Lorien Gamaroff

Lorien Gamaroff is the founder/CEO of Bankymoon, a blockchain and cryptocurrency consultancy and co-founder/CEO of Centbee, a cryptocurrency payments and remittance company. He also serves as a Bitcoin Association ambassador. As Africa’s foremost blockchain expert, Lorien has been invited around the world to speak on digital/cryptocurrencies and decentralised/distributed ledgers and their benefits for emerging economies.

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Nathaniel Luz

Nathaniel Luz is an award winning libertarian, lead for Dash Nigeria and one of Africa’s foremost blockchain and digital currency experts. Nathaniel Luz is the author of Digital is the Cash book, an easy guide to understanding the past, present and future of money. The book available in both English  and French is open source

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Gustav Arentoft

As a Business Development Representative for the Maker Foundation, Gustav Arentoft focuses on increasing business opportunities throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Prior to joining the organization, Gustav worked in the Fintech sector in Argentina, where he experienced first-hand the need for alternatives to the country’s struggling financial system. His academic background includes software development

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Reuben Yap

Reuben Yap is the Project Steward of Zcoin and has played a pivotal role in shaping Zcoin’s strategy and vision. He joined the Zcoin team in October 2016 and currently handles the overall strategy and operational aspects of the project along with being its spokesperson. Reuben has been a vocal advocate of online and financial

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Ray Youssef

Ray is the CEO and Co-founder of Paxful, one of the world’s largest peer-to-peer crypto marketplace. Paxful is a people-powered marketplace for money transfers with anyone, anywhere, at any time. Their mission is to empower the forgotten four billion unbanked and underbanked around the world to have control of their money using peer-to-peer transactions. The

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Jorge Sebastiao

Jorge is an international ICT speaker and seasoned CTO, with blockchain, AI, IoT, cyber security, managed services, cloud computing, big data, and ICT organizations in the Middle East. Jorge has over 30 years of ICT experience, covering, innovation, architecture and digital transformation. Jorge is an Advisor and Executive Board Member of the Government Blockchain Association

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Auryn Macmillan

​Auryn is the product manager for Gnosis’ Conditional Token Framework. After creating DAOhub in 2016 and retiring from his professional basketball career in 2017, Auryn’s primary focus has been on DAOs and Ethereum based governance and fund allocation models. Auryn was born in Melbourne, Australia and currently lives in Durham, North Carolina, USA. 2010: Earned

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Cornelius Gouws

Cornelius has co-founded various technology startups ranging from Dreamtec to serve the South African vehicle insurance industries, Healthscreen for workplace safety, and most recently Octobase and Aardbanq to help enable intelligent ways to manage trust on the Ethereum blockchain. Originally he was heavily involved in pioneering new artificial intelligence projects, specifically in Computer Vision, before he discovered his love

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Vinny Lingham

Vinny is regularly recognized and featured by major media worldwide like Fortune Magazine, CNBC, Business Insider, and many more.  Along with Elon Musk, South African-born Vinny is currently South Africa’s other major technology entrepreneur export to the famous Silicon Valley in San Francisco and is always found ranked online in the top 5 lists of

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Artur Schaback (Keynote)

Artur Schaback is the COO and Co-founder of Paxful, a people-powered marketplace for money transfers with anyone, anywhere, at any time. Their mission is to empower the forgotten unbanked and underbanked people, so they have control of their money.

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