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Why Attend?
The Global Blockchain Summit is a gathering of experts from around the country sharing knowledge, tips, trends and insights about Blockchain, a breakthrough technology that enables the trusted digital registration & exchange of just about anything. It will be a chance for the newcomer to learn the history and basics of this emerging technology, and for the familiar to learn more about its current and future applications. Money, music, health records, car titles, certificates, company ownership, deeds, & digital identities are just a few options. The format will be less traditional than a typical conference. There will be large group presentations, small group lectures, lightning round discussions as well as time to interact with others in the field. We are striving to make this the most valuable Global Blockchain Summit for you, the participant. We have an emphasis on Women in Blockchain, equality, and diversity for the 2018 Summit.
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Our Spring Speakers
Shaun Frankson
Plastic Bank, Co-Founder
Shaun Frankson is the co-founder of The Plastic Bank, a social enterprise that makes plastic waste a currency to STOP...
Carolina Abenante
Founder, President and Vice Chairperson, NYIAX
In her role at NYIAX, Carolina Abenante leads the company’s business strategy, development and investor relations. Ms. Abenante has been...
Miko Matsumura
Cofounder at Evercoin Cryptocurrency Exchange Pantera Capital
Miko Matsumura founded crypto exchange Evercoin, and is a Limited Partner with the Pantera Capital ICO Fund (a $100M ICO-only...
Emily ShapeShift
Chief Marketing Officer, ShapeShift
Emily is the CMO of ShapeShift AG, one of the world’s leading digital asset exchanges. With over a decade working...
Michael DiPetrillo
Senior Director of Blockchain Technologies at VMware
Presentation Information Blockchain – Past, Present, and Future During this talk we’ll take a look at where blockchain has been,...
Eileen Quenin
VP of Strategic Partnerships for Dragonchain
Eileen Quenin is VP of Strategic Partnerships for Dragonchain. She holds a Master of Engineering in HCI with a focus...
Bob Tapscott
Speaker, Author, Blockchain Research Institute
Presentation Information Keynote: The Coming Revolution of AI and the Blockchain Mr. Tapscott is a recognized information technology strategist, CTO,...
Gerard Dache
Govt. Blockchain Assoc.
Presentation Information Winning Government Blockchain Work Gerard is a Portfolio Manager and has three organizations in his portfolio. One company...
Chuck Williams
UI/UX Tech Lead, Dash
For 20 years Chuck Williams has advocated for human empathy as a skill to enhance developer effectiveness. After much spiritual...
Ari Smith
Chief Strategy Officer, MEScience
Chief Strategy Officer, MEScience Ltd. Presentation Information Strategic impact of the Intersection of AI, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency High energy leader...
Jaroslav Kacina
CEO & Chairman SophiaTX
Jaroslav Kacina, has worked for a number of well known companies, including McKinsey & Company, Alstrom Power, Deloitte Consulting, and...
Kevin Owocki
Founder, Gitcoin.co
Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin.co — An Ethereum-based network for growing open source software with incentivization mechanics. He...
Katherine Chen
CEO and Co-Founder, Good Citizen Network,
Presentation Information Token Generation Event (TGE) Journey – an Impeccable Project execution, initiation, planning and execution (WBS-Work breakdown structure, budget,...
Remy Carpinito
CEO, Esprezzo
Remy is the CEO and Founder of Esprezzo, the blockchain middleware platform making it accessible for all developers to build decentralized...
Kristen Ragusin
Founder, Jai Bolo Project
Kristen is a Senior Vice President, Wealth Management Advisor with Merrill Lynch, investing over $150 million. She helps clients navigate...
Scott Brunner
Husch Blackwell
Scott, an attorney with Husch Blackwell, regularly counsels clients on a wide range of business matters, including mergers and acquisitions,...
Chauncey Lane
Husch Blackwell
Chauncey is an attorney at Husch Blackwell where, in addition to mergers and acquisitions, he focuses his law practice on...
Ed Corno
Chief Technology Leader, IBM
As a passionate information technology leader, Ed Corno’s abilities are unique, offering a combination of industry, technical knowledge and innovative...
Shawnna Hoffman
Co-Leader, IBM Watson Legal
Presentation Information Convergence of AI, Blockchain & the Law Ms. Hoffman-Childress serves as the Global Co-Leader for the IBM Cognitive...
Daniel Riddell
Ambassador/Adviser, DECENT Foundation
Daniel serves as Ambassador/Adviser to the DECENT Foundation and has 20 years experience in the media/broadcast/software development industries. Daniel possess...
Benjamin Chen
CTO and Co-Founder, Good Citizen Network
Presentation Information ERC20 vs ERC721: Token fungibility Case Study (Good Citizen Token) Security Aspect of Smart Contracts in Enterprise Applications...
Pamela Norton
CEO/Founder, Borsetta
Pamela Norton-Shelpuk is the Founder & CEO of Borsetta, an eco-lux jewelry platform first to certify cultivated diamonds and fine...
Juliet Annerino
Founder, ReputationCheck.io
ReputationCheck.io was born of the simple yet strong belief that the innocent need not suffer in order for the powerful...
Rhys Lindmark
Co-Founder, ETHCommons
Presentation Information ETHCommons: Co-evolving a Humanity-Scale Phase Shift to GameB Rhys Lindmark is co-leading a humanity-scale phase shift from LateStageCapitalism...
Yev Muchnik
Founder & CEO, ESQLegal
Yev Muchnik is a corporate attorney specializing in startups, technology and blockchain. She started her career at Squire, Patton, Boggs,...
Scott Sanderson
Sanderson IP Law
Patent and Trademark counsel serving cryptocurrency and blockchain clients.
Will Madden
CEO and Founder, bridge21
Save money with the Bridge Rate when you transfer money. Presentation Information Proof of Work. Are we burning the world...
Gregg Bell
COO Salt Lending
Mr. Bell is the Chief Operating Officer at Salt Lending, a blockchain based loan platform. Gregg is responsible for operations...
Eric Weaver
Principal, Weaver Global Advisory
Presentation Information Proof & Trust: Using Blockchain to Build Trust into Customer Experience What if your food, your beauty products...
Dr. Gordon Jones
President and COO, Universal Health Coin
Dr. Gordon Jones is Universal Health Coins’s Co-founder, President and COO. He earned his Masters and Doctorate in Health Administration...
Nina Nichols
Founder, Global Women in Blockchain (GWB)
Nina is the founder of Global Women in Blockchain (GWB) an international umbrella organization designed to activate and accelerate the powerful partnerships of...
Mark Page
CTO, Voterfied
Page is an accomplished software developer and technologist with over 25 years of experience building and managing development teams and...
David Gold
Managing Director, Access Venture Partners
David Gold is an 11 year Managing Director at Access Venture Partners, an early stage tech venture capital firm. He...
Gerald Rome
Colorado Securities Commissioner
Mr. Rome has been the Acting Securities Commissioner for the Colorado Division of Securities since January 2, 2014, where he is...
Jason Rupe
Vice Chair, IEEE Blockchain Colorado
Dr. Jason Rupe is a Senior Member of IEEE and of IIE. He has served as Associate Editor for IEEE...
Michael Allman
Congressional Candidate
Michael Allman is a businessman, entrepreneur, and aspiring politician. A recognized leader and change agent, Mike has reinvented entire businesses...
Mitchol Dunham
University of Denver
Presentation Information Regulatory Actions Impacting Cryptocurrency and ICOs This presentation will provide a summary of the regulatory actions that have...
Lindsey Galloway
CMO, Rebel AI
Rebel AI brings simplicity and scale to digital advertising with products built to protect and secure programmatic media trading between...
Eric Kintner
Partner at Snell & Wilmer
Eric Kintner focuses on providing clients with practical and business-centric legal advice. With more than a decade of experience across...
Joshua Finkleman
Managing Partner of Colorado Blockchain Capital, LLC.
Entrepreneur │ CryptoCurrency Expert │ Blockchain Asset Management│ Merchant Services Expert Josh knows the Point of Sale business well for...
Navroop Sahdev
Connection Science Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Navroop is a Fellow at MIT Connection Science and holds a host of leadership roles in the DLT space, both...
James Barry
CTO and Co-Founder at Dcntral
Presentation Information Blockchain Foundations Blockchain software underlies the movement behind transforming software and finances as we know it. But what...
Manny Puentes
Founder & CEO Rebel AI
Manny Puentes is an experienced executive leader in the digital advertising and software industries. He is the founder and CEO of Boulder-based startup Rebel...
Scott Carlson
Chief Information Security Officer, Sweetbridge
Presentation Information Blockchain Security – Is it really any different than anything else? Blockchain and the security of its foundation,...
Joshua Sroge
Chief Accounting Officer, ShapeShift AG
Joshua Sroge is Chief Accounting Officer at ShapeShift AG, the leading instant digital asset exchange that is simple, fast and...
David A. Cohen
Founder and CEO of Dcntral and Advisor Hashgraph
David A. Cohen, is internationally renowned for his pioneering work on Smart Software platforms. In 2012, David was named as one of...
Randy Robinson
Attorney and Law Professor
Randy Robinson is a visiting assistant professor teaching in the Lawyering Process Program. Randy graduated from the University of Denver...
Rick Cranston
Vice President of Innovation and Product Development
Rick Cranston serves as the COO for CULedger. Rick was one of the co-founders of the national CULedger Blockchain consortia,...
Hans Hultgren
President, Genesee Academy
Hans Patrik Hultgren. President at Genesee Academy and a Principal at Top Of Minds AB. Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and...
2018 Spring Global Blockchain Summit Schedule
Conference Schedule
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Grab some coffee and sign in for the kickoff of our Global Blockchain Conference!
John Carpenter
/ Global Blockchain Summit Co-Chair
8:00am - 8:40am
David Huseby
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM
What if your food, your beauty products or your prescriptions could talk? Tell you where they came from, and where they’ve been? Who had access? If they had been tampered with? If your food was spoiled? If your pharma product was counterfeit and contained banned contents? Xerox’s VP of Customer Experience Eric Weaver will talk about Xerox’s foray into the world of products, packaging and public ledgers – how we sorted through the various flavors of blockchain to find technologies that enable consumers to engage with products in completely new ways, and are working to build full transparency into their provenance. Attendees will walk away with a better understanding of how to build trust via CX, use cases for innovative engagement and packaging technologies, and how to sort the technological wheat from the chaff.
Eric Weaver
/ Weaver Global Advisory
10:00 AM - 10:40 AM
During this talk we'll take a look at where blockchain has been, the state of the art right now, and what the future holds. Particular attention will be paid to what's needed for wide-scale enterprise adoption into true production environments at scale. Some of the talk will focus on industry solutions and some will focus on the work coming from the academic and research community.
Michael DiPetrillo
/ VMware, Senior Director of Blockchain Technologies
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Blockchain technology will have a major impact across many industries including government, finance and supply chain management. Over $10 Billion...
Peter Hunn
12:00 Noon- 12:40 PM
Panel Discussion
Various Speakers
/ Cryptocurrency Community
1:40pm - 2:20pm
2:40pm - 3:20pm
Future megatrends and emerging technologies are blockchain, AI, autonomous cars, drones, 3Dprinters and CRISPER and biotechnology. Among the megatrends, some 30 industries that blockchain will disrupt are : nation states, parliament, banking, foreign currency markets, universities, department stores, etc. Also why South & North Korea are not hot places for blockchain technology.
Youngsook Park
/ Global ICO Association Co-Chair
3:40pm - 4:20pm
1. What do you think is the current position of the SEC on ICOs? 2. What are some of the...
Various Speakers
4:40pm - 5:20pm
Miko Matsumuro
/ Co-Founder, Evercoin
9:00am - 9:20am
In 2017 all you needed was a whitepaper, but in 2018 the requirements, risk, and compliance have all greatly increased....
Joshua Sroge
/ ShapeShift, Chief Accounting Officer
9:20 AM - 9:40 AM
As a full-time Dash Core Team member, I get paid in Dash, and have had to resolve a lot of painful economic shifts while integrating a 100% crypto-salary into my formerly corporate-developer conditioned lifestyle. Also I have spent a lot of time analyzing the pains of the "on and off ramps" of crypto. I'll share with you the perspectives of living on a crypto-salaray, in a crypto-world, before crypto gets mainstream. I'll also muse with how on decades of software development and "growing up with the internet" parallels with the world of crypto, and cultural and economic developments that I believe we can expect in the coming years and decades.
Chuck Williams
/ Dash
10:00 - 10:20 am
David Cohen
/ Founder and CEO of Dcntral and Advisor Hashgraph
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM
Technology has had a radical impact on nearly every industry. One notable exception is government. The fundamental structure of government...
Michael Allman
/ Congressional Candidate
12:00 PM - 12:40 PM
In the future, you will be able to spin up employment for your project just like you can spin up EC2 instances on AWS. Learn about the new world of Open Source Jobs and what they mean for your project.
Kevin Owocki
/ Founder, Gitcoin.co
1:40pm - 2:00pm
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) decided as of January 1, 2018, to start an initiative around blockchain technology. These IEEE initiatives focus on advancing technology for humanity, and are founded on the belief that the IEEE can help foster and lead developing technologies to improve them, and help strengthen their applications. The IEEE believes that blockchain will be a very important technology to advance its mission, so has created an initiative focused on developing blockchain technologies through six pillars: education, publication, community development, special projects, conferences and events, and standards. In this talk, I will discuss each of these efforts, with the activities we have identified to work on in each. I expect attendees will away with knowledge to help them understand a few things including what is the IEEE doing that might influence what they are doing, how can they gain advantage from these opportunities, and how can they further the efforts that they wish to.
Jason Rupe
/ Vice Chair, IEEE Blockchain Colorado
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Josh Finkleman, Managing Partner of Colorado Blockchain Capital, will speak about how to get smart about investing in cryptocurrencies. The conversation will include:
1) Why invest in cryptocurrencies? How is the value of crypto derived?
2) How do I know what to buy? Things to pay attention to, ICOs, and building your portfolio.
3) Where can I buy cryptocurrencies? An overview of the various exchanges.
4) How do you store cryptocurrencies? Various storage options and liquidity.
5) Q&A
Josh Finkleman
/ Managing Partner, Colorado Blockchain Capital, LLC
2:40 PM- 3:00 PM
The presentation will examine how securities regulators view cryptocurrency and blockchain and the trends in their approach to both regulation and legislation.
Gerald Rome
/ Colorado Division of Securities, Acting Securities Commissioner
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
This presentation will provide a summary of the regulatory actions that have shaped the current cryptocurrency and ICO landscape.
Mitchol Duham
/ University of Denver
4:00pm - 4:20pm
Will Madden
/ CEO and Founder, bridge21
8:00am - 8:40am
Shaun Frankson
/ The Plastic Bank
9:00am - 9:40am
Gerard Dache
/ Government Blockchain Association
10:00am - 10:40am
1. What can be done to bring more women and thought leaders into the Blockchain community? 2. How do you...
Various Speakers
/ Women in Blockchain Panel
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Eileen Quenin
/ Dragonchain
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
Pamela Norton
/ CEO& Founder, Borsetta
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
Navroop Sahdev
/ Centre for Blockchain Technologies
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM
Introduction of blockchain technology, DECENT’s DCore and the real world use cases.
Daniel Riddell
1:40 PM - 2:20 PM
Diversity Panel
Various Speakers
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Phil Elsasser
/ CTO and Co-Founder, Market Protocol
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Ron Argent
/ CEO, Cognition Foundry
3:40 PM - 4:20 PM
Kurt Wedgwood
/ IBM
Bob Tapscott
/ Speaker & Author, The Blockchain Institute
9:00am - 9:20am
With a promise of increased transparency and security, the concepts behind blockchain have quickly gained adoption in the digital advertising industry. However, the hurdles to actual implementation have been--and will continue to be--more economic- and social-driven than technological. To get further faster, Manny Puentes, Founder and CEO of Rebel AI, will talk about how to approach adoption in phases, rooted in identity, consensus, and currency. The talk will also focus on how advertising is approaching the technology today and how the blockchain-based roadmap will evolve by 2020.
Manny Puentes
/ Founder & CEO, Rebel AI
9:20am - 9:40am
In this presentation, Carolina Abenante, founder and president of NYIAX, will discuss how blockchain technology has enabled smart contracts, which...
Carolina Abernante
/ Founder, NYIAX
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Shawnna Hoffman
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM
Blockchain software underlies the movement behind transforming software and finances as we know it. But what constitutes a “Blockchain” in...
James Barry
/ CTO & Co-Founder, DCNTRAL
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Ryhs Lindmark
/ Co-Founder, ETHCommmons
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
Blockchain and the security of its foundation, capabilities, contracts and infrastructure must follow common standards. Is it any different securing...
Scott Carlson
/ Sweetbridge
12:20 PM- 12:40 PM
Digital identity is one of the oldest and hardest problems on the Internet. Even after 30 years, we still have...
Rick Cranston
/ COO, CULedger
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Katherine Chen
/ CEO and Co-Founder of Good Citizen Network
2:00 PM- 2:20 PM
Benjamin Chen
/ CTO and Co-Founder of Good Citizen Network
2:40 PM - 3:20 PM
I will be discussing the current and future impacts of AI on cryptocurrency, and touch on topics such as AI+blockchain.
Ari Smith
Jarsolav Kacina
/ CEO & Chairman, SophiaTX
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Christopher Ferris
IBM CTO Open Technology
An IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO Open Technology for IBM, Christopher has been involved in the architecture, design, and engineering...
Robert Greenfield
Technical Director at Consensys
Robert is a Technical Director at Consensys, the leading firm within the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency markets. He serves as the...
Scott Nelson
Founder & CEO, Sweetbridge
Scott founded Sweetbridge in 2016 after realizing how blockchain, smart contracts and decentralization could significantly increase economic productivity and trade...
David Berger
CTO, Integra Ledger
David Berger received his AB in Physical Sciences at Harvard where, as a premed, he decided that computers were more...
Garry Jacobs
CEO, World Academy of Art & Science
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President, MobileBridge Momentum
Eyal, an entrepreneur and visionary strategist brings more than 20 years of experience and leadership roles in both software and...
Mila Popovich
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Raine Revere
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Lucas Geiger
CEO Wireline.io
Lucas is the CEO and founder of Wireline.io a cloud application marketplace for enterprise. Previous to Wireline he was the...
Houman Shadab
Clause.IO Co-Founder
Houman Shadab is a prolific and influential expert in law, business, and technology. Houman is a cofounder of Clause.io and...
David Knott
Viper Developer at the Ethereum Foundation
David Knott is a blockchain developer who is equally comfortable coding and communicating. He considers himself lucky to be doing...
Danny An
Co-founder ZenTrust
Danny is the CEO and co-founder of TrustToken, a startup coming out of Stanford, Palantir, and Google funded by Founders...
Shane Walker
CEO at ME.ME
Shane Walker is a Stanford alum (BA 2006, MA 2007) and CEO at ME.ME, a meme search engine and platform....
Andrew Duplessie
Andrew is a founder and entrepreneur with two exits in fashion tech. He is a Stanford StartX alum, an Entrepreneur...
Ben Yu
Founder of Stream
Ben Yu dropped out of Harvard University to accept an inaugural Thiel Fellowship, a $100,000 grant given to the top...
Randy Leonard
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Architects and builds complex payment systems for central banks, commercial banks, exchanges, and large corporations.
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