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Speakers & Stages

2026 SPEAKERS

Attending Virtually

Charles Hoskinson

CEO & Founder, Input | Output

Don Tapscott

Executive Chairman & CEO,

Blockchain Research Institute (BRI)

Janet Adams

Board Member,

Artificial Superintelligence Alliance

Ethan Buchman

CEO, Informal Systems | Cycles

Chaddy Huussin

Executive Director,

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Eric Turner

CEO,

Messari

Staci Warden

CEO, Algorand Foundation

Michael Sanders

Sr. Director, Partnerships & Investor Relationships, Polygon

Ada Vaughan

Senior Director of DeFi Partnerships, Stellar Development Foundation

Richard Carleton

CEO, Canadian Securities Exchange Non-executive Chair, Tetra Digital Board Member, Blue Ocean Technologies

Trevor Koverko

Co-Founder, Sapien

Jaime Leverton

CEO,

ReserveOne

Todd Shapiro

Co-Founder, CEO & Director, Red Light Holland

Tanya Woods

Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs and Policy Counsel, Questrade Financial Group

Eric Richmond

General Counsel and Head of Business Development, Shakepay

Lisa Loud

Executive Director,

Secret Network

Sam Bourgi

Senior News Editor, Cointelegraph

Koleya Karringten

Executive Director, Canadian Bitcoin Consortium

Rob Goldstein

Senior Operating Advisor, Strategic Partnerships and Growth, Travls.io

Joseph Iuso

Co-Founder, CAMLO & Head of Global Regulatory Affairs, KYC2020

Morva Rohani

Executive Director,

Canadian Web3 Council

Amanda Wick

Head of America,

VerifyVASP

Simon

Lead, Superteam Canada

Jason Brett

Senior Contributor at Forbes, Founder, Ben Franklin Digital Reserve

Ece Belgin

Community Operations & Growth Lead, CoinMarketCap

Colin Sinclair

Chief Business Officer,

Nirvana Finance

Kevin Liu

Co-Founder, Metis,

Core Contributor, GOAT Network

Leah McCarthy

Content Creator,

Doginal Dogs | CSN

Timothy Darrah, PhD

Co-Founder & CEO, Mangrove

Christopher Chen

Head, Invest Hong Kong Canada

Adilah Holivay

CEO, Association for Women in Cryptocurrency

Hamed Faqirzai

VP of Global Development, Luna PR

Claire Brownell

Reporter, The Logic

Michael Terpin

Founder & CEO,

Transform Ventures

Peter von Irle

Co-Founder & Managing Partner,

Sullivan Hart LLP

Regan McGrath, CPA, CA

CEO, Metrics CPA

Wayne Chen

CEO,

EukaPay

Lalla Asmaa Alaoui

CEO, HelloAgentic.ai,

Founder, Agentic Day

Roger Huang

Contributor, Forbes, Author, Bitcoin Magazine Books

Christian Sauer

Founder, Soonami.io

Janelle Chalouhi

Founder & CEO,

Venusventures Inc.

Luther Maday

Co-Founder & CEO, Stablecoin Partners, ex. Algorand Foundation

Nataliya Hearn, Ph.D.

Director, CryptoChicks, Co-Founder, Youth Program CryptoChicks

Web

Director of Operations,

Doginal Dogs | CSN

Anil Nadiminti

Sr. Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Service

Emma Todd

CEO, MMH Technology Group

Didier Lavallée

Founder & CEO,

Tetra Digital Group

Ashton Addison

Founder & CEO,

Crypto Coin Show

Justin Custardo

Founder & Host,

W3BC Media

Annelise Osborne

Author, From Hoodies to Suits

Aaron Grinhaus

Founder, Grinhaus Law Firm

Shelley Vaz

Founder & Creative Strategist, CRISP

Stephen Sargeant

Founder, Airdropd

Amber D. Scott

Co-Founder & CEO,

Outlier Compliance Group

Ashley Wright

Founder, The Crypto Strategy Academy

Dr. Guneet Kaur

Senior Editor, Crypto Citizens Network (CCN)

Justyna Osowska

Founder, Women in Blockchain Canada

Rhonda Eldridge

Founder & CEO, Harness All Possibilities

Karin Kusano

President, AWIC Texas Chapter

The top voices have spoken.

Vitalik Buterin

Founder, Ethereum

Charles Hoskinson

CEO & Founder, Input | Output

Eric Trump

Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, American Bitcoin

Iggy Azalea

Global Music Icon, Founder, $MOTHER

Brock Pierce

Bitcoin Pioneer

Tristan Thompson

NBA Champion, Co-Founder, basketball.fun

Dr. Ben Goertzel

CEO, SingularityNet and ASI Alliance

Past Speakers

PAST SPEAKERS

Vitalik Buterin

Founder, Ethereum

Charles Hoskinson

International Tax Lawyer,

Grinhaus Law Firm

Eric Trump

Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, American Bitcoin

Anatoly Yakovenko

Founder, Solana

Iggy Azalea

Global Music Icon,

Founder, $MOTHER

Brock Pierce

Bitcoin Pioneer

Charlie Shrem

Bitcoin Pioneer

Tristan Thompson

NBA Champion,

Co-Founder, basketball.fun

Tom Bilyeu

World-Renowned Podcaster,

Co-Founder Impact Theory

The Late Larry King

CNN Legend, TV and Radio Host

Michele Romanow

"Dragon”, CBC Dragons’ Den, Co-Founder & Exec Chairman, Clearco

Dr. Ben Goertzel

CEO, SingularityNet and ASI Alliance

Anthony Di Iorio

Founder,

Ethereum, Decentral, Andiami

KEYNOTE

Arthur Breitman

Co-Founder, Tezos

Rune Christensen

Co-Founder, MakerDAO

Ethan Buchman

CEO,

Informal Systems | Cycles

Luca Schnetzler (Luca Netz)

CEO, Pudgy Penguins

Asher Genoot

Executive Chairman of American Bitcoin and CEO of Hut 8

The Hon. Michelle Rempel Garner, P.C.

Member of Parliament for Calgary Nose Hill

Dean Skurka

President & CEO,

WonderFi

Robbie Amell

Producer & Hollywood Actor

N3on

CEO,

N3on Media

Shaw Walters

Founder, Eliza Labs

Tamara Haasen

President,

Input | Output (IO)

Lucas Matheson

CEO, Coinbase Canada

Matt Nicosia

Co-Creator, Trusted Smart Chain

Alexander Salnikov

Co-Founder,

Rarible

Shytoshi Kusama

Focus: Big Picture Shiba Inu

VIA A.I. & MV

Tian Lim

MetaMask, ConsenSys, Senior Project Manager

Trevor Koverko

Co-Founder, Sapien

Roger Ver

World’s first investor in the Bitcoin ecosystem

SPEAKING VIRTUALLY

Megan Nilsson

Founder, Crypto Megan,

Co-Owner, ATH Vodka

Greg Gopman

Ankr, CMO

Tiffany Lai

Head of Growth,

NFT Arts & Culture, Ava Labs

Tone Vays

Bitcoin Pioneer

Raine Maida

Founder & CEO, Drrops Inc.,

Lead Vocalist, Our Lady Peace

Robert Leshner

Founder, Compound

Zac Prince

Founder, BlockFi

Eric Richmond

President, Coinsquare

Sergey Gorbunov

Co-Founder & CEO, Axelar

Clayton Hartford

Director, Brave

Aqeel Mohammad

Ethereum Foundation, Product Strategy / Design

Kunal Bhasin

Partner & Co-Lead, Digital Asset CoE

KPMG

Louisa Bai

Crypto Strategy and Partnerships, Stellar.org

Temur Durrani

Technology Reporter and Podcast Host, The Globe and Mail

Anne Gaviola

Senior Digital Broadcast Journalist

Christie Harkin

Managing Editor, Technology, CoinDesk

Mike Ho

CEO, American Bitcoin

Shan Aggarwal

Chief Business Officer, Coinbase

Andrew Sobko

Founder & CEO,

Argentum AI

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

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.

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