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Ageesen Sri
Aladin Ben Sassi
Alberto Bacó-Bagué
Aleksandar Atanackovic
Aleksandar Rajic
Aleksander Kansky
Aleksandr Ovcharenko
Aleksandra Morozova
Alex Kozlov
Alex McDougall
Alex Momot
Alexander Shuhayeu
Alexandr Isaev
Alexandr Kuzmin
Alexandr Mikhaylov
Alexey Burdyko
Alexey Solovyev
Alexey Taygin
Ali Rasekh
Amir Najafi
Amit Shah
Anatolii Menlyk
Anatoliy Melnikov
Andrei Filipovich
Andrei Kucherov
Andrej Manfreda
Andrew Gaidukevich
Andrew Martin
Andrey Li
Andrey Skriptsov
Anish Mohammed
Ankit Bhatia
Annie Machon
Anthony Huang
Anthony Lesoismier
Ari Propis
ARIFA KHAN
Armando Pantoja
Arnaud Dartois, PhD
Artem Afian
Artem Shatilov
Arthur Pinchuk
Ashish Borana
Ashley Turing
Atefe Mosayebi
Austin H. Chung
Austin Trombley
Bex Bostjan
Blaise Mathai
Boris Baranov
Branimir Rakić
Brendan Blumer
Brock Pierce
BRUCE FENTON
Bryan Foss
Byron Levels
Caleb Veldhouse
Carmelo Badalamenti
Cataldo Franzone
Chad Kettering
Chad Leger
Charles Huang
Cheryl Clarke
Chiron Bramberger
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Chris Mair
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Christophe Diserens
Christopher Cummock
Christopher Snook
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Corey Jackson
Cristi Savescu
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Daniel Tamas
DANIIL GIRDEA
Danuta Kowalska
Dario Begonja
David (DJ) Kim
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Demidov Roman
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Leigh Flounders
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Malcom Wlkinson
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Martins Heidenbergs
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Matthias Woestmann
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Michael Gord
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Michał Nowacki
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Mo Dong
Mo Tayeb
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Neeraj Murarka
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Nicolas Dinh
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Sabrina Kaiser
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Sarah Azouvi
Sebastian Forbes
Selim Rinaz
Serge Petrov
Sergey Chmilenko
Sergey Kulikov
Serhii Kalinin
SIMON BOGDANOWICZ
Simon Cheong
Slava Gomzin
Slavena Savcheva
Sophia Bot
Spiros Nikolaou
Stefan Ionescu
Stéphane Ifrah
Sultan Al-Ahbabi
Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof
Taras Dovgal
Thomas B. Manson
TIM DRAPER
Tom Boyle
Tom Volk
Tomas Kärner
Tomaz Leposa
Tomaž Levak
Usman Amusat
Vadim Budaev
Vagan Abelyan
Valentin Antonov
Victor Banachin
Vitalik Buterin
Vittorio Minacori
Vivek Kumar Tripathi
Viviana Carcione
Vlad Zamfir
Vladimir Lupenko
Vladislav Artemyev
Vladislav Kirichenko
Vlasyuk Sergey
Vũ Trường Ca
W. Scott Stornetta
Wachtang Budagaschwili
Wei-Tek Tsai
Will Lebens
Xun Cai
Yobie Benjamin
Yoni Assouline
Yuryi Pavliyk
Zi Bin (Zac) Cheah
Žiga Drev
This forum is about understanding the true potential of blockchain technology and its ability to interact with the government at all levels. WHY ATTEND Whether you are just learning about blockchain technology,
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This forum is about understanding the true potential of blockchain technology and its ability to interact with the government at all levels.
WHY ATTEND
Whether you are just learning about blockchain technology, are currently immersed in it, or somewhere in between, the Blockchain Government Forum will be an opportunity to meet and collaborate with peers old and new as we discuss, debate and collaborate. This forum provides is an opportunity for you to learn about he technology, get insight into how innovative ideas are being developed and executed, and meet really great people all along the way. Over 2-days we’ll have top level keynote speeches, panels, facilitated workshops, interactive activations, and opportunities to network with a diverse group of stakeholders. We believe that this is a “must attend” event for people who are involved in blockchain technology, the government services, and the future of civilization.
october 1 (Monday) - 2 (Tuesday)
Shaw Centre
55 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON K1N 9J2
Contactinfo@maltablockchainsummit.com
U.CASH
U.CASH
MMH Blockchain Group
MMH Blockchain Group
Deloitte
Deloitte
Blockchain Association of Canada
Blockchain Association of Canada
mlg Blockchain Consulting
mlg Blockchain Consulting
Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
The Vision Public, permissionless blockchains are dependent for their security and reliability on their economic incentives and mechanism design. Some private, permissioned ones may be as well. This conference will
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Public, permissionless blockchains are dependent for their security and reliability on their economic incentives and mechanism design. Some private, permissioned ones may be as well.
This conference will explore the economic security aspects of blockchain protocols, including game theory, incentive design, mechanism design and market design along with other topics related to crypto-economics security, and to foster collaborations among researchers and practitioners working on these topics.
CESC is hosted by Dekrypt Capital and Blockchain at Berkeley
Cryptoeconomics is a formal discipline that focuses on the design and characterization of protocols that govern the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services in a decentralized digital economy.
10 (Wednesday) 9:00 am - 11 (Thursday) 6:00 pm
Contactinfo@maltablockchainsummit.com
Technology Fellow, EFF and Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford
Joseph does research spanning cryptography, security protocol design, security economics, and human factors in security. He co-authored the Princeton textbook on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies.
Technology Fellow, EFF and Postdoctoral ...
Co-Author Plasma and Lightning Network
Joseph is the co-author of bitcoin’s Lightning Network whitepaper and Plasma (Plasma.io). His current areas of research involves blockchain scalability mechanisms, inter-blockchain interaction, and cryptoeconomic incentives.
Co-Author Plasma and Lightning Network
Co-Founder, Celer Network
Mo received his Ph.D. from UIUC. He was a founding engineer and product manager at Veriflow, working on network formal verification. He is an expert in applying algorithmic game theory to protocol design, and teaches full-stack smart contract courses.
Co-Founder, Celer Network
Researcher, University College London
Sarah is a PhD student in Computer Science at University College London, working under the supervision of Dr Sarah Meiklejohn. Her research interests are in Applied Cryptography, Distributed Systems and Game Theory.
Researcher, University College London
Creator of Ethereum
Vitalik is the creator of Ethereum. He first discovered blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies through Bitcoin in 2011, and was immediately excited by the technology and its potential. He now leads Ethereum's research team, working on future versions of the Ethereum protocol.
Creator of Ethereum
Research Lead, Ethereum
Vlad is a leading Ethereum researcher and expert in crypto-economics. Currently, he is working on proof-of-stake and blockchain sharding protocols for the Ethereum project.
Research Lead, Ethereum
9:00AM Keynote9:00AM - 9:25AMBy Oasis Labs
9:25AM Spacemesh9:25AM - 9:55AMBy Tal Moran
9:55AM Cryptoeconomics Panel9:55AM - 10:40AMBy Vitalik Buterin, Karl Floersch, Joseph Poon
10:40AM BREAK10:40AM - 10:55AMBreak.
10:55AM Algorand 2.010:55AM - 11:40AMBy Silvio Micali
11:40AM Transparent zkSNARKs11:40AM - 12:25PMby Alessandro Chiesa
12:25PM Lunch12:25PM - 1:25PMLunch
1:25PM Towards 10k-TPS Sharding Blockchains without Sacrificing Security1:25PM - 1:55PMby Mahnush Movahedi
1:55PM Fast Multiparty Threshold ECDSA with Fast, Trustless Setup1:55PM - 2:25PMby Steven Goldfeder
2:25PM Fundamentals of Scaling Blockchains at the Network and Consensus Layers2:25PM - 2:55PMBy Emin Gun Sirer
2:55PM BREAK2:55PM - 3:15PMBREAK
3:15PM Layer 2 and Scalability3:15PM - 3:45PMby Xuanji Li
3:45PM Liquidity.Network's NOCUST - A 2nd Layer Financial Intermediary3:45PM - 4:15PMby Arthur Gervais
4:15PM FileBounty: Fair Data and Value Exchange with Automated Dispute Mediation4:15PM - 4:45PMby Simon Janin
4:45PM BREAK4:45PM - 5:00PMBREAK
5:00PM DFINITY: How the World's Computer Reaches Agreement5:00PM - 5:30PMby Dominic Williams
5:30PM Thunder: A Fast and High Throughput Blockchain5:30PM - 6:00PMby Rafael Pass
9:00AM Keynote9:00AM - 9:25AMby RChain
9:25AM Meta-Analysis of Alternative Consensus Protocols9:25AM - 9:40AMby Aparna Krishnan
9:40AM Hostile Blockchain Takeovers9:40AM - 10:10AMby Joesph Bonneau
10:10AM Blockchain Upgrade as a Coordination Game10:10AM - 10:40AMby Stephanie Hurder
10:40AM Break10:40AM - 10:55AMBreak
10:55AM Analyzing China's Influence over Bitcoin10:55AM - 11:20AMby Ben Kaiser
11:20AM A comparison of Proof of Stake and Proof of Work protocols11:20AM - 11:40AMby Tom Brand
11:40AM Arbitrum: Scalable, private smart contracts11:40AM - 12:10PMby Ed Felton
12:10PM Cosmos Proof of Stake12:10PM - 12:30PMby Sunny Aggarwal
12:30PM Lunch12:30PM - 1:25PMLunch
1:25PM Lost Cryptocurrency Recirculation1:25PM - 1:55PMby Alon Shataierman
1:55PM The Gap Game1:55PM - 2:25PMby Itay Tsabary
2:25PM Evolutionary dynamics of the cryptocurrency market2:25PM - 2:55PMby Abeer ElBahrawy
2:55PM Break2:55PM - 3:15PMBreak
3:15PM Gormos: A high performance and scalable design for decentralized applications3:15PM - 3:45PMby Loi Luu
3:45PM Verifying dapps from the bytecode up3:45PM - 4:15PMby Martin Lundfall
4:15PM BREAK4:15PM - 5:00PMBreak.
5:00PM Solving Liquidity Shortage and State Availability Challenge in Off-chain Scaling Platform5:00PM - 5:30PMby Mo Dong
5:30PM GasToken: A Journey Through Blockchain Resource Arbitrage5:30PM - 6:00PMby Florian Tramer
CoinAgenda Global focuses on international bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain investing trends, with world-class speakers from around the globe and a special focus on global blockchain companies and investors. Held at the Mandalay
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CoinAgenda Global focuses on international bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain investing trends, with world-class speakers from around the globe and a special focus on global blockchain companies and investors. Held at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, CoinAgenda Global will feature three days of expert commentary and panel discussions from the industry’s leading thought leaders, along with networking events at exclusive venues. Conference sessions will explore topics including Friendly Jurisdictions, Regulatory and Legal Landscapes, Digital Asset Investing Across Global Markets, and much more.
CoinAgenda is the leading investor conference series in the blockchain sector since 2014. The 2018 CoinAgenda calendar is a series of five events (including startup/ICO competitions) in:
Past CoinAgenda ICO Competition winners include Aeternity, Bancor, Cashbet, Omega One, SALT Lending, and Qtum, which have collectively raised more than $500 million with a combined market cap of $10 billion. The top five ICOs and the winners will be announced in a press release sent to top media and awarded a complimentary exhibit at a future CoinAgenda event, as well as tickets to partner conferences.
23 (Tuesday) 8:00 am - 25 (Thursday) 6:00 pm
Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino
South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Contactinfo@maltablockchainsummit.com
FOUNDING PARTNER | PARTNERSHIP FOR MODERN PUERTO RICO
ABB is the Advisor and Sounding Board of Choice for Owners and Senior Management when tackling Challenging Special Situations; Dealmaker and Negotiator; Expertise as Advisor-Coach, in Turnarounds, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Placement Debt or Equity, Corporate Governance, Strategic Development and Growth, Government Affairs, Board of Directors and Family Business, Market Entry Partner and Advisor. Master minded Law 20-22 movement, Parallel 18 Start Up project, Lufthansa Technic MRO Aeronautical Ecosystem, CEAL PR Chapter, among many creative innovation initiatives. ABB encourages his clients and colleagues to be socially conscious impact investors with a proactive vision of prosperity and modernization for Puerto Rico.
FOUNDING PARTNER | PARTNERSHIP FOR MODER...
GENERAL PARTNER | BICAMERAL VENTURES
Alex McDougall, Bicameral Ventures Co-Founder is an integrative financial expert specializing in investing and advising across the full lifecycle of companies from early stage blockchain to some of the largest financial institutions globally. During a career with Bank of Montreal Capital Markets spanning the Fintech, M&A, and Financial Institutions Investment Banking teams, Alex helped lead the charge on several of Capital Market’s early blockchain initiatives and was recognized as a leader within the Investment Bank. Alex left BMO in early 2018 to co-found Bicameral Ventures, an innovative Venture Capital Fund focused on taking positions in exceptional early stage projects developing real-world business models on top of the Aion platform. Alex earned his CFA designation in 2013 and was awarded multiple scholarships towards earning his MBA from the Rotman School of Management where he was a Bregman Scholar and mediocre, but enthusiastic, member of the Rotman Hockey Team.
GENERAL PARTNER | BICAMERAL VENTURES
BOARD MEMBER | THE BITCOIN FOUNDATION
Bruce Fenton became involved with Bitcoin in 2012 and has been involved full time in Bitcoin and the blockchain industry since 2013. Roles: Founder/ President of Atlantic Financial / Atlantic Financial Blockchain Labs Founder, CEO, Chainstone Labs Board Member, Medici Ventures (a subsidiary of Overstock) Board Member, tZero Board Member and former Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation Founder of the Bitcoin Association Fenton is also the host and founder of the Satoshi Roundtable retreat, an exclusive, invitation-only retreat for leaders in the blockchain industry and organizer of the first Dubai Bitcoin Conference. Bruce is the founder of Atlantic Financial which, in 1994, became the first full-service investment firm on the internet. Prior to Atlantic Financial, Bruce was with Morgan Stanley and specialized in emerging technologies and emerging markets. Bruce has completed several significant transactions and served as a consultant to large investment funds, ultra high net worth individuals and families. Bruce served as an advisor to one of the world’s largest charitable organizations for Gulf engagement and a top ten global private equity firm. Bruce travels extensively and has lived in the US and Asia as well as Riyadh and Dubai. He has spoken at numerous blockchain conferences, the MIT Enterprise Forum, Tony Robbins Wealth Mastery, DevCore, the Global Competitiveness Forum (GCF) Saudi Arabia and other major events and has been interviewed by the Wall St. Journal, CNN, CNBC, Investor’s Business Daily and others.
BOARD MEMBER | THE BITCOIN FOUNDATION
ATTORNEY
CEO & CO-FOUNDER | SMART VALOR
Olga Feldmeier is CEO and co-founder of SMART VALOR, a Swiss-based blockchain start-up building a decentralized marketplace for tokenized alternative investments. Olga has extensive experience working in the banking and financial services sector for global brands such as Barclays Capital, UBS Wealth Management and Boston Consulting Group, where she focused on strategy projects at financial institutions such as Deutsche Bank, Unicredit and Commerzbank. Prior to founding SMART VALOR, Olga held the position of Commercial Managing Partner at prominent Silicon Valley Bitcoin startup Xapo. Olga is a prominent founding member of the Crypto Valley community, and is the producer of the ICO Summit, the first global conference focusing on blockchain crowdfunding in Switzerland. She is also a mentor at the largest European accelerator program, Kickstart Accelerator, and regularly delivers talks at conferences and universities on the regulation of Blockchain industry, the tokenization of assets and the disruption of the banking industry.
CEO & CO-FOUNDER | SMART VALOR
CO-FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER | BLOCKTEAM VENTURES
Simon Bogdanowicz is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of BlockTeam Ventures, a strategic investment and advisory firm dedicated to supporting the world's most promising blockchain-enabled companies. He has a history of success working across multiple fields over his career, including enterprise technology, international marketing, and traditional finance. Simon started his career on Wall Street at the RBC Capital Markets, one of the top 10 largest investment banks in the world.
CO-FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER | BLOCKTEA...
8:00am Hot Breakfast Buffet8:00am - 9:30amHot Breakfast Buffet
9:30am Welcome to CoinAgenda Global9:30am - 10:00amOpening remarks, Michael Terpin, founder and managing director, CoinAgenda.
10:00am Fireside Chat10:00am - 10:25amMichael Jones, co-founder of Science and Science Blockchain; former CEO, MySpace, with Michael Terpin
10:25am Panel10:25am - 11:00amIncubating the Future of Blockchain
11:00am Fireside Chat11:00am - 11:25amSpeakers: Michael Terpin , Jeremy Gardner
11:25am Panel11:25am - 12:00pmGeneration Blockchain: Gen Y and Z Take the Lead,
12:00pm Panel12:00pm - 12:30pmInfluencers and Entertainment
12:30pm Keynote12:30pm - 1:00pmFuture of Security Tokens
1:00pm Lunch and Panel1:00pm - 2:15pmThe Path is Getting Clearer for Security Tokens
2:15pm Panel2:15pm - 2:40pmSearch for the World's Friendliest Jurisdiction
2:40pm Spotlight Presentation2:40pm - 2:50pmBlockchain Economic Opportunities in Puerto Rico Giovanni
2:50pm Fireside Chat2:50pm - 3:10pmSpeakers: Alberto Bacó-Bagué , Michael Terpin
3:10pm Panel3:10pm - 3:40pmPanel.
3:40pm Fireside Chat3:40pm - 4:00pmFireside Chat.
4:00pm Panel4:00pm - 4:25pmCentralized Exchanges vs the Decentralized Revolution
4:30pm Fireside Chat4:30pm - 5:00pmSpeakers: Michael Terpin , Vinny Lingham
5:00pm Panel5:00pm - 5:30pmUpdate on ICO laws and regulation
5:30pm CoinAgenda Opening Cocktail Party. Sponsored by Airthereum5:30pm - 7:30pmCoinAgenda Opening Cocktail Party.
8:00am Hot Breakfast Buffet8:00am - 9:30amHot Breakfast Buffet.
9:30am Opening Remarks9:30am - 10:00amThe second day of CoinAgenda focuses on overall blockchain investment and trading strategies and trends, featuring many of the top investors, traders and thought leaders in the blockchain world.
10:00am Fireside Chat10:00am - 10:25amFireside Chat
10:25am Keynote10:25am - 10:50amThe Meyer Multiple
10:50am Panel10:50am - 11:25amOversupply Meets Slowing Demand – Where is the Liquidity?
11:25am Panel11:25am - 11:50amEquity vs Tokens: Where to Invest in 2018?
11:50am Spotlight Presentation11:50am - 12:00pmSpotlight Presentation
12:00pm Panel12:00pm - 12:30pmAre We Seeing a Family Office Blockchain Buying Boom?
12:30pm Panel12:30pm - 12:55pmBitcoin 2020: Where Will We Be in 15 months?
1:00pm Lunch1:00pm - 2:15pmLunch
2:15pm Fireside Chat2:15pm - 2:45pmFireside Chat
2:45pm Fireside Chat2:45pm - 3:15pmFireside Chat
3:15pm Panel3:15pm - 3:40pmThe business of securing blockchain
4:00pm Fireside Chat4:00pm - 4:25pmFireside Chat
4:25pm Public Blockchain Presentations4:25pm - 5:55pmPublic Blockchain Presentations
6:30pm Bus leave for Mansions Dinner6:30pm - 7:00pmBus leave for Mansions Dinner
7:00pm CoinAgenda Global Legendary Dinner7:00pm - 10:00pmLegendary Dinner” at off-Strip adjoining celebrity mansions on Las Vegas’ famed “Billionaire’s Row.
8:00am Hot Breakfast Buffet8:00am - 9:30amHot Breakfast Buffet
9:30am Opening Remarks9:30am - 10:00amOpening Remarks
10:00am Fireside Chat10:00am - 10:30amFireside Chat
10:30am ICO Presentation10:30am - 1:00pmICO Presentation
1:00pm Lunch1:00pm - 2:15pmAre Utility Tokens Still a Viable Funding Strategy?
2:15pm ICO Contest Presentations2:15pm - 4:30pmGroup of 25
4:30pm Break4:30pm - 4:45pmBreak
4:45pm Announce ICO Contest Winners4:45pm - 5:00pmAnnounce ICO Contest Winners
5:00pm Old-timer's Panel5:00pm - 5:30pmOld-timer's Panel
6:00pm CoinAgenda Global 2018 Closing Cocktail Party6:00pm - 10:00pmCoinAgenda Global 2018 Closing Cocktail Party
Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Malta is an event organized by Smile-Expo, an international company that has held events in 23 countries. This year, Smile-Expo will hold the second Blockchain
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Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Malta is an event organized by Smile-Expo, an international company that has held events in 23 countries. This year, Smile-Expo will hold the second Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Malta which will bring together experts from 10 countries.
Key topics of the event:
• how to tokenize assets in businesses;
• how to avoid hacker attacks on your blockchain solution;
• how to launch an ICO without breaking the law;
• regulation of the global blockchain market and its impact on businesses.
The core feature of the conference is blockchain use cases in nonfinancial sectors relevant for Malta: travel, sailing, aviation, real property, healthcare, education, and logistics.
No theory, only actual use of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. No newcomers, only industry experts. No fiat, only crypto!
Official language of the conference: English.
(Tuesday) 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
GOLDEN BAY
Radisson Blu Resort & Spa, Golden Sands, l/o Mellieha, MLH5510
Contactinfo@maltablockchainsummit.com
CEO of HCX
Arifa Khan is India Partner of the Ethereum Foundation. She has been researching the blockchain space since 2015 and is a distributed ledger technology evangelist. She is currently leading efforts to build a ground-breaking decentralised solution for capital markets (DGCAMP) as Founder & CEO of Himalaya Labs, which she considers her most inspired and important work to date. (https://medium.com/@misskhan/what-is-dgcamp-2a6fae4cf699) She is a celebrated investment banker with experience in Leveraged Finance/ Financial Sponsors Coverage/ Debt Products/Capital Markets & Credit. She has worked with two Swiss banks Credit Suisse & UBS, which honed her ability in deal origination, and confident execution. She has deep sector expertise in Banking & Financial services, Fintech and Blockchain. She currently advises Govt. of India on infrastructure financing and the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh State on blockchain adoption. Arifa has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business, USA where she majored in Finance and specialised in advanced financial concepts, modelling and speculative markets. She is mathematically gifted, and earned early accolades as a Gold Medalist in Mathematics. She ranked 14th in Andhra Pradesh State Engineering Entrance EAMCET when she was just 14 years old, which earned her an admission in Computer Science Engg. Having hailed from a small town in Andhra Pradesh with no engineers, and from a family of non-mathematicians, she created waves as a teenage prodigy. However, she did not return to pure mathematics until a fascination for blockchain took hold of her in 2015. She has a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras - an inflection point in shaping her ambition. Arifa is Member Wharton UK Club Committee, Founder Europe-India Conclave Series, speaker at several international conferences. She is known for her versatile talents and is a poet and an acclaimed painter. She is inspired by genius polymaths such as Tagore, Steve Jobs, Vitalik.
CEO of HCX
Strategy Advisor & CEO, Steeves Solutions
Business strategy and models, whitepapers and ICOs, pitches and go to market propositions: collaborative fine-tuning of your propositions and their presentation will position you for results. Taking a tactical and pragmatic but crreative approach, I work with the Board and founders to identify opportunities, increase market share and identify new propositions within existing product sets A contributor to the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Financial Times, I have been included on worldwide Cloud Computing Thought Leader lists. I am a well-experienced speaker and presenter including TEDx, India Institute of Technology (IIT), UK-Canada Chamber of Commerce, Cloud Forum, CASS Business School and other industry events. I co-produced and presented an extensive series of cloud and business interviews at IntelligentHQ.com. I also worked with the Nigeria Rebirth Foundation as Consulting Producer and Business Advisor for the Labour Room National Development TV (2017) show in Nigeria.
Strategy Advisor & CEO, Steeves Solution...
Founder of Arcona Digital Land
Co-Founder and Investor of the Arcona ecosystem Daniel is a serial entrepreneur recently having been concentrated on start-ups. He came to Arcona through trial and error and ended up being desperately in love with the project. Apart from investing he is a lot into developing and promoting the extraordinary concept of Arcona’s Digital land. On being that engaged and having become a reputable expert in AR and its possibilities Daniel shares his knowledge and excitement about the ecosystem of Arcona merging together real and virtual worlds. He performs at specialized activities as a speaker all across the globe. The number of Daniel’s pitches has already exceeded 300 threshold and keeps growing with each day.
Founder of Arcona Digital Land
CEO at Intelliblock
James Catania is the CEO of Intelliblock one of the first end-to-end blockchain solution providers. James is one of the premiere consultants of blockchain systems and technologies in Malta.
CEO at Intelliblock
Founder & CEO at Blackbox Foundation
I grew up the son of a migrant worker and went from a minimum wage factory job to raising millions of dollars in capital. Founded a Techstars/VC-backed computer vision company which sold in 2015 to Kairos, EIR/advisor to LATAM Socialatom VC fund. Emerging technology product strategist with Occipital Bridge VR mixed reality headset, InfoScout, IoT, wearables, Sentiment Analysis, and 3D Body Scanning. Speaker, writer, panelist - Singularity University, Inman, ICO CROWD, Forbes, TEDx, MIT Enterprise Forum, NYC Meetup, Detroit Regional Chamber, as just a few examples. Also featured as an entrepreneur in the New York Times, Wired, Fast Company, Techcrunch, and Business Insider. I lead a purpose-driven organization focused on the Decentralized Future of Work (AI+blockchain). https://blackboxfoundation.org
Founder & CEO at Blackbox Foundation
Investor | President of Intrinsic Value Investment Partners
Mr. Babay is also the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Intrinsic Value Investment Partners, a hedge fund that is value focused. Concurrently, Mr. Babay is Chairman & CEO of HealthSapiens, a decentralized healthcare provider that delivers on-demand access to healthcare anytime, anywhere, via mobile devices, the internet, video and phone focusing on the Medicare, Individual, and Hispanic markets. Mr. Babay has over 15 years of global investing, entrepreneurial and corporate finance experience allocating capital across the capital structure (credit and equity), angel investing, liquid and illiquid investments in securities. Mr. Babay started his Wall Street career at Lehman Brothers' Mergers and Acquisition department. As a result of his stellar achievements, Mr. Babay was invited to join the Center of Excellence team of Principal Investing and, later joined the Capital Structure Arbitrage desk. A notable achievement at the global macro level was Mr. Babay's call of the Housing Market Bubble in late 2005, which was mentioned in Larry McDonald's book, "Colossal Failure of Common Sense." Mr. Babay left Lehman Brothers in 2006 and joined Foxhill Capital, a distressed/ special situation hedge fund, as a partner and member of the investment committee. Prior to his Wall Street experience, Mr. Babay implemented the global strategy for various international companies across the Middle East and Europe. Mr. Babay is proficient in three languages, English, French and Arabic, and possesses significant knowledge and understanding of global trends and their impact on current market conditions. Mr. Babay has published numerous studies and analysis while at Columbia University. Mr. Babay is member of the board of director and Chairman of the compensation committee of GLYECO, a publicly traded company, principally involved in processing of waste into high quality ethylene glycol. Mr Babay also is a member of the Board of Directors of the Arab Bankers Association of North America (ABANA), Overground Arts Alliance, and Chairman of the Board of the Friendship Ambassadors Foundation, Inc. (FAF). Mr. Babay received a B.S. in finance and economics from HEC Institute and an MBA from Columbia Graduate School of Business.
Investor | President of Intrinsic Value ...
09:30 Government09:30 - 10:00Government
10:00 KARIM BABAY10:00 - 10:10How Venture Investors evaluate Blockchain Startups ICOs and The Value of Their Tokens Years Later
10:10 BRUCE JEONG10:10 - 10:15Smart crypto city
10:15 Pitch session10:15 - 10:30Pitch session
10:30 DISCUSSION PANEL10:30 - 11:30Use cases: Blockchain and IoT
11:00 STEVE MUSCAT AZZOPARDI11:00 - 11:15Smart contracts - from hype to business
11:15 DISCUSSION PANEL: Tales and adventures of blockchain hacking11:15 - 11:30Tales and adventures of blockchain hacking: All new technology is actively scrutinised by attackers looking for some personal gain. However, it is not a coincidence that blockchain has become a prime target as hackers look for advantageous effort against reward ratios. What does it make blockchain technology such attractive targets for attackers? What are the types of attacks most commonly used by hackers? This talk explores notorious hacks over the short history of blockchain, details attacking techniques and provides insight about the typical pitfalls in cryptocurrently projects, inclusing ICOs, smart contracts, cryptocurrency exchanges and cryptocurrency projects. Tales and adventures of blockhain hacking provides detailed information to anyone interested in how to make a deployment more secure and minimise the impact of potential attacks.
11:30 DISCUSSION PANEL: The World gets tokenized11:30 - 12:00One of the most exciting applications which can be done via blockchain technology is tokenization. This new technology allows the storage of value and as a result, one can bring any form of an asset on the blockchain. Tangible assets such as gold, properties or luxury goods and intangible assets such as patents, copyrights or any form of contracts can be managed, traded or even used as collateral. Along with this possibility comes as well a shift in how business models are done and how they have to be structured to serve the idea of decentralization distribution and tokenization.
12:30 DISCUSSION PANEL: ICO's: Opportunity or Threat? Regulation of the DLT and ICO business (3 new bills in Malta)12:30 - 13:00This presentation will cover among other things scams causing disruptive legislation and how to combat moving forward as a community. The ability of ICO's to threaten the traditional economy. We explore both macro and micro impacts to the economy. Showing the audience how the 'world' views ICO's today around the globe and our responsibility to create an accountable community moving forward. The regulation of ICOs and Exchanges in Malta. ICO marketing
13:00 Coffee break13:00 - 14:30Coffee break
14:30 DISCUSSION PANEL: Panel discussion: Legal and Regulatory Challenges in Blockchain14:30 - 15:30op experts do a brief intro to Blockchain Malta, how might blockchian technology revolutionise tax, Blockchain potential to simplify and automate tax compliance and transparency, purpose of the panel, issues which will be discussed on regulatory and legal side, including ICO and smart contracts, IP issues, decentralised economy etc and pitch importance of Blockchain&Bitcoin Conference Malta. The panel will discuss legal and regulatory issues on blockchain, as well as its effect on the existing echo system and the social fabric of our economy, where a lex Cryptographia, block chain and bit property pave the way for digital economy. Gordon Einstein will specify how to legally raise money in US if you are based in Malta. Ian Gauci will discover Blockchian and GDPR and the right to be forgotten on Blockchain. Comparison of Securities, Tax and Regulatory Issues for ICOs in Malta, Switzerland and the United States. Malta, Switzerland and the United States are leading jurisdictions for initial coin offerings. We will compare the current rules and regulations, such as rules on securities and taxation, in those countries and predictions in regulatory trends. Regulating the future - the Maltese experience. The certification of technology arrangements in terms of the new Maltese regulatory framework.
15:15 Nuts and Bolts of Raising US Capital with Reg D15:15 - 15:45Reg D is a securities law exemption you can use to raise unlimited startup capital from an unlimited number of investors in United States. Learn the ins and outs on what Reg D is, how to use it, and how to stay out of legal and SEC trouble on your way to fund-raising success. This presentation will move fast and provide a no-fluff “how to” action guide.
15:30 DISCUSSION PANEL: Education on Blockchain15:30 - 15:40A brief explanation of how education on Blockchain works. Market wrap up.
15:40 Cryptocurrency trading15:40 - 16:00Cryptocurrency trading by: FLORIAN (FLORZINHO) GRUMMES CEO, Midas Touch Consulting
16:00 DISCUSSION PANEL16:00 - 16:40Use cases “Large investment funds are looking into crypto. Blockchain and existing use cases – Marine Industry, Transport (public transport, supply chain, logistics), Gaming, Real Estate, Land Registry, Helthcare, AI." The Era of New Technology : Blockchain in various spheres
17:00 Evening Networking17:00 - 18:00Evening Networking
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