Brian Klein is a partner at the Los Angeles-based litigation boutique Waymaker and a former federal prosecutor with one of the nation’s leading cryptocurrency litigation practices. He has been representing clients in the industry since 2013 and has handled dozens upon dozens of DOJ, SEC and CFTC matters around the country, including currently defending Roman Storm against federal criminal charges related to his alleged involvement with the Tornado Cash protocol and Kraken against the SEC’s charges that it is an unregistered exchange, broker-dealer, and clearing house.

William E. Quigley is a cryptocurrency and blockchain investor. He has incubated and invested in more than 30 bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency-related investments and co-developed the first crypto derivative used to trade pre-release Ethereum. He co-founded Tether, the first fiat-backed stablecoin and most traded cryptocurrency to date, GoCoin, a pioneering crypto payments processor, and co-founded WAX, a leading NFT blockchain platform. In 2013, Mr. Quigley co-founded Crypto Currency Partners, a blockchain equity investment fund with early notable investments in Coinbase, Kraken, Bitfury, Authy, ChangeTip and Circle.

Prior to his involvement in blockchain, Mr. Quigley was a venture capitalist, co-founding Clearstone Venture Partners, a $700M early-stage focused venture capital firm where he concentrated on communications and consumer technology companies. Before Clearstone, Quigley was a managing director at idealab! Capital Partners (ICP), the world’s first consumer Internet venture capital firm. ICP was an early investor in some of the leading Web 1.0 era companies including Paypal, Netzero, MP3.com and Goto.com, one of the first companies to rank search results based on a bidding process.

Nikola Stojanow is a blockchain expert and co-founder of Aeternity. As Head of the Aeternity Foundation and partner at MCC Capital and Vitosha Venture Partners, he has led numerous investments in tech while mentoring at Techstars.

Shaun Khan is the founder of Tapistrii, a Web 3.0 recommendation engine applying machine learning algorithms to blockchain data.

In his previous role as Managing Partner of Glass Capital, he has acted as an investor and advisor to emerging companies in the Blockchain space as well as educator to private business groups; including engagements with forums and chapters of YPO, EO, TiE and OPM over the past 5 years.

Shaun formerly founded the first microfinance initiative in the Caribbean in 2012, followed by the first microfranchising company in the Caribbean in 2014, which he successfully exited in 2015. Previously he co-founded first private equity firm focused on family business buyouts in the Caribbean.

Shaun currently serves as a Board member of YWhales Inc a web3 ecosystem for C-level business professionals in YPO.. He previously served as VP of TiE London, a non profit organisation focused on fostering entrepreneurship globally. He also volunteers his time to help emerging startups in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space around social impact causes.

Shaun holds multiple certifications in blockchain and cryptocurrency, an MBA from Columbia Business School and is a graduate of Harvard’s OPM program, a member of YPO and a member of the Institute of Directors (UK).

Maja Vujinovic is an investor and operator, specializing in blockchain, AI, and digital payments. In 2005, Vujinovic pioneered mobile payments, developing assets worth over $700M across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Recognizing Bitcoin’s potential in 2010, she became a leader in digital assets, facilitating Tether’s first bank acquisition in 2013. As CIO of Emerging Technologies at General Electric (2013), Vujinovic spearheaded global blockchain initiatives. She introduced Ethereum, and other platforms across various sectors, developed GE’s first “blockchain-as-a-service” platform, and uncovered $5 billion in trapped cash through automation. Notably, she catalyzed the first trade-finance blockchain deal between JP Morgan and GE. Currently, Vujinovic’s company, OGroup, partners with $4B in family offices, guiding investments in crypto and AI. OGroup invests in and operates over 45 companies and funds, assisting corporates, governments, and startups with digital transformation and scaling. Vujinovic serves on several boards, including Catalan.ai, Republic Crypto, Civic, and Longevity Science Foundation. A respected voice in emerging technologies, she has spoken at prestigious forums such as the World Economic Forum, FII Institute, Consensus, Financial Times, Abundance360 etc.

Jeffrey is the Head of Product at Fintax, with extensive experience in tax compliance systems and a strong background from Big Four firms. Focused on North American markets, he has successfully led multiple implementations for Web3 enterprises, offering deep insights into their unique compliance and operational needs. Speaker’s profile: see the attachment

Tatiana Koffman is a seasoned investor with over a decade of experience spanning investment banking, derivatives, venture capital, and digital assets. She’s widely recognized for her finance and technology expertise, frequently sharing her insights in prominent publications like Forbes, CoinDesk, CNBC, the Economist, Business Insider, and TechCrunch.

Koffman leads investment firm Moonwalker Capital, is the author of the popular financial newsletter MythOfMoney.com, and is set to publish a book with Wiley Publishing in 2024.

She holds a JD/MBA from York University and is a member of the New York State Bar. Koffman started her career in derivatives trading at TD Bank in Toronto. Previously, Koffman wrote a popular Forbes column and managed Venture Capital investments for Grammy-award-winning artists such as the Chainsmokers and Linkin Park in Los Angeles.

Additionally, Koffman contributes to academia as a visiting lecturer on blockchain at UCLA and Pepperdine. Her work has been academically cited at prestigious institutions including UCLA, Oxford, Sorbonne University, and in the Michigan Law Review.

Amy Wong is Managing Partner of Oasis Labs, a leading Web3 labs deeply involved in research, development and investment in the crypto world. Before joining Oasis Labs, Amy had been working as an Investment Banking VP and Assets Management Partner. Amy Wong’s Blockchain involvement started with primary investment and crypto investment in 2017. Under the leadership of Amy Wong, Oasis Labs has become a leader in Venture Capital field, Incubator. Furthermore, Oasis Labs has established a ton of active communities throughout Southeast Asia. Amy Wong is open-mind and flexible leader who is willing to talk to all potential partners.

Theodore has been innovating in the technology sector since 1998, founding a number of IT and technology startups, subsequently entering the blockchain industry in 2012.

In 2021 he started his work at Gunzilla Games expanding his expertise into the video game industry.
He envisions a future where gamers own all their assets and can monetize their playing time more democratically.

Theodore has always been fascinated with video games, tracing back to the golden age of Atari and Commodore 64. Nowadays, he plays Off the Grid, Diablo, Elden Ring and Ghosts of Tsushima.

Thomas Voegtlin is a computer scientist, neuroscientist, and creator of the Electrum Bitcoin wallet.

Thomas served for 10 years as a research scientist at INRIA. Fascinated by decentralized systems, he researched learning algorithms for recurrent neural networks. Thomas created the Electrum Bitcoin wallet in 2011, after a custodian wallet hack crashed the early Bitcoin ecosystem.

Greg is the host of the “Transform” podcast, where he engages in discussions with prominent figures about the ongoing transformation markets and people and is also the Managing Partner at Humla Ventures, a specialized alternative asset manager investing in the transformation of financial markets through venture capital and secondary investments.

Greg helps world class entrepreneurs and CEOs grow their startups competitively with capital and mentoring. He has spent his life working with people trying to improve the future. Greg has a decade as a tech founder, a decade of investment banking and strategy, and is closing out his decade of venture capital.

He is a frequent contributor, lecturer and speaker on podcasts and events about Bitcoin and digital assets, negotiation technique and growth. He has spoken on these subjects at several global conferences including Consensus Invest, the Crypto Finance Conference, Davos, Bitcoin 2021-2024, AIMA, Carmo conferences, SuperReturn series and even at his Alma Mater, the Wharton school of business.

Greg is a dedicated father, digital asset futurist, snowboarder, sportsman, reader/writer, and tai chi practitioner.

Nick 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. Spanos is also CEO of Blockchain Technologies Corp., which patented VoteWatcher, the first-ever blockchain voting platform. He is a co-founder of Zap.org, which solves one of the biggest challenges for blockchain smart contracts, by allowing real-world data and events to trigger smart contract provisions for the first time. Spanos was featured in the recent documentary, Banking on Bitcoin, and is a sought-after speaker at blockchain events worldwide.

Craig Sellars has led the development of several global blockchain innovations.

He is the inventor of the stablecoin, the digital US dollar on top of the Bitcoin blockchain as a founder of Tether, the world’s most broadly traded cryptocurrency; the NFT with Eric Pulier in 2015 at vAtomic Systems; and, as the Chief Technologist of Bitcoin’s Omni Layer, a protocol which supports the creation, movement and exchange of digital assets.

Andrew “Drew” Hinkes focuses his practice on digital assets, advising financial services clients from startups to multinational corporations on a wide range of matters including securities regulation, payment systems and money services business regulation, lending and staking, secured transactions including digital assets as collateral, structuring and governance of DeFi protocols and similar applications, anti-money laundering compliance, non-fungible tokens, stablecoins and other related technologies.

Harry Yeh is the Managing Director of Quantum Fintech Group (QFG). QFG is an investment management company focused on providing superior returns for its clients and partners in the cryptocurrency, blockchain and digital asset space. ‍ While operating Quantum Fintech Group, Harry Yeh founded and was a seed investor in LIF3 and L3 Reserve. LIF3 is a Layer-1, permissioned blockchain and DeFi ecosystem, and L3 Reserve is the issuer of L3USD, the first Variable Collateralized Stable Asset (VCS). As a fund manager, the funds and AUM managed by Harry, QFG and his partners exceeded $2B USD. ‍ As a former CTO and Co-Founder for several startups, Harry Yeh additionally has an engineering background and over 25 years of experience in Technology and Business – this has contributed to his success as a renowned Web3 advisor and serial entrepreneur who has managed and developed technology solutions for organizations between $5 to 200 Million in revenue and worked at Fortune 50, 100, 500 companies, Hedge funds, Internet Startups and dotcoms. Harry further has years of experience trading stocks, options and currencies.

Chris specialises in investment funds, corporate and commercial, insurance, banking, fintech, regulatory and compliance. Practice Experience Chris Humphries is the Managing Director of Stuarts and head of the specialist investment funds team. He is a leading individual in his field and is recognised as one of the top leading lawyers in the country for investment funds by Legal 500. Chris has been ranked as a Leading Lawyer in Investment Funds, Fintech, and Corporate and Commercial by Chambers and Partners for many years, and has earned recognition as a Highly Regarded lawyer by IFLR1000 in Investment Funds and Corporate practice areas. With over 25 years experience, Chris has acquired extensive and unique knowledge in the investment funds industry and has registered close to 1,000 funds in the Cayman Islands. There are few attorneys with the breadth and depth of knowledge and expertise that Chris has acquired. Chris joined in 2004 as one of the founding directors, from the London office of Kendall Freeman (now Locke Lord LLP), where he specialised in the financial services industry and regulatory related matters. Although Chris was born a British citizen, he has also gained the privilege of Cayman citizenship over the last 20 years. Chris is a highly experienced independent director and has sat on the board of many registered funds, private equity funds and investment vehicles. He routinely advises on regulatory and compliance issues involving funds, investment managers and fund administrators. He routinely advises on the strategic restructuring of funds, redemption restrictions as well as the use of side pockets or special purpose vehicles for illiquid assets and investor communications and disputes. Chris establishes investment managers and fund administrators in the Cayman Islands and advises on their respective regulatory regimes. He has extensive experience in all types of fund structures including master-feeder and fund of fund structures as well as the establishment of complex fund platforms using exempted companies and/or partnerships and the use of segregated portfolio companies. Chris advises on the use of side letters as well as other class rights related issues. As listing agent to the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (“CSX”) Chris has listed many investment funds on the CSX. Chris chairs the digital, blockchain and fintech working group and advises funds focusing on blockchain technology, bitcoin and other cryptocurrency strategies; and has a wide range of experience with corporate and commercial transactions for private and listed clients, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate finance, commercial agreements and insurance securitisations.

Vladislav Ginzburg is the Chief Executive Officer at Blockparty. Ginzburg leads Blockparty and the mission to build a blockchain-agnostic platform for collectible NFTs at the intersection of art, music and culture. Blockparty launched their MVP In August 2020 with a number of mainstream oriented drops, including first digital artworks by 3lau/Slime Sunday, Adventure Club, Dave Krugman and others. Earlier, Ginzburg was Chief Business Development officer at Blockparty Tickets where he introduced blockchain as an NFT powered ticketing system to music festivals and professional sports teams, including a partnership with the Sacramento Kings of the NBA. Before entering the Blockchain and entertainment spaces, Ginzburg managed a fine art fund where he transacted more than $150 million in blue chip artworks. Ginzburg studied at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio as well as The New School in New York.

Alonso De Gortari is currently a Product Manager for Economics at Mysten Labs. Prior to this, they worked as a Research Scientist at Novi (formerly Calibra) from January 2020 to February 2022. There, they worked on the synergies between the Diem (formerly Libra) stablecoin and payments, blockchain technology, smart contracts, Bitcoin, Ethereum, decentralized finance (DeFi), and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Alonso also helped chart Diem’s design in terms of its macroeconomic and financial inclusion goals. From July 2019 to December 2019, Alonso was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. And from September 2018 to June 2019, they were a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. Prior to that, they co-taught courses in International Macroeconomics and Globalization at Harvard University from September 2013 to May 2018. Alonso began their career as a Research Analyst at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) from April 2012 to June 2013. Alonso De Gortari’s educational career consists of a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Economics from Harvard University, a Master of Arts – MA in Economics from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Alonso De Gortari works with and Bauer Wann – Product Manager. Their manager is Adeniyi Abiodun, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer.

Mate is an entrepreneur at heart. He first heard about bitcoin in late 2012 and started to do bitcoin mining in mid-2013 with custom-built ASIC miners. In 2013 he founded a cryptocurrency media company called Bitcoinist.com. After a successful exit in 2015, Mate met Roger Ver and Co-founded Bitcoin.com. Mate focuses on a broader vision and communicating that vision to others while staying on top of industry trends. His passion outside of the crypto industry is watching. He has been a watch enthusiast for 20 years. His favorite brands are Patek and AP. Currently, he is the CEO of a Dubai-based media company called MetaNews.com.

Eric Galen is a seasoned lawyer and executive specializing in AI, blockchain, and Web3. With over two decades of experience, he is the COO at RFLXT (a Cardano-funded AI/web3 platform) and a Director at the VGX Foundation. His previous clients and collaborators include TikTok, Doodles, Yeezy, Microsoft, Conde Nast, Complexity Gaming, Orange, Gamesquare Esports, Will.i.am, Imagine Entertainment, Johnny Depp, Techstars, and many others. Eric’s unique experience at the convergence of media and technology positions him as a key figure in the emerging AI and Web3 landscapes.

Wayne Marcel is the Head of Growth for the Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO). He has been managing, teaching, and coaching high-performing teams for over 20 years. In 2016, his passion for helping and teaching people was merged with his passion for technology as he dove into learning about cryptocurrency and blockchain. He published a book in 2018 called “From No Crypto To Know Crypto” and hosted over 215 educational podcast episodes under the same name. Since then, he has dedicated himself to working with projects that help accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies, including web3 and AI by focusing on the user experience and education. He is also currently an advisor at Raze and co-founder of Learnvault, a web3 educational consortia.

Shrem’s foray into the world of Bitcoin began with his co-founding of BitInstant, a company that played a crucial role in the early adoption of Bitcoin by facilitating faster and more efficient transactions. As a founding member of the Bitcoin Foundation, Charlie worked tirelessly to promote Bitcoin and educate the public about its potential.

Mr Tapscott is an entrepreneur, business author, and seasoned capital markets professional focused on the impact of emerging technologies, such as blockchain and cryptocurrencies, on business, government, and society. His latest book, Web3: Charting the Internet’s Next Economic and Cultural Frontier (Harper Collins), was published September 19th, 2023. Alex is also the Managing Director of the Digital Assets Group at Ninepoint Partners, one of Canada’s leading investment firms, with more than $7 billion in assets under management (AUM). Alex is also co-author of the critically acclaimed non-fiction best-seller, Blockchain Revolution, translated into more than 19 languages and which has sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide. His other books, Financial Services Revolution and Digital Asset Revolution were published in 2020 and 2022 respectively. Alex is sought after world-wide for his expertise by business and government audiences. He has delivered well over 200 lectures and executive briefings to business audiences at firms like Goldman Sachs (Talks at GS), Google, Allianz, IBM, Microsoft and Accenture, to name a few (Select speeches by Alex). He is consistently ranked as a top influencer in the blockchain industry. His TedX talk, Blockchain is Eating Wall Street has been viewed over 800,000 times. Alex’s writing has been featured in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Globe and Mail, The Financial Post, TIME, Fortune, and many other publications. In 2017, Alex co-founded the Blockchain Research Institute (BRI), a global think-tank investigating blockchain strategies, opportunities and use-cases. Alex is a graduate of Amherst College (Cum Laude) and is a CFA Charterholder.

Hartej Sawhney is the founder of Zokyo and co-founder and CEO of Mamoru Network. Since 2016, Hartej has helped pioneer the crypto /web3 cybersecurity space.