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H.E. Justin Sun is the Ambassador and former Permanent Representative of Grenada to the WTO, Founder of TRON, one of the world's largest blockchain DAO ecosystems, and Advisor to HTX, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges.

As an advisor, Sun provides strategic counsel to guide HTX’s development.

Sergei is the founder of the world's largest agency for listing projects on crypto exchanges Listing.Help, founder of the Jets.Capital investment fund. He is also the main organizer of the Blockchain Life Forum, the one of the biggest blockchain forums in the world.

With already more than nine years of industry experience under his belt, Sergei looks set to dominate the fintech and blockchain spaces for many more years to come.

Eowyn Chen is passionate about hyper-scaling crypto adoption to empower people with access and opportunity. She is the CEO of Trust Wallet, one of the world's largest multi-chain, non-custodial crypto wallets serving tens of millions of users globally. Previously, Eowyn was the VP at Binance, building and leading its central marketing team to help grow users from tens of millions into hundreds of millions.

Before diving into the blockchain industry, she helped international startups with their go-to-market strategy and operations in the US and was trained as a management consultant in financial services at Oliver Wyman in New York. Trained as a science-minded history concentrator at Harvard College, Eowyn always aspires to be a child-like truth seeker of fundamental principles of human individuals and society.

Dr. Marwan Alzarouni is an internationally recognized blockchain technology advocate, keynote speaker and strategic advisor. Dr. Alzarouni is the CEO of Dubai Blockchain Center (DBCC), an impact business and a strategic partner to Dubai Future Foundation.

The center was inaugurated by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum under the Area 2071 initiative in May 2018. It aims to create a fertile ground and a holistic ecosystem for blockchain companies and projects to thrive in. DBCC regularly hosts a number of blockchain startups within Area 2071 and also conducts educational classes and seminars around blockchain use cases in government and private sector.

Paolo eventually joined Bitfinex, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges, as Senior Software Developer in 2014, tasked with trading engine development, platform scalability and high-availability. Later in 2016, Paolo transitioned to the role of CTO during which time he further refined his genuine passion for distributed systems, high-performance computing, and extreme-resilient platforms.

As CTO of Bitfinex, Paolo’s role is to manage the development team, evaluate new technologies, design and develop the Bitfinex backend platform. In addition to this, Paolo also serves as Lead Backend Developer and Lead Matching Engine Developer at Bitfinex.

Paolo also assumed the role of CTO for Tether in 2017. As the CTO of Tether, Paolo is responsible for overseeing the development and dissemination of technology for external customers, vendors, and other clients to help improve and increase business.

Xinxi is the co-founder and director of Litecoin Foundation, co-founder and CEO of the Coinut CEX Platform. He started his trading journey got his first pot of yield in the Forex market and later he was attracted to Bitcoin and its features back in 2011.

He completed his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore. Xinxi is currently a core developer in the Litecoin foundation after he co-founded the Foundation along with Charlie Lee and later co-founded another Crypto-related product, Coinut Cryptocurrency Exchange Platform.

With over 20 years of experience in finance, 12 of which have been around operations and trading. Has been in virtual assets since 2016 and has not looked back. Working towards a vision of bridging the gaps with physical and digital worlds.

At Binance Alex is responsible for leading and growing the operation of the regulated Binance business here in Dubai and spear-heading the growth of the region’s ecosystem from all things Web3, Metaverse and virtual assets and more.

Pascal started his career at Kelkoo, a price comparison service acquired by Yahoo for EUR 475 million in 2004. He then joined the advertising company Criteo in 2008 where he worked for five years as COO, being instrumental in the pivot to advertising, which led to the company’s global expansion towards a EUR 2.17 billion market capitalisation.

Before being CEO at Ledger, Pascal worked as Venture Partner in Mosaic Ventures, a London based venture capital firm focusing on Series A stage companies. Pascal is also non-executive chairman of Kaiko, a financial data website on Bitcoin.

Miriam Kiwan is Vice President of MENA at Circle, a global financial technology company helping money move at internet speed, with a mission to raise global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of value.

Prior to this, Miriam led Digital Assets and tech ecosystem development at Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). She held various strategic roles within the technology, financial services and nonprofit in the UAE and Europe.

She holds a Global EMBA from TRIUM, a joint program between London School of Economics, New York University and HEC Paris.

Dmitry Fedotov serves as the Head of DLT Foundations Oversight at ADGM, where he leads the world's first DLT Foundations Regime. A recognized expert in virtual assets, crypto, Web 3.0, and AI, Dmitry has been involved with Blockchain and Virtual Assets since 2013. Before joining ADGM, he was part of the team at VARA Dubai.

Before his role in the UAE Regulators, Dmitry's expertise extended across various domains in the industry: from manufacturing crypto hardware wallets to AI-driven optimisation of public blockchain protocols.

Danilo Carlucci is a Dubai-based serial entrepreneur and early crypto investor, who started his career within the watch industry in Switzerland.

After several years of founding startups, Danilo joined Google, leading YouTube’s UK creator community efforts. It didn’t take long for Danilo to go back to being an entrepreneur, and eventually founding Morningstar Ventures – an investment firm backing ambitious early-stage startups, which is also the backer of digitial art gallery 37xDubai and consultancy firm MSV Studio.

Reece Merrick is Senior Director of Global Strategic Partnerships at Ripple where he leads relationships with key financial institutions & crypto partners adopting blockchain-based payments and crypto liquidity solutions to enable cross-border payments.

Prior to Ripple, Reece spent 10+ years working within the fintech and payments space, focusing on FX risk management and building out cross-border payment solutions for large FIs & corporations.

After more than a decade in trading, investing, advising startups and building 3 businesses, he joined Evgeny and Harro to co-found his 4th venture: Wintermute Trading, an algorithmic liquidity provider in the crypto space.

Wintermute is now 6 years old, have near 100 staff, 4 investment rounds under their belts - proudly backed by Lightspeed, Blockchain.com Ventures, Pantera, Avon and a cool bunch of angels. They are very much striving for a culture of excellence and fair practices in this maturing space.

He currently overlap their BD and ventures arm, focused on maximising their optionality, and always trying to add value to anyone he interact with. He have just moved to Singapore to support their Asian expansion efforts.

Dr. Yang is the founder and CEO of MicroBT. He founded MicroBT in 2016 to supply high-performance ASIC miners (WhatsMiner) for bitcoin mining and has 20+ years of experience in the chip design industry. He is the pioneer of full-custom chip design methodology in the industry.

Bertrand Levy is a digital pioneer with over 15 years of experience in the music industry. He spent over 10 years at Universal Music Group, where he held the position of Global Vice President. Currently, he is in charge of Global Partnerships at THE SANDBOX, one of the leading metaverse platforms in the world.

As an entrepreneur and innovator in the field of VR, Bertrand Levy continues to push the boundaries of what is possible in virtual reality. Through Sandbox, he is helping to shape the future of VR by enabling anyone with a passion for creativity to participate in this immersive medium.

Halil leads the strategy of the Wallet, Wallet is a next-generation payment solution built on TON Blockchain and seamlessly integrated into Telegram Messenger for effortless and secure transactions. The Wallet is the easiest gateway for web2 people to join crypto.

His team understand the complexities and intimidation often associated with existing crypto solutions, which is why we see their mission in solving these issues by a synergetic combination of Wallet, Telegram and TON.

Dominic is a crypto theoretician and entrepreneur. His recent research includes Threshold Relay and PSC chains, Validation Towers and Trees, and USCIDs, and he proposes new ideas such as "The 3 E's of Sybil Resistance".

Previously he ran a venture-backed MMO game using his own distributed systems that hosted millions of users.

During his career while holding the title of CEO across multiple companies, Thiel successfully created in excess of $750 million in shareholder value, efficiently raised more than $150 million through both public (IPO and secondary offerings) and private capital sources, led multiple successful corporate transformations resulting in highly accretive exits, built high output agile product development organizations, and established corporate innovation groups resulting in the creation of new product businesses that generated significant new revenues in their first year.

Inal is the Gaming Lead at TON Foundation.

Inal has founded several gaming + blockchain successful startups in the past and is now leading the gaming vertical at TON Foundation to help games to onboard into Telegram and utilize the power of TON blockchain.

Jason leads OKX's innovation efforts, and is responsible for identifying new business opportunities, developing new products and services, and exploring new markets in the rapidly-evolving crypto industry.

Prior to joining the Web3 industry in 2016, Jason worked at Barclays Capital and cfX Incorporated. He holds an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Nischal Shetty is the co-founder of Shardeum, a decentralized, Layer 1 blockchain. He is also the Founder, CEO of WazirX, India's largest crypto exchange by volume with over 12 Million users. Nischal is a well-known entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building and scaling global products out of India. A software engineer by education, he has also founded Crowdfire, a social media management product with over 20 Million users in the past.

Nischal has also been featured in Forbes '30 under 30' list previously. A passionate blockchain evangelist, he has been active in the Indian crypto space since its inception. Nischal's mission has been to make crypto accessible to every Indian; he's also been advocating positive crypto regulation in India with his Twitter campaign #IndiaWantsCrypto for over 1000 days.

Irene Wu is Head of Strategy at LayerZero Labs, the leading interoperability protocol. Before joining the company, she worked as an investor at Insight Partners, where she focused on blockchain infrastructure and developer tools.

A developer by trade, she held design and engineering positions at IDEO - a leading global design company, and J.P. Morgan. Irene studied computer science at Harvard and co-founded Harvard Blockchain before leaving to join the founding team of Rowing Blazers, a VC-backed menswear startup that still operates today.

Dr. Sameer Al Ansari is the Chief Executive of RAK Digital Assets Oasis, the only free zone in the world solely dedicated to non-regulated digital and virtual asset companies innovating in new and emerging sectors of the future including metaverse, blockchain, utility tokens, virtual asset wallets, NFTs, DAOs, DApp, and other Web3-related businesses.

Dr. Al Ansari is a UK qualified chartered accountant with over 30 years of senior corporate, operational, private equity investing, board, and strategic advisory experience.
He currently serves on several boards including RAK ICC, Marjan, TVM Healthcare Partners, Al Ramz Capital and Eureeca Capital.

Dr. Al Ansari has also served on numerous regional and international boards such as DIFC from 2004-2016, Hawkamah Institute of Corporate Governance, The Industrial Group KSA, Dubai Holding and Dubai International Capital.

Edward Chen is the Managing Partner of HTX Ventures, and also the GM of Assets and Commercial Center at HTX (formerly known as Huobi).

Edward comes with over 15 years of experience in business strategy and development; he is also an active angel investor and is deeply vested in the blockchain industry and new technologies. He was previously Head of Global Institution Business for HTX and had spearheaded HTX’s APAC regional business operations, including strategic expansion into new markets.

Under his leadership, HTX’s institutional business expanded globally, and sales grew by over 40 times. Prior to this, Edward was also Co-Founder of a global logistic technology company, which was successfully sold for merger and acquisition.

Vadim has 15+ years of practical experience in large-scale transformations and productivity improvement projects for business with complex multilayered organizational structure, diversified business and extensive geographic reach.

Ran complex projects with more than 15 team members, often several simultaneous projects, and was responsible for the projects with industry-wide impact.

Completed engagements for companies of different sizes, corporate culture, form of ownership, including state-owned, and regulators; worked with top-management of large corporations and public persons.

Alessia Baumgartner is responsible for taking care of the 250+ portfolio companies at DWF Labs, the global digital asset market maker and multi-stage web3 investment firm, one of the world's largest high-frequency cryptocurrency trading entities, which trades spot and derivatives markets on over 60 top exchanges.

Besides the portfolio overview, Alessia takes care of the company’s business development in the MENA region, where they have been based for over one and a half years.

Arpit has been in the tech space for 8 years and has a track record of bringing success to 25+ organizations (public and private sector), while forging key relationships, alliances, and developing new business.

Arpit specialized in growth function, creating org zero to one, hiring and managing growth teams, creating and managing strong partner ecosystems, defining distribution channels, new market entry and product launch.

Meera joined Binance in May 2022, leading Compliance (and Risk) for the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia, focusing on Virtual Asset regulation under VARA, FSRA, and the CBB. Meera holds over 14 years experience in the international financial services markets, with an extensive understanding of compliance, risk, governance, and regulation.

She has held senior roles at interdealer brokers, including ICAP and ED&F Man Capital Markets in the UAE, supporting the establishment of robust risk management, operational, and compliance frameworks. Meera spent the first 10 years of her career in London, where she gained a foundation in systemically important financial market infrastructures, including exchanges and central clearing counterparties, having worked at both ICE and CME Group.

Meera holds a First Class BSc (Hons) in Investment and Financial Risk Management from Cass Business School, London. She has also completed a Diploma in Compliance, AML, and Financial Crime in association with ICMA Centre, Henley Business School.

Travin Keith has been involved in numerous projects around the cryptocurrency space, such as co-founding Immunefi, Web3's largest bug bounty platform with over $25bn saved from hacks, and STOKR, a fundraising platform for issuing security tokens with clients like Blockstream Mining.

In the enterprise space, he co-authored the Hyperledger white paper and worked on a project for the European Commission. He is also an advisor and investor to many projects and even has food businesses starting up.

Alicia Kao is KuCoin's Managing Director and the head of Strategic Partner Development. With more than ten years of digital marketing experience, she's a blockchain believer and an avid NFT collector.

Alicia joins KuCoin since 2019. In her four-year tenure, she has been responsible for KuCoin's marketing and managing institutional and VIP client interactions. She's currently focused on external long-term strategy development and fostering lasting partnerships to help build the crypto industry.

Shuyao writes the Da Bing column for Decrypt. Made in China (Beijing); assembled in the US (Smith College); spiced up in India (Infosys); decorated in Denmark (University of Copenhagen); fine-tuned in Nigeria (IBM); cooled off in Dubai; grad schooled in Boston (HBS '20); currently working in corporate development at ConsenSys.

Founder & CEO of Chainstone Labs, an investment and advisory company focused on the intersection of securities and Bitcoin.

Cypherpunk Stockbroker & Managing Director at Watchdog Capital, an SEC registered and FINRA member broker-dealer.

Founder of Atlantic Financial, a registered investment advisory; over 30 years as a licensed financial professional.

Co-host of the Satoshi Roundtable, an annual retreat that gathers developers, CEOs, founders, academics and investors, now in its 10th year.

Bruce has been in Bitcoin full time since 2013. He has served as the Executive Director and board member for the Bitcoin Foundation, founded the original Bitcoin Association industry group and has spoken at numerous industry conferences. He is the founder of the Dubai Bitcoin Conference, a Devcore organizer, and an active investor.

Vincent Zhang joined in Crypto industry in year 2018. Before that he has been dedicated himself in marketing and sales for 19+ years after he got his Master Degree in Telecommunication.

He left Telecom industry as a top management in one of the toppest Telecom equipments provider and now he has been leading sales team of Whatsminer for 4 and half years.

During last 4 years he lead Whatsminer sales team achieve No.2 Market share of Bitcoin miners. He has solid insight in Bitcoin mining, and now he is leading Whatsminer heading to "future of Mining" which as what he said is "Future Bitcoin mining shall be more green by recyling heat generated by miners, we as leading miners provider shall make Bitcoin mining not only mining."

Since his initial investment in Bitcoin in 2012, Kyle Chassé has been a driving force in the blockchain industry. For many he is quite rightly regarded as an OG. In the last decade, he has founded, invested in, and advised 100+ early-stage projects, continually demonstrating his unwavering belief in blockchain’s revolutionary potential.

Founder and CEO of Master Ventures, a blockchain-focused VC and venture studio worth $330m (March 2023),
he specializes in investing in and building transformative blockchain businesses and products. With over 100
early-stage investments, 5+ co-founded companies, he excels in portfolio management and incubation.

With over 25 years of extensive experience working with vendors in the United States and China, Davis possesses a deep understanding of global business environments. His career has been marked by a successful track record in various facets of business, including people and sales management, strategic bid planning, accounts management, product oversight, marketing, and the establishment of valuable business alliances.

His expertise extends to strategic business planning, where he excels in formulating partner engagement and evaluation strategies, creating customer-focused strategies, assessing risks, and implementing competitive edge selling techniques. Notably, Davis's management and engineering background reinforces his sales skills, providing him with a solid foundation for addressing multifaceted challenges in the business world. His career journey is characterized by adaptability and success in diverse, dynamic business landscapes.

He is an Inc. 500 entrepreneur, MBA, and was one of the Forbes Crypto Top 40 and “40 Under 40" in 2023. An early-stage web3 investor & advisor to cryptocurrency, video game and entertainment projects with over a million followers

He established BDE Ventures, an award-winning venture studio, investment and marketing/advisory firm. He built a digital publication with an audience of over 100 million readers. Brian was a starring judge on the first mainstream crypto TV show. Founder BDE Ventures, Partner Apexblock Capital.

Kirill Malev is a Junior Partner at The Open Platform (TOP), a UAE-based company developing Wallet in Telegram and the whole portfolio of customer-facing and infrastructure Web3 projects on TON blockchain. Kirill’s work inside TOP is focused on building and investing in different companies building on TON ecosystem.

Kirill holds two master’s degrees in applied mathematics (NSTU) and bioinformatics (Bologna University).

Tone worked on Wall Street for almost 10 years starting as a Risk Analyst at Bear Stearns and later becoming a VP at JP Morgan Chase.

His expertise is in Economic Trends, Trading and Risk Analysis.

Ever since getting involved in the Crypto Currency ecosystem in early 2013, he has been very active in spreading the relevance and importance of this technology as it helps promote economic freedom.

Tone maintains a personal website LibertyLifeTrail and host of the Podcast - CryptoScam.

Rajat is responsible for commercialization of Blockchain and Crypto products at Mastercard for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa region. In his remit he drives the regional blockchain agenda and key initiatives across Web3 players and their intersection with FIs and Non-FIs.

Prior to joining Mastercard, Rajat worked in consulting, driving Digital and Innovation agendas for key public and private sector entities.

Kevin is responsible for the strategic direction and growth of Foundry’s mining services. Since entering the crypto mining industry in 2014, Kevin has built large-scale bitcoin mining facilities, and worked closely with mining equipment manufacturers, mining pools, and datacenter operators.

He held senior positions overseeing mining operations at Greenidge Generation and Bitcoin.com. Kevin started his career at Ford Motor Company, after studying finance, international business, and Chinese at Indiana University. An avid gamer, Kevin credits World of Warcraft with sparking his interest in digital currencies.

Mehdi is senior tokenomics analyst at Animoca Brands where he helps web2 and web3 project with web3 strategy and ecosystem design.

He is also the host of Open Metaverse Podcast, which is a leading podcast featuring thought leaders from web3.

He was former Director of Research at Token Metrics where led their research and venture team.

Shogo is a Co-CEO and Director for Middle East & Africa of the Cardano blockchain’s official commercial arm EMURGO.

He is a former CEO of QRC Group, a globally awarded RegTech solutions innovator and provider for blockchain companies to meet global regulatory requirements.
He led the publication of the world’s first Security Token Specification “PAS 19668”, independently facilitated and published by BSI, the UK National Standards Body.

Before the venture capital and tech industries, Shogo served as a Middle East policy expert in foreign services and worked for the Japanese Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister.

Petr is an experienced web3 marketer and growth hacker with 5 years proven track record of launching successful user acquisition campaigns for various crypto and fintech projects. At Morningstar Ventures, he is in charge of marketing support for portfolio companies and in-house initiatives.

Morningstar Ventures is a Dubai-based proprietary investment firm specializing in digital assets and blockchain technology.

Senior Advisor at Horizen Labs and Founder and CEO of Airvey.io an enterprise that builds, supports and advises Web 3.0 companies.

A bitcoin and blockchain adopter since 2013, Mr. Larren became one of the first crypto miners in the US before listing the proceeds in public vehicles with Grayscale. He advised over a dozen projects including: Horizen Labs and the creation of Yuga Labs’ ApeCoin ($8B at launch) as well as Decentraland and the creation of the largest commercial zone in the Metaverse.

Mr. Larren has been profiled in publications such as Cointelegraph, Forbes, Bloomberg Magazine, American Express Spotlight Series, The Huffington Post as well as TV appearances on Bloomberg, KTLA and E! News. He is a renowned figure on the international speaker circuit having spoken at over 30 conferences in 10 countries.
Prior to founding his companies, Mr. Larren had worked at LVMH and Pernod Ricard.

Anna Shakola is the Head of Business Development at Cointelegraph Accelerator with over two years of experience in the crypto space. With a unique perspective on both the startup and VC sides, Anna excels at identifying and nurturing high-potential startups as well as maintaining relationships with investors and partners at Cointelegraph.

In addition to her role at Cointelegraph, Anna also plays a key role in building the partnership network for Mintmade and the Historical Collection, bringing valuable resources and opportunities to collectors as part of the startup team.

Igneus is the public liaison for Mantle, a burgeoning on-chain ecosystem built around the high-performance modular Ethereum layer 2 Mantle Network.

Igneus is an ardent advocate for the transformative innovations in the blockchain and DLT space, a staunch supporter for on-chain governance and the emerging digital asset class, and a cogent communicator committed to the expansion of the common denominator among stakeholder communities.

Maurice is now Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Gate Labs, Gate Labs is the VC and listing department of Gate.io, a major top global cryptocurrency exchange. Established in 2021 as an accelerator, Gate Labs is highly devoted to providing entrepreneurs with various resources and supporting for startups' growth.

Gate.io's mission is to serve the blockchain industry by providing secure and reliable products and services to consumers and companies around the world. Transparency, security and integrity are the main values of Gate.io. The "Gate Web3.0 Ecosystem" consists of Wallet.io, HipoDeFi and Gatechain, all of which were created to provide users with a secure, simple and fair trading platform as well as the ability to safeguard assets and trading information.

Currently, Gate.io provides trade, investment, and digital wallet services for more than 1,700 digital assets and offers high-quality services for millions of users from over 130 countries.

Mehmet is a driving force in fostering growth and success within the BNB Chain ecosystem. With a strong background in business development, he specializes in onboarding new projects and providing ongoing support for their expansion.

His experience includes pivotal roles at global giants Binance and TikTok, where he excelled as a Business Development Manager and Client Partner.

Featured as a keynote/ panelist/ educator at CNBC, WEF Davos 2020/2022, Cointelegraph, Coindesk, Coin Bureau Live, Token2049, Le Figaro, Paris Blockchain Summit Week, Blockdown, AIM Summit, Altcoin daily, Cryptoslate, London Real TV and more…

Alex played a critical role to scale SwissBorg: built the Influencer / inbound
marketing strategy from scratch which currently holds the Top European & Japanese KOLs from YouTube to private groups generating over $25M in revenues to date through affiliation. Alex also kicked off SwissBorg Ventures which invested in Eigen Layer, Cross the Ages, De.Fi, Sweatcoin, LunarCrush, Composable Finance and more…

Alex is known for his love for teaching how to reach financial freedom w/ evidence based investment strategies, venture capital / distressed assets, fundamental analysis, valuation mechanisms & the evolution of tokenomics.

Ghazaleh serves as Riot’s VP of FP&A and Head of Mining. Ghazaleh drives the collaboration between various departments to optimize and strategize Riot’s industry-leading bitcoin mining operation.

She left her career with a global leader in Life Sciences and Fortune 100 company, where she managed $1billion logistics and distribution annually, to pursue her passion for Bitcoin.

Tiago is a technical leader with more than 12 year of experience in Cloud Computing in several areas such as Distributed System, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and has previously worked for Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Tiago has also been a Founder and CTO and regularly lectures at different Universities in Barcelona where he lives.

Currently at Google Cloud EMEA , Tiago leads a technical team of specialists focused Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Emerging Technologies such as Web3.

Based in Silicon Valley, Dirk is a serial entrepreneur and an early adopter of blockchain and related technologies. In addition to being the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Uplandme, Inc., Dirk is also the co-founder and chairman of the Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3 (OMA3). He is the author of the bestselling book, "Navigating the Metaverse: A Guide to Limitless Possibilities in a Web 3.0 World" (Wiley, 2022), co-host of the podcast "Navigating the Metaverse," and the official Metaverse ambassador of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC).

Previously, Dirk co-founded European and US-based FinTech and digital media companies, including the Financial Times Deutschland and Forbatec, which was acquired by SunGard (now NYSE:FIS). Dirk has mentored over 30 startups through his work at international startup accelerators in Silicon Valley and is a frequent speaker and panelist focusing on topics related to the metaverse, blockchain, and platform economics. He studied Business Administration in Frankfurt and Paris and earned a Ph.D. from the European Business School in Germany, where he wrote his doctoral thesis about private and state-controlled currencies.

Boris is the CEO & Co-Founder of LiveArt, a global Web3 Platform for Art. He had previously founded Collectrium, a global digital platform for managing, discovering, sharing, and trading art (acquired by Christie’s).

Prior to Collectrium, Boris co-founded xfire, a high-growth social networking platform for computer gaming (acquired by Viacom); Centrata, a pioneering cloud computing platform for enterprise data centers; and greenscreens.ai (formerly Carggo), a two-sided marketplace for freight transportation.

Boris holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Malcolm Wright, the innovative force behind InnoFi Advisory, is a recognized global authority on virtual asset regulation and compliance, with notable roles including Dubai's Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA). A transformative executive in FinTech and virtual assets, he's shaped top-tier firms like BitMEX, Thomson Reuters, and Revolut, and successfully exited his own technology company.

As a key player in championing key virtual asset dialogues with the FATF and regulators, and as co-creator of the globally-accepted IVMS101 data standard, Malcolm's incisive speaking and writing illuminate complex topics, solidifying him as an indispensable voice in the financial services and virtual asset sphere.

Christopher is a German entrepreneur and Cryptocurrency expert. He is the Co-Founder of MMConsult and MMCrypto, one of the most famous Cryptocurrency-related YouTube channels.

Christopher was among the first people to ever using on-chain analysis to predict the Bitcoin price. Now he is known as the go-to expert for on-chain metrics and on-chain analysis.

Eugene Cheung is VP, Head of Institution for Bybit, lead the exchange’s institutional business push since 2021. He has worked in the exchanged/OTC trading and derivatives industries for over fifteen years.

He was managing director, head of China for Tradeweb, responsible to lead the business such as Bond Connect and be accountable for implementing and achieving growth plan in the region.

He worked for approximately 10 years at CME Group and had been the head of China business development since 2012. He was responsible for identifying and pursuing opportunities to grow CME Group’s business, and managing and owning the responsibility for all key strategic initiatives. He is a regular speaker at industry seminars and provides advices and internal training to the regulators.

Adrian Baschuk is currently the CCO & Founding Partner of Ethernity Chain, a leading NFT & digital collectible platform issuing licensed assets across rights, licenses, & IPs including digital art, collectibles, metaverse, AR, and P2E integrations. He is a Founding Producer of Crypto Banter, a daily livestream of the overall crypto community and Producer of CNBC’s “Crypto Trader,” the world’s first major network broadcast program on blockchain and crypto currencies.

Darina is a leading specialist of the Jets.Capital fund in the field of DeFi, the formation of farming strategies and the evaluation of cryptocurrency projects. The Jets.Capital venture fund is focused on investing in blockchain projects and is one of the organizers of the Blockchain Life forum.

More than 5 years of experience in investments in the stock and cryptocurrency markets. Previously studied applied mathematics and economics.

French entrepreneur, William has co-founded a number of companies, including Vivoka, which specializes in AI and voice recognition, and Meria, a leader in cryptoasset investment.

Michael is the VP of Engineering at DappRadar, the biggest Web3 dapp distribution platform, where millions find data about the web3 projects they are searching for, covering Web3 Games, DeFi, NFTs, and Tokens. With the vast amounts of blockchain data DappRadar possesses, Michael is close to the source of truth about the latest web3 trends.

He advises and invests in startups and serves as a board member of AustrianStartups, the largest startup community in Austria.

Michael educates millions on his YouTube channel about topics that will forever transform the world.

Niek Beudeker is the Managing Director for Peak Mining, a global Bitcoin mining company, part of Northern Data Group (XETRA:NB2.DE). Peak Mining invests in the latest technologies such as liquid-cooled mining hardware and efficient purpose-built infrastructure and has about 4EH of installed capacity with 7EH newly contracted capacity. The company is on a mission to set the standard for a mature mining industry through the most efficient cooling technologies supported by high-quality data centers to lower maintenance costs and noise. In addition, the company operates its own proprietary software for automated grid balancing activities and uses primarily carbon-neutral energy for its mining activities.

Before Peak Mining, Niek built out an early large-scale Bitcoin mining company called Bitfield from its inception in 2020. Roughly 9 months later, during the midst of the last bull run in September 2021, the business was sold to Northern Data for a significant value multiple. He operates on the edge of finance to make calculated investment decisions and brings a wealth of experience from start-ups, M&A, business development and strategy. Niek has a Master’s degree in Quantitative Finance & Econometrics from the University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Ahmed has over 15 years of experience in gaming, leading high-performing global teams and delivering impactful, strategic partnerships. He is currently the Global Business Development and Strategic Partnerships Manager for Gaming, BNB Chain.

Ahmed previously worked with Expedia, Gameloft and Huawei, and has been spear-heading the Game-Fi partnerships for BNB Chain on accelerating adoption and acquisition.

Carl Runefelt, also known as ‘The Moon’ is the founder of The Moon Group. He is a serial entrepreneur who has invested in 400 blockchain-based startups, & has been featured in Forbes 30 under 30. The crypto evangelist has also been featured in top business publications such as, FOX Business, Forbes US, CNBC, Business Insider, Coin Telegraph and Tech Telegraph UK.

Carl is also the co-founder of multiple crypto companies and is a well-known speaker, a respected philanthropist and a blockchain expert who has a massive social media influence. With more than 4 million followers across YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok Carl is already well on his way to be a frontrunner in the mass adoption of blockchain technologies and crypto currencies.

Mohamed is the Regional Manager for the Middle East at Chainalysis who alongside his team in Dubai are driving trust in Blockchains, specializing in technology trends including cryptocurrency, financial compliance and blockchain.

Before Chainalysis, Issa was Managing Oracle Middle East Channel for 10 years based out of Dubai.
Issa is pursuing his 2nd master's degree in Cryptocurrency and blockchains from the University of Nicosia and the ICA postgraduate Diploma in Financial Crime Compliance.

He leads the Marketing for Whatsminer from M10 after he transferred from MicroBT RD team to Marketing in 2018. With over 20 yrs experience of ASIC development.

He has full knowledge to address the pain-points from customers in technical side and help lots of customers to find the win-win solution with MicroBT to be success in last 5 yrs. Currently, MicroBT become the famous brand by the quality product to acknowledge by all customers under his support.

Nikita Sachdev is an Indian-American serial entrepreneur and investor. She studied Chemistry and Business at the University of Texas, Austin and James Cook University. Shortly after graduating, Nikita co-launched Luna Management in 2015, a talent management and production agency, based in Singapore.

Her passion and drive to tap into the Crypto and Blockchain space in 2017, led her to exit Luna Management and launch Luna PR, a web3-focused public relations agency. That same year, she simultaneously worked with crypto giant, Huobi, as the host of their talk show, interviewing and gaining exposure to some of today's renowned crypto pioneers.

Previously he ran the US Stress Scenario Coordination and Analysis team at UBS. Prior to that, he worked at Elliott Management, a $73bn multi-strategy hedge fund, where he eventually led research on Energy, Global Macro, Political Risk and Emerging/Frontier Market investments out of the New York office.

Jordan started his career in Asia. Initially as an investigative journalist based in Shanghai, where he was published in dozens of newspapers and magazines, and then working under the Chief Asia Markets Strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management in Hong Kong. He holds a BSFS from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in International Politics and an MIA from Columbia University in International Finance and Economics.

Evan, a Forbes 30 under 30 winner, is an accredited Angel Investor and invests in a variety of products and businesses.

Having built and invested in 300+ companies in the last 5 years with a combined market cap in excess of $100 Billion USD, he continues to guide and mentor startups across all technologies.

He speaks to huge audiences and has spoken for Tedx, United Nations, Google, Nielsen and has done guest lectures at Delhi University, Washington State University, San Francisco State University and more.

Jamie Elkaleh is a skilled public speaker and a crypto enthusiast. With a rich background in crafting educational content that's reached millions, Jamie is on a mission to break down the barriers to entry in crypto space.

As Bitget's Relations Manager, he's building partnerships and fostering connections within the crypto community.

Julia is a Head Hunter, specializing in recruiting C-level managers, across different industries.
Now, she's currently focused on the Web3 market - a team from BeInCrypto once called her "The Unicorns Hunter."

She's been building effective recruiting processes for international companies, launching recruitment workflow for one EdTech company in Asia, and currently leading a team of recruiters for one of the top 3 crypto media outlets with team members from 49 different countries.

Manan is an award-winning entrepreneur. With over 11 years of experience in cybersecurity, he is part of Microsoft's top 100 security researchers in the world.

Prior to Avalance, he has had the opportunity to solve cybercrime cases for some of the biggest MNC's in the world, such as Twitter, Yahoo!, Facebook, Nokia, Blackberry, PayPal, Skype, Google, Apple, Microsoft to name a few.

In 2020 Entrepreneur selected Manan Shah "Entrepreneur of the Year" for his security work. He was one of Business World's "Hottest Young Entrepreneurs" and Outlook India's "Game Changers of Tomorrow".

In 2022, Entrepreneur Magazine Under 35, Forbes Under 30, and Asia One's Under 40 honored Manan Shah.

Tiago Pratas is a seasoned professional in the cryptocurrency industry with a deep understanding of the blockchain and decentralized finance (DeFi) space. Since 2015, he has immersed himself in crypto, gaining valuable experience and knowledge.

Tiago serves as the DeFi Lead at Ankr, a decentralized Web3 infrastructure provider powering the foundational layer for Web3, DeFi, and the digital economy on 30+ blockchains with over $200 million in Total Value Locked (TVL).

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

She is the Partner with a regulated international law firm. Irina consulted multiple governments and regulators on policies surrounding emerging technology and drafted crypto-related laws.

Dr. Mohamed Al Hemairy has 20 years’ experience in Research Management, Intellectual Property, Innovation & Technology Transfer from ideas to products in UAE and United Kingdom. He helped over a hundred researchers to file more than 130 inventions & managing around 250 patent applications in the largest IP portfolio in UAE.

As a Principal Investigator, he leads a research team to develop multiple Blockchain’s platforms for the industry. He has also served on the University Innovation Support Team, where hundreds of innovative ideas & projects are explored & filtered for potential patenting & business opportunities.

Charmaine Lim is an accomplished professional in business management and sales with over 15 years of experience in investments and technology. Her expertise lies in effectively managing operations and implementing successful sales and marketing strategies across diverse sectors such as real estate, investment funds, and technological startups.
Charmaine's passion for and experience in cryptocurrency dates back to 2017, and it has been a driving force in her current role at Huobi. As a business development expert, she focuses on engaging with high-net-worth individuals and institutions in the digital asset space, helping them navigate the complex world of cryptocurrencies and digital assets.

Ryo Matsubara worked at Accenture after graduating from university, then joined gumi Inc. in 2018. During his career at gumi Inc., he participated in the launch of gumi Cryptos Inc. and other projects. He joined doublejump.tokyo in 2021 and has been in his current position since February 2022.

Bijan is a leader within the blockchain ecosystem and has a longstanding track record of spearheading blockchain adoption in the MENA region and globally.

Bijan also co-founded Phoenix Group, a venture capital firm that has successfully invested $10 million into blockchain start-ups. Phoenix also carries exclusive distribution rights for numerous technology hardware manufacturers across the Middle East, Africa and Turkey.

Catherine is an editorial director and chief strategy officer at crypto.news

Catherine worked as a deputy editor in chief and chief brand officer at Cointelegraph, editor-in-chief at Beincrypto, Currency.com, managing editor at Benzinga, producer and video host of the Benzinga Crypto show.

Catherine holds a bachelor’s degree in simultaneous interpreting and post graduate degree in business, international relations and the political economy from the London School Of Economics & Political Science.

Arut Nazaryan is an entrepreneur, investor and a successful blogger. He is the founder of Arut Academy, EXBI Launchpad, Bugatti Music, Yofleet, Topor Barbershop, and father of two sons.

This year Arut established EXBI Launchpad, a crypto launchpad platform which aims to provide users with access to promising early-stage Web3 projects. The startup's focus is to create an environment where investing in crypto startups will be accessible and easy for everyone.

Arut Academy stands as one of his most ambitious projects. The Academy is a well-defined system of teaching money-making skills in the most relevant and highly profitable niches such as Cryptocurrency Market, E-commerce, Affiliate Marketing, and Artificial Intelligence.

Davinci Jeremie, also known as Davincij15 across all Social Media platforms, is a skilled software developer, YouTuber, Public Speaker, Crypto Educator, and Entrepreneur.

Davincij15 became famous in the crypto world when his YouTube video begging his audience to spend just $1 to buy bitcoin went viral.

Xiankun Wu, co-founder of Y Combinator-backed AI company rct AI and web3 AI platform Delysium. He worked for prestigious venture capital firms and founded multiple successful startups.

He was featured in Forbes Under 30 China 2019 and Forbes U30 Asia 2020. He has been exploring the spaces of AI, crypto and game for over 6 years.

As an expert in digital marketing, Amelia began working in the fintech sector in 2014 after writing her thesis on Bitcoin technology. Previously author for several international crypto-related magazines and CMO at Eidoo. She is now the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Cryptonomist, and also PR manager for the Italian market at Bitget.

She is also a marketing teacher at Digital Coach in Milan and she published a book about NFTs for the Italian publishing house Mondadori, while she is also helping artists and companies to enter in the sector. As advisor, Amelia is also involved in metaverse-related projects such as The Nemesis and OVER.

Ilya is a Founder of Riki Group, Chairman of the Board of Directors and the President of the Animated Film Association, he is one of the creators of the Kikoriki series. An entrepreneur, a multimedia producer, and a specialist in goods and services, Ilya maintains high standards of expertise in marketing and licensing in media.

In 2020, he became interested in the topic of digital art and, in the process of studying and sourcing new items for his collection, created the digital art label Infinity Art, which gathers around him a global reach of collectors and the best artists and innovators in the field of art. The company creates digital art content in collaboration with world stars of the art scene and also major global brands and leading modern artists, laying a foundation for a new cultural heritage.

Marcello is the CEO of SingularityDAO.

He was part of the founding team of SingularityNET in 2017 and a contributor to TechCrunch, Wired and The Guardian, following a career in marketing and PR across a number of tech start-ups in London.

David is a digital visionary and global platform innovator. He is the Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Vodafone’s Digital Asset Broker (DAB) platform, and one of the leaders in blockchain technology for Vodafone Business.

David is a recognised thought leader in blockchain, Web3 and the application of these technologies to telecoms and wider enterprise business. He is an expert on the convergence of digital technologies and new business models, and currently exploring the opportunities associated with IoT, Blockchain, DeFi, Digital Identity and the Metaverse.

Ripul is an entrepreneur with extensive expertise in the blockchain, DeFi, and NFT space. He's worked with more than 100 active global and regional top influential KOLs from the crypto industry.

As the CEO of Bullstreet Group and Cillionaire, he's developed key leadership skills that have led him to be invited as a speaker to various events. He's also been a part of various conferences like FTX Crypto Bahamas and Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Moscow.

Kevin is a thought leader in FX, Crypto, Blockchain and Financial Regulation focusing on removing barriers and bringing real substantive change to capital markets globally, he does not just talk the talk, he actually walks the walk.

He frequently advises regulators and government bodies on matters relating to applying current regulations to new financial markets and instruments, regulatory sandboxes, and related topics.

As the founder of Coinmetro and a co-founder of Ignium, he is now looking to help shape a tokenized future and advance access to all people rather than the chosen few.

Matthias is an award-winning entrepreneur and visionary founder. He is a founding member of the Dubai Blockchain Center and a Crypto Influencer.

He is also the CEO and founder of Bonuz Market, a social engagement web3 ecosystem and super-app that allows fans token-gated exclusive access to their favorite creator's channel, proof of attendance and other community engaging features are included.

Mende has held a few board and advisor roles including Marketing Advisor at HYGH AG, Icetech, and Unit Ventures. He was the Chief Strategist at Block Gemini, helping Multi-Billion Dollar Supply Chain Enterprises to implement Blockchain Technology, Smart Contracts, and other distributed ledger technologies.

Leonid is a trader with 6 years of experience in the crypto market, the creator of one of the largest communities of traders in the CIS.

In 2021, with his team, he took 1st place in Russia and 9th place in the world among 196 teams in one of the largest and most prestigious WSOT tournaments for traders from the Bybit exchange.

He maintains an author's Instagram blog dedicated to development and cryptocurrencies, one of the few people who remained in the market during the 2018 crypto winter and always spoke out in support of it.

Daniil is an industry expert and trusted advisor with over 10 years of experience working on modern web capabilities, including next-gen technology and Web3, performance, identity, and infrastructure security, currently at Google as an Engagement Manager and Ecosystem Lead.

Before joining Cypher Capital, Bill Qian was the Global Head of Fundraising for Binance Labs and M&A for Binance ‒ the largest global crypto platform holding 55% of the global market share, with $34 trillion in transactions in 2021.

Joining the Cypher Capital Team in late 2022, Bill sees himself as a “web-native investor” looking for phenomenal founders in the Web 3.0 industry.

Jorge is the Co-Founder of EcoX. Ecosystem ConneXions is the largest Blockchain & Technology community of Middle East, Operating across 9 Countries. Organizing regular meetups, start-up pitches, investments, resourcing talent and bringing and end-to-end Eco-System.

He is a seasoned CEO, CTO, CISO, Advisor and International speaker, with experience in Blockchain, Gaming, DeFi, NFT, Asset Tokenization, Cyber Security, AI, IoT, 5G, Digital Twin (Meta Verse) Cloud, Disaster Recovery, Bigdata, & Managed Services.

Jorge is professional advisor in several innovative start-ups using disruptive technologies with focus on generating business value and enabling sustainability, scalability and impact.

Amin Siala is a Senior Growth Consultant at Google. He's an expert in performance marketing for the financial industry and has consulted for some of the world’s leading brokerages and crypto exchanges, including Binance, ByBit, OKX, and others. His deep expertise in lead generation, leveraging paid ads, has catapulted many exchanges and projects to achieve record highs in user acquisition and trader activity

Amin has delivered keynotes and corporate trainings in over 14 countries, covering topics such as business growth, user acquisition, strategic expansion, and more. Prior to Google, Amin was involved in Apple’s Channel Sales growth strategies for the EMEA region, working closely with Apple’s senior leadership team.

Amin's academic credentials include a Master's from Imperial College London Business School and a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manchester.

Beyond his professional pursuits, Amin is fiercely competitive in HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training) and is passionate about investing in emerging market opportunities.

In 2009, Anatoly together with partners founded the United Traders company, which specializes in providing clients with access to the largest trading platforms in Russia, Europe and the USA.

In 2011 and 2012, the UnitedTraders.com trading robot, developed by Radchenko, won the Best Private Investor competition, showing a yield of about 8,000 and 5300% respectively.

Lilly Douse is a young and passionate presenter who utilize her scientific and financial background to provide a unique and engaging perspective on a range of topics. She founded her own Web3 podcast, ‘Talk Crypto to Me’, in which she interviews some of the most successful entrepreneurs including the likes of Jimmy Choo, Spencer Lodge, Moon Carl (Carl Runefelt), and Da Vinci Jeremie.

Lilly hopes to educate the masses about investing in cryptocurrencies, future technologies and NFTs, asking the questions which the masses are keen to have answered. She also has the ability to demand attention on stage, working at numerous events globally including The Crypto Expo Dubai, AIBC Asia and Dubai as well as Kinza 360.

Oleg is a serial entrepreneur, VC investor and a prominent blockchain influencer. After a 13-year in the FMCG industry which ended with a successful M&A exit, Oleg switched to the emerging blockchain industry to set up an internationally reputable VC investment platform.

He is an author of two books, Telegram influencer and manages 3 businesses now: Kommune, one of the most notorious VCs in Web 3 with 70+ investments in projects; Berezka DAO, DeFi asset management since mid 2019, the only historically transparent DeFi platform with zero hacks and asset losses; Weezi, a Web3 counterpart of the US-based AngelList.

15-years old crypto enthusiast and Youtube blogger. He is an Angel Investor, Crypto Content Creator, Technical Analyst and Speaker.

His mission is to educate his generation about disruptive technology and prepare them for the real world.

Rick Goddard was appointed Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) across all the SiGMA brands — including iGaming summit SiGMA, the Malta A.I. & Blockchain Summit and the brand new Medical Cannabiz World — by founder and CEO Eman Pulis, according to a press announcement SiGMA issued.

Rick Goddard joined the company at the beginning of April, tasked with reviewing procedures and setting new targets for each of the event verticals in 2019. His has commercial experience from a variety of sectors, most recently focussed on blockchain, cryptocurrencies and the ICO market, according to the press announcement.