SPEAKERS

H.E. is an expert in asset management and an influential business leader in the Arab world with connections to various politicians, humanitarians and local dignitaries in the UAE and elsewhere in the world, bringing expertise to promote Dubai and the UAE as a business destination.

H.E. Tomasz Zaleski

Chairman,

The Private Office of H.H. Sheikh Ahmed Bin Faisal Al Qassimi

UAE

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 for South Asia and MENA region,

Ripple

UAE

Serguei is a research mathematician working in the field of Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes. Together with the founder of the Nxt and other people from the Nxt community, he co-founded IOTA in 2015. Currently, Serguei is a BoD member and the director of research at the IOTA Foundation.

Serguei Popov

Founder,

IOTA Foundation

Portugal

Samson is Blockstream's CSO and Pixelmatic's CEO. Blockstream is the leading provider of blockchain technologies, on the forefront of work in cryptography and distributed systems. Samson founded Pixelmatic in 2011 to create engaging games that are truly social and encourage new connections to be made.

Samson Mow

Chief Strategy Officer,

Blockstream

Canada

In 2017, Sandeep Co-founded Polygon (Previously Matic Network) which went to becoming India's first billion dollar Blockchain Startup. Currently, he onboards decentralised applications to achieve scalability and faster transactions while fueling user adoption for Polygon and its based dApps.

Sandeep Nailwal

Co-Founder,

Polygon

India

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, 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

Alex is one of the inventors of VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) and is the founder of eight startups and three Unicorns. Alex has raised more than $1.5B with over $3B+ in exits, 50+ patents, and now leads the Celsius team with over $25B in crypto assets.

Alex Mashinsky

Founder and CEO,

Celsius Network

USA

An advisor to most of the leading crypto exchanges, investors, financial institutions and tech firms on their FinTech and crypto initiatives as well numerous governments, regulators and central banks on Fintech and crypto regulatory and policy matters.

Henri Arslanian

PwC Crypto Leader,

Hong Kong

Omar leads the corporate strategy and development for Binance in the MENA region. He brings in 15 years of knowledge in working with multiple funds as a commodities trader.

Omar Rahim

MENA Director,

Binance

UK

Alex became a pioneer of digital asset trading as The Börse Stuttgart exchange became Germany’s first regulated trading venue for cryptocurrency and the European Union’s first traditional exchange operator to become a regulated crypto multilateral trading facility.

Alex Höptner

CEO,

100x Group and BitMEX

Germany

Metakovan is an entrepreneur, coder, and angel investor in blockchain technology. He is also a DeFi OG, a true blockchain native, a Y-Combinator alumnus and a digital nomad.

Metakovan

Financier,

Metapurse

Singapore

In 2016, Jess founded Uberstate, a global banking as a service platform for businesses and consumers. He developed a fully regulated platform for the automation of liquidity in digital currency and assets alike. Global enterprise partnerships include the leading brands and market makers in the space.

Jess Davis

Founder and CEO,

Uberstate Inc.

Canada

Spanos is a pioneer in the bitcoin and blockchain technology space. In 2013, Spanos founded Bitcoin Center NYC - the world's first-ever cryptocurrency trading floor, which initially opened directly across from the NYSE in 2013. Recently, Spanos was featured in the recent Netflix documentary Banking on Bitcoin.

Nick Spanos

Bitcoin Pioneer,

USA

An advocate of economic freedom through crypto tech, Vays is an independent content creator, blockchain and financial advisor who runs channels on several online platforms, where he delivers Bitcoin updates, projections, and life lessons in the context of Bitcoin and crypto.

TONE VAYS

Crypto Influencer, Derivatives Trader,

Consultant

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

Founder and Chairman, MyTokenized.Capital |
Board Member, Royal Family Office of Sheik Ahmed Bin Al Qassimi

UK

Kate Vass Galerie is the first physical gallery in the world, headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, which specialises in art and technology (blockchain, crypto, AI). KVG is a pioneer gallery, whose mission is to link traditional and digital art.

Kate Vass

Founder,

Kate Vass Galerie

Switzerland

Before transitioning into digital assets, Ms Huang advised private equity funds, US corporates and hedge funds on structured solutions and risk management as an FX structurer at Deutsche Bank and Nomura in New York.

Annabelle Huang

Partner,

Amber Group

Hong Kong

Jakob is the Global Head of Product and Business Development at GSR and oversees the firm’s business development teams. He is also responsible for product development and co-head of the firm’s investment activities.

Jakob Palmstierna

Global Head of Product and Business Development,

GSR

UK

A Researcher and Founder of Gaugecash, Manuel has over 18 years of experience in the Finance Industry, in particular, Trading, Venture Capital, Investment Banking, Liquidity Providers, Tech, and Innovation.

Manuel Blanco

Founder,

Gaugecash

Mexico

David is the Founder and General Partner at OP Crypto, a venture capital fund that invests in the most promising blockchain entrepreneurs. Prior to founding OP Crypto in 2021, David served as a senior executive at Huobi Global for three years.

David Gan

Founder & General Partner,

Op Crypto

New York

Kristina is a passionate communicator promoting innovations, translating them into simple languages and helping visionaries to be heard.

Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr

Managing Editor,

Cointelegraph

Italy

Neeraj Khandelwal is the co-founder of CoinDCX, India’s largest and safest cryptocurrency exchange and liquidity aggregator. A highly skilled engineer with a keen understanding of blockchain and emerging technologies, Neeraj spearheads the technical development of all the CoinDCX products.

Neeraj Khandelwal

Founder,

CoinDCX

India

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

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 the cryptocurrency.

Cal Evans

Founder,

Gresham International

UK

Twobadour went from working as a journalist and GTM strategist in financial technology to virtual shopping with artists as the Steward of Metapurse, the world’s largest NFT fund.

Twobadour

Steward,

Metapurse

India

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

Jorge Sebastiao

Co-Founder & Executive Director,

GBO

UAE

Jack is an 11-year veteran executive from Morgan Stanley, where he worked as the MSET BXS global development leader before departing to co-found Phemex. Jack’s primary area of expertise is in building high throughput, low latency, large scale algorithm trading platforms both in C++ and Java.

Jack Tao

CEO,

Phemex

Singapore

Howard has nearly 25 years of banking, structured finance, and treasury management experience and specialized in the pricing of fixed income securities and complex financial instruments.

Howard Krieger

Co-Founder and CEO,

unFederalReserve

USA

Baral is a token advisor with over a decade of experience in Trading & Finance. He has helped over 20 projects create the most efficient strategies to achieve their desired goals.

Baral Andrey

Senior Business Development Manager,

Coin Liquidity Solutions

Russia

Vinor is a marketing veteran, experienced in helping projects at the early stages to create and implement marketing strategies and conducted successful fundraising campaigns.

Zukhubaya Vinor

Head of Marketing,

Coin Liquidity Solutions

Russia

Jocelyn is an entrepreneur and a tech enthusiast, currently leading MakerDAO's business in the APAC region. She is passionate about embracing new technologies that make the world a better place.

Jocelyn Chang

APAC Growth Lead,

MakerDAO Growth Core Unit

Singapore

Omar comes with 10+ years of overseas market experience in Huawei. He has wrote 10+ patents, and currenly leads ZB.com, which within 7+ years, went on to become a top 4 exchange in Asia, with best Liquidity in QCash Market.

Omar C

CEO,

ZB.com

Singapore

Piyush is a seasoned trade finance professional, highly experienced entrepreneur, blockchain enthusiast and angel investor focusing on investing and building disruptive businesses creating impact.

Piyush Gupta

Polytrade Finance,

Founder & CEO

UAE

Jordan is a Founder of Revomon project, an exciting new online RPG that combines an incredible, immersive virtual-reality experience with the ground-breaking technology behind NFTs. This synergy allows for the creation of real value in a virtual world by leveraging blockchain technology.

JORDAN IETRI

Co-Founder and CEO,

Revomon

Belgium

Jane is a pioneer for Blockchain & digital technologies for social impact, education and empowerment of women. She is focused on emerging economies and how Frontier Technologies can accelerate poverty reduction and improve service delivery.

Jane Thomason

Co-Founder,

British Blockchain and Frontier Technology Association

Australia

Mauro is an entrepreneur and an aviation industry veteran with over 2 decades of experience. He is also the founder of Fast Private Jet Srl and Fast Private Jet Corp in New York City.

Mauro De Rosa

Founder & CEO,

Fast Private Jet

Italy

Irina is a leading cryptocurrency and blockchain lawyer based in Dubai and Switzerland representing clients worldwide. She is highly regarded internationally for her extensive experience and deep technical knowledge of blockchain, smart contracts and cryptocurrency matters.

Irina Heaver

Partner - Blockchain & Digital Assets - Keystone Law ME,

Switzerland

Nikita Sachdev is an Indian-American serial entrepreneur and investor. Nikita has had a keen interest in multiple industries, yet found her passion in the Crypto and Blockchain space in 2017, after working for the crypto giant, Huobi.

Nikita Sachdev

CEO and Co-founder,

LunaPR

USA

As Co-Founder of Dash NEXT & Dash Thailand, Felix is pioneering to enable and scale crypto payments on all verticals with a cooperative approach, involving partners all over the world. This is one reason why Dash is the leading cryptocurrency for real-life payments.

Felix Mago

Co-Founder of Space & Dash Next,

Dash NEXT

Thailand

A serial entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in media, marketing and technology, who is helping brands tap into peer-to-peer recommendations and digital publishers monetize their platforms in a user-friendly way through word-of-mouth content.

Melanie Mohr

CEO & Founder,

WOM Protocol

Singapore

İsmail founded ByteDex Technologies founded in Estonia at the year of 2020 to facilitate in the field of Crypto Currency trading. ByteDex holds 3 European Union approved Crypto Currency trade licenses where ByteDex is the owner of Byte Exchange, Byte Wallet and ByteChain.

Ismail Koseoglu

CEO,

Bytedex

Turkey

Maker of things awesome, Executive and Lean-Agile coach, blockchain nerd, people motivator, Deloitte Consulting alum, digital hipster, business professional and kid at heart, Cyrus is an accomplished entrepreneur with leadership, strategy, and business execution expertise in e-commerce, digital marketing, Lean-Agile dev, and blockchain.

Cyrus Taghehchian

CEO,

Splyt Core Foundation

USA

Ajeet wears many hats; author, angel investor, mentor, TEDx speaker, steering committee of the NASSCOM Start-Up Warehouse, ex-advisor to Kalaari Capital, and former CEO of IIT Bombay’s business incubator, among others. Recently he was also part of the team that created the TV show, 'The Vault.'

Ajeet Khurana

Advisor,

Several

India

A Technology and Business Architect, building Vent Finance in the Blockchain DeFi Space for decentralized funding for high-growth potential projects.

Lucas Mateu

Co-Founder & COO,

Vent Finance

France

Autodidact, cypherpunk, entrepreneur, and prolific open-source software author with 20+ years of professional software engineering experience and the creator of the Unlicense.

Arto Bendiken

CTO,

Aurora labs

Gibraltar

Vladislav is the Head of Business Development at LocalBitcoins. He develops new products and services, establishes partnerships, and creates community and event marketing strategies for the brand.

Vladislav Alimpiev

Head of Business Development,

LocalBitcoins

Finland

A Liechtenstein attorney and a leading advisor to international finance, technology and industrial enterprises, operating in the fields of Blockchain/DLT, telecommunications and internet, as well as public institutions.

THOMAS NÄGELE

Attorney at Law, Mag. iur., LL.M., Managing Partner,

NÄGELE Attorneys at Law LLC

Liechtenstein

Founder of akt.io, a London fintech startup enabling users to create wealth through automated investing, earn daily interest payouts using the world’s first Wealth Card.

GAEL ITIER

CEO and Founder,

akt.io

UK

Nick is a dedicated proponent of the founding principles of the crypto movement as set out by its originator Satoshi Nakamoto, he is working towards the delivery of a new paradigm for financial services. One that is truly decentralized, accessible to all, and works for everyone.

Nick Saponaro

CEO and Co-Founder,

The Divi Project

USA

Rodrigo is the architect of the contract and has a deep pedigree in technology, owning his own technology company in London. MUNCH Project was devised and developed by Rodrigo Silva, to make it the world's leading charity cryptocurrency.

Rodrigo Silva

Chief Executive Officer,

MUNCH

UK

Serial technology entrepreneur with 9+ years of experience building scalable tech ventures; leading product and development teams, selling to and co-developing products with Fortune 100 customers, raising capital from global professional investors.

Josipa Majić

Co-Founder and SVP of Strategy and Communications,

Revuto

Croatia

Albert Hild is a managing director, serial entrepreneur in software technology and also into crypto since 2016. He has over 20 years of experience in building internet businesses.

Albert Hild

Management Board Member,

Mondo Gate AG

Germany

Sai is a Founder of Coinovy, a one-stop to buy, send, trade, exchange, shop, and cash out. Designed with crypto beginners in mind and with advanced capabilities users grow. Coinovy has a vision to simplify fintech, by allowing Crypto to Fiat (C2F) transactions done instantaneously and with ease.

Sai Tej

Co-Founder,

Coinovy

UAE

Sergei is a parallel entrepreneur, blockchain expert, co-owner of a group of blockchain and cryptocurrency companies, founder of the biggest listing agency in the crypto market, Listing.Help.

Sergei Khitrov

Founder and CEO,

Listing.Help and Blockchain Life

Russia

Remy is the creator of the FFPB, The French Federation of Blockchain Professionals. He believes in merging Blockchain technology with real-world economy. Blockchain technology is the space where his previous experiences, education and belief intersect.

REMY OZCAN

Managing Director of Crypto4All and President of French Blockchain Federation

France

As a graduate of the SGH Warsaw School of Economics and an entrepreneur, Krzysztof's professional life revolves around blockchain. He was also the president of the academic organization Blockchain Society SGH.

Krzysztof Bochenek

CEO,

Adshares

Poland

Jacek has been interested in distributed ledger since 2011. He saw a huge potential in blockchain and wanted to create his own. His ambition was to develop a ledger that would be much more efficient and safer than the other blockchains that were around.

Jacek Zemło

CTO and Co-Founder,

Adshares

Poland

An entrepreneur, world explorer, and motivator, Igor is also a long-time dedicated early childhood development expert who sees that digital education is something we can give future generations so they can live happier, healthier, and better quality lives.

Igor Dyachenko

CEO and Co-Founder,

Studyum

Singapore

A consultant in the financial services sector, Jassem has over 10 years’ experience in investment management, having previously held positions at Rocket Internet, a European Internet company; and PHD, a company under the Omnicom Media Group umbrella, a global advertising conglomerate.

Jassem Osseiran

COO and Partner,

Semper Fortis Esports PLC & GIMA Group, Inc.

UAE

Santos is a serial entrepreneur and a financial and crypto influencer passionate about developing products with clear protocols and licenses that contribute to the global blockchain ecosystem's sustainable and legal growth.

Daniel Santos

CEO,

Woonkly Labs

Spain

Yehia is an entrepreneur who is passionate about digital currencies. He is also the co-founder of Rain, the first licensed cryptocurrency platform in the Middle East, licensed by the Central Bank of Bahrain.

Yehia Badawy

Co-Founder,

Rain

Egypt

James Sung is an international tech entrepreneur specialising in blockchain, consumer electronics, public relations, and marketing.

JAMES SUNG

Co-Founder,

CVN

USA

Anuj is a visionary IT leader and Blockchain evangelist working on leading technologies for the last 20 years. He is currently working on developing an end-to-end Blockchain-based technology solution in the medical domain. ​

Anuj Kumar Garg

MAH Healthcare

India

A technopreneur with a decade of experience, who is transforming OOH advertising with blockchain technology, to allows advertisers and consumers to benefit from outdoor advertisements in a decentralized way. ​

Petar Hristov

CEO,

Powerad Global LTD

North Macedonia

With an international academic background, in 2020, Vittoria brought her passion for international travel to Fast Private Jet, an emerging leader in the business aviation sector and one of the first companies to embrace cryptocurrency. ​

Vittoria Dini

Global Client Manager,

Fast Private Jet

Italy

Bruce has brought together world leaders developing the first digital asset fund out of Dubai. He is the CEO at GlobalBoost and Founder at Washington Elite, a global media and events agency.

Bruce Porter Jr

CEO & Founder,

GlobalBoost

USA

Jonathan is an experienced business leader in Silicon Valley and he is currently the CTO of Vacay Finance and Medabot.

Jonathan Delucia

Chief Technology Officer,

Vacay Finance and Medabots

USA

Zaidoun has vast experience in the financial sector, including statement audits, IT audits and internal audits across several projects based in Australia and New Zealand.

Zaidoun Al-Owbydi

CEO,

Sphynx Swap

New Zealand

RICH ROSENBLUM

Co-Founder,

GSR

USA

Saif 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

UAE