Jeffrey Vier is COO at Ideas By Nature, a Denver, CO based creative and technology agency. His professional background and experience began in broadcast marketing and quickly moved towards product design and development in the digital startups space. He has been a director with Ideas By Nature and partners since year 1. Jeffrey’s roles include...
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....
Mr. Rome has been the Acting Securities Commissioner for the Colorado Division of Securities since January 2, 2014, where he is responsible for the administration of the Colorado Securities Act. From 2004 to 2013, Mr. Rome was Deputy Securities Commissioner for the Division. As Deputy Commissioner, he directed the Division’s enforcement, licensing and examination activities. Prior to...
Chase Boyle is the Director of Product Management for Spread Networks by Zayo and the Director of Blockchain Business Development at Zayo Group. Zayo is focused on understanding the impact that blockchain technology will have on the network infrastructure, specifically as it relates to today’s traditional financial exchanges and how new cryptocurrency exchanges will set...
Jonathan Lehman is a partner in DLG Consulting and the former Chief Strategy Officer of the GBA, a global professional association connecting professionals and organizations to governments towards comprehensive blockchain adoption. Prior to joining the GBA, Mr. Lehman served in the capacity of a business technology strategist providing innovative and emerging technology solutions ranging from...
Kyle Den Hartog wants to see a world where passwords are eliminated as the primary form of authentication. This vision led him to be an eager contributor to the design and development of OpenSSI protocol along with other standards in the decentralized identity community. Loaded with a Bachelors of Computer Science from the University of...
Joel Telpner is a corporate and finance partner in the New York office of the international law firm Sullivan & Worcester and is the head of the Firm’s Fintech and Blockchain Practice Group. He is a seasoned advisor, strategist and problem solver. Mr. Telpner brings more than 30 years of legal experience in a career...
Trace is a Senior Cybersecurity Leader with years of comprehensive experience in management & hands on security design and implementation. He’s an outstanding communicator, known for creating vision, and gaining executive support. A US Navy veteran and proud public servant Trace is passionate about driving cyber risk reduction and creating a culture of security. Having...
Michael Astleford serves as part of the GBA Leadership team, bringing his expertise in rapid growth, start-up dynamics and business development to assist the organization and it’s efforts in strategy, operations, and communications. Gatherings stories and insight ranging from international off-shore racing to space launch vehicles (aka “rocket scientist”, with stops along the way in...
Susan is the founder and CEO of LionShare Media, a strategy and development studio that specializes in immersive mobile media and blockchain solutions, based in Los Angeles. Susan has led innovation and commercialization of digital TV, mobile and consumer electronics products for world leading companies, including Apple, DirecTV, Viacom, Virgin Mobile and Nokia. At LionShare,...
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...
Vance Brown is the CEO of the National Cybersecurity Center. He also is Chairman and Co-founder of Cherwell Software. Previously, Vance was CEO of Cherwell from its inception until 2016. With customers in 40 countries, in 2014 Cherwell was recognized as one of the 101 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte’s Fast 500...
Arland heads up Frontier Mining. The company offers mining solutions and services you can trust. Frontier Mining provides turnkey Miners, co-location, and mining management services to clients worldwide.
Brennan is a blockchain consultant, emerging tech entrepreneur and startup adviser. He specializes inHIT blockchain implementation and is a subject matter expert in biomedical informatics, clinicaldecision support systems, drug design and pharmacy operations.
Jana Persky is a Strategic Initiatives Manager at the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT), where she is staffing the Governor’s Blockchain Council and managing the Opportunity Zone program. She has a degree in Public Policy from Stanford University and has previously worked in management consulting at McKinsey & Company in Denver.
JP is the CTO of Blue River International, Inc. and is leading their digital transformation using blockchain technologies.
Provide leadership to an Information Security Team to continuously assess business’s protection needs, analyze risks, design, implement, maintain, and monitor the security controls and events to ensure the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability of mission’s supporting information and information processing systems. CISSP, CISM, CISA, ISSEP, CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CEH, PMP, ITILv3,ArcSight AESA, Certfied Heath IT, Certified...
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...
Much is made out of new technologies that are touted as disruptive. Uber disrupted transportation, Airbnb disrupted hotels, and SpaceX disrupted, well…space. What ties each of these companies together, besides a multi-billion-dollar valuation, is a willingness to re-evaluate how a traditional industry functions without regard for established intermediaries. Over the past two years, technologists have...
Michael Cushman is a Sr. Fellow and Director of Consulting at the futurist think tank, The DaVinci Institute. He believes “future shock” is here. People around the globe are afraid of missing the future and being left behind. Michael’s solution, called Strategic Futurism, encourages every individual and group to develop the latest anticipatory skills, take...