Alex Mashinsky

Alex is one of the inventors of VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) with a foundational patent dating back to 1994 and is now working on MOIP (Money Over Internet Protocol) technology. Over 35 patents have been issued to Alex, relating to exchanges, VOIP protocols, messaging and communication. Alex is a serial entrepreneur and founder of

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Tanya Knowles

Tanya Knowles is the Country Manager of Binance South Africa, world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume. Her previous roles have included working as the Business Manager of Adhara, a global provider of liquidity management and international payment solutions for decentralised financial networks and the Managing Executive of Fractal Solutions at Strate (Pty) Ltd, where

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On Yavin

On is the Founder and CEO of Cointelligence and the blockchain and cryptocurrency education platform Cointelligence Academy. Since 2017, he has been dedicated to championing cryptocurrency and the blockchain. On works tirelessly to build the cryptocurrency community, bank the unbanked, fight corruption, and make education accessible to people around the world. Topic Crypto Investments: Examining

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Jérôme de Tychey

Jerome is the Global Head of Clients Success at Ledger where he takes care of both the B2B (Ledger Vault) and the B2C (Ledger Nano S & X) activities. In his previous jobs he started the blockchain practice of Ernst & Young France in 2016 and opened the Paris office of ConsenSys in 2017 where

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Chris Becker

Chris Becker is Investec’s blockchain technologies specialist and is focused on product development and strategy for the Private Bank. Before moving into this role, his career spanned more than a decade as macro-economic strategist to institutional asset managers, hedge funds and commercial bank FICC desks. Chris co-founded Mises Institute South Africa in 2011 and holds

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Brian Behlendorf

Brian Behlendorf is the Executive Director of Hyperledger Project. Behlendorf was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has also served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation since

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Miko Matsumura (Keynote)

Miko is a General Partner with gCC Gumi Cryptos Capital, a Silicon Valley investment fund with over $500M in assets including early-stage investments in unicorns like OpenSea, Yield Guild Games, Celsius Network, VEGA Protocol, Qredo, Agoric, Astar and 1Inch Network. Miko fell in love with open source software 25 years ago as chief Developer Evangelist

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Luca Cosentino

Luca is a Product Manager who built, launched and managed products at Google, AmEx and P&G. He is currently at Oasis Labs to create the infrastructure for privacy-preserving applications, with a focus on FinTech. He joined as the first non-software engineer employee. Luca holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and MS/BS in Engineering from the

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Rebecca Mqamelo

Prior to joining the team building the world’s most intuitive DeFi interface, Rebecca worked on blockchain-based currency development programmes in Kenya. With a background in Economics and Data Science, her focus is on redesigning money for the 21st century – which means leveraging alternative currencies to facilitate more inclusive, resilient and sustainable local economies. She

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Alex McDougall

Investor, author, speaker and hater of zero-sum games. Former investment banker and current searcher for the hypotenuses of life. Liker of trust technologies, disliker of extractive data paradigms. Co-founder of Bicameral Ventures.

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