sheikh Mende holds 3 board and advisor roles including Marketing Advisor at HYGH AG , Chief Strategic Officer at Block Gemini Technologies , and CEO, Founder at MEMMOS .

Matthias Mende

Founder,

Bonuz

UAE

Tobias is an accomplished and experienced professional with over 20 years’ experience in financial markets and trading. His financial markets experience spans asset classes including; Equities, Metals, Energy and FX, dealing with all categories of market participants including Banks, Hedge Funds, Trading Houses, Producers, Hedgers and Arbitragers.

Toby Young

Chief Investment Officer,

NeoFlow Asset Management

With a background of 6+ years as a software engineer, Constantin also embarked on the serial entrepreneurship journey in 2018. As the co-founder and project coordinator of SeedOn, Constantin has put all his effort, passion, and dreams into building software solutions.

Constantin-Claudiu Minea

Co-Founder & CEO,

SeedOn

Romania

Marloes Pomp

DAO and Metaverse Advisor,

Dutch Blockchain Coalition

Netherlands

Dawid, ex IBM and Microsoft in Europe, is an expert in mathematics, physics, IT, astronomy, economy, modern technologies, and professional investments in various assets such as stocks, bonds, REITs, ETFs, ETNs, cryptocurrency and NFTs.

Dawid Smyk

CTO/COO of LUNI Project,

LUNI | Built on Terra

Poland

Anna is a co-founder and partner of Lex Law Office. She is a leading Fintech lawyer based in Estonia, representing clients worldwide. She has a bachelor’s degree in Taxation from the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences and a master’s degree in Law from the University of Tallinn.

Anna Agu

Partner,

Lex Law Office

Estonia

James is an experienced entrepreneur and investor in the digital assets space who founded DFG in 2015, where he oversees over $1 billion assets under management. He contributes substantially to the ecosystem through capital allocation, donations and actively supporting the Parachain Auctions.

James Wo

Co-Founder, Chairman & CIO,

Digital Finance Group

With a particular focus on blockchain investments and over 30 years of experience across the banking and financial sector, Seier Christensen is a global pioneer in FX and derivatives trading.

Lars Seier Christensen

Chairman,

Concordium

Zurich, Switzerland

Co Founder and CEO Mattias is an experienced Chief Executive Officer and entrepreneur with over 20 years of unique management, business development and marketing experience from telecom and gaming to music and media industries that have all been through radical transformations into digital.

Mattias Tengblad

CEO,

Corite

Tatiana comes with 12+ years of leadership and hands-on experience with a dedicated focus on the commercial banking and fintech sectors. Tatiana’s strong business acumen and proven track record in advising on and executing M&A transactions are key to accelerating Nexo’s market outreach and increased capacity to grow.

Tatiana Metodieva

CFA - Head of Corporate Finance and Investments,

Nexo

Alex comes with 20+ years of experience in IT business development. The serial entrepreneur has a Ph.D. in economic cybernetics.

Alex Borutskiy

Co-Founder,

iMe Lab

Spain

Founder & CEO of Instaraise, Focused on Building DeFi in Tezos Economy. Researcher and Strategy Builder in the Blockchain ecosystem.

Dibyo Majumder

CEO & Co-Founder,

Instaraise

India

Ms. Hefti, CEO of eGovern.com, is a Canadian-Swiss entrepreneur and lawyer qualified to practice law in New York. Currently, her work focuses on advising national governments on how to prepare for, design and implement blockchain-enabled government services to increase citizen engagement and democratic governance, essential counsel to the future of the industry.

Alexia Hefti

Chairman,

Abed Group

UAE

Jens is a German serial entrepreneur, long-serving executive, and a specialist in the international credit card market and other payment methods. He is leading FinXP, a fast-growing paytech serving niche industries experiencing discrimination from traditional financial institutions.

Jens Podewski

Co-Founder & CEO,

FinXP

Germany/Malta

Experienced with an insightful understanding of innovation, Sheraz Ahmed has advised hundreds of startups on the implementation of modern practices to further their business objectives. As the Managing Partner of STORM Partners, an all-in-one solution provider, and as the Co-Executive Director of the Crypto Valley Association, he drives growth, collaboration, and integrity across the global blockchain ecosystem!

Sheraz Ahmed

Co-Executive Director | Head of Business Development,

Crypto Valley Association

Switzerland

Alex has a strong financial background with 15+ years of financial planning, in crypto since 2013. This CFO of Citadel.one. is responsible for the company's financial operation.

Alex Falko

Co-Founder and CFO,

Citadel.one

Marwan Haddad is a passionate crypto enthusiast from Germany and a 10-year veteran entrepreneur. He has also dabbled in the e-commerce space, and has been involved in launching and building 8-figure brands.

Marwan Haddad

CEO,

Katana Inu

Germany

Hamza is a business man, serial entrepreneur, blockchain enthusiast, thinker and problem solver.

Hamza Shamsi

CAO,

Katana Inu

Pakistan

Chris Pace has a cybersecurity career spanning more than 15 years. He works to advocate for exciting emerging technologies that make our digital world safer for all.

Chris Pace

VP Product Marketing,

Coincover

UK

Pavel Aramyan

Product Manager,

Fasttoken

Abdullah has more than 10 years of experience with marketing and 5 years in managing digital communications for one of the leading telecommunications companies in the world. This led him to explore different paths and ideas about how we relate with the digital changes and how we can seize the opportunities brought by the blockchain technology.

Abdullah Ghandour

Founder and CEO,

Empire

With an MA in cognitive sciences, and corporate experience of quantitative market research, she builds data-driven business models for environmental and community-oriented blockchain projects. She Co-founded S21 blockchain community in South East Asia which funds seminars for educational purposes with the industry leaders.

Melisa Kurtcan

Business Development Representative of LUNI Project,

LUNI | Built on Terra

Turkey

Vladimir Protasevich

CEO & Founder,

EZIL

Mark discovered bitcoin in 2012 and quickly became one of the largest crypto OTC market makers, before realizing the need for an exchange and creating Coinfloor. In 2018, Mark created CoinFLEX, the first deliverable crypto futures exchange and launched flexUSD, the only stablecoin to pay interest.

Mark Lamb

CEO,

CoinFLEX

UAE

Joen is passionate for the blockchain industry, she entered the industry from research on mining and later joined The Joint Data as CMO. She is not only a consultant of Lbank exchange, but also an investor and advisor of some NFT, Metaverse projects.

Jo-En Chang

Chief Marketing Officer,

The Joint Data and Cloud Service Group Co.

He is a co-Founder and CTO at Instaraise & Unibase. With 6+ years of Research-oriented technical experience, Aditya is known for his quality leadership. He is an advisor and investor in early-stage startups.

Aditya Gautam

Chief Technical officer,

Instaraise | Angel Investor

Having 7 years of experience in making traditional games and over 2 years of experience in building P2E games and crypto projects over various blockchains, Ahsan is now working on the next-gen metaverse called 'The Cloud City Metaverse', a vision that he has always had and feels proud to finally be working towards making it a reality.

Ahsan Imtiaz

CEO,

The Cloud City Metaverse

Sajeev is an internationally renowned leader in diverse walks of life. He dons several hats with elan - serial entrepreneur, inventor, author, corporate consultant, biohacker, wellness evangelist, motivational speaker, self-help guru as well as a mentor & transformational life coach to tens of thousands of aspiring professionals in diverse fields.

Sajeev Nair

Founder,

Limoverse

Samir leads engagement with policy-makers and strategic partners across MENATP on creating enabling and long-term frameworks for the crypto eco-system.

Samir Satchu

Senior VP – Public Policy & Expansion,

BitOasis

Pavel is an experienced entrepreneur and leader in the payment industry, a successful business developer and investor with significant expertise in e-commerce and IT technology-based businesses, online payment and banking software and technologies, payment cards and alternative payment instruments.

Pavel Maksimov

Founder/CBDO,

Paysenger

James Park has been an avid cryptocurrency investor since 2018 looking mainly at young and promising projects at an Angel/Seed/Venture Stage. He has previously worked in venture capital and private equity investing looking at the technology, healthcare, and consumer verticals at a single-family office based out of Hong Kong.

James Park

Co-Founder,

Revolve Games

Steven Ward has worked in Markets for 7 years. Moving into brokerage and analytics after a few years on the trading floor. Steven has worked in all aspects of trading, from market operations, client management, analytics, through to back-end process management within the Australian regulatory framework.

Steven Ward

CEO,

VyFinance

Australia

Prior to moving into crypto full time Kaylee was at Merrill Lynch on the asset management side. She is also involved in the venture side of crypto, mostly focusing on the DeFi space.

Kaylee Bushell

Chief of Staff,

Decentology

Christian is the CTO of Finvault, a soon to launch Web3 banking platform which enables users to manage both their traditional fiat and non-traditional crypto investments all under one platform. Prior to Finvault, Christian held Cybersecurity leadership roles with Careem (Uber Middle East), Darkmatter and Citi Global Markets.

Christian Papathanasiou

CTO and Co-Founder,

Finvault

Jeremy is the Blockchain visionary who conceptualised the company’s mission and is spearheading development of its product portfolio. Jeremy’s Crypto-evangelism fuels his obsession to assemble and lead a world-class team in crafting new technology that is propelling the Blockchain sector into the mainstream for the benefit of all humankind.

Jeremy

Founder,

Funganomics

A serial entrepreneur, startup junkie and committed investor, Lithuanian-born Pikelis has a strong background in both law and marketing, but chose to delve deeper in business and entrepreneurship, receiving mentorship in management and economics from leaders in the field throughout his education.

Justin Pikelis

President of DIG,

Decentralized

Larry Pang deals with all the projects that want to build on IoTeX, including a significant number of metaverse-centric ones, he has an in-depth understanding of what it is and where it is headed. He has an in-depth understanding of all things crypto and a very strong technical background.

Larry Pang

Head of Business Development and Ecosystem,

IoTeX

Dr. Raullen is an expert cryptographer, privacy and data security expert who before co-founding IoTeX worked at Google, Uber and Oracle. At Google, he led many important security initiatives for its technical infrastructure, including mitigation of SSL attacks, privacy-preserving SSL offloading, enabling Certificate Transparency for all Google services.

Dr. Raullen Chai

Head of Strategy, Co-Founder,

IoTeX

Author of TODA/IP, sits on dozen boards, advises half dozen nations on sustainable design. To date, Toufi built over 15 startups, with 3 exits. authored many algorithms and protocols and enjoys working with large and small organizations as long as focus is added value to end users.

Toufi Saliba

CEO,

Toda Network

Canada

Zach is focused on exploring new ways to expand the company's reach and increase its value. Zach went down the crypto rabbithole while living and working in Korea and he is excited for the prospect of blockchain technology to promote a more borderless world for sharing content and entertainment.

Zachary Keats

Director of Corporate Development,

Fellaz

NITHIN EAPEN

CEO,

Chance River

USA

Mru is a fearless disruptor, serial entrepreneur and a business visionary who leads EXcoin Futures, world's first digital options derivatives platform based on MT4 and with their own proven stablecoin with a trading volume of over $600M in its 1st year.

MRU PATEL

Chairman & Co-founder,

MyTokenized Capital

UK

Cal is perhaps one of the very few international technology lawyers with expertise in ICO compliance and strategy. A law graduate from London, Cal is a UK lawyer and US multi-state litigation expert. In 2016, he left a top California law firm to start Gresham International, a compliance and strategy firm specializing in cryptocurrency.

CAL EVANS

Founder,

Gresham International

UK

Kevin is the founder and CEO of Semper Fortis Esports PLC and GIMA Group Inc., an Alternative Investment Advisory based in Newport Beach, California and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

KEVIN SOLTANI

Founder & Managing Partner,

GIMA Group Inc.

USA

Recky, a crypto enthusiast with great passion for the blockchain industry bringing 4 years of experience. Recky has always strived to give back and contribute to the blockchain and crypto industry, as much as it has contributed to him through his work in XT.com

Recky Yin

Head of Dubai Office,

XT.com Exchange

Since 2015, Eric has helped to consult across 50+ companies ranging from major platforms, exchanges, funds, and projects in the blockchain and fintech space. His expertise has led him to several fundraising successes for more than 6 companies with a total of $48 million+ in funds raised.

Eric Choi

CEO,

Devita

Felix is an expert in DeFi Metaverse, NFTs and decentralized business. He is Co-Founder of Space, a commerce focused Metaverse and Dash Next, an Asia-based business development and partnership unit with the decentralized Dash network. Dash is the leading cryptocurrency for real-life payments. Felix published the “Bitcoin Handbook”.

Felix Mago

Co-Founder of Space, Dash Next,

Futerio

Thailand

Richelle is an experienced concept engineer, specialising in innovative solutions for commercialisation. Richelle’s skills are utilised in the development of strategies to create commercial value, partnerships and revenue pathways.

Richelle Nicols

Founder and CEO,

Nicco Global

Jakub Chmielniak is a young Polish entrepreneur, who proved time and again in a short period of time that all you need to achieve global success is passion, commitment, and perseverance.

JAKUB CHMIELNIAK

CEO,

Fanadise

Ben Jorgensen has over 15 years of business leadership and operational experience, most notably as a three-time founder and angel investor to over 20 early to mid-market companies. Prior to co-founding Constellation and the Lattice Exchange, Ben’s most recent tech entrepreneurial success was being the founding CEO of Klick Push, Inc., and leading the company to a multi-million dollar acquisition in 2015.

Benjamin Jorgensen

CEO,

Constellation Network

Ugur is responsible for the vision, technology and development of Blatform’s BaaS Platforms. Ugur is an engineer, an entrepreneur and a visionary. He has more than 22 years of IT engineering, technology and business development experience.

Uğur İşbuyuran

Founder & CEO,

Blatform

A crypto dabbler and bitcoin mostimalist since 2013, Andrew has worked to help the likes of Abra and LINE set up crypto trading functionality. Currently, he runs the institutional sales team at BitMEX.

Andrew Rizkalla

Head of Client Development,

BitMEX

A thought leader having over 13 years of experience in product development alongside international business in the Asian & Middle Eastern regions. Before a serial entrepreneur career, he held senior positions at growing and established brokerages in the Middle East.

Nitin Jagtiani

CEO & Founder,

Panaroma

Nicole is the Head of Digital Policy at Barclays. She focuses on the impact of FinTech and RegTech related regulation and initiatives including AI and DLT use cases (such as cryptoassets and CBDCs) and also focuses on data policy matters. She regularly engages with policymakers globally including the FCA, BoE, ICO, EC, ECB, EBA, US Fed, CFTC, SEC, BIS, MAS and Japanese FSA.

NICOLE SANDLER

Head of Digital Policy,

Barclays

Antti Arponen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pyypl. He was previously Group COO and Chief Digital Officer of Virgin Mobile Middle East & Africa. Antti has 15 years of experience in CXO roles in the GCC. Prior to that, he was with Yahoo and telecommunications in Europe.

Antti Arponen

CEO,

Pyypl

UAE

Saif Al Naji is an award-winning entrepreneur, co-founder of EcoX Dubai and one of the most reputed media personalities in the Middle East.

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Saif Al Naji

Co-Founder,

EcoX

Dubai