Join us on November 8th and 9th, at the New York Hilton Midtown, located in the heart of the Big Apple. The event will feature 8 keynote presentations, along with 10 tracks addressing various topics from token economy and cryptocurrency, to blockchain applications and the future of exchange. Each track will also feature 2 different panels. In addition, there will be a job fair, as well as a special track featuring Sharkchain, a competition television series for innovative blockchain and revolutionary technology companies which brings together entrepreneur-contestants as they pitch innovative business solutions to a panel of crypto industry experts and investors. All aspects of the World Blockchain Forum · New York will be deeply interactive, giving attendees countless opportunities for connecting, idea exchange and potential partnerships with some of the most prominent leaders in the field both locally and globally. Please visit our visite for more information: http://www.wbf.io Day 1. November 8, 2018 (Thursday) OPENING SPEECH 8:30am-9:00am, Grand Ballroom KEYNOTE 9:00am-12:30pm, Grand Ballroom 9:00 Alex Mashinsky, Founder & CEO, Celsius Network 9:25 Maja Vujinovic, CEO, Ogroup 9:50 Ryan Selkis, Founder & CEO, Messari 10:10 Evolving Cryptocurrency: Security Tokens and User Engagement Nelson Chu, Founder & CEO, Lumenary 10:30 Aaron Cai, General Business Manager,TecentBlockchain 10:50 Sathya Narasimhan, Sr. Director at Blockchain Business Development & Product Management, SAP 11:10 Fireside Chat:The Realities and Obstacles Surrounding Decentralized Networks Rik Willard, Founder, Agentic Jeffrey Wernick, Angel Investor, Uber & AirBNB 11:40 Shixiang He, Partner, Fortune Capital 12:00 Panel: Legislation and Regulation Christopher Culter, Vice Chairman, New York Society of Security Analysis (Former Federal Reserve) Bob Sujit Chakravorti, Head of Payment, Federal Reserve Manny Alicandro, Partner, O’Neil & Partners (Former Candidate, NYS Attorney General; Former Head Compliance and Chief Counsel for NASDAQ/OMX) Agha Khan, Head of Global Risk, E&Y Advisory Services, KPMG Jag DeSaint, Executive Director, EFI (Former ECB Advisor & ADB Director) TRACK 1. SECURITY TOKENS 1:00pm-3:00pm, Grand Ballroom 13:00 Joel Dietz, President, Swarm Research 13:25 Thomas J. Zaccagnino, Founder, Muirfield Investment Partners 13:50 Carlos Domingo, Co-Founder & CEO, Securitize (TBC) Nelson Chu, Founder & CEO, Lumenary Kendrick Nguyen, Founder & CEO, Republic Alex Nascimento, Co-Founder, UCLA Blockchain Lab (m) TimoLehes, Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer, Swarm Fund Adam Ettinger, Partner, FisherBroyles, LLP Xiaochen Zhang, President, FinTech4Good 14:35 Han Verstraete, Founder & CEO, Otonomos TRACK 3. SHARKCHAIN TV SHOW 10:00am-18:00pm, Mercury Ballroom Innovation Projects + Exchange 10:00am-12:00pm, Session I 13:00pm-15:00pm, Session II 16:00pm-18:00pm, Session III TRACK 4. BLOCKCHAIN APPLICATIONS IN ENTERPRISE 1:30pm-5:30pm, Trianon Ballroom 13:30 Adi Sideman, Founder, YouNow 13:55 Olive Allen, Founder & CEO, Decadent 14:20 Rahul Sood, Founder & CEO, Unikrn 14:45 Tyler Mulvihill, Director, Consensys 15:10 Christopher Sealey, Co-Founder and President, CoverUS; Lauren Weiniger, COO, SAFE Robert Chu, Founder, Embleema Michael Hiles, CEO, 10XTS 15:55 Donald Leka, Founder & Chairman & CEO, Jumptuit 16:05 John Bentley II, CTO, 10XTS 16:15 Randy Meech, CEO, StreetCred 16:25 Blockchain Applications in Media and Art Victoria Saucier, CEO, Gainfy Ian Kane, Co-Founder, Ternio Chris Tse, CTO, Dot Blockchain Media Kevin April, CEO, SportsCastr Powered by FanChain Matthew Zarracina, Co-Founder & CEO, True-Tickets NanneDekking, CEO & Founder, Artory 17:05 Daniel Dewar, Founder, Paperchain 17:15 Decentralized E-Commerce Ecosystem Using Blockchain Technology Argentina Moise, Founder & CEO, Bleexy, LLC 17:25 Fiorenzo Manganiello, Professor of Blockchain Technologies, Geneva Business School TRACK 5. BLOCKCHAIN COMMUNITY ECONOMY & DYNAMIC 11:00am-12:15pm, Mercury Ballroom 11:00 Olive Allen, Founder & CEO, Decadent 11:20 Zac Prince, Founder & CEO, BlockFi 11:40 Jenny Vatrenko, Co-Founder & COO, Oath Protocol 12:00 Jimmy Zhang, Founding Partner, Ethe Consulting TRACK 6. THE FUTURE OF EXCHANGE 10:30am-1:00pm, Trianon Ballroom 10:30 Michael Moro, CEO, Genesis Global Trading 10:55 Miko Matsumura, Co-Founder, Evercoin (TBC) 11:15 Panel: Changes of Exchanges & the Global Trade Miko Matsumura, Co-Founder, Evercoin (TBC) Scott Winges, Director, DDEX.io Perrin Quarshie, Founder & CEO, Realblocks Dan Goldman, Vice President of Business Development & Exchange Partnerships, Cryptalgo Javier Dutan, CEO, Sabor 12:00 Project Show I TRACK 8. ETHEREUM TECHNOLOGY & APPLICATION 1:00pm-2:40pm, Mercury Ballroom 13:00 Doug Petkanics, Founder, Livepeer 13:20 Lance Koonce, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine 13:40 Panel:TBC Rohan Handa, Ventures Creation, BBVA Federico Ast, Founder, Kleros 14:25 Gili Ovadia, Head of Economic & Trade Mission to the West Coast, Israeli Ministry of Economy TRACK 9. BLOCKCHAIN APPLICATIONS IN FINTECH & DIGITAL PAYMENT 1:00pm-3:30pm, Trianon Ballroom 13:00 Shayne Coplan, Founder, TokenUnion 13:25 InduKodukula, VP of Development, Blockchain Technologies Intuit Shawn Douglass, CEO & Co-Founder, Amberdata Mike Kane, Co-Founder, Hydrogen Chris Brodersen, Blockchain Specialist Leader at Deloitte Pierre Noizat, Founder & CEO, Blockchain.io Francois de Laigue, CEO & Founder, Dotted Square Inc. 14:10 Todd McDonald, Co-Founder & Head of Partnership, R3 14:30 Todd Lippiatt, President & CEO, Propellr Igor Telyatnikov, President & Co-Founder, AlphaPoint Peter Lee, Operations Director, Relex Joe Telpner, Partner, Sullivan & Worcester LLP Daniel Gouldman, CEO, Ad3 Media 15:15 Tyler Spalding, Co-Founder, Flexa TRACK 10. FORMS OF BLOCKCHAIN 2:45pm-5:15pm, Mercury Ballroom To be Continued…
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