A former councillor for the City of Cape Town, and a former member of the city’s Tourism, Events, Arts, and Marketing portfolio, Beverley Schäfer was the chair of the Standing Committee for Economic Opportunities, Tourism, and Agriculture at the Western Cape Provincial Parliament before being appointed as MEC in November 2018. This role encompasses providing
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Ben Zhou is Bybit’s Co-founder and CEO. He spearheaded the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange into a platform of more than one million users from its foundation in 2018. Bybit is now one of the world’s top five crypto derivative exchanges, and has the best liquidity for the BTCUSD perpetual contract. Established in March 2018, Bybit is
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Carel de Jager began his career as a Chemical Engineer in the energy industry. He now works as a consultant for the Blockchain Academy, facilitating a wide range of blockchain related training courses and presentations. Through the academy, he also delivers customised, industry-specific training to audiences ranging from the inexperienced to executive level. Carel is
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María Paula Fernández is an advisor at Golem. She’s a communications strategy specialist, independent researcher and open source non-technical contributor. María Paula consulted or worked for projects such as Polkadot, Akropolis, Gnosis, Melonport, Ethereum Community Fund, Avalanche, and other grassroots and established projects in the Ethereum ecosystem. Additionally, she is a co-founder for ETHBerlin and
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Monica Singer is a Chartered Accountant (SA) and Fellow of the Institute of Directors. She is a Board Member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and a Board Member of the Accounting Blockchain Coalition which sets the audit accounting and tax guidelines for crypto assets based in the USA. She is also a
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A prescient and accurate analyst of market behavior, social psychology, and overall societal trends, Dylan first developed an awareness of how to spot mass movements through graduate level studies in Social Theory under Dr. Michael Gardiner. Leaving academia for the business world, Dylan entered the security industry in 2010, learned the business, and quickly rose
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Agata is an experienced international lawyer, PHD, blockchain and fintech expert. She is an assistant professor at the Warsaw University of Technology and a Guest Professor at a number of other academic institutions in Europe. Agata is an expert at the EU Bockchain Observatory and Forum and an Advisor for Blockchain for Europe.
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Nerushka Bowan is a technology and privacy lawyer based in Johannesburg. She is the head of technology and innovation, and also leads the technology and privacy law practice for South Africa. She is an #InspiringFifty2020 winner (the Inspiring Fifty initiative is aimed at showcasing 50 successful women in STEM each year). Nerushka has extensive experience
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AltCoinTrader was developed by experienced computer programmer Richard de Sousa in 2014. As an early adopter of Bitcoin, De Sousa says he wanted to bring cryptocurrency to the local South African community as buying cryptocurrencies from any exchange overseas was difficult and cumbersome, and so he decided to build his own platform in order to
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Dr. Joshua Ellul is Director of the Centre for DLT at the University of Malta which runs a multidisciplinary Masters in Blockchain and DLT taking in students from a Computer Science/IT, Law, Business and Finance Background. The programme allows for students to specialise in their discipline whilst gaining literacy in the other disciplines. Dr. Ellul
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