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2024 SPEAKERS

KEYNOTE
Anthony Di Iorio
Founder,
Ethereum, Decentral, Andiami
Dean Skurka
President & CEO,
WonderFi (TSX: WNDR)
Mike Silagadze
Co-Founder & CEO
ether.fi
Perianne Boring
Founder & CEO,
The Digital Chamber
Keynote
Ari Juels
Chief Scientist, Chainlink Labs,
Professor, Cornell Tech
The Honourable Dale Nally
Minister of Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction,
Government of Alberta
Pegah Soltani
Head of Payments Products,
Ripple
Lucas Matheson
CEO,
Coinbase Canada
Tyler Spalding
Acronym Foundation
Ronghui Gu
Co-Founder,
CertiK
Lani Dizon
Co-Founder & President
Zenza Capital
Dan Nuñez Cohen
Vice President, Policy and Regulatory Affairs
Crypto.com
Betty Sharples
Head of Business Development,
Truflation
Silvina Moschini
Founder, Unicoin Inc.,
CEO, Unicorns Inc.
Corbin Fraser
CEO,
Bitcoin.com
Dustin Walper
Founder & CEO,
Newton
Aaron Schnarch
Chief Operating Officer,
Anchorage Digital
Jelena Djuric
CEO
Noble
Dr. Rocky Tung
Director & Head of Policy Research,
Financial Services Development Council, Hong Kong
Scott Sigel
COO, Helium
Charlie Aikenhead
SVP Communications
WonderFi (TSX: WNDR)
Claire Ching
Head of Institutional,
Gemini
KEYNOTE
Toufi Saliba
CEO,
HyperCycle.ai
Alex Tapscott
Best-Selling Author,
Charting the Internet's Next Economic and Cultural Frontier
Camila Russo
Founder
The Defiant
Kartik Bajaj
VP of Engineering,
WonderFi
Shingai Manjengwa
Head of AI Education
Theoriq
Christopher "CJ" Johnson
President, Lightspeed Crypto Services, LLC
Developer, Bad Idea AI
Suzanne Lasrado
Vice-President, Member Services & Innovation
Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO)
Mark Greenberg
Global Head of Asset Growth & Management,
Kraken
Ron Chan
Co-Founder,
Inference Labs Inc.
Ben-Zion Benkhin
CEO,
WOMBO
Lisa Loud
Co-Founder, FLUIDEFI
Executive Director, Secret Network Foundation
Adam Cai
Founder & CEO,
Virgo Group
Annelise Osborne
Author, From Hoodies to Suits: Innovating Digital Assets for Traditional Finance
Chief Business Officer, Kadena
Shagufta Sayani
Senior Manager
Ernst & Young LLP
Claire Brownell
Reporter,
The Logic
Mansoor Madhavji
Partner, Blockchain Founders Fund
Trevor Koverko
Co-Founder, Sapien
Maral Nouri
COO
Luna Media Corporation
Didier Lavallée
CEO,
Tetra Trust
Patrick Dunlop
CEO,
Jackal Labs
Tomisin Jenrola
Founder,
HiveNetwork.ai
Amanda Wick
Founder & CEO
Association for Women in Cryptocurrency
Adam Benzine
Creator, RUINED MASTERPIECES,
Oscar®-Nominated Filmmaker
Shana Derman
Sr. Manager Quality and Integrations,
Figment
Usman Sheikh
Partner (Head of Blockchain & Fintech Practice)
Baker Mckenzie LLP
J.D. Seraphine
CEO, Raiinmaker
Ashley Nandan
Account Executive
Google Cloud Canada
Taras Kulyk
Co-Founder & CEO,
Synteq Digital, Inc.
Andrew Weiner
Vice President,
WEEX Global
Pamela Draper
President & CEO,
Pateno Payments Inc.
Anthony Diaz
Founder & Chairman,
Zenza Capital
Roger Huang
Author, Bitcoin Magazine Books
Contributor, Forbes
Frank Mathis
Co-Founder & CEO
GenesysGo
Koleya Karringten
President, Blockchain Insurance Inc.,
Executive Director, Canadian Blockchain Consortium
David Shafrir
Co-Founder & CEO,
Secure Digital Markets
Alex McDougall
CEO, Stablecorp Inc
Phillip Alexeev
Chief Growth Officer,
CrossFi
Morva Rohani
Executive Director
Canadian Web3 Council
Pavel Sinelnikov
DevRel Lead, ZKM
Billy Goodman
Community Manager,
Sharbi DAO
Alain Roberto Berwa
Co-Founder & CTO,
Seal
Haley Cromer
Blockchain Evangelism
Head of Developer Relations, CrossFi
Funk
Marketing Advisor,
K9 Finance
Florent Thévenin
Founder & CEO,
Blockchain North
Michael Rabkin
Global Head of Business Development,
DV Chain
John Brownlee
Chief Information Officer
Zenza Capital
Jeffrey Milligan
Global Head of Partnerships,
Cointelegraph
Regan McGrath
CEO & Managing Partner,
Metrics Chartered Professional Accounting Inc
Christopher Chen
Head,
Invest Hong Kong Canada
Jordan Anderson
Head of Sales & OTC Trading
Newton
Sam Bourgi
Senior U.S. News Editor
Cointelegraph
Nataliya Hearn
Director, CryptoChicks
David Thompson
Director of Business Development
Zenza Capital
Aaron Grinhaus
International Tax Lawyer,
Grinhaus Law Firm
Mo Yang
Founding Partner & CFO
Convoy Finance
Robert Balazs
CEO
Bytex
Breeze Liu
Founder & CEO, Alecto AI
Partner, HiBlock
Mostafa Al-Mashita
Co-Founder & Director of Sales and Trading,
Secure Digital Markets
Christian Sauer
Founder,
soonami.io
Payne Cong
Head of BD
ElphaPex Miner
Scot Johnson
President & CEO,
Digital Shovel
Reflex
Founder & CEO
MicroGPT
Tigran Rostomyan
Founder,
AML Incubator
Ben Thalman
Ethereum Specialist,
Figment
Michael Grills
Product Director,
WORLD3
Jason Goodman
CEO
TeamSpark
Joeri Billast
The Web3 CMO
Efficado
Jamie Jung
Marketing Director, QuarkChain,
Co-Founder, Women in Web3 Korea
Stas Zlobinski
Co-Founder, Hedgie.io
Founder, Goat Gallery
Albert Liang
Founder & CEO,
Bitcoin Startup Lab
Joseph Iuso
Global Regulatory Affairs,
KYC2020 LLC
Souzan Esmaili
Founder & CEO,
TCAE
Christopher Obereder
Investor,
Startup Chris Ventures
Javier Arroyo Ferrer
Partner, Quantum Leap Labs
Co-Founder, ICP HUB Canada & US
Nahid Rahman
Training Team Lead,
TCAE
Renato Capelj
Managing Director,
Benzinga
Amber Scott
Co-Founder & CEO,
Outlier Compliance Group
Dann Toliver
CTO, HyperCycle
Josh Scott
Reporter
BetaKit
Ritvick Paliwal
Partner
Quantum Leap Labs Inc
Athika Fatima
Technical Incubation Manager, Quantum Leap Labs
Community Manager, ICP Hub Canada & US
Stephen Sargeant
Founder, Airdropd
Jason Dominique
Co-Founder & CEO,
Embr Labs
Julie Lamb
Head of Events, CryptoOracle Collective and CryptoMondays
Founder, NFT-vip.io
Emmanuel Jacquier
Product Manager,
Chainlink Labs
Wayne Chen
CEO, EukaPay
Sheereen Khan
CEO,
Regulativity
Papi $CHOO
CEO,
Chooky Records
Juan Castano
Partnerships Manager,
EukaPay
Anton Umnov
Co-Founder & CEO,
Helika
Kunal Bhasin
Partner & Co-Lead, Digital Asset CoE
KPMG
Michael Terpin
Founder & CEO, Transform Group
Author, Bitcoin Supercycle
Varvara Markina
Chief Design Officer
BeInCrypto
Jonathan G. Blanco
Founder & CEO
Niftmint
Liza Horowitz
Chief Operating Officer
Sophiaverse.ai
Jonathan Keim
Director of Communications, IBN
Andy Friedheim
Project Manager,
Shib CoOp
Audrey Nesbitt
Co-Founder & CEO,
Bloomly
Maxwell Nicholson
Co-Founder & CEO
Blossom Social
Vlad Avesalon
Core Team/Newsletter Lead
ETHChicago
Justyna Osowska
Founder,
Women in Blockchain Canada
kenn bosak
Brand Ambassador
Asvoria.io
Marcie Jastrow
Web3 Evangelist
Bryce Patrick
Co-Founder,
Ethereum Attestation Service
Nick Emmons
Co-Founder & CEO,
Allora Labs
Walter Woodman
Director,
shy kids
Ashley Stanhope
Founder & CEO,
Hardfork Media
Leonard K. Fiadzinu
Co-Founder & CEO,
Bitcoin Bay
Emma Todd
CEO
MMH Technology Group
Jacob Kirmayer
Technical Researcher,
Ethereum Attestation Service
Jyro Blade
Product Lead
PlayFi
Jenni Rogers (CryptoQueen)
Co-Founder, Shibwomen
Long Do
CEO,
Anomaly Games Inc.
Ashley Wright
Founder,
Fem T3ch
Andrei Poliakov
Founder & CEO
APX Lending
Rhonda Eldridge
Founder & CEO
Harness All Possibilities
Randall Baran-Chong
Lead Steward, NorthstarDAO,
CEO, BizBridge
Rodney MacInnes
COO & AML Compliance Ninja,
Outlier Solutions Inc.
Cindy Zhang
Financial Services Regulatory Lawyer,
McCarthy Tétrault
Ceara Crawford
Business Operations,
Arrow Markets
Aaron "Carl" Lewis
Comms Lead
ETHChicago + Craft The Future
Chris Sandico
Founder,
Professor Meta's Academy
Dina Mainville
Founder & President,
Collisionless
Estrella Li
Head of Marketing and Business Development,
CryptoChicks
S. Dirk Anderson
Founder & Chief Strategist,
Imagine Crypto, LLC
Dakota Barnett
Founder
InvArch Network
Maheen Aqeel,
Artist & Educator,
Founder, The Journey Studio
Jesse Abramowitz
Lead Protocol Developer
Entropy
Debra Nita Ravindran
Senior Crypto PR Strategist
YAP Global
Godfrey Jonas
Founder & CEO
Owujupe Inc.
Tiara Nicole
Engagement Lead, ETHChicago,
Co-Founder, Craft The Future
Rob
Founder
Cryptoducation.com
Jacqueline Cooper, JD
CEO,
Blockchain Legal Institute & Blockchain Legal Institute Foundation
Brian Breslow
Core Contributor
Dora Factory
Rime Salmi
Founder,
fractl
Josh McDougall
President, Slow Ninja
May Mahboob
Co-Founder,
MBD Financials
Nausher Rao
President & Founder,
HawkHacks
Susie Wang
Head of BD,
TARS Protocol
Shayan Eskandari
C4, CEP Chair

PAST SPEAKERS

Vitalik Buterin
Founder, Ethereum
Anthony Di Iorio
Founder
Andiami, Decentral, Ethereum
Michele Romanow
"Dragon”, CBC Dragons’ Den
Co-Founder & Exec Chairman, Clearco
Charles Hoskinson
CEO & Founder, IO Global
Ethan Buchman
Co-Founder of Cosmos
CEO of Informal Systems
The Hon. Michelle Rempel Garner, P.C.
Member of Parliament for Calgary Nose Hill
Dean Skurka
CEO, Wonderfi
Shytoshi Kusama
Focus: Big Picture Shiba Inu
VIA A.I. & MV
Tanim Rasul
Chief Operating Officer, NDAX
Jaime Leverton
CEO, Hut 8
Kaal
Pioneering Shib Technology's Future
VIA A.I. & MV
Mark Greenberg
Managing Director for Canada
Kraken
Didier Lavallée
CEO, Tetra Trust
Tamara Haasen
President, IO Global
Billy Sebell
Executive Director, XDC Foundation
Tracy Leparulo
Founder & CEO, Untraceable
Scott Page
Saxophonist (Pink Floyd, Toto, Supertramp)
Technologist, Co-Founder of Loot8
Marcie Jastrow
Metaverse Advisor,
Shib the Metaverse
Alex Dominguez
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Unicoin Inc.
Terry
Leading Operations & HR, Shiba Inu
Adam Cai
CEO, VirgoCX
Cristina Tello
Co-Founder, Shib Women Foundation
Creator of the Shiba Short Stories
Rohit Tandon
Systems Architect, XDC Foundation
Lucas Matheson
Country Director, Canada Coinbase
Nana Murugesan
VP, Business Development & International, Coinbase
Sherri Cuono
Shib.io & Shib The Metaverse
Metaverse Advisor
Vijay Neelakandan
Shiba Inu
Engineering lead on Hub and SSI
Tyler Spalding
Ampera Foundation
William David Volk
Game Architecture, Shib.io
Daniela Barbosa
Executive Director, Hyperledger Foundation
General Manager for Blockchain and Identity, Linux Foundation
Carl Fluke
Solutions Architect, Coinbase
Lance Lilly
Ecosystem Development Manager,
XDC Foundation
Dan Kim
VP Business Development, Coinbase
Dawa Riley
UX Architect, Shiba Inu
Tyler Carter
Co-Founder, Fathom Protocol
Head of Digital Assets, Securrency
Sascha Darius Mojtahedi
Co-Founder, Parallel
Pamela Draper
President & CEO
Pateno Payments and Bitvo Inc.
Boris Alergant
Head of DeFi Markets, Ripple
Ben Armstrong
Founder, BitBoy Crypto
Anne Gaviola
Senior Digital Broadcast Journalist
Adam Benzine
Oscar®-Nominated Filmmaker & Creator, Winkles & Flam
Founder, Sphynx Ink Inc.
Rachel Epstein
Senior Corporate Counsel & Head of Policy, IO Global
Andrew Kiguel
CEO, Tokens.com
Chairman, Metaverse Group
Elena Sinelnikova
Co-Founder, MetisDAO Foundation
Co-Founder, CryptoChicks
Trevor Koverko
Co-Founder, Polymath & Matador
Roger Ver
World’s first investor in the Bitcoin ecosystem
SPEAKING VIRTUALLY
Tiffany Lai
Head of Growth,
NFT Arts & Culture, Ava Labs
A.J. Warner
Chief of Strategy, Offchain Labs
Emma Todd
CEO, MMH Data Systems
Wayne Chen
CEO, EukaPay
Natalia Ameline
Co-Founder, CryptoChicks
Decentralized Coordinator, Planning, Metis
Joe Hoffend
VP Product Development, Foundry
Stephanie Dunbar
Enterprise Research Analyst
Messari
Chintan Turakhia
Director, Head of Engineering,
Coinbase Wallet
Kohji Nagata
Founder & Head of Game Development
and Design, Parallel
Nikita Sachdev
Founder & CEO, Luna PR
Adam Nemec
VP Business Development, Staking Foundry
Hash
Co-Founder, DxSale.Network
Eric Richmond
President, Coinsquare
Gaurav Sharma
Project Manager, ETHToronto
Aneri Merchant
Investment Manager, XVC Tech
Michael Perklin
Cybersecurity Expert & Chairman of the Board, CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4)
Temur Durrani
Technology Reporter and Podcast Host, The Globe and Mail
Diana-Luk Ye
Head of Strategic Accounts, World of Women
Scot Johnson
Founder, Digital Shovel
Brian Mosoff
CEO, Ether Capital
Agne Linge
Lead Evangelist, DeGate DAO
Sukhveer Sanghera
Founder, Earth Wallet
Nikki Kang
Software Engineer, Audius
David Wachsman
CEO, Wachsman
Bin Zhu
Founder, Stratos
Charlene Cieslik
Chief Compliance Officer, Localcoin
Eric Parker
CEO, Giddy
Claire Zhang
Head of Marketing & Communications, Stratos
Claire Brownell
Reporter, The Logic
Sarthak Bakshi
Co-Founder & CTO, Dimo & XDSea
Mahyar Akhbari
COO Untraceable & Unny
Jovonni Martinez
Blockchain Director, Coreum
Lisa Loud
Co-Founder & CEO, FLUIDEFI
Executive Director, Secret Foundation
Lamont Veal
Developer Relations Manager, Coreum
Jerry Qian
Co-Founder, Bitcoin Bay
Sarah Martin
Senior Software Engineer, Circle
Mark Connors
3iQ Corp.
Michelle Brier
Software Engineer, Audius
J.D. Seraphine
Founder & CEO, Raiinmaker
Renegade Entrepreneur, Producer, Philanthropist
Diana Escobar Bold
Chief Compliance Officer
3iQ Corp.
Nse Barna
Chief of Staff, Aleo
Russell Castagnaro
Venture Steward,
Bufficorn Ventures & ETHDenver
Sabrina Kiamilev
Software Engineer, Audius
Anthony DiPrinzio
Head of Growth
Sam Bourgi
Senior U.S. News Editor, Cointelegraph
Kathie Jurek
Head of Content, Aleo
Luis Ocegueda
Head of Engineering, Trust Wallet
Ashley Edwards
Marketing Operations Lead, Aleo
Stas Zlobinski
Founder, Goat Studio
Co-Founder, Hedgie.io
Casey Caruso
Angel Investor
William
CEO, RNS.ID
Kunal Bhasin
Cryptoassets & Blockchain Co-Lead, KPMG
Nataliya Hearn
Director, CryptoChicks
Rami Husami
DevReal Lead, Metis
SPEAKING VIRTUALLY
Michael Rabkin
Global Head of Business Development, DV Chain
Andrea Vargas
Developer Relations Engineer, Ava Labs
Robert Balazs
CEO, Bytex
Gabe Napora
Mogul Productions
Joanna Zeng
VP, Head of BD, Aleo
Ben Weinberg
Developer Advocate, Axelar
Valerie Pringle
Executive, Blockchain Futurist Conference
Taylor Harris
Head of Community, dappOS
Amber Scott
Founder & CEO
Outlier Compliance Group
Daniel Shorr
Co-Founder & CEO, Modulus Labs
Maggi Xu
Founder, FutureX Consulting
Chris Sandico
Founder, The Academy
by Professor Meta
Christopher Chen
Head, Invest Hong Kong (Canada)
Taniya Singh
Propine Confidential
Ben Thalman
Senior Protocol Analyst & Ethereum Specialist, Figment
Othalia Doe-Bruce
Blockchain Strategy & Partnerships, United Nations WFP
CEO, InnovFin
David Barreto
Starknet Developer Advocate
StarkWare
Leora Schreiber
Account Manager, MarketAcross
Jared Crace
Senior Engineer Manager, Figment
Eustacia Morris
Education and Community Manager
CryptoChicks
Michael Milord
Co-Founder & CEO, Dappd LLC
Brandon Da Silva
Founder & CEO, AI Arena
Tanya Lindsay
Co-founder,
Surge Distributed Protocols (CryptoMibs)
Francis Berwa
Partner, zkPass
Jordan Last
Demergent Labs, CEO
EO Hao
Founding Partner, FutureMoney Group
Christian Sauer
Group CEO, Soonami.io & Foundance
Anton Livaja
Blockchain Security Research Manager
OpenZeppelin
Alice Liu
Educational Programs Manager
CryptoChicks
David Wyly
Chief Operating Officer, Dappd LLC
Wei Xie
Co-Founder & COO, AI Arena
Albiona Hoti
Matter Labs / zkSync Era
Head of Developer Advocacy
SPEAKING VIRTUALLY
Dr. Ryan
Research & Development Lead, ZKM
Jamie Jung
Founder, Women in Web3 Korea
Marketing Director, EthStorage
Adit Patel
Founder & CEO, Blockscope
Audrey Nesbitt
Managing Director, MetaTech Capital Partners
Landon Meserve
Director of Project Management, Dappd LLC
Justyna Osowska
Founder, Women in Blockchain Canada
Aaron Unterman
Managing Director, Cayman Islands
XReg Consulting
Ashley Wright
Founder & CEO,
The Wright Success
David Shafrir
Co-Founder & CEO,
Secure Digital Markets
Valerie Song
Co-Founder at Ava Technologies (+ F3 Investment Lead)
Saleha Jaweid
IT Operations Program Manager at Topl(+ F3 Tech Lead)
Jonathan Keim
Director of Communications, IBN
Mila Bozinov
Co-Founder at QoC(+ F3 Government Lead)
George Petrovic
Program Coordinator & Professor,
George Brown College
Iliana Oris Valiente
Managing Director and Head of Innovation
Accenture Canada
Peter Espino
Co-Founder & COO, Arrival
Laura Marissa Cullell
Marketing Manager
EOS Network Foundation
Taras Kulyk
Founder & CEO, SunnySide Digital
Jess Ford
CEO, Arrival
Bryce Patrick
Core Team, Ethereum Attestation Service
Rhonda Eldridge
Founder & Impactioneer
Harness All Possibilities
Mr. Metaverse, Nav Gupta
Founder & CEO
Chaarmi Worlds Inc.
Marc Lijour
Co-Founder, DeFi Toronto
IEEE, Canada Blockchain Lead
Luyao Zhang
Founding President, SciEcon CIC
Assistant Professor of Economics, Duke Kunshan University
Alex Tapscott
Blockchain Research Institute
Co-Founder
Bob Summerwill
Executive Director
Ethereum Classic Cooperative
Rachel Brissenden
Coalition Success Steward, Opolis
Dr. Bill Kolomyjec
Retired Full-Time Artist
Jessica Levesque
Executive Director, CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4)
Rodney MacInnes
COO & AML Compliance Ninja, Outlier Solutions
Andrei Poliakov
CEO, APX Lending
Morva Rohani
Executive Director,
Canadian Web3 Council
Stephen Sargeant
Founder, Airdropd
Kerem Kolcuoglu
Managing Partner, Penrose Partners
Shagufta Sayani
Senior Manager, EY
Kyle Reidhead
Founder, Web3 Academy
Matt Galligan
Co-Founder, XMTP
Victor Li
Founder, DeFi Toronto
Research Advisor, Firinne Capital
Keisha A. Mitchell
Ambassador, Google Women Techmakers
Eric Gilbert-Williams
Core Contributor, CityDAO
Kader Khan
SVP & GM, Connectivity and Industry 4.0, Wavelabs US LLC.
Safia Hirji
Events Lead, ChainSafe
Jennifer Greenberg
Chief of Staff, Rain
Alim Khamisa
Product Lead, DELV
Samir Addamine
Co-Founder & CEO, Absolute Labs
Divya Sivaram
Student
Souzan Esmaili
Founder & CEO, TCAE
Nahid Rahman
Training Team Lead, TCAE
Nandita Merchant
Cryptocurrency Compliance Consultant & Trainer, TCAE
Melissa Allen
Executive Director at League of Innovators
Ann Brody
Governance & Research Lead at StableLab
Jenn Sanasie
Author at CoinDesk
Tara David
Generative AI Lead at Deloitte
Lise Birkundavyi
Managing Partner at BKR Capital
Jennifer Greenberg
Arti Villa
Investor at Hustle Fund
Rukshana Hassanali
Co-Founder at 3XP
Sira Toure
Software Engineer at Raytheon
Jess Cho
Capital Credit Analyst, Mercury
Lana Dingwall
Steward, GreenPill.Network
4KORNERS
Musical Performances
Afa Khan
Musical Performances
Roberto Sanabria
Founder, Cryptoducation
Vitalik Buterin
Founder, Ethereum
Anthony Di Iorio
Founder
Andiami, Decentral, Ethereum
Michele Romanow
"Dragon”, CBC Dragons’ Den
Co-Founder & Exec Chairman, Clearco
Charles Hoskinson
CEO & Founder, IO Global
Ethan Buchman
Co-Founder of Cosmos
CEO of Informal Systems
The Hon. Michelle Rempel Garner, P.C.
Member of Parliament for Calgary Nose Hill
Dean Skurka
CEO, Wonderfi
Shytoshi Kusama
Focus: Big Picture Shiba Inu
VIA A.I. & MV
Tanim Rasul
Chief Operating Officer, NDAX
Jaime Leverton
CEO, Hut 8
Kaal
Pioneering Shib Technology's Future
VIA A.I. & MV
Mark Greenberg
Managing Director for Canada
Kraken
Didier Lavallée
CEO, Tetra Trust
Tamara Haasen
President, IO Global
Billy Sebell
Executive Director, XDC Foundation
Tracy Leparulo
Founder & CEO, Untraceable
Scott Page
Saxophonist (Pink Floyd, Toto, Supertramp)
Technologist, Co-Founder of Loot8
Marcie Jastrow
Metaverse Advisor,
Shib the Metaverse
Alex Dominguez
Chief Investor Relations Officer, Unicoin Inc.
Terry
Leading Operations & HR, Shiba Inu
Adam Cai
CEO, VirgoCX
Cristina Tello
Co-Founder, Shib Women Foundation
Creator of the Shiba Short Stories
Rohit Tandon
Systems Architect, XDC Foundation
Lucas Matheson
Country Director, Canada Coinbase
Nana Murugesan
VP, Business Development & International, Coinbase
Sherri Cuono
Shib.io & Shib The Metaverse
Metaverse Advisor
Vijay Neelakandan
Shiba Inu
Engineering lead on Hub and SSI
Tyler Spalding
Ampera Foundation
William David Volk
Game Architecture, Shib.io
Daniela Barbosa
Executive Director, Hyperledger Foundation
General Manager for Blockchain and Identity, Linux Foundation
Carl Fluke
Solutions Architect, Coinbase
Lance Lilly
Ecosystem Development Manager,
XDC Foundation
Dan Kim
VP Business Development, Coinbase
Dawa Riley
UX Architect, Shiba Inu
Tyler Carter
Co-Founder, Fathom Protocol
Head of Digital Assets, Securrency
Sascha Darius Mojtahedi
Co-Founder, Parallel
Pamela Draper
President & CEO
Pateno Payments and Bitvo Inc.
Boris Alergant
Head of DeFi Markets, Ripple
Ben Armstrong
Founder, BitBoy Crypto
Anne Gaviola
Senior Digital Broadcast Journalist
Adam Benzine
Oscar®-Nominated Filmmaker & Creator, Winkles & Flam
Founder, Sphynx Ink Inc.
Rachel Epstein
Senior Corporate Counsel & Head of Policy, IO Global
Andrew Kiguel
CEO, Tokens.com
Chairman, Metaverse Group
Elena Sinelnikova
Co-Founder, MetisDAO Foundation
Co-Founder, CryptoChicks
Trevor Koverko
Co-Founder, Polymath & Matador
Roger Ver
World’s first investor in the Bitcoin ecosystem
SPEAKING VIRTUALLY
Tiffany Lai
Head of Growth,
NFT Arts & Culture, Ava Labs
A.J. Warner
Chief of Strategy, Offchain Labs
Emma Todd
CEO, MMH Data Systems
Wayne Chen
CEO, EukaPay
Natalia Ameline
Co-Founder, CryptoChicks
Decentralized Coordinator, Planning, Metis
Joe Hoffend
VP Product Development, Foundry
Stephanie Dunbar
Enterprise Research Analyst
Messari
Chintan Turakhia
Director, Head of Engineering,
Coinbase Wallet
Kohji Nagata
Founder & Head of Game Development
and Design, Parallel
Nikita Sachdev
Founder & CEO, Luna PR
Adam Nemec
VP Business Development, Staking Foundry
Hash
Co-Founder, DxSale.Network
Eric Richmond
President, Coinsquare
Gaurav Sharma
Project Manager, ETHToronto
Aneri Merchant
Investment Manager, XVC Tech
Michael Perklin
Cybersecurity Expert & Chairman of the Board, CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4)
Temur Durrani
Technology Reporter and Podcast Host, The Globe and Mail
Diana-Luk Ye
Head of Strategic Accounts, World of Women
Scot Johnson
Founder, Digital Shovel
Brian Mosoff
CEO, Ether Capital
Agne Linge
Lead Evangelist, DeGate DAO
Sukhveer Sanghera
Founder, Earth Wallet
Nikki Kang
Software Engineer, Audius
David Wachsman
CEO, Wachsman
Bin Zhu
Founder, Stratos
Charlene Cieslik
Chief Compliance Officer, Localcoin
Eric Parker
CEO, Giddy
Claire Zhang
Head of Marketing & Communications, Stratos
Claire Brownell
Reporter, The Logic
Sarthak Bakshi
Co-Founder & CTO, Dimo & XDSea
Mahyar Akhbari
COO Untraceable & Unny
Jovonni Martinez
Blockchain Director, Coreum
Lisa Loud
Co-Founder & CEO, FLUIDEFI
Executive Director, Secret Foundation
Lamont Veal
Developer Relations Manager, Coreum
Jerry Qian
Co-Founder, Bitcoin Bay
Sarah Martin
Senior Software Engineer, Circle
Mark Connors
3iQ Corp.
Michelle Brier
Software Engineer, Audius
J.D. Seraphine
Founder & CEO, Raiinmaker
Renegade Entrepreneur, Producer, Philanthropist
Diana Escobar Bold
Chief Compliance Officer
3iQ Corp.
Nse Barna
Chief of Staff, Aleo
Russell Castagnaro
Venture Steward,
Bufficorn Ventures & ETHDenver
Sabrina Kiamilev
Software Engineer, Audius
Anthony DiPrinzio
Head of Growth
Sam Bourgi
Senior U.S. News Editor, Cointelegraph
Kathie Jurek
Head of Content, Aleo
Luis Ocegueda
Head of Engineering, Trust Wallet
Ashley Edwards
Marketing Operations Lead, Aleo
Stas Zlobinski
Founder, Goat Studio
Co-Founder, Hedgie.io
Casey Caruso
Angel Investor
William
CEO, RNS.ID
Kunal Bhasin
Cryptoassets & Blockchain Co-Lead, KPMG
Nataliya Hearn
Director, CryptoChicks
Rami Husami
DevReal Lead, Metis
SPEAKING VIRTUALLY
Michael Rabkin
Global Head of Business Development, DV Chain
Andrea Vargas
Developer Relations Engineer, Ava Labs
Robert Balazs
CEO, Bytex
Gabe Napora
Mogul Productions
Joanna Zeng
VP, Head of BD, Aleo
Ben Weinberg
Developer Advocate, Axelar
Valerie Pringle
Executive, Blockchain Futurist Conference
Taylor Harris
Head of Community, dappOS
Amber Scott
Founder & CEO
Outlier Compliance Group
Daniel Shorr
Co-Founder & CEO, Modulus Labs
Maggi Xu
Founder, FutureX Consulting
Chris Sandico
Founder, The Academy
by Professor Meta
Christopher Chen
Head, Invest Hong Kong (Canada)
Taniya Singh
Propine Confidential
Ben Thalman
Senior Protocol Analyst & Ethereum Specialist, Figment
Othalia Doe-Bruce
Blockchain Strategy & Partnerships, United Nations WFP
CEO, InnovFin
David Barreto
Starknet Developer Advocate
StarkWare
Leora Schreiber
Account Manager, MarketAcross
Jared Crace
Senior Engineer Manager, Figment
Eustacia Morris
Education and Community Manager
CryptoChicks
Michael Milord
Co-Founder & CEO, Dappd LLC
Brandon Da Silva
Founder & CEO, AI Arena
Tanya Lindsay
Co-founder,
Surge Distributed Protocols (CryptoMibs)
Francis Berwa
Partner, zkPass
Jordan Last
Demergent Labs, CEO
EO Hao
Founding Partner, FutureMoney Group
Christian Sauer
Group CEO, Soonami.io & Foundance
Anton Livaja
Blockchain Security Research Manager
OpenZeppelin
Alice Liu
Educational Programs Manager
CryptoChicks
David Wyly
Chief Operating Officer, Dappd LLC
Wei Xie
Co-Founder & COO, AI Arena
Albiona Hoti
Matter Labs / zkSync Era
Head of Developer Advocacy
SPEAKING VIRTUALLY
Dr. Ryan
Research & Development Lead, ZKM
Jamie Jung
Founder, Women in Web3 Korea
Marketing Director, EthStorage
Adit Patel
Founder & CEO, Blockscope
Audrey Nesbitt
Managing Director, MetaTech Capital Partners
Landon Meserve
Director of Project Management, Dappd LLC
Justyna Osowska
Founder, Women in Blockchain Canada
Aaron Unterman
Managing Director, Cayman Islands
XReg Consulting
Ashley Wright
Founder & CEO,
The Wright Success
David Shafrir
Co-Founder & CEO,
Secure Digital Markets
Valerie Song
Co-Founder at Ava Technologies (+ F3 Investment Lead)
Saleha Jaweid
IT Operations Program Manager at Topl(+ F3 Tech Lead)
Jonathan Keim
Director of Communications, IBN
Mila Bozinov
Co-Founder at QoC(+ F3 Government Lead)
George Petrovic
Program Coordinator & Professor,
George Brown College
Iliana Oris Valiente
Managing Director and Head of Innovation
Accenture Canada
Peter Espino
Co-Founder & COO, Arrival
Laura Marissa Cullell
Marketing Manager
EOS Network Foundation
Taras Kulyk
Founder & CEO, SunnySide Digital
Jess Ford
CEO, Arrival
Bryce Patrick
Core Team, Ethereum Attestation Service
Rhonda Eldridge
Founder & Impactioneer
Harness All Possibilities
Mr. Metaverse, Nav Gupta
Founder & CEO
Chaarmi Worlds Inc.
Marc Lijour
Co-Founder, DeFi Toronto
IEEE, Canada Blockchain Lead
Luyao Zhang
Founding President, SciEcon CIC
Assistant Professor of Economics, Duke Kunshan University
Alex Tapscott
Blockchain Research Institute
Co-Founder
Bob Summerwill
Executive Director
Ethereum Classic Cooperative
Rachel Brissenden
Coalition Success Steward, Opolis
Dr. Bill Kolomyjec
Retired Full-Time Artist
Jessica Levesque
Executive Director, CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4)
Rodney MacInnes
COO & AML Compliance Ninja, Outlier Solutions
Andrei Poliakov
CEO, APX Lending
Morva Rohani
Executive Director,
Canadian Web3 Council
Stephen Sargeant
Founder, Airdropd
Kerem Kolcuoglu
Managing Partner, Penrose Partners
Shagufta Sayani
Senior Manager, EY
Kyle Reidhead
Founder, Web3 Academy
Matt Galligan
Co-Founder, XMTP
Victor Li
Founder, DeFi Toronto
Research Advisor, Firinne Capital
Keisha A. Mitchell
Ambassador, Google Women Techmakers
Eric Gilbert-Williams
Core Contributor, CityDAO
Kader Khan
SVP & GM, Connectivity and Industry 4.0, Wavelabs US LLC.
Safia Hirji
Events Lead, ChainSafe
Jennifer Greenberg
Chief of Staff, Rain
Alim Khamisa
Product Lead, DELV
Samir Addamine
Co-Founder & CEO, Absolute Labs
Divya Sivaram
Student
Souzan Esmaili
Founder & CEO, TCAE
Nahid Rahman
Training Team Lead, TCAE
Nandita Merchant
Cryptocurrency Compliance Consultant & Trainer, TCAE
Melissa Allen
Executive Director at League of Innovators
Ann Brody
Governance & Research Lead at StableLab
Jenn Sanasie
Author at CoinDesk
Tara David
Generative AI Lead at Deloitte
Lise Birkundavyi
Managing Partner at BKR Capital
Jennifer Greenberg
Arti Villa
Investor at Hustle Fund
Rukshana Hassanali
Co-Founder at 3XP
Sira Toure
Software Engineer at Raytheon
Jess Cho
Capital Credit Analyst, Mercury
Lana Dingwall
Steward, GreenPill.Network
4KORNERS
Musical Performances
Afa Khan
Musical Performances
Roberto Sanabria
Founder, Cryptoducation

Past Speakers
2022 Speaker Line Up

Vitalik Buterin

Founder, Ethereum

Anthony Di Iorio

Founder, Decentral, Jaxx, and Ethereum

Michelle Rempel

Member of Parliament, Government of Canada

Ethan Buchman

Co-Founder of Cosmos, CEO of Informal Systems

Alex Dominguez

Chief Investor Relations Officer, Unicorn Hunters

Robbie Amell

Producer & Actor, Collective Pictures

Raine Maida

Founder & CEO, Drrops Inc. | Lead Vocalist, Our Lady Peace

Elena Sinelnikova

Co-Founder & CEO, CryptoChicks and MetisDAO

Christie Harkin

Managing Editor, Technology CoinDesk

Boris Alergant

Head of DeFi Markets, Ripple Labs

Greg Gopman

CMO, Ankr

Som Seif

CEO, Purpose Unlimited & Purpose Investments

Arthur Camara

Director of Product, Dapper Labs

Paolo Ardoino

CTO, Tether

Attending Virtually

Andrew Gastwirth

Chief Innovation Officer, DLA Piper

Sergey Metelin

Developer Advocate, Executive Director Americas, Swirlds Labs

Abigail Castro

Developer Evangelist, Swirlds Labs

Tanim Rasul

Chief Operating Officer, NDAX

Tyler Spalding

FOUNDER, FLEXA AND AMP

Sergey Gorbunov

Co-Founder & CEO, Axelar

Dr. Nataliya Hearn

Director, CryptoChicks

Adam Cai

CEO, Virgo Group

David Shafrir

Co-Founder & CEO, Secure Digital Markets

Nora Anwar

Marketing Manager, VirgoCX

Andrew Weiner

Vice President, MEXC Global

Vincent Kadar

CEO, Polymath

Daniel Shakhmundes

Chief Technology Officer, Secure Digital Markets

Charlene Cieslik

Chief Compliance Officer & Head of Customer Success, Localcoin

Clayton Hartford

Director, Brave Software

Kevin Hobbs

Founder & CEO, Aventus Ventures

David Cormican

Head of Production Oversight, Mogul Productions

Ben Armstrong

Founder, BitBoy Crypto

Josh Stein

Developer Advocate, Ankr

Pamela Draper

President & CEO, Bitvo Inc.

Josh Neuroth

VP Product, Ankr

Keith Grossman

President, TIME

Attending Virtually

Ego Huang

FOUNDER & CEO, DEEPCOIN EXCHANGE

Brian Mosoff

CEO, Ether Capital

Eric Richmond

Chief Operating Officer, Coinsquare

Roger Ver

Founder, Bitcoin.com

Kate Goldman

Senior Policy Associate, Elliptic

Eric Rodriguez

Director of Strategy and Operations, Unstoppable Domains

Fred Pye

Founder & CEO, 3iQ

Lin Dai

Co-Founder & CEO, OneOf

Jon Monahan

Vice President of Sales, Splinterlands

Matt Marino

Co-Founder, TapiocaDAO

Kimberly Adams

Co-Founder, Bridge Network

Mark Connors

Head of Research, 3iQ

David Wachsman

Founder & CEO, Wachsman

Aqeel Mohammad

Product Strategy / Design, Ethereum Foundation

Ben Kurrek

Developer Relations Engineer, Pagoda | Co-Founder of Fayyr

Tracy Molino

Counsel, Dentons Canada LLP

Austin Baggio

Product Manager, Pagoda

Bin Zhu

Founder & CEO, Stratos

Patrick Dunlop

Co-Founder & CEO, Jackal Labs

Ashley Stanhope

Director of Communications, Ether Capital

Sukhveer Sanghera

CEO, Earth Wallet

Igor Denisov

CEO, Squirrel Wallet

Kyle Fry

CEO, DIGTL

Dean Skurka

Head of Exchanges, WonderFi

Dina Mainville

Founder & Principal, Collisionless

IllaDaProducer

Technologist & Producer, WhoWho’s TreeHouse

David Gokhshtein

President, Gokhshtein Media

Tracy Leparulo

Founder & CEO, Untraceable

Warren Paul Anderson

CEO, Discreet Labs

Larry O'Brien

Co-Founder of DGOV3 | member of Prior Art | former Mayor of Ottawa | founder of Calian Group

Ross Macdonald

COO, Gokhshtein Media

Stephanie Hughes

Finance Reporter, Financial Post

Chua Kok Tung

Lead Game Designer, Project SEED

Ehsan Shariati

Co-Founder & CTO, Functionland

Tanya Lindsay

Co-Founder, CryptoMibs

Jeff Chan

Producer & Director, Collective Pictures

Fazil Mohamed Jabar

Co-Founder & CEO, NUGEN UNIVERSE

Andile Ndlovu

Artist Manager, Electric Feel Entertainment

Chris Pace

Chief Technology Advocate, Coincover

Pavel Sinelnikov

Integrations Lead, Metis

Toufic Adlouni

Managing Director, Renno & Co

Eunika Sot

Co-Founder, COO & CMO, Yuser

Alex McDougall

CEO, Stablecorp Inc.

Leon Marshall

Managing Director, Head of Institutional Sales, Genesis

Michael Sanders

Co-Founder & Chief Storyteller, Horizon

Viveik Vivekananthan

Founder & CEO, Swing.xyz

Tian Lim

Senior Project Manager, Metamask, ConsenSys

Graeme Moore

Head of Tokenization, Polymesh

Hash

Co-Founder, Dx, DxSale

MK Marsden

Co-Founder of Prior Art DAO | Managing Partner of Touchpoint Strategies

Jean Yves Martineau

Co-Founder of Prior Art | DAO EVP of Technology SimWin

Weso

Lead Developer & Strategic Partnership Coordinator, Beefy

Wayne Chen

CEO, EukaPay

Milena M.

CTO, āut Protocol

Alex P.

CEO & Product Architect, āut Protocol

Kevin Neilson

Developer Relations Engineer, Moonbeam

Mawadda Basir

Co-Founder & CEO, Hunt Analytics

Denys Ivanov

COO, Hacken.io

Brian Keogh

Director, Gemini Fund Solutions

Maggi Xu

Co-Founder, GMGN DAO

Louisa Bai

Crypto Strategy and Partnerships, Stellar.org

Justyna Osowska

Founder, Women in Blockchain Canada

Ameer Rosic

Serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor

Jessica Levesque

Executive Director, C4

Ryan Berkun

Founder & CEO, Teller Finance

Pieter Vanhove

Program Manager, Microsoft

Ashley Wright

Founder & CEO, The Wright Success

Russell Castagnaro

Entrepreneur in Residence, Bufficorn Ventures

Joshua "0xJoshua.eth" Lapidus

Executive Steward for Partnerships and Ecosystem at Opolis, Merch Steward of ETHDenver + Treasurer of SporkDAO

Austin Davis

Co-Founder, Crownbits Rewards

Tanya Woods

Strategic Advisor, Chamber of Digital Commerce Canada

Eduardo Vivas

CO-FOUNDER, STLR GROUP

Corey Herscu

Growth & Media Expert

Randy Marusyk

Managing Partner, MBM Intellectual Property Law

Mary Sorrenti

Vice President, Game Pill

Sam Bourgi

Business Editor, Cointelegraph

Amber Scott

Founder & CEO, Outlier Compliance Group

Justin Hartzman

Co-Founder & CEO, Coinsmart

Steve Ngok

Partner, DoraHacks

Cristian Lupascu

Co-founder & CEO, OMNIA Protocol

Majd Hailat

Founder & CEO, Altura

Jia Ling Yang

Founder & CEO, Playground

Kwame Bryan

Software Developer Gaming, ChainSafe

Stanley Szeniawski

Customer Success, QuickNode

Amer Ameen

VP of Product & Project Management, ChainSafe

Shannon Wells

Head of Growth, Livepeer

Stephen Sargeant

Founder, airdropd

Pratik Gauri

Co-Founder & CEO, 5ire

David Yi

Chief Commercial Officer, Aspen Creek Digital Corporation

Emma Todd

CEO, MMH Data Systems

Kunal Bhasin

Director & Co-Leader, Cryptoassets & Blockchain, KPMG Canada

Jesse Abramowitz

Lead Blockchain and Protocol Developer, Entropy

Pico Velasquez

Metaverse Visionary, Architect & Entrepreneur | CEO, VIIRA

Soushiant Zanganehpour

CEO, Swae.io

Wael Rajab

Founder, Blockchain Academics

Dilesha Williams Stelmach

Director of Business Development, Empowered EDI

Marc Lijour

Co-Founder, DeFi Toronto

Shagufta Sayani

Blockchain Leader, EY

Pramod Gopalakrishna

Blockchain Leader, EY

Anu Bhardwaj

Founder & CTO, SHEQONOMI

Taras Kulyk

VP, Digital Strategy & Growth, Validus Power

Ronnie Levi

Senior Account Director, MarketAcross

Maxim Sindall

COO, Altura

A Few Past Speaker

The late Larry King

CNN Legend, TV and Radio Host

Charles Hoskinson

Founder, Cardano

Brock Pierce

Crypto Pioneer, Philanthropist

Cindy Cowan

Founder, Cindy Cowan Entertainment Emmy Winning, Oscar & Golden Globe Nominated Producer

Robert Leshner

Founder, Compound

Zac Prince

FOUNDER, BLOCK FI

Adrienne Batra

Editor In Chief, Toronto Sun

Mickey Maher

Senior Vice President, Dapper Labs

Itamar Lesuisse

Co-Founder & CEO, Argent

Alexia Hefti

Former Head of Global Blockchain, Deloitte

Artur Sychov

Founder & CEO, Somnium Space VR

Bradley Kam

Co-founder, Unstoppable Domains,

Dr. Jesse “aggroed” Reich

CEO, Splinterlands

Rachel Wolfson

Reporter, Cointelegraph

Alex Mashinsky

FOUNDER & CEO, Celcius

Charlie Shrem

Bitcoin Pioneer

Rune Christensen

CO-FOUNDER, MAKER DAO

Anatoly Yakovenko

FOUNDER, Solana

Ben Goertzel

CEO, SingularityNET

Tone Vays

BITCOIN PIONEER

Steve Wand

CMO, GAME Credits | Co-Founder, Digitible

Zack Seward

Managing Editor, CoinDesk

Sebastien Borget

Co-Founder & COO, The Sandbox Game President, Blockchain Game Alliance

Edward Nwokedi

Founder & CEO, RedSwan CRE

Leonardo Real

Chief Compliance Officer, Tether

MAIN STAGE PRESENTATIONS

We bring together world-class speakers to discuss the future of  emerging technologies. Speakers provide insights on the latest industries that are being transformed and disrupted. ​

Frequently our speakers and presenting companies launch products on-stage, make major announcements, and showcase their innovative solutions for the first time.​

Most presentations are bundled with panel discussions and similar industry keynotes to create themed segments on-stage throughout the 2 day conference.​

Don't miss out on hearing the future first. ​ Applications for main stage presentations are now open.

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PURPLE STAGE

TRAINING WORKSHOPS

Blockchain Bootcamp: An Overview

20 Minute Sessions​

- What is blockchain technology?
- Blockchain vs. Cryptocurrency.
- What is Ethereum? How this Toronto born technology has changed the world.
- An overview of digital collectables and one-of-a-kind tokens.
- The non-fungible token revolution.​
- How to future-proof your profession and the new career opportunities ahead.​
- Real-world use cases: How blockchain technology is changing every industry.​

Apply to be a speaker. Suggest your own topic or put your own spin on one of the above.

Speakers Announced June 1, 2023. Apply Today!

Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency For Beginners

20 Minute Sessions​

-What is bitcoin & cryptocurrency?
-The benefits of coins, tokens, and programmable digital currency.
-What is a wallet? How to get started.
-What is an exchange? How to get started.​
- What is mining? How to get started.​
- A refresher for everyone: Security, passwords, keys, and privacy.​
- How ​to accept cryptocurrency for your business.
- ​Fundraising for charity with cryptocurrency.​- Receive free cryptocurrency and airdrops!
- Hands-on workshop on how to send, receive and store cryptocurrency.​

Apply to be a speaker. Suggest your own topic or put your own spin on one of the above.​
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