Presentation Information Regulatory Actions Impacting Cryptocurrency and ICOs This presentation will provide a summary of the regulatory actions that have shaped the current cryptocurrency and ICO landscape. Mitchol Dunham is a law student at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. During law school, he worked closely with Professor Randy Robinson on issues surrounding...
Shaun Frankson is the co-founder of The Plastic Bank, a social enterprise that makes plastic waste a currency to STOP Ocean plastic while reducing global poverty. The Plastic Bank provides a universal income for the world’s poor that is earned through Social Plastic recycling programs. Shaun is a digital strategy guy and proudly empowers others...
Presentation Information ETHCommons: Co-evolving a Humanity-Scale Phase Shift to GameB Rhys Lindmark is co-leading a humanity-scale phase shift from LateStageCapitalism to GameB. He co-organized ETHDenver, a 1500-person event—the largest Ethereum hackathon to date. He interviews blockchain experts on his podcast, Creating a Humanist Blockchain Future, which has over 30,000 plays. He also co-founded ETHCommons: an initiative...
Scott, an attorney with Husch Blackwell, regularly counsels clients on a wide range of business matters, including mergers and acquisitions, real estate, securities and other general corporate matters. He has experience advising clients with respect to asset and stock purchase transactions; exempt securities offerings; Regulation D private placement offerings; creating private equity funds; commercial and...
Chauncey is an attorney at Husch Blackwell where, in addition to mergers and acquisitions, he focuses his law practice on domestic and international securities transactions and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) compliance. A former member of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance, Chauncey is regularly called on to advise on debt and equity offerings, stock...
Eileen Quenin is VP of Strategic Partnerships for Dragonchain. She holds a Master of Engineering in HCI with a focus on virtual economies. She worked in Amazon Payments and holds a patent intelligent selection of a currency preference conversion and 8 years at LexisNexis on fraud prevention.
Dr. Jason Rupe is a Senior Member of IEEE and of IIE. He has served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Reliability, and as its last Managing Editor. He has served as Vice-Chair for RAMS, on the program committee for DRCN and PHM, and on the committees of several other reliability conferences because free...
David Gold is the Founder and CEO of Dapix, Inc. David, was previously an 11 year Managing Director at Access Venture Partners, an early stage tech venture capital firm. He leads the firm’s investments in blockchain related companies including ShapeShift where he is on the Board of Directors. Previously David was a dot com entrepreneur...
Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin.co — An Ethereum-based network for growing open source software with incentivization mechanics. He has a BS in Computer Science, 10 years of engineering leadership experience in startups and Open Source Software, and is a community organizer in the Boulder Colorado Tech Scene. Kevin believes strongly that the future...
Michael Allman is a businessman, entrepreneur, and aspiring politician. A recognized leader and change agent, Mike has reinvented entire businesses and industries, creating billions of dollars for shareholders in the process. Mike spent 10 years as an international management consultant, with postings in Chicago, Johannesburg, London, and Los Angeles. From 1998 to 2012, Mike held...
ReputationCheck.io was born of the simple yet strong belief that the innocent need not suffer in order for the powerful to be brought to justice. It is a proprietary platform where Reputation Reports may be entered, shared and distributed freely, securely and – most importantly – anonymously. Once securely entered, Reputation Reports cannot be altered...
Chief Strategy Officer, MEScience Ltd. Presentation Information Strategic impact of the Intersection of AI, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency High energy leader and strategic executive with a successful background building and directing globally based multidisciplinary teams to deliver technology oriented business solutions. Proven competency across business and technical arenas, including planning, feasibility and cost/benefit analysis, software design,...
For 20 years Chuck Williams has advocated for human empathy as a skill to enhance developer effectiveness. After much spiritual exploration, he began to deeply appreciate and align himself with the principles of non-agression and freedom. Naturally, contributing to an organization like Dash was a perfect progression for both his career and personal life, where...
Robert is a Technical Director at Consensys, the leading firm within the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency markets. He serves as the organization’s Blockchain for Social Impact CTO, helping the firm consult and develop blockchain projects within Fortune 100 companies and multinational NGOs. Prior, Robert has spent his professional career at Goldman Sachs, Teach for America, and,...
Emily is the CMO of ShapeShift AG, one of the world’s leading digital asset exchanges. With over a decade working in marketing and public relations, she has worked within various verticals including hospitality and tourism, food and beverage and most prominently, startup fintech and blockchain technologies. She has also managed and led many award-winning communication...
Dr. Gordon Jones is Universal Health Coins’s Co-founder, President and COO. He earned his Masters and Doctorate in Health Administration from the Medical University of SC. After graduating from The Citadel and serving two tours in the military, Dr. Jones acquired 25 years of digital health innovation, entrepreneurship, and business development experience through several healthtech...
Management and Innovation Leader Involved with Growth and Transformation Ventures. Currently involved with Blockchain, Digital Currency, and Token Models. Design thinking solution mindset, and value creator collaborating to identify and drive product-market fit; technical (feasible), human (desirable) and financial (viable). Participating across the progression of new initiatives. Interests include idea exchanges to execution for both...
In her role at NYIAX, Carolina Abenante leads the company’s business strategy, development and investor relations. Ms. Abenante has been in the New York City tech and advertising scene since 1999, when she was the first Director of Corporate Development for Juno Online Services, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and domestic and international strategic partnerships....
David Berger received his AB in Physical Sciences at Harvard where, as a premed, he decided that computers were more interesting than medicine and founded a startup for computer-based medical school test prep. Currently, his is CTO at Integra Ledger, a Permissioned Blockchain for the Global Legal Industry. At Integra, he oversees all technology development...
Ben Yu dropped out of Harvard University to accept an inaugural Thiel Fellowship, a $100,000 grant given to the top 20 entrepreneurs under the age of 20 by the billionaire founder of PayPal and first outside investor in Facebook Peter Thiel. Other recipients of the Thiel Fellowship include Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, and...