Alyse Killeen is a Venture Capital Investor with seed stage to pre-IPO investment experience in both enterprise and consumer technologies. Her investment practice is currently focused on global innovation in the finance, healthcare, and new marketplace arenas, while she continues to advise investors and executive teams in enterprise and consumer technologies and applications broadly. Alyse has presented globally on blockchain technology, the sharing economy, IoT, and the development of innovation ecosystems for groups and conference events including TechCrunch Disrupt, the International Monetary Authority, Singapore Management University, and USA Today. In 2015 she authored a book chapter in the Handbook of Digital Currency titled: The Confluence of Bitcoin and the Global Sharing Economy, and is currently in the development of a second book with the same editor and publisher to address technology advancements in Digital Banking. She is a Mentor at the Silicon Valley-based Plug and Play Tech Center in the Fintech and Bitcoin accelerator tracks, and on the Advisory Board of several leading early stage technology companies, including blockchain infrastructure companies Netki and Factom, and machine learning ecommerce company, Swoonery. Alyse is a member of the Board of Directors at BitGive, a startup NGO aiming to modernize the nonprofit ecosystem using blockchain technology. BitGive was Bitcoin’s first 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and has been partnering with international relief efforts and local charities since 2013 to support giving in Bitcoin. Alyse is the Founder Director of City Fellows Consortium (2015) and Women in Venture (2013). City Fellows Consortium is an innovation-centered private league for top undergraduate engineering fellows, bridging the gap between classroom and community. Women in Venture is a professional social network for women investors in the field of traditional venture capital.Alyse is a member of the Satoshi Roundtable, and in 2015, the UN Foundation named her a Top 70 Bay Area Digital Leader.

Rik Willard is Founder and Managing Director of Agentic Group LLC, a global consortium of blockchain and digital currency-related companies focused on the emerging Internet of Value -- the crossroads of social interconnectedness, entrepreneurship, things and money within the blockchain ecosystem. He is a known digital professional and startup facilitator with 25+ years of experience in advanced B2B and B2C solutions in the Media, Luxury and Finance sectors, with a strong reputation for identifying, managing, incubating, and productizing, early-stage digital concepts. Mr. Willard is a featured speaker for live appearances and television -- from the Harvard Business School Club and Kaufmann Institute to CNN, CNBC, and numerous others -- concerning entrepreneurship, digital matters and blockchain technology. He is also named one of AlleyWatch magazines 14 NYC People in Bitcoin You Must Know.

Aaron Lint is the Vice President of Research at Arxan. He and the Advanced Research Team at Arxan analyze the threat landscape for application security and drive the breadth and depth of Arxans application protection solutions. Aaron brings 10 years of industry and academic experience in information security and cryptography. His deep technical expertise is in reverse engineering, compilers, linkers, and operating systems. He holds a BS in Computer Science from The Ohio State University and a MS in Computer Science from Purdue University. In his spare time, he works as a football official and enjoys attending hacker conferences around the world.

Joey took a leave of absence from Pomona College to focus full time on Augur, a platform for decentralized prediction markets built on Ethereum. He conducted the first Bitcoin transaction via sound as well as the first Bitcoin transaction via iOS-Android Bluetooth LE. As a prelude to Augur, Joey and Jack completed Sidecoin, which allows new cryptocurrency distributions based on snapshots of Bitcoin account balances. He works on Augur’s backend smart contracts.

Pauls practice focuses on patent, industrial design and technology law, with an emphasis on securing and leveraging intellectual property rights for high technology clients. He advises clients of various sizes, but particularly enjoys working with startups and high-tech entrepreneurs. In addition to his work preparing and prosecuting patents, Paul advises clients regarding their intellectual property licensing needs.He has prepared and filed patent applications relating to telecommunications systems, electronic and integrated circuits, digital signal processing, biomedical and biomonitoring devices, power systems and power electronics, computer networks, computer software, business methods, along with many other technologies.Prior to joining Bereskin & Parr LLP, Paul conducted research into energy recovering architectures for integrated circuits in the course of obtaining his masters degree in electrical engineering. He has previously worked for a supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, and for a major IT infrastructure services company.Paul is Vice-Chair of the Toronto Intellectual Property Group, Vice-President of the Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Association of Toronto, and a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), where he is actively involved with the New Lawyer Committee.

Michael Terpin co-founded BitAngels (www.bitangels.co), the world’s first angel network for digital currency startups, in May, 2013, and now serves as its chairman. The distributed angel network currently has more than 600 members, and it has made more than 25 investments in bitcoin and cryptocurrency companies with two exits and several follow-on rounds. Terpin is also co-founder and managing partner of bCommerce Labs (www.bcommercelabs.com), the first technology incubator fund focused on e-commerce companies for bitcoin and the blockchain. Terpin is also a partner at Flight VC, where he helps run the AngelList Bitcoin Syndicate with legendary super-angel Gil Penchina.Terpin has spoken widely on bitcoin at leading conferences globally, including Bitcoin 2014, BitFin, CoinAgenda, Coin Congress, CoinSummit, Inside Bitcoins (Berlin, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, London, NY), La BitConf (Brazil), North American Bitcoin Show, Satoshi Roundtable, South by Southwest, and TEDx Hollywood.

Andre De Castro is CEO and founder of Blockchain of Things, Inc, a company that is creating enterprise-class security infrastructure software, leveraging the capabilities of a cryptographic blockchain for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) using the Catenis Enterprise™ platform. Catenis Enterprise is the flagship product of Blockchain of Things Inc. It can be used to empower the world’s devices, systems, and applications. Catenis Enterprise makes it easy to utilize the power of blockchains to enable peer-to-peer communication, governance, chain of custody, and reliable messaging, all with military-grade encryption and security. Mr. De Castro is also an avid speaker at Bitcoin and Blockchain events. and has been a policy influencer. He has worked with the federal governments’ FinCEN division in creating more clarity on crypto currency policies. Today. he is solely credited for the Jan 30th, 2014 administrative ruling on software development and investment activities, opening up greater avenues for well-established corporations and startups to conduct crypto currency business in the US

Will is CEO of bridge21, a company that uses blockchain technology to move money across borders faster and more efficiently. He has over 20 years of experience building financial products across the prepaid, payments, and remittance industries. Will co-founded the Regulatory Compliance Association’s virtual currency panel. He’s passionate about modernizing financial systems and improving their accessibility.

Elizabeth works on business development for bridge21, a company that uses blockchain technology to move money across borders faster and more efficiently. She also serves on the boards of the Bitcoin Foundation and Code to Inspire, the first Girls’ Coding School on Afghanistan. As an early Bitcoin advocate she’s headed up global business development for Coinsecure, handled non profit and political outreach for BitPay and ran Bitcoin Magazine, the first print publication on cryptocurrency. Prior to getting involved in Bitcoin, she worked for a US Member of Congress. She has spoken internationally on the role of digital currency as a catalyst to financial inclusion and freedom. Follow Elizabeth on Twitter @etmccauley

Virgile holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Laval University and a Master of Mathematical Finance from the University of Toronto. After graduation, he worked as a financial engineer and software developer for a financial risk management software company. After that, he was a hired by a Canadian bank as a subject matter expert for working on a high-end application used for pricing and risk profiling financial derivatives. This is during that time that blockchains and cryptocurrencies came on his radar. Their technological advancement and potential to revolutionize our financial system inspired him into founding and building Coinsquare. Coinsquare is a digital currency negotiation platform combining forex, precious metals, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It features advanced risk management controls, full order books, coin-to-coin instant transactions, cutting hedge account security and a custom-built C++ trade matching engine. Coinsquare is the direct result of Virgile’s software development, financial risk management, computer security and blockchain technology expertise all put together in one product.Virgile also provides consulting services on selected projects focused on blockchain and decentralised networks.

As a graduate of Berklee College of Music, Tatiana has had an extensive music career managing and promoting top NY recording studios. She has become the premier female singer-songwriter in the bitcoin community and activist community. She has toured the globe singing and speaking alongside Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, and Judge Napolitano at events including Inside Bitcoins, SXSW, Bitcoin South, NASDAQ, and the Libertarian National Convention. Tatiana is the founder and CEO of Crypto Media Hub, a marketing and advertising agency for the Bitcoin industry. She has independently produced and released two LP’s, 2 EPs, and several singles. Her 3rd LP was funded completely with cryptocurrency and will be released in later this Winter. Her latest project is the creation of Tatiana Coin, the first ever artist cryptocurrency.

Steven Nerayoff, Esq. LL.M. is a prolific serial entrepreneur, attorney and inventor of 20 international patents, having founded seven companies in Silicon Valley and New York City. Steven is a blockchain pioneer with his involvement in top projects including: Ethereum, Lisk, Bancor, tZERO, ZenCash, ZCash, Ripio, Aion and Storm. Steven is also the Chairman of the publicly listed company Global Blockchain Technologies (OTCMKTS:BLKCF) (TSXV:BLOC).Stevens innovative work as the legal architect of Ethereums record setting token sale continues to be the basic structure used throughout the world today. Steven innovated the concept of utility, specifically using the concept of gas” or “fuel” for legal purposes. Steven continues to be instrumental in defining the industry standards.In 2017, Steven founded Alchemist specializing in blockchain project development and investment. Steven has assembled a team of industry leaders having advised and invested in over 25 projects.Steven has had involvement as either a founder, advisor or investor in following projects: Aion, Bancor, Basic Attention Token, Blocktix, Civic, Enjin, Ethereum, Factom, GlobalBlockchain, Investfeed, Kudos, Lisk, Metrosage, Po.et, Polymath, Ripio, Shopin, Sirin, Status, Steemit, Storm, Stox, Streetwire, tZERO, Veridium Labs, Vezt, ZCash, ZencashHe is the Founder & CEO of Maple Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on emerging technologies including blockchain-based payment systems, consumer internet companies, and socially conscious enterprises. He is also the Founder & Executive Chairman of CloudParc, a patented next-generation artificial intelligence smart city platform that has groundbreaking technology for the city of the future.

Micah Winkelspecht is the CEO and Founder of Gem, a blockchain application platform that transforms how companies and industries connect to solve impossible problems. Gem’s platform applies blockchain technology to identity, data, logic and network management across multiple industries, including finance and healthcare. Micah speaks regularly at fintech conferences about blockchain security and is the author of a popular open-source blockchain security library. Prior to his contributions to the blockchain world, Micah spent 10+ years developing software for companies including AT&T Interactive, Guide Financial and Pose.

Gene Kavner is Founder and CEO of iPayYou, the worlds easiest, safest and most useful bitcoin wallet for consumers. Gene is an experienced software developer and digital marketer who previously served as an Amazon.com executive, where as Worldwide Director of the Amazon Associates program, he led the world’s largest internet affiliate program. Before founding iPayYou, Gene held the title of Principal Architect for Display Advertising and MSN Analytics at Microsoft. Previously, Gene served as Principal Architect and Director of Software Development for Expedia Lodgings, leading a team of 50 in the USA and China. Earlier in his career, Gene was one of the chief architects of Microsoft MSN, working on the platform from its inception and building it to the fourth most popular website in the United States. A serial entrepreneur, Gene has founded numerous companies and built experienced technical teams in many verticals. His deep understanding of technology and consumer behavior led to founding iPayYou and a mission of making Bitcoin accessible to the everyday consumer. Gene holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Duane brings over 20 years’ experience developing disruptive FinTech platforms, products, and services as Founder and President of MET Solutions, a FinTech consulting company. In addition, Duane maintains an active role as; COO: Blade Payments, President: Trefoil Technology\Prepaid Resources and Head of Cards: Cashpath Financial. Previous roles include; VP: American Express, VP: TSYS and TSYS Prepaid and VP: Clarity Payments. Duane has successfully delivered award winning FinTech, global patents and innovative disruption; launching over 25 financial services programs with over 1.5M accounts. As a seasoned prepaid debit card, credit card & travel industry professional, Mr. Jacobsen manages with a customer focus and team leadership style. In addition, Duane harnesses the necessary technical insight of emerging and disruptive technologies to drive success at a Fortune 500 or an early stage start-up. Duane attended Rutgers University and received his BS in Accounting & Finance and attended The Wharton School in a special EMBA class program with American Express. Mr. Jacobsen is a licensed accountant in the State of NJ and is a Six Sigma Green Belt.

Mattew Spoke is the co-founder and CEO of Nuco, a blockchain enterprise infrastructure provider, and is the former blockchain project lead for Deloitte Canada.Matthew is a well established industry thought leader, bringing to market tangible ideas of how distributed blockchain systems can revolutionize commercial process and outdated enterprise infrastructures.Prior to venturing into tech entrepreneurship, Matthew is also a designated CPA.

Craig Sellars leads the development of global innovations on top of the Bitcoin blockchain as the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer for Tether and acts in a variety of roles as Co-Founder, Technologist, Facilitator, Director, and Advisor for several Bitcoin 2.0 projects including Omni (Mastercoin Foundation), Factom, Synereo, and the MaidSafe Foundation. Occupying several entrepreneurial and executive roles over the past two decades, Craig continues to push the boundaries in cutting-edge technology, decentralized systems and software development.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigcsellars

Amber has broad-based financial compliance experience that includes insurance, mutual funds and banking. In addition to being a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) Amber is also a Certified Privacy Professional (CIPP). She also holds a mutual fund sales designation from the Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) and a first level Fellow, Life Management Institute (FLMI).Amber completed her undergraduate studies at the university of Waterloo where she majored in Psychology. Her academic interests have always included law and criminology. As a teaching assistant she assisted in the development of the university’s first applied psychology course on criminal profiling. She has also received an MBA from the University of Aspen.The first memory that Amber has about financial crime is hearing her father and a friend of the family discussing the dilemma faced by a local union that had fallen under the influence of an organized crime group. Pension monies had allegedly been deferred into investments that benefitted the crime organization, but not the union membership. Many discussions with her father followed on the structures that could allow a criminal organization to circumvent the controls in an established organization for their own purposes without suffering any consequences. It was all very confusing and fascinating for a ten year old.While her confusion has faded, her fascination never has. Amber is passionate about ethical and legal compliance. Her obsession with understanding the risks and devising actionable solutions has lead her to work in the financial services industry as well as with Canadian accounting and consulting firms. In 2013, she founded Outlier Solutions Inc. to provide anti-money laundering (AML) solutions to Canadian reporting entities.

Judd Bagley is director of communications at Overstock.com and Chief Evangelist of the companys financial technology subsidiary t0.com. During his time at Overstock.com, Judd has also served as director of social media. Prior to joining Overstock.com, Judd worked as a political consultant, speechwriter, journalist (TV, radio and print), podcaster, blogger and even side-kick on an FM radio morning show. Judds favorite things in life are jogging, family, and vanilla ice cream with those little bean specks mixed in.

Phil Edholm is the President of PKE Consulting. PKE consults to end users and vendors in the communications and networking markets. Phil is the organizer of WebRTC World Conf & Expo, the global eco-system event for WebRTC. Phil Edholm has over 30 years experience in creating innovation and transformation in networking and communications. In his career, Phil has worked with all of the major vendors and with hundreds of large customers around the world. He is recognized as an industry expert in VoIP, networking for real-time usage, Unified Communications, and business models for technology adoption. Prior to founding PKE , he was Vice President of Technology Strategy and Innovation for Avaya. In this role, he was responsible for defining vision and strategic technology and the integration of the Nortel product portfolio into Avaya. He was responsible for portfolio architecture, standards activities, and User Experience. Prior to Avaya, he was CTO/CSO for the Nortel Enterprise business for 9 years. At Nortel, he led the development of VoIP solutions and multimedia communications as well as IP transport technology. His background includes extensive LAN and data communications experience, including 13 years with Silicon Valley start-ups.Phil is recognized as an industry leader and visionary. In 2007, he was recognized by Frost and Sullivan with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Growth, Innovation and Leadership in Telecommunications for dreating the VoIP industry. Phil is a widely sought speaker and has been in the VoiceCon/Enterprise Connect Great Debate three times. He has been recognized by the IEEE as the originator of “Edholm’s Law of Bandwidth” as published in July 2004 IEEE Spectrum magazine and as one of the “Top 100 Voices of IP Communications by Internet Telephony magazine. Phil was a member of the IEEE 802.3 standards committee, developed the first multi-protocol network interfaces, and was a founder of the Frame Relay Forum. Phil has 16 patents and holds a BSME/EE from Kettering University.

Chris Kitze is a serial entrepreneur who has created companies with over $7 billion of market capitalization over his 25-year career. He has been part of Lycos’ IPO team, was founder and CEO of Xoom.com, and was CEO of NBCi, formed by the merger of Xoom.com and Snap.com, in addition to other companies in digital media and payments. His management team includes other technology and finance veterans.

F. Jason Seibert, Esq. is a former data engineer for the United States Air Force and for several data and data telecom firms that transitioned from technology to law. Mr. Seiberts focus is technology based securities offerings, transactions and regulatory issues. From the first and only attorney to explain, in detail, cryptocurrency fundamentals pertaining to administrative and regulatory matters to a US federal judge, to advising small and medium sized businesses on navigating the ambiguous United States crypto-regulatory environment, Mr. Seibert is one of a few attorneys in the United States that is an expert in the cryptocurrency legal field. Mr. Seibert represents clients in state and federal courts, administrative and arbitral forums, has been selected as a special master to state and federal judges and arbitrators for both securities and cryptocurrency issues, has advised state and federal legislators on securities issues, has prepared brief amicus (on the merits) for state supreme courts on securities issues, and has prepared and presented lectures across the United States on securities and cryptocurrency topics. Mr. Seibert is often invited to present on regulatory panels at legal and technology conventions, and currently resides outside of Houston, Texas.

Kevin Barnes is an passionate technology visionary. After serving honorably in the Army as an radio teletype operator in Germany. He returned home and met his significant other, now married over 20+ years . He studied computer science in Chattanooga, TN for a couple years and relocated to Atlanta to satisfy his ambition as an entrepreneur .Kevin worked as an consultant coding content delivery solutions for companies for over 10 years. He ran across an article introducing him to bitcoin. Kevin was bit by the bitcoin bug.After developing a few crypto paywall solutions such as bitcoin video and crypto philanthropic platforms , he realized that blockchain technology was his passion . After successfully creating a company , Kevin decided to search for a problem that really would make an difference in the world.While at a firing range teaching his wife to shoot various firearms he had wandered what would she do if she was over powered by a thug while she was armed. At that moment the concept of Trigard powered by blocksafe was born.So Kevin , realized as a veteran that soldiers had the same risk and he went through the process to have his company become an approved gov’t contractor. Now that the concept of using the blockchain coupled with connection to the internet had come into focus in specific manner he called Blocksafe.Using this technology to authenticate biometrics using an array of sensors . This concept would prove to be a perfect use case to create a smartlock for firearms , thus the smartlock Trigard was born.

Ned is the CEO and Co-founder of Steemit.com, an online community that pays you to have better conversation on just about anything. Prior to founding Steemit with Daniel Larimer, CTO and founder of Bitshares, Ned invested in cryptocurrency development and was analyst in the family-owned private equity group, Gellert Global.

Executive Chairman and CEO, Andrew Flip Filipowski, is a legendary successful high-tech entrepreneur, philanthropist, and industry visionary. He devotes his expertise, vision, leadership and entrepreneurial talent to the strategic direction of Tally Capital. The former COO of Cullinet, the largest software company of the 1980s, was also the founder and CEO of PLATINUM technology, inc. Flip grew PLATINUM in twelve years into the 8th largest software company in the world at the time of its sale to Computer Associates for $4 billion in 1999, the largest such transaction for a software company at the time. Upside Magazine named him one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Information Technology. A recipient of Entrepreneur of the Year Awards from both Ernst & Young and Merrill Lynch, Flip has also been awarded the Young Presidents Organization Legacy Award and the Anti-Defamation Leagues Torch of Liberty award for his work fighting hate on the Internet.Flip is a futurist and renowned speaker on such topics as Bitcoin, Blockchain, Money, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Digital Autonomous Organizations and Organizational Structures.

Jim Blasko has been building cryptocurrency companies and communities since he first discovered Bitcoin in 2009. Blasko is lead architect for the Voxel coin for VR platform Voxel. Blasko is also creator of the cryptocurrency UnbreakableCoin, and co-founder and voice of Bitcoin Talk Radio. In May 2015, he teamed up with BitAngels chairman Michael Terpin to create bCommerce Labs, an incubator of bitcoin and blockchain consumer and e-commerce companies based in Las Vegas. He is also co-founder and Chief Crypto at the incubators first company, CryptoMarket, which is aiming to become the worlds largest consumer-to-consumer online marketplace run entirely through cryptocurrency.

David is the Founder of Wachsman PR, the Wall Street-based financial technology PR agency. After starting his PR career at Linden, Alschuler and Kaplan, David joined a biotech startup as Chief Information Officer. After working with tech consultancy AGMcLeod & Co, David became Communications Director at a mobile app development firm. He later managed political campaigns in Virginia. In 2012, David joined advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather in New York, and a year later, Ericho Communications, rising to Executive Director. In 2015, David founded Wachsman PR to provide professional communications expertise to businesses within the spectrum between finance to technology. Today, Wachsman PR has signed over 30 clients across the blockchain, cryptocurrency, equity crowdfunding, and peer to peer fintech verticals.

As a graduate of Berklee College of Music, Tatiana has had an extensive music career managing and promoting top NY recording studios. She has become the premier female singer-songwriter in the bitcoin community and activist community. She has toured the globe singing and speaking alongside Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, and Judge Napolitano at events including Inside Bitcoins, SXSW, Bitcoin South, NASDAQ, and the Libertarian National Convention. Tatiana is the founder and CEO of Crypto Media Hub, a marketing and advertising agency for the Bitcoin industry. She has independently produced and released two LP’s, 2 EPs, and several singles. Her 3rd LP was funded completely with cryptocurrency and will be released in later this Winter. Her latest project is the creation of Tatiana Coin, the first ever artist cryptocurrency.

Shidan Gouran is a the CEO of Gulf Pearl Ltd., an end to end product development agency, and Home Jinni Inc., developers of mobile and embedded solutions in the consumer electronics industry. He is a serial entrepreneur whose accomplishments include founding of a Canadian CLEC, development of an award winning PBX system, a popular Video on Demand and DRM solution and development the first Android Smart TV platform in the consumer electronics industry. He is currently a technical advisor to two start-ups developing solutions based on recent advancements in cryptography and distributed ledger platforms.Prior to leading his own ventures, Shidan worked as a senior developer at IBM Canada, where he developed solutions for the banking and securities industry. He holds degrees in Pure Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from the University of Western Ontario.